For your extraterrestrial viewing needs, Stacker ranked the top 30 alien movies, according to their IMDb user rating.

So far, Alien: Earth is only tangentially linked to Ridley Scott's original movie, but Wendy just might be an early prototype ...

Released on May 25, 1979, Alien starred Sigourney Weaver, Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto and Harry Dean Stanton. And the film became a financial success, grossing ...

Ridley Scott's 'Alien', released in 1979. Why is this work, often mistaken for a mere space monster panic movie, still talked ...

Archie Whitehead and Ana Sopikova break down why the team is staying focused on Ridley Scott's classic and designing ...

Isolation 2 rooted in the look and dread of Ridley Scott’s 1979 film rather than chasing a bigger, flashier sequel, according to two of the studio’s lead artists. Speaking in separate interviews ...

War of the Worlds' is a science fiction thriller directed by Steven Spielberg. The film shows a massive alien attack on Earth. It focuses on one American ...

Horror films captivate us with their pulse-pounding tension, and the women who face the terror head-on are the heart of the ...

But to this day, nearly all sci-fi/horror movies still pale in comparison to the 1979 classic, Alien, which is streaming on Netflix as of October 2026. Directed by Ridley Scott, Alien takes place in ...

The 1970s produced some of the greatest science fiction films ever made. Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, A Clockwork Orange and Solaris all helped redefine the genre. But among them was ...

Sci-fi cinema took a lot of bold swings in 1992, resulting in some pretty memorable and wild movies. Here are our picks for the year's top five.