Aliens
themeFirst contact, invasions, and visitors from beyond the stars.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
A flying saucer lands in Washington, D.C., and out steps Klaatu, a humanoid alien with an ultimatum: abandon nuclear weapons and the violence they represent, or Earth will be destroyed as a threat to the wider galaxy. Escaping military custody to live quietly among ordinary Americans, Klaatu — accompanied everywhere by his silent, seemingly all-powerful robot Gort — searches for someone who will actually listen before his patience runs out.
The Thing from Another World
An Air Force crew and a team of Arctic researchers uncover a flying saucer buried in the ice — and, frozen a short distance away, its pilot. When their attempt to thaw the block of ice for study goes wrong, an eight-foot alien plant-based organism with a taste for blood is loose in the isolated research station, and there is nowhere in the frozen dark for anyone to run.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
A small-town doctor returns home to find his patients insisting their loved ones aren't quite themselves anymore — subtly wrong, emotionally flat, somehow replaced. He soon discovers the horrifying truth: alien seed pods are growing perfect physical duplicates of the townspeople while they sleep, replacing them one by one with copies that look identical but feel nothing at all.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
After a close encounter with a UFO, Indiana power-company lineman Roy Neary becomes obsessed with a mountain shape he can't explain — one of hundreds of ordinary people worldwide being quietly invited to a rendezvous the government is racing to keep secret.
Alien
The commercial towing vessel Nostromo, hauling ore between stars, is diverted by company order to investigate a signal from a dead world. What the crew brings back aboard has a life cycle perfectly designed to use them — and their employer knew.
The Thing
An American research station in Antarctica takes in a dog fleeing a Norwegian helicopter crew trying to kill it. The dog is not a dog. It is something that imitates — perfectly, cell by cell — and by the time the twelve men understand that, any of them could already be it.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
A gentle alien botanist is stranded in a California suburb when his ship leaves without him. Found by a lonely ten-year-old boy in the aftermath of his parents' divorce, the two form a bond so deep it becomes biological — while government agents close in and the visitor grows fatally homesick.
Aliens
Ellen Ripley, sole survivor of the Nostromo, is found drifting after 57 years in hypersleep — and nobody believes her story. When contact is lost with a colony on the very world where her crew found the derelict ship, she returns with a unit of cocky Colonial Marines. This time it isn't one alien.
Predator
An elite rescue team led by Dutch Schaefer is dropped into a Central American jungle for a routine hostage extraction. The mission is a lie, and something else is in the canopy — a creature that hunts humans for sport, sees in heat, and collects skulls as trophies.
GemThey Live
A drifter looking for work in Los Angeles finds a box of sunglasses that reveal the truth: the billboards say OBEY, the money says THIS IS YOUR GOD, and the ruling class are skull-faced aliens running Earth as a third-world franchise. He responds the only way an American hero can — with a shotgun and a one-liner.
Contact
Radio astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway has spent her career searching for proof of extraterrestrial intelligence against the skepticism of the scientific establishment and her own government funders. When she finally detects an unmistakable signal from the star Vega — instructions for building a machine of unknown purpose — Ellie is thrust into a collision between science, faith, politics and her own deepest need to believe that the universe holds more than empty static.
Dark City
John Murdoch wakes in a hotel bathtub with no memory, a dead woman in the next room, and detectives closing in for murders he can't remember committing. As he runs through a city where it is always midnight, he begins noticing what no one else does: at 12:00 exactly, the entire population falls asleep, the buildings physically rearrange themselves — and pale men in long coats move among the sleepers, injecting new memories into new lives.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
An alien visitor named Klaatu arrives on Earth inside a glowing sphere, escorted by an enormous, silent robotic guardian called Gort — this time carrying an ultimatum about humanity's environmental destruction rather than its nuclear weapons. As government agents scramble to contain him and astrobiologist Helen Benson tries to understand his true intentions, Klaatu must decide whether a species this reckless with its own planet deserves to survive at all.