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1. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

PG | 115 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city's residents one body at a time.

Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright

Votes: 69,845 | Gross: $24.95M

2. Significant Other (2022)

R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Follows a young couple who take a remote backpacking trip through the Pacific Northwest and face sinister events leading them to realize that everything about the place is not as it seems.

Directors: Dan Berk, Robert Olsen | Stars: Maika Monroe, Jake Lacy, Matthew Yang King, Dana Green

Votes: 13,785

3. The Hidden (1987)

R | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A cop and an FBI agent race for answers after law abiding people suddenly become violent criminals.

Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Claudia Christian, Clarence Felder

Votes: 22,600 | Gross: $9.75M

4. My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)

PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

A creature from another planet tries to seduce a shy Earth physicist to gain control over his researches. The result of this important mission much exceeded her expectations.

Director: Richard Benjamin | Stars: Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz, Alyson Hannigan

Votes: 27,726 | Gross: $13.85M

5. First Wave (1998–2001)

TV-14 | 44 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Framed for murder and on the run, a former thief struggles to expose the vanguard of an alien invasion with the help of a conspiracy theorist and newly discovered prophecies of Nostradamus.

Stars: Sebastian Spence, Rob LaBelle, Roger Cross, Traci Lords

Votes: 3,691

6. Strange Invaders (1983)

PG | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Alien beings, who settle in a small midwestern town, are disturbed by a young professor determined to rescue his daughter from their clutches.

Director: Michael Laughlin | Stars: Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid, Michael Lerner

Votes: 3,448 | Gross: $1.36M

7. High Desert Kill (1989 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Like every year, Jim, Ray, Brad and Paul leave the town for a week to go hunting in the woods. But this year everything is different: There's not a single animal to be found, the whole ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Falk | Stars: Marc Singer, Anthony Geary, Micah Grant, Chuck Connors

Votes: 425

8. The Silencers (1996)

R | 103 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Special Agent Rafferty is thrown into a maelstrom of action and intrigue when he identifies a mysterious alien race who are on a mission to invade Earth.

Director: Richard Pepin | Stars: Jack Scalia, Dennis Christopher, Carlos Lauchu, Lucinda Weist

Votes: 561

9. Stranded (1987)

PG-13 | 80 min | Sci-Fi

A young woman and her grandmother living in an isolated farmhouse are kidnapped by aliens.

Director: Fleming B. Fuller | Stars: Ione Skye, Maureen O'Sullivan, Joe Morton, Susan Barnes

Votes: 464

10. Spider-Woman, Agent of S.W.O.R.D. (2009)

TV-14 | 10 min | Animation, Short, Action

After the failed alien invasion of Earth, revenge-seeking P.I. Jessica Drew, a.k.a. Spider-Woman, is recruited by S.W.O.R.D., an agency specialized in eliminating alien threats, to track down the remaining aliens disguised as humans.

Stars: Jolynn Carpenter, Nicolette Reed, Andy Mackenzie, Stephanie K. Thomas

Votes: 594

11. The Pandora Directive (1996 Video Game)

Action, Adventure, Comedy

In a neo-noir post-WWIII future, an old man hires Tex Murphy, a witty mellow private detective, to find his friend, a former government scientist. The clues lead Tex to a serial killer, NSA and an ominous project called Pandora.

Director: Adrian Carr | Stars: Chris Jones, Barry Corbin, Kevin McCarthy, Tanya Roberts

Votes: 286

12. Days of Oblivion (1996 Video Game)

M | Adventure, Sci-Fi

Tongue in cheek FMV adventure game with some mature content. Its 2144 and the poles have melted. You wake up with amnesia in a floating city of Twin Town. Find out who you where and what happened to you.

13. Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode: Fine Tuning (1985)

G | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Three high-school kids build an antenna that can catch signals from outer space. They learn that the aliens are big fans of 1950s American television and are coming to Hollywood to meet some of their favorite Earth stars.

Director: Bob Balaban | Stars: Matthew Labyorteaux, Gary Riley, Jim Gatherum, Milton Berle

Votes: 447

14. Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode: Terror of the Zygons: Part One (1975)

TV-G | 22 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The Doctor, Sarah and Harry return to Earth in response to an emergency space-time telegraph from the Brigadier, who asks them to investigate the destruction of a series of North Sea oil rigs.

Director: Douglas Camfield | Stars: Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Ian Marter, John Woodnutt

Votes: 688

15. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: School Reunion (2006)

TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

The Krillitanes - aliens with a mix-and-match physiology - are trying to crack the 'God-Maker', a paradigm to give them ultimate power. They are using children as a computer, and only the Doctor and Rose, re-united with Sarah Jane Smith and K9 can prevent them from becoming masters of time and space.

Director: James Hawes | Stars: David Tennant, Billie Piper, Noel Clarke, Anthony Head

Votes: 8,494

16. Monsters (1988–1990)
Episode: Portrait of the Artist (1989)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A father gets a shock when searching for his missing daughter in an artist's studio.

Director: Gerald Cotts | Stars: Darren McGavin, Beeson Carroll, Laurie Kennedy, Cheryl Russell

Votes: 115

17. Nightmare Cafe (1992)
Episode: Aliens Ate My Lunch (1992)

47 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

When a desperate tabloid writer concocts a story about a small-town alien invasion, his simple lie snowballs out of his control.

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Bobby Slayton, Jimmy Briscoe, Kevin Thompson, Arturo Gil

Votes: 40

18. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: A New Life (2001)

TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A couple flee a present-day religious community they've joined but find it's entirely surrounded by an invisible wall. They're the parents of the totally isolated cult's first child, who ... See full summary »

Director: Mario Azzopardi | Stars: Brad Rowe, Jeremy Sisto, Michelle Beaudoin, Nick Mancuso

Votes: 222

19. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: Alien Shop (2001)

TV-PG | 43 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An alien shape-shifter owns a unique curio shop whose merchandise possess strange powers; when a petty crook accepts a peculiar wallet he learns the hard way that money not earned comes at a price.

Director: Peter DeLuise | Stars: Johnathon Schaech, Michelle Harrison, Alex Diakun, Tom Heaton

Votes: 240

20. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: Flower Child (2001)

TV-MA | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

After an alien seed takes root in an old woman's garden, it sucks the life from her and becomes a beautiful woman who continues to look for more victims.

Director: Brad Turner | Stars: Jeremy London, Rebecca Reichert, Jud Tylor, Kavan Smith

Votes: 204

21. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: The Voice of Reason (1995)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Randall Strong tries desperately to convince a skeptical high level committee that various alien forces are trying to take over the human race. In desperation, he becomes unhinged.

Director: Neill Fearnley | Stars: Gordon Clapp, Lochlyn Munro, Don S. Davis, Daniel J. Travanti

Votes: 370

22. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Map to the Stars (1998)

TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Three people from completely different walks of life believe to have been the victims of alien abduction, and that they were given a task by the aliens that they need to complete. Matt suspects, however, that the government is behind it.

Director: John Bell | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 20

23. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: The Grey Men (1997)

TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Matt is abducted by what may or may not be aliens and analyzed by a psychologist who looks like Kelly. The team questions a creepy trucker and a strange cook, who both show signs of anhedonia or the inability to feel joy, about the case.

Director: Giles Walker | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 19

24. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: The Observer Effect (1999)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

The team arrives in a strange, secluded, reclusive and highly inhospitable gated community to interview two of its residents, who claim to have been the recent victims of alien abduction. But who's really observing who in this odd town?

Director: Giles Walker | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 17

25. Perversions of Science (1997)
Episode: Anatomy Lesson (1997)

TV-MA | 25 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

On his eighteenth birthday, a psychotic young man decides to finally take down a mysterious bearded stranger who's been appearing to him ever since childhood warning him each time not to give in to his urge to kill.

Director: Gilbert Adler | Stars: Jeremy London, Jeff Fahey, Joanna Gleason, Jim Metzler

Votes: 78

26. Perversions of Science (1997)
Episode: Panic (1997)

TV-MA | 26 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

It's the 1930s and Bob and John are attending a Halloween party with their friends. When the infamous radio broadcast of War of the Worlds begins, all hell breaks loose and people end up dead. Is it real, a fiction or somewhere in-between?

Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Jason Lee, Jamie Kennedy, Laraine Newman, Edie McClurg

Votes: 85

27. Perversions of Science (1997)
Episode: Ultimate Weapon (1997)

TV-MA | 25 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

During one chaotic farcical evening, young housewife Lou Ann Solomon must deal with her loving moody husband, her two drunk girlfriends, her visiting parents and two clueless shape-shifting aliens sent to seduce and impregnate her.

Director: Dean Lopata | Stars: Heather Langenkamp, Mitchell Whitfield, Paolo Seganti, Kim Myers

Votes: 64

28. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: The Man Trap (1966)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Dr. McCoy discovers his old flame is not what she seems after crew members begin dying from a sudden lack of salt in their bodies.

Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Jeanne Bal, Alfred Ryder

Votes: 5,867

29. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: Love & Monsters (2006)

TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Elton Pope is an ordinary man intrigued by the world of the Doctor. When he and fellow enthusiasts - L.I.N.D.A. - meet the mysterious Victor Kennedy, their lives will never be the same again.

Director: Dan Zeff | Stars: David Tennant, Billie Piper, Camille Coduri, Peter Kay

Votes: 8,846

30. Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode: Terror of the Zygons: Part Two (1975)

TV-PG | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The Zygon traps the Doctor and Sarah in a decompression chamber while Harry is taken to the aliens' underwater ship.

Director: Douglas Camfield | Stars: Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Ian Marter, John Woodnutt

Votes: 613

31. Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode: Terror of the Zygons: Part Three (1975)

TV-G | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The Doctor and the Brigadier begin to realise who the Zygon imposters among them are while Sarah discovers a secret tunnel to the underwater ship.

Director: Douglas Camfield | Stars: Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Ian Marter, John Woodnutt

Votes: 603

32. Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode: Terror of the Zygons: Part Four (1975)

TV-G | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

UNIT attempt to track down the Zygon ship while Broton prepares to have the Skarasen attack London.

Director: Douglas Camfield | Stars: Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Ian Marter, John Woodnutt

Votes: 608

33. Torchwood (2006–2011)
Episode: Greeks Bearing Gifts (2006)

TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

The team is asked to analyze a recently discovered 18th century corpse with a hole in its chest. Meanwhile, a mysterious charismatic woman seduces Tosh and gives her an alien pendant that allows its wearer to read other people's minds.

Director: Colin Teague | Stars: John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Burn Gorman, Naoko Mori

Votes: 1,322

34. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: Smith and Jones (2007)

TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

When medical student Martha Jones meets a mysterious stranger called The Doctor, and finds herself transported to the moon, her life will never be the same again.

Director: Charlie Palmer | Stars: David Tennant, Freema Agyeman, Anne Reid, Roy Marsden

Votes: 7,762

35. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: Human Nature (2007)

TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

In 1913, Martha watches in jealousy from afar as The Doctor learns what it is to be human and to fall in love with the local school nurse, Joan Redfern.

Director: Charlie Palmer | Stars: David Tennant, Freema Agyeman, Jessica Hynes, Rebekah Staton

Votes: 9,088

36. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: The Sound of Drums (2007)

TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

The Doctor, Martha and Jack return to the 21st Century eighteen months after the Doctor and Martha left. They find they've missed the election, and the new Prime Minister, Harold Saxon, is someone they've met before by another name.

Director: Colin Teague | Stars: David Tennant, Freema Agyeman, John Barrowman, John Simm

Votes: 8,177

37. Electric Dreams (2017–2018)
Episode: Human Is (2017)

TV-MA | 47 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A woman suffering in a loveless marriage, finds that upon his return from battle, her emotionally abusive husband suddenly appears to be a different man - in more ways than one.

Director: Francesca Gregorini | Stars: Bryan Cranston, Essie Davis, Liam Cunningham, Khalid Abdalla

Votes: 3,535

38. Love, Death & Robots (2019– )
Episode: Beyond the Aquila Rift (2019)

TV-MA | 17 min | Animation, Short, Action

Awakening after traveling light years off course, a ship's crew struggles to discover just how far they've come.

Directors: Gabriele Pennacchioli, Dominique Boidin, Léon Bérelle, Rémi Kozyra, Maxime Luère | Stars: Henry Douthwaite, Madeleine Knight, Rebecca Banatvala, Delroy Brown

Votes: 24,151