Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day is the latest movie to tackle the subject of first contact, but these masterpieces understood the idea much better.

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

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

Disclosure Day had people talking for its fresh take on alien contact and powerful sci-fi themes. These films follow the same ...

Spielberg has graced the silver screen with countless creative alien species in his career, and some have shown to be more threatening than others.

In one of the most memorable moments — and my personal favorite scene — from M. Night Shyamalan’s 2002 sci-fi thriller “Signs ...

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As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

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The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...