Space Movies, Related TV Shows

Science Fiction Films Shows, Alphabetical by Title

Updated 11.07.2005

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A

A Trip To The Moon (1902)
The very first Sci-Fic movie
Director: Maries-Georges-Jean Méliès
Information: Le Voyage dans la lune is a 1902 French sci-fi black and white silent film known in its English language release as A Trip to the Moon. Based on the Jules Verne novel From the Earth to the Moon,
Not rated. 14 minutes.
The Abyss (1989)
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmeister, Todd Graff
Plot: An underwater UFO, travelling at enormous speed, wreaks havoc on tidal activities throughout the world. It also causes a nuclear submarine to sink 2000 feet, to the ledge of underwater abyss. A group of adventurous oil riggers, working out of a high-tech submersible vessel, is pressed into action to seek out the submarine and rescue any survivors.
Rated PG-13. 140 minutes.
Alien (1979).
Director: Ridley Scott.
Cast: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright.
Plot: The crew of a futuristic cargo ship picks up an unwanted passenger--a form-changing alien that lives on human flesh.
Rated R. 116 minutes.
"In space, no one can hear you scream."
Aliens (1986).
Director: James Cameron.
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Jenette Goldstein.
Plot: The sequel to Alien. Warrant Officer Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) wakes after fifty-seven years of deep-space sleep to find that the planet where her crew first encountered the nasty alien has been colonized. Then, contact is lost with the colonists.
Rated R. 137 minutes.
Alien 3 (1992).
Director: David Fincher.
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover.
Plot: The third film in the Alien trilogy. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) crash-lands on a planet where an old mining facility is used as a penal colony for madmen and rapists. The evil alien has once again stowed away on Ripley's ship, and battles ensues.
Rated R. 115 minutes.
The Alpha Incident (1977).
Director: Bill Rebane.
Cast: Ralph Meeker.
Plot: A deadly organism from Mars, an attempted government cover-up, and a radiation leak lead to panic and chaos.
Rated PG. 84 minutes.
Android (1983).
Director: Aaron Lipstadt.
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Don Opper, Brie Howard, Norbert Weiser.
Plot: A tongue-in-cheek adventure that takes place on a space station where a mad scientist, Dr. Daniel, is trying to create the perfect android. When a group of criminal castaways arrive at the station, the doctor's current robot assistant rebels.
Rated PG. 80 minutes.
The Angry Red Planet (1959).
Director: Ib Melchior.
Cast: Gerald Mohr, Nora Hayden, Les Tremayne, Jack Kruschen.
Plot: An expedition to Mars runs into various alien terrors, including a terrifying giant mouse/spider hybrid.The X1, the first manned expedition to Mars, returns to Earth after 61 days radio silence. Aboard is one survivor who is infected by an alien organism and the unaffected Dr Iris Ryan who has no memory of what happened. Gradually doctors managed to obtain the full story from her. She tells how the expedition landed on Mars and encountered various strange lifeforms, before being threatened by Martian natives.
83 minutes.
Apollo 13 (1995).
Director: Ron Howard
Cast:Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan, Mary Kate Schellhardt, Emily Ann Lloyd, Miko Hughes.
Plot: The story of the Apollo 13 lunar mission crisis At first, it seemed the perfect mission--too perfect, even, to make headlines. After three days in space, three Apollo astronauts--Jim Lovell (two- time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon)--were finally approaching a long-cherished destination. Apollo 13 was going to the Moon.
Rated PG. 140 minutes.
Arena (1989).
Director: Peter Manoogian.
Cast: Claudia Christian, Hamilton Camp, Marc Alaimo.
Plot: Think Rocky with aliens: a human must take on extraterrestrials from around the galaxy in the Arena, in order to restore the title to humans despite unbelievable odds.
Rated PG-13. 97 minutes.
Armageddon (1998).
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Bruce Willis, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton, Steve Buscemi, Will Patton
Plot: An asteroid is headed straight for Earth, and an oil rig crew goes up into space to stop it. Meanwhile, the world is faced with some difficult decisions about life and death.
Rated PG-13. 144 minutes.
The Arrival (1996).
Director: David Twohy.
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Ron Silver, Teri Polo, Lindsay Crouse, Tony T. Johnson.
Plot: A radio astronomer (Sheen) receives a clear radio transmission (a shockwave) from outer space. He takes the recording to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for analysis, and after handing it to his boss (Silver), he is inexplicably laid off. Is this just another example of corporate downsizing or has he uncovered a conspiracy?
Rated PG-13. 109 minutes.
The Arrival II (1998 for cable).
Director: Kevin S. Tenney
Cast: Patrick Muldoon, Michael Sarrazin, Jane Sibbett
Plot: Those crazy scientists find themselves mixed up with aliens again. Watch the hijinx unfold!
Rated R 101 minutes.
The Atomic Submarine (1959).
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet.
Cast: Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey, Tom Conway, Bob Steele, Joi Lansing.
Plot: Thriller about a U.S. atomic submarine's encounter with an alien flying saucer in the Arctic.
B & W. 72 minutes.
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Director: Robert Wise.
Cast: James Olson (Dr Mark Hall), Arthur Hill (Dr Jeremy Stone), Kate Reid (Dr Ruth Leavitt), David Wayne (Dr Charles Dutton), Paula Kelly (Karen Anson), Ramon Biere (Major Arthur Manchek) 
Plot: The US military track the returned Scoop 7 satellite which has come down in the small town of Piedmont, New Mexico, only to find that it has returned with an extra-terrestrial virus that has wiped out the town’s entire population, with the exception of the town drunk and a baby. A group of doctors and scientists are hurriedly assembled at a top secret containment facility in the Nevada desert that is safeguarded against infection to the maximum degree where they must work around the clock find a way to contain the menace before it spreads.
Rated: ?B & W. 72 minutes.
Attack Of The Eye Creatures (1965)
Director: Larry Buchanan.
Cast: John Ashley (Stan Kenyon), Cynthia Hull (Susan Rogers), Chet Davis (Mike Rogers), Warren Hammack (Lieutenant Robertson), Tony Huston (Old Man Culver) 
Plot: A UFO lands at a local Lover's Lane. Stan Kenyon and his girlfriend Susan Rogers are preparing to elope when they run one of the aliens down in their car. Stan calls the police out to investigate but the aliens kill a huckster passing through town and substitute his body for that of their dead comrade. When the police find the body, they arrest Stan for the murder. Meanwhile the dead alien’s disembodied hand causes trouble. Stan escapes from jail and tries to organize the other teenagers to stand up and fight the aliens.
Rated PG. 90 minutes.
Aurora Encounter (1985).
Director: Jim McCollough.
Cast: Carol Bagdarsarian (Alain Peebles), Jack Elam (Charlie Hawkins), Mindy Smith (Sue Beth McKeska), Mickey Hays (Spaceman), Peter Brown (Sheriff Temple), Will Mitchell (Ranger Peter Sheridan), Dottie West (Irene) 
Plot: The small town of Aurora, Texas, in the 19th century. A number of locals are scared by sightings of a UFO. One woman shoots at the pint-sized inhabitant after it peeps at her undressing, while it joins old-timer Charlie Hawkins playing checkers. Three children fall down into an old Indian burial ground but are able to use a crystal left by the alien to levitate themselves free. Schoolteacher Alain Peebles, editor of the town newspaper, prints a story on the alien but this attracts the attention of the state governor who sends a Texas Ranger to investigate.
Rated PG. 90 minutes.

B

Bad Channels (1992).
Director: Ted Nicolaou.
Cast: Paul Hipp, Martha Quinn, Aaron Lustig, Ian Patrick Williams.
Plot: An alien posing as a radio DJ comes to Earth to pick up chicks, shrink them, and imprison them in small bottles for the trip back to his planet. But the townspeople fight back.
Rated R. 88 minutes.
Bad Taste (1987).
Director: Peter Jackson.
Cast: Pete O'Herne.
Plot: A gross sci-fi comedy, in which aliens come to Earth to harvest the universe's latest fast- food sensation--human flesh. It's up to the highly trained, but inept, Alien Invasion Defense Service to save the world.
Not rated. 90 minutes.
Bamboo Saucer (A.K.A. Collision Course) (1968).
Director: Frank Telford.
Cast: Dan Duryea, John Ericson, Lois Nettleton, Nan Leslie.
Plot: America and the USSR compete with each other as they investigate reports of a UFO crash in the People's Republic of China.
100 minutes.
Barbarella (1968).
Director: Roger Vadim.
Cast: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea.
Plot: Jane Fonda stars as a space beauty being drooled over by male creatures on a strange planet.
Rated PG. 98 minutes.
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980).
Director: Jimmy T. Murakami.
Cast: Richard Thomas, John Saxon, Robert Vaughn, George Peppard.
Plot: Richard Thomas stars as an emissary from a peaceful planet desperately searching for someone to save it from domination and destruction by an evil warlord.
Rated PG. 104 minutes.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973).
Director: J. Lee Thompson.
Cast: Roddy McDowall, Severn Darden, John Huston, Claude Akins, Paul Williams.
Plot: The final Apes film, in which simian Roddy McDowall attempts to peacefully coexist with conquered humanity. But not everyone goes along with the plan, especially with an impending nuclear threat.
Rated PG. 92 minutes.
Battlestar Galactica (1978).
Director: Richard A. Colla.
Cast: Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lew Ayres, Jane Seymour.
Plot: Film adapted from the television series by the same name.
Rated PG. 125 minutes.
The Beast with a Million Eyes (1956)
Director: David Karmansky
Cast: Paul Birch, Donna Cole, Chester Conklin, Dick Sargent, Leo Tarver, Lorna Thayer
Plot: An animal revolt takes place on a farm when an alien stops in for a visit.
No Rating 78 minutes.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970).
Director: Ted Post.
Cast: Charlton Heston, James Franciscus, Maurice Evans, Kim Hunter, Linda Harrison, James Gregory.
Plot: Sequel to Planet of the Apes. An astronaut is sent to find out what happened to the first team sent to the planet, and he must deal not only with the simian inhabitants, but also with a race of mutants that worship the atomic bomb that made them what they are.
Rated PG. 95 minutes.
Beyond the Rising Moon (1988).
Director: Philip Cook.
Cast: Tracy Davis, Hans Bachmann.
Plot: A 21st century genetically created troubleshooter rebels against the corporation that designed her when they send her on a mission to help them exploit alien technology.
93 minutes.
Beyond the Stars (1989).
Director: David Saperstein.
Cast: Martin Sheen, Christian Slater, Robert Foxworth, Sharon Stone, Olivia D'Abo, F. Murray Abraham.
Plot: A troubled teen (Christian Slater) forms a friendship with a reclusive ex-astronaut (Martin Sheen). Eventually, Sheen introduces Slater to a secret he discovered on the moon.
Rated PG. 94 minutes.
The Black Hole (1979).
Director: Gary Nelson.
Cast: Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux, Ernest Borgnine.
Plot: Space movie cliches.
Rated PG. 97 minutes.
The Brain From Planet Arous (1958).
Director: Nathan Juran.
Cast: John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller.
Plot: A giant brain from outer space takes over a man's body in an attempt to conquer the world. Another brain takes over the man's dog in an attempt to prevent it.
B & W. 70 minutes.
The Brain Eaters (1958)
Director: Bruno VeSota
Cast: Edwin Nelson (Dr Paul Kettering), Jack Hill (Senator Walter K. Powers), Alan Frost (Glenn Cameron), Joanna Lee (Alice Summers), David Hughes (Dr Wyler), Robert Ball (Dan Walker), Orville Sherman (Mayor Cameron), Leonard Nemoy [Nimoy] (Professor Cole)
B & W. 58 minutes.
Rated B.
Plot: Senator Walter K. Powers flies to Riverdale, Illinois to investigate reports of a mysterious metal cone buried in the ground. In examining and trying to understand the cone, scientists are completely baffled. Meanwhile several of the townspeople are behaving strangely. It is discovered that they are infected with alien parasites that dig into the back of the neck and take over the mind, although this is something that invariably proves fatal within several hours. The scientists try to find a means of combating the parasites as the town is taken over and cut off from the outside world.
The Brother From Another Planet (1984).
Director: John Sayles.
Cast: Joe Morton, Darryl Edwards, Steve James.
Plot: A dark-skinned extraterrestrial on the lam crash-lands his space ship in New York harbor and makes his way to Harlem.
Unrated. 110 minutes.
Buck Rogers: Destination Saturn (A.K.A. Planet Outlaws) (1939).
Director: Ford Beebe, Saul Goodkind.
Cast: Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran, Jack Mulhall, Anthony Warde, C. Montague Shaw, Philip Ahn.
Plot: Hero Buster Crabbe goes after villain Killer Kan in order to help the oppressed people of future Earth.
B & W. 91 minutes.
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979).
Director: Daniel Haller.
Cast: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Pamela Hensley, Tim O'Connor, Henry Silva.
Plot: After years of suspended animation, Buck awakens in a future society under attack by the power-hungry Princess Ardala, and it's up to him to save the day.
Rated PG. 89 minutes.

C

Capricorn One (1978).
Director: Peter Hyams.
Cast: Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Hal Holbrook, Sam Waterston, Karen Black, O.J. Simpson, Telly Savalas.
Plot: The government stages a mock flight to Mars in a television studio, complete with astronauts pretending to land on the planet. But a statement released by the Pentagon that the ship crashed upon reentry and all aboard were killed, puts the lives of the astronauts in danger.
Rated PG. 124 minutes.
Captian Video and the Video Rangers (1949-1955)
Director: Richard Coogan, Al Hodge
Cast: Don Hastings, Bran Mossen, Hal Conklin
Plot: Captain Video fights evildoers like Dr. Pauli in this afternoon tv show. Captain Video used gadgets like the Discatron and Radio Scillograph to punish villains all over the world.
B & W
The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
Director: Norman Tokar
Cast: Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Roddy McDowall, McLean Stevenson
Plot: Zunar J5/90 Doric 4-7, also known as Jake, is an alien cat who crash-lands on Earth. He heads off to the nearest scientist to find gold ($120,000 worth!) in order to repair his spaceship. Jake reveals that he can predict the winners in sporting events and soon the military is trying to track him down. The plot becomes more complicated when a wacky veterinarian inadvertently puts Jake into a deep sleep; now he must hide the alien cat from government authorities.
Rated G. 103 minutes.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
Director: Steven Spielberg.
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon.
Plot: Spielberg's unusual vision of an extraterrestrial visit to Earth, portraying the aliens as nonthreatening and childlike.
Rated PG. 132 minutes.
Cat Women of the Moon (1954).
Director: Arthur Hilton.
Cast: Sonny Tufts, Marie Windsor, Victor Jory.
Plot: A film in the travel-to-a-planet-of-scantily-clad-women subgenre.
64 minutes.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
Director: Steven Spielberg.
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon.
Plot: Spielberg's unusual vision of an extraterrestrial visit to Earth, portraying the aliens as nonthreatening and childlike.
Rated PG. 132 minutes.
Cocoon (1985).
Director: Ron Howard.
Cast: Don Ameche,Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Barret Oliver, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Tahnee Welch.
Plot: A group of people in a retirement home think they have found the fountain of youth, but the magic place belongs to a group of extraterrestrials.
Rated PG-13. 118 minutes.
Cocoon: the Return (1988).
Director: Daniel Petrie.
Cast: Don Ameche,Wilford Brimley, Courteney Cox, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Tahnee Welch.
Plot: The elderly group returns to Earth to help their alien friends rescue some cocoons that have been endangered by an earthquake.
Rated PG. 112 minutes.
Communion (1989).
Director: Philippe Mora.
Cast: Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse, Frances Sternhagen, Andreas Katsulas.
Plot: A terrifying film based on science-fiction author Whitley Strieber's alleged real-life encounter with aliens.
Rated R. 100 minutes.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972).
Director: J. Lee Thompson.
Cast: Roddy McDowall, Ricardo Montalban, Don Murray, Severn Darden.
Plot: Simian Roddy McDowall matures and leads his fellow domesticated apes in a revolt for freedom.
Rated PG. 87 minutes.
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (1950-1955)
Cast: Frankie Thomas, Al Markim, Jan Merlin, Margaret Garland
Plot: Space cadets traveled all over the galaxy experiencing many adventures. Astro, Roger and Tom were also students with problems and differences.
B & W
Contact (1997)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt
Plot: Unexpected radio contact from space aliens throws the Earth's intellectuals, scientists and theologians into turmoil.
Rated PG. 153 minutes
The Cosmic Man (1972).
Director: Herbert Greene.
Cast: John Carradine, Bruce Bennett, Angela Greene.
Plot: An invisible alien comes to Earth in a giant levitating ping-pong ball.
B & W. 72 minutes.
Creature (1985).
Director: William Malone.
Cast: Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Klaus Kinski, Marie Laurin, Lyman Ward.
Plot: Human-devouring life is reawakened on one of Jupiter's moons.
Rated R. 97 minutes.
The Creeping Terror (1964).
Director: Art J. Nelson.
Cast: Vic Savage, Shannon O'Neill.
Plot: Lake Tahoe is terrorized by a pair of space monsters, played by extras dressed in old carpets.
B & W. 75 minutes.

D

Daleks--Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966).
Director: Gordon Flemyng.
Cast: Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, Andrew Keir, Ray Brooks.
Plot: Sequel to Dr. Who and the Daleks. This time, the Daleks are attempting to take over Earth.
84 minutes.
Dark City (1998).
Director: Alex Proyas
Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Rufus Sewell, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt
Plot: An alien civilization controls humans to see how they survive. The adventure begins when one man escapes from their power.
Rated R. 101 minutes
The Dark Side of the Moon (1989).
Director: D.J. Webster.
Cast: Will Bledsoe, Alan Blumenfeld, John Diehl, Robert Sampson.
Plot: A lunar mission crew discovers a link between the dark side of the moon and the Bermuda Triangle.
Rated R. 96 minutes.
Dark Star (1974).
Director: John Carpenter.
Cast: Brian Narelle (Doolittle), Dan O’Bannon (Pinback), Andreijah Pahich (Talby), Cal Kuniholm (Boiler), Cookie Knapp (Voice of Computer) 
Plot: Four astronauts who have been in space too long seek and destroy unstable planets. The spaceship Dark Star, with its cargo of talking, intelligent bombs, is on a twenty-year mission to destroy unstable planets that might threaten future galactic colonization. Both the crew and ship are slowly falling apart - the captain has been electrocuted and is kept half-alive in suspended animation; Dolittle the acting captain is lost in dreams of surfing; crewman Pinback is convinced he is an impostor; Boiler is obsessed with weapons; and Talby spends all his time watching the stars. They have found only one alien lifeform during the entire mission - a mischievous beachball-like creature, which causes chaos as it gets loose in the ship. On their final run one of the talking bombs becomes stuck inside the cargo bay. In its eagerness to head off on its mission, it refuses to stop its countdown and must be reasoned with to persuade it to not blow up the ship.
Rated PG. 83 minutes.
The Day Mars Invaded Earth. (1962)
Director: Maury Dexter.
Cast: Kent Taylor (Dr David Fielding), Marie Windsor (Claire Fielding), William Mims (Dr Webb), Betty Beall (Judy Fielding), Gregory Shank (Rocky Fielding), Lowell Brown (Frank Hazard)
Plot: Dr David Fielding heads a successful attempt to land a robot probe on Mars, even though the probe only lasts a matter of minutes before it is destroyed. He then retreats from media attention to spend time with his wife and two children at a large family mansion in Los Angeles that they have been asked to tend. But while they are there each of them are haunted by mysterious doppelgangers.
Rated B. ? minutes.
The Day of the Triffids (1963).
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Director: Steve Sekely.
Cast: Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore, Mervyn Johns.
Plot: Alien plants arrive on Earth during a meteor shower that blinds most of the earthlings. Then the plants grow, and begin walking and eating people.
95 minutes.
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1962).
Director: Val Guest.
Cast: Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern.
Plot: Following simultaneous nuclear explosions at both poles, the Earth is sent on a collision course with the sun.
B & W. 99 minutes.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).
Director: Robert Wise.
Cast: Michael Rennie (Klaatu), Patricia Neal (Helen Benson), Hugh Marlowe (Tom Stevens), Sam Jaffe (Dr Jacob Barnhardt), Billy Gray (Bobby Benson), Lock Martin (Gort)
B & W. 92 minutes.
Plot: A flying saucer circles the world, eventually landing in Washington D.C. where a man and seven foot tall robot emerge. The man, Klaatu, produces a gift for the President, but a trigger-happy soldier thinks it is a weapon and shoots him down. In retaliation, the robot melts all the tanks and weaponry with a ray from its visor. Klaatu is taken to hospital where he affects a remarkable recovery and announces that he wishes a meeting with all world leaders. But the leaders are too scared to agree to this. So Klaatu sneaks out, signing into a boarding house under an assumed name. He contacts scientists to organize a meeting and arranges a demonstration by stopping all power on Earth for half-an-hour so that he can announce to the world that if humanity does the nuclear arms race, his people will destroy the world.
The Deadly Ray from Mars (1938)
Director: Ford I. Beebe, Robert Hill
Cast: Larry Crabbe, Don Kerr, Charles Middleton, Bea Roberts, Jean Rogers, Frank Shannon
Plot: Flash Gordon travels to Mars to find out why a mysterious force is taking the nitrogen from Earth's atmosphere.
Not Rated 99 minutes.
Deep Impact (1998).
Director: Mimi Leder
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave
Plot: America is prepared to go underground if the mission to destroy the comet headed for Earth fails.
Rated PG-13. 125 minutes.
Deep Star Six (1989).
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Cast: Taurean Blacque, Nancy Everhard, Greg Evigan, Miguel Ferrer, Nia Peeples, Matt McCoy, Cindy Pickett, Thom Bray, Elya Baskin, Ronn Carroll, Marius Weyers
Plot: A team of engineers on an undersea missile platform disturb the slumber of a huge, killer crustacean, which soon develops a taste for human-flavored snacks.
Rated R. 97 minutes.
Destination Moon (1950).
Director: Irving Pichel.
Cast: Warner Anderson, John Archer, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson.
Plot: A speculative story about the first American spaceship to land on the moon, complete with the classic pointed spaceship and bubble helmets on the travelers.
Rated PG-13. 99 minutes.
Disney's Ducktales: Space Invaders (1990).
Director: Disney Animation.
Cast: Scrooge McDuck and his nephews.
Plot: Space adventures with the Ducktale gang.
Rated PG. 44 minutes.
Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965).
Director: Gordon Flemyng.
Cast: Peter Cushing, Roy Castle, Jennie Linden, Barrie Ingham.
Plot: An eccentric old scientist takes his friends on a trip through space and time. They end up on a planet over-run with war-mongering mutants (the Daleks) and must help the the planet's peaceful inhabitants fight them.
Rated G. 83 minutes.
Dr. Who: Revenge of the Cybermen (1986).
Director: Michael E. Briant.
Cast: Tom Baker, Elizabeth Sladen.
Plot: The evil Cybermen attempt to destroy the planet Voga, which is made of solid gold, because gold is the only item that can kill them.
92 minutes.
Dog Star Man (1964).
Director: Stan Brakhage.
Plot: An abstract silent film about the creation of the universe.
Silent film. 78 minutes.

E

E.T.--The Extra-terrestrial (1982).
Director: Steven Spielberg.
Cast: Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore.
Plot: Spielberg's fairy tale about a young boy who meets a lovable alien from outer space.
Rated PG. 115 minutes.
Earth Girls Are Easy (1989)
Director: Julien Temple.
Cast: Geena Davis (Valerie Dale), Jeff Goldblum (Mac), Damon Wayans (Zeebo), Jim Carrey (Wiploc), Charles Rocket (Ted Gallagher), Julie Brown (Candy Pink), Michael McKean (Buddy) 
Plot: San Fernando Valley manicurist Valerie Dale is feeling down because her live-in boyfriend Ted doesn’t seem to want sex anymore. She throws him out after finding him with a nurse. Her melancholy is interrupted by three horny aliens from the planet Jhazzala who crash their spaceship in her swimming pool. She is at first overwhelmed by their bizarre imitative abilities. But with a depilatory makeover the aliens are able to pass for human where their mimicry and zany innocence make them the hit of the Valley party scene. And then Valerie finds herself starting to fall for the group’s leader Mac.
Rated. ? minutes.
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956).
Director: Fred F. Sears.
Cast: Hugh Marlowe (Dr Russell Marvin), Joan Taylor (Carol Marvin), Donald Curtis (Major Hughlin), Morris Ankrum (General John Handley)
Plot: Scientist Russell Marvin and his newlywed wife Joan are driving through a military test area when they are buzzed by a flying saucer. The next day saucers appear during a rocket launch and destroy the rocket and entire launch complex. All weaponry is brought to bear against the saucers but makes no dent in their forcefields. As the power inside the decimated control center fades, the speed Marvin is playing his tape recorder back at slows and he finds a message left by the saucer, asking him to contact the aliens on a certain radio frequency. Against military orders, he contacts them and is taken aboard their saucer. There the aliens tell him that their own world has been depleted of resources and they now want the Earth. They give humanity 72 days to surrender. Returning, Marvin labours to build a ray projector that will negate the magnetic fields that protect the saucers and allow them to be destroyed with ultrasonic sound.
Rated B . 83 minutes.
The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
Director: Irvin Kershner.
Cast: Billy Dee Williams, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Dave Prowse, James Earl Jones (voice).
Plot: Sequel to Star Wars. Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, and the gang must again join forces against the Empire, led by Darth Vader.
Rated PG. 124 minutes.
Enemy from Space (1957).
Director: Val Guest.
Cast:Cast: Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sydney James , Bryan Forbes , William Franklyn , Vera Day, Brian Donlevy, William Franklyn.
Plot: Aliens arrive in a small town in England and take over human bodies, using them to construct "pressure domes" in which to house their soon-to-arrive new embryos, until Dr Quatermass finds a way to put a stop to it. A scientist discovers that aliens are slowly taking over the governments of Earth, starting with Britain.
B & W. 85 minutes.
Enemy Mine (1985).
Director: Wolfgang Petersen.
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Lou Gossett Jr., Brion James, Richard Marcus, Lance Kerwin.
Plot: Futuristic epic in which two foes, a human and a reptilian alien, are stranded on a hostile planet and forced to rely on each other for survival.
Rated PG-13. 108 minutes.
Endangered Species (1982)
Director: Alan Rudolph.
Cast:Robert Urich (Ruben Castle), JoBeth Williams (Harriett Purdue), Marin Kanter (MacKenzie Castle), Paul Dooley (Joe Hiatt), Hoyt Axton (Ben Morgan), Peter Coyote (Steele), Dan Hedaya (Peck)
Plot: Police detective Ruben Castle determines to quit drinking and moves to a small town of Buffalo in Colorado with his teenage daughter. In Buffalo, Harriet Purdue becomes the town's new sheriff. But then she must deal with a plague of cattle mutilations in which the animals' organs have all been removed. This is causing the locals to panic amid wild rumours of UFOs and Satanists at work. She and Ruben team up to investigate in an initially testy relationship that eventually turns to romance. The trail leads to a disused NORAD base where they discover covert nerve gas experiments are being conducted. But as they begin to uncover what is happening, the government agency conducting the tests determines to eliminate all those in the know.
Rated . ? minutes.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971).
Director: Don Taylor.
Cast: Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Eric Braeden, Bradford Dillman, William Windom, Ricardo Montalban.
Plot: The apes flee nuclear destruction in their own world and time, and arrive on Earth. But humanity decides to destroy them before they can breed.
Rated PG. 98 minutes.
Explorers (1985).
Director: Joe Dante.
Cast: Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson, Dick Miller, Robert Picardo.
Plot: Three kids who share the same dream soon find themselves on an adventurous journey through outer space.
Rated PG. 109 minutes.
Eyes Behind the Stars (1972).
Director: Roy Garrett.
Cast: Robert Hoffman, Nathalie Delon, Martin Balsam.
Plot: A reporter and a UFO specialist investigate reports that aliens have landed on Earth.
Unrated. 95 minutes.

F

Fantastic Planet (1973).
Director: Rene Laloux.
Cast: Animated.
Plot: A French-Czechoslovakian production concerning the class struggles and eventual war between two races on an alien planet.
Rated PG. 71 minutes.
Fire in the Sky (1993).
Director: Robert Lieberman.
Cast: D.B. Sweeney (Travis Walton), Robert Patrick (Mike Rogers), James Garner (Lieutenant Frank Waters), Craig Sheffer (Alan Dallis), Peter Berg (David Whitlock), Henry Thomas (Gregory Hayes), Bradley Gregg (Bobby Coghill), Noble Willingham (Sheriff Blake Davis), Kathleen Wilhoite (Kate Rogers).
Plot: Dramatization of the alleged abduction of Travis Walton in 1975. In 1975 in the small town of Snowflake, Arizona, five logging workers return from a job with an incredible story of how they came across what at first looked like a forest fire but instead proved to be a UFO. A sixth worker, Travis Walton, was attacked by a beam of light and they fled, leaving him presumed dead. A sceptical state investigator thinks this a coverup for a murder and the five find themselves the target of gossip and mistrust in the town. But then Travis reappears, in a state of almost catatonic fear with an unbelievable story about how he was abducted and experimented on by aliens.
Rated PG-13. 110 minutes.
The First Man Into Space (1958).
Director: Robert Day.
Cast: Marshall Thompson (Commander Chuck Prescott), Bill Edwards (Lieutenant Dan Prescott), Marla Landi (Tia Francesca), Carl Jaffe (Dr Paul Van Essen), Robert Ayres (Captain Ben Richards).
Plot: A test pilot is mutated by cosmic rays into a blood-thirsty monster.Hotshot Navy test pilot Dan Prescott takes the new Y-13 plane up on its maiden test flight. But once he reaches the upper atmosphere, he disobeys orders and takes the plane up further, determined to be the first person into space, but instead crashes back down to Earth. He is unable to be found at the crash site. Soon after there are soon reports of people and cattle being attacked by someone who feasts on their blood. Dan's brother Chuck leads the search for him and discovers that Dan's blood has been raised to a rarefied level by his trip into space, forcing him to have to feed upon ordinary blood in order to stay alive. 
Not rated. B & W. 78 minutes.
First Men in the Moon (1964).
Director: Nathan Juran.
Cast: Edward Judd, Martha Hyer, Lionel Jeffries, Peter Finch.
Plot: Adaptation of an H.G. Wells novel. Creatures menace turn-of-the-century lunar explorers who arrive in a Victorian spaceship.A UN expedition makes the first manned Moon landing in 1964. But they realize that they are not the first there when they discover a British flag and a summons for a Katherine Calender dated 1899 on the surface. The late Katherine Calender’s husband Arnold Bedford is tracked down in a geriatric home. He tells how his neighbour, scientist Arnold Cavor, discovered a metal capable of shielding the effects of gravity. Coating a sphere with the metal and using shutters to control direction, Cavor, Bedford and Katherine were able to escape Earth’s gravity field and travel to the Moon. On the Moon they encountered and became the prisoners of a race of three-foot tall Selenites.
103 minutes.
First Spaceship on Venus (1959).
Director: Kurt Maetzig.
Cast: Oldrich Lukas (Professor Harringway), Yoko Tani (Dr Sumiko Ogimura), Tang Hua-Ta (Dr Tchen Yu), Gunther Simon (Robert Brinkman), Michail N. Postnikow (Professor Durand), Kurt Rachelmann (Dr Sikarna), Ignacy Machowski (Professor Orloff), Julius Ogewe (Talua) 
Plot: German science fiction adventure with an international crew of astronauts landing on Venus. Scientists uncover a magnetic spool at the site of the Tunga explosion in Siberia. This is believed to have come from an exploding alien spacecraft. As all effort is made to decode the spool, it is discovered to have originated from Venus. The planned Mars rocket Cosmostrater 1 is hastily redirected towards Venus, along with a crew of top scientists. But once on Venus the Cosmostrater crew discover a world that has been devastated by atomic war and realize that the Venusians were planning to invade the Earth.
78 minutes.
The Fifth Element (1997)
Director: Luc Besson
Cast: Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker, Luke Perry, tiny Lister Jr.
Plot: Earth, air, fire, water together create the most important element; life. A hero must save the world from evil with the help of the fifth element-- a supreme alien being.
Rated PG-13. 117 minutes.
Flash Gordon - remake- (1980)
Director: Mike Hodges
Cast: Jones (Flash Gordon), Melody Anderson (Dale Arden), Topol (Dr Hans Zarkov), Max Von Sydow (Ming the Merciless), Ornella Muti (Princess Aura), Timothy Dalton (Prince Barin), Brian Blessed (King Vultan), Peter Wyngarde (Klytus), Mariangela Melato (Kara) 
Plot: Ming, Emperor of the planet Mongo, decides to toy with the Earth, and wields a ray that causes the weather to run havoc. A plane carrying New York Jets quarterback Flash Gordon and travel agent Dale Arden is caught in a storm and crashes into the laboratory home of ex-NASA scientist Dr Zarkov. Zarkov forces them at gunpoint into his home-made rocketship and they take off to Mongo. On Mongo they are captured by Ming who decides to marry Dale, execute Flash and drain Zarkov’s brain. But Flash is saved by Ming’s seductive daughter Princess Aura and valiantly travels through the kingdoms of Mongo to unite the people of the Tree Kingdom and their enemies the Hawkmen to stop Ming.
Not Rated 97 minutes.
Flash Gordon's Space Soldiers (1936)
Director: Frederick Stephani
Cast: Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Priscilla Lawson, John Lipson, Charles Middleton, Jean Rogers, Frank Shannon
Plot: Flash Gordon deals with space goons in space and beyond.
Not Rated 97 minutes.
Flash Gordon Trip to Mars (1938)
Director: Ford Beebe & Robert Hill.
Cast: Larry ‘Buster’ Crabbe (Flash Gordon), Frank Shannon (Dr Zarkov), Jean Rogers (Dale Arden), Charles Middleton (Emperor Ming), Donald Kerr (Happy Hapgood), Beatrice Roberts (Queen Azura) 
Plot: Earth is being affected by nitron rays, which cause havoc with the weather. Dr Zarkov determines that the source of the rays is Mongo and he, Flash Gordon, Dale Arden (along with stowaway reporter Happy Hapgood) set forth aboard Zarkov's rocketship. But they find that the rays are coming from Mars, not Mongo and change course. There they discover their old enemy Ming the Merciless who is collaborating with the Martian witch queen Azura. Joining with Prince Barin and the Clay People, they set out to stop Ming and Azura.
Rated PG. 90 minutes.
Flight of the Navigator (1986).
Director: Randal Kleiser.
Cast: Joey Kramer, Veronica Cartwright, Cliff De Young, Sarah Jessica Parker, Howard Hesseman, Matt Adler.
Plot: A youngster who can communicate with machines helps a UFO find its way home.
Rated PG. 90 minutes.
Flight to Mars (1951).
Director: Lesley Selander.
Cast: Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz, Marguerite Chapman, Morris Ankrum, John Litel, Virginia Huston.
Plot: Scientists and newsmen crash on Mars and discover a race of humans living beneath the planet's surface.
72 minutes.
The Flying Saucer (1950).
Director: Mikel Conrad.
Cast: Mikel Conrad, Denver Pyle, Russell Hicks.
Plot: An American agent is sent to Alaska to investigate a report of a UFO.
B & W. 69 minutes.
Forbidden Planet (1956).
Director: Fred M. Wilcox.
Cast: Leslie Nielsen (Commander Adams), Walter Pidgeon (Dr Edward Morbius), Anne Francis (Altaira Morbius), Warren Stevens (Lieutenant ‘Doc’ Ostrow), Jack Kelly (Lieutentant Farman), Earl Holliman (Cook), Richard Anderson (Chief Quinn), Marvin Miller (Voice of Robbie) 
Plot: Earth interplanetary cruiser C57D goes to the planet Altair IV to check on a research team. They are warned from orbit to leave, but instead choose to land. They meet the Earth archaeologist Dr Edward Morbius and his beautiful daughter Altaira, the only survivors of the expedition. Morbius shows them the marvels of the Krell, the race that once inhabited the planet - colossal energy wells stretching to the planet’s core and a mind-boosting device that has enabled him to understand their devices and build an all-purpose robot Robbie as his servant. Altaira, who has never met another man, proves temptation too hard to resist for the crewmen who try to educate her what a kiss is. But then at night an invisible energy field enters the ship, destroying equipment and killing men. The crewmen realize it is a monster from the Krell’s ids - that the Krell tried to suppress their base desires but that instead the suppressed emotions used their devices to take energy form and killed them off. And now Morbius's subconscious, angry at the attentions of the Earthmen on his daughter, has created his own id monster to destroy them.
98 minutes.
From the Earth to the Moon (1958).
Director: Byron Haskin.
Cast: Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget, Don Dubbins.
Plot: Based on Jules Verne's story of a turn-of-the-century trip to the moon that is sabotaged.
100 minutes.

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Galaxina (1980).
Director: William Sachs.
Cast: Avery Schreiber, Dorothy Stratten, Stephen Macht.
Plot: Low-budget space spoof.
Rated R. 95 minutes.
Galaxy of Terror (1981).
Director: B. D. Clark.
Cast: Erin Moran, Edward Albert, Ray Walston.
Plot: The crew of a spaceship sent to rescue a crash survivor must face one horror after another on a desolate planet.
Rated R. 82 minutes.
Galaxy Quest (1999).
Director: Dean Parisot.
Cast: Tim Allen (Jason Nesmith/Commander Peter Quincy Taggart), Alan Rickman (Alexander Dane/Dr Lazarus), Sigourney Weaver (Gwen DeMarco/Lieutenant Tawny Madison), Daryl Mitchell (Tommy Webber/Lieutenant Laredo), Sam Rockwell (Guy Fleegman), Tony Shalhoub (Fred Kwan/Sergeant Chen), Enrico Colantoni (Mathasar), Missi Pyle (Laliari), Justin Long (Brandon), Robin Sachs (Sarris), Patrick Breen (Quellek) 
Plot: The sf tv series ‘GalaxyQuest', about the intergalactic adventures of the USEA Protector, was cancelled in 1982 but its cast, otherwise a bunch of has-beens, make their living at conventions from a loyal and devoted fan following, even though they hate the parts they have been typecast in and the lines they are forever forced to keep repeating. But then Jason Nesmith, who plays the Protector's commander Peter Quincy Taggart, is contacted by aliens from the planet Thermia. The Thermians believe that the exploits of the ‘GalaxyQuest' crew are documentaries and see the Protector crew as their last hope in delivering their people from the warlord Sarris. Now the actors find themselves transported aboard an exact replica of the Protector where they are suddenly forced to fight an intergalactic war for real.  
Rated PG.100 minutes.
The Gifted (1993).
Director: Audrey King Lewis.
Cast: Dick Anthony Williams, Bianca Ferguson, Johnny Sekka, Gene Jackson, J.A. Preston, Julie Hampton, Julius Harris, Marguerite Ray, Edmund Cambridge, Davis Roberts, Aaron Lewis.
Plot: A southern family with supernatural powers that they inherited from their West African ancestors is joined by the only surviving member of the tribe as they fight a desperate alien force.
Not rated. 101 minutes.
The Green Slime (1969).
Director: Kinji Fukasaku.
Cast: Robert Horton, Richard Jaeckel, Luciana Paluzzi.
Plot: A bit of alien green slime makes its way onto a space station and multiplies itself into slimy monsters.
Unrated. 88 minutes.
The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972).
Director: Lamont Johnson.
Cast: George Peppard, Michael Sarrazin, Christine Belford.
Plot: A government agent is sent to uncover the security leak that led to the destruction of a secret space laboratory, and a man with amnesia is his only lead.
Rated PG. 103 minutes.

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Hangar 18 (1980).
Director: James L. Conway.
Cast: Darren McGavin, Robert Vaughn, Gary Collins, Joseph Campanella, James Hampton.
Plot: An alien spaceship is accidentally disabled by a U.S. satellite.
Rated PG. 93 minutes.
The Hidden (1987).
Director: Jack Sholder.
Cast: Michael Nouri, Kyle MacLachlan, Ed O'Ross, Clu Gulager, Claudia Christian, Clarence Felder.
Plot: A police detective and an FBI agent pursue what may be an alien intruder when a bizarre series of crimes occur in Los Angeles.
Rated R. 97 minutes.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1985).
Director: Alan Bell.
Cast: Peter Jones, Simon Jones, David Dixon, Joe Melia, Martin Benson.
Plot: The television version of Douglas Adams' humorous BBC radio series. Follows the adventures of Arthur Dent, an ordinary citizen who narrowly escapes the Earth's destruction by aliens who are annoyed that the planet is blocking the intergalactic highway they want to build.
194 minutes.
Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970).
Director: Al Adamson.
Cast: John Carradine, Robert Dix, Vicki Volante.
Plot: Astronauts land on a planet and find it inhabited by monsters.
Rated R. 85 minutes.
Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star (1986).
Director: Peter Hunt.
Cast: Ricky Paul Goldin, Sydney Penny, Keenan Wynn, Gail Strickland, Peter Jason.
Plot: Youngsters from another planet come to Wyoming to see if Earth is really like the TV commercials they've been monitoring, and a teenager shows them around.
Rated PG. 95 minutes.

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I Come in Peace (1990).
Director: Craig R. Baxley.
Cast: Dolph Lundgren, Brian Benben, Betsy Brantley, Matthias Hues, Jesse Vint.
Plot: An alien comes to take over the Earth, to use human beings as convenient drug factories for his kind, and a cop must stop him.
Rated R. 92 minutes.
I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958).
Director: Gene Fowler Jr.
Cast: Tom Tryon (Bill Farrell), Gloria Talbott (Marge Farrell), John Eldredge (Chief Collins), Alan Dexter (Sam Benson), Peter Baldwin (Officer Swenson), Valerie Allen (Francine), Ken Lynch (Dr Wayne), Max Rosenbloom (Grady), Jean Carson (Helen Benson), Robert Ivers (Harry)
B & W. 78 minutes.
Plot: On the eve of his wedding Bill Farrell is abducted and possessed by a glowing alien. Soon after they marry, his wife Marge begins to suspect that something has changed about Bill. One night she follows him and sees the alien emerge and enter a saucer in the woods. But when she tries to alert authorities she realizes that the aliens have taken over most of the menfolk in the town. They are the survivors from a dying planet whose women have all been rendered sterile by a collapsing sun and have come to Earth to marry human women in the hope of reviving their race.
I Was a Zombie for the FBI (1982).
Director: Marius Penczner.
Cast: James Raspberry, Larry Raspberry.
B & W. 105 minutes.
Plot: Satire about alien invaders seeking a top-secret cola formula who pollute the world's soft drink industry in the process.
Ice Pirates (1984).
Director: Stewart Raffill.
Cast: Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, John Matuszak, Anjelica Huston, John Carradine.
Rated PG. 91 minutes.
Plot: Set in outer space in the far future, when the universe has run out of water.
The Incredible Melting Man (1978).
Director: William Sachs.
Cast: Alex Rebar, Burr DeBenning, Myron Healey, Ann Sweeney.
Rated R. 86 minutes.
Plot: During a dangerous space mission, an astronaut contracts an illness that causes his flesh to melt upon his return to Earth.
Independence Day (1996).
Director: Roland Emmerich.
Cast: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, James Rebhorn, Harvey Fierstein, Harry Connick Jr., Vivica A. Fox, James Duval, Brent Spiner.
Rated R.
Plot: Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived; its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.
Infra-Man (1976).
Director: Hua-Shan.
Rated PG. 89 minutes.
Plot: An astronaut is transformed by radiation into a bionic superhero who protects the world from monsters sent from inner Earth.
Intruders (1992).
Director: Dan Curtis.
Cast: Richard Crenna, Mare Winningham, Susan Blakely, Daphne Ashbrook.
Made for TV. 163 minutes.
Plot: Two sisters undergo hyponotic regression and convince a psychiatrist that they have been repeatedly abducted by aliens, since childhood.
Invader (1991).
Director: Philip J. Cook.
Cast: Hans Bachman, A. Thomas Smith, Rich Foucheux, John Cooke, Robert Diedermann, Allison Sheehy, Ralph Bluemke.
Rated R. 95 minutes.
Plot: A reporter sent to cover a strange massacre of soldiers realizes that the soldiers have been taken over by aliens. In order to turn in the news story, he must fight for survival.
The Invaders (1995).
Director: Paul Shapiro.
Cast: Scott Bakula, Elizabeth Pena, Richard Thomas, Delane Matthews, Richard Belzer, Roy Thinnes.
Not rated. 180 minutes.
Plot: A pilot discovers a plan to destroy the Earth's ecology so that humanoid aliens can colonize it. He and a beautiful scientist race to convince the government of the global threat.
Invaders From Mars (1953).
Director: William Cameron Menzies.
Cast: immy Hunt (David MacLean), Helena Carter (Dr Patricia Blake), Arthur Franz (Dr Stuart Kelston), Morris Ankrum (Colonel Fielding), Leif Erickson (George MacLean), Hilary Brooke (Mary MacLean)
78 minutes.
Plot: A boy sees a flying saucer land in a nearby field, but no one will believe him. Young David MacLean sees strange lights going down beyond the hill outside the house. His father goes to investigate but returns cold and strangely changed. He takes David’s mother over the hill and she too returns similarly changed, along with many others in the town throughout the rest of the day. David notes that all of them return with marks at the back of his neck. He tries to tell the police but they have been changed too and he is locked up. Finally a health inspector and an astronomer believe his story and call in the army to take on the Martian invaders who have burrowed beneath the hill.
Invaders from Mars (1986).
Director: Tobe Hooper.
Cast: Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Laraine Newman, James Karen, Louise Fletcher, Bud Cort.
Rated PG-13. 94 minutes.
Plot: A remake of the 1953 film, where a boy battles Martians who have taken over his parents and threaten to destroy the world.
Invasion of the Animal People (1962).
Director: Virgil Vogel, Jerry Warren.
Cast: Robert Burton, Barbara Wilson, John Carradine (narrator).
B & W. 73 minutes.
Plot: Extraterrestrial visitors assume the form of animals.
Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973).
Director: Denis Sanders.
Cast: Victoria Vetri, William Smith, Cliff Osmond, Anitra Ford.
Rated PG. 85 minutes.
Plot: Strange female invaders affect the male population of a small California town. Wacky spoof -- not for kids.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).
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Director: Don Siegel.
Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Carolyn Jones, King Donovan.
B & W. 80 minutes.
Plot: Disturbingly frightening film about humans being taken over by cold, emotionless pods from outer space. Miles Bennell, a GP in the small Californian town of Santa Mira, returns from an out-of-town meeting to find himself inundated with calls from local people insisting that members of their family are not the same people anymore or have changed in some way. Believing it some type of mass hallucination, he refers them to a psychiatrist. He meets his old girlfriend Becky Driscoll and starts up with her again. They are interrupted at dinner by mystery writer Jack Belicec who takes them to see a body found on his pool table, one mysteriously lacking any type of distinguishing marks, even fingerprints. As Jack sleeps, his wife sees the body form into a likeness of Jack, even down to a recent cut on his hand. Miles finds a similar body forming in Becky’s basement. But when they try to show the bodies to the police they have vanished and they think, in the rationale of daylight, that they have succumbed to the mass delusion too. But as night falls again they find pods in Miles’s glasshouse. When they try to run they find everywhere the whole town has turned into hostile, emotionless pod people trying to stop them.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978).
Director: Phil Kaufman.
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright.
Rated PG. 115 minutes.
Plot: Semi-sequel to the 1956 film. This one is set in San Francisco, where the "seeds" from outer space are duplicating and destroying the Bay Area residents at an alarming rate.
Invasion Earth-The Aliens are Here (1987).
Director: George Maitland.
Cast: Janis Fabian, Christian Lee, Mel Welles.
Not rated. 84 minutes.
Plot: While two ten-year-old boys sit through a monster movie marathon, preparations are being made to destroy the Earth. When an alien projectionist takes over the audience, the boys must rid the town of the real monsters.
Invasion of the Neptune Men (1963).
Cast: Sonny Chiba.
Not rated. B & W. 82 minutes.
Plot: A superhero streaks through outer space conquering invaders from other planets.
Invasion of the Saucermen (1957).
Director: Edward L. Cahn.
Cast: Gloria Castillo, Frank Gorshin, Raymond Hatton.
Not rated. B & W.
Plot: A teenaged couple sees a flying saucer land in a nearby field, but no one believes them.
Invasion UFO (1980).
Director: Gerry Anderson, David Lane, David Tomblin.
Cast: Ed Bishop, George Sewell, Michael Billington.
97 minutes.
Plot: Based on the short-lived television series about an alien invasion.
It Came From Outer Space (1953).
Director: Jack Arnold.
Cast: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake.
B & W. 81 minutes.
Plot: Ray Bradbury story about aliens crash-landing and taking over human bodies so that they can repair their ship unnoticed.Astronomer John Putnam sees a meteor come down in the desert not far from his home. He rushes there, finding a giant geodesic structure and an amoeboid cyclopean creature, just before the creature brings a rockfall down burying the ship. He tries to convince authorities what he saw but nobody believes him. Later Putnam and then two telephone linemen see the alien flying across the highway. Putnam later comes across the linemen, one cold and emotionless and the other standing by an apparently dead double of himself. He realizes that the aliens have duplicated them, along with many others in the town. The aliens kidnap Putnam’s girlfriend, telling him she will come to no harm if he does not interfere and they are allowed the 24 hours they need to repair their ship and return home.
It Conquered the World (1956).
Director: Roger Corman.
Cast: Peter Graves (Dr Paul Nelson), Lee Van Cleef (Dr Tom Anderson), Beverly Garland (Claire Anderson), Sally Fraser (Joan Nelson), Russ Bender (Brigadier-General James Pattick) 
B & W. 70 minutes.
Plot: B-movie about aliens who follow a failed satellite back to Earth. A scientist helps them hide in a cavern, but discovers their intentions are evil. An alien force is sabotaging satellite launches. One such failed launch returns to Earth containing an alien creature. With the aid of an idealistically misguided physicist, it stops power transmission everywhere and sends forth bat-creatures to enslave the minds of authorities.
It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958).
Director: Edward L. Cahn.
Cast: Marshall Thompson, Ann Doran.
B & W. 69 minutes.
Plot: A spaceship returning from Mars in 1973 carries an alien hitchhiker that kills the crew, one by one. Supposedly the inspiration for Alien.

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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959).
Director: Henry Levin.
Cast: Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker.
Rated G. 130 minutes.