🏷 Discover The Best Alien Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Are you fascinated by the mysterious and often thrilling world of aliens? If so, you're in for a treat! This guide will help you discover the best movies and TV shows that explore extraterrestrial life, ranging from blockbuster films to gripping series. Dive into the universe of aliens and uncover stories that will leave you on the edge of your seat!

Cast

Ryan Gosling

Sandra Hu00fcller

James Ortiz

Lionel Boyce

Project Hail Mary (2026)

8.7 6.1K votes

Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 157 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction.

Plot: friendship, coma, based on novel or book, bravery, sun, language barrier, space travel, space mission, ...

Cast

Chris Parnell

Spencer Grammer

Sarah Chalke

Ian Cardoni

Rick and Morty (2013) TV Show

8.7 11.1K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 9

Episodes: 91

Audience: TV-14

Story: Follows a sociopathic genius scientist who drags his inherently timid grandson on adventures across the universe.

Plot: time travel, grandfather, alcoholism, alien, dysfunctional family, mad scientist, scientist, adult animation, ...

Cast

Steven Yeun

Sandra Oh

J.K. Simmons

INVINCIBLE (2021) TV Show

8.6 5.9K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Canada, United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 32

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Mark Grayson is a normal teenager except for the fact that his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet. Shortly after his seventeenth birthday, Mark begins to develop powers of his own and enters into his father's tutelage.

Plot: anti hero, superhero, based on comic, alien, gore, super power, adult animation, teen superhero

Cast

Jason Ritter

Kristen Schaal

Alex Hirsch

Linda Cardellini

Gravity Falls (2012) TV Show

8.6 3.5K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 40

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: Twin brother and sister Dipper and Mabel Pines are in for an unexpected adventure when they spend the summer helping their great uncle Stan run a tourist trap in the mysterious town of Gravity Falls, Oregon.

Plot: small town, dreams, symbolism, oregon, magic, time travel, uncle, alien, ...

Place: usa

Cast

Brian Posehn

Tara Strong

Sym-Bionic Titan (2010) TV Show

8.5 181 votes

Genre: Action, Animation

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 20

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Three beings from the planet Galaluna crash-land on Earth while attempting to escape their war-torn world.

Plot: alien, mecha, robot, super robot

Cast

Cu00e1ssio Scapin

Cinthya Rachel

Luciano Amaral

Fredy Au0301llan

Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum (1994) TV Show

8.5 32 votes

Genre: Comedy, Family, Science Fiction

Country: Brazil

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 90

Story: Nino is a 300-year-old boy who lives with his uncle, Dr. Victor, a sorcerer and scientist, and his great-aunt Morgana, a 6,000-year-old witch. The three of them live in a castle in the middle of the city of São Paulo. Apprentice sorcerer, Nino has never attended a school, because of the unusual age of 300 years. His parents left him living with Victor and Morgan, because they needed to travel on an expedition into outer space, taking their two younger brothers. In spite of having animal and supernatural friends in the Castle, Nino, feeling lack of friends like him, decides to do a spell he learned with his Uncle Victor, and ended up bringing to the Castle, three children who had just left school. Free of loneliness, Nino receives the visit of the three daily.

Plot: library, magic, fairy, castle, invention, friendship, alien, animals, ...

Cast

Shion Wakayama

Natsuki Hanae

Mayumi Tanaka

Nana Mizuki

Dan Da Dan (2024) TV Show

8.5 890 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In a bet to prove whether ghosts or aliens exist, two high schoolers face terrifying paranormal threats, gain superpowers and maybe even fall in love?!

Style: whimsical

Plot: high school, romcom, alien, urban legend, school, paranormal phenomena, based on manga, super power, ...

Cast

Richard Steven Horvitz

Andy Berman

Rosearik Rikki Simons

Melissa Fahn

Invader ZIM (2001) TV Show

8.5 463 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 46

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: Zim dreams of greatness. Unfortunately, though, he's hopelessly inept as a space invader. Desperate to be rid of the annoying Zim, his planet's leaders send him on a mission to infiltrate Earth, providing him with leftover, cobbled-together equipment. To their consternation, Zim succeeds in setting up a base on Earth and infiltrating human culture, posing as a human child as he plots the planet's downfall. Only Zim's archnemesis, Dib, recognizes that Zim is an alien, and of course, nobody believes Dib's claims.

Plot: invasion, stupidity, misanthrophy, alien, school, robot, disguise, science and technology, ...

Cast

Rod Serling

The Twilight Zone (1959) TV Show

8.5 1.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 156

Audience: TV-PG

Story: An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

Style: psychotronic

Plot: time travel, computer, anthology, misfit, space, surrealism, alien, escape, ...

Cast

Sunita Mani

Wunmi Mosaku

Alia Shawkat

Bob Stephenson

Scavengers Reign (2023) TV Show

8.5 427 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When a deep space freighter is damaged by a solar flare its surviving crew are stranded on a beautiful and unforgiving planet. They begin to learn the true nature of this planet as they try to survive long enough to escape or be rescued.

Style: surreal

Plot: space travel, stranded, alien, survival, escape, adult animation, based on short film, science fiction, ...

Cast

Masako Nozawa

Ryo Horikawa

Toshio Furukawa

Mayumi Tanaka

Dragon Ball Z (1989) TV Show

8.4 4.9K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 9

Episodes: 291

Audience: TV-14

Story: Now happily married and with a son, martial arts champion Goku must defend Earth from a series of extraterrestrial invaders bent on destruction.

Style: shocking

Plot: competition, cyborg, martial arts, android, friendship, sequel, alien, end of the world, ...

Daa! Daa! Daa! UFO Baby (2000) TV Show

8.4 60 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 78

Story: Daa! Daa! Daa! UFO Baby is a Japanese children's animated television series produced by J.C.Staff, Directed by Hiroaki Sakurai, and was aired on NHK-BS2 from March 28, 2000 to February 26, 2002.

Plot: alien, school, based on manga, relationship, shoujo, anime, family life, cohabitation, ...

Assassination Classroom (2015) TV Show

8.4 1.2K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 47

Audience: TV-14

Story: The students of Class 3-E have a mission: kill their teacher before graduation. He has already destroyed the moon, and has promised to destroy the Earth if he can not be killed within a year. But how can this class of misfits kill a tentacled monster, capable of reaching Mach 20 speed, who may be the best teacher any of them have ever had?

Plot: underdog, assassination, gun, classroom, education, alien, teacher, superhuman, ...

Cast

Susumu Kurobe

Akiji Kobayashi

Sandayuu Dokumamushi

Hiroko Sakurai

Ultraman (1966) TV Show

8.4 60 votes

Genre: Action, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 39

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Hayata is a member of the Science Patrol, an organization tasked with investigating bizarre anomalies. He is mortally wounded when accidently encountering an alien being from Land of Light, who grants Hayata new life as the two are merged into one. Now, whenever a threat arises that is too great for the Science Patrol to handle, Hayata activates the beta capsule and becomes the hero known as Ultraman.

Plot: martial arts, hero, villain, investigation, friendship, superhero, extraterrestrial, alien, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Fred Armisen

Tom Kenny

Olan Rogers

Coty Galloway

Final Space (2018) TV Show

8.4 970 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America, India

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 36

Audience: TV-14

Story: An astronaut named Gary and his planet-destroying sidekick Mooncake embark on serialized journeys through space in order to unlock the mystery of “Final Space,” the last point in the universe, if it actually does exist.

Plot: alien, astronaut, space monster, spaceship

Cast

David Duchovny

Gillian Anderson

Mitch Pileggi

The X-Files (1993) TV Show

8.4 3.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 11

Episodes: 218

Audience: TV-14

Story: The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

Plot: fbi, investigation, supernatural, ufo, alien, conspiracy, paranormal phenomena, paranormal investigation, ...

Cast

Billy West

Katey Sagal

John DiMaggio

Tress MacNeille

Futurama (1999) TV Show

8.4 3.8K votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 11

Episodes: 164

Audience: TV-14

Story: The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century.

Style: melancholy, philosophical

Plot: spacecraft, space travel, parody, alien, mad scientist, adult humor, distant future, social satire, ...

Time: future

Cast

Nobunaga Shimazaki

Aya Hirano

Parasyte -the maxim- (2014) TV Show

8.3 1.4K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A species of parasitic aliens descends on Earth and quickly infiltrates humanity by entering the brains of vulnerable targets; insatiable beings that gain total control of their host and are capable of transforming themselves to feed on unsuspecting prey. High school student Shinichi Izumi falls victim to one of these parasites, but the creature fails to take over his brain and ends up in his right hand.

Style: psychological

Plot: detective, affectation, high school, romance, alien, gore, tragedy, psychological thriller, ...

Cast

Seth Green

Rob Paulsen

Sean Astin

Greg Cipes

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) TV Show

8.3 794 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 124

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are back in an all-new animated series on Nickelodeon! Surfacing topside for the first time on their fifteenth birthday, the titular turtles, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Donatello, find that life out of the sewers isn't exactly what they thought it would be. Now the turtles must work together as a team to take on new enemies that arise to take over New York City.

Style: tense

Plot: new york city, hero, mutant, katana, turtle, sensei, based on comic, alien, ...

Cast

Gianna Jun

Kim Soo-hyun

Park Hae-jin

Yoo In-na

My Love from the Star (2013) TV Show

8.3 817 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 21

Audience: TV-14

Story: An alien who came to Earth 400 years ago is almost able to return to his own planet, but when he meets a famous actress, he doesn't want to go home.

Plot: celebrity, murder, romance, alien, alien planet, star crossed lovers, superhuman strength, college professor, ...

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Top Alien Movies You Can't Miss

When it comes to movies, the genre of alien-themed films is rich with creativity and imagination. Here are some of the best alien movies that have captivated audiences over the years:

Alien (1979) - A classic horror sci-fi that introduced the terrifying Xenomorph.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - A heartwarming tale about human contact with extraterrestrial beings.
The Matrix (1999) - A groundbreaking film that explores the concept of reality and artificial intelligence.
Arrival (2016) - A thought-provoking story about communication with alien life forms.
District 9 (2009) - A gritty look at alien refugees on Earth, blending action and social commentary.

Must-Watch Alien TV Shows

In addition to films, there are several TV shows that explore alien themes, offering deeper narratives and character development. Here are some top picks:

The X-Files - A cult classic that follows FBI agents as they investigate paranormal phenomena.
Stranger Things - A thrilling series featuring a group of kids who encounter supernatural forces linked to alien origins.
Stargate SG-1 - A long-running series that combines military sci-fi with alien exploration.
Altered Carbon - A futuristic series that explores identity, consciousness, and alien technology.
The Expanse - A critically acclaimed show that captures the complexities of interplanetary relations.

Why You Should Explore Alien Content

Exploring alien-themed movies and TV shows not only provides entertainment but also challenges our understanding of life beyond Earth. These stories provoke thought about humanity, technology, and our place in the universe.

Finding Your Next Alien Adventure

With so many options available, selecting the perfect alien movie or TV show can be overwhelming. Consider your preferences for genre, tone, and style, and don’t hesitate to explore lesser-known titles for hidden gems!