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

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

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Steven Spielberg and aliens is like cinematic peanut butter and jelly. His "Disclosure Day" is a thriller about a massive government alien cover-up.

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