We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ever since H.G. Wells released "War of the Worlds" in 1898, popular culture has been fascinated by alien invasion stories. For over a century, ...

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.

Long before he was dueling Darth Vader in Star Wars, Sir Alec Guinness starred in this tour de force WWII film as Colonel Nicholson, a British POW who, with his unit, is tasked with building a railway ...

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

Spielberg and ET looking at each other - Aaron Rapoport/Getty Images Steven Spielberg might be best known for "Jaws" and "Jurassic Park", but it's aliens where Spielberg seems to keep returning.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You really can’t go wrong with an alien movie. Give me anything involving alien invasions, strange objects appearing in the sky, ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.