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Alien Abduction Movies

Name: Alien Abduction Movies
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Films about alien abductions and UFO encounters — close encounters of the terrifying kind.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
Arrival	2016	Denis Villeneuve	7.6	Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery	United States of America	116	Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	1982	Steven Spielberg	7.5	Science Fiction, Adventure, Family, Fantasy	United States of America	115	An alien is left behind on Earth and saved by the 10-year-old Elliott who decides to keep him hidden in his home. While a task force hunts for the extra-terrestrial, Elliott, his brother, and his little sister Gertie form an emotional bond with their new friend, and try to help him find his way h...
Contact	1997	Robert Zemeckis	7.4	Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery	United States of America	150	A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind	1977	Steven Spielberg	7.4	Science Fiction, Drama	United Kingdom	137	After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
The Day the Earth Stood Still	1951	Robert Wise	7.4	Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama	United States of America	92	An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
The X-Files	1998	Rob Bowman	6.9	Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller	United States of America	121	Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.
Nope	2022	Jordan Peele	6.8	Horror, Science Fiction	United States of America	130	Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.
The Vast of Night	2019	Andrew Patterson	6.5	Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller	United States of America	91	At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.
Dark Skies	2013	Scott Stewart	6.3	Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror	United States of America	97	From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing events involving their family, their safe and peac...
The Fourth Kind	2009	Olatunde Osunsanmi	6.3	Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller	Belgium	98	Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the unsolved cases wide open when, during the course of tr...
Sphere	1998	Barry Levinson	6.1	Science Fiction, Mystery, Thriller	United States of America	134	A spacecraft is discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists and experts is assembled and taken to the ocean floor to investigate. However, the ship is not as it seems and when a giant perfect sphere is discov...
Circle	2015	Aaron Hann	6	Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery, Thriller	United States of America	86	In a massive, mysterious chamber, fifty strangers awaken to find themselves trapped with no memory of how they got there. Organized in an inward-facing circle and unable to move, they quickly learn that every two minutes, one of them must die…executed by a strange device in the center of the room.
The Day the Earth Stood Still	2008	Scott Derrickson	5.7	Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller	Canada	104	A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from speaking to the United Nations, he decides human...
Cowboys & Aliens	2011	Jon Favreau	5.6	Action, Science Fiction, Thriller, Western	India	119	A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a...

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