Top 5 Alien Invasion Movies

They’re coming! There’s been no shortage of Alien invasion moves over the last 60 years; from huge attacks to insidious and subtle infiltration, and from early B-movies to huge modern Hollywood blockbusters. To celebrate the release of Roland Emmerich’s long-awaited sequel ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’, we bring you our Top 5 films where extra-terrestrials come to our planet with sinister intentions.

#5:

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

20th Century Fox

An early seminal Sci-fi classic and one of the 1st to break through the confines of a “B-movie” genre; director Robert Wise (West Side Story, The Sound of Music) tells the story of an alien and his giant robot, who land on Earth threatening planetary destruction if humanity doesn’t accept absolute peace.

‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ may look dated enough to require the underwhelming 2008 Keanu Reeves remake, but the story of man’s destructive nature, boldly told in Sci-fi form, still resonates today and was all the more power at the post World War II & early Cold-War time when it was made.

Directed by Robert Wise and starring Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal and Hugh Marlowe among others.

Genre: Sci-fi, Drama

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