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.

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When the universe as we know it collapses, the only creatures with a chance of surviving to see the next age would be akin to Ridley Scott’s xenomorphs. Like the “Alien” franchise itself, they’re ...