THEME EXPLORATION

alien origins

25 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS

Alien
1979 · Ridley Scott

Captain Marvel
2019 · Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck

Lumière & Company

Lumière & Company
1995 · Bigas Luna & Cédric Klapisch & Lasse Hallström & Michael Haneke & Peter Greenaway & Spike Lee

Stalker
1979 · Andrei Tarkovsky

What Planet Are You From?

What Planet Are You From?
2000 · Mike Nichols

Days of Being Wild

Days of Being Wild
1991 · Wong Kar-wai

Pacific Rim
2013 · Guillermo del Toro

Home
2018 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul

District 9
2009 · Neill Blomkamp

Under the Skin
2014 · Jonathan Glazer

ALL YOU NEED IS KILL

ALL YOU NEED IS KILL
2026 · Kenichiro Akimoto

Raja Shivaji
2026 · Riteish Deshmukh

Bumblebee
2018 · Travis Knight

Solomamma
2026 · Janicke Askevold

Edipo re
1967 · Pier Paolo Pasolini

Night of the Big Heat

Night of the Big Heat
1967 · Terence Fisher

Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death

Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death
1981 · Jean Rouch

The Man Who Fell to Earth

The Man Who Fell to Earth
1976 · Nicolas Roeg

The Robinsons: Lost in Space

The Robinsons: Lost in Space
2004 · John Woo

Bad Taste
1987 · Peter Jackson

Battleship
2012 · Peter Berg

AVP: Alien vs. Predator

AVP: Alien vs. Predator
2004 · Paul W. S. Anderson

Arkadas
1974 · Yílmaz Güney

Battle of the Worlds

Battle of the Worlds
1963 · Antonio Margheriti

Ce qui me meut
1989 · Cédric Klapisch

DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS

Scott Waugh United Kingdom

His Alien franchise and Prometheus directly explore extraterrestrial life and humanity's cosmic origins through visceral sci-fi horror.

Denis Villeneuve Canada

Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 deeply examine first contact and what it means to encounter alien intelligence and understand our place in the universe.

John Carpenter United States

The Thing and They Live interrogate alien infiltration and hidden extraterrestrial presence on Earth with paranoia and social commentary.