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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Led by Captain Jack Harkness, the Torchwood team delves into the unknown and fights the impossible. From an underground base built on a rift in time and space, the team responds to any alien threat-- a meteorite crash landing, sightings of extra-terrestrial technology, an unusual autopsy report, the spread of a deadly alien virus. Everyone who works for Torchwood is under 35. Some day that's because it's a new science-- others say it's because they...
2) Home
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A lovable misfit from another planet meets a girl named Tip. The two unlikely friends embark on the greatest journey of all time.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
It's 2046, and over 30 years have passed since aliens arrived, changing life on Earth forever. In the frontier town of Defiance, a drifter-turned-lawkeeper and the newly-appointed mayor attempt to lead the human and alien residents through the prejudices and politics that threaten the fragile peace they've fought for.
4) Predators
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Several criminals and military-trained operatives mysteriously find themselves on another planet where they realize they are being hunted by aliens.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After a meteorite lands in the front yard of their farm, Nathan Gardner and his family find themselves battling a mutant extraterrestrial organism as it infects their minds and bodies, transforming their quiet rural life into a living nightmare.
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
On the eve of Earth's destruction, a crew of explorers depart on the most advanced ship in the galaxy, the Nightflyer, to intercept an alien spacecraft that might hold the key to their survival. As the crew nears their destination, they discover the ship's artificial intelligence and never-seen captain may be steering them into deadly and unspeakable horrors deep in the outer reaches of space.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Language
English
Description
After a human-looking alien race arrives on Earth and shares their healing powers and new technology, several resistance fighters become determined to expose the truth of what the aliens really are and reveal their secrets to the world.
12) I am number four
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When an alien disguised as a teenager on Earth discovers that three of the last remaining members of his species have been killed, he uncovers hidden connections to the others of his race and fights the enemy aliens who have been sent to kill them.
14) Battleship
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Based on the classic Hasbro naval combat game, Battleship is the story of an international fleet of ships who come across an alien armada while on a naval war games exercise. An intense battle ensues over sea, land, and air.
15) MFKZ
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Angelino and his skull-and-flame pal Vinz live in a seedy tenement in a burnt-out, gang-and cockroach-ridden dystopian metropolis. Following a scooter accident, Angelino starts experiencing migraines and strange hallucinations, as well as fits of rage-inspired superpowers, as he slowly awakens to the truth of his origins.
16) Avatar
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Jake Sully is a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. He is given a mission to infiltrate the Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious ore. But a beautiful Na'vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake's...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a London bus travels through a worm-hole to an alien world, the Doctor must join forces with the extraordinary Lady Christina to help the unfortunate passengers, and themselves, get back home. But the mysterious planet holds terrifying secrets, hidden in the sand.
18) Under the skin
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An alien in the form of a voluptuous young woman combs the streets of Scotland in search of men. She lures a succession of lost souls into her otherworldly lair, where they are seduced, stripped of their humanity, and never heard from again.
20) The 5th wave
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Cassie Sullivan is trying to survive a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion, while trying to save her five-year-old brother Sam from a training camp that was created by the Others (the aliens).
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