Best Alien movies of 1980s

Actors : Priscilla Barnes, Daryl Haney, Bradford Dillman, Mel Ryane,
Directors : Mary Ann Fisher,

Man has finally conquered the ocean. America's first self-contained undersea laboratory is the pride of the nation, and expectations are high for an elaborate undersea mining operation. ...

Actors : Andrea Thompson, Adam West, Nicholas Strouse, Martha Scott,
Directors : Charles Matthau,

Through a series of extraordinary circumstances, an eccentric teenager believes he may be the alien prince of a distant planet, ready to lead his brethren home.

Actors : Larry Raspberry, Richard Clodfelter, John Gillick, James Raspberry,
Directors : Marius Penczner,

A pair of criminal brothers survive an airplane crash and discover a plot by aliens from outer space to conquer Earth by turning human beings in zombies. The FBI gets involved and wants the...

Actors : Raymond Burr, Martin Landau, Cybill Shepherd, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

Two young children and an adult in a small town have an encounter with an alien spaceship. 25 years later the children are reunited as adults in the same town which is now beset by strange ...

Actors : Michael McCleery, Charity Staley, Robert Prichard, Gina Mastrogiacomo,
Directors : Richard W. Haines,

In 1939 a spaceship carrying four alien escaped prisoners crash-lands on Earth and the aliens take over the bodies of four locals. Fifty years later the aliens find out that an artist has ...

Actors : Deborah Moore, Franco Nero, Mary Stavin, William Berger,
Directors : Nello Rossati,

Author Ted Angelo discovers an UFO in the Columbian jungle. When he tries to spread the word, he earns more than the usual disbelief: suddenly he's hunted by almost every organization, like...

Actors : Tomokazu Miura, Rachel Huggett, Dangely Diane, Miyuki Ono,

While extracting water from the Martian polar ice caps, ancient carvings are uncovered describing an alien spacecraft crashing into Jupiter, postponing plans to turn Jupiter into a second Sun.

Actors : Georgi Partsalev, Georgi Mamalev, Boryana Puncheva, Valcho Kamarashev,
Directors : Ivanka Grybcheva,

A silly prince wants to marry a beautiful peasant girl. His guards kidnap her, but the girl escapes and returns to her beloved. Meanwhile, a UFO lands in the kingdom and the aliens witness ...

Actors : Ray Barrett, Marcelle Schmitz, Bruno Lawrence, Nique Needles,
Directors : Barry Peak,

A surfer who stops in for a bite to eat at a 1940s-type diner eventually realizes that it is not a diner at all - it is a spaceship disguised as one, and the "owners" of the diner are aliens.

Actors : Július Satinský, Milan Lasica, Jirí Menzel, Nada Konvalinková,
Directors : Oldrich Lipský,

The Earth is approached by a flying saucer with two visitors from outer space. It turns into a beer keg and lands on the back of a truck. Second landing aliens, this time in a container for...

Actors : Steven Blade, Erik Estrada, Shellie Block, Heidi Paine,
Directors : Robert Hyatt,

An alien impregnates an Earth woman so she can deliver an alien "messiah" that will rule the world. A newspaper reporter finds out what's going on and sets out to stop it.

Actors : Ann Robinson, David Staffer, Robert Clarke, Tom Hutsler,

A Martian begins to attack the patrons and staff of a movie theater during the 1950's as a low budget science fiction film plays on the screen.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Silvia Tortosa, William Berger, Agostina Belli,
Directors : Mario Gariazzo,

After the crash of their spaceship the only surviving alien seeks refuge from the government. He finds the help of a blind music teacher with psychic powers, and a sympathetic priest.

Actors : Chris Phillips, Jennifer Jacobi, Eddie Brill, Hugh D'Autremont,

Two obscure film critics host four SF/Horror films: The Thing in the Basement, Illegal Alien, Nightfright, and Dr. Dobermind.

Actors : Tin Nam Tam, David Lo, Cherie Chung, James Yi Lui,
Directors : Kwok-Ming Cheung,

A second-rate private eye sees a woman's UFO abduction claim as their ticket to fame and fortune.

Actors : Tom Villard, Elizabeth Gorcey, Susan Dey, Elaine Giftos,
Directors : Gary Walkow,

Sci-Fi author is plagued by his publisher's demands to add more sex to his new novel, sexual advances of his girl's sexy best friend and her daughter and hallucinations in which the novel's hero faces desert parasites and alien vixens.

Actors : Christopher Gasti, Dru-Anne Cakmis, Kate Alexander, Dan Evans,
Directors : Mike B. Anderson,

Nathaniel Pickman Wingate has opened a gateway to another dimension using equations and equipment in his basement laboratory. His wife, Nancy, wants him to get ready for his own birthday ...

Actors : Ray Barrett, Robert Easton, Lois Maxwell, Don Mason,

When aquatic aliens plot to take over the planet, the world aquanaut security patrol are called in to battle the aliens.

Actors : Robert Buckley, Allen M. Johnson, William Vanarsdale, Don Aldrich,
Directors : Howard Hassler,

Kung fu aliens from space have invaded the small town of Grand Bosh, accompanied by a surge of spontaneous human combustion and other mysterious phenomena in this awkward spoof of 50s sci-fi.

Actors : Tilda Swinton, Ruby Baker, Bill Paterson, Patrick Bauchau,
Directors : Peter Wollen,

In 1970s, aliens send a female android diplomat to Earth on a mission of peace. She lands in war-torn Palestine instead of MIT by mistake and meets a friendly UK journalist there. They begin a series of insightful conversations.