Unclassified: Alien/UFO Films Based on Fact!
by DeadFi | created - 21 Oct 2011 | updated - 21 Oct 2019 | PublicOur list of films based on real life reports of UFO sightings, ET activity, and alien abductions. Creepy stuff! Let us know if we missed any.
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1. Visitors of the Night (1995 TV Movie)
PG | 98 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Judith notices some very creepy things are happening around town. She and the town's sheriff make a chilling discovery, the town's teens are disappearing. When they reappear they are ... See full summary »
Director: Jorge Montesi | Stars: Markie Post, Stephen McHattie, Candace Cameron Bure, Dale Midkiff
Votes: 558
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
PG | 138 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon
Votes: 216,682 | Gross: $132.09M
3. Fire in the Sky (1993)
PG-13 | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy
An Arizona logger mysteriously disappears for five days in an alleged encounter with a flying saucer in 1975. His co-workers endure ridicule and contempt as they are wrongly accused of murder.
Director: Robert Lieberman | Stars: D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer, Peter Berg
Votes: 28,390 | Gross: $20.10M
4. Incident at Montauk (2019)
60 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A man witnesses a UFO and discovers it may be linked to a secret government project in Montauk, Long Island.
Director: Owen Mulligan | Stars: J.T. Holden, Owen Mulligan, Michael Ian Sugrue, Jay Vos
Votes: 284
5. Communion (1989)
R | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Horror
On December 26th Whitley Strieber has a strange nightmare. In the following days, plagued by painful headaches, his behavior becomes increasingly erratic. Later, under hypnosis, he realizes that his dream was not a dream at all.
Director: Philippe Mora | Stars: Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse, Frances Sternhagen, Andreas Katsulas
Votes: 7,541 | Gross: $1.92M
6. Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
After a mysterious blackout, a son goes out to investigate and captures footage of actual aliens. When the aliens follow him and his brothers back to their home, all hell breaks loose.
Director: Dean Alioto | Stars: Benz Antoine, Kristian Ayre, Gillian Barber, Michael Buie
Votes: 3,854
7. Night Skies (2007)
R | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
March 13, 1997. Five friends bound for Las Vegas accidentally hit a stalled truck belonging to an ex-soldier. Stranded together on an isolated country road, they are about to witness one of the largest UFO sightings in history.
Director: Roy Knyrim | Stars: Jason Connery, A.J. Cook, George Stults, Ashley Peldon
Votes: 3,128
8. Intruders (1992)
163 min | Biography, Horror, Mystery
All over the world, people report being visited by aliens, taken aboard spaceships and clinically examined. Authorities seem to know all about these visitations but will not admit it publicly.
Stars: Richard Crenna, Mare Winningham, Susan Blakely, Daphne Ashbrook
Votes: 1,457
9. The Shadow Men (1997)
95 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After a family has an alien encounter, they call the Air Force to report the incident which leads to a visit by Men In Black, who turn out to be alien-human mutants.
Director: Timothy Bond | Stars: Eric Roberts, Sherilyn Fenn, Dean Stockwell, Brendon Ryan Barrett
Votes: 1,254
10. Area 51 Confidential (2011)
Unrated | 81 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
People from various walks of life find themselves held captive in a desolate area surrounding a secret government installation rumored to contain extraterrestrial life.
Director: Brandon Slagle | Stars: Adrian Quihuis, Devanny Pinn, Brandon Slagle, Wolfgang Meyer
Votes: 429
11. The Fourth Kind (2009)
PG-13 | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A thriller involving an ongoing unsolved mystery in Alaska, where one town has seen an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances during the past 40 years and there are accusations of a federal cover up.
Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Will Patton, Hakeem Kae-Kazim
Votes: 81,796 | Gross: $25.46M
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