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Alien 1979

Horror, Science Fiction

8.2 (236 votes)

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Release date
05/25/1979
Directors
Ridley Scott
Writers
Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

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Actors

Helen Horton
Bolaji Badejo
Sigourney Weaver
John Hurt
Harry Dean Stanton
Ian Holm

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Yaphet Kotto
Veronica Cartwright
Tom Skerritt

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# Name Rating
1 Aliens (1986) 8.3
2 Alien³ (1992) 6.6
3 Alien Resurrection (1997) 6.3

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