Best Alien Contact Movies & TV Series

The 28 best-rated alien contact movies and TV series on 3eyedraven, ranked by a weighted audience score so the genuinely great rises above one-off perfect ratings. Every title has cast, ratings, trailers and where to watch.

Star Trek: Voyager 1995 ★ 7.8
Arrival 2016 ★ 7.6
Three-Body 2023 ★ 7.8
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 ★ 7.5
3 Body Problem 2024 ★ 7.5
Contact 1997 ★ 7.4
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 ★ 7.4
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 2022 ★ 7.3
UFO 1970 ★ 7.8
Men in Black: The Series 1997 ★ 7.4
Alien: Romulus 2024 ★ 7.2
Rakka 2017 ★ 7.0
Waiting for Guffman 1997 ★ 7.0
Nope 2022 ★ 6.8
Earth: Final Conflict 1997 ★ 6.8
Encounters 2023 ★ 6.8
The Midwich Cuckoos 2022 ★ 6.6
The Manhattan Alien Abduction 2024 ★ 6.5
The Cabbage Soup 1981 ★ 6.4
Stranger from Venus 1954 ★ 5.2
Mission to Mars 2000 ★ 6.0
The Puppet Masters 1994 ★ 5.8
UFO Abduction 1989 ★ 5.3
The Day the Earth Stood Still 2008 ★ 5.7