Best Alien movies of 1988

Actors : George 'Buck' Flower, Meg Foster, Keith David, Roddy Piper,
Directors : John Carpenter,

A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.

Actors : Terence Stamp, James Caan, Kevyn Major Howard, Mandy Patinkin,
Directors : Graham Baker,

In 1988, Earth makes the first contact with an alien civilization. In 1991, these aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after three years of quarantine.

Actors : Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans,
Directors : Julien Temple,

A Southern California girl befriends three furry aliens after their spaceship lands in her swimming pool.

Actors : Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, Grant Cramer, John Vernon,
Directors : Stephen Chiodo,

Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.

Actors : Alyson Hannigan, Kim Basinger, Dan Aykroyd, Jon Lovitz,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

An alien is sent on a secret mission to Earth, where she appears as a gorgeous, attractive, and single lady. Her mission is to make contact with a rather nerdy young scientist, who's quite ...

Actors : Christine Ebersole, Lauren Stanley, Jonathan Ward, Tina Caspary,
Directors : Stewart Raffill,

An alien trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a wheelchair-bound boy.

Actors : Courteney Cox, Hume Cronyn, Wilford Brimley, Don Ameche,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

The old age pensioners that left at the end of the first film come back to earth to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no-one grows old, or will they be tempted to stay back on earth?

Actors : Terrence Mann, Scott Grimes, Liane Curtis, Don Keith Opper,
Directors : Mick Garris,

Eggs of the small, furry alien carnivores are left behind on Earth and, after hatching, set their appetites on the town of Grover's Bend.

Actors : Tom Bartlett, Paige Sullivan, Steven Boggs, Kelley Palmer,
Directors : Rick Sloane,

A young security guard must track down diminutive aliens who kill people even as they make their fantasies come true.

Actors : Traci Lords, Lenny Juliano, Ace Mask, Arthur Roberts,
Directors : Jim Wynorski,

An alien arrives on Earth looking to take human blood in an attempt to preserve his dying planet.

Actors : George Buza, David Gale, Cynthia Preston, Tom Bresnahan,
Directors : Ed Hunt,

With the help of an alien organism, a man brainwashes audiences through television; a troubled high school student is determined to stop them.

Actors : Deborah Goodrich, Kevin Dillon, Frank Beddor, Christopher Wynne,
Directors : Jeff Lieberman,

A video store clerk stumbles onto an alien plot to take over earth by brainwashing people with a bad '50s science fiction movie. He and his friends race to stop the aliens before the tapes ...

Actors : Bobby Porter, Ned Beatty, Shelley Winters, Linda Talcott,
Directors : Linda Shayne,

A kid plays the old novelty song "Purple People Eater" and the creature actually appears. The two then proceed to help an elderly couple who are being evicted by their greedy landlord.

Actors : David Michael O'Neill, Pamela Gilbert, George Kennedy, Billy Jayne,
Directors : Emmett Alston,

A man and his daughter are attacked in the woods by what they believe is a Bigfoot-type creature. However, they soon begin to suspect that they may have stumbled onto a nest of aliens in a hidden spacecraft.

Actors : Ray Barrett, Bruno Lawrence, Marcelle Schmitz, 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 : 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 : 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 : Christian Lee, Janice Fabian, Dana Young, Larry Bagby,
Directors : Robert Skotak,

Insect-like aliens invade a small town. The local teenagers have been watching a sci-fi marathon in the local theater, and from those films they get ideas on how to fight the creatures.

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 : 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.