Best Alien movies of 1980s

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 : Mathilda May, Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay,
Directors : Tobe Hooper,

A race of space vampires arrive in London and infect the populace.

Actors : River Phoenix, Ethan Hawke, Bradley Gregg, Jason Presson,
Directors : Joe Dante,

A boy obsessed with 50s sci-fi movies about aliens has a recurring dream about a blueprint of some kind, which he draws for his inventor friend. With the help of a third kid, they follow it and build themselves a spaceship. Now what?

Actors : Hume Cronyn, Frank McRae, Jessica Tandy, Elizabeth Peña,
Directors : Matthew Robbins,

Apartment block tenants seek the aid of alien mechanical life-forms to save their building from demolition.

Actors : Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Claudia Christian, Clarence Felder,
Directors : Jack Sholder,

An alien parasite with the ability to possess human bodies goes on a violent crime spree in L.A. A human cop, detective Tom Beck, and an alien cop posing as a young FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher both pursue the parasite who frequently changes his human hosts.

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 : Daniel Stern, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Peter Weller,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

An American deep-sea mining colony stumbles upon a sunken Soviet vessel hiding a horrific secret.

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 : Rosanna Carter, Ray Ramirez, Daryl Edwards, Joe Morton,
Directors : John Sayles,

A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.

Actors : Taurean Blacque, Nancy Everhard, Greg Evigan, Miguel Ferrer,
Directors : Sean S. Cunningham,

At the bottom of the ocean, the DeepStar Six has just discovered a new and deadly alien menace.

Actors : Paula E. Sheppard, Otto von Wernherr, Anne Carlisle, Susan Doukas,
Directors : Slava Tsukerman,

Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual ...

Actors : Laraine Newman, Timothy Bottoms, Hunter Carson, Karen Black,
Directors : Tobe Hooper,

A boy tries to stop aliens who have taken over his town and are attempting to brainwash its inhabitants.

Actors : Terrence Mann, Scott Grimes, Don Keith Opper, Liane Curtis,
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 : Paul Rodriguez, Kamala Lopez, Daniel Stern, Cheech Marin,
Directors : Cheech Marin,

When a native-born American citizen of Mexican descent is mistakenly deported to Mexico, he has to risk everything to get back home.

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 : Frances Sternhagen, Andreas Katsulas, Lindsay Crouse, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Philippe Mora,

Whitley Strieber goes with his family and some friends to his holiday home in the forest. They experience some weird occurances, are they UFO activity? Whitley is abducted and then faces a ...

Actors : Bernice Stegers, Maryam d'Abo, Philip Sayer, Danny Brainin,
Directors : Harry Bromley Davenport,

A man who was abducted by aliens returns to his family three years later, but his presence affects them negatively.

Actors : John Stockwell, Danielle von Zerneck, Fisher Stevens, Raphael Sbarge,
Directors : Jonathan R. Betuel,

A high school student and his friend find a strange, orb-like piece of equipment to use as a science project, but must stop it when it begins to threaten mankind.

Actors : Jean Carmet, Claude Gensac, Louis de Funès, Jacques Villeret,
Directors : Jean Girault,

2 buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.