Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "alien-probe"

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter

Votes: 720,660 | Gross: $56.95M

2. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

G | 143 min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi

When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of the overhauled USS Enterprise in order to intercept it.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan

Votes: 96,728 | Gross: $82.26M

3. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

PG | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.

Director: Leonard Nimoy | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan

Votes: 91,595 | Gross: $109.71M

4. Aniara (2018)

R | 106 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A spaceship carrying settlers to Mars is knocked off course, causing the consumption-obsessed passengers to consider their place in the universe.

Directors: Pella Kagerman, Hugo Lilja | Stars: Emelie Garbers, Bianca Cruzeiro, Arvin Kananian, Anneli Martini

Votes: 11,970 | Gross: $0.04M

5. Invader ZIM (2001–2006)

TV-Y7 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

An alien named Zim from the planet Irk is sent on a secret mission to conquer Earth, not realising that his leaders were just trying to get rid of him and hoped that he would die. Once there, Zim manages to disguise himself as a human child, but one boy named Dib sees through his disguise.

Stars: Andy Berman, Richard Steven Horvitz, Rikki Simons, Melissa Fahn

Votes: 22,626

6. The Alien Encounters (1979 TV Movie)

92 min | Sci-Fi

Investigator searches for probe sent to Earth by aliens.

Director: James T. Flocker | Stars: Augie Tribach, Matthew Boston, Phil Catalli, Bonnie Henry

Votes: 58

7. Odin (1985)

139 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A distress signal from a point near Jupiter takes the crew of the space-ship Starlight on a voyage through the sea of stars to a mysterious planet called Odin, the possible birthplace of the universe.

Directors: Takeshi Shirato, Eiichi Yamamoto, Toshio Masuda | Stars: Toshio Furukawa, Edward Glen, Keiko Han, Stacey Gregg

Votes: 215

8. Black Knight Decoded (2015 Video)

10 min | Short, Adventure, Drama

After receiving a signal from a outer space, a father struggles to unite the world and make first contact.

Director: Jabbar Raisani | Stars: David Oyelowo, Freida Pinto, Layla Crawford, Sebastian Roché

Votes: 43

9. Sky Fighter (2019)

16 min | Short, Sci-Fi

Two pilots fight a war in the distant future in their fighter-bomber spacecraft. But is their enemy the alien opponent, or each other?

Director: Lukas Kendall | Stars: Tom Maden, Jess Gabor, Erik Palladino, Declan Churchill Carter

Votes: 120

10. Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode: The Expanse (2003)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

An alien probe launches a devastating attack on Earth. Archer, still being hunted by the Klingons, brings the Enterprise back home to investigate.

Director: Allan Kroeker | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating

Votes: 1,714

11. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: Caught in the Act (1995)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A bashful woman gets possessed by an incorporeal alien that feeds on sexual energy. A series of killings starts. Her boyfriend, his scientist friend and a skeptical cop try find a way to stop the alien without killing her in the process.

Director: Mark Sobel | Stars: Jason London, Saul Rubinek, Garry Chalk, Alyssa Milano

Votes: 536

12. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Bloodlines (1994)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Picard races the Ferengi in an effort to track down the son he never knew he had.

Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 2,533

13. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Contagion (1989)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Encountering the superior technology of a very ancient race creates system malfunctions for a doomed Federation starship, for the Enterprise, and for an eavesdropping Romulan warbird.

Director: Joseph L. Scanlan | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,569

14. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: The Inner Light (1992)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Picard awakes to find himself living in a small village where he is a well-known member of the community who is suffering from a delusion of being a starship captain.

Director: Peter Lauritson | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 8,285

15. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: The Nth Degree (1991)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When assigned to investigate an unknown probe, Lt. Barclay is hit by an energy surge, through a shuttlecraft's computer, and he receives an inexplicable boost of confidence and a vast increase in his knowledge.

Director: Robert Legato | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,555

16. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: When the Bough Breaks (1988)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A planet that was able to cloak itself for thousands of years suddenly reveals itself, with its inhabitants proposing peace. But, after initial negotiations, children of the Enterprise are kidnapped due to the infertility of the inhabitants.

Director: Kim Manners | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby

Votes: 3,555

17. Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1975)
Episode: The Lorelei Signal (1973)

TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Female crew members must take over the Enterprise when the men are incapacitated by a race of sirens.

Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei

Votes: 907

18. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: Planet of the Dead (2009)

TV-PG | 59 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

A meeting in a London bus with jewel thief Lady Christina takes a turn for the worst for the Doctor when the bus takes a detour to a desert-like planet, where the deadly Swarm awaits.

Director: James Strong | Stars: David Tennant, Michelle Ryan, Lee Evans, Noma Dumezweni

Votes: 5,691

19. Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
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