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Alien
Alien

Alien(1979)

In space no one can hear you scream.

117 min
HorrorScience Fiction
TVGEN Score
88
excellent
IMDb8.5/10
votes1,061,640
Rotten Tomatoes93%
Metacritic89/100
TMDb8.2/10
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Synopsis

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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