Alien
“In space no one can hear you scream.”
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.
How Alien compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Alien, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #1 of 4
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 42%
- Share of the series audience
Alien (1979) is the highest-rated of the 4 rated films in the Alien series, at 8.2/10 on TMDB against a series average of 7.2/10.
It is the film that started the series, 18 years before the most recent entry, Alien Resurrection (1997).
Its 16,820 TMDB ratings are 42% of the 40,306 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Alien, comparing all 4 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.
