Aliens
“This time it's war.”
Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.
How Aliens compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Alien, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #2 of 4
- Rank in the series by rating
- 7 years
- Wait since the previous film
- 28%
- Share of the series audience
Aliens (1986) ranks 2nd of the 4 rated films in the Alien series, at 8.0/10 on TMDB against a series average of 7.2/10.
It arrived 7 years after Alien (1979), the longest wait between any two films in the Alien series.
Its 11,243 TMDB ratings are 28% of the 40,601 cast across the series.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Alien, comparing all 4 released films in the series. Last recalculated October 2026.
