Alien

About Alien

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.

Alien (1979) is a horror science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott. Tom Skerritt stars as Dallas, Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, Veronica Cartwright as Lambert, and Harry Dean Stanton as Brett.

Released in May 1979, it runs 117 minutes. Written by Dan O'Bannon. Production companies include Brandywine Productions, Ronald Shusett Productions, and Twentieth Century-Fox Productions.

Members will find space, spacecraft, space travel, and android in it. American members can watch it on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads. It scores 8.2 out of 10 from 17,092 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.

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