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When the crew of the space-tug Nostromo responds to a distress signal from a barren planet, they discover a deadly life form that breeds within human hosts. Now the crew must fight to stay alive and prevent the creature from reaching Earth. Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver in her breakout performance, this legendary first film in the Alien saga will leave you breathless! Some flashing lights sequences or patterns may affect photosensitive viewers.

1979 · 1h 57m
Director Ridley Scott

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When the crew of the space-tug Nostromo responds to a distress signal from a barren planet, they discover a deadly life form that breeds within human hosts. Now the crew must fight to stay alive and prevent the creature from reaching Earth. Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver in her breakout performance, this legendary first film in the Alien saga will leave you breathless! Some flashing lights sequences or patterns may affect photosensitive viewers.

COMMON SENSE

Female-led thriller still very scary; has stereotypes.

TOMATOMETER
Average 8.6
Reviews 48
Fresh 45
Rotten 3

Information

Studio
20th Century Fox
Released
1979
Run Time
1 hr 57 min
Rated
R
Regions of Origin
United States, United Kingdom
© 1979 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Languages

Original Audio
English, English (United Kingdom), French
Audio

English (United States) (AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩), French (France) (AAC), Spanish (Latin America) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (United States) (CC), Arabic , Bulgarian , Cantonese, Traditional , Chinese, Simplified , Chinese, Traditional , Croatian , Czech , Danish (Denmark) , Dutch (Netherlands) , Estonian , Finnish (Finland) , French (France) , German (Germany) , Greek (Greece) , Hebrew , Hindi , Hungarian , Icelandic , Indonesian , Italian (Italy) , Japanese , Korean , Latvian , Lithuanian , Malay , Norwegian (Norway) , Polish , Portuguese (Brazil) , Portuguese (Portugal) , Romanian , Russian (Russia) , Serbian (Latin) , Slovenian , Spanish (Latin America) , Spanish (Spain) , Swedish (Sweden) , Thai , Turkish , Ukrainian , Vietnamese

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.