Top 10 Greatest Alien Films, Ranked: E.T. at No. 1

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The piece ranks the greatest alien films across decades and genres to show how humanity’s contact with extraterrestrials has shaped cinema, with E.T. at number one and titles like War of the Worlds, Predator, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Arrival, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Nope, Lilo & Stitch, Alien, and Aliens illustrating the spectrum from horror and action to philosophy and warmth.