Movies and TvShows featuring "first-contact" theme.

Earth is visited by an alien race known as the Taelons, who claim to be peaceful and helpful. However, their true motives are revealed as they use humanity for their own agenda. A group of rebels, led by former police officer William Boone, tries to uncover the truth and fight against the Taelons' control.

Jupiter Jones, a maid in Chicago, discovers she is the heir to intergalactic nobility. With the help of Caine, a genetically-engineered being, she fights to protect Earth from an ancient industry. Along the way, she learns about her true origins and the power she possesses.

A missing astronaut sets her family on a frantic hunt for answers. But the more they uncover, the greater the threat becomes to them — and the world.

A linguist named Louise Banks is recruited by the military to help establish communication with extraterrestrial beings who have arrived on Earth in twelve spacecraft. As Louise learns their language, she starts to have visions of a little girl. The team discovers that the aliens' message is misunderstood, and they must race against time to prevent a potential global conflict. Louise also learns that her ability to see into the future is a result of the aliens' language, and she uses this knowledge to convince China to call off an attack. In the end, Louise decides to have a baby despite knowing its tragic fate.

In the 1980s, humanity faces an alien invasion led by reptilian aliens disguised as humans. A group of freedom fighters forms a resistance and battles against the alien forces, while struggling with family relationships and the power dynamics within their group.

In the year 1999, Earth is on the brink of destruction due to a devastating war. As a last-ditch effort, a group of astronauts embarks on a mission to colonize Mars. However, they soon discover strange occurrences and ancient ruins on the red planet, leading to a series of revelations and encounters with friendly and hostile aliens. The timelines of past and future intertwine as the settlers struggle to survive and unravel the mysteries of Mars.

Threshold is a TV show that depicts an alien invasion in Washington, DC. The story follows a group of government agents and scientists who work together to investigate and prevent the invasion. As the team delves deeper into the mystery, they uncover a government cover-up and a top-secret agenda. With high stakes and a triple-spiral fractal as their guide, the team must unravel the truth and save humanity from the impending threat.

A widowed former reverend living on a farm with his children and brother finds mysterious crop circles in their fields, suggesting an ominous presence. As similar crop circles appear worldwide, the family faces a crisis of faith while battling against the unknown. They ultimately discover that water is deadly to the aliens, leading to a final confrontation and a restoration of faith.

Dr. Ellie Arroway, a brilliant astrophysicist, finds conclusive radio proof of extraterrestrial intelligence. With the help of a billionaire investor, she deciphers a message and builds a transport machine. However, the machine is destroyed during a test run by a religious zealot. Ellie is given another chance and travels through wormholes to a distant planet, encountering an alien who takes the form of her deceased father. She learns that humanity is not alone in the universe and returns home with the knowledge that mankind will continue to explore and evolve.

The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed. Captain Jean-Luc Picard awakens from a nightmare in which he relived his assimilation by the cybernetic Borg six years earlier. Starfleet informs him of a new Borg attack against Earth but orders the USS Enterprise-E to patrol the Romulan Neutral Zone to not introduce an unstable element to the fight. Learning that the fleet is losing the battle, the Enterprise crew disobeys orders and heads for Earth, where a single, damaged Borg Cube opposes a group of Starfleet vessels. The Enterprise arrives in time to save the crew of the USS Defiant which is being commanded by Lieutenant Commander Worf. After Picard hears Borg communications in his mind, he orders the fleet to concentrate its firepower on a seemingly non-vital section of the Borg ship. The Cube is destroyed after launching a smaller sphere ship towards the planet. The Enterprise pursues the sphere into a temporal vortex. Picard orders the Enterprise to follow it, and as they are enveloped in the vortex, the crew briefly glimpses an Earth populated entirely by Borg. Picard realizes that the Borg have used time travel to change the past. The Enterprise arrives in the past, on April 4, 2063, the day before humanity's first encounter with alien life after Zefram Cochrane's historic warp drive flight. The Borg sphere fires on the planet; realizing that the Borg are trying to prevent first contact, the Enterprise crew destroy the sphere and send an away team to the Montana site where Cochrane is building his ship, the Phoenix, to look for survivors. Picard sends Cochrane's assistant Lily Sloane to the Enterprise for medical attention, then returns to the ship and leaves Commander William Riker on Earth to make sure the Phoenix's flight proceeds as planned. The Enterprise crew sees Cochrane as a legend, but the real man is reluctant to assume his historical role. Borg survivors invade the Enterprise and begin to assimilate its crew and modify the ship. Picard and a team attempt to reach engineering to disable the Borg with its corrosive coolant, but the android Data is captured, and finds the queen of the Borg collective, who gains his trust by giving part of him human skin. A frightened Sloane seizes the captain, but he gains her trust, and they escape the Borg-infested area of the ship by creating a diversion in the Holodeck. Picard, Worf, and the ship's navigator, Lieutenant Hawk, stop the Borg from calling reinforcements with the deflector dish, but Hawk is assimilated. As the Borg continue to assimilate, Worf suggests destroying the ship, but Picard angrily calls him a coward and vows to continue the fight. Sloane confronts the captain and makes him realize he is acting irrationally due to his desire for revenge. Apologizing to Worf, Picard activates the ship's self-destruct. While the crew heads to escape pods, the captain stays behind to rescue Data. As Cochrane, Riker, and engineer Geordi La Forge prepare to activate the warp drive on the Phoenix, Picard confronts the Borg Queen and discovers she has grafted human skin onto Data, giving him an array of new sensations. She has presented this modification as a gift to the android, hoping to obtain his encryption codes to the Enterprise computer. Although Picard offers himself in Data's place, the android refuses to leave. He deactivates the self-destruct sequence and fires torpedoes at the Phoenix, but they miss, and the Queen realizes Data betrayed her. Data ruptures a coolant tank, and the corrosive gas dissolves the Borg's biological components. Cochrane completes his warp flight, and the next day, April 5, 2063, the crew watches as Vulcans, attracted by the Phoenix warp test, land and greet Cochrane. Having repaired history, the Enterprise crew returns to the 24th century.

Roy Neary, an electric lineman, has his life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO. As he becomes obsessed with finding answers, strange events start happening all over the world. Roy's pursuit leads him to a mysterious mountain where he discovers the truth about the extraterrestrial life and joins a group of people selected to leave with the aliens.

The cast of an old 1980s space-adventure television series, Galaxy Quest, spend most of their days attending fan conventions and making promotional appearances. However, they are recruited by an alien race called the Thermians to help defend both Earth and the Thermians from a reptilian warlord named Roth'h'Har Sarris. The cast, thinking it's just another job, joins forces with the Thermians and embarks on a real space adventure. They must learn to work together and use their skills to overcome challenges and defeat Sarris. In the end, they succeed and the cast members are hailed as heroes. The experience inspires a sequel series and the universe of Galaxy Quest expands.

In the year 2050, a powerful alien race known as the Zygons launch an attack on Earth. A team of soldiers and scientists must join forces to stop the impending alien invasion and save humanity. As they engage in a cosmic battle, they face various challenges including crash-landing on a hostile planet and open fire against the alien spacecraft. With futuristic weapons and advanced technology, they fight to protect the human race from annihilation.

When Gonzo's extraterrestrial family comes to visit, he goes on a space adventure with the Muppets to find his roots and help an alien find his way back home.

Starman is a sci-fi romance film about an alien who takes the form of a dead man to travel to Earth. He kidnaps a woman and enlists her help to reach a rendezvous point where his people will pick him up. Along the way, they develop a deep connection and learn about love and humanity.

Scientists and sci-fi writers explore a hypothetical first-contact event between aliens and humans.

The Beyond is a found-footage, mockumentary-style film set on an international space station. The crew must navigate through an alien invasion and deal with the challenges of space exploration. With a high concept and cerebral storyline, The Beyond explores themes of interstellar communication and the mysteries of outer space. As the crew members face danger and uncertainty, they must rely on their cybernetic companions and their own ingenuity to survive.

In 'FTL,' an astronaut's spacecraft disintegrates during a faster-than-light journey, but miraculously, she manages to reintegrate and find herself on a mysterious space station. As she explores the station, she discovers clues about her own existence and the nature of FTL travel. With the help of a fellow astronaut, she navigates through numerous challenges and finally makes her way back to Earth.

Mobile Suit Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer is a sci-fi movie set in the Gundam universe. It follows the story of Setsuna F. Seiei and his team of Gundam pilots as they face a mysterious alien threat that could change the fate of humanity. With intense mecha battles, political intrigue, and deep character development, this movie will keep you on the edge of your seat.

When an alien spaceship crash-lands on Mars, a team of astronauts is sent on a rescue mission. They discover a vampire-like alien queen who must be stopped before she can escape to Earth.