Alien (1979)

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Synopsis

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. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

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The JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts are calculated by user activity within the last 24 hours. This includes clicking on a streaming offer, adding a title to a watchlist, and marking a title as 'seen'. This includes data from ~1.7 million movie & TV show fans per day.

Alien is 349 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved down the charts by -31 places since yesterday. In the United Kingdom, it is currently more popular than Spider-Man but less popular than Star Trek.

Rank		Title
345.		The Purge	+122
346.		Kingdom of Heaven	+20
347.		White Chicks	+360
348.		Star Trek	+7
349.		Alien	-31
350.		Spider-Man	-74
351.		Monster House	-229
352.		Beetlejuice	-124
353.		Starve Acre	+4

Streaming charts last updated: 13:15, 12/10/2026

Cast

Tom Skerritt

Tom Skerritt

Dallas

Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver

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Veronica Cartwright

Veronica Cartwright

Lambert

Harry Dean Stanton

Harry Dean Stanton

Brett

John Hurt

John Hurt

Kane

Ian Holm

Ian Holm

Ash

Yaphet Kotto

Yaphet Kotto

Parker

Bolaji Badejo

Bolaji Badejo

Alien

Helen Horton

Helen Horton

Mother (voice)

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