Sigourney Weaver stars as boundary-busting heroine Ellen Ripley in this modern classic. Alien blends science fiction, horror and bleak poetry into a seamless whole. After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious lifeform, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.

(Ridley Scott, USA, English, 117 min, 1979, DCP)