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They Live (1988)
7.2/10on IMDb
Released
Start here if you want the disguise to be hiding in a crowd. A drifter's sunglasses let him see which people are aliens and which ads are issuing orders. The joke is how differently the same sidewalk looks when you can read what everyone else walks past.
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Starman (1984)
7.0/10on IMDb
Released
Choose this for a romantic road movie about the wrong person having the right face. An alien takes the form of a woman's late husband and needs her help getting across the country. You get to see how much he can copy before he has to learn how to behave.
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The Faculty (1998)
6.6/10on IMDb
Released
Pick this for high-school horror where the usual reasons to distrust adults keep getting in the way. Students start recognizing changes in the teachers and in one another. What counts as ordinary behavior is one more thing the cliques can't agree about.
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The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
6.6/10on IMDb
Released
Try this for a sadder story about belonging badly even when your disguise works. Thomas Jerome Newton uses inventions to build a company and finance a way to send water home. His public role gives him access to money and power without helping him figure out what to do with either.
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The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
6.7/10on IMDb
Released
Choose this for a quiet comedy that lets you look at a neighborhood with a newcomer. A mute alien lands in New York and finds his way to Harlem, where he looks enough like everyone else to be read as another person with a story. What people assume about him is often more revealing than the way he looks.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
7.7/10on IMDb
Released
Pick the 1951 version for an alien who learns from passing unnoticed. After a spacecraft lands, Klaatu leaves official custody and takes a room under an ordinary name. The people he meets tell you a lot more about Earth than the leaders he came to address.
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Superman (1978)
7.4/10on IMDb
Released
In Richard Donner’s 1978 film, an infant from Krypton grows up to become a reporter at the Daily Planet. Watch Christopher Reeve switch between the hesitant Clark Kent and the much surer figure Lois meets as Superman. The disguise is an everyday performance.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
5.5/10on IMDb
Released
Try the 2008 remake for the same visitor with a different reason to wonder what human life is worth. Klaatu's body lets him move among people, then a scientist and her stepson give him a smaller, more immediate example of what he came to judge.
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Men in Black (1997)
7.3/10on IMDb
Released
Choose this for a comedy where the city has been full of visitors for years. An agent learns how the people keeping that secret spot newcomers and handle the ones who break the rules. Watch Vincent D'Onofrio make a stolen farmer's skin look as uncomfortable as it ought to feel.
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Galaxy Quest (1999)
7.4/10on IMDb
Released
Try this if you like the idea that a costume might fool the actors who ought to recognize it. The Thermians approach the cast of an old TV show in human form because they think the show was real. Their awkward gestures make sense once you realize how much they learned from watching us on a screen.
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Men in Black II (2002)
6.2/10on IMDb
Released
Serleena arrives on Earth and assumes the appearance of a lingerie model. Her cover fits the film’s broad, sight-gag-heavy comedy, even as the alien underneath it puts the agents on a tighter deadline.
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Coneheads (1993)
5.5/10on IMDb
Released
Try this for a suburban comedy that asks how far confidence can carry a terrible disguise. Beldar and Prymaat claim to be from France and settle into everyday routines. The jokes get warmer once fitting in matters to their daughter, who has spent her life here.
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Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
5.5/10on IMDb
Released
Pick this for a pop musical where aliens acquire a convincing human look at a beauty salon. Three furry visitors crash into a swimming pool and get a thorough shave before going out in Los Angeles. Looking local still leaves them plenty of social rules to misread.
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PK (2014)
8.1/10on IMDb
Released
Aamir Khan plays a visitor who lands in Rajasthan and loses the device that can call his ship. As he tries to get it back, he learns to get by among humans and takes their advice about God literally. The result is a Hindi comedy that scrutinizes everyday habits through a very patient outsider.
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My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
5.4/10on IMDb
Released
Choose this if you want the visitor's cover to be family life. Celeste arrives to investigate a signal and gets close to the scientist who sent it. His daughter notices behavior the adults are willing to overlook, and the resulting dinner-table suspicion stays in comedy territory.
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My Favorite Martian (1999)
5.1/10on IMDb
Released
A reporter names the stranded Martian Uncle Martin and hopes to turn the encounter into a big story. Unruly alien equipment keeps giving the two of them away. Pick this for family comedy that gets most of its mileage out of hiding one visitor.
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Meet Dave (2008)
5.1/10on IMDb
Released
Pick this for a disguise that has an entire crew operating it. Tiny aliens arrive aboard a ship shaped like a man, and they have to learn how to make it talk and move around New York. You get to see every command go slightly wrong from the inside.
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Mars Attacks! (1996)
6.4/10on IMDb
Released
Most of Tim Burton’s Martians make no effort to blend in. The exception is Lisa Marie’s Martian Girl, who gets into the White House in human guise. Her stiff walk and fixed stare make this a funny choice if you like watching a disguise work in spite of itself.
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
6.2/10on IMDb
Released
Pick this for a pulp comedy in which visitors have had decades to build a convincing front. Red Lectroids can pass for people, and some work through a company with clean offices and official-looking identities. Part of the fun is watching Buckaroo see beneath an arrangement everybody else has learned to take for granted.
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I Am Number Four (2011)
6.1/10on IMDb
Released
Try this for the high-school version of an alien keeping a low profile. John moves from town to town to avoid the people hunting him. A new school and powers that are getting harder to hide put pressure on a cover story that was supposed to be temporary.
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K-PAX (2001)
7.4/10on IMDb
Released
A psychiatric patient called Prot insists he comes from another planet. The more his doctor tries to make sense of him, the harder it becomes to dismiss the claim. Try this gentler mystery for its uncertainty about whether there’s an alien in the room at all.
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