In that case, "Dune," which ostensibly takes place over 20,000 years in the future, means human are the aliens, dividing up planets into fiefdoms and raiding them for their resources.
Based on DC Comics characters, a ragtag team of questionably-moral individuals with powers is conscripted into destroying a giant alien starfish called Starro the Conquerer.
"Arrival," which features tentacled creatures who appear to have sent us not their military or their trade partners — but their linguists.
After an accident, Cruise learns he's also caught in a loop that allows him to live almost like a video game character with infinite lives.
Star Lord is a human who lost his mother, was kidnapped by alien thieves and smugglers, and is all grown up, trying to find his place in the universe.
"Attack the Block" features some pretty scary aliens mounting their invasion on a South London council estate.
Stitch is a little bit of everything: an experiment, a koala-looking being, a mischievous scamp and, you might have forgotten, an alien.
A year before he was "fast and furious," Vin Diesel was Riddick, a criminal who has surgically-altered light-sensitive eyes.
"Galaxy Quest," a TV show about space explorers, is long-over, with the ensemble cast now consigned to showing up at conventions for their dose of adulation.
Stylish, moody and incredibly original in its story, "Dark City" is about a man (Rufus Sewell) who wakes up with amnesia and quickly learns a few things.
In this hilarious adventure ride, the aliens are already here on Earth, but usually in disguise.
Ellie comes across evidence of extraterrestrial life which provides the schematics for a device that will permit humans to have first contact.