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5. The Terminator (1984)
> IMDb user rating: 8.0/10 (820,969 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 89% (776,923 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 100% (65 reviews)
> Directed by: James Cameron
When an indestructible cyborg is sent from the future to kill an unsuspecting woman whose unborn son will one day save humanity from extinction, a soldier is tasked with protecting her life at all costs.
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4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
> IMDb user rating: 8.3/10 (948,653 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 94% (571,910 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 92% (250 reviews)
> Directed by: Michel Gondry
After a charmed but volatile relationship, Joel and Clementine each decide to undergo a process that will erase their memories of one another. As Joel’s mind is wiped clean, though, he has second thoughts and attempts to hold onto the remnants of his love.
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3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
> IMDb user rating: 8.5/10 (1,033,964 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 94% (749,360 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 93% (84 reviews)
> Directed by: James Cameron
The sequel to “Terminator” follows wanted terrorist Sarah Connor and her son John as they are pursued by a shapeshifting, weaponized robot who has been sent to kill John before he grows into an important resistance leader.
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2. Aliens (1986)
> IMDb user rating: 8.3/10 (678,602 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 94% (430,019 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 97% (77 reviews)
> Directed by: James Cameron
The sole survivor of an alien attack on her spaceship, Ellen Ripley is awoken from suspended animation and tasked with investigating a lunar colony that has fallen out of communication with Earth.
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1. Alien (1979)
> IMDb user rating: 8.4/10 (823,459 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 94% (460,436 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 98% (126 reviews)
> Directed by: Ridley Scott
When the crew of a commercial spaceship picks up a mysterious signal coming from a distant moon, they descend to investigate and discover an alien lifeform that threatens them all.
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