"The Arrival" was quietly released by Orion Pictures on May 31, 1996, one month before the comic book-like alien invasion spectacle of "Independence Day" landed, and a year before

Denis Villeneuve has made a name for himself in science fiction across the past decade plus change, and any one of his genre films, from Kafkan thriller Enemy to international blockbuster Dune, would sit comfortably on this list.

At a time when big-budget action entertainers are dominating the box office, Bollywood is now slowly stepping into a completely new space. Soon, audiences will get to witness the thrill and fear of alien horror on the big screen with Akshay Kumar’s upcoming sci-fi thriller Samuk.