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District 9
If I could get away with a miniseries, James Burke's Connections.
Or Cunk on Earth. It's a toss-up.
Letting them know what mankind is all about seems like a terrible idea. We're jerks.
Hellraiser II
Double Feature: Ender's Game (2013) and Starship Troopers (1997) - then we serve them a sumptuous shellfish tower to discuss their surrender over dinner.
Wall-E. Sums it up pretty well
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - Literally telling aliens that we will fuck shit up.
Stalker (1979) - You can leave your garbage and we'll think it's treasure.
Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) - Humanity is really just a bunch of idiots, stumbling through everything.
Earth Girls Are Easy
Half Baked
βThe Final Memberβ
Itβs a documentary about the worlds first penis museum in Iceland trying to finally secure a human specimen
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Shawshank Redemption
Requiem for a dream
Fun fact: I have watched none of the movies listed here in the comments
Fellowship, two towers, return of the king. Tell them it's one movie showing how the littlest person can make the biggest difference.
Samsara
Schindler's list. Yeah aliens. It's like that. Go ahead and end us thx.
Samsara
Cloud Atlas
Oooh! I think that's my favourite so far. It would introduce several eras including the ones we only envision in our future, and would introduce a number of concepts about myths, stories and social structures.
End of ze world.
They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) by Peter Jackson.
Magnolia
Rocco's Animal Trainer #3.
SalΓ².
Nobody has mentioned porn. We try and say things in our great works of art but maybe they'd learn more from what we make when we're trying to say nothing at all.
Either point break or bad boys 2.
ET
Citizen Kane.