Top Sci-Fi Movies


The Top Sci-Fi Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Sci-Fi List". Lists are calculated daily.

111. Seconds

Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Richard Anderson
Plot: A man receives a call from his friend, Charlie - who is supposedly dead - but who offers him a way out of his dreary life. A company will set him up with a new identity, a new life and even a new face - and when he accepts the offer, transforming into a free-spirited artist playboy - he finds his new life oddly unfulfilling.

112. The Adjustment Bureau

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: George Nolfi
Actors: Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Anthony Mackie, Terence Stamp
Plot: A politician on the verge of winning a Senate seat meets and falls in love with a ballerina, but as he pursues this love, a mysterious group of men conspire to keep them apart - they are the agents of Fate - the Adjustment Bureau - and they will stop at nothing to keep order.

113. A Scanner Darkly

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Animation
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Linklater
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Rory Cochrane, Winona Ryder
Plot: In the near future, the war on drugs is taking its toll on society. Cops are spying on everyone, including other cops, all to try and clean up drug 'D'. No one is safe from this destructive drug or each other.

114. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Plot: Kirk heads back to the forbidden planet Genesis in order to save Spock's soul.

115. Primer

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Shane Carruth
Actors: David Sullivan, Shane Carruth, Casey Gooden, Samantha Thomson
Plot: A pair of engineers create a mysterious machine that at first they are not sure what it is, but once they understand it they know they have something special, but become consumed with it and are not able to scale themselves back.

116. Star Trek: Generations

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: David Carson
Actors: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton
Plot: The two Star Trek Teams (old and Present) team up to defeat an evil doctor who destroys worlds to gain more power.

117. Enemy Mine

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James, Richard Marcus

118. Star Trek Beyond

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Justin Lin
Actors: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban
Plot: The USS Enterprise begins the first leg of its five year mission. Reaching the edge of uncharted space, the ship is nearly destroyed and strands Kirk and the crew on a remote planet with no communication. With everyone scattered, it will test the crew, and Kirk, like never before.

119. Poor Things

Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Actors: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef
Plot: When Bella Baxter is brought back to life by her quite unorthodox father/scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter - she is kept sheltered until a debauched lawyer, Duncan Wedderburn, convinces her to join him on a whirlwind getaway. She soon learns to break from the conventions of the time - yearning for equality and liberation.

120. Paul

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Greg Mottola
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Jane Lynch, Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman
Plot: Two friends cross the United States when they encounter an alien named Paul near Area 51 - the alien decides to join them and the trio plot a course back to his mothership.

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