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.

151. Attack the Block

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joe Cornish
Actors: Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker, Luke Treadaway, John Boyega
Plot: When aliens decide to invade the UK, a gang of South London teens bands together to protect their neighborhood.

152. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Garth Jennings
Actors: Bill Bailey, Mos Def, Warwick Davis, Anna Chancellor
Plot: The planet is about to be destroyed by aliens, who are making an interstellar highway, when Arthur Dent is teleported off into a spacecraft by his friend who is really an alien. Follow this great adventure filled with depressed robots, two-headed men, ingenious mice and giant super computers.

153. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Anime/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Curt Geda
Actors: Will Friedle, Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Angie Harmon
Plot: Features the return of Batman's arch-nemesis, the Joker, who disappeared some 40 years before the film takes place. Wayne, who knows the reason for the Joker's long absence, is certain that this can't be the same man, and he and Terry set out to discover who he really is and what he's up to. Along the way, it is revealed what happened not only to the Joker, but also to several other Batman-related characters who have been absent from Batman Beyond, such as Batman's old sidekick Tim Drake.

154. Battlestar Galactica: Razor

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Actors: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber

155. The Man from Earth

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Schenkman
Actors: David Lee Smith, Tony Todd, John Billingsley, Ellen Crawford
Plot: A college professor reveals to his colleagues that he's actually a centuries-old caveman.

156. Upgrade

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Leigh Whannell
Actors: Logan Marshall-Green, Simon Maiden, Betty Gabriel, Harrison Gilbertson
Plot: In the near-future, technology is ingrained in all aspects of life. Grey Trace is a rare technophobe, but following a life-altering event, he will sacrifice his own humanity to gain his revenge as he is implanted with an AI chip called STEM.

157. Charly

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ralph Nelson
Actors: Lilia Skala, Claire Bloom, Dick Van Patten, Leon Janney
Plot: Cliff Robertson won an Oscar for his portrayal of a mentally-challenged bakery worker, who through some scientifically experimental surgery miraculously becomes an intellectual.

158. The X Files: Fight the Future

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rob Bowman
Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville, William B. Davis
Plot: After five years, the X-Files have been closed down and agent Mulder and Scully are assigned regular duty. In Texas, a federal building is destroyed, but investigating the matter leads not to terrorists, but their own government behind the plot. This cover-up leads to an even bigger conspiracy involving a powerful cabal of men and a mysterious extraterrestrial virus.

159. The Man Who Fell to Earth

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Actors: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Buck Henry
Plot: A humanoid alien comes to earth to get water for his dying planet but becomes distracted by the pleasures and pains he encounters here instead.

160. Them!

Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Gordon Douglas
Actors: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness
Plot: Early atomic experiments in the desert have given rise to a colony of gigantic ants. A group of scientists along with the army must work together to stop the menacing problem before it spreads.

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