11. The Terminator
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Cameron
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen
Plot: A human and a cyborg are sent from the future, one to protect the mother of a boy who will someday be needed to save the world, and one to kill her.
12. Star Trek
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: J.J. Abrams
Actors: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Eric Bana, Leonard Nimoy
Plot: Chronicles the origins of the Enterprise, including a headstrong Iowa farm boy, James T. Kirk and a half-Vulcan coming to terms with his heritage, Spock. When a threat appears that has plans to destroy the future, the young crew must come together to avert disaster.
13. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Warren J. Kemmerling
Plot: A blue collar worker trucks stops working while he encounters a UFO and is drawn to a mountain for unknown reasons and continues to hear certain notes over and over.
14. ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Henry Thomas, C. Thomas Howell, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace-Stone
Plot: A small boy and girl try to help a friendly alien find his way back home.
15. Planet of the Apes
Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Actors: Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowall, Maurice Evans
Plot: A group of astronauts are enslaved by a civilization of talking apes in the near future.
16. Wall-E
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Andrew Stanton
Actors: Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin, Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight
Plot: An animation in which Wall-E is maintaining the destroyed, dirty, and ugly earth. His robotic job is to clean it. He is a curious sort. One day, another robot is also sent to planet earth. Wall-e believes he may have fallen in love. This story is about the relationship and adventure of two robots.
17. Serenity
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joss Whedon
Actors: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin
Plot: The crew of the Serenity harbors two fugitives from the Alliance - one of whom holds a secret that could bring the Alliance to its knees.
18. Avatar
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Cameron
Actors: Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana
Plot: In the near future Jake, a paraplegic soldier, is given the chance to walk again by participating in the Avatar program on the distant planet of Pandora. Inhabited by the Na'vi, it is home to lush jungles and creatures beautiful and deadly. As humans invade and push deeper, the Na'vi fight back, and Jake finds himself in the middle of it all.
19. 12 Monkeys
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Terry Gilliam
Actors: Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Madeleine Stowe, Christopher Plummer
Plot: In a future devasted by a virus, a convict is sent back in time by a group of scientists in hopes of learning how to stop the disease.
20. The Fifth Element
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Luc Besson
Actors: Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich, Ian Holm
Plot: Every 5000 years, the fifth element must stop Evil from destroying the earth. In the future it's up to a cab driver, a monk, a popular personaily and a strange woman to save the human race.
