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.

141. The Running Man

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown
Plot: A wrongfully-accused man breaks out of a max-prison facility only to be caught again and forced to participate in the hit reality TV show "The Running Man" where he will be forced to fight or flee from sadistic killers.

142. Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone ( Evangerion shin gekijôban: Jo )

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Hideaki Anno
Actors: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Kotono Mitsuishi, Yuriko Yamaguchi
Plot: The first in a line of four films that will re-imagine the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series. You Are (Not) Alone cover approximately episode 1 - 6 dealing with Shinji Ikari coming to terms with being an EVA pilot and battling Angels, dealing with his estranged father Gendo, his new roommate Lt. Colonel Misato Katsuragi and the cool, distant pilot Rei Ayanami.

143. Dune

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: David Lynch
Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen, Kenneth McMillan, Brad Dourif
Plot: A galaxy whose important product is Spice is given a possible prophet to save the outlying planets from oppression and other political poverty.

144. The Day After Tomorrow

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Roland Emmerich
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, Emmy Rossum, Sela Ward
Plot: Strange weather phenomena is just the precursor for a climatologist who works to warn the world about a new, rapidly approaching ice age.

145. Frequency

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Actors: Dennis Quaid, James Caviezel, Shawn Doyle, Elizabeth Mitchell
Plot: A son communicates with his father 30 years in the past through a ham radio. He seeks to change the past and save his father from a warehouse fire, but the consequences of his actions bring about a new death both men must work to solve.

146. Dredd

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pete Travis
Actors: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey, Domhnall Gleeson
Plot: The future is now - police have been given the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner and a veteran cop partners with a trainee in order to take down a deadly gang that has introduced a new drug, SLO-MO, that alters reality.

147. Fantastic Voyage

Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence

148. The Wolverine

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Mangold
Actors: Hugh Jackman, Tao Okamoto, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rila Fukushima
Plot: Wolverine travels to Japan, searching for answers and guidance. Adamantium meets Samurai steel when a mysterious figure from his past shows up, leading to an epic battle that will forever change his path.

149. Divergent

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Neil Burger
Actors: Shailene Woodley, Kate Winslet, Miles Teller, Theo James
Plot: In the future, society is divided into five factions each representing a different virtue. When they come of age, teens are given a choice to stay in their chosen faction or to switch to a new one - a choice that they must stay with for the rest of their lives. But Tris Prior is different - a Divergent - a person who doesn't fit into any one class - and soon she discovers her perfect society is anything but as a conspiracy seeks to wipe out all Divergents.

150. District B13 ( Banlieue 13 )

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pierre Morel
Actors: Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Tony D'Amario, Bibi Naceri
Plot: The year is 2010 and quarantined district B 13 in France is controlled by drugs and gangs. An undercover cop and a friend try to disarm a bomb to save two million people.

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