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.

211. I Origins

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Cahill
Actors: Michael Pitt, Brit Marling, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Steven Yeun, Archie Panjabi, Cara Seymour
Plot: A PhD student studying the evolution of the human eye stumbles upon a secret that will have far-reaching implications in both the scientific and religious communities.

212. Astro Boy

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: David Bowers
Actors: Kristen Bell, Nicolas Cage, Freddie Highmore, Bill Nighy, Donald Sutherland, Nathan Lane
Plot: A scientist creates the perfect boy. Powered by blue energy, Astro Boy has strength, speed, flight and x-ray vision. In order to be accepted as human, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery. When Metro City is put in harms way, Astro Boy returns and puts his powers and newfound emotions to the test.

213. The Island

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Michael Bay
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Ethan Phillips, Steve Buscemi, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean
Plot: In the near future men are actually being "Harvested" and kept in secret laboratories as guinea pigs without their knowledge. Lincoln Six Echo (McGregor) find this out and him and Jordan Two Delta (Johansson) run for their lives.

214. Planet Earth

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Marc Daniels
Actors: John Saxon, Janet Margolin, Ted Cassidy, Christopher Cary, Diana Muldaur, Sally Kemp

215. Solo: A Star Wars Story

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Ron Howard
Actors: Alden Ehrenreich, Donald Glover, Emilia Clarke, Paul Bettany, Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton
Plot: Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.

216. Z for Zachariah

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Craig Zobel
Actors: Margot Robbie, Chris Pine, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Plot: In the wake of a disaster that has wiped out most of the civilization one
woman and two men find themselves seemingly the last survivors - and
struggling with a love triangle that threatens to tear them apart... or
worse.

217. Alien: Covenant

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Danny McBride, Billy Crudup, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo
Plot: The colony ship Covenant is on a mission to a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy. Landing on what they believe to be an idyllic paradise, they instead find a much more dark and dangerous planet - one whose sole inhabitant seems to be David, a synthetic android and seemingly the only survivor of the Prometheus expedition.

218. Surrogates

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Actors: James Francis Ginty, Michael O'Toole, Bruce Willis, Rosamund Pike, Radha Mitchell, Ving Rhames
Plot: A future where humanity is isolated, pain-free and docile - because instead of venturing out themselves, they send surrogates, perfect mechanical counterparts, to do the work. But when a murder shatters this perfect world, an FBI agent will discover a conspiracy behind this perfect world and will have to abandon his own surrogate and risk his own life to find the truth.

219. Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alexander Witt
Actors: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann, Sophie Vavasseur, Razaaq Adoti
Plot: The Hive is reopened and Raccoon city is recontaminated.

220. Possessor

Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Actors: Andrea Riseborough, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sean Bean, Tuppence Middleton, Christopher Abbott, Rossif Sutherland
Plot: Tasya Vos is special kind of corporate agent - one who uses technology to inhabit other people's bodies, take over their minds and use them for assassinations to benefit the company. But time and stress has taken a toll and her mental state is in flux and when she inhabits the body of a particularly strong-willed individual, it threatens to erase her instead.

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