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.

221. 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

222. 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.

223. Cowboys & Aliens

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jon Favreau
Actors: Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Clancy Brown, Paul Dano
Plot: In 1873 a lone stranger finds himself in the town of Absolution in the
Arizona Territory. With no memory and a shackle on his wrist, he finds
strangers are not welcome, especially by the touch-as-nails town leader,
Colonel Dolarhyde. Yet the town will soon be beset by invaders from the
sky and the lone stranger holds to key to survival.

224. The Thing

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Actors: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Christian Olsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Kim Bubbs
Plot: A prequel to the 1982 films of the same name: A research team in the Antarctic comes across an alien spacecraft leading to a confrontation between the lead scientist and his graduate students on what to do about the discovery.

225. Jackie Chan's Who Am I? ( Wo shi shei )

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Benny Chan, Jackie Chan
Actors: Jackie Chan, Michelle Ferre, Mirai Yamamoto, Ron Smerczak, Ed Nelson, Glory Simon
Plot: A special forces agent gets amnesia after a helicopter crash. He begins to unravel who he really is while being chased by an army of operatives bent on his destruction.

226. The Blob

Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
Actors: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland, Alden 'Stephen' Chase, John Benson
Plot: A meteoroite delivers a gelatinous creature to earth, which promptly begins devouring the citizens of a nearby small town. The growing "blob" tries its best to terrorize the town, but the ultra-cool Steve McQueen gives the "blob" the cold-shoulder and saves the day!

227. Solaris

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Actors: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Davies, Viola Davis, Ulrich Tukur, Michael Ensign
Plot: A psychologist is sent to a space station that is having issues with seeing things after being away from home so long. The psychologist has problems of his own that are discovered on the ship.

228. Appleseed ( Appurushîdo - 2005 )

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Shinji Aramaki
Actors: Amanda Winn Lee, Jamieson Price, Kirsty Pape, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, William Bassett, Michael McConnohie
Plot: In the year 2131 a war has forced most of civilization into the utopian society of Olympus. When a warrior from the badlands, Deunan, comes to town, she meets up with a former comrade, now a cyborg, and finds that the perfect harmony of the city is set for destruction and only the legendary Appleseed technology devised by her mother can save humanity.

229. Things to Come

Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Cameron Menzies
Actors: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Maurice Braddell
Plot: War and humanity changes from 1940 to 2036. John Cabal (Raymond Massey) and Passworthy (Edward Chapman) become part of the changes in the different time's era.

230. Battlestar Galactica

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard A. Colla
Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herb Jefferson Jr., Maren Jensen, Ray Milland

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