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.

231. Stargate: The Ark of Truth

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Robert C. Cooper
Actors: Beau Bridges, Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Michael Shanks, Claudia Black
Plot: SG-1 travel to the Ori Galaxy in search of the Ark of Truth. Created by the ancients they believe it is they key to defeating the Ori.

232. The Maze Runner

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Wes Ball
Actors: Will Poulter, Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Patricia Clarkson, Aml Ameen
Plot: In a dark future, Thomas finds himself on an elevator, remembering nothing but his own name. He soon finds himself in "The Glade", a community of about 60 other young men - who have learned to survive in this enclosure while trying to find a means of escape. Every 30 days a new boy arrives - and they fight not only for survival, but also against the Grievers - creatures who plague the community. Their world is changed forever when the next arrival is comatose girl with a note.

233. Rollerball

Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Norman Jewison
Actors: James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams, John Beck, Moses Gunn, Pamela Hensley
Plot: Set in the future, corporations have replaced countries and eliminate war and poverty but at the expense of individuality. In order to satisfy the bloodlust that mankind craves they invent the violent Rollerball - but when the top star, Jonathan E., begins to question the corporate rule, he faces as much danger in the sport as he does outside it.

234. Alien Nation

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Graham Baker
Actors: James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp, Kevyn Major Howard, Leslie Bevis, Peter Jason
Plot: Two cops, one originally from another planet, the other a human racist against the aliens, have to learn to get along to find a police killer, and get a dangerous alien drug off the street.

235. Iceman

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Fred Schepisi
Actors: Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone, David Strathairn, Danny Glover, Josef Sommer
Plot: An Arctic researcher, Shepherd, discovers a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice. Shepherd wants to protect him, but a surgical team wants to dissect the mystical Iceman.

236. Alita: Battle Angel

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Actors: Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Michelle Rodriguez, Jackie Earle Haley
Plot: Centuries into the future, cyber-doctor Ito comes across a deactivated cyborg in the massive scrapyard of the harsh Iron City. Seeing opportunity, he fixes and reactivates Alita, who awakens to a world she doesn't recognize with no memory of who she once was. While the good doctor tries to shield her from the injustice of this new world, street-smart Hugo wants to open her eyes. But when deadly forces suddenly take an interest in her, and the people she has come to care for in her new life, she finds her purpose - an extraordinary fighting ability, one that could save the world - or destroy it.

237. The Creator

Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Gareth Edwards
Actors: Allison Janney, Gemma Chan, Ralph Ineson, John David Washington, Marc Menchaca, Ken Watanabe
Plot: In the future mankind wages war against and AI-driven robotic army. A former special forces agent, grieving after the disappearance of his wife, is sent on a mission to find and destroy The Creator - the one responsible for the uprising. But the mission turns even more dangerous when he learns there is a new weapon in play - one that could bring an end to the war - and humanity itself - and it comes in the form of a robotic child.

238. Mickey 17

Year of Release: 2025
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Actors: Mark Ruffalo, Robert Pattinson, Toni Collette, Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Thomas Turgoose

239. Color Out of Space

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Stanley
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Q'orianka Kilcher, Elliot Knight, Tommy Chong, Julian Hilliard

240. Robinson Crusoe on Mars

Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Byron Haskin
Actors: Adam West, Victor Lundin, Paul Mantee
Plot: When his spaceship crash-lands on Mars, astronaut Kit Draper must figure out how to survive on the barren, lifeless planet with only a monkey to keep him company. As Draper searches for food, water and oxygen, he eventually discovers that the dead planet may actually harbor life - but it's not clear whether the Martians are friends or foes.

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