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.

341. Alien Dead

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 3.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Fred Olen Ray
Actors: Buster Crabbe, Ray Roberts, Linda Lewis, George Kelsey, Mike Bonavia, Dennis Underwood

342. The Monster That Challenged the World

Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Arnold Laven
Actors: Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried, Harlan Warde, Max Showalter, Mimi Gibson

343. Dr. Cyclops

Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack
Actors: Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley, Janice Logan, Charles Halton, Victor Kilian, Frank Yaconelli

344. Destination Moon

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Irving Pichel
Actors: John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson, Erin O'Brien-Moore
Plot: One of the first films to depict serious space travel - a trip to the moon is successful, but a miscalculation in fuel means, even after stripping the ship bare, in order to return to earth, someone will have to be left behind.

345. The Nutty Professor

Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jerry Lewis
Actors: Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman, Elvia Allman, Milton Frome
Plot: A professor creates a chemical that will make him appear "cool", but it also has other side effects.

346. The Purge

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James DeMonaco
Actors: Lena Headey, Ethan Hawke, Max Burkholder, Rhys Wakefield, Adelaide Kane, Tony Oller
Plot: In order to combat the overcrowded prison systems, the government begins to implement 12-hour blocks where illegal activity is allowed. The film follows a family during one of these periods as they must protect themselves from a home invasion.

347. The Colony

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jeff Renfroe
Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Kevin Zegers, Bill Paxton, Charlotte Sullivan, John Tench, Atticus Dean Mitchell
Plot: After a man-made ice age forces the survivors underground, a distress call
requires one outpost to trek back to surface and what they find is a force
more savage than nature.

348. Mimic

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Actors: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, F. Murray Abraham, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton, Josh Brolin
Plot: A deadly disease spread by cockroaches threatens to destroy an entire generation of children in Manhattan. Dr. Susan Tyler creates a new insect designed specifically to kill the roaches and then die off. Three years later she discovers her creation is very much alive... and evolving.

349. Bicentennial Man

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Chris Columbus
Actors: Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Oliver Platt, Kiersten Warren, Wendy Crewson
Plot: The Martin family purchase an android named Andrew (Robin Williams) to perform household tasks. Before long, the humans realize they may be rubbing off on their domestic servant as Andrew begins to experience human feelings and creative thought.

350. RoboCop

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: José Padilha
Actors: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish, Michael Keaton, Jackie Earle Haley
Plot: In the year 2028 OmniCorp has made billions in robot drone technology and is now looking to increase profits by deploying this technology on the home front. They see the perfect opportunity when officer Alex Murphy - husband and good cop - is critically injured in the line of duty. Merging man and machine, the first RoboCop is introduced - but in trying to control the robot, they forget about the man inside - a man still seeking justice.

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