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.

461. Hardcore Henry

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ilya Naishuller
Actors: Sharlto Copley, Haley Bennett, Danila Kozlovsky, Cyrus Arnold, Ilya Naishuller, Will Stewart
Plot: A film shot entirely from a first-person perspective - when Henry wakes up, he has no memory - and within five minutes, the woman who has brought him back from the dead tells him she is his wife, before being kidnapped. On the run in the unfamiliar city of Moscow, Henry finds himself on the run from everyone - the warlord Akan who has plans for world domination, local authorities and more - the mysterious British man Jimmy claims to be a friend - but who can you trust when you don't even know yourself?

462. The Day the Earth Stood Still

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Scott Derrickson
Actors: Jennifer Connelly, Keanu Reeves, John Cleese, Jon Hamm, Jaden Smith, Kathy Bates
Plot: A group of extra-terrestrials arrives on earth to stop mankind from their destructive behavior, even if it means wiping out the human race.

463. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Actors: Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Natalie Trundy, Hari Rhodes, Severn Darden, John Randolph
Plot: Apes are now pets and servants, but abuse and poor simian conditions provoke Caesar, a highly developed primate who's been hiding out for two decades, to lead a colossal revolt against all the human oppressors.

464. Futureworld

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard T. Heffron
Actors: Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill, Yul Brynner, Stuart Margolin, John P. Ryan
Plot: After the disaster that befell Westworld, the company has put all their time, money and effort into a new venture: Futureworld. Yet when a reporter winds ups dead after discovering a secret behind this new attraction, two friends and fellow reporters decide to uncover the secret behind his death and Futureworld.

465. The Host

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Andrew Niccol
Actors: Saoirse Ronan, Jake Abel, William Hurt, Diane Kruger, Max Irons, Boyd Holbrook
Plot: Based on the novel by Stephanie Meyer, a parasitic invasion has left most of the population of earth as mindless bodies of alien host. Yet one girl, Melanie Stryder, will not submit to rule of her possesor, Wanderer, and infuses her own memories onto that of the alien. Both seek out Jared - a true human still in hiding - with both human and alien having a mutual yearning to find him.

466. SpaceCamp

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Harry Winer
Actors: Kate Capshaw, Lea Thompson, Kelly Preston, Joaquin Phoenix, Tom Skerritt, Larry B. Scott
Plot: A group of teens attending Space Camp find themselves put to the test when an accident launches them into space for real.

467. The Day of the Dolphin

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Mike Nichols
Actors: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino, Fritz Weaver, Jon Korkes, Edward Herrmann

468. The Thirteenth Floor

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Josef Rusnak
Actors: Gretchen Mol, Craig Bierko, Vincent D'Onofrio, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Dennis Haysbert, Steven Schub
Plot: Computer scientists living in what seems like present day, have discovered something incredible, but the one who knows may have died before he got a chance to tell the world.

469. The Man from Planet X

Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Actors: Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond, William Schallert, Roy Engel, Gilbert Fallman

470. Virtuosity

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brett Leonard
Actors: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Kelly Lynch, William Fichtner, William Forsythe, Louise Fletcher
Plot: A serial killer originates from virtual reality to start killing in the
real world when a convict is released from prison to stop him.

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