Top Sci-Fi Movies


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81. Videodrome

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja Smits, Leslie Carlson, Peter Dvorsky, Julie Khaner
Plot: Max Renn is always looking for ultimate in programming for his lowly cable TV station, but when he stumbles on to Videodrome it takes over his life.

82. Snowpiercer

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Actors: Chris Evans, Kang-ho Song, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Ah-sung Ko, Ed Harris
Plot: The near future: a second ice age has wiped out most of humanity. The
survivors travel by train through the cold, lonely world - but even here,
at humanities end, class division rears its ugly head - and those as the
back of the train are ready to revolt.

83. The War of the Worlds

Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Byron Haskin
Actors: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio, Lewis Martin
Plot: A meteor hits in a small town outside of Los Angeles California. A scientist investigates only to discover the beginning of a deadly alien invasion.

84. A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Conner, William Hurt, Sam Robards, Ken Leung
Plot: A future in which the human race has created mechas for work and
entertainment. Then David is created, a mecha boy designed to feel real
emotion. When his adoptive "parents" leave him alone, he begins a quest
to find his humanity.

85. The Time Machine

Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Pal
Actors: Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Alan Young, Tom Helmore, Sebastian Cabot, Doris Lloyd
Plot: Based on HG wells novel of time travel - a man travels to the future where he find a complete different world and wants to at first come back, but then realizes he may have to stay.

86. The Incredible Shrinking Man

Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jack Arnold
Actors: Grant Williams, April Kent, Randy Stuart, Paul Langton, William Schallert
Plot: A man and his significant other are on a boating adventure when he
experiences a strange mist. After a short time he begins to get smaller in
size and goes through struggles of everyday life.

87. Cloud Atlas

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Actors: Tom Hanks, Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant
Plot: Individual actions ripple across time - past, present and future - helping
one man turn from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness
inspires revolution far into the future.

88. Starship Troopers

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Actors: Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Patrick Muldoon, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris
Plot: Intergalactic bugs aim to destroy the human race in this futuristic sci-fi, action packed film.

89. WarGames

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Badham
Actors: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Barry Corbin, Juanin Clay
Plot: A teenage boy hacks into a government computer in search for some games. The game he chooses to play is not just a simulation.

90. Soylent Green

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Brock Peters, Chuck Connors, Edward G Robinson
Plot: In the year 2022 a police detective in NYC is hunted down for murder when
he uncovers a secret cover-up by the government.

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