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.

171. MirrorMask

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Dave McKean
Actors: Jason Barry, Rob Brydon, Stephanie Leonidas, Stephen Fry, Dora Bryan, Stephanie Leonidas
Plot: In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home.

172. The Chronicles of Riddick

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: David Twohy
Actors: Vin Diesel, Colm Feore, Judi Dench, Karl Urban, Thandie Newton, Alexa Davalos
Plot: Riddick, hiding on a far away planet gets mixed up in feud between humans
and those that want to convert humans into something else. As he jumps
from Planet to Planet, he is still a wanted man and tries to do everything
to escape the battle only to become the focal point of war.

173. Alien: Romulus

Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Fede Alvarez
Actors: Isabela Merced, Cailee Spaeny, Archie Renaux, David Jonsson, Aileen Wu, Spike Fearn
Plot: A group of young space colonizers looking to escape a dead-end existence
decide to take on risky scavenging job promising big returns. But the
derelict Romulus space station is home to something far deadlier than
anything they could imagine.

174. The Thing from Another World

Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Christian Nyby
Actors: Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, Robert Nichols, Eduard Franz, James Arness, Margaret Sheridan
Plot: In the Arctic north, a group of scientists and military personal discover an alien creature who un-thaws to harm humans while the scientists try to make peace with it.

175. Timecrimes ( cronocrímenes, Los )

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Actors: Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernández, Bárbara Goenaga, Nacho Vigalondo, Juan Inciarte
Plot: Hector is an ordinary man... until he happens upon a time machine. As he
hears the rules of the machine, he realizes things can't change, but in
his attempt to keep things the way they are, matters get exponentially
more complicated.

176. Oblivion

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Actors: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Melissa Leo
Plot: After devastating war that brought Earth on the brink of extinction, the remaining people are assigned to protect the last useful sources of energy. That is until a technician on the ground discovers something that changes everything he has been told.

177. Pacific Rim

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Actors: Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Ron Perlman, Charlie Day, Clifton Collins Jr.
Plot: When monstrous creatures from the sea dubbed Kaiju attack, it pushes the human race to the edge of annihilation. Countering the force with massive robots known as Jaegers, two human pilots linked by a neural bridge take on the Kaiju. Yet even this force seems to be no match, and after years of fighting it comes down to a washed-up pilot, an untested rookie and an aged Jaeger to stand up for humanity.

178. Demolition Man

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Marco Brambilla
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, Benjamin Bratt, Bob Gunton
Plot: A cryo-prison is created to house the worst criminals in society, but in a
future free of crime Simon Phoenix is thawed and goes on the rampage. The
law enforcement can't cope and must thaw out John Spartan, a wrongfully-
convicted officer from the past and Phoenix's nemesis.

179. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: George Miller, George Ogilvie
Actors: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence, Adam Cockburn, Frank Thring, Angelo Rossitto
Plot: After being robbed, Mad Max finds himself at the mercy of Bartertown, where he finds himself in a power struggle between the cruel Aunt Entity and her rival Master Blaster. Things go from bad to worse as he is banished to the desert but finds refuge from a group of orphans looking for a leader.

180. Children of the Damned

Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anton Leader
Actors: Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris, Alfred Burke, Sheila Allen, Ralph Michael
Plot: Six children from around the world suddenly develop amazing intellect and abilities and are brought to London for study.

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