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.

181. Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Michael Bay
Actors: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, John Malkovich, Josh Duhamel, Patrick Dempsey, Frances McDormand
Plot: As the decepticons look to avenge their defeat against the autobots, a
space race between Russian the U.S. sparks the interest of both groups.
Sam Witwicky once again comes to the aid of the autobots while back on
Cybertron, Shockwave has plans of his own.

182. Battlestar Galactica: Razor

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Actors: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, Tricia Helfer, James Callis

183. Melancholia

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lars von Trier
Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Alexander Skarsgård
Plot: As a new planet appears and threatens to collide with earth, two sisters
find their fractured relationship stretched to the breaking point.

184. The Last Man on Earth

Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ubaldo Ragona
Actors: Franca Bettoia, Vincent Price, Emma Danieli, Umberto Raho, Christi Courtland, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart
Plot: A scientist tries to survive constant attacks from victims of an unusual plague while trying to find a cure.

185. The Tingler

Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Castle
Actors: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts, Pamela Lincoln, Philip Coolidge
Plot: A scientist (Price) discovers a strange creature that latches on to
people's spines when they are afraid and causes a tingling sensation. A
person must scream to get rid of the tingler; otherwise, he or she will
die. When the film was first released in theaters, buzzers were attached
to some audience members' seats to replicate the tingling sensation at key
points in the movie.

186. Midnight Special

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jeff Nichols
Actors: Michael Shannon, Kirsten Dunst, Joel Edgerton, Jaeden Lieberher, Adam Driver, Sam Shepard
Plot: When a father learns his son possesses a unique power, one that could ultimately change the fate of the world, he will do everything to protect him, even as a dangerous religious sect and government task force doggedly pursue them.

187. Frank Herbert's Dune

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Harrison
Actors: Alec Newman, William Hurt, Saskia Reeves, James Watson, Ian McNeice
Plot: A sci-fi channel made for tv re-make of the original Dune (1984) that pulls in more of the plot and character development of the original novel.

188. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Wes Ball
Actors: Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, William H. Macy, Peter Macon, Lydia Peckham
Plot: Three hundred years after the passing of Caesar, apes have evolved while humans have fallen. Noa is about to come of age in his Eagle Clan but the intrusion of a superior force leaves him for dead while taking his surviving clan captive. Vowing to get them back, he is joined by a young female human - who holds her own secrets - and one of the last, true followers of Caesar as they make their way to an oceanside stronghold where a mad tyrant holds sway.

189. The Brood

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Henry Beckman, Nuala Fitzgerald, Cindy Hinds
Plot: A controversial psychoanalyst treats a woman accused of child abuse. Meanwhile, bizarre violence continues to surround the child.

190. Scanners

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Michael Ironside, Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, Robert A. Silverman
Plot: Scanners are powerful psychics able to control the minds of others - to the point of death if necessary. An underground group of scanners seeks control of the world, while a rival group seeks to destroy the movement by using a rogue scanner against his own.

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