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.

231. Solaris

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Actors: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Davies, Viola Davis, Ulrich Tukur, Michael Ensign
Plot: A psychologist is sent to a space station that is having issues with seeing things after being away from home so long. The psychologist has problems of his own that are discovered on the ship.

232. The Thing

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Actors: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eric Christian Olsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Kim Bubbs
Plot: A prequel to the 1982 films of the same name: A research team in the Antarctic comes across an alien spacecraft leading to a confrontation between the lead scientist and his graduate students on what to do about the discovery.

233. Dark Star

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: G
Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dre Pahich, Dan O'Bannon
Plot: A group of four astronauts are tasked with removing unstable planets to make way for future colonization, but as they near their goal aliens, computer malfunctions and a too smart bomb put their mission in jeopardy.

234. Stargate: The Ark of Truth

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Robert C. Cooper
Actors: Beau Bridges, Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Michael Shanks, Claudia Black
Plot: SG-1 travel to the Ori Galaxy in search of the Ark of Truth. Created by the ancients they believe it is they key to defeating the Ori.

235. Alien: Covenant

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Danny McBride, Billy Crudup, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo
Plot: The colony ship Covenant is on a mission to a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy. Landing on what they believe to be an idyllic paradise, they instead find a much more dark and dangerous planet - one whose sole inhabitant seems to be David, a synthetic android and seemingly the only survivor of the Prometheus expedition.

236. Battlestar Galactica

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard A. Colla
Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herb Jefferson Jr., Maren Jensen, Ray Milland

237. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roy William Neill
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., Patric Knowles, Maria Ouspenskaya, Ilona Massey, Dennis Hoey
Plot: Larry Talbot aka The Wolfman, is in the care of Dr. Manning - but knows
his condition cannot be cured my modern medicine. Instead, after escaping
the asylum, an old gypsy points him to the only man who can help: Dr.
Frankenstein. But the doctor is nowhere to be found - his daughter, who
send him to the ruins of the former castle - but is not abandoned as
Frankenstein's monster is still around.

238. Dreamscape

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joseph Ruben
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Kate Capshaw, Peter Jason, Madison Mason
Plot: If you die in a dream do you die in real life? Can a person enter you dream and kill you for real? How does the President of the United States of America tie in?

239. The Maze Runner

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Wes Ball
Actors: Will Poulter, Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Patricia Clarkson, Aml Ameen
Plot: In a dark future, Thomas finds himself on an elevator, remembering nothing but his own name. He soon finds himself in "The Glade", a community of about 60 other young men - who have learned to survive in this enclosure while trying to find a means of escape. Every 30 days a new boy arrives - and they fight not only for survival, but also against the Grievers - creatures who plague the community. Their world is changed forever when the next arrival is comatose girl with a note.

240. M3GAN

Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Gerard Johnstone
Actors: Allison Williams, Kimberley Crossman, Violet McGraw, Ronny Chieng, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Jenna Davis
Plot: A robotics engineer at a toy company decides to test out a new, life-like android companion on her niece, who recently lost both of her parents in an accident. When the two bond, it seems the prototype is a success, but soon the core mission to "protect" her new friend takes on a sinister and deadly side.

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