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.

291. 1984

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Anderson
Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Michael Redgrave, Jan Sterling, David Kossoff, Donald Pleasence, Mervyn Johns
Plot: In a futuristic, state-run society controlled by "Big Brother" in which
love is outlawed, employee of the state Winston Smith falls for Julia, and
is tortured and brainwashed for his crime.

292. Invasion of the Saucer Men

Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edward L. Cahn
Actors: Steven Terrell, Gloria Castillo, Frank Gorshin, Raymond Hatton, Lyn Osborn, Russ Bender

293. Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Don Taylor
Actors: Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman, Natalie Trundy, Sal Mineo, M. Emmet Walsh
Plot: Cornelius, Zira and Milo travel back in time to escape the destruction of their world. Landing in 20th century Los Angeles, they're treated as curiosities and celebrities at first, but soon become hunted by a suspicious and fearful government intent on making them the subjects of an experiment that could alter the course of human and ape events.

294. Passengers

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Morten Tyldum
Actors: Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, Andy Garcia, Julee Cerda
Plot: On a long-distance space flight destined for a distant colony, a malfunction in the sleep system causes two people out of the thousand passengers to awaken 60 years early.

295. The Rover

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Michôd
Actors: Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson, Scoot McNairy, David Field, Anthony Hayes, Gillian Jones
Plot: A gang targets the wrong man after they steal his car from a desolate Australian town. When he captures a wounded member of the gang, the lone man will stop at nothing to get his revenge.

296. Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde

Year of Release: 1925
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Scott Pembroke, Joe Rock
Actors: Stan Laurel, Julie Leonard, Pete the Dog

297. Fata Morgana

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Lotte Eisner, Eugen Des Montagnes, James William Gledhill, Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg

298. Space is the Place ( Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Arkestra: Space is the Place )

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Coney
Actors: Sun Ra, Barbara Deloney, Raymond Johnson, Erika Leder, Christopher Brooks, Sinthia Ayala
Plot: Sun Ra, a mystical musician and prophet believed lost in outer space, returns to earth with a message of uplift and black power.

299. Mission to Mars

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Tim Robbins, Gary Sinise, Connie Nielsen , Jerry O'Connell , Don Cheadle, Kim Delaney
Plot: A disaster strikes the first manned mission to mars and a rescue team is sent to the red planet to find any survivors and investigate their whereabouts when mysterious noises and happenings occur.

300. The Bay

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Barry Levinson
Actors: Kristen Connolly, Anthony Reynolds, Kether Donohue, Andy Stahl, Lauren Cohn, Frank Deal
Plot: A small Maryland town becomes the scene of chaos and death as an ecological disaster unleashes hell upon the residents.

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