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.

311. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Wes Ball
Actors: Nathalie Emmanuel, Katherine McNamara, Dylan O'Brien, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Aidan Gillen, Giancarlo Esposito
Plot: The Gladers have successfully left the Maze behind them, but escape is only the first step on their journey. Now they find themselves in the Scorch, a desolate landscape where unimaginable obstacles await. The powerful, mysterious group known as the WCKD seems to be behind it all - and, joining with a group of resistance fighters, the Gladers look for clues behind this sinister organization.

312. The Faculty

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Actors: Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Josh Hartnett, Elijah Wood, Salma Hayek, Famke Janssen
Plot: A typical high school full of typical cliques and characters - until the teachers and students start acting different - and a handful of students discover an alien parasite. Now all they have to do is find a way to stop it.

313. The Satan Bug

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Sturges
Actors: George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, John Larkin, Edward Asner
Plot: An evil doctor wants to destroy mankind by unleashing a deadly germ on the population. However, there's an agent tracking him to prevent him from accomplishing his task.

314. Fortress

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stuart Gordon
Actors: Christopher Lambert, Kurtwood Smith, Loryn Locklin, Clifton Collins Jr., Lincoln Kilpatrick, Jeffrey Combs
Plot: The future is under strict population control. When a husband and wife are caught at an emigration point with an illegal baby, they are sent to prison. Soon they learn they entire operation is run by a heartless corporation who use various forms of mind control on the prisoners.

315. Son of Frankenstein

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rowland V. Lee
Actors: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Basil Rathbone, Josephine Hutchinson, Donnie Dunagan, Lionel Atwill
Plot: The long-lost son of the late Dr. Frankenstein returns to the family castle to claim the property, only to discover that his father's monster has survived. The monster begins to terrorize the town, placing a cloud of suspicion over the son of Frankenstein and his family. People die. Chaos ensues. The monster seems to die again... at least until the next sequel.

316. The Creature Walks Among Us

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Sherwood
Actors: Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, Leigh Snowden, Gregg Palmer, David McMahon, Maurice Manson

317. Earth Star Voyager

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: James Goldstone
Actors: Brian McNamara, Julia Montgomery, Duncan Regehr, Tom Bresnahan, Jason Michas, Peter Donat
Plot: A spaceship sent to a far away solar system to explore another planet like earth encounters problems associated with the crew, external creatures, and computer malfunctions. Made for TV.

318. Aquaman

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Wan
Actors: Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Patrick Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Nicole Kidman, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Plot: Arthur Curry finds himself caught between the world of the surface and the underwater kingdom of Atlantic. When Orm begins to unite the seven kingdoms in order to ignite a war with the surface world, Curry will take on the mantle of ruler in order to prevent destruction and save both his people and those who dwell above.

319. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Luc Besson
Actors: Cara Delevingne, Dane DeHaan, Clive Owen, Elizabeth Debicki, Sam Spruell, Rihanna
Plot: Valerian and Laureline are special agents of the human species, whose main goal is to maintain harmony and order across the universe. Investigating the every-expanding intergalactic city of Alpha (17 million inhabitants and expanding), all seems well but sinister forces seek to upset the balance and plunge the known universe into chaos.

320. It Came from Outer Space

Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Jack Arnold
Actors: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer, Russell Johnson, Kathleen Hughes
Plot: When a spaceship crashes in the Arizona desert an amateur stargazer and
his local schoolteacher wife go to investigate. When the object and
horrifying creature are buried, they think all is over - until people in
the local town start to act strangely and they realize the alien presence
didn't die.

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