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.

321. 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.

322. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Year of Release: 1916
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stuart Paton
Actors: Lois Alexander, Allen Holubar, Wallace Clarke, Howard Crampton, Curtis Benton, Joseph W. Girard
Plot: One of the earliest films to utilize what we now call "special effects" it follows Captain Nemo, his ship the Nautilus and his quest for revenge.

323. The Day of the Triffids

Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Steve Sekely
Actors: Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore, Mervyn Johns, Ewan Roberts
Plot: A blinding meteor shower rains some seeds onto the earth. These seeds grow into man eating plants, which aren't bound by roots in the ground.

324. Insurgent

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Robert Schwentke
Actors: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Miles Teller, Kate Winslet, Jai Courtney, Naomi Watts
Plot: When Beatrice 'Tris' Prior found out she was Divergent, it changed
everything. Now the factions and their chosen ideologies are growing
closer to war - and the choices made will have far-reaching consequences.
Loyalties and relationships will be tested and if Tris chooses to embrace
her Divergence she may gain an identity - but lose far more than she could
imagine.

325. Push

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Paul McGuigan
Actors: Camilla Belle, Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans, Djimon Hounsou, Cliff Curtis, Maggie Siff
Plot: A small group of teens with extraordinary abilities, including telepathy and clairvoyance, band together to bring down a government agency who will round them up and use their powers to create an unstoppable army.

326. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Eugène Lourié
Actors: Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Lee Van Cleef, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Steve Brodie
Plot: A series of atomic tests in the Arctic awakens a none-too-happy dinosaur who threatens the North Atlantic, including New York.

327. The Ice Pirates

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Stewart Raffill
Actors: Robert Urich, Michael D. Roberts, Mary Crosby, Anjelica Huston, Ron Perlman, John Matuszak
Plot: In the future water is the most valuable thing in all the galaxies. A
group of thieves travel from planet to planet stealing ice to sell on the
black market.

328. Frankenstein: The True Story

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jack Smight
Actors: James Mason, Leonard Whiting, David McCallum, Jane Seymour, Michael Sarrazin, Agnes Moorehead

329. Mighty Peking Man ( Xing xing wang )

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Meng Hua Ho
Actors: Evelyne Kraft, Danny Lee, Feng Ku, Wei Tu Lin, Norman Chu, Hang-Sheng Wu

330. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Irwin Allen
Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Peter Lorre, Robert Sterling, Michael Ansara
Plot: Admiral Nelson takes the world's most advanced submarine on a trip under the North Pole. When the Van Allen radiation belt catches fire, he hijacks the sub, with its on-board nuclear missile, in order to save the world from burning up.

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