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.

361. The Purge

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James DeMonaco
Actors: Lena Headey, Ethan Hawke, Max Burkholder, Rhys Wakefield, Adelaide Kane, Tony Oller
Plot: In order to combat the overcrowded prison systems, the government begins
to implement 12-hour blocks where illegal activity is allowed. The film
follows a family during one of these periods as they must protect
themselves from a home invasion.

362. The Manhattan Project

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Marshall Brickman
Actors: John Lithgow, John Mahoney, Christopher Collet, Cynthia Nixon, JD Cullum, Geoffrey Nauffts
Plot: A brilliant teen discovers his mother's new scientist boyfriend is secretly refining plutonium. In order to discredit him he steals his own batch to make a nuclear bomb and enter it in a science fair. But when the bomb turns itself on and begins to count down, what started as a good plan turns into a matter of life and death.

363. High-Rise

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ben Wheatley
Actors: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, James Purefoy
Plot: Follows the lives of the residents of tower block as things spin out of control.

364. RoboCop

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: José Padilha
Actors: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish, Michael Keaton, Jackie Earle Haley
Plot: In the year 2028 OmniCorp has made billions in robot drone technology and is now looking to increase profits by deploying this technology on the home front. They see the perfect opportunity when officer Alex Murphy - husband and good cop - is critically injured in the line of duty. Merging man and machine, the first RoboCop is introduced - but in trying to control the robot, they forget about the man inside - a man still seeking justice.

365. Maneater of Hydra ( isla de la muerte, La )

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mel Welles
Actors: Cameron Mitchell, George Martin, Elisa Montés, Rolf von Nauckhoff, Matilde Muñoz Sampedro, Kai Fischer

366. Gamera vs. Zigra ( Gamera tai Shinkai kaijû Jigura )

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Noriaki Yuasa
Actors: Kôji Fujiyama, Reiko Kasahara, Isamu Saeki, Yasushi Sakagami, Eiko Yanami, Mikiko Tsubouchi

367. Thermae Romae ( Terumae romae )

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hideki Takeuchi
Actors: Hiroshi Abe, Aya Ueto, Kazuki Kitamura, Masachika Ichimura, Kai Shishido, Riki Takeuchi
Plot: An ancient Roman architect is too serious for his own good, and finds himself out of a job. Taking refuge in a local bathhouse - an anomaly suddenly finds himself as part of modern-day Japan. Astounded by the culture of the bathouses of Japan, he returns to his own time and commands much respect for his inventive new outlook - while he may just find love in Japan.

368. The Assessment

Year of Release: 2025
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Fleur Fortune
Actors: Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Olsen, Himesh Patel, Indira Varma, Charlotte Ritchie, Minnie Driver

369. This Island Earth

Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Actors: Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Lance Fuller, Russell Johnson, Douglas Spencer

370. 10th Victim, The ( decima vittima, La )

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elio Petri
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, Salvo Randone, Massimo Serato, Milo Quesada

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