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.

131. THX 1138

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Lucas
Actors: Robert Duvall, Maggie McOmie, Donald Pleasence, John Pearce, Sid Haig, Ian Wolfe
Plot: A 1984ish look at society several centuries into the future with a couple rebelling against the current political minds when they are not supposed to know better.

132. The Matrix Revolutions

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Harold Perrineau, Jada Pinkett-Smith
Plot: Neo is the key to saving both The Matrix and the real world as the mechanical army bears down on Zion and Agent Smith puts his final plans in motion.

133. Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Brian Henson
Actors: Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Anthony Simcoe, Gigi Edgley, Wayne Pygram, Raelee Hill
Plot: After being crystallized in a case of mistaken identity, John Crichton and his pregnant fiance Aeryn Sun are reassembled by their comrades D'Argo, Chiana, Noranti, and Rygel with a little help from so...( read more )me new allies. They believe that they are all free to live their lives in peace away from the war between the universe's dominant races, the Peacekeepers and the Scarrans, but soon find out that the wormhole knowledge that Crichton holds in his mind is the key to victory for either side, and are back on the run. Matters are made worse when Crichton and Aeryn's unborn child is transfered from Aeryn's body into Rygel's in a freak turn of events and they have to find a way reverse things back to their correct state. Meanwhile, they're forced to align themselves with their mortal enemies, Scorpius and Sikozu, in order to survive while trying to locate a race of people who have the power to spread peace before the war destroys all living things in the universe.

134. Time After Time

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Actors: Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen, Charles Cioffi, Kent Williams, Patti D'Arbanville
Plot: H. G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper from the past to the future via a time machine.

135. Deja Vu

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tony Scott
Actors: Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer, Paula Patton, James Caviezel, Elden Henson, Bruce Greenwood
Plot: A ferry in New Orleans is destroyed in a terrorist attack, killing over 500 people. ATF agent Doug Carlin arrives on scene and begins to piece together what happened. Impressed by his method, he's invited to join a FBI surveillance team who has new technology allowing them to look four days back in time. When a link between a local murdered woman and the terrorist is discovered, Carlin becomes convinced changing the past is the only way to save the future.

136. Terminator Salvation

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: McG
Actors: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Common, Bryce Dallas Howard, Moon Bloodgood
Plot: The future is now: Skynet has devastated the world with a nuclear holocaust and now a band of humans, led by John Connor, must survive against a merciless army of machines bent on wiping out the last remnants of mankind.

137. The Day After

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Actors: Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum, John Lithgow, Amy Madigan
Plot: This film chronicles the effects of nuclear devastation on the citizens of
Lawrence, Kansas.

138. Godzilla

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Gareth Edwards
Actors: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen, Sally Hawkins, David Strathairn, Ken Watanabe
Plot: Atomic bomb testing has brought about the creation of Godzilla - a gigantic beast looking to wreak havoc on mankind - and he may not be alone...

139. The Running Man

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Jim Brown, Jesse Ventura, Erland van Lidth
Plot: A wrongfully-accused man breaks out of a max-prison facility only to be caught again and forced to participate in the hit reality TV show "The Running Man" where he will be forced to fight or flee from sadistic killers.

140. Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone ( Evangerion shin gekijôban: Jo )

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Hideaki Anno
Actors: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Kotono Mitsuishi, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Fumihiko Tachiki, Akira Ishida
Plot: The first in a line of four films that will re-imagine the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series. You Are (Not) Alone cover approximately episode 1 - 6 dealing with Shinji Ikari coming to terms with being an EVA pilot and battling Angels, dealing with his estranged father Gendo, his new roommate Lt. Colonel Misato Katsuragi and the cool, distant pilot Rei Ayanami.

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