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.

261. Sphere

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Barry Levinson
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote, Liev Schreiber, Queen Latifah
Plot: In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, an alien spacecraft is discovered by the U.S. Navy. A team made up of a marine biologist(Sharon Stone), a mathematician(Samuel L. Jackson), an astrophysicist(Liev Schreiber), a psychologist(Dustin Hoffman) and a member of the U.S. Navy is tasked with investigating the spaceship. Nothing has prepared them for what will soon be discovered.

262. Ad Astra

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Sport
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Gray
Actors: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Liv Tyler, Donald Sutherland, Ruth Negga, John Ortiz
Plot: Astronaut Roy McBride is on a mission to rescue his father, who has gone missing on the edge of our solar system. But he will find much more - secrets that will challenge everything we know about human nature, as well as our place in the cosmos.

263. Fire in the Sky

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Robert Lieberman
Actors: D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer, Peter Berg, James Garner, Henry Thomas
Plot: A group of men return from clearing brush in the woods with a story that one of them was abducted by aliens. Soon, they are accused of murdering the missing man, but when he reappears, a startling story emerges.

264. Capricorn One

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Hyams
Actors: Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Sam Waterston, Karen Black, Telly Savalas, O.J. Simpson
Plot: 3 astronauts must survive the elements while attempting to reach their families. They are being pursued by a rogue wing of NASA.

265. Battle: Los Angeles

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Actors: Aaron Eckhart, Ramon Rodriguez, Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Peña, Bridget Moynahan, Ne-Yo
Plot: A hardened veteran must lead a green platoon of recruits against an alien invasion in Los Angeles. It soon becomes clear that their group may be the last, best defense against the invaders.

266. The Curse of Frankenstein

Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Terence Fisher
Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Melvyn Hayes, Valerie Gaunt

267. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Kerry Conran
Actors: Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Gambon, Angelina Jolie, Bai Ling
Plot: As scientists around the world disappear, a pilot and a reporter, who happen to meet by coincidence take on the adventure to discovering the mystery of giant robots and disappearing scientists.

268. Death Race 3: Inferno

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roel Reiné
Actors: Tanit Phoenix, Danny Trejo, Luke Goss, Ving Rhames, Dougray Scott, Fred Koehler
Plot: A group of prisoners have to win one more car race to secure their freedom.

269. The Man with Two Brains

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Carl Reiner
Actors: Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, James Cromwell, David Warner, Paul Benedict, Richard Brestoff
Plot: A brain surgeon finds himself in a loveless marriage and falls instead for a talking brain in a jar.

270. Screamers

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Christian Duguay
Actors: Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, Jennifer Rubin, Andrew Lauer, Charles Edwin Powell, Ron White
Plot: On a distant mining colony plagued by war, a new, perfect machine has been developed. Screamers were designed for one purpose: to eliminate the enemy, but years of evolution without human interruption has corrupted them into eliminating all life period.

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