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.

301. The Signal

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: William Eubank
Actors: Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke, Laurence Fishburne, Beau Knapp, Lin Shaye, Robert Longstreet
Plot: A trio of friends, MIT educated hackers, follow a fellow hacker, Nomad, to the Nevada desert. Once they finally track him down, he delivers a cryptic message before all three fall unconscious. Waking up captive in a secure facility, they will find things go much deeper than they could possibly imagine.

302. 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.

303. 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.

304. The Time Machine

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Simon Wells
Actors: Guy Pearce, Sienna Guillory, Orlando Jones, Mark Addy, Samantha Mumba, Jeremy Irons
Plot: Based on the H.G. well's novel of the same name: An inventor creates a
time machine that can travel thousands of years into the future. What he
finds there is nothing like he could have ever imagined.

305. The Devil Doll

Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tod Browning
Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Rafaela Ottiano, Robert Greig, Lucy Beaumont

306. Waterworld

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Actors: Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dennis Hopper, Tina Majorino, Michael Jeter, Zitto Kazann
Plot: After the ice caps have melted a man has adapted to the world around him where Dirt is traded for food, water is scarce, and there is talk of land to live on.

307. 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.

308. Terminator: Dark Fate

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tim Miller
Actors: Linda Hamilton, Mackenzie Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Luna, Natalia Reyes, Brett Azar
Plot: Set thirty years after the events of Terminator 2, Sarah Connor teams up with a T-800 and new female cyborg in order to protect a young woman from a new, liquid terminator who can copy himself - once again hoping to secure the future against the threat of Skynet.

309. 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.

310. 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.

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