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.

51. I Am Legend

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Francis Lawrence
Actors: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Paradox Pollack, Salli Richardson, Sterling Wolfe, Charlie Tahan
Plot: Due to a terrible virus, a scientist believes he is the last human on earth. After three years of trying to survive from the infected, he seeks hope.

52. Star Trek Into Darkness

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: J.J. Abrams
Actors: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Peter Weller
Plot: Captain Kirk and the Enterprise are called back home after a member from their own ranks becomes an unstoppable one-man army, looking to not only unleash terror across Earth, but the entire Federation. Tracking him to a war-torn world, Kirk has a personal score to settle and has to rely on the only family he has left: his crew.

53. Captain America: Civil War

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Actors: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Olsen, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner
Plot: With the world reeling from the incidents in Sakovia, a new accord is introduced to bring the heroes in line. But for Captain America, who is trying to protect his friend Bucky (aka The Winter Solider) it goes against all he stands for and soon creates a rift in The Avengers - one that will lead to a battle between the two sides.

54. Gravity

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Actors: George Clooney, Sandra Bullock, Basher Savage, Eric Michels, Paul Sharma
Plot: Two astronauts attempt to return to Earth after a collision with space debris leaves them stranded in space.

55. Star Trek: First Contact

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Actors: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorn, James Cromwell, Gates McFadden
Plot: Picard and company follow the Borg back in time to stop them from assimilating Earth before the Earth's first contact with aliens.

56. The Fly

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Leslie Carlson, John Getz, Joy Boushel, George Chuvalo
Plot: A scientist who hates riding in cars develops a way to transport from one area to another with out traveling but his experiment goes wrong as he some how turns into a giant fly.

57. The Hunger Games

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Gary Ross
Actors: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Stanley Tucci
Plot: Based on the best-selling novel by Suzanne Collins - in a dystopic future where the United States, now called Panem, is divided into 12 districts, each year the Capital holds the Hunger Games. Two young tributes from each district must fight to the death and viewing is mandatory. When Katniss Everdeen takes her sisters place as a tribute, it will catapult her and fellow tribute Peeta Mellark into a dark, dangerous world where they will have to use every advantage in order to survive.

58. Sunshine

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Danny Boyle
Actors: Rose Byrne, Cliff Curtis, Troy Garity, Chris Evans, Cillian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh
Plot: As the sun begins to die, a team of astronauts are sent on a spaceship to
try and revive it to save the future of mankind.

59. Dune

Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Actors: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Momoa, Josh Brolin, Charlotte Rampling, Javier Bardem
Plot: Based on Frank Herbert's ground-breaking novel, the film follows the incredible journey of Paul Atreides, a noble's son who holds within himself a great destiny - one that revolves around the most dangerous planet in the galaxy, the desert world of Arrakis and the most valuable commodity it holds: the Spice, Melange.

60. Looper

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rian Johnson
Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, Bruce Willis, Jeff Daniels, Paul Dano, Piper Perabo
Plot: A man who works as a "looper" - a hitman sent targets from the mob in the future - realizes his latest hit is his future self.

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