81. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Conner, William Hurt, Sam Robards, Ken Leung
Plot: A future in which the human race has created mechas for work and
entertainment. Then David is created, a mecha boy designed to feel real
emotion. When his adoptive "parents" leave him alone, he begins a quest
to find his humanity.
82. They Live
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George 'Buck' Flower, Peter Jason, Sy Richardson
Plot: An unemployed construction worker heads to L.A. for work. When he puts on a pair of innocuous sunglasses, he finds out the world is not what it seems.
83. The War of the Worlds
Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Byron Haskin
Actors: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio, Lewis Martin
Plot: A meteor hits in a small town outside of Los Angeles California. A scientist investigates only to discover the beginning of a deadly alien invasion.
84. The Time Machine
Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Pal
Actors: Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Alan Young, Tom Helmore, Sebastian Cabot, Doris Lloyd
Plot: Based on HG wells novel of time travel - a man travels to the future where he find a complete different world and wants to at first come back, but then realizes he may have to stay.
85. Cloud Atlas
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Actors: Tom Hanks, Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant
Plot: Individual actions ripple across time - past, present and future - helping one man turn from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness inspires revolution far into the future.
86. The Incredible Shrinking Man
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jack Arnold
Actors: Grant Williams, April Kent, Randy Stuart, Paul Langton, William Schallert
Plot: A man and his significant other are on a boating adventure when he experiences a strange mist. After a short time he begins to get smaller in size and goes through struggles of everyday life.
87. Starship Troopers
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Actors: Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Patrick Muldoon, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris
Plot: Intergalactic bugs aim to destroy the human race in this futuristic sci-fi, action packed film.
88. Snowpiercer
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Actors: Chris Evans, Kang-ho Song, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Ah-sung Ko, Ed Harris
Plot: The near future: a second ice age has wiped out most of humanity. The
survivors travel by train through the cold, lonely world - but even here,
at humanities end, class division rears its ugly head - and those as the
back of the train are ready to revolt.
89. WarGames
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Badham
Actors: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Barry Corbin, Juanin Clay
Plot: A teenage boy hacks into a government computer in search for some games. The game he chooses to play is not just a simulation.
90. Soylent Green
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Brock Peters, Chuck Connors, Edward G Robinson
Plot: In the year 2022 a police detective in NYC is hunted down for murder when
he uncovers a secret cover-up by the government.
