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Movies: Best "science fiction" Movies

Science fiction (or sci-fi or SF) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, mutants, interstellar travel, time travel, or other technologies. Science fiction films have often been used to focus on political or social issues, and to explore philosophical issues like the human condition. The genre has existed since the early years of silent cinema, when Georges Melies' A Trip to the Moon (1902) employed trick photography effects. The next major example (first in feature-length in the genre) was the film Metropolis (1927). From the 1930s to the 1950s, the genre consisted mainly of low-budget B movies. After Stanley Kubrick's landmark 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the science fiction film genre was taken more seriously. In the late 1970s, big-budget science fiction films filled with special effects became popular with audiences after the success of Star Wars (1977) and paved the way for the blockbuster hits of subsequent decades. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identifies science fiction films as one of eleven super-genres in his screenwriters’ taxonomy, stating that all feature-length narrative films can be cl... ()

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Project Gemini(2022)

2.9/5 (with 172 votes)

After depleting Earth's resources for centuries, humankind's survival requires an exodus to outer space. An international expedition is quickly formed to find a suitable new planet, but when plans go awry, the crew is suddenly stranded without power on a strange planet, where something unimaginable lies in wait.

Last Sentinel(2023)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 57min | Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama
2.8/5 (with 46 votes)

Set in the future on a war-ravaged Earth, four exhausted soldiers man Sentinel - a remote military base in a vast ocean that separates two warring continents. While their tour of duty ended three months ago, the relief crew still hasn't arrived and as the empty weeks turn to months, paranoia descends, testing relationships to breaking point...

Battle Royale(2000)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 54min | Drama, Thriller, Action
3.6/5 (with 1,481 votes)

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

Sword Art Online: Extra Edition(2013)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 41min | Animation, Fantasy, Adventure
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Kirito and some of his new friends look back at the events of season one. Kirito recalls his defining moments while Suguha learns to swim with the help of Asuna and other girls who fought alongside Kirito.

Boonie Bears: Back to Earth(2022)

3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

When an unknown object from space lands on Earth, Bramble gains new abilities and an extraterrestrial sidekick.

Directed by Huida Lin

Brian and Charles(2022)

3.3/5 (with 34 votes)

An endearing outlier, Brian lives alone in a Welsh valley, inventing oddball contraptions that seldom work. After finding a discarded mannequin head, Brian gets an idea. Three days, a washing machine, and sundry spare parts later, he’s invented Charles, an artificially intelligent robot who learns English from a dictionary and proves a charming, cheeky companion. Before long, however, Charles also develops autonomy. Intrigued by the wider world — or whatever lies beyond the cottage where Brian has hidden him away — Charles craves adventure.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman(2023)

4.0/5 (with 6 votes)

A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrated wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.

Directed by Pierre Földes

2025: The World Enslaved by a Virus(2021)

1.0/5 (with 9 votes)

In a post-apocalyptic world brought on by the Coronavirus, communism runs rampant, meetings are forbidden and Christianity is illegal. A band of young believers launch an underground revolution to reunite Christians and regain freedom from their oppressive superiors.

Darkside Blues(1994)

2.5/5 (with 7 votes)

The Persona Century Corporation has purchased nearly every parcel of land on earth. Dissension is not tolerated within the corporation's borders and those who oppose Persona are dealt with swiftly. Of those few places not yet under Persona's control is the free town of Kabuki-cho, also known as "The Dark Side of Tokyo". Within the town, under the leadership of a woman named Mai, is a small resistance group called Messiah. Into this world steps a man who takes the sobriquet of Kabuki-cho: Darkside. Sealed up in another dimension eighteen years ago by Persona Century, Darkside now returns to aid Messiah using his unique mystic power of renewal.

Journey to the West(2023)

3.8/5 (with 17 votes)

One UFO sighting after another proves false. He has to beg for money to keep his space-exploration magazine afloat. There are no messages in the TV static. Nevertheless, aging Tang Zhijun continues to believe in alien life forms and heads to mountainous southwest China to investigate after watching a mysterious online video. He is accompanied by a drunk, a girl with insomnia, and a cynical staffer. When they meet a young poet in a village who says he received instructions from aliens, they decide to follow him and embark on a journey. This Journey to the West is not a story about the Monkey King, but an ordinary man's continuous pursuit of UFOs and the human condition of chasing faded love.

Planzet(2010)

2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

In 2047, an unknown, alien lifeform descends upon the Earth, destroying all the major cities in one fell swoop. The survivors unite and build a Diffusor to stop the Februus, the invaders the military would later codename the FOS, and a temporary peace is achieved. Jump forward to 2053, the present. A last, desperate counterattack is being mounted against the enemy. Hiroshi Akishima, soldier in the Planetary Defense Forces Alliance, would like nothing better than a shot at the aliens responsible for his father's death six years ago. However, the new offensive requires the Diffusor to be dropped, leaving the entire planet terribly vulnerable once more. Will humanity regain the stars or lose everything in the final, ultimate gamble?

Directed by Jun Awazu

Andromina: The Pleasure Planet(1999)

2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Three adventurous space pilots voyage to the all-female planet Andromina, looking forward to the most famous pleasure planet in the galaxy. When they arrive they find that all the women have disappeared, and it's up to them to figure out where the fun has gone.

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1984(2023)

In a bleak and oppressive totalitarian society ruled by Big Brother, personal freedoms are nonexistent and surveillance is constant. Art is mocked and destroyed, and imagination is considered a serious illness. In this grim world, a brilliant mathematician engages in a forbidden romance with a colleague and learns about a secret resistance. He is faced with a choice - to join or betray it.

Directed by Diana Ringo - With Diana Ringo

Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series(2009)

3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

In the Year 2016, Resistance fighter Blair Williams embarks on a deadly mission to search for a threat that is weakening humanity's defense against the self-aware artificial intelligence called Skynet and it's lethal Terminators.

Battalion(2018)

1h 32min | Science Fiction
1.7/5 (with 9 votes)

After a war against an enemy from another world breaks out in the South Pacific, a group of freshly recruited U.S. Marines are sent to the front lines.

Menno's Mind(1997)

3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Menno is a computer programmer at The Resort, an enormous funhouse where people can live out their fantasies in virtual reality. Feeding their personal data into a software program called The System, head of security Felix Medina is setting up a big voting fraud, in order to win the presidential elections. His only concern is a group of terrorists, rebelling against his plans. As an ex-colleague of their leader, Menno is forced to help them.

Island Escape(2023)

2.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Trapped on an island, a team of mercenaries on a rescue mission begin to question everything around them as they encounter threatening creatures living in the shadows.

Twilight of the Cockroaches(1987)

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on. In the midst of these high living times, Naomi and Ichiro plan to get married and start a family. But when a hard-bitten stranger roach named Hans appears with news of war with the humans across the lawn, it foretells disruption-not only of Naomi and Ichiro's relationship, but of the hive's entire way of life.

Directed by Hiroaki Yoshida

Twisted Justice(1990)

1h 30min | Action, Drama, Crime
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

In the Los Angeles of the future, police are forbidden to carry weapons and must use stun guns instead. A maverick detective ignores those restrictions in his pursuit of "The Bullseye Murderer," a psychotic rapist who takes a new drug called "Umbra" that gives him superhuman strength and intelligence.

Doctor Who Am I(2022)

1h 20min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In 1996, a Doctor Who TV movie was envisioned to lead the franchise into an exciting new future with a fresh direction but was met only by an outcry from disapproving fans. Now, follow the film’s screenwriter, Matthew Jacobs, as he is pulled back into the world of the Doctor Who fandom, where he unexpectedly finds himself a kindred part of this close-knit, yet vast, family of fans.

Directed by Matthew Jacobs

Digital Devil Story - Megami Tensei(1987)

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Handsome high school student Akemi is a computer genius. One day a new girl, Yumiko, transfers to his class from another school. She quickly falls in love with Akemi but, absorbed in his computer, he pays her no attention at all. Akemi accidentally summons demons who wreak chaos on his enemies and friends.

Directed by Mizuho Nishikubo

In Space with Markiplier: Part 2(2022)

4.8/5 (with 1 vote)

The Captain continues his journey through the many wormholes. Running into many of the paths laid out before him. Where will he end up?

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin(2018)

1h 6min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Produced with Le Guin’s participation over the course of a decade, Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin is a journey through the writer’s career and her world’s, both real and fantastic. Viewers will join the writer on an intimate journey of self-discovery as she comes into her own as a major feminist author, opening new doors for the imagination and inspiring generations of women and other marginalized writers along the way. The film features stunning animation and reflections by literary luminaries including Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Michael Chabon, and more.

The Spirit of '76(1990)

2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Future Americans decide to time travel to 1776 to ask the founding fathers for the solutions to their problems. A glitch in the time machine changes their destination to 1976. Still believing themselves to be in 1776, the time travellers attempt to study this "ideal" civilization. 70's jokes, props and stars abound.

Directed by Lucas Reiner - With David Cassidy, Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner, Olivia d'Abo, Geoff Hoyle, Steven Shane McDonald, ...

Beyond the Resonator(2022)

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Butler and company not only drag back the titular monstrous inter-dimensional death machine, but also re-introduce the character of Herbert West -- the maniacal med student whose green juice brings the dead back to life!

Through The Stars(2023)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Under the cover of darkness, a teenage girl attempts to escape her tormented reality, determined to find her missing father with the help of her best friend and a mysterious device.

ZAPPER!(2023)

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

In a surreal universe where bananas fire laser beams and soup cans are used as grenades, a wacky cast of gangsters are thrown into a deadly game to battle it out over a mystical longboard in this trippy take on the Tarantino crime genre.

The Garden's Keeper(2015)

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Creep Box(2022)

3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

A scientist uses groundbreaking technology to communicate with the deceased but once he is through the looking glass, there is no turning back.

Bigfoot vs Krampus(2021)

1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

From the depths of Hell, the lord of darkness summons the demon Christmas spirit Krampus to wreak havoc on the living and only BIGFOOT can stop him.

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