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1 day ago · Sci-fi spreads across subgenres, all represented here: the monster movie ( Cloverfield ), space opera ( Serenity ), cyberpunk ( Ghost in the Shell ), and post-apocalyptic ( Mad Max: Fury Road) and more. Or it can fuse onto traditional genres like drama ( Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ), comedy ( Repo Man, Idiocracy ), and ...
- Galaxy Quest
- Wall-E
- Ex Machina
- Inception
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Robocop
- Back to The Future
- Close encounters of The Third Kind
- The Day The Earth Stood Still
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Where to Watch:Prime Video, Fubo, Paramount+ Hailed as the best "non-Star Trek" Star Trek movie, Galaxy Questis a hilarious love letter to both sci-fi fandom and iconic performers in sci-fi properties perhaps held back in their careers because of their association with said sci-fi. Starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, and more as the...
Where to Watch:Disney+ Finding Nemo's Andrew Stanton went from deep sea to deep space for this delightfully warped trek, seen through the eyes of a trash-bot tasked with cleaning up a centuries-later Earth smothered in garbage. Laced with satirical social commentary regarding the consequences of excess and pollution, WALL-E is a love story among th...
Where to Watch: Max Alex Garland's intimate, close-quarters sci-fi suspense piece Ex Machina centers on a lowly programmer (Domhnall Gleeson) who gets invited to the house of his CEO (Oscar Isaac) to administer the Turing test to the CEO's latest creation -- a humanoid robot (Alicia Vikander). It's an A.I. taledesigned to set you on edge and catch ...
Where to Watch: Rentable on most platforms Christopher Nolan movieswon the hearts and minds of fanboys with Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, but he truly solidified his status as a filmmaker at the top of his game with 2010's Inception. A mind-bending sci-fi stunner that proved Hollywood blockbusters could still be smart while also dazzling us on...
Where to Watch: Paramount+, Showtime apps "In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you." Our most recent entry on this list is an honest-to-goodness Best Picture winner. In fact, the multiversal madness of A24's Everything Everywhere All at Once took home seven Academy Awards, which is one of the most significan...
Where to Watch: Prime Video, Roku Channel (w/ ads), Tubi (w/ ads) "Your move... creep." In the back half of the '80s, director Paul Verhoeven not only uncorked an action classic, complete with over the top gore and an unforgettable score, but also a wry sci-fi satire of corperate grime and greed. Envisioning a bleak, practically lawless future Detr...
Where to Watch: DirecTV, Turner apps Time travel in movies wasn't uncommon before 1985's Back to the Future, but no one thought to cram a flux capacitor in the back of a DeLorean until Marty McFly and Doc Brown stepped onto the scene. This family(ish)-friendly sci-fi classic sees Michael J. Fox's Marty accidentally drive himself back to 1955. Befor...
Where to Watch: Rentable on most platforms. "This means something." Yes, yes it does, Richard Dreyfuss. His character's carving Devil's Tower a.k.a. UFO-topia and then later visiting the site where the titular close encounter occurs turns this movie into one of the few entries on this list about aliens that is more concerned with the wonder and pri...
Where to Watch: Prime Video, Fubo Forget the bland 2008 remake starring Keanu Reeves, the original 1951 version of The Day the Earth Stood Stillis the one that deserves accolades in the annals of sci-fi greatness. After all, it's the movie that inserted the phrase "Klaatu barada nikto" into the pop-culture lexicon! The Day the Earth Stood Still was...
Where to Watch: Netflix Terminator 2 is a solid example of a sequel coming along and just destroying the original in every regard. In this follow-up to the original, Skynet sends back an advanced, liquid metal-based Terminator to destroy John Connor once and for all. Connor's only hope is the T-800 -- a reprogrammed version of the same machine that...
Mar 31, 2022 · Brazil is also the only one of our best sci-fi movies to feature Robert De Niro as a vigilante, freedom-fighting plumber. 12. Arrival (2016) (Image credit: Paramount/Sony) Science fiction has ...
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- 'Back to the Future' (1985) Director: Robert Zemeckis. Few sci-fi movies are as popular, entertaining, and beloved as the first Back to the Future. The sequels are good in their own way, but the original is far and away the best, and has earned its reputation as one of the best time-travel movies of all time, and there's no doubt about it: Back to the Future is absolutely one of the best movies Robert Zemeckis has directed during his long career.
- 'A Clockwork Orange' (1971) Director: Stanley Kubrick. An uncomfortable and horrifying movie – despite not belonging to the horror genre – A Clockwork Orange is one of the darkest and most disturbing sci-fi movies of all time.
- 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' (2022) Directors: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert. Making history for being the first sci-fi movie to win Best Picture at the Oscars, Everything Everywhere All at Once is an ambitious and thrilling movie.
- 'WALL-E' (2008) Director: Andrew Stanton. The sci-fi genre hadn't properly been explored by Pixar before WALL-E, and it's similarly interesting to notice how Disney didn't tackle it particularly often either (it's far more common to see an animated Disney film in the fantasy genre).
1 day ago · Dark Angel (2000)65%. Synopsis: A genetically enhanced superhuman prototype, Max, who, as a child, escaped from a covert government military facility along with 11... [More] "Stranger Things," "Star Trek," "Battlestar Galactica," "The Expanse," and "Westworld" are among the shows ranked on our list of TV's best sci-fi series.
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey. After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000. 2. The Terminator. A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the ...
Mar 25, 2023 · 28 The X-Files (1993 - 2018) 74%. Stream On Hulu. One of the all-time best sci-fi shows, The X-Files follows a pair of FBI agents who specialize in investigating cases linked to supernatural events and paranormal activity. Iconic for its disconcerting theme music and creepy subject matter, the series is one of the longest-running science ...
