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1. Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005–2008)
TV-Y7-FV | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In a war-torn world of elemental powers, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.
Stars: Dee Bradley Baker, Zach Tyler Eisen, Mae Whitman, Jack De Sena
Votes: 374,932
2. Prometheus (I) (2012)
R | 124 min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron
Votes: 645,034 | Gross: $126.48M
3. Transformers (2007)
PG-13 | 144 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager.
Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson
Votes: 675,726 | Gross: $319.25M
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter
Votes: 720,668 | Gross: $56.95M
5. Vanilla Sky (2001)
R | 136 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
A self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover.
Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell
Votes: 286,032 | Gross: $100.61M
6. What Happened to Monday (2017)
TV-MA | 123 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
Director: Tommy Wirkola | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe, Marwan Kenzari
Votes: 134,747
7. Demolition Man (1993)
R | 115 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society.
Director: Marco Brambilla | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne
Votes: 193,681 | Gross: $58.06M
8. Forever Young (1992)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
During a cryogenics test, a pilot frozen in 1939 awakes in 1992 but time is running out, as his body starts to age rapidly.
Director: Steve Miner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood, Isabel Glasser
Votes: 50,141 | Gross: $55.96M
9. In Like Flint (1967)
Unrated | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Super-spy Flint takes on a cabal of women plotting to rule the world.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale, Andrew Duggan
Votes: 6,102 | Gross: $11.00M
10. Open Your Eyes (1997)
R | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera, Fele Martínez
Votes: 73,327 | Gross: $0.37M
11. Dark Star (1974)
G | 83 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
In the far reaches of space, a small crew, 20 years into their solitary mission, find things beginning to go hilariously wrong.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Dan O'Bannon, Dre Pahich, Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm
Votes: 27,306
12. Space Truckers (1996)
PG-13 | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A space trucker and his cute fiancee are on their way from a space station to Earth with an unknown cargo. When space pirates hijack them, 5000 disintegrator robots are found in the cargo.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Tim Loane, Ian Beattie, Olwen Fouéré, Shane Rimmer
Votes: 8,718
13. Elizabeth Harvest (2018)
R | 108 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An extremely wealthy, and brilliant scientist, has the nasty habit of brutally killing his wife, cloning her, marring her again, and then repeating the process.
Director: Sebastian Gutierrez | Stars: Abbey Lee, Ciarán Hinds, Carla Gugino, Matthew Beard
Votes: 9,653
14. Chiller (1985 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Corporate exec Miles Creighton dies, and is cryogenically frozen in the hopes that he can be revived. 10 years later, the procedure is a success, and Miles returns--without his soul.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Michael Beck, Beatrice Straight, Laura Johnson, Dick O'Neill
Votes: 1,594
15. Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994)
R | 91 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Mike and Reggie continue to hunt the mysterious Tall Man, discovering along the way that the invasion has already begun.
Director: Don Coscarelli | Stars: Reggie Bannister, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Gloria Lynne Henry
Votes: 10,642
16. Space Station 76 (2014)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
A 1970s version of the future, where personalities and asteroids collide.
Director: Jack Plotnick | Stars: Patrick Wilson, Liv Tyler, Marisa Coughlan, Matt Bomer
Votes: 8,613
17. Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007 Video)
Not Rated | 88 min | Animation, Comedy, Musical
Planet Express sees a hostile takeover and Bender falls into the hands of criminals where he is used to fulfill their schemes.
Director: Dwayne Carey-Hill | Stars: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille
Votes: 35,547
18. Late for Dinner (1991)
PG | 99 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Two young men evading the police for a crime they didn't commit are cryogenically frozen in the early 1960s. The next thing they know is that they are in a strange new world (thirty years on).
Director: W.D. Richter | Stars: Peter Berg, Brian Wimmer, Marcia Gay Harden, Cassy Friel
Votes: 1,901 | Gross: $8.91M
19. Host (1998 TV Movie)
180 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
If you were a brilliant young scientist given only months to live, what choices would you make? To have faith that you were taken early for a reason and go quietly, or to use cryogenics to ... See full summary »
Director: Mick Garris | Stars: Peter Gallagher, Mimi Rogers, Jake Lloyd, Andy Comeau
Votes: 295
20. Arianna: Sexy People (the FIAT Song) (2013 Music Video)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Music
The official music video page for "Sexy People" by Arianna.
Stars: Arianna Bergamaschi, Dwayne Bowe, Dez Bryant, Adrienne Houghton
Votes: 28
21. Galaxy of Horrors (2017)
105 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Trapped in a damaged cryogenic pod, a man is forced to watch a series of horrific science-fiction tales while his life support systems run out. Featuring eight intense stories of the ... See full summary »
Directors: Dennis Cabella, Javier Chillon, Todd Cobery, Andrew Desmond, Benni Diez, Marcello Ercole, Richard Karpala, Justin McConnell, Antonio Padovan, Fabio Prati, Ethan Shaftel, Marinko Spahic | Stars: Gabriele Angieri, Bela B., Olli Banjo, Adam Buller
Votes: 879
22. Operazione Goldman (1966)
Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
A U.S. agent goes undercover as a rich playboy to stop a madman from destroying a NASA moon project.
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Anthony Eisley, Wandisa Guida, Diana Lorys, Luisa Rivelli
Votes: 351
23. Final (2001)
R | 111 min | Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
When Bill (Denis Leary) wakes up in the psychiatric wing at Sumer Hospital, he has trouble distinguishing his dreams from reality.
Director: Campbell Scott | Stars: Denis Leary, Hope Davis, J.C. MacKenzie, Jim Gaffigan
Votes: 1,384 | Gross: $0.01M
24. Hyperlight (2018)
17 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
Two elite astronauts wake up in the abyss of space before managing to return to their stranded ship, where they discover the reason behind their mission's catastrophic failure.
Director: Nguyen-Anh Nguyen | Stars: Jeananne Goossen, Peter Shinkoda, Caroline Dhavernas
Votes: 405
25. G.I. Joe: Sgt. Savage and His Screaming Eagles: Old Soldiers Never Die (1994 Video)
22 min | Animation, Short
In 1944, Master Sergeant Robert Steven Savage lead a squad of men into Berlin. He was betrayed by one of his fellow soldiers, Krieger, a double-agent for the Axis Powers. Krieger had ... See full summary »
Directors: Dorie Rich, Wally Burr, Bob Nesler | Stars: Kathleen Barr, Garry Chalk, Brent Chapman, Julian Christopher
Votes: 103
26. 2090 (1996)
91 min | Sci-Fi
Two men awaken from a long cryogenic sleep, to do battle in a future as primitive and violent as the remote past. California has become an arid island wasteland of subsistence farming, ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Scott | Stars: Steve Bagish, Warren Burton, Ken Kraft, Sonny Landham
Votes: 38
27. Begstvo mistera Mak-Kinli (1975)
162 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A science fiction fantasy about a guy who decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of the ... See full summary »
Director: Mikhail Shvejtser | Stars: Donatas Banionis, Zhanna Bolotova, Angelina Stepanova, Boris Babochkin
Votes: 220
28. Cosmodrama (2015)
112 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Seven astronauts wake up in a spaceship, not knowing where they come from nor where they are heading.
Director: Philippe Fernandez | Stars: Jackie Berroyer, Bernard Blancan, Emilia Derou-Bernal, Ortès Holz
Votes: 72
29. Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass (2011)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
John Glass, wakes up in a desolated barn from a long cryogenic slumber, to be informed that not only the planet has been devastated by a third world war, but reduced to little habitability ... See full summary »
Director: Pat Tremblay | Stars: Jamie Abrams, Paula Davis, Navin Pratap
Votes: 209
30. Ark (2020)
8 min | Short, Sci-Fi
Captain Mira Bernhard is finally home after a lengthy mission to the new planet, GAIA - humanity's last hope. But what's only been a 5-year trip for her, has been 45-year wait for her husband.
Director: Soma Helmi | Stars: Sheila Cutchlow, Patrick Gorman, Jeff Odachowski
Votes: 37
31. Successful Thawing of Mr. Moro (2021)
14 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
Milo Moro finds out that his ex-partner Adrian, who has been cryopreserved for the past 43 years, can be thawed and brought back to life. When the staff from ScandiCryonics arrives to pick ... See full summary »
Director: Jerry Carlsson | Stars: Richard Sseruwagi, Doreen Ndagire, Lisette T. Pagler, Margaretha Dalhamn
Votes: 44
32. Torche: Annihilation Affair (2015 Music Video)
5 min | Animation, Music, Sci-Fi
Unable to save the planet from themselves, mankind devised the ultimate A.I. to do it for them, and so finally paid the inevitable price for centuries of greed, violence, and catastrophic ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Mucci | Stars: Ian Mackay, Alena Savostikova
Votes: 31
33.
Adam Adamant Lives! (1966–1967)
Episode:
A Vintage Year for Scoundrels
(1966)
49 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
In 1902, Adam Adamant is lured into a trap by his arch nemesis 'The Face' and frozen in ice for eternity. That is until he is accidentally freed by workmen in 1966. Bewildered to find ... See full summary »
Directors: David Sullivan Proudfoot, William Slater | Stars: Gerald Harper, Juliet Harmer, Freda Jackson, Ivor Salter
Votes: 45
34.
Batman Beyond (1999–2001)
Episode:
Disappearing Inque
(1999)
Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
An enamored warder of the imprisoned Inque frees her and helps her in her quests for healing and revenge.
Director: Curt Geda | Stars: Will Friedle, Kevin Conroy, Shannon Kenny, William H. Macy
Votes: 603
35.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
The Ark in Space: Part One
(1975)
TV-Y | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The Doctor's attempt to give Harry a trip in the TARDIS sees the two of them and Sarah arriving onboard a space station in the far future, with some rather deadly security mechanisms.
Director: Rodney Bennett | Stars: Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Ian Marter, Gladys Spencer
Votes: 913
36.
Futurama (1999– )
Episode:
The Why of Fry
(2003)
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Fry learns his accidental freezing 1,004 years earlier wasn't an accident. He is given a choice that could prevent its happening, but at a cost.
Director: Wesley Archer | Stars: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille
Votes: 2,823
37.
Logan's Run (1977–1978)
Episode:
Crypt
(1977)
TV-G | 60 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
The runners find an underground room with six survivors of the nuclear holocaust cryogenically frozen. A series of earthquakes complicate efforts to rescue the frozen humans.
Director: Michael Caffey | Stars: Gregory Harrison, Heather Menzies-Urich, Donald Moffat, Randy Powell
Votes: 97
38.
Night Gallery (1969–1973)
Episode:
Cool Air/Camera Obscura/Quoth the Raven
(1971)
TV-PG | 59 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A Gothic love story about a woman and a man who lives in a refrigerated apartment. / Miserly banker Sharsted finds himself trapped after viewing his client's strange optical device. / Edgar Allan Poe can't get the first line down on paper.
Directors: John Badham, Jeff Corey, Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Marty Allen, Ross Martin, Barbara Rush, Rene Auberjonois
Votes: 409
39.
Northern Exposure (1990–1995)
Episode:
The Body in Question
(1991)
TV-PG | Comedy, Drama
While fishing, Chris finds the body of a man frozen in ice. Maurice looks upon this as a business opportunity as a battle begins over the body. Ed takes a job at Ruth Anne's store. Joel explores his Jewish faith.
Director: David Carson | Stars: Rob Morrow, Barry Corbin, Janine Turner, John Cullum
Votes: 298
40.
The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode:
The Heist
(1996)
TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
While expecting a shipment of missiles, the militia receive a sealed cargo and messenger refusing to reveal what the deadly cargo is. Shortly afterward, an alien life-form begins a series of chilling attacks.
Director: Brad Turner | Stars: Costas Mandylor, Colm Feore, Jasmine Guy, Barry Pepper
Votes: 297
41.
The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode:
The Refuge
(1996)
TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A man walking through a snow storm suddenly finds himself at a refuge. They tell him that the entire world is covered in ice. Just as he begins to fall in love with someone, the people's personalities suddenly change. What's happening?
Director: Ken Girotti | Stars: James Wilder, Jessica Steen, David McNally, Debbie Podowski
Votes: 453
42.
Space Academy (1977)
Episode:
Countdown
(1977)
22 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
The Cadets investigate a hulk adrift in space, debris from the Vegan War of 200 years earlier. They find and revive a cryogenically suspended soldier convinced the war is still underway and that the Cadets are enemy combatants.
Director: George Tyne | Stars: Jonathan Harris, Pamelyn Ferdin, Ric Carrott, Ty Henderson
Votes: 18
43.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Neutral Zone
(1988)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
While assigned to investigate missing outposts in the Neutral Zone, the Enterprise revives three cryogenically frozen people found aboard a wayward derelict Earth vessel.
Director: James L. Conway | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby
Votes: 3,881
44.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
The 37's
(1995)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Voyager crew discovers several people who were abducted during 1937, including Amelia Earhart, cryogenically frozen on a distant planet.
Director: James L. Conway | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Jennifer Lien
Votes: 2,348
45.
Torchwood (2006–2011)
Episode:
To the Last Man
(2008)
TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Every year since 1918, the team wakes Tommy from cryogenic sleep, because one day they will need his help. But they don't know which year, or for what. All indications are sealed in a box that will only open at the right moment.
Director: Andy Goddard | Stars: John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Burn Gorman, Naoko Mori
Votes: 1,138
46.
Better Off Ted (2009–2010)
Episode:
Pilot
(2009)
TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Ted Crisp is the head of Research & Development at Veridian Dynamics, a top-line corporation, striving to make it to the top. Ted has an uneasy friendship with his boss, Veronica Palmer - ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Fresco | Stars: Jay Harrington, Portia de Rossi, Andrea Anders, Jonathan Slavin
Votes: 419
47.
Life After People (2009–2010)
Episode:
The Bodies Left Behind
(2009)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi
Looks at the future of Boston and Houston after people disappear. It also looks at what will happen to the mummified and cryogenically frozen bodies that are left behind.
Director: James Grant Goldin | Stars: Timothy Watson, Robert Allison, John Anderson, Brian Burke-Gaffney
Votes: 75
48.
Veritasium (2010– )
Episode:
The Longest-Running Evolution Experiment
(2021)
17 min | Talk-Show
Every day Richard Lenski's team takes a sample from yesterday's Escherichia Coli culture and adds it to a fresh medium to grow for another day before a sample is taken from the new culture.... See full summary »
Director: Derek Muller | Stars: Derek Muller, Richard Lenski
Votes: 5
49.
Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode:
A Christmas Carol
(2010)
TV-PG | 62 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Festive edition of the time-travelling drama. The Doctor has one hour to save a crashing spaceship and a miser's soul - but what lurks in the fog?
Director: Toby Haynes | Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Michael Gambon
Votes: 8,512
50.
Weird or What? (2010–2012)
Episode:
Life After Death
(2011)
TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary
Weird or What looks at stories about life after death. It talks to a man who is convinced that he is the reincarnation of a Civil War general and looks at past life regression. It then ... See full summary »
Directors: Stephen Scott, Sean Turrell, Adrian Callender | Stars: William Shatner, Jeffrey Keene, Cynthia Meyersburg, Tariq Sattaur
Votes: 15