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1. Dune (2021)

PG-13 | 155 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A noble family becomes embroiled in a war for control over the galaxy's most valuable asset while its heir becomes troubled by visions of a dark future.

Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac

Votes: 847,808 | Gross: $108.33M

2. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

PG | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.

Director: George Lucas | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness

Votes: 1,448,100 | Gross: $322.74M

3. Avatar (2009)

PG-13 | 162 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez

Votes: 1,385,348 | Gross: $760.51M

4. Spider-Man 2 (2004)

PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Peter Parker is beset with troubles in his failing personal life as he battles a former brilliant scientist named Otto Octavius.

Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Alfred Molina, James Franco

Votes: 707,468 | Gross: $373.59M

5. The Tomorrow War (2021)

PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A family man is drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies on his ability to confront the past.

Director: Chris McKay | Stars: Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J.K. Simmons, Betty Gilpin

Votes: 227,390

6. Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)

PG | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Family

On a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth.

Director: Eric Brevig | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Aníta Briem, Seth Meyers

Votes: 131,662 | Gross: $101.70M

7. Barbarella (1968)

Approved | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

In the 41st century, an astronaut partakes in sexy misadventures while seeking to stop an evil scientist who threatens to bring evil back into the galaxy.

Director: Roger Vadim | Stars: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea

Votes: 37,675

8. Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat. But will mankind's new space defenses be enough?

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe

Votes: 188,592 | Gross: $103.14M

9. The Core (2003)

PG-13 | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The only way to save Earth from catastrophe is to drill down to the core and set it spinning again.

Director: Jon Amiel | Stars: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Bruce Greenwood

Votes: 107,228 | Gross: $31.19M

10. From Beyond (1986)

R | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.

Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ted Sorel, Ken Foree

Votes: 30,697 | Gross: $1.26M

11. Impact (2009)

Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A luminary crashes on the moon, causing to change its orbit and head straight toward Earth. With less than 40 days, scientists are in a desperate race to launch a lunar mission that will save both planets from mutual destruction

Stars: David James Elliott, Natasha Henstridge, Benjamin Sadler, Florentine Lahme

Votes: 3,589

12. First Spaceship on Venus (1960)

Unrated | 79 min | Sci-Fi

When an alien artifact discovered on Earth is found to have come from Venus, an international team of astronauts embarks to investigate its origins.

Director: Kurt Maetzig | Stars: Yôko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Ignacy Machowski, Julius Ongewe

Votes: 3,136

13. The Bermuda Depths (1978 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 98 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Scientists investigating the briny deep are threatened by a giant turtle and the spirit of a young brunette swimmer in the Bermuda Triangle.

Director: Tsugunobu Kotani | Stars: Leigh McCloskey, Carl Weathers, Connie Sellecca, Julie Woodson

Votes: 911

14. Ghost in the Machine (1993)

R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

An electric surge causes a serial killer's soul to end up in a computer system.

Director: Rachel Talalay | Stars: Karen Allen, Chris Mulkey, Ted Marcoux, Wil Horneff

Votes: 4,165 | Gross: $5.09M

15. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004)

Not Rated | 109 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama

A fictional photographer's quest to spiritually rediscover herself is interspersed with documentary footage of scientists and theologians discussing the philosophical aspects of quantum physics.

Directors: William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente | Stars: Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix, John Ross Bowie, Robert Bailey Jr.

Votes: 13,847 | Gross: $10.94M

16. Stranded (2001)

R | 99 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

An international group of astronauts crash land on Mars with limited supplies. Help from Earth is 26 months away which means only two can survive. The crew is forced to make desperate choices.

Director: María Lidón | Stars: Vincent Gallo, Maria de Medeiros, Joaquim de Almeida, María Lidón

Votes: 2,875

17. Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

G | 99 min | Documentary

Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the characters living there.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Werner Herzog, Scott Rowland, Stefan Pashov, Doug MacAyeal

Votes: 19,232 | Gross: $0.94M

18. Night of the Blood Beast (1958)

Not Rated | 62 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

An astronaut is killed on reentry to Earth, but his body is seeded with rapidly gestating aliens.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Michael Emmet, Angela Greene, John Baer, Ed Nelson

Votes: 2,269

19. What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole (2006)

PG | 156 min | Documentary, Drama

Interviews with scientists and authors, animated bits, and a storyline involving a deaf photographer are used in this docudrama to illustrate the link between quantum mechanics, neurobiology, human consciousness and day-to-day reality.

Directors: William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente | Stars: Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix, Barry Newman, Armin Shimerman

Votes: 2,921 | Gross: $0.14M

20. King of the Lost World (2004)

R | 80 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's action-adventure classic, four plane crash survivors encounter danger in a world that time forgot.

Directors: Stuart Gillard, Leigh Scott | Stars: Bruce Boxleitner, Jeff Denton, Rhett Giles, Sarah Lieving

Votes: 1,962

21. The Mutants: Ways of the Heart (2008–2009)

60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

In a world taken by a ghoulish/lycanthropic outbreak and populated by super-powered humans created by a mad scientist, a fight between good and evil is launched following a prophecy that might lead to the end of everything.

Stars: Priscila Martz, Thaís Fersoza, Maytê Piragibe, Juan Alba

Votes: 286

22. Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)

R | 100 min | Drama

A geologist employed by an Australian mining company finds himself disputing the rights of some aborigines who believe their land to be sacred.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika, Ray Barrett

Votes: 2,628

23. The Strange World of Planet X (1958)

Approved | 75 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror

A friendly visitor from outer space warns against conducting experiments with the Earth's magnetic field, that could mutate insects into giant monsters.

Director: Gilbert Gunn | Stars: Forrest Tucker, Gaby André, Martin Benson, Alec Mango

Votes: 1,359

24. The Day the Dinosaurs Died (2017 TV Movie)

TV-G | 60 min | Documentary

Investigates the greatest vanishing act in the history of our planet - the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

Directors: Nick Green, Ben Lawrie, Toby Macdonald | Stars: Alice Roberts, Ben Garrod, Joanna Morgan, Mark Boslough

Votes: 194

25. Mistress of the World (1960)

Approved | 113 min | Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi

Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a continent-wide area. The military ... See full summary »

Directors: William Dieterle, Richard Angst | Stars: Martha Hyer, Carlos Thompson, Micheline Presle, Wolfgang Preiss

Votes: 186

26. Barjo (1992)

85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Barjo (nutcase, crap artist), the narrator, is an obsessive simpleton who fills his notebook with verbatim dialog, observed trivia, and oddball speculation on human behavior and the end of ... See full summary »

Director: Jérôme Boivin | Stars: Richard Bohringer, Anne Brochet, Hippolyte Girardot, Consuelo De Haviland

Votes: 320

27. Kingdom of Saturn: Cassini's Epic Quest (2017)

52 min | Documentary

Before the joint NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission, humanity only knew what had been learned, decades earlier, with the previous limited, rapid "fly-by" Pioneer and Voyager missions. ... See full summary »

Director: Dave Brody | Star: Perry Norton

Votes: 78

28. Holes in Heaven (1998)

Not Rated | 53 min | Documentary

Holes in Heaven investigates the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program also known as HAARP. This experimentation is being conducted by our government and top scientists are ... See full summary »

Director: Wendy Robbins | Star: Martin Sheen

Votes: 93

29. Inside Planet Earth (2009 TV Movie)

120 min | Documentary

A fantastical - but factual - journey to the Centre of the Earth.

Director: Martin Williams | Stars: Richard Lintern, Patrick Stewart

Votes: 285

30. Les champs magnétiques (2020)

20 min | Short, Sci-Fi

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Director: Romain Daudet-Jahan | Stars: Léonie Dahan-Lamort, Oscar Pauleau

Votes: 12

31. Physics in Your Life (2004 Video)

1,080 min | Documentary

Professor Richard Wolfson, with experience in teaching science to non-scientists, lectures about the physics of everyday life.

Director: Jon Leven | Stars: Richard Wolfson, Alisha Reay, Candice Ulbrich

32. Solar Blast (2000 TV Movie)

56 min | Documentary

Scientists investigate the effects of solar phenomena, such as sunspots and coronal mass ejections (CMEs or "solar blasts"), on Earth's climate (both past and present) and man's technology.

Director: Malvina Anderson Martin | Star: Lance Lewman

Votes: 24

33. Magnetic Movie (2007)

5 min | Documentary, Short

Natural magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries, as scientists from NASA's space sciences laboratory excitedly describe their discoveries.

Directors: Joe Gerhardt, Ruth Jarman

Votes: 35

34. Paramount-Bray Pictographs, No. 147 (1918)

Documentary, Short

Subjects include: "The Silent Gun of the Future", "Czechoslovaks", and a "Bobby Bumps" cartoon.

Director: P.D. Hugon | Stars: Tomás Garrigue Masaryk, Charles Pergler

35. 2012 - Geht die Welt unter? (2012 TV Movie)

44 min | Documentary

Add a Plot

Director: Heike Bittner | Stars: Gerald Gürtler, Feliz Gürtler, Sabine Freier, Michael Soffel

36. Silent Gun of the Future (1918)

Documentary, Short

Technical illustrations explain how electric coils and magnetic fields can be used to create a theoretical recoil-free gun.

Director: Walter H. Nirgenau

37. Dynamic Aurora (2010)

30 min | Documentary, Short

Presents breathtaking images of the Aurora Borealis captured in Alaska, along with scientific diagrams and narration explaining the cause of the lights.

38. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: The Cage (1966)

TV-PG | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Capt. Pike is held prisoner and tested by aliens who have the power to project incredibly lifelike illusions.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver, Leonard Nimoy, Majel Barrett

Votes: 7,157

39. Andromeda (2000–2005)
Episode: Waking the Tyrant's Device (2003)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Dylan's sent on a mission, but isn't informed of the danger he faces. Andromeda's captured by a gravity field which is the target of their mission. Dylan discovers the moon's the base of ... See full summary »

Director: Andrew Potter | Stars: Kevin Sorbo, Lisa Ryder, Gordon Michael Woolvett, Laura Bertram

Votes: 157

40. Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974–1975)
Episode: They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be... (1974)

TV-PG | 52 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Kolchak connects a string of bizarre thefts committed by a powerful invisible entity that targets metal deposits to a string of suspicious animal and human deaths connected by the fact that the victims' bone marrow is missing.

Director: Allen Baron | Stars: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, James Gregory, Mary Wickes

Votes: 586

41. Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
Episode: Gravity Zero (1957)

30 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

An absent-minded physics professor and his loyal lab technician work on an anti-gravity device. Despite technical failures, they persist, hoping that the work will contribute to rocket launches, and someday to flying saucers.

Director: Paul Guilfoyle | Stars: Truman Bradley, Percy Helton, Lisa Gaye, Walter Kingsford

Votes: 23

42. Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode: Natural Law (2001)

TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Chakotay and Seven of Nine's shuttle is crippled by an energy field and they crash on a planet inhabited by a primitive species.

Director: Terry Windell | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill

Votes: 1,801

43. Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003–2010)
Episode: Ghost Busters (2005)

TV-MA | 29 min | Comedy, Documentary

Penn and Teller meet the ghost hunters.

Directors: Star Price, Scott Firestone | Stars: Penn Jillette, Teller, Jackamoe Buzzell, Lisa Farwell

Votes: 138

44. Centurions (1986)
Episode: Battle Beneath the Ice (1986)

TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Family

Max manages to call off Mekko's attack in claiming a meteorite that finally gets secured in Sea lab. The meteorite holds some sort of virus that, when was isolated on a computer chip, takes over every machine, computer and AI unit.

Stars: Pat Fraley, Neil Ross, Vince Edwards, Ron Feinberg

Votes: 14

45. Centurions (1986)
Episode: Breakout (1986)

TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Family

Dr. Harryman breaks from prison with the help of Dr. Terror. They join forces against the World Council. Dr. Terror steals the sonic ray thanks to Alexis, Harryman's daughter. The Centurions try to figure out their plans for the sonic ray.

Stars: Pat Fraley, Neil Ross, Vince Edwards, Ron Feinberg

Votes: 14

46. Centurions (1986)
Episode: The Monsters from Below (1986)

TV-Y7-FV | 30 min | Animation, Action, Family

Dr. Romulus creates hideous monsters that could take the appearance of any person by looking into their eyes. Dr. Terror sends the monsters after members of the Council including Crystal to capture them and take their appearances.

Stars: Pat Fraley, Neil Ross, Vince Edwards, Ron Feinberg

Votes: 17

47. The Transformers (1984–1987)
Episode: The Autobot Run (1985)

TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

While the Autobots perform stunts and race for charity, Megatron attacks them with a weapon that can freeze Transformers in their vehicle form.

Directors: Andy Kim, Bob Kirk, Al Kouzel, Bob Matz, Norm McCabe, Margaret Nichols, Karen Peterson, Tom Ray, Robert Shellhorn, Bob Treat, Terry Lennon | Stars: Michael Bell, Gregg Berger, Arthur Burghardt, Corey Burton

Votes: 130

48. Primeval (2007–2011)
Episode: Leapin' Lizards (2007)

TV-PG | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Professor Nick Cutter's wife Helen disappeared eight years ago. When his student Connor Temple tells him of a strange creature sighted in the place of her disappearance he goes there to investigate.

Director: Cilla Ware | Stars: Juliet Aubrey, Douglas Henshall, James Murray, Andrew Lee Potts

Votes: 571

49. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Anasazi Cave/Devil's Triangle (1997)

TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A team of archaeologists discovers a mysterious cave used by the lost Anasazi people, but whoever enters it immediately inexplicably drops dead. A boat with one man on board is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.

Directors: Ken Girotti, Marc F. Voizard | Stars: Paul Miller, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 27

50. Street Fighter: The Animated Series (1995–1997)
Episode: Dark Heart (1995)

TV-Y7 | 20 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When Bison uses his evil powers to halt the millennium comet, the United States' future hangs in the balance.

Stars: Kathleen Barr, Lisa Ann Beley, Paul Dobson, Michael Donovan

Votes: 12