The greatest Sci-Fi films
Log in to copy items to your own lists.
1.
2001: A Space Odyssey
(1968)
Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest. (141 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
2.
A Clockwork Orange
(1971)
In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem... but not all goes to plan. (136 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
3.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(1977)
After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen. (137 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
4.
Star Wars
(1977)
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a wookiee and two droids to save the universe from the Empire's world-destroying battle-station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the evil Darth Vader. (121 mins.)
Director: George Lucas
5.
Alien
(1979)
After investigating an S.O.S. signal on a near-by world, the crew of an industrial spacecraft must fight for survival when a highly aggressive bioform is born in the ship and begins hunting them one by one. (117 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
6.
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
(1980)
After the rebels have been brutally overpowered by the Empire on their newly-established base, Luke Skywalker takes advanced Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are constantly being pursued by Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke. (124 mins.)
Director: Irvin Kershner
7.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
(1982)
A meek and alienated little boy finds a stranded extraterrestrial. He has to find the courage to defy the authorities to help the alien return to its home planet. (115 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
8.
Blade Runner
(1982)
Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to Earth seeking their maker. (117 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
9.
The Thing
(1982)
Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills. (109 mins.)
Director: John Carpenter
10.
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
(1983)
After rescuing Han Solo from the palace of Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels attempt to destroy the Second Death Star, while Luke Skywalker tries to bring his father back to the Light Side of the Force. (134 mins.)
Director: Richard Marquand
11.
Brazil
(1985)
A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state. (132 mins.)
Director: Terry Gilliam
12.
Back to the Future
(1985)
A teenager is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents unite in order to save his own existence. (116 mins.)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
13.
The Quiet Earth
(1985)
A man awakens to find himself alone in the world. (91 mins.)
Director: Geoffrey Murphy
14.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
(1991)
The cyborg who once tried to kill Sarah Connor is dead, and another T-101 must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from an even more powerful and advanced Terminator, the T-1000. (137 mins.)
Director: James Cameron
15.
Twelve Monkeys
(1995)
In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet. (129 mins.)
Director: Terry Gilliam
16.
Pi
(1998)
A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature. (84 mins.)
Director: Darren Aronofsky
17.
The Matrix
(1999)
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers. (136 mins.)
Director: The Wachowski Brothers, The Wachowski Brothers
18.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
(2001)
A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother. (146 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
19.
Moon
(2009)
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems. (97 mins.)
Director: Duncan Jones
20.
Inception
(2010)
A skilled extractor is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible. (148 mins.)
Director: Christopher Nolan
company.