Sci-Fi Movies Pre-1930
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1. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
TV-G | 13 min | Short, Action, Adventure
A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Victor André, Bleuette Bernon, Brunnet
Votes: 55,845
2. The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907)
Not Rated | 9 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
As the clock strikes twelve, a weary astronomer attempts to answer the impertinent enquiries of his young students by scrutinising an impending lunar eclipse, as an effeminate and delicate moon caresses the mighty sun's hungry cosmic rays.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Mlle. Bodson, Manuel, Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,411
3. Frankenstein (1910)
Unrated | 16 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
The first filmed version of Frankenstein. The young doctor discovers the secret of life, which he uses to create a perfect human. Things do not go according to plan.
Director: J. Searle Dawley | Stars: Mary Fuller, Charles Ogle, Augustus Phillips
Votes: 4,746
4. À la conquête du pôle (1912)
Not Rated | 33 min | Short, Adventure, Horror
Aboard the futuristic flying machine of his own invention, Professor Mabouloff and his team of intercultural explorers set off on yet another impossible expedition to North Pole's vast landscapes. What wonders await the bold adventurers?
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany
Votes: 1,203
5. A Message from Mars (1903)
9 min | Short, Sci-Fi
A Martian visits a selfish man in order to make him change his ways.
Director: Franklyn Barrett
6. A Message from Mars (1913)
69 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A Martian is sentenced to visit Earth to cure a selfish man.
Director: Wallett Waller | Stars: Crissie Bell, E. Holman Clark, Hubert Willis, Charles Hawtrey
Votes: 214
7. Algol: Tragedy of Power (1920)
99 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi
An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that gives him superpowers.
Director: Hans Werckmeister | Stars: Emil Jannings, John Gottowt, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Hanna Ralph
Votes: 274
8. Metropolis (1927)
Not Rated | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Votes: 185,652 | Gross: $1.24M
9. High Treason (1929)
95 min | Sci-Fi
Women unite to prevent financiers from engineering a second world war.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Benita Hume, Basil Gill, Humberston Wright, Jameson Thomas
Votes: 206
10. The Mechanical Butcher (1895)
1 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A butcher puts a full-grown live pig into his large box-like machine. Moments later, he draws out a full range of pork products, many already packaged for sale.
Director: Louis Lumière
Votes: 994
11. Gugusse and the Automaton (1897)
1 min | Short
Gugusse, a clown, is both astounded and bewildered upon seeing the mechanical movements of an automaton.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Gugusse
Votes: 26
12. The Astronomer's Dream; or, the Man in the Moon (1898)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
An astronomer falls asleep and has a strange dream involving a fairy queen and the Moon.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Votes: 4,733
13. A Trip to Mars (1918)
97 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A group of researchers from Earth travel in a spaceship to Mars, where, to big surprise, they find a peaceful vegetarian and pacifist civilization.
Director: Holger-Madsen | Stars: Gunnar Tolnæs, Zanny Petersen, Nicolai Neiiendam, Alf Blütecher
Votes: 821
14. Woman in the Moon (1929)
Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus, Klaus Pohl, Fritz Rasp
Votes: 3,860
15. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (I) (1920)
Unrated | 69 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield, Brandon Hurst, Charles Lane
Votes: 6,047
16. The Mechanical Man (1921)
80 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
The story begins with a scientist creating a device shaped like a man that can be remote-controlled by a machine.
Director: André Deed | Stars: Giulia Costa, André Deed, Valentina Frascaroli, Mathilde Lambert
Votes: 282
17. The Young Diana (1922)
90 min | Drama
The father of young Diana May wishes to marry her to British nobility although she is in love with Richard Cleeve, a sailor, and is pursued by Dr. Dimitrius, a scientist in search of the "elixir of youth."
Directors: Albert Capellani, Robert G. Vignola | Stars: Marion Davies, Macklyn Arbuckle, Forrest Stanley, Gypsy O'Brien
Votes: 128
18. The Last Man on Earth (1924)
70 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
In the future year of 1940, a young man is rejected and humiliated by a girl and goes off to be a hermit in a redwood forest. By 1950, a dreadful plague of "Masculitis" has killed every ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Earle Foxe, Derelys Perdue, Grace Cunard, Gladys Tennyson
Votes: 96
19. Our Heavenly Bodies (1920)
70 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi
Documentary on physics and astronomy.
Director: Hanns Walter Kornblum | Stars: Paul Bildt, Willy Kaiser-Heyl, Theodor Loos, Oscar Marion
Votes: 171
20. A Daughter of Destiny (1928)
108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A scientist with an interest in genetics impregnates a sex worker with the seed of a hanged murderer. The sex worker gives birth to a child who has no concept of love, whom the scientist adopts.
Director: Henrik Galeen | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Paul Wegener, Iván Petrovich, Wolfgang Zilzer
Votes: 430
21. Der Tunnel (1915)
97 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Max Allan, a visionary engineer persuades investors to fund building an undersea railway connecting France to the United States. But there are powerful forces who wants to stop his futuristic dream.
Director: William Wauer | Stars: Friedrich Kayßler, Rose Veldtkirch, Hermann Vallentin, Fritzi Massary
Votes: 40
22. The Golem (1914)
60 min | Horror
An antiques dealer finds a golem, a clay statue that had been brought to life four centuries earlier by a Kabbalist rabbi to protect his people from persecution. The dealer resurrects the golem as a servant but it goes on a rampage.
Directors: Paul Wegener, Henrik Galeen | Stars: Paul Wegener, Henrik Galeen, Lyda Salmonova, Rudolf Blümner
Votes: 1,242
23. The Golem (1920)
Unrated | 91 min | Fantasy, Horror
In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
Directors: Paul Wegener, Carl Boese | Stars: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Ernst Deutsch, Lyda Salmonova
Votes: 8,545
24. Aelita, the Queen of Mars (1924)
Not Rated | 111 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Engineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los travels to Mars where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group of Elders with the support of Queen Aelita who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
Director: Yakov Protazanov | Stars: Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Nikolai Tsereteli, Nikolay Batalov
Votes: 2,892
25. The Invisible Ray (1920)
Sci-Fi
A scientist discovers a death ray and locks it in a box, giving the key to his daughter, who soon finds herself hunted by criminals looking to steal the deadly mineral.
Director: Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Ruth Clifford, Jack Sherrill, Sidney Bracey, Edwards Davis
Votes: 36
26. An Impossible Voyage (1904)
Not Rated | 24 min | Short, Action, Adventure
Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany, Jehanne d'Alcy, May de Lavergne
Votes: 4,002
27. The Master Mystery (1918)
238 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
Justice Department agent Quentin Locke must investigate a powerful cartel protected by a robot (here referred to as "The Automaton") and using a gas weapon "The Madagascar Madness".
Directors: Harry Grossman, Burton L. King | Stars: Harry Houdini, Marguerite Marsh, Ruth Stonehouse, Edna Britton
Votes: 161
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