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1. War of the Worlds (2005)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An alien invasion threatens the future of humanity. The catastrophic nightmare is depicted through the eyes of one American family fighting for survival.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto
Votes: 475,252 | Gross: $234.28M
2. The Invisible Man (I) (2020)
R | 124 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
Director: Leigh Whannell | Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge
Votes: 255,455 | Gross: $70.41M
3. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In an alternate Victorian Age world, a group of famous contemporary fantasy, science fiction, and adventure characters team up on a secret mission.
Director: Stephen Norrington | Stars: Sean Connery, Stuart Townsend, Peta Wilson, Jason Flemyng
Votes: 183,963 | Gross: $66.47M
4. The Time Machine (2002)
PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
Director: Simon Wells | Stars: Guy Pearce, Yancey Arias, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law
Votes: 130,407 | Gross: $56.68M
5. 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: 55,773
6. The Time Machine (1960)
G | 103 min | Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
A man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.
Director: George Pal | Stars: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot
Votes: 44,843
7. The Invisible Man (1933)
TV-PG | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers
Votes: 39,933
8. The War of the Worlds (1953)
G | 85 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite
Votes: 38,536 | Gross: $4.36M
9. The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
PG-13 | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After being rescued and brought to an island, a man discovers that its inhabitants are experimental animals being turned into strange-looking humans, all of it the work of a visionary doctor.
Directors: John Frankenheimer, Richard Stanley | Stars: David Thewlis, Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk
Votes: 35,488 | Gross: $27.66M
10. War of the Worlds (2019– )
TV-MA | 49 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Set in contemporary France, this Anglo-French reimagining of H. G. Wells' classic in the style of Walking Dead follows pockets of survivors forced to team up after an apocalyptic extra-terrestrial strike.
Stars: Léa Drucker, Gabriel Byrne, Bayo Gbadamosi, Ty Tennant
Votes: 17,962
11. Dead of Night (1945)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Horror
Guests invited to a weekend in the country share their supernatural stories, beginning with Walter Craig, who senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality.
Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer | Stars: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall
Votes: 14,213
12. Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Passed | 70 min | Film-Noir, Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams
Votes: 10,905
13. The War of the Worlds (2019)
TV-14 | 48 min | Drama, History, Sci-Fi
In London during the Edwardian era, George and Amy's attempt to start a life together is interrupted by a Martian invasion of Earth.
Stars: Eleanor Tomlinson, Rafe Spall, Robert Carlyle, Rupert Graves
Votes: 10,036
14. Things to Come (1936)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, War
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott
Votes: 9,062
15. The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)
PG | 99 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
A shipwrecked survivor discovers a remote island owned by a crazed scientist who is carrying out sinister experiments on the island's inhabitants.
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera
Votes: 7,155 | Gross: $8.72M
16. First Men in the Moon (1964)
Not Rated | 103 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
When a spaceship lands on the moon, it is hailed as a new accomplishment, before it becomes clear that a Victorian party completed the journey in 1899, leading investigators to that mission's last survivor.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Edward Judd, Martha Hyer, Lionel Jeffries, Miles Malleson
Votes: 6,411 | Gross: $1.65M
17. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Family, Horror
Two bumbling private eyes help a man, wrongly accused of murder who has become invisible, to clear his name.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Guild, Arthur Franz
Votes: 6,096 | Gross: $3.38M
18. Empire of the Ants (1977)
PG | 89 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Con artist Marilyn Fryser tries to sell bogus real estate deals in an area overrun by giant ants.
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson, Albert Salmi
Votes: 5,544
19. The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
Passed | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Director: Joe May | Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, John Sutton
Votes: 5,292
20. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
"The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" was a continuation of the dramatic anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) hosted by the Master of Suspense and Mystery.
Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Hinton Pope, Jimmy Joyce, Lew Brown
Votes: 5,155
21. The Food of the Gods (1976)
PG | 88 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of friends travel to a remote Canadian island to hunt, only to be attacked by giant killer animals which have populated the place.
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Jon Cypher
Votes: 4,595
22. Wishbone (1995–1998)
TV-Y | 30 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
An intelligent and witty dog imagines himself in the role of characters from classic books and gets involved in similar real-life adventures.
Stars: Larry Brantley, Jordan Wall, Christie Abbott, Adam Springfield
Votes: 4,383
23. War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave (2008 Video)
R | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The aliens return to complete their plan of human domination, launching a second wave of attacks that threaten to destroy what is left of humanity.
Director: C. Thomas Howell | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Christopher Reid, Kim Little, Jonathan Levit
Votes: 4,323
24. The Invisible Man (2000–2002)
120 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A thief and conman is given the means to become invisible, and ends up working for a government agency.
Stars: Vincent Ventresca, Paul Ben-Victor, Shannon Kenny, Eddie Jones
Votes: 3,429
25. The Passionate Friends (1949)
Approved | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A woman meets a man whose love she rejected years ago.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains, Betty Ann Davies
Votes: 3,032
26. War of the Worlds the True Story (2012)
102 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
WAR OF THE WORLDS THE TRUE STORY is based on the most beloved alien invasion story of all time by Father of Science Fiction, H.G. Wells. Like Wells' classic book that was presented as a ... See full summary »
Director: Timothy Hines | Stars: Jack Clay, Jim Cissell, Susan Goforth, Erik Barzdukas
Votes: 2,797
27. War of the Worlds (2005 Video)
R | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A determined astrophysicist must embark on a nationwide journey to find his son during a massive alien invasion that's goal is to exterminate the human race.
Director: David Michael Latt | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Rhett Giles, Andy Lauer, Tinarie van Wyk Loots
Votes: 2,769
28. The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
Unrated | 78 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
An eccentric scientist helps a fugitive from the law become invisible, unwittingly giving him the power to exact revenge on his former friends.
Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Jon Hall, Evelyn Ankers, Alan Curtis, Leon Errol
Votes: 2,737 | Gross: $1.67M
29. Village of the Giants (1965)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Delinquent teen-agers ingest a substance and grow thirty feet tall, then proceed to take over a small town.
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Tommy Kirk, Johnny Crawford, Beau Bridges, Ron Howard
Votes: 2,687
30. Invisible Agent (1942)
Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Ilona Massey, Jon Hall, Peter Lorre, Cedric Hardwicke
Votes: 2,655
31. The War of the Worlds (2005 Video)
Unrated | 179 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In one of the most faithful adaptations of HG Wells' science fiction masterpiece, Martians launch a ruthless assault on an unsuspecting Victorian England, in an attempt to escape their dying planet.
Director: Timothy Hines | Stars: Anthony Piana, Jack Clay, James Lathrop, Darlene Sellers
Votes: 2,266
32. The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
Unrated | 82 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
An ordinary man suddenly finds that anything he says comes true. Or at least, almost anything.
Directors: Lothar Mendes, Alexander Korda | Stars: Roland Young, Ralph Richardson, Edward Chapman, Ernest Thesiger
Votes: 1,596
33. War of the Worlds (1988–1990)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
Humanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation following their defeat in the 1950s.
Stars: Jared Martin, Lynda Mason Green, Philip Akin, Richard Chaves
Votes: 1,469
34. The Shape of Things to Come (1979)
PG | 98 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Some time in the future, man has set up colonies on the Moon, when Earth becomes uninhabitable. A madman decides to destroy the Moon colonies with his robots and automated ships, and only three people and their robot can stop him.
Director: George McCowan | Stars: Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, Barry Morse, John Ireland
Votes: 1,325
35. War of the Worlds: Goliath (2012)
PG-13 | 85 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A retro-futuristic epic of steampunk battle set in 1914. It has been 15 years since the original H.G. Wells Martian invasion. Fearing another attack, the human race has prepared itself. ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Pearson | Stars: Adam Baldwin, Beau Billingslea, Kim Buckingham, Jim Byrnes
Votes: 1,268 | Gross: $0.01M
36. Riding with Death (1976 TV Movie)
97 min | Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi
Dimwitted, meaty guy foils criminals by turning invisible.
Directors: Alan J. Levi, Don McDougall | Stars: Ben Murphy, Katherine Crawford, Richard Dysart, William Sylvester
Votes: 1,249
37.
War of the Worlds (2019– )
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2019)
TV-MA | 48 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A French observatory receives signals from space which shock the world.
Director: Gilles Coulier | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Elizabeth McGovern, Léa Drucker, Adel Bencherif
Votes: 1,164
38. The First Men in the Moon (2010 TV Movie)
88 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In 1969, the Apollo moon landing is to be televised internationally but at a country fair in England a small boy named Jim meets the 90-year-old Julius Bedford who tells him that, in 1909, ... See full summary »
Director: Damon Thomas | Stars: Rory Kinnear, Mark Gatiss, Alex Riddell, Peter Forbes
Votes: 1,105
39. The Invisible Man (1975–1976)
60 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The weekly adventures of Dr. Daniel Westin, an invisible scientist working as an agent for a private thinktank.
Stars: David McCallum, Melinda O. Fee, Craig Stevens, Paul Kent
Votes: 1,058
40. Alien Conquest (2021)
Unrated | 87 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Sibling astronomers discover Martians are threatening to attack Earth, but no one believes them-until Martians land and nearly destroy all of New York City.
Director: Mario N. Bonassin | Stars: Emily Killian, Anthony Jensen, Tom Sizemore, Michael DeVorzon
Votes: 1,019
41.
War of the Worlds (2019– )
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2019)
TV-MA | 48 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Something is hunting the survivors.
Director: Gilles Coulier | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Elizabeth McGovern, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Natasha Little
Votes: 948
42. Half a Sixpence (1967)
Not Rated | 143 min | Musical
Arthur Kipps, an orphan apprenticed to a tyrannical owner of a mercantile, has a sudden abrupt change of life when his wealthy grandfather dies and leaves him a pile of money.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Tommy Steele, Julia Foster, Cyril Ritchard, Penelope Horner
Votes: 896
43.
The War of the Worlds (2019)
Episode:
Revolution
(2019)
TV-14 | 55 min | Drama, History, Sci-Fi
In Edwardian England, George and Amy live privately as an unmarried couple despite the disapproval of his former wife and brother. Hostile Martians armed with heat rays and poison gas complicate their efforts to find marital bliss.
Director: Craig Viveiros | Stars: Eleanor Tomlinson, Robert Carlyle, Rafe Spall, Charles De'Ath
Votes: 891
44. The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981)
96 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Film opens on December 28, 1999, three days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after that his program loses ... See full summary »
Director: Piotr Szulkin | Stars: Roman Wilhelmi, Krystyna Janda, Mariusz Dmochowski, Jerzy Stuhr
Votes: 871
45. Terror Is a Man (1959)
Approved | 90 min | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist transforms a panther into a man-like creature that escapes and goes on a murderous rampage.
Directors: Gerardo de Leon, Eddie Romero | Stars: Francis Lederer, Greta Thyssen, Richard Derr, Oscar Keesee
Votes: 836
46. Have You Got Any Castles? (1938)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Musical, Animation
Another entry in the "books come alive" subgenre, with possibly more books coming alive than any other. We begin with some musical numbers, notably the various pages of Green Pastures all ... See full summary »
Directors: Frank Tashlin, Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Basin Street Boys, Dorothy Compton
Votes: 831
47.
War of the Worlds (2019– )
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2019)
TV-MA | 48 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Group of survivors hides in a hospital, but their enemy is close.
Director: Gilles Coulier | Stars: Michael Marcus, Georgina Rich, Gabriel Byrne, Elizabeth McGovern
Votes: 827
48. Time Machine: Rise of the Morlocks (2011 TV Movie)
84 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
An experimental time machine opens a window into the future and mutated monsters (the Morlocks) use it to come back to the present and go on a murderous rampage.
Director: Matt Codd | Stars: David Hewlett, Daniel Caltagirone, Christina Cole, Jim Fyfe
Votes: 776
49.
War of the Worlds (2019– )
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(2019)
TV-MA | 48 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
The survivors make some disarming discoveries not only about the aliens but also about themselves. Mokrani goes on the offensive, taking the fight to the aliens. Chloe's past catches up with her.
Director: Gilles Coulier | Stars: Bayo Gbadamosi, Natasha Little, Ty Tennant, Aaron Heffernan
Votes: 759
50.
War of the Worlds (2019– )
Episode:
Episode #1.8
(2019)
TV-MA | 47 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
In desperation, the survivors try to bury their dead, somehow fight back and finally locate an enemy vessel, but many questions remain unanswered.
Director: Richard Clark | Stars: Adel Bencherif, Léa Drucker, Emilie de Preissac, Oliver Zetterström
Votes: 710