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1. 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: 644,291 | Gross: $126.48M
2. Sunshine (2007)
R | 107 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A team of international astronauts is sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, Cliff Curtis
Votes: 267,499 | Gross: $3.68M
3. Contact (1997)
PG | 150 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of extraterrestrial intelligence, sending plans for a mysterious machine.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt
Votes: 293,147 | Gross: $100.92M
4. The Theory of Everything (2014)
PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Stephen Hawking gets unprecedented success in the field of physics despite being diagnosed with motor neuron disease at the age of 21. He defeats awful odds as his first wife Jane aids him loyally.
Director: James Marsh | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior, Sophie Perry
Votes: 482,132 | Gross: $35.89M
5. Victor Frankenstein (2015)
PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man - and the legend - we know today.
Director: Paul McGuigan | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott
Votes: 60,277 | Gross: $5.78M
6. The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
PG-13 | 119 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl.
Director: Scott Derrickson | Stars: Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Campbell Scott
Votes: 140,072 | Gross: $75.07M
7. Transcendence (I) (2014)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A scientist's drive for artificial intelligence takes on dangerous implications when his own consciousness is uploaded into one such program.
Director: Wally Pfister | Stars: Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy
Votes: 238,870 | Gross: $23.02M
8. Prince of Darkness (1987)
R | 102 min | Horror
A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open the container, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all humanity.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong
Votes: 49,975 | Gross: $14.18M
9. Agora (2009)
R | 127 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Ashraf Barhom
Votes: 73,057 | Gross: $0.62M
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: 73,256 | Gross: $0.37M
11. In the Fire (2023)
R | 87 min | Thriller
A doctor travels to a remote plantation to care for a disturbed boy who has inexplicable abilities. She ignites a war of science versus religion with the local priest who believes the boy is possessed by the Devil.
Director: Conor Allyn | Stars: Amber Heard, Eduardo Noriega, Sophie Amber, Luca Calvani
Votes: 3,981
12. Inherit the Wind (1960)
Passed | 128 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based on a real-life case in 1925; two great lawyers argue the case for, and against, a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York
Votes: 32,780
13. The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight, in spite of their differences. He talks, she listens. He's a romantic atheist, she's a religious realist. When their daughter becomes seriously ill, their love is put on trial.
Director: Felix van Groeningen | Stars: Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse, Geert Van Rampelberg
Votes: 43,326 | Gross: $0.18M
14. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
After a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 54,919 | Gross: $2.65M
15. Forbidden Empire (2014)
Not Rated | 130 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
An eighteenth century English cartographer, Jonathan Green, sets out on a journey to map the uncharted lands of Transylvania, only to discover the dark secrets and dangerous creatures hidden in a cursed, fantastical Romanian forest.
Director: Oleg Stepchenko | Stars: Jason Flemyng, Andrey Smolyakov, Aleksey Chadov, Agnia Ditkovskyte
Votes: 6,524 | Gross: $34.59M
16. Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief (2015)
Not Rated | 119 min | Documentary
A documentary looking at the inner-workings of the Church of Scientology.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Paul Haggis, Jason Beghe, Spanky Taylor, David Miscavige
Votes: 40,913
17. Creation (I) (2009)
PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Torn between faith and science, and suffering hallucinations, English naturalist Charles Darwin struggles to complete 'On the Origin of Species' and maintain his relationship with his wife.
Director: Jon Amiel | Stars: Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Ian Kelly, Guy Henry
Votes: 15,131 | Gross: $0.34M
18. Religulous (2008)
R | 101 min | Documentary, Comedy, War
Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion.
Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Bill Maher, Tal Bachman, Jonathan Boulden, Steven Burg
Votes: 60,246 | Gross: $13.00M
19. Assassin 33 A.D. (2020)
PG-13 | 109 min | Sci-Fi
While doing research, a group of young geniuses accidentally stumbles upon a secret terrorist plot to create a time machine to go back in time and change history.
Director: Jim Carroll | Stars: Morgan Roberts, Ilsa Levine, Donny Boaz, Heidi Montag
Votes: 2,406
20. Inherit the Wind (1999 TV Movie)
PG | 113 min | Drama
Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott, Lane Smith, Tom Everett Scott
Votes: 2,030
21. Under Pressure (2017– )
60 min | Drama, Thriller
A medical drama series portraying patient-doctor dramas in a substandard hospital in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro.
Stars: Júlio Andrade, Marjorie Estiano, Bruno Garcia, Pablo Sanábio
Votes: 688
22. A Matter of Faith (2014)
PG | 89 min | Drama
A young girl is influenced by her popular Biology professor, who teaches that evolution is the answer to the origins of life. Very concerned about his daughter drifting away from the faith, her father tries to do something about it.
Director: Rich Christiano | Stars: Jordan Trovillion, Jay Pickett, Harry Anderson, Chandler Macocha
Votes: 1,707 | Gross: $0.68M
23. Inherit the Wind (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, History
A biblical orator opposes a liberal lawyer defending a man for teaching Darwinism in the 1920s South.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Jason Robards, Darren McGavin, John Harkins
Votes: 613
24. The Rabbi's Cat (2011)
Not Rated | 100 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Set in Algeria in the 1920s, a rabbi's cat who learns how to speak after swallowing the family parrot expresses his desire to convert to Judaism.
Directors: Antoine Delesvaux, Joann Sfar | Stars: François Morel, Hafsia Herzi, Maurice Bénichou, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Votes: 3,767 | Gross: $0.02M
25. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)
PG | 90 min | Documentary
Ben Stein examines the issue of academic freedom and decides that there is none when it comes to the debate over intelligent design.
Director: Nathan Frankowski | Stars: Ben Stein, Lili Asvar, Peter Atkins, Hector Avalos
Votes: 12,198 | Gross: $7.69M
26. Gramps Goes to College (2014)
102 min | Drama
When workaholic Ty Bounds retires after 35 years as a computer programmer, he seeks ways to spend his time serving God. Following the Holy Spirit's lead, he returns to college to wage war ... See full summary »
Director: Chip Rossetti | Stars: Donald James Parker, Courtney Lee Simpson, Kera O'Bryon, Rusty Martin
Votes: 232
27. Galileo (1975)
PG | 145 min | Biography, Drama
This biopic is about Galileo Galilei, the seventeenth century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Topol, Edward Fox, Colin Blakely, Georgia Brown
Votes: 667
28. Dream No Evil (1970)
R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young orphan girl obsessed with finding her father gets adopted by a traveling church. She grows up and gets engaged, but her obsession with locating her father is about to turn deadly.
Director: John Hayes | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Brooke Mills, Marc Lawrence, Michael Pataki
Votes: 659
29. The Genesis Code (2010)
PG | 138 min | Drama
A college hockey player and a female journalism student struggle to find common ground with their spiritual faith and scientific studies.
Directors: C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Read Johnson | Stars: Logan Bartholomew, Kelsey Sanders, C.R. Lewis, Ernest Borgnine
Votes: 710
30. Lies My Father Told Me (1975)
PG | 102 min | Drama
A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.
Director: Ján Kadár | Stars: Yossi Yadin, Len Birman, Marilyn Lightstone, Jeff Lynas
Votes: 587
31. Galapagos (2006)
180 min | Documentary
The history of these beautiful Islands from their creation as uprising lava to their being studied by Darwin to their modern day inhabitants.
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Richard Wollocombe, Tom Hiddleston, Stacy Keach
Votes: 1,437
32. The 12 Biggest Lies (2010)
Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary
From the very nature of truth to how our world began, from morality to religion, from population control to political correctness, from Israel to Islam, from atheism to God... our entire world runs on what we believe.
Director: André van Heerden | Stars: Kevin Sorbo, Katherine Albrecht, Kerby Anderson, Robert Carter
Votes: 109
33. Walk in the Shadow (1962)
93 min | Drama
When John Harris's daughter is badly injured in an boating accident, the hospital tells him that she will need an urgent blood transfusion. Due to his religious beliefs Harris refuses ... See full summary »
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Janet Munro, Paul Rogers
Votes: 298
34. 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
35. The God Who Wasn't There (2005)
62 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Did Jesus exist? This film starts with that question, then goes on to examine Christianity as a whole.
Director: Brian Flemming | Stars: Sam Harris, Robert M. Price, Richard Carrier, Earl Doherty
Votes: 5,052
36. Night at the Creation Museum (2021)
35 min | Short
It's Derrick Daley's first night on the job at the Creation Museum. Ever since his mother died of cancer, he has been skeptical of God and Science. His skepticism is about to come face to face with facts.
Director: Rebecca Pike | Stars: Eric Hovind, Tim Chaffey, Danny Faulkner
Votes: 30
37. 100 Greatest Discoveries (2004–2015)
60 min | Documentary
Bill Nye "The Science Guy" hosts a new series that highlights the greatest scientific discoveries of all time, from the earliest time to the present day. The series features nine episodes: ... See full summary »
Stars: Graham Powell, Samantha Iles, Scott Zeiss, Bill Nye
Votes: 224
38. The Atheist Delusion (2016 Video)
62 min | Documentary
Evangelist Ray Comfort attempts to prove the existence of God to various atheists.
Director: Ray Comfort | Stars: Tim Allen, Ray Comfort, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss
Votes: 3,885
39. The Voyage of Charles Darwin (1978)
Biography, History
The series encompasses Darwin's university days to the 1859 publication of his book "On the Origin of Species" and his death and is based on Darwin's own letters, diaries, and journals, ... See full summary »
Stars: Malcolm Stoddard, Andrew Burt, Peter Settelen, David Ashton
Votes: 153
40. Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life (2009 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary, Family
David Attenborough explores Charles Darwin's controversial theory of evolution by natural selection.
Star: David Attenborough
Votes: 2,227
41. Genesis Impact (2020)
68 min
After attending a lecture on human evolution at a Natural history museum, Christina, a young creationist, questions the lecturer and argues against the theory of evolution.
Director: Brett Varvel | Stars: Hannah Bradley, Reggie McGuire, Becky Emerick, Dalyn Stewart
Votes: 60
42. The Murri Affair (1974)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, History
Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent, abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, the ... See full summary »
Director: Mauro Bolognini | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Tina Aumont
Votes: 281
43. Inherit the Wind (1965 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
In 1925, a Tennessee science teacher is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and a mighty courtroom battle ensues.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Ed Begley, Norman Wright, Diane Baker
Votes: 81
44. 96 Souls (2016)
TV-14 | 112 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A university research scientist, about to lose funding and status, has a lab accident and discovers he can see people's true intentions -- making his situation even worse.
Director: Stanley Jacobs | Stars: Grinnell Morris, Sridhar Maruvada, Paul Statman, Toyin Moses
Votes: 5,852
45. Megiddo II: The New Age (2005 Video)
176 min | Documentary
Some of the most famous people of modern times (including Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison, and Adolf Hitler) have been influenced by the controversial New Age movement that has re-awakened ... See full summary »
Director: Christian J. Pinto | Stars: Adolf Hitler, Kent Hovind, Dave Hunt, J.Z. Knight
Votes: 59
46. The Genius of Charles Darwin (2008– )
60 min | Documentary
In this three-part series Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary scientist and bestselling author, takes us on a journey of discovery. How does evolution work? How do we know it's true - and why... See full summary »
Stars: Richard Dawkins, The Naked Cowboy, Steven Pinker
Votes: 999
47. Clarence Darrow (1974 TV Movie)
81 min | Biography, Drama
The taped performance of Henry Fonda's one-man show was aired as "IBM Presents Clarence Darrow" on September 4, 1974, on NBC.
Director: John Rich | Star: Henry Fonda
Votes: 161
48. Brief History of Disbelief (2004– )
178 min | Documentary
A mini-series which follows the history of atheism.
Stars: Bernard Hill, Jonathan Miller, Richard Dawkins, Simon Schaffer
Votes: 513
49. Discussions with Richard Dawkins, Episode 1: The Four Horsemen (2008 Video)
120 min | Documentary
Richard Dawkins is joined by Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens to discuss science, god, religion and much more.
Director: Josh Timonen | Stars: Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens
Votes: 458
50. Shadows of the Heart (1990)
240 min | Drama, Romance
A woman doctor Dr. Kate Munro migrates to Gannet Island off South Australia in 1927. Conflict between traditional religious values and modern scientific medicine ensues as she forms a ... See full summary »
Stars: Josephine Byrnes, Jerome Ehlers, Marcus Graham, Jason Donovan
Votes: 58