Underrated Sci-Fi Films of the 2000's

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1. The 6th Day (2000)

PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

49 Metascore

A man meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world.

Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Rapaport, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rooker

Votes: 127,978 | Gross: $34.60M

2. The Cell (2000)

R | 107 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi

40 Metascore

An F.B.I. Agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.

Director: Tarsem Singh | Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Colton James

Votes: 109,145 | Gross: $61.33M

3. Mission to Mars (2000)

PG | 114 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

34 Metascore

When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Tim Robbins, Gary Sinise, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen

Votes: 76,512 | Gross: $60.88M

4. Supernova (I) (2000)

PG-13 | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

19 Metascore

A deep space rescue and recovery spaceship with a crew of 6 receives a distress call from a mining operation 3432 light years away. A rescue operation via dimension jump is made. Bad idea.

Directors: Walter Hill, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Sholder | Stars: James Spader, Peter Facinelli, Robin Tunney, Angela Bassett

Votes: 19,427 | Gross: $14.22M

5. Hollow Man (2000)

R | 112 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

24 Metascore

A brilliant scientist's discovery renders him invisible, but transforms him into an omnipotent, dangerous megalomaniac.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, Josh Brolin, Kim Dickens

Votes: 138,462 | Gross: $73.21M

6. Possible Worlds (2000)

93 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Crime

A man lives in parallel worlds, falling in love with the same woman, while the police hunt down a serial killer who steals brains.

Director: Robert Lepage | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Tom McCamus, Sean McCann, Gabriel Gascon

Votes: 2,154

7. Starforce (2000)

PG | 93 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A warrior and a beautiful ex-convict are left to fight the galaxy's most fearsome commandos in an alien wasteland.

Directors: Cary Howe, Tony Kandah | Stars: Michael Bergin, Amy Weber, Vernon Wells, Andy Garrison

Votes: 400

8. Crocodile (2000 Video)

R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Eight college students board a houseboat for their spring vacation that promises to be the best of their young lives...how many will survive?

Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Mark McLachlan, Caitlin Martin, Chris Solari, D.W. Reiser

Votes: 4,777

9. Spiders (2000)

R | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong.

Director: Gary Jones | Stars: Lana Parrilla, Josh Green, Oliver Macready, Nick Swarts

Votes: 3,209

10. What Planet Are You From? (2000)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

41 Metascore

A human-looking alien from a highly advanced but emotionless all-male society is sent to Earth to impregnate a woman and bring the child back to their planet. The alien ends up falling in love there. A suspicious F.A.A. Agent targets him.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Garry Shandling, Annette Bening, John Goodman, Greg Kinnear

Votes: 9,850 | Gross: $6.29M

11. Python (2000 TV Movie)

R | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

After a military plane crash near a small American town, a giant man-eating snake sets off on a killing spree. The locals must find a way to eliminate the snake, with the help of a scientist who knows about the snake to kill it.

Director: Richard Clabaugh | Stars: Frayne Rosanoff, Robert Englund, Casper Van Dien, William Zabka

Votes: 3,927

12. Timequest (2000)

R | 92 min | Sci-Fi

A story about a man who travels back in time to Fort Worth, Texas on November 22, 1963 and prevents the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Director: Robert Dyke | Stars: Victor Slezak, Caprice Benedetti, Vince Grant, Bruce Campbell

Votes: 723

13. Epoch (2001 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 96 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

Disaster strikes as a specialised team of investigators struggle to find out the truth about a strange monolith which sends out an intercontinental signal.

Director: Matt Codd | Stars: David Keith, Stephanie Niznik, Ryan O'Neal, Brian Thompson

Votes: 2,581

14. Jurassic Park III (2001)

PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

42 Metascore

A decidedly odd couple with ulterior motives convince Dr. Grant to go to Isla Sorna for a holiday, but their unexpected landing startles the island's new inhabitants.

Director: Joe Johnston | Stars: Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola

Votes: 341,188 | Gross: $181.17M

15. Final (2001)

R | 111 min | Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller

48 Metascore

When Bill (Denis Leary) wakes up in the psychiatric wing at Sumer Hospital, he has trouble distinguishing his dreams from reality.

Director: Campbell Scott | Stars: Denis Leary, Hope Davis, J.C. MacKenzie, Jim Gaffigan

Votes: 1,385 | Gross: $0.01M

16. Evolution (2001)

PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

40 Metascore

A fire-fighting cadet, two college professors, and a geeky but sexy government scientist work against an alien organism that has been rapidly evolving since its arrival on Earth inside a meteor.

Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Julianne Moore, Seann William Scott

Votes: 136,315 | Gross: $38.35M

17. Xchange (2001)

R | 110 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

In the future, where it's faster to travel by exchanging bodies with someone at the destination, a man's body is hijacked by a ruthless terrorist.

Director: Allan Moyle | Stars: Stephen Baldwin, Pascale Bussières, Kim Coates, Kyle MacLachlan

Votes: 2,705

18. Impostor (2001)

PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

33 Metascore

In the future, an alien race uses androids as bombs to attack Earth. A government weapons specialist is accused of being one such android and sets out to prove his innocence.

Director: Gary Fleder | Stars: Shane Brolly, Vincent D'Onofrio, Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe

Votes: 24,563 | Gross: $6.11M

19. Ghosts of Mars (2001)

R | 98 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

35 Metascore

In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find that the post has become a charnel house.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Pam Grier, Jason Statham

Votes: 57,986 | Gross: $8.43M

20. Mimic 2 (2001 Video)

R | 82 min | Horror, Thriller, Sci-Fi

A human mimicking giant bug survived Mimic (1997) and is killing humans and stalking a woman, who's bug/biology school teacher in NYC.

Director: Jean de Segonzac | Stars: Alix Koromzay, Bruno Campos, Will Estes, Gaven E. Lucas

Votes: 6,145

21. Mindstorm (I) (2001)

R | 97 min | Action, Horror, Mystery

A psychic's investigation into the disappearance of a Senator's daughter leads her to a dangerous cult and the truth about her mysterious past.

Director: Richard Pepin | Stars: Antonio Sabato Jr., Emmanuelle Vaugier, Clarence Williams III, Ed O'Ross

Votes: 705

22. They Crawl (2001)

R | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

After a terrifying incident of man, a policewoman detective needs to find a way to stop the creepy horde of roaches before it can kill more people.

Director: John Allardice | Stars: Daniel Cosgrove, Tamara Davies, Dennis Boutsikaris, Ken Lerner

Votes: 802

23. Equilibrium (2002)

R | 107 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

33 Metascore

In an oppressive future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system and state.

Director: Kurt Wimmer | Stars: Christian Bale, Sean Bean, Emily Watson, Taye Diggs

Votes: 347,169 | Gross: $1.20M

24. Signs (2002)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

59 Metascore

A widowed former reverend living with his children and brother on a Pennsylvania farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields, which suggests something more frightening to come.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin

Votes: 385,932 | Gross: $227.97M

25. Cypher (2002)

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

An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.

Director: Vincenzo Natali | Stars: Jeremy Northam, Lucy Liu, Nigel Bennett, Timothy Webber

Votes: 32,076

26. Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

51 Metascore

The Enterprise is diverted to the Romulan homeworld Romulus, supposedly because they want to negotiate a peace treaty. Captain Picard and his crew discover a serious threat to the Federation once Praetor Shinzon plans to attack Earth.

Director: Stuart Baird | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton

Votes: 83,951 | Gross: $43.25M

27. Clockstoppers (2002)

PG | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

40 Metascore

A teenager accidentally activates a machine that enables him to speed up his body so that other people seem to be standing still.

Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Jesse Bradford, French Stewart, Paula Garcés, Michael Biehn

Votes: 15,123 | Gross: $36.99M

28. S1m0ne (2002)

PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

49 Metascore

A producer's film is endangered when his star walks off, so he decides to digitally create an actress to substitute for the star, becoming an overnight sensation that everyone thinks is a real person.

Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Rachel Roberts, Benjamin Salisbury

Votes: 62,479 | Gross: $9.68M

29. Project Viper (2002 TV Movie)

R | 85 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A space shuttle crashes containing a lethal prototype organism designed to survive in any environment. The only people who can stop the creature are the Secretary of Defense agent and the female scientist who created it.

Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Patrick Muldoon, Theresa Russell, Curtis Armstrong, Joe Avalon

Votes: 654

30. Teknolust (2002)

R | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

43 Metascore

Tilda Swinton plays four roles in this award-winning film about Rosetta Stone and her three Self-Replicating Automatons, which she cloned from her own D.N.A.

Director: Lynn Hershman Leeson | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, James Urbaniak, John O'Keefe

Votes: 1,929 | Gross: $0.03M

31. Happy Here and Now (2002)

R | 89 min | Drama

60 Metascore

When an unhappy young woman disappears, her worried sister desperately searches the internet for a clue to her missing sibling's whereabouts.

Director: Michael Almereyda | Stars: Karl Geary, Shalom Harlow, Clarence Williams III, Ally Sheedy

Votes: 368 | Gross: $0.00M

32. Cube²: Hypercube (2002)

R | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Eight strangers awaken with no memory, in a puzzling cube-shaped room where the laws of physics do not always apply.

Director: Andrzej Sekula | Stars: Kari Matchett, Geraint Wyn Davies, Grace Lynn Kung, Matthew Ferguson

Votes: 70,414

33. Hulk (2003)

PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Sci-Fi

54 Metascore

Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers an accident that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry.

Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas

Votes: 278,675 | Gross: $132.18M

34. Code 46 (2003)

R | 93 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

57 Metascore

A futuristic Brief Encounter (1945), this is a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.

Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Togo Igawa

Votes: 21,133 | Gross: $0.20M

35. Timeline (2003)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

29 Metascore

A group of archaeologists get embroiled in an adventure where they must travel back in time to 14th Century France, to save their professor before the French battle the English at Castlegard. If they fail, they won't be able to return.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Paul Walker, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, Frances O'Connor

Votes: 65,904 | Gross: $19.48M

36. Dreamcatcher (2003)

R | 134 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

35 Metascore

Friends on a camping trip discover that the town they're vacationing in is being plagued in an unusual fashion by parasitic aliens from outer space.

Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis

Votes: 96,489 | Gross: $33.72M

37. It's All About Love (2003)

R | 106 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

32 Metascore

Two lovers attempt to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse.

Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes, Sean Penn, Douglas Henshall

Votes: 9,880 | Gross: $0.01M

38. Undead (2003)

R | 97 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

34 Metascore

A quaint Australian fishing village is overcome by meteorites that turn its residents into the ravenous undead, leaving a small group of those unharmed to find a way out.

Directors: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig | Stars: Felicity Mason, Mungo McKay, Rob Jenkins, Lisa Cunningham

Votes: 14,809 | Gross: $0.04M

39. Control Factor (2003 TV Movie)

84 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

An average everyman discovers he's the unwitting target of an ultra secret domestic black-op centering on mind control.

Director: Nelson McCormick | Stars: Adam Baldwin, Elizabeth Berkley, Tony Todd, Conrad Dunn

Votes: 1,109

40. Paycheck (2003)

PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

43 Metascore

What seemed like a breezy idea that would net an engineer millions of dollars ends up leaving him on the run for his life and trying to piece together why he's being chased.

Director: John Woo | Stars: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Michael C. Hall

Votes: 113,312 | Gross: $53.79M

41. Dream Warrior (2003)

R | 95 min | Action, Sci-Fi

In an apocalyptic future, a man with extra-human powers goes on the run.

Director: Zachary Weintraub | Stars: Daniel Goddard, Lance Henriksen, Sherilyn Fenn, Isaac Hayes

Votes: 553

42. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

R | 94 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

36 Metascore

Alice wakes up in the Raccoon City hospital after the area has been overrun by zombies, and must now make it out of the city before a nuclear bomb is dropped.

Director: Alexander Witt | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Eric Mabius, Oded Fehr

Votes: 210,035 | Gross: $51.20M

43. Immortal (2004)

R | 103 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In the distant future, Earth is occupied by ancient gods and genetically altered humans. When a god is sentenced to death he seeks a new human host and a woman to bear his child.

Director: Enki Bilal | Stars: Linda Hardy, Thomas Kretschmann, Charlotte Rampling, Yann Collette

Votes: 21,785

44. The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

R | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

38 Metascore

The wanted criminal Richard Bruno Riddick arrives on a planet called Helion Prime and finds himself up against an invading empire called the Necromongers, an army that plans to convert or kill all humans in the universe.

Director: David Twohy | Stars: Vin Diesel, Judi Dench, Colm Feore, Thandiwe Newton

Votes: 241,934 | Gross: $57.76M

45. The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

47 Metascore

Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok

Votes: 476,317 | Gross: $186.74M

46. Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004 TV Movie)

Unrated | 175 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Three tornadoes converge to wreak havoc on Chicago, disrupting the power grid and creating the worst super-storm in history: a category 6 twister.

Director: Dick Lowry | Stars: Thomas Gibson, Nancy McKeon, Chandra West, Brian Markinson

Votes: 2,695

47. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

PG | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

64 Metascore

After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.

Director: Kerry Conran | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi

Votes: 87,496 | Gross: $37.76M

48. The Forgotten (2004)

PG-13 | 91 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

43 Metascore

After being told that their children never existed, a man and woman soon discover there is a much bigger enemy at work.

Director: Joseph Ruben | Stars: Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Christopher Kovaleski, Matthew Pleszewicz

Votes: 68,376 | Gross: $66.64M

49. Godsend (2004)

PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

24 Metascore

A couple agree to have their deceased son cloned, under the supervision of an enigmatic doctor, but bizarre things start to happen several years after his rebirth.

Directors: Frank M. Calo, Nick Hamm | Stars: Robert De Niro, Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn, Cameron Bright

Votes: 26,474 | Gross: $14.38M

50. Primer (2004)

PG-13 | 77 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

68 Metascore

Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.

Director: Shane Carruth | Stars: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya

Votes: 114,224 | Gross: $0.42M

51. Alien Lockdown (2004 TV Movie)

R | 90 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

After an experiment to make the ultimate weapon goes wrong, a team of commandos is sent into a genetic research lab and end up getting stalked by a creature that looks a lot like the Predator

Director: Abram Cox | Stars: James Marshall, Michelle Goh, John Savage, Martin Kove

Votes: 943

52. One Point O (2004)

R | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

After receiving mysterious empty packages inside his apartment, a young computer-programmer begins a personal investigation into their origins.

Directors: Jeff Renfroe, Marteinn Thorsson | Stars: Richard Rees, Jeremy Sisto, Udo Kier, Deborah Kara Unger

Votes: 5,985

53. District B13 (2004)

R | 84 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

70 Metascore

In the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and an ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.

Director: Pierre Morel | Stars: Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Tony D'Amario, Bibi Naceri

Votes: 73,907 | Gross: $1.20M

54. Category 7: The End of the World (2005)

TV-PG | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A deadly category 7 storm wreaks havoc on the world. Meanwhile, kidnappers threaten to make matters even worse.

Stars: Cameron Daddo, Gina Gershon, Shannen Doherty, Randy Quaid

Votes: 2,957

55. The Cave (2005)

PG-13 | 97 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi

30 Metascore

Blood-thirsty creatures await a pack of divers who become trapped in an underwater cave network.

Director: Bruce Hunt | Stars: Piper Perabo, Morris Chestnut, Cole Hauser, Eddie Cibrian

Votes: 41,462 | Gross: $15.01M

56. Doom (2005)

R | 105 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

34 Metascore

Space Marines are sent to investigate strange events at a research facility on Mars but find themselves at the mercy of genetically enhanced killing machines.

Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak | Stars: Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike, Dwayne Johnson, Deobia Oparei

Votes: 118,765 | Gross: $28.21M

57. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

PG | 109 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

63 Metascore

Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

Director: Garth Jennings | Stars: Martin Freeman, Yasiin Bey, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel

Votes: 208,467 | Gross: $51.09M

58. The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

Not Rated | 80 min | Sci-Fi

65 Metascore

An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visits to Earth and Earth's man-made demise, while human astronauts attempt to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Brad Dourif, Donald Williams, Ellen Baker, Franklin Chang-Diaz

Votes: 3,889

59. Allegro (I) (2005)

88 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

63 Metascore

Famous pianist Zetterström returns home to his native Denmark, to give a concert, just to find out that the choices he has made in his life have affected his love life greatly.

Director: Christoffer Boe | Stars: Ulrich Thomsen, Helena Christensen, Henning Moritzen, Niels Skousen

Votes: 1,986 | Gross: $0.01M

60. Serenity (2005)

PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

74 Metascore

The crew of the ship Serenity try to evade an assassin sent to recapture telepath River.

Director: Joss Whedon | Stars: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alan Tudyk

Votes: 305,751 | Gross: $25.51M

61. The Dark Hours (2005)

R | 80 min | Horror, Thriller

63 Metascore

A beautiful but burnt out psychiatrist goes to the family's winter cottage for a weekend with her husband and sister, which is interrupted when a terrifying and unexpected guest arrives, a violent sex offender and patient of the doctor.

Director: Paul Fox | Stars: Kate Greenhouse, Bruce McFee, Jeff Seymour, David Calderisi

Votes: 5,594

62. Evil Aliens (2005)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

A TV crew, desperate to boost ratings, arrive on a remote Welsh farming island to investigate an intriguing incident. A local girl and her boyfriend had been abducted by aliens, who also impregnated her.

Director: Jake West | Stars: Emily Booth, Jamie Honeybourne, Samuel Butler, Jodie Shaw

Votes: 6,095

63. The Girl from Monday (2005)

R | 84 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

45 Metascore

A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.

Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Bill Sage, Sabrina Lloyd, Tatiana Abracos, Leo Fitzpatrick

Votes: 1,162

64. Hammerhead (2005 TV Movie)

R | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A scientist tries to save his son from cancer but his experiments turn him into a shark-man instead. A group of people from a pharmaceutical corporation are sent to the mad doctor's island to investigate his activities.

Director: Michael Oblowitz | Stars: William Forsythe, Hunter Tylo, Jeffrey Combs, Elise Muller

Votes: 1,807

65. Puzzlehead (2005)

Not Rated | 81 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

62 Metascore

Post apocalyptic Frankenstein-ish fantasy

Director: James Bai | Stars: Stephen Galaida, Robbie Shapiro, Mark Janis, Mark Lampert

Votes: 826

66. Man with the Screaming Brain (2005)

Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

The brains of a Russian taxi driver and a wealthy businessman are brought together in one body by a mad scientist.

Director: Bruce Campbell | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Tamara Gorski, Ted Raimi, Antoinette Byron

Votes: 5,640

67. Painkiller Jane (2005 TV Movie)

90 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Jane, a young soldier, is exposed to a biochemical weapon that endows her with self-healing powers. She uses her abilities to fight crime while eluding the military.

Director: Sanford Bookstaver | Stars: Emmanuelle Vaugier, Eric Dane, Richard Roundtree, Venus Terzo

Votes: 1,152

68. Headspace (2005)

R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

After an encounter with a mysterious stranger, a man finds his intellect rapidly expanding. As the power of his mind grows, so does the mystery of a series of brutal murders.

Director: Andrew van den Houten | Stars: Christopher Denham, Sean Young, Larry Fessenden, Daniel Manche

Votes: 2,068 | Gross: $0.00M

69. A Sound of Thunder (2005)

PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

24 Metascore

A single mistake in the past, by a time travel company in the future, has devastating and unforeseen consequences.

Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley, Catherine McCormack, Armin Rohde

Votes: 20,504 | Gross: $1.89M

70. The Fountain (2006)

PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

51 Metascore

As a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi.

Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Sean Patrick Thomas, Ellen Burstyn

Votes: 248,833 | Gross: $10.14M

71. Alien Autopsy (2006)

PG-13 | 95 min | Biography, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Humoristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal related to the fake documentary The Alien Autopsy (1995) about the Roswell incident.

Director: Jonny Campbell | Stars: Declan Donnelly, Anthony McPartlin, Bill Pullman, Götz Otto

Votes: 7,700

72. Children of Men (2006)

R | 109 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

84 Metascore

In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have somehow become infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.

Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Caine

Votes: 529,669 | Gross: $35.55M

73. Idiocracy (2006)

R | 84 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

66 Metascore

Corporal Joe Bauers, a decidedly average American, is selected for a top-secret hibernation program but is forgotten and left to awaken to a future so incredibly moronic that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.

Director: Mike Judge | Stars: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews

Votes: 182,640 | Gross: $0.44M

74. Altered (2006)

R | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Fifteen years ago, a group of men's lives were forever changed by a strange occurrence. Now, the same group of men will spend a night together ... in terror.

Director: Eduardo Sánchez | Stars: Adam Kaufman, Catherine Mangan, Brad William Henke, Michael C. Williams

Votes: 10,936

75. The Kovak Box (2006)

R | 102 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A sci-fi writer (Hutton) is invited to an island for a conference, only to discover that he's been lured into a trap.

Director: Daniel Monzón | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Lucía Jiménez, David Kelly, Georgia Mackenzie

Votes: 4,367

76. Slither (2006)

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

69 Metascore

A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.

Director: James Gunn | Stars: Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker, Don Thompson

Votes: 88,924 | Gross: $7.77M

77. Die Wolke (2006)

105 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

"Die Wolke" (The Cloud) is about the breakdown of a nuclear-power station in Germany and the story of teenage lovers Hannah and Elmar, who take refuge. 38,000 people die and Hannah unfortunately becomes contaminated.

Director: Gregor Schnitzler | Stars: Paula Kalenberg, Franz Dinda, Hans-Laurin Beyerling, Carina Wiese

Votes: 3,282

78. La hora fría (2006)

92 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

8-year-old Jesús has been living in a crumbling underground facility since he was born with eight survivors of an apocalyptic war: the leader Maria and her lover Pablo, gays Lucas and Mateo... See full summary »

Director: Elio Quiroga | Stars: Silke, Omar Muñoz, Pepo Oliva, Carola Manzanares

Votes: 1,977

79. Ultraviolet (2006)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Sci-Fi

18 Metascore

A beautiful haemophage infected with a virus that gives her superhuman powers has to protect a boy in a futuristic world, who is thought to be carrying antigens that would destroy all hæmophages.

Director: Kurt Wimmer | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund, Sebastien Andrieu

Votes: 84,109 | Gross: $18.50M

80. Sunshine (2007)

R | 107 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

64 Metascore

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: 267,639 | Gross: $3.68M

81. Próxima (2007)

116 min | Sci-Fi

Tony, the owner of a small fantastic film video shop, has found out that at times reality can defy science-fiction. The time has come to embark on a trip to a place nobody has ever been to before.

Director: Carlos Atanes | Stars: Oriol Aubets, Anthony Blake, Manel Solás, Abel Folk

Votes: 145

82. Timecrimes (2007)

R | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

68 Metascore

A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.

Director: Nacho Vigalondo | Stars: Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernández, Bárbara Goenaga, Nacho Vigalondo

Votes: 68,817 | Gross: $0.04M

83. Unearthed (2007)

R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

An unknown creature terrorizes an archeological dig in the middle of a desolate New Mexico town.

Director: Matthew Leutwyler | Stars: Emmanuelle Vaugier, Luke Goss, Beau Garrett, Deborah Offner

Votes: 3,876

84. Chrysalis (I) (2007)

94 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi

In the near future Paris, a cop is searching for his wife's killer. The trail leads him to a high tech medical clinic where everything is not what it seems.

Director: Julien Leclercq | Stars: Albert Dupontel, Marie Guillard, Marthe Keller, Mélanie Thierry

Votes: 2,976

85. Razortooth (2007 Video)

R | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The concept is based on a true story concerning an exotic species of eels that are released in the southeast from Asia. They breathe air and can survive on land.

Director: Patricia Harrington | Stars: Douglas Swander, Kathleen LaGue, Simon Page, Tim Colceri

Votes: 956

86. Babylon 5: The Lost Tales (2007)

Not Rated | 38 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

It's the tenth anniversary of the Interstellar Alliance, and President Sheridan is on his way to Babylon 5 for the celebration. However, he must first deal with a threat from the future, while Lochley handles a case of demonic possession.

Stars: Bruce Boxleitner, Tracy Scoggins, Peter Woodward, Alan Scarfe

Votes: 4,766

87. Blindness (2008)

R | 121 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

45 Metascore

A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness.

Director: Fernando Meirelles | Stars: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael García Bernal, Yûsuke Iseya

Votes: 75,213 | Gross: $3.07M

88. Outlander (2008)

R | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

40 Metascore

During the reign of the Vikings, Kainan, a man from a far-off world, crash lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator known as the Moorwen. Though both man and monster are seeking revenge for violence committed against them, Kainan leads the alliance to kill the Moorwen by fusing his advanced technology with the Viking's Iron Age weaponry.

Director: Howard McCain | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Ron Perlman, Jack Huston

Votes: 78,720 | Gross: $0.16M

89. The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)

PG-13 | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

47 Metascore

Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.

Director: Chris Carter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Billy Connolly, Amanda Peet

Votes: 94,023 | Gross: $20.98M

90. Cyborg Soldier (2008 Video)

R | 84 min | Action, Sci-Fi

A cyborg escapes the facility where he was created. With the help of a local sheriff, he tries to run from the dangerous scientists that created him.

Director: John Stead | Stars: Bruce Greenwood, Tiffani Thiessen, Rich Franklin, Wendy Anderson

Votes: 1,167

91. Sleep Dealer (2008)

PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

59 Metascore

The near future. Like tomorrow. In a world marked by closed borders, corporate warriors, and a global computer network, three strangers risk their lives to connect, break through the barriers of technology, and unseal their fates.

Director: Alex Rivera | Stars: Luis Fernando Peña, Leonor Varela, Jacob Vargas, Metztli Adamina

Votes: 6,687 | Gross: $0.08M

92. Alien Raiders (2008)

R | 85 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A group enters a supermarket at closing time, shoots around and takes hostages. They believe aliens have arrived there then. Cops arrive outside.

Director: Ben Rock | Stars: Carlos Bernard, Mathew St. Patrick, Rockmond Dunbar, Courtney Ford

Votes: 9,089

93. Franklyn (2008)

R | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

A portrait of the broken lives of four people (a vigilante detective, a worried parent, an awkward man looking for love and a suicidal artist) as they all struggle to cope in their religiously-dystopian city.

Director: Gerald McMorrow | Stars: Eva Green, Ryan Phillippe, Sam Riley, Bernard Hill

Votes: 18,158

94. Sea Beast (2008 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Mythic creatures emerge from the sea to feast on the residents of a fishing village.

Director: Paul Ziller | Stars: Corin Nemec, Miriam McDonald, Daniel Wisler, Camille Sullivan

Votes: 1,840

95. Gamer (2009)

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

27 Metascore

In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in order to be set free.

Directors: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor | Stars: Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Ludacris, Amber Valletta

Votes: 139,624 | Gross: $20.49M

96. Pandorum (2009)

R | 108 min | Action, Horror, Mystery

28 Metascore

Two crew members of a spaceship wake up from hypersleep to discover that all their colleagues are missing. Despite this, it appears that they are not alone.

Director: Christian Alvart | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Antje Traue

Votes: 159,596 | Gross: $10.33M

97. Push (2009)

PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

36 Metascore

Two young Americans with special abilities must race to find a girl in Hong Kong before a shadowy government organization called Division does.

Director: Paul McGuigan | Stars: Camilla Belle, Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans, Colin Ford

Votes: 115,607 | Gross: $31.81M

98. Cargo (2009)

112 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Dr. Laura P. takes a job on a cargo spaceship for 4 years plus 4 years back. She'll join her sister on Rhea. 44 months later, in Laura's shift, strange things happen in cargo. The crew is reanimated and the captain dies mysteriously.

Directors: Ivan Engler, Ralph Etter | Stars: Anna Katharina Schwabroh, Martin Rapold, Regula Grauwiller, Yangzom Brauen

Votes: 20,117

99. The Box (I) (2009)

PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

47 Metascore

With the press of a button, a wooden box bestows riches and death.

Director: Richard Kelly | Stars: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella, James Rebhorn

Votes: 95,362 | Gross: $15.05M

100. Moon (2009)

R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

67 Metascore

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.

Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Rosie Shaw

Votes: 376,834 | Gross: $5.01M



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