Top 100 Sci-Fi Movies List

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#100 Sci-fi Movie

Zardoz (1974) PG-13

In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.

Director:

John Boorman

Writers:

John Boorman

Stars:

Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman

#99 Sci-fi Movie

Barbarella (1968) R

In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.

Director:

Roger Vadim

Writers:

Jean-Claude Forest, Claude Brulé

Stars:

Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg

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#98 Sci-fi Movie

Flash Gordon (1980) PG-13

A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.

Director:

Mike Hodges

Writers:

Lorenzo Semple Jr., Michael Allin (adaptation)

Stars:

Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow

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#97 Sci-fi Movie

Existenz (1999) R

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

Director:

David Cronenberg

Writers:

David Cronenberg

Stars:

Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ian Holm

#96 Sci-fi Movie

Logan's Run (1976) PG

An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at 30.

Director:

Michael Anderson

Writers:

David Zelag Goodman, William F. Nolan

Stars:

Michael York, Richard Jordan, Farrah Fawcett

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#95 Sci-fi Movie

The Arrival (1996) PG-13

Zane, an astronomer, discovers intelligent alien life. But the aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will do anything to stop Zane from learning it.

Director:

David Twohy

Writers:

David Twohy

Stars:

Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Schiff

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#94 Sci-fi Movie

Innerspace (1987) PG

A hapless store clerk must foil criminals to save the life of the man who, miniaturized in a secret experiment, was accidentally injected into him.

Director:

Joe Dante

Writers:

Chip Proser (story), Jeffrey Boam

Stars:

Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan

#93 Sci-fi Movie

Sleep Dealer (2008) PG-13

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

Writers:

Alex Rivera, David Riker

Stars:

Leonor Varela, Jacob Vargas, Luis Fernando Peña

#92 Sci-fi Movie

The Ice Pirates (1984) PG

In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father who disappeared when he found information dangerous to the rulers. A real Space Opera with sword fights, fighting robots, monsters, and time warps.

Director:

Stewart Raffill

Writers:

Stewart Raffill, Stanford Sherman

Stars:

Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, Michael D. Roberts

#91 Sci-fi Movie

Space Truckers (1996) PG-13

John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo turns out to be multitude of unstoppable and deadly killer robots.

Director:

Stuart Gordon

Writers:

Ted Mann, Stuart Gordon (story)

Stars:

Tim Loane, Ian Beattie, Olwen Fouere

#90 Sci-fi Movie

The Last Starfighter (1984) PG

A discouraged video-gaming boy finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force.

Director:

Nick Castle

Writers:

Jonathan R. Betuel

Stars:

Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Kay E. Kuter

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#89 Sci-fi Movie

Repo Man (1984) R

Young punk Otto becomes a repo man after helping to steal a car, and stumbles into a world of wackiness as a result.

Director:

Alex Cox

Writers:

Alex Cox

Stars:

Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter

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#88 Sci-fi Movie

Starship Troopers (1997) R

Humans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival.

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Writers:

Edward Neumeier, Robert A. Heinlein (book)

Stars:

Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer

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#87 Sci-fi Movie

Dark universe (1993) R

On its way back to Earth, the space shuttle Nautilus passes through a cloud of alien spores causing its sole occupant, astronaut Steve Thomas to transform into a blood-thirsty monster. The shuttle crashes into a swampy region of central Florida, creating a situation which threatens contagion and/or death to all who encounter the shuttle or its mutated pilot.

Director:

Steve Latshaw

Writers:

Patrick Moran

Stars:

Joe Estevez, Blake Pickett, Laurie Sherman

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#86 Sci-fi Movie

Enemy Mine (1985) PG-13

A soldier from Earth crash-lands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.

Director:

Wolfgang Petersen

Writers:

Barry Longyear (story), Edward Khmara

Stars:

Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James

#85 Sci-fi Movie

Starman (1984) PG

An alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona. The government tries to stop them.

Director:

John Carpenter

Writers:

Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon

Stars:

Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith

#84 Sci-fi Movie

Crossworlds (1996) PG-13

A young man discovers that his father was from another dimension and that he is the key to the operation of a crystal that can be the deciding factor in a war crossing the dimensions.

Director:

Krishna Rao

Writers:

Krishna Rao, Raman Rao

Stars:

Rutger Hauer, Josh Charles, Stuart Wilson

#83 Sci-fi Movie

Cloud Atlas (2012) R

An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.

Director:

Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski

Writers:

David Mitchell (novel), Lana Wachowski

Stars:

Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant

#82 Sci-fi Movie

Event Horizon (1997) R

A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board.

Director:

Paul W.S. Anderson

Writers:

Philip Eisner

Stars:

Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan

#81 Sci-fi Movie

Next (2007) PG-13

A Las Vegas magician who can see into the future is pursued by FBI agents seeking to use his abilities to prevent a nuclear terrorist attack.

Director:

Lee Tamahori

Writers:

Gary Goldman, Jonathan Hensleigh

Stars:

Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel

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