What are the best sci movies ever? It is an irony that until the 15th Century Science wasn’t taken seriously and scientific theories were considered fictional. However, several historical incidents in 15th century led people to explore the world more logically and find scientific reasons of unexplained phenomenons. This inspired many authors too who used several scientific theories into their fantasy world and wrote world famous novels. It is no exaggeration that Science fiction has actual led to inventions of several things in real life. Probably this is the reason why everyone shows keen interest in science fiction films or books.
The term science fiction was coined in the 19th century and the most important contribution to science fiction was that of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne. The science fiction genre was so popular among people that when the production companies invested in films there were several sci fi films too. The very first sci fi film is said to silent French film A Trip to the Moon in 1902. But the first sci fi film to gain popularity was Metropolis in 1927. However for the first half of 20th century Sci fi films were not upto par due to lack of technology. But after the Second World War ended the technology of developed countries was much advanced by then. This helped the film making too.
The 1950s is said to be the mother decade of sci fi films when a lot of science fiction films were produced. But still the films were not able to perform good at box office and sci fi was considered as a risky genre by film production companies. However in 1960s two landmark Sci fi films – Planet of the Apes and 2001: A Space Odyssey (both released in 1968) changed the whole scenario of sci fi genre. By 1970s Many producers tried hand in science fiction films and were highly successful. Star Wars is best example. By 1980s it was made clear that Sci fi films can easily break records on box office and this led to several B movie directors too to try hands in science fiction. Alien Invasion, Time Travel and Space movies were very popular among fans. By 1990s sci fi touched another milestone when Monster movies and disaster movies too were added to the genre. By 00s the highly successful sci fi movies were actually superhero films.
Here i have compiled a list of 100 Greatest Science Fiction Films ever made:
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100. The Day After Tomorrow
Director – Roland Emmerich
Cast – Ian Holm, Dennis Quaid, Sela Ward, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum
IMDB Rating – 6.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 44%
Release Date – May 28, 2004
Box Office – $544.3 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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99. Attack the Block
Director – Joe Cornish
Cast – Franz Drameh, Alex Esmail, John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker
IMDB Rating – 6.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 90%
Release Date – 13 May 2011
Box Office – £4.1 million
Genre – Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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98. Godzilla (1954)
Director – Ishirō Honda
Cast – Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kōchi
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 93%
Release Date – 3 November 1954
Box Office – $562,711
Genre – Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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97. Time bandits
Director – Terry Gilliam
Cast – Shelley Duvall, Ian Holm, Peter Vaughan, John Cleese, Katherine Helmond, Sean Connery, Michael Palin
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 89%
Release Date – 2 July 1981
Box Office – $42.4 million
Genre – Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Awards – None
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96. Strange Days
Director – Kathryn Bigelow
Cast – Angela Bassett, Tom Sizemore, Ralph Fiennes, Vincent D’Onofrio, Juliette Lewis
IMDB Rating – 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 61%
Release Date – 13 October 1995
Box Office – $8 million
Genre – Action, Crime, Drama
Awards – None
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95. Another Earth
Director – Mike Cahill
Cast – William Mapother, Brit Marling
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 66%
Release Date – 22 July 2011
Box Office – $1.8 million
Genre – Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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94. Primer
Director – Shane Carruth
Cast – David Sullivan, Shane Carruth
IMDB Rating – 6.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 72%
Release Date – 8 October 2004
Box Office – $841,926
Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
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93. The World’s End
Director – Edgar Wright
Cast – Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Simon Pegg, Martin Freeman
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 89%
Release Date – 10 July 2013
Box Office – $46.1 million
Genre – Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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92. Delicatessen
Director – Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Cast – Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Rufus, Dominique Pinon, Sylvie Laguna, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Karin Viard
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 89%
Release Date – 17 April 1991
Box Office – $12.4 million
Genre – Comedy, Crime
Awards – None
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91. Escape From New York
Director – John Carpenter
Cast – Donald Pleasence, Kurt Russell, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Van Cleef
IMDB Rating – 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 87%
Release Date – 23 May 1981
Box Office – $25.2 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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90. The Running Man
Director – Paul Michael Glaser
Cast – Yaphet Kotto, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Dawson, María Conchita Alonso
IMDB Rating – 6.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 64%
Release Date – 13 November 1987
Box Office – $38.1 million
Genre – Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –
89. The Time Traveller’s Wife
Director – Robert Schwentke
Cast – Rachel McAdams, Ron Livingston, Eric Bana
IMDB Rating – 7,1
Rotten Tomatoes – 39%
Release Date – 14 August 2009
Box Office – $101.3 million
Genre – Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Awards – None
Plot –
88. Dune
Director – David Lynch
Cast – Richard Jordan, Silvana Mangano, Leonardo Cimino, Francesca Annis, Linda Hunt, Freddie Jones, Brad Dourif
IMDB Rating – 6.5
Rotten Tomatoes – 53%
Release Date – 14 December 1984
Box Office – $30.9–37.9 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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87. The Invisible Man (1933)
Director – James Whale
Cast – William Harrigan, Gloria Stuart, Una O’Connor, Claude Rains, Dudley Digges
IMDB Rating – 7.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 100%
Release Date – 13 November 1933
Box Office – $328,033
Genre – Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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86. The Host (2006)
Director – Bong Joon-ho
Cast – Byun Hee-bong, Park Hae-il, Song Kang-ho, Bae Doona
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 93%
Release Date – 27 July 2006
Box Office – $89.4 million
Genre – Action, Drama, Horror
Awards – None
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85. They Live
Director – John Carpenter
Cast – Keith David, Roddy Piper, Meg Foster
IMDB Rating – 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 85%
Release Date – 4 November 1988
Box Office – $13 million
Genre – Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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84. TRON
Director – Steven Lisberger
Cast – Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan, Jeff Bridges, David Warner
IMDB Rating – 6.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 71%
Release Date – 9 July 1982
Box Office – $33 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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83. Soylent Green
Director – Richard Fleischer
Cast – Leigh Taylor-Young, Edward G. Robinson, Charlton Heston
IMDB Rating – 7.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 71%
Release Date – 19 April 1973
Box Office – $3,600,000
Genre – Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
82. WarGames
Director – John Badham
Cast – Ally Sheedy, Matthew Broderick, John Wood, Dabney Coleman
IMDB Rating – 7.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 93%
Release Date – 3 June 1983
Box Office – $79.6 million
Genre – Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
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81. Mars Attacks!
Director – Tim Burton
Cast – Annette Bening, Jack Nicholson, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Glenn Close, Pierce Brosnan
IMDB Rating – 6.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 53%
Release Date – 13 December 1996
Box Office – $101.4 million
Genre – Comedy, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
80. Spaceballs
Director – Mel Brooks
Cast – Rick Moranis, Dick Van Patten, John Candy, Mel Brooks, Daphne Zuniga, Bill Pullman
IMDB Rating – 7.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 59%
Release Date – 24 June 1987
Box Office – $38.1 million
Genre – Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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79. 2046
Director – Wong Kar-wai
Cast – Gong Li, Takuya Kimura, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Carina Lau, Zhang Ziyi, Faye Wong
IMDB Rating – 7.5
Rotten Tomatoes – 86%
Release Date – 29 September 2004
Box Office – $19,470,239
Genre – Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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78. Galaxy Quest
Director – Dean Parisot
Cast – Sigourney Weaver, Sam Rockwell, Tim Allen, Tony Shalhoub, Alan Rickman
IMDB Rating – 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 90%
Release Date – 25 December 1999
Box Office – $90.7 million
Genre – Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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77. Pandorum
Director – Christian Alvart
Cast – Cam Gigandet, Dennis Quaid, Cung Le, Ben Foster, Antje Traue
IMDB Rating – 6.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 28%
Release Date – 25 September 2009
Box Office – $20.6 million
Genre – Action, Horror, Mystery
Awards – None
Plot –
76. Stalker (1979)
Director – Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast – Nikolai Grinko, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Alisa Freindlich, Anatoly Solonitsyn
IMDB Rating – 8.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 100%
Release Date – 25 May 1979
Box Office – $ 1 million
Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
75. Melancholia
Director – Lars von Trier
Cast – Cameron Spurr, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling, Kirsten Dunst, Alexander Skarsgård, Brady Corbet
IMDB Rating – 7.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 79%
Release Date – 26 May 2011
Box Office – $15.9 million
Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
74. The Fly
Director – David Cronenberg
Cast – John Getz, Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis
IMDB Rating – 7.5
Rotten Tomatoes – 92%
Release Date – 1 January 1986
Box Office – $60.6 million
Genre – Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
Plot –
73. THX 1138
Director – George Lucas
Cast – Donald Pleasence, Maggie McOmie, Robert Duvall, Don Pedro Colley
IMDB Rating – 6.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 87%
Release Date – 11 March 1971
Box Office – $2.4 million
Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –
72. The Man From Earth
Director – Richard Schenkman
Cast – John Billingsley, Tony Todd, David Lee Smith
IMDB Rating – 7.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 85%
Release Date – 10 June 2007
Box Office – $ 1 million
Genre – Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
71. Battle Royale
Director – Kinji Fukasaku
Cast – Aki Maeda, Chiaki Kuriyama, Tarō Yamamoto, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takeshi Kitano
IMDB Rating – 7.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 87%
Release Date – 1 January 2000
Box Office – $30 million
Genre – Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
70. Death Race Series
Director – Paul W. S. Anderson
Cast – Tyrese Gibson, an McShane, Jason Statham, Joan Allen
IMDB Rating – 6.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 42%
Release Date – 22 August 2008
Box Office – $75.7 million
Genre – Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –
69. Super 8
Director – J.J. Abrams
Cast – Gabriel Basso, Kyle Chandler, Ron Eldard, Elle Fanning, Noah Emmerich, Joel Courtney
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 81%
Release Date – June 10, 2011
Box Office – $260.1 million
Genre – Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –
68. Frankenstein (1931)
Director – James Whale
Cast – John Boles, Colin Clive, Dwight Frye, Boris Karloff, Mae Clarke
IMDB Rating – 7.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 100%
Release Date – 21 November 1931
Box Office – $12 million
Genre – Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
67. The Mist
Director – Frank Darabont
Cast – William Sadler, Andre Braugher, Marcia Gay Harden, Thomas Jane, Laurie Holden, Toby Jones
IMDB Rating – 7.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 72%
Release Date – 21 November 2007
Box Office – $57.3 million
Genre – Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
66. Gattaca
Director – Andrew Niccol
Cast – Jude Law, Uma Thurman, Alan Arkin, Ethan Hawke
IMDB Rating – 7.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 82%
Release Date – 24 October 1997
Box Office – $12.5 million
Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –
65. Resident Evil Series
Director – Paul W. S. Anderson
Cast – Michelle Rodriguez, James Purefoy, Milla Jovovich, Eric Mabius
IMDB Rating – 6.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 35%
Release Date – 12 March 2002
Box Office – $103 million
Genre – Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
64. V For Vendetta
Director – James McTeigue
Cast – Stephen Rea, Natalie Portman, John Hurt, Hugo Weaving
IMDB Rating – 8.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 72%
Release Date – 23 February 2006
Box Office – $132.5 million
Genre – Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
63. Mr. Nobody
Director – Jaco Van Dormael
Cast – Linh Dan Pham, Natasha Little, Sarah Polley, Jared Leto, Diane Kruger, Rhys Ifans
IMDB Rating – 7.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 67%
Release Date – 6 November 2009
Box Office – $ 1 million
Genre – Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Awards – None
Plot –
62. The Butterfly Effect
Director – Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber
Cast – Melora Walters, Elden Henson, Eric Stoltz, Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, William Lee Scott
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 33%
Release Date – January 23, 2004
Box Office – $96.1 million
Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –
61. Minority Report
Director – Steven Spielberg
Cast – Samantha Morton, Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow, Colin Farrell
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 91%
Release Date – June 21, 2002
Box Office – $358.4 million
Genre – Action, Crime, Mystery
Awards – None
Plot –
60. Dark City
Director – Alex Proyas
Cast – Kiefer Sutherland, Richard O’Brien, Rufus Sewell, Jennifer Connelly
IMDB Rating – 7.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 75%
Release Date – 27 February 1998
Box Office – $27.2 million
Genre – Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –
59. Brazil
Director – Terry Gilliam
Cast – Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, Jonathan Pryce, Ian Holm, Robert De Niro
IMDB Rating – 7.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 98%
Release Date – 20 February 1985
Box Office – $9.9 million
Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
58. Limitless
Director – Neil Burger
Cast – Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish, Andrew Howard, Bradley Cooper
IMDB Rating – 7.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 69%
Release Date – March 8, 2011
Box Office – $161.8 million
Genre – Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –
57. The Fountain
Director – Darren Aronofsky
Cast – Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn, Hugh Jackman
IMDB Rating – 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 52%
Release Date – 22 November 2006
Box Office – $16 million
Genre – Drama, Mystery, Romance
Awards – None
Plot –
56. Children Of Men
Director – Alfonso Cuarón
Cast – Julianne Moore, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Clive Owen, Michael Caine
IMDB Rating – 7.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 92%
Release Date – 22 September 2006
Box Office – $70 million
Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –
55. Donnie Darko
Director – Richard Kelly
Cast – Drew Barrymore, Jake Gyllenhaal, Katharine Ross, Jena Malone, James Duval, Mary McDonnell
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 87%
Release Date – 19 January 2001
Box Office – $7.5 million
Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –
54. The Truman Show
Director – Peter Weir
Cast – Noah Emmerich, Jim Carrey, Holland Taylor, Laura Linney, Natascha McElhone
IMDB Rating – 8.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 94%
Release Date – 1 June 1998
Box Office – $264.1 million
Genre – Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
53. Robocop Series
Director – Paul Verhoeven
Cast – Nancy Allen, Peter Weller, Kurtwood Smith, Daniel O’Herlihy, Ronny Cox
IMDB Rating – 7.5
Rotten Tomatoes – 89%
Release Date – July 17, 1987
Box Office – $53.4 million
Genre – Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
52. Starship Troopers
Director – Paul Verhoeven
Cast – Denise Richards, Casper Van Dien, Neil Patrick Harris, Dina Meyer, Jake Busey
IMDB Rating – 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 63%
Release Date – 4 November 1997
Box Office – $121.2 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
51. Oblivion
Director – Joseph Kosinski
Cast – Morgan Freeman, Tom Cruise, Andrea Riseborough, Olga Kurylenko
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 53%
Release Date – April 19, 2013
Box Office – $286.2 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
50. Cloverfield
Director – Matt Reeves
Cast – T.J. Miller, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan, Michael Stahl-David
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 77%
Release Date – 16 January 2008
Box Office – $170.8 million
Genre – Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –
49. Pacific Rim
Director – Guillermo del Toro
Cast – Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Charlie Hunnam, Rob Kazinsky, Idris Elba, Mana Ashida
IMDB Rating – 6.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 72%
Release Date – July 12, 2013
Box Office – 411.5 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
48. I, Robot
Director – Alex Proyas
Cast – Bridget Moynahan, James Cromwell, Will Smith, Bruce Greenwood
IMDB Rating – 7.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 56%
Release Date – July 16, 2004
Box Office – $347.2 million
Genre – Action, Crime, Drama
Awards – None
Plot –
47. Armageddon
Director – Michael Bay
Cast – Ben Affleck, Bruce Willis, Peter Stormare, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Will Patton
IMDB Rating – 6.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 38%
Release Date – 30 June 1998
Box Office – $553.7 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
46. War of the Worlds
Director – Steven Spielberg
Cast – Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Tom Cruise, Justin Chatwin
IMDB Rating – 6.5
Rotten Tomatoes – 75%
Release Date – 28 June 2005
Box Office – $591.7 million
Genre – Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –
45. 28 Days Later…
Director – Danny Boyle
Cast – Christopher Eccleston, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Naomie Harris, Megan Burns
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 86%
Release Date – 1 November 2002
Box Office – $82.7 million
Genre – Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
44. Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind
Director – Michel Gondry
Cast – Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Kate Winslet, Jim Carrey
IMDB Rating – 8.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 93%
Release Date – 19 March 2004
Box Office – $72.3 million
Genre – Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
Plot –
43. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 and 1978, both parts)
Director – Philip Kaufman
Cast – Leonard Nimoy, Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, Brooke Adams
IMDB Rating – 7.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 95%
Release Date – 22 December 1978
Box Office – $24.9 million
Genre – Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
42. I am Legend
Director – Francis Lawrence
Cast – Alice Braga, Dash Mihok, Will Smith
IMDB Rating – 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 68%
Release Date – 5 December 2007
Box Office – $585.3 million
Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –
41. Metropolis (1927)
Director – Fritz Lang
Cast – Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Alfred Abel
IMDB Rating – 8.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 99%
Release Date – 10 January 1927
Box Office – 75,000
Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
40. Cloud Atlas
Director – Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Cast – Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess, Halle Berry, Tom Hanks, Doona Bae, Hugo Weaving
IMDB Rating – 7.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 66%
Release Date – 26 October 2012
Box Office – $130.5 million
Genre – Action, Drama, Mystery
Awards – None
Plot –
39. Watchmen
Director – Zack Snyder
Cast – Matthew Goode, Malin Åkerman, Jackie Earle Haley, Billy Crudup, Carla Gugino
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 64%
Release Date – 23 February 2009
Box Office – $185.3 million
Genre – Action, Drama, Mystery
Awards – None
Plot –
38. Serenity
Director – Joss Whedon
Cast – Adam Baldwin, Summer Glau, Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk
IMDB Rating – 7.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 83%
Release Date – 24 August 2005
Box Office – $38.9–40.3 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
37. Predator Series
Director – John McTiernan
Cast – Jesse Ventura, Richard Chaves, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Duke, Carl Weathers
IMDB Rating – 7.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 81%
Release Date – 12 June 1987
Box Office – $98.7 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
36. The Hunger Games
Director – Gary Ross
Cast – Josh Hutcherson, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth
IMDB Rating – 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 84%
Release Date – March 12, 2012
Box Office – $694.4 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
35. Independence Day
Director – Roland Emmerich
Cast – Mary McDonnell, Jeff Goldblum, Margaret Colin, Bill Pullman, Judd Hirsch, Will Smith
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 65%
Release Date – July 2, 1996
Box Office – $817.4 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
Plot –
34. Twelve Monkeys
Director – Terry Gilliam
Cast – Madeleine Stowe, Christopher Plummer, Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 89%
Release Date – 27 December 1995
Box Office – $168.8 million
Genre – Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –
33. District 9
Director – Neill Blomkamp
Cast – Jason Cope, Mandla Gaduka, Eugene Khumbanyiwa, Sharlto Copley, Vanessa Haywood, David James
IMDB Rating – 7.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 90%
Release Date – 13 August 2009
Box Office – $210.8 million
Genre – Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –
32. Moon
Director – Duncan Jones
Cast – Sam Rockwell
IMDB Rating – 7.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 90%
Release Date – 12 June 2009
Box Office – $9.8 million
Genre – Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
31. Source Code
Director – Duncan Jones
Cast – Vera Farmiga, Michelle Monaghan, Jake Gyllenhaal
IMDB Rating – 7.5
Rotten Tomatoes – 92%
Release Date – April 1, 2011
Box Office – $147.3 million
Genre – Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
30. Total Recall
Director – Paul Verhoeven
Cast – Rachel Ticotin, Michael Ironside, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone
IMDB Rating – 7.5
Rotten Tomatoes – 82%
Release Date – 1 June 1990
Box Office – $261.3 million
Genre – Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –
29. Solaris (1972)
Director – Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast – Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk
IMDB Rating – 8.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 95%
Release Date – 30 December 1971
Box Office – $829,000
Genre – Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
28. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Director – Robert Wise
Cast – Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Michael Rennie, Sam Jaffe
IMDB Rating – 7.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 94%
Release Date – 18 September 1951
Box Office – $1.85 million
Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
27. Forbidden Planet (1956)
Director – Fred M. Wilcox
Cast – Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 98%
Release Date – 15 March 1956
Box Office – $2,765,000
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
26. The Fifth Element
Director – Luc Besson
Cast – Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker, Bruce Willis, Ian Holm
IMDB Rating – 7.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 71%
Release Date – 7 May 1997
Box Office – $263.9 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
25. Looper
Director – Rian Johnson
Cast – Emily Blunt, Noah Segan, Bruce Willis, Paul Dano, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
IMDB Rating – 7.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 93%
Release Date – September 6, 2012
Box Office – $176.5 million
Genre – Action, Crime, Drama
Awards – None
Plot –
24. The Abyss
Director – James Cameron
Cast – Mastrantonio, Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, Mary Elizabeth
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 86%
Release Date – 9 August 1989
Box Office – $90 million
Genre – Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
Plot –
23. Blade Runner
Director – Ridley Scott
Cast – Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos, Harrison Ford, Sean Young
IMDB Rating – 8.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 90%
Release Date – June 25, 1982
Box Office – $32.9 million
Genre – Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –
22. The Thing
Director – John Carpenter
Cast – Kurt Russell
IMDB Rating – 8.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 84%
Release Date – June 25, 1982
Box Office – $19.6 million
Genre – Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
21. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Director – Steven Spielberg
Cast – Teri Garr, François Truffaut, Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 95%
Release Date – November 16, 1977
Box Office – $306.1 million
Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
Plot –
20. A Clockwork Orange
Director – Stanley Kubrick
Cast – Adrienne Corri, Malcolm McDowell, Miriam Karlin, Patrick Magee
IMDB Rating – 8.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 90%
Release Date – 19 December 1971
Box Office – $26.6 million
Genre – Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
19. Men in Black Series
Director – Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast – Will Smith, Vincent D’Onofrio, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Fiorentino
IMDB Rating – 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 92%
Release Date – 4 July 1997
Box Office – $589.4 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Comedy
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
Plot –
18. Ironman Series
Director – Jon Favreau
Cast – Jeff Bridges, Robert Downey Jr., Shaun Toub, Terrence Howard
IMDB Rating – 7.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 93%
Release Date – May 2, 2008
Box Office – $585.2 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
17. X-Men Series
Director – Bryan Singer
Cast – Halle Berry, James Marsden, Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen
IMDB Rating – 7.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 81%
Release Date – 13 July 2000
Box Office – $296.3 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
16. Superman Series
Director – Richard Donner
Cast – Christopher Reeve, Jackie Cooper, Trevor Howard, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, Marlon Brando, Ned Beatty
IMDB Rating – 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 94%
Release Date – December 10, 1978
Box Office – $300.5 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Drama
Awards – None
Plot –
15. Prometheus
Director – Ridley Scott
Cast – Idris Elba, Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Guy Pearce, Michael Fassbender
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 73%
Release Date – April 11, 2012
Box Office – $403.4 million
Genre – Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
14. Gravity
Director – Alfonso Cuarón
Cast – George Clooney, Sandra Bullock
IMDB Rating – 7.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 96%
Release Date – October 4, 2013
Box Office – $723.2 million
Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – Won 7 Oscars
Plot –
13. Avatar
Director – James Cameron
Cast – Zoe Saldana, Michelle Rodriguez, Sam Worthington, Stephen Lang
IMDB Rating – 7.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 82%
Release Date – December 10, 2009
Box Office – $2.790 billion
Genre – Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Awards – Won 3 Oscars
Plot –
12. Inception
Director – Christopher Nolan
Cast – Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard
IMDB Rating – 8.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 87%
Release Date – July 8, 2010
Box Office – $828.3 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – Won 4 Oscars
Plot –
11. E.T. – The Extra Terrestrial
Director – Steven Spielberg
Cast – Peter Coyote, Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace
IMDB Rating – 7.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 98%
Release Date – 10 June 1982
Box Office – $792.9 million
Genre – Family, Sci-Fi
Awards – Won 4 Oscars
Plot –
10. Planet of the Apes Series
Director – Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast – Kim Hunter, Charlton Heston, Maurice Evans, Roddy McDowall
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 88%
Release Date – 27 March 1968
Box Office – $33.4 million
Genre – Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
9. Back to the Future Trilogy
Director – Robert Zemeckis
Cast – Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Michael J. Fox, Crispin Glover
IMDB Rating – 8.5
Rotten Tomatoes – 96%
Release Date – 3 July 1985
Box Office – $389.1 million
Genre – Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
Plot –
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey
Director – Stanley Kubrick
Cast – Gary Lockwood, Keir Dullea
IMDB Rating – 8.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 93%
Release Date – 2 April 1968
Box Office – $138–193 million
Genre – Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
Plot –
7. Alien Series
Director – Ridley Scott
Cast – Sigourney Weaver, Harry Dean Stanton, Tom Skerritt, Ian Holm, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright
IMDB Rating – 8.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 97%
Release Date – June 22, 1979
Box Office – $104.9–203.6 million
Genre – Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
Plot –
6. Jurassic Park Series
Director – Steven Spielberg
Cast – Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Martin Ferrero, Sam Neill, Bob Peck, Laura Dern
IMDB Rating – 8.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 91%
Release Date – June 11, 1993
Box Office – $914.6 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – Won 3 Oscars
Plot –
5. Transformers Series
Director – Michael Bay
Cast –
Josh Duhamel, Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf, Anthony Anderson, Tyrese Gibson
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 58%
Release Date – June 12, 2007
Box Office – $709.7 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
4. Star Trek Series
Director – Robert Wise
Cast – DeForest Kelley, William Shatner, Majel Barrett, Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan, George Takei
IMDB Rating – 6.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 42%
Release Date – 6 December 1979
Box Office – $139 million
Genre – Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
3. Terminator Series
Director – James Cameron
Cast – Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Paul Winfield, Michael Biehn
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 100%
Release Date – 26 October 1984
Box Office – $78.3 million
Genre – Action, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –
2. The Matrix Trilogy
Director – Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Cast – Carrie-Anne Moss, Keanu Reeves, Hugo Weaving, Laurence Fishburne
IMDB Rating – 8.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 88%
Release Date – 31 March 1999
Box Office – $463.5 million
Genre – Action, Sci-Fi
Awards – Won 4 Oscars
Plot –
1. Star Wars Series
Director – George Lucas
Cast – Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford
IMDB Rating – 8.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 93%
Release Date – May 25, 1977
Box Office –$775.4 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Awards – Won 6 Oscars
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So what kind of science fiction you like? Is it Time Travel or Space Travel or Alien Invasion or Apocalpyse or Monster or Superhero? Which is your favorite Sci fi film? Did we missed any Good science fiction movie in the list? If so do tell us in comments.
