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Science Fiction

Science fiction as a genre of film making has been an element of the cinema experience since the earliest days of the motion picture industry. These films have explored a great range of unique topics, including many that cannot be readily presented in other genre. Science fiction films have been used to explore sensitive social and political issues, while often providing an entertaining story for the more casual viewer. Today, science fiction films are in the forefront of new special effects technology, and the audience has become accustomed to displays of realistic aliens, space battles, energy weapons, faster than light travel, and distant worlds. This genre has produced many memorable films, as well as a number that can be considered mediocre or even among the worst examples of film production. It took many decades, and the efforts of talented teams of film producers, for the science fiction film genre to be taken seriously as an art form by many critics. The very best of these films may be scrolled below, or for Sci-Fi TV Series, select the green 'Televison Shows' heading on left, and then the 'TV Sci-Fi' option.

The Giant Behemoth (1959)

5.8/10
Director: Eugene Lourie
Starring: Gene Evans, Andre Morell

A Cornish fisherman is found covered with what looks like radiation burns. Before he dies, the fisherman utters the word 'behemoth', citing a monster... Read more

The Girl From Rio (1968)

Director: Jesus Franco
Starring: George Sanders, Shirley Eaton, Richard Wyler, Maria Rohm

In the tradition of "Barbarella" and "Danger: Diabolik" comes this swinging '60s action orgy as bisexual super-villain Sumitra (Shirley Eaton) launche... Read more

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)

7.8/10
Director: Mamoru Hosoda

17-year-old Makoto is an outgoing tomboy of a girl, living a happy, carefree life - but on this particular day everything seems to be going wrong... i... Read more

The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)

6.7/10
Director: Colm McCarthy
Starring: Paddy Considine, Gemma Arterton, Sennia Nanua

In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into a thoughtless, flesh-eating monster. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who s... Read more

The Giver (2014)

6.5/10
Director: Phillip Noyce
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Katie Holmes, Meryl Streep, Alexander Skarsgard, Taylor Swift, Bre...

The haunting story of The Giver centers on Jonas (Brenton Thwaites), a young man who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and... Read more

The Gracefield Incident (2019)

4.2/10
Starring: Juliette Gosselin

In Gracefield, three couples are spending a long weekend in a luxurious cabin when suddenly an uninvited guest in the form of a meteorite, comes crash... Read more

The Handmaid's Tale (1990)

6/10
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Starring: Natasha Richardson, Aidan Quinn, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall

A stylish adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel of the not-so-distant future where certain young women are used to bear 'pure' children for the milita... Read more

The Hidden (1987)

7/10
Director: Jack Sholder
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Clu Gulager

A young FBI agent (Kyle MacLachlan) teams up with an L.A. cop (Michael Nouri) to solve mysterious goings on involving an alien organism that switches... Read more

The High Crusade (1994)

5.1/10
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: John Rhys-Davies, Rick Overton

Roland Emmerich (Stargate, Independence Day, and Godzilla) brings you John Rhys-Davies in a Monty Pythonesque tale of a band of Crusaders who find the... Read more

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

6.8/10
Director: Garth Jennings
Starring: Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel, Warwick Davis, Alan Rick...

Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) escapes Earth seconds before destruction with ET pal Ford (Mos Def) joining forces with galactic president Zaphod (Sam Ro... Read more