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.
Supernova (2000)
4.9/10
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: James Spader, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Lou Diamond Phillips, Peter Facine...
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... Read more
Glass (Blu-Ray) (2019)
7/10
Director: M Night Shyamalan
Starring: Samuel L Jackson, James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Sarah Paulson, Anya Taylor-Joy, M...
M. Night Shyamalan brings together the narratives of two of his standout originals—2000’s Unbreakable, from Touchstone, and 2016’s Split, from Univers... Read more
Alphas (2011)
7.2/10
Starring: David Strathairn, Ryan Cartwright, Malik Yoba, Mahershala Ali, John Pyper-Fergus...
Alphas is a science fiction drama focusing on a team that investigates people with supernatural abilities. Read more
Sweet Tooth (2021)
7.8/10
Starring: Nonso Anozie, Christian Convery, Adeel Akhtar
Ten years ago "The Great Crumble" wreaked havoc on the world and led to the mysterious emergence of hybrids babies born part human, part animal. Unsur... Read more
Shin Ultraman (2022)
6.4/10
Starring: Takumi Saito, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masami Nagasawa, Daiki Arioka, Akari Hayami
After the accidental death of a human during battle, Ultraman takes on the man's appearance and place at the S-Class Species Suppression Protocol to p... Read more
Project Moonbase (1953)
Director: Richard Talmadge
Starring: Donna Martell, Larry Johns, Hayden Rorke
Intriguing sci-fi feature, culled from episodes of an unaired TV series, that was created and co-scripted by novelist Robert A. Heinlein. In the year... Read more
First Man Into Space (1958)
5.5/10
Director: Robert Day
Starring: Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards
"A better than it looks" tale of a daring pilot who disobeys orders and becomes the title character, returning to Earth a dust-encrusted, blood-drinki... Read more
Darkman (Blu-Ray) (1990)
6.4/10
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Colin Friels, Dan Hicks, Frances McDormand, Larry Drake, Liam Ne...
When thugs employed by a crime boss lead a vicious assault on Dr. Peyton Wilder (Liam Neeson), leaving him literally and psychologically scarred, an e... Read more
Babylon A.D. Raw & Uncut (Blu-ray) (2008)
5.6/10
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Starring: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Gerard Depardieu, Melanie Thierry, Charlotte Rampling...
Sci-fi actioner with Vin Diesel as an outcast desperate to get back home to the U.S.A. Russian mobster Gerard Depardieu provides him with an opportuni... Read more
The Descent (Blu-ray) (2005)
7.2/10
Director: Neil Marshall
Starring: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, Nora-Jane Noone, My...
When sperlunking goes bad...A group of girls on their annual holiday become trapped in an uncharted cave after a rock fall cuts them off from the outs... Read more