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.
Contamination Virus-21 (2020)
The climate change has released an ancient rabies virus trapped in the Antarctica ice. A female scientist tries to get to the laboratory to create a c... Read more
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018)
5.7/10
Calvin Barr, an old, bitter recluse who was once a legendary assassin for the US government, and whose task to kill Hitler almost changed the course o... Read more
Westworld: Season 4: The Choice (2022)
7.5/10
Starring: Jeffrey Wright, Evan Rachel Wood, Aaron Paul
In an amusement park that re-creates the Wild West with amazing accuracy, high-paying guests indulge in frontier fantasies with the help of state-of-t... Read more
Super 8 (Blu-ray) (2011)
7/10
Director: J J Abrams
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Noah Emmerich, Ron Eldard, Elle Fanning
In 1979, a group of small-town Ohio teenagers accidentally films a train wreck while making a Super 8 movie. The sudden arrival of the military and a... Read more
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Blu-ray) (2022)
6.1/10
Director: Peyton Reed
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Rudd, Walton Goggin...
Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne are dragged into the Quantum Realm, along with Hope's parents and Scott's daughter Cassie. Together they must find a way... Read more
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (Blu-ray) (1977)
8.6/10
Director: George Lucas
Starring: Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, Voice O...
The story of a boy, a girl and a universe. Now a classic, this blend of pulp magazine sci-fi, comic book action, old fashioned cliff-hanger story and... Read more
The Brain Eaters (1958)
4/10
Director: Bruno Vesota
Starring: Ed Nelson, Alan Frost
Strange things are happening in Riverdale, Illinois. A mysterious cone, 50-feet tall by 50-feet across at its base, is discovered sticking out of the... Read more
Captain Video (1951)
5.9/10
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell
Starring: Gene Roth, Judd Holdren, Larry Stewart, George Eldredge
Two years after his television debut, the space-faring scientific genius and 'Captain of the Video Rangers' became the first TV character to make the... Read more
CJ7 (2007)
6.5/10
Director: Stephen Chow
Starring: Stephen Chow, Xu Jiao, Kitty Zhang
Hong Kong comedy king Stephen Chow directs and stars in this sci-fi family comedy as a struggling single father whose quest to find his son the perfec... Read more
Elysium ( Blu-ray ) (2013)
6.6/10
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Starring: Jodie Foster, Matt Damon, William Fichtner, Diego Luna, Wagner Moura, Alice Brag...
In the year 2154, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live... Read more