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.
WALL-E (2008)
8.4/10
Director: Andrew Stanton
Starring: Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Burtt, Elis...
Pixar hit the box office jackpot with the charming exploits of a little robot who got left behind when Earth became uninhabitable. His job? Pick up th... Read more
Mad Max: Fury Road ( Blu-ray ) (3D) (2015)
8.1/10
Director: George Miller
Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne
From director George Miller, originator of the post-apocalyptic genre and mastermind behind the legendary Mad Max franchise, comes Mad Max: Fury Ro... Read more
Virus (Copy) (1999)
5/10
Director: John Bruno
Starring: William Baldwin, Joanna Pacula, Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Sutherland
Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin and Donald Sutherland are tugboat passengers who take refuge from a storm at a seemingly abandoned Russian intellige... Read more
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
7.4/10
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Michael J Fox, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd
In the concluding chapter of the time traveling trilogy, Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd find themselves in the Old West. Read more
A Little Bit Zombie (Blu-ray) (2012)
5.3/10
Infected by a virus, a mild mannered HR manager attempts to fulfill his overwhelming desire for brains, all while trying to keep it together so as not... Read more
Infinite (2021)
5.5/10
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Cookson, Dylan O'Brien, Jason Mantzoukas...
A man discovers that his hallucinations are actually visions from past lives. Read more
Idiocracy (2006)
6.6/10
Director: Mike Judge
Starring: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Anthony 'Critic' Campos, David Herman, T...
Lowly army paper-pusher Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson) is drafted into a military experiment that sees him, and hooker Maya Rudolph, put in artificial hiber... Read more
Capricorn One ( Blu-ray ) (1977)
6.8/10
Director: Peter Hyams
Starring: Brenda Vaccaro, Elliott Gould, Hal Holbrook, James Brolin, Karen Black, Sam Wate...
What if one of the greatest space adventures was really a hoax? The first manned flight to Mars is about to take place, but moments before the launch... Read more
Moonfall (2022)
5.2/10
Director: Roland Emmerich
A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it. Read more
Snowpiercer ( Blu-ray ) (2013)
7/10
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Starring: Ed Harris, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Chris Evans, Octavia Spencer
Set in 2031, the entire world is frozen except for those aboard the Snowpiercer. For 17 years, the world's survivors are on a train hurtling around th... Read more