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.
Ten years after "The Phantom Menace" Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and student Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) investigate an attem... Read more
This thought-provoking dark thriller, in keeping with "The Matrix" and "Dark City", is set in a computer-generated parallel world like 1930s L.A. with... Read more
Groundbreaking Japanese animated epic set in the post-WWIII metropolis of Neo-Tokyo. The labyrinthine plot revolves around a battle between oppressive... Read more
The tenth feature film in the Trek franchise follows the crew of the Enterprise-E to the Romulan sister planet of Remus, where Jean-Luc Picard meets a... Read more
In a post-apocalyptic future, the government of what was once North America sponsors an annual televised entertainment in which 24 teenagers battle on... Read more
Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) lives underground in a future where most of the earth has become uninhabitable. Only the idyllic Island can still su... Read more
In an alternate reality, three students at a mysterious English boarding school form a special bond. This friendship, however, will be tested as the t... Read more
Ethan Hawke plays a temporal agent leaping back and forth through time to prevent the murder of thousands in a very Oroboros-type narrative. During on... Read more
Nicolas Roeg's stylish classic stars David Bowie as a cosmic visitor to the planet, overwhelmed by capitalist society, human technology and earthly lo... Read more
Wounded and captured in Afghanistan by guerrillas who need him to build them a missile, billionaire playboy and weapons designer Tony Stark (Robert Do... Read more