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.
District B13 (2004)
7.2/10
Director: Pierre Morel
Starring: David Belle, Cyril Raffaelli
Produced and co-written by acclaimed filmmaker Luc Besson, this stylized action thriller is set in Paris 2010, where the government has fenced off the... Read more
CJ7 ( Blu-ray ) (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
My Stepmother is an Alien (1988)
5.3/10
Director: Richard Benjamin
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Jon Lovitz, Juliette Lewis, Kim Basinger, Alyson Hannigan
Physicist Dan Aykroyd gets rattled down to his slide rule when a radar beam he sends into deep space accidentally zaps a distant planet whose inhabita... Read more
Pitch Black ( Blu-ray ) (1999)
7.1/10
Director: David Twohy
Starring: Cole Hauser, Keith David, Radha Mitchell, Vin Diesel
After crashing on a desert planet, the surviving crew of a spaceship try to find a prisoner they were transporting who escaped. They soon discover tha... Read more
Jean-Paul Belmondo: Vol. 3 ( The Professional / The Outside Man / The Loner / Amazon ) (1972)
7.1/10
Director: Georges Lautner, Jacques Deray, Philippe De Broca
Starring: Arielle Dombasle, Jean Desailly, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Patrick Bouchitey, Robert H...
Belmondo times four. "The Professional" (1981): French secret agent Joss Baumont is sent to Africa to assassinate president Njala. However, at the las... Read more
Assassin's Creed (2016)
5.8/10
Director: Justin Kurzel
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling, Jeremy Irons, Marion Cotillard, Michael Fas...
Through a revolutionary technology that unlocks his genetic memories, Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender) experiences the adventures of his ancestor, Ag... Read more
The First Purge (Blu-ray) (2018)
5.3/10
Director: Gerard McMurray
Starring: Lauren Velez, Marisa Tomei, Y'lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Joivan Wade
To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggressio... Read more
Riddick (2013)
6.4/10
Director: David Twohy
Starring: Bokeem Woodbine, Vin Diesel, Karl Urban, Jordi Molla, Katee Sackhoff, Dave Bauti...
Vin Diesel reprises his role as anti-hero Riddick in the third chapter of the sci-fi action saga. A dangerous, escaped convict wanted by every bounty... Read more
The Cloverfield Paradox (Blu-Ray) (2018)
5.6/10
Starring: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Oyelowo, Daniel Bruhl, John Ortiz, Chris O'Dowd, Elizabet...
Orbiting above an Earth on the brink of catastrophic energy wars, scientists test a dangerous device that could provide unlimited power but also runs... Read more
Escape From L.A. ( Blu-ray ) (1996)
5.7/10
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Cliff Robertson, Kurt Russell, Pam Grier, Peter Fonda, Stacy Keach, Steve Buscem...
The man with the patch is back. Call him Snake. Kurt Russell rejoins filmmakers John Carpenter and Debra Hill to do to the Big Orange what they did to... Read more