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.
The Expanse: Season 1 (2015)
8.4/10
Director: Terry McDonough, Bill Johnson
Starring: Thomas Jane, Steven Strait
Hundreds of years in the future, things are different than what we are used to after humans have colonized the solar system and Mars has become an ind... Read more
Regular Show: The Movie (2015)
7.5/10
Starring: William Salyers, J G Quintel
Mordecai and Rigby are two slackers who work in a city park. When a spaceship from the future crashes in front of them, an intergalactic warrior warns... Read more
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ( Blu-ray ) (1984)
6.7/10
Director: Leonard Nimoy
Starring: Christopher Lloyd, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, James Doohan, Leonard Nimoy, W...
Following on from "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", Kirk, McCoy and crew return to the Genesis Planet to learn the truth of Spock's fate, but a ruthl... Read more
Little Monsters (2019)
6.3/10
Director: Abe Forsythe
Starring: Lupita Nyong'o, Josh Gad, Kat Stewart
A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies. Read more
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (Blu-ray) (2021)
6/10
Director: Andy Serkis
Starring: Michelle Williams, Woody Harrelson, Tom Hardy, Reid Scott, Naomie Harris, Stephe...
Eddie Brock struggles to adjust to his new life as the host of the alien symbiote Venom, which grants him super-human abilities in order to be a letha... Read more
Sputnik (2020)
6.4/10
Starring: Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov
The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned home alone - hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature. Read more
M3gan (2022)
6.4/10
Director: Gerard Johnstone
Starring: Allison Williams
A robotics engineer at a toy company builds a life-like doll that begins to take on a life of its own. Read more
Flight to Mars (1951)
5.2/10
Director: Lesley Selander
Starring: Arthur Franz, Marguerite Chapman, Cameron Mitchell
The first science-fiction film shot in colour that follows an Earth expedition to the red planet who discover a subterranean city populated by the dyi... Read more
Impostor (2001)
6.2/10
Director: Gary Fleder
Starring: Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe, Vincent D'Onofrio, Mekhi Phifer
This sci-fi thriller stars Gary Sinise as a weapons designer in 2079 who goes on the run when authorities believe he is a booby-trapped replicant, sen... Read more
The Questor Tapes (1973)
7.1/10
Director: Richard A Colla
Starring: John Vernon, Lew Ayres, Mike Farrell, Robert Foxworth
Project Questor is the brainchild of genius Dr. Vaslovik, in which he developed plans to build an android super-human. Although he's disappeared and h... Read more