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.
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)
5.4/10
Director: Lamont Johnson
Starring: Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson, Michael Ironside, Andrea Marcovicci
Three women make an emergency landing on a planet plagued with a fatal disease, but are captured by dictator Overdog. Adventurer Wolff goes there to r... Read more
Avatar: The Way Of Water (Blu-ray) (2022)
7.6/10
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Kate Winslet, Clif...
Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started,... Read more
The Ice Pirates (1984)
5.7/10
Director: Stewart Raffill
Starring: Mary Crosby, Anjelica Huston, Robert Urich, Michael D Roberts, John Matuszak, Ro...
In the future, Earth is starved for water, so whoever has the ice... rules. Robert Urich, Mary Crosby and Anjelica Houston star in this nifty outer-sp... Read more
Planet of the Apes ( Blu-ray ) (2001)
5.7/10
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Paul Giamatti, Michael Clarke Dun...
Director Tim Burton's visually stunning "re-imagining" of the beloved 60's sci-fi classic stars Mark Wahlberg as a 21st-century astronaut who is trans... Read more
It Came From Outer Space (1953)
6.6/10
Director: Jack Arnold
Starring: Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Richard Carlson, Russell Johnson
Amateur astronomer John Putnam (Richard Carlson) and his fiancee Ellen Fields (Barbara Rush) are stargazing in the desert when a spaceship bursts from... Read more
Titan A.E. (2000)
6.6/10
Director: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Starring: Bill Pullman, Drew Barrymore, Janeane Garofalo, John Leguizamo, Matt Damon, Nath...
In this spectacular animated adventure set in the 31st century, an alien race known as the Drej has destroyed Earth and sent the survivors fleeing int... Read more
Samurai Commando: Mission 1549 (2005)
5.1/10
Director: Masaaki Tezuka
Starring: Yosuke Eguchi, Kyoka Suzuki, Takeshi Kaga
When a modern-day military unit is accidentally sent back to feudal Japan, history changes and the present begins to unravel in this re-telling of the... Read more
Red Planet Mars (1952)
4.9/10
Director: Harry Horner
Starring: Herbert Berghof, Peter Graves, Andrea King, Walter Sande, John Hoare
A scientist (Peter Graves) uses Nazi radio equipment to contact Mars. When he gets an answer, he finds that Mars is a true Utopia and that the message... Read more
X-Men: Volume 1, Episodes 9-16 (1992)
7.4/10
Director: Various
In a world that hates and fears them, several mutants (humans who are born with unique powers and abilities) have banded together to fight the hatred,... Read more
The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues / Attack of the Giant Leeches (1956)
Director: Dan Miller, Bernard L Kowalski
Starring: Cathy Downs, Kent Taylor, Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers
A sci-fi schlock double feature. "The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues" (1956) - An atomic powered part alligator/part turtle mutant gobbles up fishermen a... Read more