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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.

Solaris (1972)

8.1/10
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Juri Jarvet

A mind-bending, metaphysical film about an investigation into why astronauts on a space station situated above the planet Solaris have suffered mental... Read more

The Omega Man ( Blu-ray ) (1971)

6.6/10
Director: Boris Sagal
Starring: Rosalind Cash, Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe

Charlton Heston stars in this fast-paced futuristic thriller as the only human survivor of the Last War. By day, he's alone, but by night he must cont... Read more

The Omega Man (1971)

6.6/10
Director: Boris Sagal
Starring: Rosalind Cash, Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe

Charlton Heston stars in this fast-paced futuristic thriller as the only human survivor of the Last War. By day, he's alone, but by night he must cont... Read more

Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)

6.3/10
Director: Don Taylor
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Sal Mineo, Bradford Dillman, Ricardo Montalban

In the third ape film, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter and Sal Mineo are the chimps who flee through time to modern Los Angeles, only to find their journe... Read more

Silent Running (1971)

6.7/10
Director: Douglas Trumbull
Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint

Bruce Dern stars in this sci-fi classic as a botanist preserving the only botanical specimens of life on Earth, under huge geodesic domes, whose rebel... Read more

The Andromeda Strain (1971)

7.2/10
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson, Kate Reid

A tense science-fiction thriller, this film focuses on a team of scientists attempting to isolate a deadly virus while racing against time and the pos... Read more

Gas-s-s-s (1970)

Director: Roger Corman
Starring: Bud Cort, Cindy Williams, Robert Corff, Ben Vereen

Aka: "Gas! or: It Became Necessary to Destroy The World in Order to Save it". Odd hippy stuff about a gas that kills everyone on Earth over 25 years o... Read more

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

7.2/10
Director: Joseph Sargent
Starring: Gordon Pinsent, Susan Clark, Eric Braeden

The granddaddy of all "computer run amok" films, 'Colossus: The Forbin Project' concerns a huge electronic brain designed to control the American miss... Read more

THX 1138 (1970)

6.8/10
Director: George Lucas
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Maggie McOmie, Robert Duvall

George Lucas' first feature film is a thought-provoking look at a future society where robot police keep humans drugged and forbid any form of emotion... Read more

The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

6.4/10
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: Arthur Lowe, Dudley Moore, Harry Secombe, Marty Feldman, Michael Hordern, Peter...

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' (which lasted two minutes and twenty eight seconds, including th... Read more