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.
Undersea Kingdom (1936)
4.8/10
Director: B Reeves Eason, Joseph Kane
Crash Corrigan, a recent graduate of Annapolis, and Diana, a go-getting reporter, join Professor Norton for a search for the source of a string of ear... Read more
Things To Come (1936)
6.7/10
Director: William Cameron Menzies
Starring: Cedric Hardwicke, Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson
A sci-fi classic, based on the novel by H G Wells. World civilisation is on the brink of collapse, in the grasp of an evil dictatorship. Raymond Masse... Read more
The Lost City (1935)
5.2/10
Director: Harry Revier
Starring: William Boyd, Kane Richmond
An evil scientist plots to take over the world from his base in Africa, where he has invented a machine that can cause earthquakes. Read more
Sci-Fi Serial Classics (1935)
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Paul Newman, Robert Kent, Thomas Mitchell, George Wallace
36 spine chilling chapters of classic Sci-fi Serials! Includes 'Radar Men from the Moon', 'Undersea Kingdom', 'Phantom Creeps' and 'Tales of Tomorrow'... Read more
Lost City (1935)
5.2/10
Director: Harry Revier
Starring: Willian "Stage" Boyd, Kane Richmond
One of the most thrilling and fondly remembered of movie serials, with William "Stage" Boyd as the tyrannical ruler of a super-advanced city inside a... Read more
The Invisible Man (1933)
7.7/10
Director: James Whale
Starring: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, Una O'Connor
A super version of HG Wells' fantasy, with Claude Rains playing the scientist who experiments with a drug which, while it makes him invisible, also tu... Read more
Frau Im Mond ( Woman in the Moon ) (1929)
7.4/10
Director: Fritz Lang
Director Fritz Lang's final silent epic. A rocket on its way to explore the moon is commandeered by a group of spies intent on plundering the moon's n... Read more
Metropolis (Reconstructed & Restored) ( Blu-ray ) (1927)
8.3/10
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Frohlich
Fritz Lang's masterwork, set in a towering city of the future whose populace is divided between the idle ruling class and the dehumanized workers who... Read more
Metropolis (Reconstructed & Restored) (1927)
8.3/10
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Fritz Lang's masterwork, set in a towering city of the future whose populace is divided between the idle ruling class and the dehumanized workers who... Read more
Metropolis (Restored) (1927)
8.3/10
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Gustav Frohlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel
Perhaps the most famous and influential of all silent films, 'Metropolis' had for 75 years been seen only in shortened or truncated versions. Now, res... Read more