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.
Exciting, exhilarating (and expensive) sci-fi saga, set on an ecologically ravaged future Earth covered by water. Kevin Costner, as a solitary wandere... Read more
Roland Emmerich (Stargate, Independence Day, and Godzilla) brings you John Rhys-Davies in a Monty Pythonesque tale of a band of Crusaders who find the... Read more
The 24th Phantom, the 'Ghost Who Walks,' battles crimes in the future of 2040. Phantom 2040 is a French-American animated science fiction television s... Read more
In Egypt, archeologists uncover a gigantic stone ring that, decades later, is found to be an interplanetary nexus. Scientist James Spader and Air Forc... Read more
J. Michael Straczynski has created a unique look into the future. Using multi-story arcs, some of which follow through all five seasons, and diverse,... Read more
Godzilla faces a new foe. And this one is a clone of himself, somehow accidentally formed in the outer reaches of the galaxy and returned to Earth in... Read more
For 200 years the humans built cyborgs to be their friends and to fight their wars. But now the last of the great corporations is dead and humans hun... Read more
The old guard gives way to the new as Captain Kirk (William Shatner) passes the baton to a new Starfleet commander, Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) i... Read more
In Egypt, archeologists uncover a gigantic stone ring that, decades later, is found to be an interplanetary nexus. Scientist James Spader and Air Forc... Read more
A.k.a. 'No Escape'. Sentenced to life imprisonment in a futuristic high security prison, convict John Robins (Ray Liotta) is left to fend for himself... Read more