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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.

Akira ( Blu-ray ) (1988)

8.1/10
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo

Groundbreaking Japanese animated epic set in the post-WWIII metropolis of Neo-Tokyo. The labyrinthine plot revolves around a battle between oppressive... Read more

My Stepmother is an Alien (1988)

5.3/10
Director: Richard Benjamin
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Jon Lovitz, Juliette Lewis, Kim Basinger, Alyson Hannigan

Physicist Dan Aykroyd gets rattled down to his slide rule when a radar beam he sends into deep space accidentally zaps a distant planet whose inhabita... Read more

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

6.1/10
Director: Stephen Chiodo
Starring: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Vernon

A spaceship looking like a circus tent lands in a field near a small town, signaling the attack of deviant, red-nosed, balloon-twisting psychos from a... Read more

Akira (1988)

8.1/10
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Starring: Voices Of, Lewis Lemay, Jimmy Flanders, Drew Thomas

Groundbreaking Japanese animated epic set in the post-WWIII metropolis of Neo-Tokyo. The labyrinthine plot revolves around a battle between oppressive... Read more

They Live (1988)

7.3/10
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, Peter Jason

John Carpenter's sci-fi thriller about one man's battle against aliens who are systematically gaining control of the earth. Pro-wrestler Roddy Piper s... Read more

Alien Nation (1988)

6.3/10
Director: Graham Baker
Starring: James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp

A gritty sci-fi, crime procedural in the vein of The Hidden and District 9, Alien Nation is a tense tale of urban life in Los Angeles circa 1991. Here... Read more

Cocoon: The Return (1988)

5.3/10
Director: Daniel Petrie
Starring: Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Courteney Cox, Tahnee Welch, Steve Guttenberg

The oldsters and aliens are back, revisiting Earth to tend an Atlantic cocoon bed threatened by seismographic activity. This ocean-going sequel stars... Read more

Predator ( Blu-ray ) (1987)

7.8/10
Director: John McTiernan
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers

An alien life form lands in the jungles of South America and Arnold Schwarzenegger, with his combat team, soon find themselves becoming the prey of th... Read more

The Hidden (1987)

7/10
Director: Jack Sholder
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Clu Gulager

A young FBI agent (Kyle MacLachlan) teams up with an L.A. cop (Michael Nouri) to solve mysterious goings on involving an alien organism that switches... Read more

RoboCop ( Blu-ray ) (1987)

7.5/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferr...

The sci-fi action movie of 1987 stars Peter Weller as a Detroit cop gunned down and used as a guinea pig to create a cyborg police officer. All goes w... Read more