The movies which depict the stories of the future, outer space, robots, or aliens are the sci-fi movie. Science Fiction films are such films that always come up with extraordinary scientific characters and scientific backgrounds. However, sci-fi movies have never failed to amaze their fans with their eye-catchy environment, special effects, information along with phenomenal lifeforms, some impacts of alien worlds, and the time travel essence.
Science fiction tales are those which show a connection between the real and the fictional world. However, this kind of movie is only about spacecraft, aliens, robots, and space journeys. Moreover, these genre films never fail to amaze people with their information, time travel effects, and ideas. Science-fictional movies speak about the future of the earth. It also depicts the consequences of some unnatural creatures who may invade the planet. There are many movies that have amazing people with this kind of idea and screenplay.
Sci-fi movies have spread their charm not only in space-oriented movies but also in monsters, drama, and action-oriented movies. Here is the list of the film which one can go through and pick up their favorite one.
1. The Endless
- Director: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
- Writer: Justin Benson
- Cast members: Callie Hernandez, Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, Tate Ellington, Lew Temple, Kira Powell, James Jordan.
- IMDb score: 6.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
- Streaming platform: Netflix
The Endless is a sci-fi horror film. The story of the movie depicts how two brothers involved themselves permanently with unusual spiritual, religious activities. The story of the film starts with how both of them escape from that particular action. However, later two of them receive a mysterious video message which indicates they to revisit the UFO death cult. Moreover, this movie is one of the best horror sci-fi which has reached devotees.
2. Timecrimes
- Director: Nacho Vigalondo
- Writer: Nacho Vigalondo
- Cast members: Bárbara Goenaga, Nacho Vigalondo, Karra Elejalde, Juan Inciarte, Candela Fernández, Libby Brien.
- IMDb score: 7.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 89%
- Streaming platform: AmazonPrimeVideo
Timecrimes is a time travel thriller sci-fi movie. The story of the movie shows how an ordinary man Hector was attacked by a bandage cover fave man with a scissor. One day Hector saw a naked girl in the woods when he was looking at his binocular. However, this incident takes place when Hector went into the woods to see whether that same girl is lying on the rocks.
3. Children of Men 2006
- Director: Alfonso Cuarón
- Writer: Alfonso Cuarón (screenplay) and Timothy J. Sexton (screenplay)
- Cast members: Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Pam Ferris, Charlie Hunnam, Clare-Hope Ashitey, Pam Ferris, Charlie Hunnam, Danny Huston, Peter Mullan, Oana Pellea, Phaldut Sharma, Maria McFarlane.
- IMDb score: 7.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
- Streaming platform: AmazonPrimeVideo
This science fiction film, Children of Men, depicts how human existence has become an extinct issue. The movie When how infertility has produced fear in mankind’s extinction along with this, the last child born has departed. However, an officer who is the main protagonist of the film fight for the survival of the population of the planet. Moreover, the officer has to fight against a demon to save the existence of mankind.
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Director: Michael Gondry
- Writer: Charlie Kaufman and Michael Gondry
- Cast members: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Charlie Kaufman, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, Tom Wilkinson, David Cross, Jane Adams, Debbon Ayer.
- IMDb score: 8.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
- Streaming platform: Netflix
This movie is probably the best romantic sci-fi film which shows everyone the depth of affection. The story of the movie eternal sunshine of the spotless mind begins with a painful breakup between Clementine and Joel. However, to remove the memories of her former boyfriend, Clementine undergoes a procedure to erase memories of him. Moreover, when Joel saw that he was going out of her memories, then he realizes that he still loves her. Along with this, he tries his level best to bring back her faded memories of him.
5. Possessor
- Director: David Cronenberg
- Writer: David Cronenberg
- Cast members: Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Tuppence Middleton, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sean Bean, Rossif Sutherland, Gabrielle Graham, Gage Graham-Arbuthnot, Kaniehtiio Horn.
- IMDb score: 6.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
- Streaming platform: AmazonPrimeVideo
The story of the sci-fi horror movie shows how Tasya Vos, who is a murderer, uses brain implant technology to control the bodies of people to fulfill her destructive means and desire. Because of all this, she lost her mental stability and found herself trapped in a situation by the person who instigates her to do such destructive work. These destructive works take her to such an extent that she had started doing stuff that is harmful to herself.
6. Beyond the Black Rainbow
- Director: Panis Cosmatos
- Writer: Panis Cosmatos
- Cast members: Eva Allan, Michael Rogers, Scott Hylands, Marilyn Norry, Rondel Reynoldson, Chris Gauthier, Gerry South, Roy Campsall, Geoffrey Conder.
- IMDb score: 6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 58%
- Streaming platform: Amazon Prime Video
This science-fiction film shows how a scientist performs some dangerous experiment on a patient. The story starts with Mercurio Arboria, who runs a clinic. However, in that clinic, an insane scientist Barry, performs some toxic and fatal experiments on Elena.
7. Primer
- Director: Shane Carruth
- Writer: Shane Carruth
- Cast members: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya, Samantha Thomson, John Carruth, Jay Butler, Chip Carruth, Keith Bradshaw.
- IMDb score: 6.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 72%
- Streaming platform: Netflix
This sci-fi drama movie shows how four friends urge to be an entrepreneur and end up with some unwanted consequences of their procedures. In the movie, among four boys, two of them who are engineers Aaron and Abe, made an error-checking technology. However, with the help of two other friends, Robert and Phillip, they sold that error checking technology. Later again, Aaron and Abe made a machine which they think a time machine. None the less this device only brought some dark scenario which all of them can’t avoid.
8. Moon
- Director: Duncan Jones
- Writer: Duncan Jones
- Cast members: Sam Rockwell, Dominique McElligott, Kevin Spacey, Matt Berry, Kaya Scodelario, Benedict Wong, Malcolm Stewart, Robin Chalk, Rosie Shaw, Adrienne Shaw, Gary Shaw, Mick Ward, Mary Tyler Moore.
- IMDb score: 7.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 90%
- Streaming platform: Netflix
This sci-fi drama film portrays how the life of an astronaut changes to unnatural. In this science fiction movie, Sam Bell is the main protagonist, who is an astronaut. After a three-year of hard work in a lunar mine, he finally ends up the job to meet his wife and young daughter. However, his life changes when he saw some drastic changes in his health, which initiate painful headaches and hallucinations. Nonetheless, due to this, he came across his clone, his younger version. After knowing this unusual stuff, Sam tries to solve the biggest mystery of his life.
9. Ad Astra
- Director: James Gray
- Writer: James Gray
- Cast members: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, Donald Sutherland, Kimberly Elise, John Ortiz, Loren Dean, John Finn, LisaGay Hamilton, Donnie Keshawarz.
- IMDb score: 6.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 83%
- Streaming platform: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video
This 21st-century psychological sci-fi feature film is disturbed by the 20th-century fox. The story of the movie shows how a son uncovers the mystery of his missing father. In the movie, Clifford McBride went on a space journey with his crew members thirty years ago. However, from there, he doesn’t come back. To solve the mystery of his missing father, his fearless son went on a Neptune mission to uncover the truth.
10. War for the Planet of The Apes
- Director & Writer: Matt Reeves
- Cast members: Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn, Amiah Miller, Terry Notary, Judy Greer, Ty Olsson, Gabriel Chavarria, Sara Canning, Devyn Dalton, Michael Adamthwaite, Aleks Paunovic.
- IMDb score: 7.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 94%
- Streaming platform: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video.
The story of the sci-fi action film starts with a war between Caesar and his apes, along with a human army led by a ruthless colonel. However, this war in the science fiction film War for the Planet of the Apes leads to a great loss for Caesar. In each other fight, Caesar’s wife and son were killed. Because of this, Caeser revealed his darker side. This later gave both of them a chance to fight the battle against each other. According to the movie, this battle between Caeser and Colonel will decide the future of the planet and mankind as well. This sci-fi movie is distributed by 20th-Century Fox.
11. Blade Runner 2049
- Director & Writer: Denis Villeneuve
- Cast members: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Jared Leto, Mackenzie Davis, Ridley Scott, Dave Bautista, Robin Wright, Carla Juri, Hampton Fancher.
- IMDb score: 8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 88%
- Streaming platform: Netflix
This sci-fi thriller film involves the mystery of a missing blade runner. However, the sci-fi movie starts with Officer K, who is a new blade runner in the Police Department. Moreover, this police officer of Los Angeles discovers a dark secret of the society. During this activity of the officer, he finds out some clues about a former blade runner Rick Deckard who is missing for 30 years.
12. Inception
- Director & Writer: Christopher Nolan
- Cast members: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elliot Page, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine, Dileep Rao, Tom Berenger, Lukas Haas, Pete Postlethwaite, Talulah Riley.
- IMDb score: 8.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 87%
- Streaming platform: Netflix
Among the many best sci-fi movies, Inception is one of the innovative ones. This sci-fi film is about a thief Dom Cobb. Dom Cobb has an extraordinary ability that he can extract the most valuable ideas and secrets of people in their dreams. However, he uses to do it with the help of a dream-sharing technology known as Inception. Because of this, valuable technology has helped him to take away many things.
13. Snowpiercer
- Director & : Bong Joon-ho
- Cast members: Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Ed Harris, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Go Ah-sung, Alison Pill.
- IMDb score: 7.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 94%
- Streaming platform: Netflix
- Cast members: Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Ed Harris, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Go Ah-sung, Alison Pill.
The story of this sci-fi film speaks about the survivors of Earth’s second Ice Age. This condition in the film is due to a failed climate experiment. However, this has lead to the end of all life except the Snowpiercer. During this condition, only one man Curtis risks his life to control the future and the health of the environment.
14. 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Director & Writer: Stanley Kubrick
- Cast members: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain, Arthur C. Clarke, Margaret Tyzack, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Robert Beatty, Anns Gill, Alan Gifford, Ed Bishop, Bill Weston, Edwina Carroll.
- IMDb score: 8.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
- Streaming platform: Netflix
This movie is a sci-fi classic film of that era—the story of the film adapted by a novel composed by Arthur C. Clarke. However, everyone somehow considers this movie as the best sci-fi film. However, the sci-fi movie shows the evolution of an era. Dave Bowman went on a secret mission and managed to survive in Jupiter. Nonetheless, Dave finds himself in an extreme persistence of born and death.
15. War of the Worlds
- Director & Writer: Steven Spielberg
- Cast members: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Justin Chatwin, Miranda Otto, Ann Robinson, Gene Barry, Tim Robbins, Rick Gonzalez, Lenny Venito, Yul Vazquez, Lisa Ann Walter, David Alan Basche, Camillia Monet, Roz Abrams, Morgan Freeman.
- IMDb score: 6.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 75%
- Streaming platform: Netflix
The story of the sci-fi film shows how a father reunites his children to their mother. The story of the movie starts with the efforts that Dockworker Ray Ferrier puts to assemble a positive relationship with his two children, Rachel and Robbie. This building process takes place when Mary Ann, Ferrier’s ex-wife, drop the kids in his house. However, the story turns when he urges them to reunite the kids with their mother when the world is invaded by a destructive war. This is one of the best sci-fi films, the main protagonist over here is Dockworker Ray Ferrier.
16. Ghost in the Shell
- Director & Writer: Rupert Sanders
- Cast members: Scarlett Johansson, Takeshi Kitano, Pilou Asbæk, Michael Pitt, Juliette Binoche, Ng Chin Han, Atsuko Tanaka, Kōichi Yamadera, Akio Ōtsuka, Lazarus Ratuere, Kaori Momoi, Danusia Samal.
- IMDb score: 6.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 43 %
- Streaming platform: Netflix
This sci-fi film shows how a robotics body turns into an evil power. In the film, Major is the first human who has the perfect ability to be a soldier with her AI. However, she is the best way to stop some dangerous criminals and terrorists. When terrorism is at its peak level, then she was qualified to hack people’s minds and control them. Later, when Major prepares herself for some new mission, she got to know that her life was stolen. In the end, she tries to find out who has done such activity with her and ends up punishing them.
17. Edge of Tomorrow
- Director & Writer: Doug Liman
- Cast members: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Brendan Gleeson, Charlotte Riley, Jonas Armstrong, Franz Drameh, Tony Way, Kick Gurry, Noah Taylor, Dragomir Mršić, Lara Pulver, Madeleine Mantock, Masayoshi Haneda, Terence Maynard.
- IMDb score: 7.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 91%
- Streaming platform: Netflix
This movie can be considered as one of the best sci-fi films. The film is distributed by Warner Bros. Picture. At the beginning of the sci-fi movie, everyone will see how When Maj. William Cage saves the Earth from the alien attack as no military unit was able to fight with the aliens, so Cage was appointed. During the battle, the moment the aliens killed Cage, he finds himself in a time loop. This time snare help Cage to combat his death. However, this skill of Cage helped him and his friend to defeat the aliens and save the Earth.
18. Back to the Future
- Director & Writer: Robert Zemeckis
- Cast members: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Claudia Wells, Thomas F. Wilson, Billy Zane, Crispin Glover, Elsa Raven, Wendie Jo Sperber, Elisabeth Shue, James Tolkan, Jason Hervey, J. J. Cohen, Courtney Gains.
- IMDb score: 8.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
- Streaming platform: Amazon Prime Video
This movie is a sci-fi comedy classic film. The story of the film shows how a teen traveled back in time and met his parent’s young version. The story is about a teen Marty McFly who went to the ’50s when his scientist friend Doc Brown experiment. However, somehow the experiment went wrong, and Marty has gripped time travel experiences. Moreover, this time travel process helps Marty to meet their parents in their young versions. Along with this, he has also supported his parents to fall for each other. Later, he returns to save Doc Brown’s life.
19. Minority Report
- Director & Writer: Steven Spielberg
- Cast members: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow, Neal McDonagh, Lois Smith, Peter Stormare, Tim Blake Nelson, William Mapother, Anna Maria Horsford, Jessica Harper, Arye Gross, Victor Raider-Wexler, Jim Rash, John Bennett.
- IMDb score: 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 90%
- Streaming platform: AmazonPrimeVideo
This 21st-century sci-fi movie is taken by a novel composed by a great sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dick. This action-detective thriller sci-fi movie has a background of Washington D.C. in 2054. In the movie, the police team uses technology to stop the crime and to arrest murderers before committing the crimes. However, later the head of the team, John Anderton, got tangled in a future murder of a person whom he hasn’t met.
20. Sunshine
- Director: Danny Boyle
- Writer: Alex Garland
- Cast members: Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, Cliff Curtis, Michelle Yeoh, Benedict Wong, Hiroyuki Sanada, Troy Garity, Mark Strong, Chipo Chung, Paloma Baeza.
- IMDb score: 7.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 77%
- Streaming platform: Netflix
The story of the sci-fi movie shows how a group of Astronauts saves the Sun from departing. In the film, these astronauts went to the future that is 50 years back to save the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057. Because of this situation of the Sun, the Earth is also at its departing position. So to save both of them, this mission took place but unfortunately, the astronauts didn’t make it, and the mission fails.
21. Ex Machina
- Director & Writer: Alex Garland
- Cast members: Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Sonoya Mizuno, Oscar Isaac, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Claire Selby, Tiffany Pisani, Corey Johnson, Symara A. Templeman, Elina Alminas, Evie Wray.
- IMDb score: 7.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
- Streaming platform: Netflix, AmazonPrime Video
The story of the science fiction tale Ex Machina shows the consciousness of a robot, which is more prominent than mankind. The film starts with Caleb Smith, who is a young programmer at a huge Internet company. However, after winning a contest, he wins to spend a week at the private estate of Nathan Bateman. Nathan Bateman is the CEO of a particular company. After arriving there, Caleb learns to examine the capabilities and consciousness of Ava, who is a beautiful robot. Later he got to know that Ava is more intelligent and self-conscious than Caleb has imagined.
22. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Writer: Ian Watson
- Cast members: Haley Joel Osment, Sam Robards, Frances O’Connor, Jude Law, Jake Thomas, William Hurt, Brendan Gleeson, Meryl Streep, Ken Leung, Robin Williams, Clark Gregg, Kevin Sussman, Tom Gallop, Eugene Osment, Sabrina Grdevich, April Grace.
- IMDb score: 7.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 74%
- Streaming platform: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video
The story of the sci-fi film A.I. Artificial Intelligence is about how a robot son gets back the affection of his human mother. The film is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. In the film, a robotic Cybertronics employee and his wife adopt a robotic boy David to convey love in his function. As time passes, the couple started according it as their child. However, some unbelievable and shocking circumstances occur, which makes David’s life difficult. After not getting the correct approval from neither machines nor humans, David undergoes his journey for his true belongings.
23. The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Director: Scott Derrickson
- Writer: David Scarpa (screenplay) and Edmund H. North
- Cast members: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith, Jon Hamm, John Cleese, James Hong, Kyle Chandler, Robert Knepper, Sunita Prasad, John Rothman, Juan Riedinger, Rukiya Bernard, Sam Gilroy, Tanya Champoux.
- IMDb score: 5.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 20%
- Streaming platform: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video
The story of the science fiction tale is about an alien who landed on Earth. Klaatu is a human-like alien who landed on Earth and claimed that he is here to save the globe. However, governments and scientists tried to understand his real intentions and started an investigation process. Along with this, they also resume the method of making plans to stop him. With this, Dr. Helen Benson and her stepson got to know Klaatu’s work strategy and helped him to escape from the planet.
24. Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
- Director & Writer: George Miller
- Cast members: Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Riley Keough, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Courtney Eaton, Mel Gibson, Nathan Jones, Josh Helman.
- IMDb score: 8.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 97%
- Streaming platform: Netflix, AmazonPrime Video
The science-fiction movie is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The story of the film starts with the collapse of civilization, as well as the survivor Joe enslaves. On the other hand, to save the despot’s five wives, the warrior Imperator Furiosa leads them to escape. Along with this, she also constructs a pact with Former prisoner Max Rockatansky. However, they tried to run out from the hands of the lord and his men through the Wasteland.
25. Battle Royale
- Director: Kinji Fukasaku
- Writer: Koushun Takami (novel) and Kenta Fukasaku (screenplay)
- Cast members: Aki Maeda, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Chiaki Kuriyama, Tarō Yamamoto, Sousuke Takaoka, Masanobu Ando, Kō Shibasaki, Takashi Tsukamoto, Eri Ishikawa, Takayo Mimura, Yukihiro Kotani, Hirohito Honda, Ai Iwamura.
- IMDb score: 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 88%
- Streaming platform: Netflix, AmazonPrime Video
The sci-fi movie shows the battle between the students of a Japanese school. In the film, the ninth grade students of a school are forced by regulation that to participate in the battle royale. The students are provided with a map, food, and various weapons with an explosive collar are fitted around their neck. Moreover, er the collar is an explosive one. If anyone breaks any rule, then the collar will smash everyone. The mission of the students is to kill each other without breaking any rules. In the end, only one can leave the island. However, if there is more than one survivor, then the collars explode and kill them all.
26. Star Trek: The Motion Pictures
- Director: Robert Wise
- Writer: Harold Livingston
- Cast members: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, George Takei, Persis Khambatta, Stephen Collins, Majel Barrett, Grace Lee Whitney, Mark Lenard, Roger Aaron Brown, Billy Van Zandt, Gary Faga.
- IMDb score: 6.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 41%
- Streaming platform: AmazonPrime Video
The sci-fi movie illustrates the arrival of aliens on Earth. The film starts with an investigation of Adm. James T. Kirk and his team members about the object which crashed on Earth. After analyzing, with artificial intelligence, they got to know that aliens have arrived on the Earth. Moreover, the aliens, with their powerful massive alien spacecraft they destroy three powerful Klingon cruisers and proceed towards space.
27. Attack the Block
- Director & Writer: Joe Cornish
- Cast members: John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Esmail, Luke Treadaway, Franz Drameh, Simon Howard, Nick Frost, Leeon Jones, Jumayn Hunter, Michael Ajao, Paigey Cakey, Danielle Vitalis, Sammy Williams, Flaminia Cinque, Maggie McCarthy.
- IMDb score: 6.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 90%
- Streaming platform: Amazon Prime Video
The science-fiction tale shows how the residence of South London saves itself from aliens. The story of the film starts with a pact between a young woman and a gang of teenagers to defeat the aliens who invaded Southern London. However, the group of teens succeeded in their mission and defeated the aliens in the battleground.
28. A Clockwork Orange
- Director & Writer: Stanley Kubrick
- Cast members: Malcolm McDowell, Adrienne Corri, Patrick Magee, Warren Clarke, Miriam Karlin, Michael Bates, James Marcus, Carl Duering, Paul Farrell, Clive Francis, John Clive, Aubrey Morris, Michael Gover, Godfrey Quigley, Sheila Raynor.
- IMDb score: 8.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 88%
- Streaming platform: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix
The science-fiction tale is adapted from a novel composed by Anthony Burgess. The story of the film depicts Alex, a leader who is imprisoned. He was jailed because he assassinated the Cat Lady to death. However, to get freedom from this cage, Alex has to submit a behavior modification.
29. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- Director: Don Siegel
- Writer: W.D. Richter (screenplay) and Jack Finney (novel)
- Cast members: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Larry Gates, Jean Willes, Ralph Dumke, Virginia Christine, Tom Fadden, Kenneth Patterson, Guy Way, Beatrice Maude, Bobby Clark, Guy Rennie, Dabbs Greer.
- IMDb score: 8.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 88%
- Streaming platform: Amazon Prime Video
The science-fiction horror film is about human duplicate aliens and their impact on humans. The story of the film is set in California, where Dr. Miles Bennell got surprised when all his patients come to with the same complaint. The patients claimed that their relatives are turning to emotionless imitators. However, later Dr. Bennell, his former girlfriend Becky, and his friend Jack gather information and uncovers that the people are changing to a duplicate human species, which are aliens.
30. Interstellar
- Director: Christopher Nolan
- Writer: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
- Cast members: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, Michael Caine, Matt Damon, Mackenzie Foy, Timothée Chalamet, Wes Bentley, Casey Affleck, Ellen Burstyn, David Oyelowo, Topher Grace.
- IMDb score: 8.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 72%
- Streaming platform: Netflix, AmazonPrime Video
The science fiction story of the movie shows how the astronauts find some new planets to save mankind. In the future, due to global warming and other hazardous materials, the health of the Earth demolishes, which leads to various problems. After gathering this information, the brilliant NASA physicist, Professor Brand, starts his work to save mankind. For saving mankind, he made a plan to transport the whole population of the Earth to another planet. However, to only this idea, the former NASA pilot Cooper and a team of researchers went to space for such kind of planet which is suitable for mankind. Moreover, through a wormhole, they find out three such planets to save Earth’s population and their existence.
31. The Fly
- Director: David Cronenberg
- Writer: Charles Edward Pogue
- Cast members: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Vincent Price, George Chuvalo, David Hedison, Chris Walas, Herbert Marshall, Joy Boushel, Leslie Carlson, Patricia Owens, Michael Copeman, Carol Lazare.
- IMDb score: 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
- Streaming platform: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video
The sci-fi horror film shows how a scientist transforms himself into a giant fly. The story of the film starts with a scientist Seth Brundle who made a teleportation device and decides to test its proficiency on himself. Along with his, he has successful teleportation. However, during the testing process, he slips into a housefly. His test properties and the fly make devastating changes in his life as well as in his body structure. Gradually the structure and cells of his body change into the fly-like insect, which changes him into a horrifying monster. Brundle’s girlfriend gets afraid when he saw his boyfriend turning into a horrifying monster.
32. High-Rise
- Director: Ben Wheatley
- Writer: Amy Jump and J.G. Ballard (novel)
- Cast members: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Elisabeth Moss, Jeremy Irons, James Purefoy, Keeley Hawes, Reece Shearsmith, Dan Renton Skinner, Sienna Guillory, Stacy Martin, Peter Ferdinando, Augustus Prew, Enzo Cilenti, Tony Way.
- IMDb score: 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
- Streaming platform: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video
The sci-fi movie shows how the life of a doctor changes when he shifts to London. In the film, it is shown how the life of the doctor is devastated due to drink, drugs, and lawlessness in his life. Tom Hiddleston is the main protagonist of the movie.
33. The Fountain
- Director & Writer: Darren Aronofsky
- Cast members: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Sean Patrick Thomas, Ellen Burstyn, Donna Murphy, Mark Margolis, Ethan Suplee, Stephen McHattie, Cliff Curtis, Richard MacMillan, Lorne Brass, Fernando Hernandez, Abraham Aronofsky.
- IMDb score: 7.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 52%
- Streaming platform: Amazon Prime Video
The sci-fi movie is set in a 21st-century background. Tommy is the main protagonist of the film, who is a surgeon. He is desperate to find out the cure for the disease called Cancer, which is killing his wife, Izzi. She is a space traveler who uses to travel in her thoughts of the bubble. Izzi, in her death bed, has composed a fairy-tale book known as The Fountain, which includes the background of the 16th-century story. However, her husband desperately tries to find out some modern techniques and medications to save his beloved wife from the deadly disease.
34. Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
- Director & Writer: George Lucas
- Cast members: Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Temuera Morrison, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Lee, Rose Byrne, Samuel L. Jackson, Ian McDiarmid, Leeanna Walsman, Frank Oz, Pernilla August, Jimmy Smits, Jack Thompson, Ahmed Best.
- IMDb score: 6.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 65%
- Streaming platform: AmazonPrime Video, Disney plus Hotstar
The sci-fi movie is set in a background of ten years later. In the film, after ten years of the events “The Phantom Menace,” Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala share a romantic bond with each other. However, on the other hand, Obi-Wan Kenobi investigates and discovers a secret, and private clone army crafted for the Jedi. The film depicts a movement that incl es hundreds of planets and powerful corporate federations, which are the new threats to the galaxy.
35. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
- Director & Writer: George Lucas
- Cast members: Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Temuera Morrison, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Lee, Rose Byrne, Samuel L. Jackson, Ian McDiarmid, Leeanna Walsman, Frank Oz, Pernilla August, Jimmy Smits, Jack Thompson, Ahmed Best, Jett Lucas.
- IMDb score: 7.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 80%
- Streaming platform: AmazonPrime Video, Disney plus Hotstar
Plot synopsis: The sci-fi movie shows the actions after the Clone War. The film starts with the time after three years since the Clone Wars started up. The Chancellor Palpatine is rescued by Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker from General Grievous. General Grievous is the commander of the droid armies. However t, the Jedi Council has gathered some anxiousness towards Chancellor Palpatine and asked to spy on him. Moreover, Chancellor has some bond with Anakin, so this reason made the Jedi Council more anxious. Along with this, Anakin showed his Darker side through this.
36. Gravity
- Director & Writer: Alfonso Cuarón
- Cast members: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris, Basher Savage, Phaldut Sharma, Orto Ignatiussen, Amy Warren, Adam Cozens, Cate Blanchett, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Janis Ahern, Brad Pitt, Matthew McConaughey, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Fassbender.
- IMDb score: 7.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 95%
- Streaming platform: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix
The sci-fi movie is distributed by Warner Bros. Picture. The story of the film shows how a Medical engineer Dr. Ryan StonDrope up on her first shuttle mission. Matt Kowalsky, the veteran Astronaut, is her commander. However, this is his last flight before retirement. During this project, a disaster h happens that the shuttle is destroyed. After the shuttle is destroyed, the link between Earth and Ryan and Matt is ripped. Later after being so afraid and panic both of them decided that the only way to return to earth is to experiment in space. However, the movie is considered one of the best sci-fi films.
37. Wall-E
- Director & Writer: Andrew Stanton
- Cast members: Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, John Ratzenberger, Fred Willard, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver, Pete Docter, Teddy Newton, Bob Bergen, John Cygan, Donald Fullilove, Teresa Ganzel, Paul Eiding, Lori Richardson, Lori Alan.
- IMDb score: 8.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 95%
- Streaming platform: AmazonPrime Video, Disney plus Hotstar
The sci-fi movie is about a robot who is left till the end of the Earth. Wall -E is a waste lifter earth-class robot left on the Earth. Nonetheless, the use of the human there is a huge burden of trash on the Earth. So wall E took the burden of trash as it has a habit of picking the trashes. However, it’s main motive is to keep the Eart clean and trash free. However, the robot has spent its whole life cleaning up the world. However, Wall -E has developed a personality and fall in love with Eve. Eve is a shiny and slender machine that is sent back to Earth on a scanning expedition. With this, he wants to spend his rest span with Even across the galaxy.
38. Europe Report
- Director: Sebastián Cordero
- Writer: Philip Gelatt
- Cast members: Christian Camargo, Anamaria Marinca, Sharlto Copley, Michael Nyqvist, Karolina Wydra, Embeth Davidtz, Daniel Wu, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Dan Fogler, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
- IMDb score: 6.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 81%
- Streaming platform: AmazonPrime Video, Netflix
The sci-fi movie provides the information to the devotees Jupiter’s Moon. In the film, a group of six best astronauts was sent on a mission by a space exploration company. However, the mission is a privately funded mission to gather information on whether life exists on Jupiter’s moon, Europa, or not.
39. Under the Skin
- Director & Writer: Jonathan Glazer
- Cast members: Scarlett Johansson, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Kenny Baker, Peter Cushing, Shelagh Fraser, Phil Brown, Denis Lawson, Jack Purvis.
- IMDb score: 8.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
- Streaming platform: Amazon Prime Video
The sci-fi film shows how a creature claims herself a human female and huntsmen. However, by seducing them, she put all men in a van, which takes them to another dimension where they nothing less than a piece of flesh. Story of disguising itself as a human female, an extraterrestrial drives around Scotland attempting to lure unsuspecting men into her van. Once there, she seduces and sends them into another dimension where they are nothing more than meat.
40. Elysium
- Director & Writer: Neill Blomkamp
- Cast members: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Alice Braga, Sharlto Copley, Wagner Moura, Diego Luna, William Fichtner, Faran Tahir, Jared Keeso, Emma Tremblay.
- IMDb score: 6.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 65%
- Streaming platform: Amazon Prime Video
The sci-fi movie is set in the year 2154. In the period due to pollution and overpopulation, the Earth has come into its devastating period. Because of this, humanity gas is divided into two classes. The first class includes the rich class people called Elysium. On the other hand, the second class includes those people who are fighting hard for their existence. However, to end this inequality Max, the main protagonist, undertakes a dangerous mission.
41. Annihilation
- Director & Writer: Alex Garland
- Cast members: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, Oscar Isaac, Benedict Wong, Sonoya Mizuno, David Gyasi, Sammy Hayman, Josh Danford.
- IMDb score: 6.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 88%
- Streaming platform: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix
The sci-fi movie provides information about dangerous creatures. In the film, the main protagonist Lena is a biologist and former soldier. To uncovers the mystery about what has happened to her husband, she went to the American coastline. Over there, she discovers that the beautiful land has some life-threatening, dangerous creatures.
42. Alien
- Director: Ridley Scott
- Writer: Dan O’Bannon
- Cast members: Sigourney Weaver, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt, Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton, Bolaji Badejo, Helen Horton, Michael Fassbender, Jon Finch.
- IMDb score: 6.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 65%
- Streaming platform: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix
In the sci-fi movie, teammates of a spacecraft, Nostromo, received some signals from a different planet. However, to find out the actual reason for the signal, they went there for investigation. However, the three crew members went there to find out the transmission place. After exploring into the place of the moon, they all noticed a group of unknown creatures who are aliens. After reaching there, the aliens attacked them and occupied their spacecraft.
43. Alien: Covenant
- Director: Ridley Scott
- Writer: Dan O’Bannon
- Cast members: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Danny McBride, Billy Crudup, Demián Bichir, Jussie Smollett, Amy Seimetz, Callie Hernandez, James Franco, Noomi Rapace, Nathaniel Dean.
- IMDb score: 8.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 98%
- Streaming platform: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix
In the film, after getting a signal from a planet that is habitable, the crew members of a colony ship, Covenant, decides to visit that planet. However, later after going over there, they confront some dangerous aliens.
44. The Martian
- Director: Ridley Scott
- Writer: Drew Goddard
- Cast members: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kate Mara, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sebastian Stan, Michael Peña, Jeff Daniels, Donald Glover, Mackenzie Davis, Kristen Wiig, Sean Bean, Aksel Hennie, Benedict Wong, Nick Mohammed.
- IMDb score: 8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 91%
- Streaming platform: Amazon Prime Video
The sci-fi movie starts with a storm on the planet Mars. However, because of the storm, the crewmates of Mark Watney left him over Mars unintentionally. To bring him back to the earth, the members of NASA and a team of international scientists work together to bring him back. Moreover, the teammates of Mark who left him unintentionally also bring up a plan and make a rescue mission to bring him back to his planet.
45. The Adjustment Bureau
- Director & Writer: George Nolfi
- Cast members: Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Anthony Mackie, Michael Kelly, John Slattery, Terence Stamp, Florence Kastriner, Lisa Thoreson, Natalie Carter, Anthony Ruivivar, Susan D. Michaels, RJ Konner.
- IMDb score: 7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 71%
- Streaming platform: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix
The story of the film starts with David, a politician who has won a seat in the US Senate and falls in love with Elise, who is a ballet dancer. However, later he finds out that someone is conspiring and stopping him from loving Elise. The movie shows how David goes beyond the rules and fate to achieve what he wants. The film is adapted from a novel composed by Philip K dick.
46. Blade Runner
- Director: Ridley Scott
- Writer: Hampton Fancher
- Cast members: Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah, Joanna Cassidy, Joe Turkel, M. Emmet Walsh, David Webb Peoples, Brion James, James Hong, William Sanderson.
- IMDb score: 8.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 90%
- Streaming platform: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix
In the film, Deckard is the main protagonist who has been ordered to return to his old job, Replicant Hunter, by his boss. However, he has been assigned to eliminate the replicants who have invaded the planet. Moreover, before starting this work, he went to meet Rachel, the girl he loves who is a replicant girl.
47. Star Wars: A New Hope
- Director & Writer: George Lucas
- Cast members: Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Kenny Baker, Peter Cushing, Shelagh Fraser, Phil Brown, Denis Lawson, Jack Purvis, Alex McCrindle.
- IMDb score: 8.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
- Streaming platform: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix
The great sci-fi movie is about saving a princess from an evil personality Darth. The film starts with the cruel Darth Vader, who has captive Princess Leia. However, to save the princess, the two captains of the Millennium, Falcon Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, have worked together. Along with them, droid duo R2-D2 and C-3PO have also helped them to save the princess.
48. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
- Director: Irvin Kershner
- Writer: Leigh Brackett
- Cast members: Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Frank Oz, Alec Guinness, Jeremy Bulloch, Kenny Baker, Clive Revill, John Hollis, Des Webb, Julian Glover, John Ratzenberger.
- IMDb score: 8.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 94%
- Streaming platform: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix
This sci-fi movie is the sequel to the film “Star Wars.” At the beginning of the film Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, and Chewbacca are attacked by the Imperial forces. However, after this, all of them escape to different places. Han and Leia escape in the Millennium Falcon, Luke roams to Dagobah in search of Yoda.
49. Ready Player One
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Writer: Zak Penn and Ernest Cline
- IMDb score: 7.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 72%
- Streaming platform: Netflix
- Cast members: Olivia Cooke, Tye Sheridan, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Lena Waithe, Hannah John-Kamen, Philip Zhao, Letitia Wright, Ralph Ineson, Susan Lynch, Perdita Weeks.
The film is set in a 2045 background where the planet is in its last stage of devastation. During that time, James Halliday has given rise to an expansive virtual reality OASIS. After his death, he wants the correct person to discover a digital Easter egg, which is concealed somewhere in the OASIS. However, Wade Watts took part in the contest, where he finds out a different world with the essence of mystery and treasure. Moreover, he also discovers himself becoming a hero in that dangerous and mysterious world.
50. Arrival
- Director: Denis Villeneuve
- Writer: Eric Heisserer
- Cast members: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Tzi Ma, Mark O’Brien, Julia Scarlett Dan, Abigail Pniowsky, Jadyn Malone, Lucy Van Oldenbarneveld, Lucas Chartier-Dessert, Christian Jadah, Frank Scorpion, Patrick Kiely, Andrew Shaver, Larry Day, Anana Rydvald.
- IMDb score: 7.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 94%
- Streaming platform: Netflix
In the sci-fi film, Louise Banks is the main protagonist who leads a special team of investigators as well as a linguistics expert. This team investigates the gigantic spaceships which touch the twelve locations around the world. During the end of the global war, she and her crew members try to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors of the planet that is the aliens. The movie depicts uncovering method of the mystery which has threatened her life as well as mankind and their existence.
These fifty best sci-fi movies will help everyone to find out their type for binge-watching. The above movies will provide the viewer with the perfect essence of time travel, space information, aliens, and so on. Sci-fi movies mainly provide fundamental ideas about outer space along with their unbelievable habitats. This list of movies will provide the perfect essence of sci-fi, along with a glimpse of horror, drama, or romance. Moreover, sci-fi films emphasize exploration and unique issues, which include global warming, exploitation, etc. Hopefully, this list of films won’t disappoint anyone sci-fi movie lovers of any genre.
