The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time (Popular Mechanics)

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"Cinema exists to project our dreams. Science-fiction cinema exists to project our most creative dreams -- time-travel, alternate worlds, expanded consciousness, and more. That's why we're science-fiction maniacs and why we gathered up our top 100 movies." -- Popular Mechanics

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  1. 1 -

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
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    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
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    GATTACA

    1997 — a.k.a. Gattaca, in 5 top lists Check
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    Aliens

    1986, in 24 top lists Check
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    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
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    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    1977, in 23 top lists Check
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    The Terminator

    1984, in 24 top lists Check
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    Planet of the Apes

    1968, in 16 top lists Check
  9. 11 -

    The Day the Earth Stood Still

    1951, in 12 top lists Check
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    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
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    RoboCop

    1987, in 15 top lists Check
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    Logan's Run

    1976, in 4 top lists Check
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    Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    1991, in 27 top lists Check
  14. 18 -

    Akira

    1988, in 22 top lists Check
  15. 19 -

    Dark City

    1998, in 6 top lists Check
  16. 20 -

    Children of Men

    2006, in 13 top lists Check
  17. 21 -

    The Fly

    1986, in 11 top lists Check
  18. 22 -

    Le voyage dans la lune

    1902 — a.k.a. A Trip to the Moon, in 14 top lists Check
  19. 23 -

    Total Recall

    1990, in 8 top lists Check
  20. 25 -

    The Matrix

    1999, in 30 top lists Check
  21. 26 -

    Minority Report

    2002, in 8 top lists Check
  22. 27 -

    District 9

    2009, in 10 top lists Check
  23. 28 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  24. 29 -

    Tron

    1982, in 5 top lists Check
  25. 30 -

    Sunshine

    2007, in 1 top list Check
  26. 32 -

    The Thing

    1982, in 20 top lists Check
  27. 33 -

    Jurassic Park

    1993, in 23 top lists Check
  28. 34 -

    Idiocracy

    2006, in 2 top lists Check
  29. 35 -

    Primer

    2004, in 6 top lists Check
  30. 36 -

    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    1982, in 30 top lists Check
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    Solyaris

    1972 — a.k.a. Solaris, in 27 top lists Check
  32. 39 -

    Brazil

    1985, in 23 top lists Check
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    Gojira

    1954 — a.k.a. Godzilla, in 12 top lists Check
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    Donnie Darko

    2001, in 21 top lists Check
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    Star Trek: First Contact

    1996, in 2 top lists Check
  36. 43 -

    Back to the Future

    1985, in 25 top lists Check
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    The Man Who Fell to Earth

    1976, in 8 top lists Check
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    Soylent Green

    1973, in 3 top lists Check
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    Moon

    2009, in 5 top lists Check
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    Starship Troopers

    1997, in 9 top lists Check
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    A Scanner Darkly

    2006, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Andromeda Strain

    1971, in 3 top lists Check
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    Predator

    1987, in 9 top lists Check
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    Contact

    1997, in 2 top lists Check
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    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
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    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    1984 — a.k.a. 1984, in 3 top lists Check
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    When Worlds Collide

    1951, in 1 top list Check
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    The Last Starfighter

    1984, in 0 top lists Check
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    Frankenstein

    1931, in 18 top lists Check
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    Twelve Monkeys

    1995 — a.k.a. 12 Monkeys, in 14 top lists Check
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