IMDb's Sci-Fi Top 50

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Sci-fi films are often quasi-scientific, visionary and imaginative - complete with heroes, aliens, distant planets, impossible quests, improbable settings, fantastic places, great dark and shadowy villains, futuristic technology, unknown and unknowable forces, and extraordinary monsters. Science fiction often expresses the potential of technology to destroy humankind and easily overlaps with horror films, particularly when technology or alien life forms become malevolent, as in the "Atomic Age" of sci-fi films in the 1950s.

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  1. 47 -

    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

    2023, in 3 top lists
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  2. 5 -

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    2023, in 9 top lists
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  3. 14 -

    Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    2018, in 21 top lists Check
  4. 22 -1

    Spider-Man: No Way Home

    2021, in 9 top lists
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  5. 25 -

    Ivan Vasilevich menyaet professiyu

    1973 — a.k.a. Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession, in 5 top lists Check
  6. 33 -

    PK

    2014, in 3 top lists Check
  7. 34 -

    Dune: Part One

    2021 — a.k.a. Dune, in 7 top lists Check
  8. 29 -

    Logan

    2017, in 9 top lists Check
  9. 44 +1

    Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä

    1984 — a.k.a. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, in 10 top lists Check
  10. 32 -

    Shin seiki Evangelion Gekijô-ban: Air/Magokoro...

    1997 — a.k.a. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion, in 8 top lists Check
  11. 31 -

    The Iron Giant

    1999, in 14 top lists Check
  12. 36 -

    The Martian

    2015, in 6 top lists Check
  13. 35 -

    Blade Runner 2049

    2017, in 9 top lists Check
  14. 11 -

    Avengers: Endgame

    2019, in 8 top lists Check
  15. 13 -

    Avengers: Infinity War

    2018, in 8 top lists Check
  16. 20 -

    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
  17. 45 -1

    Solyaris

    1972 — a.k.a. Solaris, in 27 top lists Check
  18. 46 -

    Arrival

    2016, in 11 top lists Check
  19. 39 +2

    Planet of the Apes

    1968, in 16 top lists Check
  20. 30 -

    Stalker

    1979, in 22 top lists Check
  21. 23 -

    The Thing

    1982, in 20 top lists Check
  22. 43 -

    Akira

    1988, in 22 top lists Check
  23. 12 -

    Aliens

    1986, in 24 top lists Check
  24. 8 -

    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
  25. 37 +1

    Guardians of the Galaxy

    2014, in 3 top lists Check
  26. 40 -1

    Her

    2013, in 10 top lists Check
  27. 10 -

    Back to the Future

    1985, in 25 top lists Check
  28. 42 -

    Twelve Monkeys

    1995 — a.k.a. 12 Monkeys, in 14 top lists Check
  29. 27 -

    The Terminator

    1984, in 24 top lists Check
  30. 26 -

    Mad Max: Fury Road

    2015, in 23 top lists Check
  31. 7 -1

    Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    1991, in 27 top lists Check
  32. 2 -

    Interstellar

    2014, in 13 top lists Check
  33. 21 +1

    Jurassic Park

    1993, in 23 top lists Check
  34. 19 -

    Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

    1983, in 18 top lists Check
  35. 9 -

    The Prestige

    2006, in 15 top lists Check
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    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

    1980, in 25 top lists Check
  37. 49 -1

    Iron Man

    2008, in 8 top lists Check
  38. 6 +1

    Star Wars

    1977, in 40 top lists Check
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    Children of Men

    2006, in 13 top lists Check
  40. 15 -

    WALL·E

    2008, in 26 top lists Check
  41. 28 -

    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
  42. 3 -

    The Matrix

    1999, in 30 top lists Check
  43. 41 -1

    The Avengers

    2012, in 7 top lists Check
  44. 16 -

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
  45. 24 -

    V for Vendetta

    2005, in 10 top lists Check
  46. 18 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  47. 17 -

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  48. 1 -

    Inception

    2010, in 21 top lists Check
  49. 38 -1

    Donnie Darko

    2001, in 21 top lists Check
  50. 48 +1

    Avatar

    2009, in 14 top lists Check
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