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. 50 new

    Children of Men

    2006, in 13 top lists Check
  2. 49 -1

    Iron Man

    2008, in 8 top lists Check
  3. 46 -

    Arrival

    2016, in 11 top lists Check
  4. 45 -1

    Solyaris

    1972 — a.k.a. Solaris, in 27 top lists Check
  5. 43 -

    Akira

    1988, in 22 top lists Check
  6. 42 -

    Twelve Monkeys

    1995 — a.k.a. 12 Monkeys, in 14 top lists Check
  7. 41 -1

    The Avengers

    2012, in 7 top lists Check
  8. 40 -1

    Her

    2013, in 10 top lists Check
  9. 39 +2

    Planet of the Apes

    1968, in 16 top lists Check
  10. 38 -1

    Donnie Darko

    2001, in 21 top lists Check
  11. 37 +1

    Guardians of the Galaxy

    2014, in 3 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. 34 -

    Dune: Part One

    2021 — a.k.a. Dune, in 7 top lists Check
  15. 30 -

    Stalker

    1979, in 22 top lists Check
  16. 29 -

    Logan

    2017, in 9 top lists Check
  17. 28 -

    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
  18. 27 -

    The Terminator

    1984, in 24 top lists Check
  19. 26 -

    Mad Max: Fury Road

    2015, in 23 top lists Check
  20. 23 -

    The Thing

    1982, in 20 top lists Check
  21. 21 +1

    Jurassic Park

    1993, in 23 top lists Check
  22. 20 -

    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
  23. 18 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  24. 17 -

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  25. 16 -

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
  26. 13 -

    Avengers: Infinity War

    2018, in 8 top lists Check
  27. 12 -

    Aliens

    1986, in 24 top lists Check
  28. 11 -

    Avengers: Endgame

    2019, in 8 top lists Check
  29. 10 -

    Back to the Future

    1985, in 25 top lists Check
  30. 8 -

    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
  31. 7 -1

    Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    1991, in 27 top lists Check
  32. 3 -

    The Matrix

    1999, in 30 top lists Check
  33. 2 -

    Interstellar

    2014, in 13 top lists Check
  34. 1 -

    Inception

    2010, in 21 top lists Check
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