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. 1 -

    Inception

    2010, in 21 top lists Check
  2. 2 -

    Interstellar

    2014, in 13 top lists Check
  3. 3 -

    The Matrix

    1999, in 30 top lists Check
  4. 7 -

    Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    1991, in 27 top lists Check
  5. 8 +1

    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
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    Back to the Future

    1985, in 25 top lists Check
  7. 11 +1

    Aliens

    1986, in 24 top lists Check
  8. 12 -1

    Avengers: Endgame

    2019, in 8 top lists Check
  9. 13 +1

    Avengers: Infinity War

    2018, in 8 top lists Check
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    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
  11. 17 +1

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  12. 18 -1

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  13. 20 -

    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
  14. 22 -

    Jurassic Park

    1993, in 23 top lists Check
  15. 23 -

    The Thing

    1982, in 20 top lists Check
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    Mad Max: Fury Road

    2015, in 23 top lists Check
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    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
  18. 29 -

    The Terminator

    1984, in 24 top lists Check
  19. 30 -

    Logan

    2017, in 9 top lists Check
  20. 32 -1

    Stalker

    1979, in 22 top lists Check
  21. 35 -

    Dune: Part One

    2021 — a.k.a. Dune, in 7 top lists Check
  22. 36 -

    Blade Runner 2049

    2017, in 9 top lists Check
  23. 37 +2

    Donnie Darko

    2001, in 21 top lists Check
  24. 38 -1

    Guardians of the Galaxy

    2014, in 3 top lists Check
  25. 39 -1

    The Martian

    2015, in 5 top lists Check
  26. 40 -

    Her

    2013, in 10 top lists Check
  27. 41 -

    The Avengers

    2012, in 7 top lists Check
  28. 42 -

    Planet of the Apes

    1968, in 16 top lists Check
  29. 43 -

    Twelve Monkeys

    1995 — a.k.a. 12 Monkeys, in 14 top lists Check
  30. 44 -

    Akira

    1988, in 22 top lists Check
  31. 46 -

    Solyaris

    1972 — a.k.a. Solaris, in 27 top lists Check
  32. 47 -

    Arrival

    2016, in 11 top lists Check
  33. 49 +1

    Iron Man

    2008, in 8 top lists Check
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