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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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    Inception

    2010, in 21 top lists Check
  2. 2 -

    Dune: Part Two

    2024, in 8 top lists
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    Interstellar

    2014, in 13 top lists Check
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    The Matrix

    1999, in 30 top lists Check
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    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

    1980, in 25 top lists Check
  6. 6 +1

    Star Wars

    1977, in 40 top lists Check
  7. 7 -1

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    2023, in 9 top lists
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    Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    1991, in 27 top lists Check
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    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
  10. 10 +1

    Back to the Future

    1985, in 25 top lists Check
  11. 11 -1

    The Prestige

    2006, in 15 top lists Check
  12. 12 +1

    Avengers: Endgame

    2019, in 8 top lists Check
  13. 13 -1

    Aliens

    1986, in 24 top lists Check
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    Avengers: Infinity War

    2018, in 8 top lists Check
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    Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    2018, in 21 top lists Check
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    WALL·E

    2008, in 26 top lists Check
  17. 17 +3

    Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

    1983, in 18 top lists Check
  18. 18 -1

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
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    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  20. 20 -2

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
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    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
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    Spider-Man: No Way Home

    2021, in 9 top lists
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    Jurassic Park

    1993, in 23 top lists Check
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    The Thing

    1982, in 20 top lists Check
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    V for Vendetta

    2005, in 10 top lists Check
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    Ivan Vasilevich menyaet professiyu

    1973 — a.k.a. Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession, in 5 top lists Check
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    Mad Max: Fury Road

    2015, in 23 top lists Check
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    Logan

    2017, in 9 top lists Check
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    The Terminator

    1984, in 24 top lists Check
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    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
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    Stalker

    1979, in 22 top lists Check
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    The Iron Giant

    1999, in 13 top lists Check
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    Shin seiki Evangelion Gekijô-ban: Air/Magokoro...

    1997 — a.k.a. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion, in 7 top lists Check
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    PK

    2014, in 3 top lists Check
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    Dune: Part One

    2021 — a.k.a. Dune, in 7 top lists Check
  36. 36 +1

    Planet of the Apes

    1968, in 16 top lists Check
  37. 37 -1

    Blade Runner 2049

    2017, in 9 top lists Check
  38. 38 +1

    The Martian

    2015, in 5 top lists Check
  39. 39 +1

    Guardians of the Galaxy

    2014, in 3 top lists Check
  40. 40 +1

    Donnie Darko

    2001, in 21 top lists Check
  41. 41 +1

    The Avengers

    2012, in 7 top lists Check
  42. 42 -4

    Her

    2013, in 10 top lists Check
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    Twelve Monkeys

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

    1988, in 22 top lists Check
  45. 45 +1

    Solyaris

    1972 — a.k.a. Solaris, in 27 top lists Check
  46. 46 -1

    Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä

    1984 — a.k.a. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, in 9 top lists Check
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    Poor Things

    2023, in 7 top lists
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  48. 48 +1

    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

    2023, in 3 top lists
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  49. 49 new

    Star Trek

    2009, in 5 top lists Check
  50. 50 -2

    Arrival

    2016, in 11 top lists Check
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