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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Inception
2010, in 21 top lists Check -
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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 +1
Star Wars
1977, in 40 top lists Check -
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 +1
Back to the Future
1985, in 25 top lists Check -
11 -1
The Prestige
2006, in 15 top lists Check -
12 +1
Avengers: Endgame
2019, in 8 top lists Check -
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 +3
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
1983, in 18 top lists Check -
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 -
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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 +1
Planet of the Apes
1968, in 16 top lists Check -
37 -1
Blade Runner 2049
2017, in 9 top lists Check -
38 +1
The Martian
2015, in 5 top lists Check -
39 +1
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014, in 3 top lists Check -
40 +1
Donnie Darko
2001, in 21 top lists Check -
41 +1
The Avengers
2012, in 7 top lists Check -
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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 +1
Solyaris
1972 — a.k.a. Solaris, in 27 top lists Check -
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 -
48 +1
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
2023, in 3 top lists -
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Star Trek
2009, in 5 top lists Check -
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Arrival
2016, in 11 top lists Check
Last updated on May 20, 2024; source