The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time (Popular Mechanics)

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"Cinema exists to project our dreams. Science-fiction cinema exists to project our most creative dreams -- time-travel, alternate worlds, expanded consciousness, and more. That's why we're science-fiction maniacs and why we gathered up our top 100 movies." -- Popular Mechanics

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    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  2. 53 -

    Abre los ojos

    1997 — a.k.a. Open Your Eyes, in 2 top lists Check
  3. 18 -

    Akira

    1988, in 22 top lists Check
  4. 12 -

    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
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    Aliens

    1986, in 24 top lists Check
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    Alphaville: Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution

    1965 — a.k.a. Alphaville, in 13 top lists Check
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    Altered States

    1980, in 5 top lists Check
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    The Andromeda Strain

    1971, in 3 top lists Check
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    Attack the Block

    2011, in 2 top lists Check
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    Avatar

    2009, in 14 top lists Check
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    Back to the Future

    1985, in 25 top lists Check
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    The Black Hole

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
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    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
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    Brazil

    1985, in 23 top lists Check
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    Children of Men

    2006, in 12 top lists Check
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    La cité des enfants perdus

    1995 — a.k.a. The City of Lost Children, in 4 top lists Check
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    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
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    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    1977, in 23 top lists Check
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    Contact

    1997, in 2 top lists Check
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    Cube

    1997, in 5 top lists Check
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    Dark City

    1998, in 6 top lists Check
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    Dark Star

    1974, in 7 top lists Check
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    The Day of the Triffids

    1963 — a.k.a. Invasion of the Triffids, in 1 top list Check
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    The Day the Earth Stood Still

    1951, in 12 top lists Check
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    Destination Moon

    1950, in 1 top list Check
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    District 9

    2009, in 10 top lists Check
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    Donnie Darko

    2001, in 21 top lists Check
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    Dreamscape

    1984, in 1 top list Check
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    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    1982, in 31 top lists Check
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    Enemy Mine

    1985, in 1 top list Check
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    Escape from New York

    1981, in 5 top lists Check
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    Escape from the Planet of the Apes

    1971, in 0 top lists Check
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    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
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    eXistenZ

    1999, in 3 top lists Check
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    Fahrenheit 451

    1966, in 4 top lists Check
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    The Fly

    1986, in 11 top lists Check
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    Forbidden Planet

    1956, in 9 top lists Check
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    The Fountain

    2006, in 4 top lists Check
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    Frankenstein

    1931, in 18 top lists Check
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    Galaxy Quest

    1999, in 3 top lists Check
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    GATTACA

    1997 — a.k.a. Gattaca, in 5 top lists Check
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    Gojira

    1954 — a.k.a. Godzilla, in 12 top lists Check
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    Idiocracy

    2006, in 2 top lists Check
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    Ikarie XB 1

    1963 — a.k.a. Voyage to the End of the Universe, in 2 top lists Check
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    Inception

    2010, in 21 top lists Check
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    Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    1978, in 3 top lists Check
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    Jurassic Park

    1993, in 23 top lists Check
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    Kôkaku Kidôtai

    1995 — a.k.a. Ghost in the Shell, in 12 top lists Check
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    The Last Starfighter

    1984, in 0 top lists Check
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    Logan's Run

    1976, in 4 top lists Check
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