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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  1. 50 -

    Avatar

    2009, in 14 top lists Check
  2. 41 -

    Donnie Darko

    2001, in 21 top lists Check
  3. 27 -

    District 9

    2009, in 10 top lists Check
  4. 69 -

    Inception

    2010, in 21 top lists Check
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    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  6. 28 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
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    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
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    The Matrix

    1999, in 30 top lists Check
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    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
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    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    1982, in 30 top lists Check
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    WALL·E

    2008, in 26 top lists Check
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    The Fountain

    2006, in 4 top lists Check
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    Children of Men

    2006, in 13 top lists Check
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    Star Wars

    1977, in 40 top lists Check
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    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

    1980, in 25 top lists Check
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    Jurassic Park

    1993, in 23 top lists Check
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    Men in Black

    1997, in 6 top lists Check
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    Idiocracy

    2006, in 2 top lists Check
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    Starship Troopers

    1997, in 9 top lists Check
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    Brazil

    1985, in 23 top lists Check
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    Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    1991, in 27 top lists Check
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    Minority Report

    2002, in 8 top lists Check
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    The Terminator

    1984, in 24 top lists Check
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    Splice

    2009, in 1 top list Check
  25. 61 -

    Twelve Monkeys

    1995 — a.k.a. 12 Monkeys, in 14 top lists Check
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    Back to the Future

    1985, in 25 top lists Check
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    Mad Max

    1979, in 13 top lists Check
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    Rise of the Planet of the Apes

    2011, in 2 top lists Check
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    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
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    Aliens

    1986, in 24 top lists Check
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    Serenity

    2005, in 3 top lists Check
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    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    1977, in 23 top lists Check
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    Primer

    2004, in 6 top lists Check
  34. 30 -

    Sunshine

    2007, in 1 top list Check
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    Akira

    1988, in 22 top lists Check
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    Cube

    1997, in 5 top lists Check
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    The Thing

    1982, in 20 top lists Check
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    A Scanner Darkly

    2006, in 3 top lists Check
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    Moon

    2009, in 5 top lists Check
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    RoboCop

    1987, in 15 top lists Check
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    Stalker

    1979, in 22 top lists Check
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    Predator

    1987, in 9 top lists Check
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    Tron

    1982, in 5 top lists Check
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    Contact

    1997, in 2 top lists Check
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    Planet of the Apes

    1968, in 16 top lists Check
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    Total Recall

    1990, in 8 top lists Check
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    GATTACA

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

    1999, in 3 top lists Check
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    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
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    Solyaris

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