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Science-Fiction Films   (320 Most Notable)

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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
2 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Kubrick, Stanley UK / USA DUPS
22 Star Wars: Episode IV -
A New Hope		 1977 Lucas, George USA DS
33 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
39 Metropolis 1927 Lang, Fritz Germany DUPS
58 King Kong 1933 Cooper, Merian C. / Schoedsack, Ernest B. USA DS
97 Blade Runner 1982 Scott, Ridley USA DBUPS
98 Solaris 1972 Tarkovsky, Andrei Soviet Union D
122 The Bride of Frankenstein 1935 Whale, James USA DUS
177 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Spielberg, Steven USA DBUS
187 Frankenstein 1931 Whale, James USA DS
195 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Siegel, Don USA D
230 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Kubrick, Stanley UK DUP
259 Night of the Living Dead 1968 Romero, George A. USA DUP
280 Star Wars: Episode V -
The Empire Strikes Back		 1980 Kershner, Irvin USA DS
292 Alien 1979 Scott, Ridley UK DS
414 Young Frankenstein 1974 Brooks, Mel USA DB
446 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Wise, Robert USA DBUS
460 Aliens 1986 Cameron, James USA / UK DUPS
465 Planet of the Apes 1968 Schaffner, Franklin J. USA DBS
502 Back to the Future 1985 Zemeckis, Robert USA YS
510 The Road Warrior 1981 Miller, George Australia DBU
535 The Matrix 1999 Wachowski, Andy / Wachowski, Larry USA DBU
574 Lost Horizon 1937 Capra, Frank USA YS
593 Brazil 1985 Gilliam, Terry UK D
665 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 Cameron, James France / USA DBU
705 Forbidden Planet 1956 Wilcox, Fred M. USA D
735 Sleeper 1973 Allen, Woody USA Y
737 Star Wars: Episode VI -
Return of the Jedi		 1983 Marquand, Richard USA DS
757 The Terminator 1984 Cameron, James USA DBUP
792 The Man in the White Suit 1951 Mackendrick, Alexander UK Y
807 Delicatessen 1991 Caro, Marc / Jeunet, Jean-Pierre France D
861 The Fly 1986 Cronenberg, David USA DBS
876 Spider-Man 2 2004 Raimi, Sam USA DBUS
895 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Gondry, Michel USA Y
912 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931 Mamoulian, Rouben USA YU
919 On the Beach 1959 Kramer, Stanley USA Y
935 Videodrome 1983 Cronenberg, David Canada / USA YUS
938 The Thing from Another World 1951 Nyby, Christian / Hawks, Howard USA YS
951 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1954 Fleischer, Richard USA Y
978 2046 2004 Wong, Kar Wai China / France / Germany / Hong Kong D
983 The Invisible Man 1933 Whale, James USA D
992 Things to Come 1936 Menzies, William Cameron UK DU
1035 Jurassic Park 1993 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
1055 Seconds 1966 Frankenheimer, John USA D
1070 The Truman Show 1998 Weir, Peter USA Y
1103 Fail-Safe 1964 Lumet, Sidney USA D
1132 Mad Max 1979 Miller, George Australia YU
1134 The Nutty Professor 1963 Lewis, Jerry USA YUP
1139 Total Recall 1990 Verhoeven, Paul USA DBUS
1146 Minority Report 2002 Spielberg, Steven USA YS
1163 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Sharman, Jim UK DUP
1165 The War Game 1965 Watkins, Peter UK D
1177 Alphaville 1965 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Italy Y
1179 The Incredibles 2004 Bird, Brad USA D
1185 Superman 1978 Donner, Richard UK DBUPS
1223 Ghostbusters 1984 Reitman, Ivan USA DUPS
1227 Flash Gordon 1936 Stephani, Frederick / Taylor, Ray USA Y
1234 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 Barton, Charles USA D
1236 Le Voyage Dans La Lune 1902 Méliès, Georges France DU
1268 The Iron Giant 1999 Bird, Brad USA DS
1335 The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976 Roeg, Nicolas UK DB
1361 Donnie Darko 2001 Kelly, Richard USA DS
1363 Island of Lost Souls 1933 Kenton, Erle C. USA
1367 The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 Arnold, Jack USA
1368 Children of Men 2006 Cuarón, Alfonso UK / USA DBU
1452 Vinyl 1965 Warhol, Andy USA
1457 Robocop 1987 Verhoeven, Paul USA DBUP
1462 A.I. Artificial Intelligence 2001 Spielberg, Steven USA YS
1474 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 2004 Conran, Kerry USA / UK / Italy DBUS
1477 Barbarella 1968 Vadim, Roger France / Italy YU
1488 Fantastic Voyage 1966 Fleischer, Richard USA D
1488 War of the Worlds 1953 Haskin, Byron USA D
1509 King Kong 2005 Jackson, Peter / Singer, Bryan New Zealand / USA DUS
1516 Charly 1968 Nelson, Ralph USA Y
1518 Independence Day 1996 Emmerich, Roland USA DBS
1524 Dark City 1998 Proyas, Alex USA DBUS
1532 Son of Frankenstein 1939 Lee, Rowland V. USA D
1550 The Man Who Could Work Miracles 1936 Mendes, Lothar UK
1554 Naked Lunch 1991 Cronenberg, David Canada / UK / Japan YS
1569 Primer 2004 Carruth, Shane USA Y
1588 Howl's Moving Castle 2004 Miyazaki, Hayao Japan D
1597 The Fantastic Planet 1973 Laloux, René Czechoslovakia / France D
1619 La Jetée 1962 Marker, Chris France D
1619 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 1982 Meyer, Nicholas USA YUS
1648 Fahrenheit 451 1966 Truffaut, François UK YS
1678 Stalker 1979 Tarkovsky, Andrei West Germany / Soviet Union Y
1680 Testament 1983 Littman, Lynne USA Y
1681 Dark Star 1974 Carpenter, John USA D
1725 Cocoon 1985 Howard, Ron USA YS
1743 The Devil Doll 1936 Browning, Tod USA Y
1807 The Fly 1958 Neumann, Kurt USA DU
1810 The Manchurian Candidate 2004 Demme, Jonathan USA DBU
1815 12 Monkeys 1995 Gilliam, Terry USA DBS
1820 Diamonds Are Forever 1971 Hamilton, Guy UK / USA DS
1820 Them! 1954 Douglas, Gordon USA D
1829 Man Facing Southeast 1986 Subiela, Eliseo Argentina
1830 Spider-Man 2002 Raimi, Sam USA DBUPS
1840 Pi 1998 Aronofsky, Darren USA DUPS
1842 The Thing 1982 Carpenter, John USA DUS
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1854 The Time Machine 1960 Pal, George USA DUS
1858 Open Your Eyes 1997 Amenábar, Alejandro Spain / France / Italy D
1863 The Ninth Configuration 1980 Blatty, William Peter USA Y
1871 Iceman 1984 Schepisi, Fred USA D
1881 It Happened Here 1966 Brownlow, Kevin / Mollo, Andrew UK Y
1886 Wall•E 2008 Stanton, Andrew USA DBS
1889 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986 Nimoy, Leonard USA DUS
1930 Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America 1992 Baldwin, Craig USA
1935 Star Wars: Episode II -
Attack of the Clones		 2002 Lucas, George USA DS
1938 Akira 1988 Ôtomo, Katsuhiro Japan DS
1940 Diary for My Children 1982 Mészáros, Márta Hungary
1949 Castle in the Sky 1986 Miyazaki, Hayao Japan DS
1963 Repo Man 1984 Cox, Alex USA DU
1964 Le Dernier Combat 1983 Besson, Luc France D
1964 The Quiet Earth 1985 Murphy, Geoff New Zealand
1964 Tetsuo: The Iron Man 1988 Tsukamoto, Shinya Japan D
1979 Slaughterhouse-Five 1972 Hill, George Roy USA Y
1984 The Fifth Element 1997 Besson, Luc France DBUPS
1991 Armageddon 1998 Bay, Michael USA Y
1991 V for Vendetta 2005 McTeigue, James USA / Germany DBU
1993 Wallace & Gromit:
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit		 2005 Park, Nick / Box, Steve UK D
1994 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985 Ogilvie, George / Miller, George Australia / USA DUPS
1996 Star Wars: Episode III -
Revenge of the Sith		 2005 Lucas, George USA DS
2006 Re-Animator 1985 Gordon, Stuart USA Y
2006 Starman 1984 Carpenter, John USA DU
2011 Plan 9 from Outer Space 1959 Wood, Edward D. Jr. USA DUS
2014 Starship Troopers 1997 Verhoeven, Paul USA DBUS
2017 Back to the Future Part III 1990 Zemeckis, Robert USA DS
2017 Countdown 1968 Altman, Robert / Conrad, William USA V
2017 Demon Seed 1977 Cammell, Donald USA D
2017 It Happens Every Spring 1949 Bacon, Lloyd USA
2017 The Little Shop of Horrors 1960 Corman, Roger USA DU
2017 The Mind of Mr. Soames 1970 Cooke, Alan UK
2017 The Satan Bug 1965 Sturges, John USA
2027 Superman Returns 2006 Singer, Bryan Australia / USA DBU
2034 New Rose Hotel 1998 Ferrara, Abel USA Y
2035 The Mask of Fu Manchu 1932 Brabin, Charles / Vidor, Charles USA D
2047 Gremlins 2: The New Batch 1990 Dante, Joe USA DS
2058 The Lost World 1925 Hoyt, Harry O. / Dowling, William USA DU
2071 Day of the Dead 1985 Romero, George A. USA DB
2077 1984 1984 Radford, Michael UK Y
2077 Privilege 1967 Watkins, Peter UK D
2080 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 Oz, Frank USA YUP
2104 The Matrix Reloaded 2003 Wachowski, Andy / Wachowski, Larry USA DBUPS
2106 Grindhouse 2007 Rodriguez, Robert / Tarantino, Quentin / Roth, Eli / Wright, Edgar / Zombie, Rob USA D
2111 The Host 2006 Bong, Joon-ho South Korea DBU
2120 Lilo & Stitch 2002 DeBlois, Dean / Sanders, Chris USA D
2120 Silent Running 1972 Trumbull, Douglas USA D
2123 Battlefield Earth 2000 Christian, Roger USA DS
2123 Frankenstein - 1970 1958 Koch, Howard W. USA VU
2123 Mission to Mars 2000 De Palma, Brian USA DS
2123 Night of the Lepus 1972 Claxton, William F. USA D
2123 Outland 1981 Hyams, Peter UK DS
2123 Soldier 1998 Anderson, Paul W.S. UK / USA DUPS
2123 Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979 Wise, Robert USA DUPS
2123 2010 1984 Hyams, Peter USA DU
2125 Iron Man 2008 Favreau, Jon USA DBUPS
2126 Star Wars: Episode I -
The Phantom Menace		 1999 Lucas, George USA DS
2137 Code 46 2003 Winterbottom, Michael UK YUP
2137 The Fountain 2006 Aronofsky, Darren USA DBU
2144 Superman 1948 Bennet, Spencer Gordon / Carr, Thomas USA D
2190 Aerograd 1935 Dovzhenko, Aleksandr Soviet Union
2190 The Hole 1998 Tsai, Ming-liang Taiwan / France Y
2190 The Iceman Cometh 1989 Yiu-leung, Clarence Fok Hong Kong Y
2190 It's a Good Life (Twilight Zone: The Movie) 1983 Dante, Joe USA Y
2190 Je t'aime, je t'aime 1968 Resnais, Alain France
2190 King Lear 1987 Godard, Jean-Luc Bahamas / USA Y
2190 Monkey Business 1952 Hawks, Howard USA Y
2190 On Top of a Whale 1982 Ruiz, Raoul Netherlands Y
2190 Paris qui dort 1925 Clair, René France Y
2190 The Second Civil War 1997 Dante, Joe USA Y
2196 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial:
The 20th Anniversary		 2002 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
2198 Strange Days 1995 Bigelow, Kathryn USA DS
2198 Superman II 1980 Lester, Richard / Donner, Richard UK DUP
2201 Contact 1997 Zemeckis, Robert USA DUS
2202 Hellboy II: The Golden Army 2008 del Toro, Guillermo USA / Germany DBUPS
2203 Signs 2002 Shyamalan, M. Night USA DBS
2204 Cloverfield 2008 Reeves, Matt USA DBUP
2206 Solaris 2002 Soderbergh, Steven USA DUS
2214 Gattaca 1997 Niccol, Andrew USA DBUPS
2215 The City of Lost Children 1995 Caro, Marc / Jeunet, Jean-Pierre France / Germany / Spain DU
2229 The Tingler 1959 Castle, William USA Y
2233 Paprika 2006 Kon, Satoshi Japan DBU
2233 Rat 1960 Bulajic, Veljko Yugoslavia Y
2233 Vesna 1947 Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union
2234 Bye Bye Monkey 1978 Ferreri, Marco Italy / France D
2234 Light Years Away 1981 Tanner, Alain Switzerland / France
2235 The Andromeda Strain 1971 Wise, Robert USA D
2235 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms 1953 Lourié, Eugène USA D
2235 Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1970 Post, Ted USA DS
2235 The Blob 1958 Yeaworth, Irvin S. Jr. / Doughten, Russell S. Jr. USA D
2235 A Boy and His Dog 1975 Jones, L.Q. USA D
2235 The Boys from Brazil 1978 Schaffner, Franklin J. USA / UK DUPS
2235 Capricorn One 1978 Hyams, Peter USA / UK DS
2235 Colossus: The Forbin Project 1970 Sargent, Joseph USA D
2235 Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954 Arnold, Jack USA DS
2235 The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 Fisher, Terence UK D
2235 Day of the Triffids 1962 Sekely, Steve / Francis, Freddie UK D
2235 Death Race 2000 1975 Bartel, Paul USA D
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2235 Destination Moon 1950 Pichel, Irving USA DU
2235 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1920 Robertson, John S. USA DU
2235 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1941 Fleming, Victor USA D
2235 Escape to Witch Mountain 1975 Hough, John USA D
2235 Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man 1943 Neill, Roy William USA D
2235 The Fury 1978 De Palma, Brian USA DUPS
2235 Godzilla 1954 Honda, Ishirô Japan DS
2235 Have Rocket, Will Travel 1959 Rich, David Lowell USA V
2235 House of Frankenstein 1944 Kenton, Erle C. USA D
2235 I Was a Teenage Werewolf 1957 Fowler, Gene Jr. USA V
2235 The Island of Dr. Moreau 1977 Taylor, Don USA D
2235 It Came from Outer Space 1953 Arnold, Jack USA D
2235 King Kong 1976 Guillermin, John USA DUPS
2235 Logan's Run 1976 Anderson, Michael USA DUPS
2235 Men in Black II 2002 Sonnenfeld, Barry USA DS
2235 Missing Husbands 1921 Feyder, Jacques France / Belgium D
2235 Moonraker 1979 Gilbert, Lewis UK / France / USA DS
2235 The Mysterians 1957 Honda, Ishirô Japan D
2235 The Omega Man 1971 Sagal, Boris USA DBUP
2235 Quatermass and the Pit 1967 Baker, Roy Ward UK D
2235 Rodan 1956 Honda, Ishirô Japan D
2235 Rollerball 1975 Jewison, Norman UK DS
2235 Soylent Green 1973 Fleischer, Richard USA D
2235 The Stepford Wives 1975 Forbes, Bryan USA DU
2235 Village of the Damned 1960 Rilla, Wolf UK / USA D
2235 Werewolf of London 1935 Walker, Stuart USA D
2235 Westworld 1973 Crichton, Michael USA DUS
2235 World Without End 1956 Bernds, Edward USA V
2235 You Only Live Twice 1967 Gilbert, Lewis UK / USA DS
2250 The Day of the Dolphin 1973 Nichols, Mike USA YS
2250 Time After Time 1979 Meyer, Nicholas USA YUP
2253 Robots 2005 Wedge, Chris / Saldanha, Carlos USA DU
2257 The Cell 2000 Singh, Tarsem USA / Germany YUS
2264 The Assassination Bureau 1969 Dearden, Basil UK Y
2264 The Little Prince 1974 Donen, Stanley UK / USA YU
2264 Men in Black 1997 Sonnenfeld, Barry USA DBUPS
2265 The Science of Sleep 2006 Gondry, Michel France DU
2270 Body Snatchers 1994 Ferrara, Abel USA DU
2270 Metropolis 2001 Rintaro Japan D
2270 Tron 1982 Lisberger, Steven USA / Taiwan DS
2270 UFOria 1985 Binder, John USA
2270 WarGames 1983 Badham, John USA DUP
2273 The Trouble with Dick 1987 Walkow, Gary USA Y
2274 Hell and High Water 1954 Fuller, Samuel USA D
2279 Altered States 1980 Russell, Ken USA DUPS
2279 The Arrival 1996 Twohy, David USA / Mexico DUP
2279 Atlantis: The Lost Empire 2001 Trousdale, Gary / Wise, Kirk USA DS
2279 The Brother from Another Planet 1984 Sayles, John USA DS
2279 The Dead Zone 1983 Cronenberg, David USA DU
2279 Electric Dreams 1984 Barron, Steve USA / UK V
2279 Escape from L.A. 1996 Carpenter, John USA DUPS
2279 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within 2001 Sakaguchi, Hironobu / Sakakibara, Moto USA / Japan DUS
2279 Firefox 1982 Eastwood, Clint USA D
2279 Frequency 2000 Hoblit, Gregory USA D
2279 Hellboy 2004 del Toro, Guillermo USA DBUS
2279 Junior 1994 Reitman, Ivan USA DS
2279 Making Mr. Right 1987 Seidelman, Susan USA D
2279 Mimic 1997 del Toro, Guillermo USA DS
2279 Outbreak 1995 Petersen, Wolfgang USA DBUS
2279 Space Jam 1996 Pytka, Joe USA DS
2279 Star Trek: First Contact 1996 Frakes, Jonathan USA DUS
2279 Titan A.E. 2000 Bluth, Don / Goldman, Gary / Vitello, Art USA DUS
2279 The X-Files: I Want to Believe 2008 Carter, Chris USA / Canada DBS
2280 Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters 2007 Maiellaro, Matt / Willis, Dave USA DU
2280 A Scanner Darkly 2006 Linklater, Richard USA DBU
2281 Face/Off 1997 Woo, John USA DBS
2285 Atom Man vs. Superman 1950 Bennet, Spencer Gordon USA D
2285 The Day After Tomorrow 2004 Emmerich, Roland USA DBUS
2285 Destination Mars! 2004 McDonald, Joseph P. USA DU
2285 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 2005 Jennings, Garth USA / UK DBS
2285 The Incredible Hulk 2008 Leterrier, Louis USA DBUPS
2285 Invaders from Mars 1953 Menzies, William Cameron USA DU
2285 Invaders from Mars 1986 Hooper, Tobe USA D
2285 Le Voyage à travers l'impossible 1904 Méliès, Georges France D
2285 Monarch of the Moon 2005 Lowry, Richard USA DU
2285 Phase IV 1974 Bass, Saul USA
2285 Robinson Crusoe on Mars 1964 Haskin, Byron USA D
2285 Star Trek: Nemesis 2002 Baird, Stuart USA DUS
2285 Superman 1941 Fleischer, Dave USA D
2285 Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut 2006 Donner, Richard UK / USA DB
2285 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 2003 Mostow, Jonathan USA / Germany / UK DBUPS
2285 Walt Disney's Tomorrowland 1958 Kimball, Ward / Luske, Hamilton / Kurtti, Jeff USA D
2285 X 1996 Rintaro Japan D
2289 I Am Legend 2007 Lawrence, Francis USA DBU
2289 The Prestige 2006 Nolan, Christopher USA / UK DB
2290 War of the Worlds 2005 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
2291 28 Days Later... 2002 Boyle, Danny UK / France DBS
2291 X2: X-Men United 2003 Singer, Bryan USA DUS
2292 Fantastic Four 2005 Story, Tim USA DB
2293 Hulk 2003 Lee, Ang USA DBS
2293 I, Robot 2004 Proyas, Alex USA DBUS
2293 The Mist 2007 Darabont, Frank USA DB
2293 Renaissance 2006 Volckman, Christian France / UK / Luxembourg D
2293 The Sticky Fingers of Time 1997 Brougher, Hilary USA D
2296 Adventures of Superman 1958 Carr, Thomas / Blair, George / Gerstad, Harry W. / Sholem, Lee / Ford, Philip / Reeves, George / Landers, Lew / Bretherton, Howard USA DS
2296 Attack of the 50 Foot Woman 1958 Juran, Nathan USA DU
2296 The Best of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Vol. 1 1961 Baldwin, Gerard / Braxton, Frank USA D
2296 Black Friday 1940 Lubin, Arthur USA D
2296 Idiocracy 2006 Judge, Mike USA D
2296 The Man with Nine Lives 1940 Grinde, Nick USA D
2296 Queen of Outer Space 1958 Bernds, Edward USA D
2296 Serenity 2005 Whedon, Joss USA D
2297 Lessons of Darkness 1992 Herzog, Werner France / UK / Germany D
2297 Trog 1970 Francis, Freddie UK D
2300 The Days of Eclipse 1988 Sokurov, Aleksandr Soviet Union
2300 Dune 1984