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Rating
Rank
No
Title
Year
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
2.5 Stars
2591
219
The Satan Bug
1965
John Sturges
George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, John Larkin
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Action
USA
English
4 Stars
1469
86
Fail-Safe
1964
Sidney Lumet
Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Ed Binns, Fritz Weaver, Henry Fonda
Drama / Sci-Fi / War / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2719
258
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
1964
Byron Haskin
Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, Adam West, Barney
Sci-Fi / Adventure
USA
English
4 Stars
1249
72
The Nutty Professor
1963
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2657
236
These Are the Damned
1963
Joseph Losey
Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors, Alexander Knox, Oliver Reed
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2657
236
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
1963
Roger Corman
Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone, John Hoyt, Don Rickles
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
4.5 Stars
820
43
La Jetée
1962
Chris Marker
Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich
Sci-Fi / Short / Experimental / Romance / Fantasy
France
French
2.5 Stars
2628
230
Day of the Triffids
1962
Steve Sekely, Freddie Francis
Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore, Mervyn Johns
Horror / Sci-Fi
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2719
258
The Best of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Vol. 1
1961
Gerard Baldwin, Frank Braxton
William Conrad, Hans Conried, June Foray, Paul Frees, Bill Scott
Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2332
166
The Time Machine
1960
George Pal
Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot, Tom Helmore
Adventure / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / War
USA
English
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Rating
Rank
No
Title
Year
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
2.5 Stars
2360
173
Village of the Damned
1960
Wolf Rilla
George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn, Laurence Naismith
Sci-Fi / Horror
UK / USA
English
2.5 Stars
2591
219
The Little Shop of Horrors
1960
Roger Corman
Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Dick Miller, Myrtle Vail, Tammy Windsor
Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Cult
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2699
249
Rat
1960
Veljko Bulajic
Antun Vrdoljak, Zlatko Madunic, Ljubisa Jovanovic, Ita Rina
Drama / Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
3.5 Stars
1522
91
On the Beach
1959
Stanley Kramer
Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, Donna Anderson
Drama / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2456
192
Have Rocket, Will Travel
1959
David Lowell Rich
Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Marjorie Bennett, Robert Colbert
Comedy / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2620
228
The Tingler
1959
William Castle
Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2658
237
Plan 9 from Outer Space
1959
Edward D. Wood Jr.
Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore, Tom Keene, Carl Anthony
Horror / Sci-Fi / Action / Cult
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2719
258
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock
1959
Sidney Miller
Lou Costello, Dorothy Provine, Gale Gordon, Jimmy Conlin, Charles Lane
Comedy / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2719
258
Walt Disney Treasures - Tomorrowland: Disney in Space and Beyond (1959)
1959
Ward Kimball, Hamilton Luske, Jeff Kurtti
Walt Disney, Wernher von Braun, Leonard Maltin, Ray Bradbury, Heinz Haber
Documentary / Short / Animation / Family / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2178
146
The Fly
1958
Kurt Neumann
David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall
Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2628
230
The Blob
1958
Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., Russell S. Doughten Jr.
Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland, Alden 'Stephen' Chase
Horror / Sci-Fi / Comedy / Cult
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2713
257
Frankenstein - 1970
1958
Howard W. Koch
Boris Karloff, Don 'Red' Barry, Jana Lund, Tom Duggan, Charlotte Austin
Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2719
258
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
1958
Nathan Juran
Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers, Roy Gordon, George Douglas
Sci-Fi / Cult
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2719
258
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
1958
Edward L. Cahn
Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson, Kim Spalding, Ann Doran, Dabbs Greer
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2719
258
Queen of Outer Space
1958
Edward Bernds
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eric Fleming, Dave Willock, Laurie Mitchell, Lisa Davis
Adventure / Sci-Fi / Cult
USA
English
4 Stars
1038
59
The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957
Jack Arnold
Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton, Raymond Bailey
Sci-Fi / Horror / Cult
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2628
230
The Curse of Frankenstein
1957
Terence Fisher
Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Christopher Lee, Melvyn Hayes
Sci-Fi / Horror / Drama
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2628
230
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
1957
Gene Fowler Jr.
Michael Landon, Yvonne Lime, Whit Bissell, Tony Marshall, Dawn Richard
Horror / Sci-Fi / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2628
230
The Mysterians
1957
Ishirô Honda
Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / War
Japan
Japanese
NR
-
The Story of Mankind
1957
Irwin Allen
Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Fantasy / History / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
5 Stars
212
11
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956
Don Siegel
Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
4.5 Stars
899
49
Forbidden Planet
1956
Fred M. Wilcox
Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens
Drama / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Action / Cult
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2628
230
Rodan
1956
Ishirô Honda
Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata, Akio Kobori, Yasuko Nakata
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Action
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2628
230
World Without End
1956
Edward Bernds
Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates, Nelson Leigh, Rod Taylor, Shirley Patterson
Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2719
258
Creature with the Atom Brain
1955
Edward L. Cahn
Richard Denning, Angela Stevens, S. John Launer, Michael Granger, Gregory Gaye
Crime / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
4 Stars
1190
66
Godzilla
1954
Ishirô Honda
Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror / Cult
Japan
Japanese
4 Stars
1299
76
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954
Richard Fleischer
Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas
Family / Adventure / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2266
158
Them!
1954
Gordon Douglas
James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens
Sci-Fi / Horror
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2628
230
Creature from the Black Lagoon
1954
Jack Arnold
Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva
Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2708
255
Hell and High Water
1954
Samuel Fuller
Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen, Cameron Mitchell, Gene Evans
Drama / Sci-Fi / Romance / Action / Spy / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2199
148
War of the Worlds
1953
Byron Haskin
Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2456
192
It Came from Outer Space
1953
Jack Arnold
Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer, Russell Johnson
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2494
198
Invaders from Mars
1953
William Cameron Menzies
Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson, Hillary Brooke
Sci-Fi / Action
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2628
230
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
1953
Eugène Lourié
Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Donald Woods
Sci-Fi / Horror
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2402
182
Monkey Business
1952
Howard Hawks
Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe
Comedy / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2719
258
Adventures of Superman (TV Series 1952-1958)
1952
Thomas Carr, George Blair, Harry W. Gerstad, Lee Sholem, Philip Ford, George Reeves, Lew Landers, Howard Bretherton
George Reeves, Bill Kennedy, Jack Larson, Noel Neill, John Hamilton
Action / Family / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Comic
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2719
258
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
1952
William Beaudine
Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo, Charlita, Muriel Landers
Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Adventure
USA
English
4.5 Stars
667
31
The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951
Robert Wise
Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Family
USA
English
4.5 Stars
803
40
The Man in the White Suit
1951
Alexander Mackendrick
Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Drama
UK
English
4 Stars
1182
64
The Thing from Another World
1951
Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks
Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite
Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2719
258
5ive
1951
Arch Oboler
William Phipps, Susan Douglas Rubes, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin, Earl Lee
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Action
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2628
230
Destination Moon
1950
Irving Pichel
John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson, Erin O'Brien-Moore
Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2719
258
Atom Man vs. Superman
1950
Spencer Gordon Bennet
Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill, Lyle Talbot, Tommy Bond, Pierre Watkin, Jack Ingram
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Crime / Family / Comic / Serial
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2591
219
It Happens Every Spring
1949
Lloyd Bacon
Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas, Ed Begley, Ted de Corsia, Ray Collins
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Sports / Fantasy
USA
English
4 Stars
1380
80
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
1948
Charles Barton
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange
Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2456
192
Superman
1948
Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr
Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill, Carol Forman, Tommy Bond, Pierre Watkin, Jack Ingram
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Crime / Family / Comic / Serial
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2699
249
Vesna
1947
Grigori Aleksandrov
Lyubov Orlova, Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Konovalov
Comedy / Musical / Romance / Sci-Fi
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2628
230
House of Frankenstein
1944
Erle C. Kenton
Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Anne Gwynne, Peter Coe
Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2628
230
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
1943
Roy William Neill
Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill
Sci-Fi / Horror
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2628
230
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941
Victor Fleming
Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2719
258
Adventures of Captain Marvel
1941
John English, William Witney
Tom Tyler, Frank Coghlan Jr., William 'Billy' Benedict, Louise Currie
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Serial / Comic
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2719
258
Superman
1941
Dave Fleischer
Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck, Julian Noa, Jack Mercer
Animation / Family / Short / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Crime / Comic
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2719
258
Black Friday
1940
Arthur Lubin
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel, Anne Gwynne
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Crime / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2719
258
The Man with Nine Lives
1940
Nick Grinde
Boris Karloff, Roger Pryor, Jo Ann Sayers, Stanley Brown, John Dilson
Mystery / Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1949
117
Son of Frankenstein
1939
Rowland V. Lee
Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Josephine Hutchinson
Sci-Fi / Horror / Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
785
37
Lost Horizon
1937
Frank Capra
Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Family
USA
English
4.5 Stars
960
54
Things to Come
1936
William Cameron Menzies
Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott
Sci-Fi
UK
English
3.5 Stars
1613
94
Flash Gordon
1936
Frederick Stephani, Ray Taylor
Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton
Sci-Fi / Adventure / Action / Family / Cult / Comic / Serial
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1954
118
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
1936
Lothar Mendes
Roland Young, Ralph Richardson, Edward Chapman, Ernest Thesiger, Joan Gardner
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Fantasy
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2315
164
The Devil Doll
1936
Tod Browning
Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Rafaela Ottiano
Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
5 Stars
146
8
The Bride of Frankenstein
1935
James Whale
Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester
Horror / Sci-Fi / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2628
230
Werewolf of London
1935
Stuart Walker
Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, Lester Matthews, Lawrence Grant
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2751
265
Aerograd
1935
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Stepan Shagaida, Sergei Stolyarov, Yevgeniya Melnikova
Sci-Fi / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
5 Stars, Top 100
80
5
King Kong
1933
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Sam Hardy, Noble Johnson
Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller / Horror / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
4.5 Stars
954
53
The Invisible Man
1933
James Whale
Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers, Una O'Connor
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2719
258
Vampire Bat
1933
Frank R. Strayer
Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, Maude Eburne, George E. Stone, Dwight Frye
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Romance / Sci-Fi / Detective
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1919
115
Island of Lost Souls
1932
Erle C. Kenton
Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Kathleen Burke, Arthur Hohl
Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2501
200
The Mask of Fu Manchu
1932
Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor
Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett
Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi / Crime
USA
English
5 Stars
269
13
Frankenstein
1931
James Whale
Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
4.5 Stars
787
39
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931
Rouben Mamoulian
Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2661
238
KoKo's Earth Control
1928
Dave Fleischer
Dave Fleischer, George Rufle
Animation / Short / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
USA
English (Silent)
5 Stars, Top 100
25
2
Metropolis
1927
Fritz Lang
Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp
Sci-Fi / Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1720
102
The Lost World
1925
Harry O. Hoyt, William Dowling
Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery, Arthur Hoyt
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2751
265
Paris qui dort
1925
René Clair
Henri Rollan, Martinelli, Albert Préjean
Short / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Comedy
France
French (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2628
230
Missing Husbands
1921
Jacques Feyder
Jean Angelo, Stacia Napierkowska, Georges Melchior, Marie-Louise Iribe
Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Romance / Adventure
France / Belgium
French (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2628
230
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1920
John S. Robertson
John Barrymore, Charles Lane, Brandon Hurst, Cecil Clovelly, Nita Naldi
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2719
258
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1916
Stuart Paton
Dan Hanlon, Edna Pendleton, Curtis Benton, Allen Holubar, Matt Moore, Jane Gail
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2719
258
Le Voyage à travers l'impossible
1904
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Short / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
France
French (Silent)
4 Stars
1206
68
A Trip to the Moon
1902
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès, Bleuette Bernon, Brunnet, Farjaut, Kelm
Sci-Fi / Short / Adventure / Fantasy / Action / Comedy
France
French (Silent)
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Year
Director
Starring
Genre
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