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Sci-fi movie page picks -
Cool SF movies you might have missed: straight-to-video efforts, long-forgotten and neglected "classics", unexpected gems, plain trashy but fun nonetheless. 

Top 100 sci-fi movies - One of the Top 100 science fiction movies of all time as selected by the Online Film Critics Society.

Zero star rating - Um, sort of self-explanatory.

A

The Abyss - Top 100
The Abyss - Special Edition
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension -
Top 100
A.I. - Artificial Intelligence
-
Top 100
Akira
-
Top 100
Alien - Director's Cut

Alien
-
Top 100
Aliens -
Top 100
Aliens - Special Edition

Alien 3
Alien Resurrection

Alien Vs. Predator
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

Aliens in the Attic
Alien Nation
Alien Trespass
Alligator
Alone in the Dark - Zero star rating
Altered States
 - Sci-fi movie page pick; Top 100
Anaconda 3: Offspring
- Zero star rating
The Andromeda Strain
- Top 100
Apollo 13
Armageddon
Army of Darkness
- Sci-fi movie page pick
The Arrival
- Sci-fi movie page pick
Astro Boy

The Astronaut's Wife
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Attack of the Clones
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1958)

B

Babylon A.D.
Back to the Future
- Top 100
Back to the Future Part II
Back to the Future Part III
Barbwire
Barbarella
Batman (1966)
- Zero star rating
Batman
Batman Returns
Batman Forever
Batman & Robin
Batman Begins
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm - Sci-fi movie page pick
Battle Beyond the Stars - Sci-fi movie page pick

Battlefield Earth
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Battle for Terra

Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Bedtime Stories
Beetlejuice
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Beowulf
Beowulf (2007)

Bicentennial Man

Biggles: Adventures in Time
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

The Black Cauldron
The Black Hole
Blade Runner -
Top 100
Blade Runner - The Director's Cut
Blade: Trinity
Blindness
The Blob (1958)
The Blob (1988)
Body Snatchers
- Sci-fi movie page pick
The Box

A Boy and his Dog
- Sci-fi movie page pick
Brazil
- Sci-fi movie page pick; Top 100
The Brother from Another Planet
- Sci-fi movie page pick
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

The Butterfly Effect

C

Capricorn One
The Cars That Ate Paris
Castle in the Sky
Catwoman
The Cell
- Top 100
Chain Reaction
Charly
Chicken Little
Children of the Damned
The Children of Men
- Sci-fi movie page pick
The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian

The Chronicles of Riddick
Circuitry Man - Sci-fi movie page pick
City of Ember

City of Lost Children
- Sci-fi movie page pick; Top 100
Clash of the Titans

A Clockwork Orange - Top 100; Hugo Award Winner (1972)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Top 100

Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Special Edition
Cloverfield

Cocoon
Code 46
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Communion - Zero star rating
The Company of Wolves
Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Destroyer
Congo
Conquest of the Earth

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Constantine

Contact
- Top 100
Coraline
The Core
Cosmos: War of the Planets
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Critters
Crossworlds
Cube
Cube 2: Hypercube
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Cyborg
- Zero star rating

D

Dante 01
Daredevil
Dark City
- Sci-fi movie page pick; Top 100
Dark Crystal

Darkman
The Dark Knight

Dark Star
- Sci-fi movie page pick
Dawn of the Dead
The Day After
The Day After Tomorrow

The Day of the Triffids

The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
- Sci-fi movie page pick;  Top 100
The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008)

Day Watch
The Dead Zone
- Sci-fi movie page pick; Top 100
Death Race 2000
- Sci-fi movie page pick
Death Race (2008)
Decaying Orbit
- Sci-fi movie page pick
Deep Impact
Deep Red
DeepStar Six
- Zero star rating
Déjà Vu
Delicatessen
- Sci-fi movie page pick
Demolition Man
- Sci-fi movie page pick
The Descent

Destroy All Planets
Disaster In Time 
- Sci-fi movie page pick
District 9 - Sci-fi movie page pick
Donnie Darko
- Top 100
Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut

Dragonball Evolution

Dragonheart
Dreamcatcher
Dreamscape
Dr Strangelove (Or How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Bomb) -
Top 100. Hugo Award Winner (1965)
Dr Who and the Daleks
DOA: Dead Or Alive

Doctor Who (1996)
Dune
Dungeons & Dragons

E

Earth Girls Are Easy
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Eden Log
Edward Scissorhands
- Top 100
Ed Wood
Elektra
The Empire Strikes Back - Top 100
The Empire Strikes Back Special Edition
Enchanted
Enemy Mine - Sci-fi movie page pick
Epoch
Equilibrium
Eragon
Eraserhead

Escape from Absalom (aka No Escape)
Escape from New York - Top 100
Escape from LA - Sci-fi movie page pick
Escape from the Planet of the Apes - Sci-fi movie page pick
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

ET: the Extra Terrestrial
- Top 100
Event Horizon
Eve of Destruction - Zero star rating
Evolution
Excalibur

eXistenZ - Top 100

F

The Faculty
Fahrenheit 451
- Sci-fi movie page pick; Top 100
The Fall
Fanboys

Fantastic Four (2005)
The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Fantastic Voyage - Top 100
Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
Fatherland
The Fifth Element - Top 100
The Final Countdown
The Final Cut
 
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Firefox

Flash Gordon
Flatliners
The Fly (1986) - Top 100
Forbidden Planet - Top 100
The Forgotten

Fortress
Fortress 2: Re-entry
The Fountain

The Fourth Kind

Freejack
Frequency

The Fury
Future Fear
- Zero star rating

G

Galaxy Quest
Gamer
Gattaca
- Sci-fi movie page pick; Top 100
Ghost in the Machine
Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell II: Innocence
Ghosts of Mars

Ghost Rider

The Giant Behemoth
The Giant Gila Monster
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Godzilla

Gog
The Golden Compass
The Goonies
Gremlins
Gremlins 2 - The New Batch
Groundhog Day

H

Hackers
Hancock
The Handmaid's Tale - Sci-fi movie page pick
The Happening
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron - Sci-fi movie page pick
Heavy Metal - Sci-fi movie page pick
Heavy Metal 2000
Hellboy
Hellboy II - The Golden Army

Hercules Against the Moon Men
The Hidden
- Sci-fi movie page pick
Highlander - Top 100
Highlander II - The Quickening
Highlander III - The Final Dimension - Zero star rating
Highlander - Endgame
Hollow Man

Holocaust 2000
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
The Host - Sci-fi movie page pick
Hulk
Humanoid

I

I Am Legend
Iceman
Igor

Impostor
The Incredible Hulk

The Incredibles
The Incredible Shrinking Man - Top 100, Hugo Award Winner (1958)
Independence Day - Top 100
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Inkheart
Innerspace
Invaders from Mars
The Invasion
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) - Top 100
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
- Top 100
I, Robot
The Iron Giant
- Top 100
Iron Man
The Island of Dr. Moreau
It Came From Outer Space II

J

Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
The Jacket
Jacob's Ladder
- Top 100
Jason X
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

Johnny Mnemonic
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Judge Dredd
Jumper
Jurassic Park - Top 100
Jurassic Park 3

K

Kaena - The Prophecy
Kate & Leopold
Kaw

King Kong (1933)
- Top 100
King Kong (1976)
King Kong (2005)
Knowing

K-Pax

Krull
Kull the Conqueror

L

Labyrinth
Ladyhawke
The Land Before Time
Land of the Lost
The Last Mimzy
The Last Starfighter
The Last Winter
The Last Man on Earth
The Last Woman on Earth
The Lawnmower Man
Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Legend

Leviathan
Lilo & Stitch
Logan's Run

Lord of the Rings (1978) 
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Lost In Space
The Lost World: Jurassic Park

M

Mad Max - Top 100
Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome
Mars Attacks!
Mars Needs Women
-
Zero star rating
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Masters of the Universe - Zero star rating
The Matrix - Top 100
The Matrix Reloaded

The Matrix Revolutions
Meet Dave

Meet the Robinsons
Memoirs of an Invisible Man

Men In Black
- Top 100
Men In Black II
 
Meteor
- Zero star rating
Metropolis (1926)
- Top 100
Metropolis (2001)  
Mimic
The Mind of Mr. Soames
- Sci-fi movie page pick
Minority Report
 

Mission to Mars
Monsters vs. Aliens

Monolith

Monster from a Prehistoric Planet
Moon
Moon 44
Moonraker
The Mothman Prophecies
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

The Mutant Chronicles

Muppets from Space

My Favorite Martian
Mystery Men  
Mystery Science Theater 3000
- Sci-fi movie page pick

N

9
Naked Lunch

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey - Sci-fi movie page pick
Nemesis

Neon Genesis Evangelion - Death and Rebirth
The Net
The NeverEnding Story
The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Next
Night at the Museum
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Night Watch
The Nines
- Sci-fi movie page pick
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Not Of This Earth - Sci-fi movie page pick

O

The Omega Man - Sci-fi movie page pick
The One

On the Beach - Top 100
Orlando
Outland
Outlander

P

Pandorum
Patlabor: The Movie
Paycheck
Peggy Sue Got Married
The Phantom Menace
The Philadelphia Experiment
Philadelphia Experiment II
Pi
- Top 100
Pitch Black
Plan 9 from Outer Space

Planet 51
Planet of the Apes (1968) - Top 100
Planet of the Apes (2001)
The Postman
 
Powder
Predator
Predator 2

The Princess Bride
Proxima
Pulse
The Puppet Masters - Sci-fi movie page pick
Push

Q

Quarantine
Queen of Outer Space

Quest for Fire

R

Race to Witch Mountain
Radio Mechanics - Apocalypse of the Dial

Rain Without Thunder
Redline
Red Planet
Red Sonja
- Zero star rating

Reign of Fire
 

Repo Man 
- Sci-fi movie page pick
Resident Evil
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Resident Evil: Extinction
Retroactive
- Sci-fi movie page pick
Returner
Revenge of the Sith

Return of the Jedi -
Top 100
Return of the Jedi Special Edition

The Right Stuff
The Road

The Road Warrior/Mad Max 2
- Top 100
Robinson Crusoe on Mars - Sci-fi movie page pick
Robocop
- Top 100
Robocop 2
Robocop 3

Robot Carnival
- Zero star rating
Robots
The Rocketeer
Rollerball (1975)
- Sci-fi movie page pick
Rollerball (2002)
Roswell
Runaway

Running Man
Run Robot Run

S

The Sacrifice
Salute of the Jugger (aka The Blood of Heroes)

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Saturn 3
Scanners
The Scorpion King
Screamers - Sci-fi movie page pick
The Second Arrival
Seconds
- Top 100
The Sender
The Shadow Men
- Zero star rating

Shaun of the Dead
Short Circuit

Short Circuit 2
Signs
Silent Running - Sci-fi movie page pick; Top 100
Simone
Six-String Samurai
The 6th Day
Sky Blue

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sleeper - Sci-fi movie page pick; Top 100, Hugo Award Winner (1974)
Slipstream
Slaughterhouse-Five
- Sci-fi movie page pick; Top 100; Hugo Award Winner (1973)
Sneakers
Solaris (1972) - Sci-fi movie page pick; Top 100
Solaris (2002)
Soldier
Soylent Green
- Sci-fi movie page pick
Spaceballs
- Sci-fi movie page pick
Space Cowboys

Space Truckers (aka Star Truckers)
Spawn

Species
Species II
Speed Racer

Sphere
Spider-man

Spider-man 2
Spider-man 3

The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Spirit

Split Second - Sci-fi movie page pick
Spriggan
Stardust
Stargate
Starman -
Top 100
Starship Troopers
-
Top 100
Star Trek (2009)

Star Trek - The Motion Picture
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan -
Top 100
Star Trek III - The Search for Spock
Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home
- Top 100
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- Sci-fi movie page pick
Star Trek - Generations
Star Trek - First Contact -
Top 100
Star Trek - Insurrection
Star Trek - Nemesis

Star Wars
-
Top 100, Hugo Award Winner (1978)
Star Wars Special Edition
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Steel
The Stepford Wives (1975)

The Stepford Wives (2004)
Strange Days
- Sci-fi movie page pick; Top 100
Strange Invaders
Sunshine

Supergirl
Superman - The Movie -
Top 100, Hugo Award Winner (1979)
Superman II
Superman III
Superman IV - The Quest for Peace
Superman Returns
Supernova
Surrogates
Swamp Thing


T

Tank Girl
Teenagers from Outer Space
10, 000 B.C.

The Terminator - Top 100
The Terminator 2 - Judgement Day - Top 100
Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines
Terminator Salvation

Testament
Tetsuo

Them!
They Live
- Sci-fi movie page pick; Top 100
The Thing (From Another World) - Top 100
John Carpenter's The Thing
-
Top 100
The Thirteenth Floor
Thunderbirds
THX 1138
- Sci-fi movie page pick; Top 100
Time After Time
- Sci-fi movie page pick; Top 100
Time Bandits -
Top 100
Timecop
Timeline
The Time Machine (1960) - Top 100
The Time Machine (2002)  
The Time Traveler's Wife

Titan A.E.

TMNT

Total Recall
- Top 100
Transformers (2007)
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen

Trapped In Space
- Sci-fi movie page pick
Treasure Planet 
Tremors - Sci-fi movie page pick
Tron
-
Top 100
The Truman Show -
Top 100
12 Monkeys
- Sci-fi movie page pick; Top 100
28 Days Later
2001: A Space Odyssey
- Top 100, Hugo Award Winner (1969)
2010
- Sci-fi movie page pick
2012

 

U

Ultraviolet
Underworld 3: Rise of the Lycans
Unforgettable

Universal Soldier
Universal Soldier: The Return
Until the End of the World - Sci-fi movie page pick; Top 100

V

V - Sci-fi movie page pick
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Vanilla Sky
V for Vendetta

Van Helsing

Videodrome - Top 100
The Village

Village of the Damned (1960)
- Top 100
John Carpenter's Village of the Damned (1995)
Virus

Virtuosity

W

WALL-E
Wanted
War of the Worlds - Sci-fi movie page pick; Top 100; Hugo Award Winner, (2004 for 1953)
War of the Worlds (2005)

WarGames
The Wasp Woman
Watchmen

The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep

Waterworld
Wedlock
Weekend
Westworld - Sci-fi movie page pick
What Dreams May Come
What Planet Are You From?
When The Wind Blows

When Worlds Collide
White Noise
Wild Palms - Sci-fi movie page pick
Wild Wild West  
Willow

Wing Commander  
The Wings of Honneamise
- Sci-fi movie page pick
Within the Rock
- Zero star rating

X

X
X2: X-Men United

X-Men: The Last Stand
X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Xchange
The X-Files
The X-Files: I Want to Believe

X-Men
XTRO
- Zero star rating

Y

Young Einstein - Zero star rating

Z

Zardoz - Sci-fi movie page pick
Zontar - the Thing From Venus

 

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