SCIENCE FICTION
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Science Fiction Films
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Selection of Greatest Science Fiction Films:

See Filmsite's 50 Greatest Sci-Fi Films of All-Time

Greatest Early Science Fiction Films:
Le Voyage Dans La Lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902, Fr.)
Metropolis (1927, Germ.)
Mysterious Island (1929)
Woman in the Moon (1929, Germ.) (aka By Rocket to the Moon)
Just Imagine (1930)
Doctor X (1932)
The Invisible Man (1933)
Island of Lost Souls (1933)
The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Flash Gordon: Rocketship (1936)
Things to Come (1936)
Destination Moon (1950)
Rocketship X-M (1950)
The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Man From Planet X (1951)
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
The Thing (From Another World) (1951)
When Worlds Collide (1951)
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Donovan's Brain (1953)
House of Wax (1953)
Invaders From Mars (1953)
It Came From Outer Space (1953)
The Magnetic Monster (1953)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)
Gojira (1954, Jp.) (aka Godzilla)
Them! (1954)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955)
This Island Earth (1955)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Godzilla (1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) (remake in 1978)
The Quatermass Experiment (1956)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
The Fly (1958) (also sequels in 1959, 1965) (remake in 1986)
Angry Red Planet (1959)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Other Greatest Science Fiction Films:
The Time Machine (1960)
Village of the Damned (1960)
Mysterious Island (1961)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
La Jetée (1962, Fr.) (short)
Reptilicus (1962)
The Damned (1963)
The Day of the Triffids (1963, UK)
X - The Man With X-Ray Eyes (1963)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying... (1964, UK)
Failsafe (1964)
First Men in the Moon (1964)
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
One Million Years, BC (1967)
Barbarella (1968)
Planet of the Apes (1968) (and many sequels: 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 2001, 2011, 2014, and 2017)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (and sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984))
The Mind of Mr. Soames (1969)
Colossus - The Forbin Project (1970)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
A Clockwork Orange (1971, UK)
The Omega Man (1971)
THX 1138 (1971)
Silent Running (1972)
Slaughterhouse Five (1972)
Solaris (1972, USSR)
Z.P.G. (Zero Population Growth) (1972, UK)
Sleeper (1973)
Soylent Green (1973)
Westworld (1973) (sequel in 1976)
Dark Star (1974)
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
Death Race 2000 (1975)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
The Stepford Wives (1975)
Rollerball (1975)
Futureworld (1976)
Logan's Run (1976)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
The original Star Wars "Trilogy": Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Return of the Jedi (1983)
The Boys From Brazil (1978)
Superman (1978) (and its many sequels in 1980, 1983, 1987, 2006)
Alien (1979) (and its many sequels-prequels in 1986, 1992, 1997, 2004, 2007, 2012 and 2017)
Mad Max (1979) (and sequels): The Road Warrior (1982) (aka Mad Max 2 (1981, Australia)), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Star Trek - The Motion Picture (1979) (and sequels in 1982, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1991 and 2009)
Star Trek Generation (1994) (and sequels in 1996, 1998, and 2002)
Time After Time (1979)
Altered States (1980)
Flash Gordon (1980)
Escape From New York (1981) (sequel in 1996)
Outland (1981)
Scanners (1981)
Somewhere in Time (1981)
Time Bandits (1981, UK)
Blade Runner (1982) (and sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017))
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
The Thing (1982)
Tron (1982) (and sequel in 2010)
War Games (1983)
Dune (1984)
Metropolis (1984) (re-release of 1927 classic)
Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind (1984, Jp.)
Repo Man (1984)
Starman (1984)
The Terminator (1984) (and its three sequels in 1991, 2003, 2009): Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Terminator Salvation (2009), and Terminator Genysis (2015)
Back to the Future (1985) (and its two sequels in 1989, 1990)
Brazil (1985, UK)
Cocoon (1985)
D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
Aliens (1986)
The Fly (1986) (sequel in 1989)
Innerspace (1987)
Predator (1987) (sequels in 1990, 2010, 2018, 2022)
RoboCop (1987)
Alien Nation (1988)
The Abyss (1989)
Batman (1989) (and its many sequels)
Flatliners (1990)
Total Recall (1990)
Naked Lunch (1991, Canada/UK/Jp.)
Jurassic Park (1993) (and its sequels in 1997, 2001, and 2015)
Stargate (1994)
Timecop (1994)
Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Judge Dredd (1995)
Outbreak (1995)
Strange Days (1995)
Twelve Monkeys (1995) (aka 12 Monkeys)
Waterworld (1995)
Escape From L.A. (1996)
Independence Day (1996)
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Contact (1997)
The Fifth Element (1997, Fr.)
Gattaca (1997)
Men in Black (1997) (and sequels in 2002, 2012, and 2019)
Starship Troopers (1997)
Armageddon (1998)
Dark City (1998)
The Truman Show (1998)
The Matrix (1999) (and its two sequels in 2003): The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Star Wars - (2nd Trilogy): Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
The Cell (2000)
X-Men (2000) (and sequels in 2003, 2006, 2009): X2: X-Men United (2003), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Minority Report (2002)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Primer (2004)
Serenity (2005)
Children of Men (2006, UK)
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Transformers (2007) (and its many sequels)
The Dark Knight (2008)

Avatar (2009) (and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022))
District 9 (2009)
Moon (2009, UK)
Inception (2010)
The Hunger Games: The Hunger Games (2012), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015), The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
Her (2013)
Pacific Rim (2013) (and Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018))
Snowpiercer (2013)
Interstellar (2014)
Ex Machina (2015, UK)
Star Wars - (3rd Trilogy): Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017), and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Arrival (2016)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)




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