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Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 20th Century
The Matrix (1999)
RAction, Sci-Fi2h16When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
Back to the Future (1985)
PGAdventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi1h56Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
RAction, Sci-Fi2h17A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son, John Connor, from a more advanced and powerful cyborg.
Alien (1979)
RHorror, Sci-Fi1h57After a space merchant vessel receives an unknown transmission as a distress call, one of the crew is attacked by a mysterious life form and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
GAdventure, Sci-Fi2h29After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer H.A.L. 9000.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
RCrime, Drama, Sci-Fi2h16In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
Aliens (1986)
RAction, Adventure, Sci-Fi2h17Fifty-seven years after surviving an apocalyptic attack aboard her space vessel by merciless space creatures, Officer Ripley awakens from hyper-sleep and tries to warn anyone who will listen about the predators.
Metropolis (1927)
Not RatedDrama, Sci-Fi2h33In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Stalker (1979)
Not RatedDrama, Sci-Fi2h42A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
Blade Runner (1982)
RAction, Sci-Fi, Thriller1h57A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Jurassic Park (1993)
PG-13Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi2h07A pragmatic paleontologist visiting an almost complete theme park is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose.
Solaris (1972)
PGDrama, Mystery, Sci-Fi2h47A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
The Thing (1982)
RHorror, Mystery, Sci-Fi1h49A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
12 Monkeys (1995)
RMystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller2h09In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.
Akira (1988)
RAnimation, Action, Sci-Fi2h04A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by two teenagers and a group of psychics.
Planet of the Apes (1968)
GAdventure, Sci-Fi1h52An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.
The Terminator (1984)
RAction, Sci-Fi1h47A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.
Brazil (1985)
RDrama, Sci-Fi2h12A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.
King Kong (1933)
PassedAdventure, Horror, Sci-Fi1h40A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition.
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
PGAdventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi1h48After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
PGFamily, Sci-Fi1h55A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.
Gattaca (1997)
PG-13Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller1h46A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.
Predator (1987)
RAction, Adventure, Sci-Fi1h47A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
PGAction, Adventure, Sci-Fi1h53With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
GDrama, Sci-Fi1h32An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
The Fifth Element (1997)
PG-13Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi2h06In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
PGDrama, Sci-Fi2h18Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO.
Dark City (1998)
RFantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi1h40A man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
RAction, Adventure, Sci-Fi1h36In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community escape a horde of bandits.
RoboCop (1987)
RAction, Crime, Sci-Fi1h42In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.
The Fly (1986)
RDrama, Horror, Sci-Fi1h36A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
The City of Lost Children (1995)
RFantasy, Sci-Fi1h52A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
Total Recall (1990)
RAction, Sci-Fi, Thriller1h53When a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
PGAdventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi1h58Stranded in 1955, Marty McFly learns about the death of Doc Brown in 1885 and must travel back in time to save him. With no fuel readily available for the DeLorean, the two must figure how to escape the Old West before Emmett is murdered.
Contact (1997)
PGDrama, Mystery, Sci-Fi2h30Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of extraterrestrial intelligence, sending plans for a mysterious machine.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
PGHorror, Sci-Fi1h55When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, California, where they replicate the residents into emotionless automatons one body at a time.
Galaxy Quest (1999)
PGAdventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi1h42The alumni cast of a space opera television series have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help. However, they also have to defend both Earth and the alien race from a reptilian warlord.
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
RComedy, Horror, Sci-Fi1h31When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.
They Live (1988)
RAction, Horror, Sci-Fi1h34They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live.
Cube (1997)
RDrama, Mystery, Sci-Fi1h30Six complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps.