Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 1970s

Alien (1979)

R

Horror, Sci-Fi

1h57

After 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.

Director

Ridley Scott

Cast

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

R

Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi

2h16

8.3 86%

In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Cast

Stalker (1979)

Not Rated

Drama, Sci-Fi

2h42

8.2 100%

A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

Director

Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast

Solaris (1972)

PG

Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

2h47

8.1 92%89%

A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.

Director

Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

PG

Drama, Sci-Fi

2h18

7.6 94%

Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO.

Director

Steven Spielberg

Cast

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

PG

Horror, Sci-Fi

1h55

7.4 92%

When 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.

Director