Science Fiction
Science fiction as a genre of film making has been an element of the cinema experience since the earliest days of the motion picture industry. These films have explored a great range of unique topics, including many that cannot be readily presented in other genre. Science fiction films have been used to explore sensitive social and political issues, while often providing an entertaining story for the more casual viewer. Today, science fiction films are in the forefront of new special effects technology, and the audience has become accustomed to displays of realistic aliens, space battles, energy weapons, faster than light travel, and distant worlds.
This genre has produced many memorable films, as well as a number that can be considered mediocre or even among the worst examples of film production. It took many decades, and the efforts of talented teams of film producers, for the science fiction film genre to be taken seriously as an art form by many critics. The very best of these films may be scrolled below, or for Sci-Fi TV Series, select the green 'Televison Shows' heading on left, and then the 'TV Sci-Fi' option.
Captain Marvel (Blu-Ray) (2019)
7.2/10
Director: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Starring: Brie Larson, Samuel L Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Gemma C...
Captain Marvel is an extraterrestrial Kree warrior who finds herself caught in the middle of an intergalactic battle between her people and the Skrull... Read more
Captain Video (1951)
5.9/10
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell
Starring: Gene Roth, Judd Holdren, Larry Stewart, George Eldredge
Two years after his television debut, the space-faring scientific genius and 'Captain of the Video Rangers' became the first TV character to make the... Read more
Cargo (2009)
6.2/10
Director: Ivan Engler, Ralph Etter
Starring: Anna Katharina Schwabroth, Martin Rapold
Set in the former Soviet Union of the 1980s, this bracing thriller fatefully places a college professor, the daughter of a politician, and the young m... Read more
Casshern (2004)
6.2/10
Director: Kazuaki Kiriya
Starring: Yusuke Iseya, Kumiko Aso, Akira Terao, Kanako Higuchi, Fumiyo Kohinata, Hiroyuki...
A great war leaves an alternate earth diseased and polluted. Geneticist Dr. Azuma claims he can regenerate humankind but is refused government funding... Read more
Cell (2015)
7.2/10
Director: Tod Williams
Starring: Samuel L Jackson, John Cusack, Isabelle Fuhrman, Stacy Keach
When a powerful signal is broadcast across mobile networks worldwide, cell phone users minds are instantly and dangerously reprogrammed. Heading nort... Read more
Chaos Walking (2021)
5.7/10
Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, Demian Bichir, David Oyelowo, Cynthia Erivo, Mads Mik...
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting... Read more
Chaos Walking (Blu-ray) (2021)
5.7/10
Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, Demian Bichir, David Oyelowo, Cynthia Erivo, Mads Mik...
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting... Read more
Chappie (2015)
6.8/10
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Starring: Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver
In the near future, crime is patrolled by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes t... Read more
Chappie ( Blu-ray ) (2015)
6.8/10
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Starring: Sharlto Copley, Hugh Jackman, Dev Patel, Sigourney Weaver
In the near future, crime is patrolled by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes t... Read more
Childhood's End (2015)
6.9/10
Starring: Charles Dance, Mike Vogel, Georgina Haig, Ashley Zukerman, Osy Ikhile, Daisy Bet...
Omnipotent aliens arrive to save humanity from self-destruction. Under their benign gaze, war, famine and injustice become things of the past. But a s... Read more