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.
Deep Rising (1998)
6/10
Director: Stephen Sommers
Starring: Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Anthony Heald, Jason Flemyng, Cliff Curtis, Djimo...
Director Stephen Sommers hit the jackpot in 1999 with the first of "The Mummy" films, but in 1998 he was releasing this not dissimilar action/horror/c... Read more
Deja Vu (2006)
7.1/10
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Val Kilmer, Jim Caviezel, Adam Goldberg, Elden...
Another Bruckheimer blockbuster with Tony Scott at the helm, and Denzel Washington in the lead as a maverick ATF agent on a top secret mission to catc... Read more
Demolition Man (1993)
6.6/10
Director: Marco Brambilla
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Wesley Snipes, Sylvester Stallone, Nigel Hawthorne
Muscleman Sly is back as the titular Demo Man, a 20th century cop cryogenically frozen, resuscitated and crazy fit to nab baaad guy Wesley Snipes in 2... Read more
Demon Seed (1977)
6.3/10
Director: Donald Cammell
Starring: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham
In one of her finest performances, Julie Christie plays a woman trapped in her automated house by a super-computer named Proteus. The film follows her... Read more
Destination Moon (1950)
6.4/10
Director: Irving Pichel
Starring: Dick Wesson, Warner Anderson, John Archer
The first Hollywood science-fiction project to take a serious look at the possibilities of manned spaceflight, George Pal's Oscar-winning colour film... Read more
Devil's Gate (2017)
5.1/10
Director: Clay Staub
Starring: Jonathan Frakes, Amanda Schull, Shawn Ashmore, Milo Ventimiglia
When a woman and her son mysteriously vanish, FBI agent Daria Francis is dispatched to the small town of Devil's Gate, N.D., to investigate the primar... Read more
Disaster! (2005)
7.3/10
Director: Roy T Wood
An asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, and it's up to a fearless group of adventurers to save the planet before the human race is wiped out.... Read more
District 13 (2004)
Director: Pierre Morel
Starring: Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Samir Guesmi
In the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and an ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb. Read more
District 9 (2009)
7.9/10
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Starring: Sharlto Copley, David James, Vanessa Haywood, Mandla Gaduka, Kenneth Nkosi, Euge...
Peter Jackson produced this wry sci-fi flick about an alien refugee camp in South Africa. 28 years after the aliens first made contact they are housed... Read more
District 9 ( Blu-ray ) (2009)
7.9/10
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Starring: David James, William Allen Young, Kenneth Nkosi, Sharlto Copley, Louis Minnaar,...
Peter Jackson produced this wry sci-fi flick about an alien refugee camp in South Africa. 28 years after the aliens first made contact they are housed... Read more