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.
Ex Machina ( Blu-ray ) (2015)
7.1/10
Director: Alex Garland
Starring: Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac
Novelist and screenwriter Alex Garland (The Beach) makes a decisive directorial debut with this smart, sleekly designed and flawlessly performed sci-f... Read more
Explorers (1985)
6.6/10
Director: Joe Dante
Starring: Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson
From the director of 'Gremlins' comes this film for the young and young at heart. When a young boy dreams of circuit diagrams, he sets them down on pa... Read more
Extracted (2012)
Director: Nir Paniry
Starring: Richard Riehle, Sasha Roiz, Jenny Mollen, Dominic Bogart
A.k.a. "Extraction". Thomas Jacobs is a brilliant engineer who invents a device that enables him to enter the mind of a patient and observe them in th... Read more
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
7.3/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack
In a future society all books are destroyed, so that hope for humanity resides in those few outcasts who have committed them to memory. Based on Ray B... Read more
Falling Skies. Season 1 (2011)
7.2/10
Starring: Noah Wyle
The chaotic aftermath of an alien attack has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few su... Read more
Falling Skies. Season 2 (Blu-ray) (2013)
7.6/10
Starring: Noah Wyle
The chaotic aftermath of an alien attack has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few su... Read more
Fallout: Season 1 (2024)
8.3/10
Director: Various
Starring: Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, Moises Arias, Kyle MacLachlan
In a future, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles brought about by nuclear decimation, citizens must live in underground bunkers to protect themselves from ra... Read more
Fallout: Season 2 (2025)
3.6/10
Starring: Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins, Kyle MacLachlan
In a future, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles brought about by nuclear decimation, citizens must live in underground bunkers to protect themselves from ra... Read more
Fanboys (2008)
6.6/10
Director: Kyle Newman
Starring: Sam Huntington, Chris Marquette, Dan Fogler, Jay Baruchel, Kristen Bell, Christo...
1998. A fanatical group of 'Star Wars' devotees travel across country on a mission to steal a pre-release print of 'Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom M... Read more
Fantastic Four (2015)
4.3/10
Director: Josh Trank
Starring: Miles Teller, Michael B Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell, Reg E Cathe...
As a brilliant teen in 2007, Reed Richards (Miles Teller) works to perfect a teleportation device that could revolutionize science, finding help from... Read more