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.
Fiend Without A Face (1957)
6.3/10
Director: Arthur Crabtree
Starring: Marshall Thompson, Kim Parker, Terence Kilburn
An effective chiller with overtones of the 'Id' creature from 'Forbidden Planet' as a scientific thought experiment goes awry and the fiends go on a f... Read more
Final Days of Planet Earth (2006)
4.3/10
Director: Robert Lieberman
Starring: Daryl Hannah, Campbell Scott, Gil Bellows, Suleka Mathew, Serge Houde
Originally a mini-series made for cable television, this end-of-days, sci-fi thriller features an evil plot by shapeshifting aliens to take over the e... Read more
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Final Fantasy VII Advent Children (2005)
7.3/10
Director: Takeshi Nozue, Tetsuya Nomura
Starring: Takahiro Sakurai, Ayumi Ito
Continuing the storyline based on the hit Playstation game Final Fantasy VII, two years have passed since the ruins of Midgar stand as a testament to... Read more
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
6.4/10
Director: Hironobu Sakaguchi
Starring: Ming-Na, Voices Of, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, James Woods, Donald Sutherland,...
The year is 2065 A.D. The Earth is infested with alien spirits and mankind faces total extinction. Led by a strange dream and guided by her mentor, Dr... Read more
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within ( Blu-ray ) (2001)
6.4/10
Director: Hironobu Sakaguchi
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, James Woods, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames, Ming-...
The year is 2065 A.D. The Earth is infested with alien spirits and mankind faces total extinction. Led by a strange dream and guided by her mentor, Dr... Read more
Fire in the Sky (1993)
6.5/10
Director: Robert Lieberman
Starring: D B Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer
UFO buffs should get a lift out of this dramatization of the alleged abduction of Travis Walton - allegedly based on fact. Contains a genuinely freaky... Read more
First Man Into Space (1958)
5.5/10
Director: Robert Day
Starring: Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards
"A better than it looks" tale of a daring pilot who disobeys orders and becomes the title character, returning to Earth a dust-encrusted, blood-drinki... Read more
First Men in the Moon (1964)
6.7/10
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: Edward Judd, Lionel Jeffries, Martha Hyer
An eccentric professor in Victorian England develops an anti-gravity invention and uses it to travel to and inside the moon, finding an insect-like ci... Read more
First Spaceship on Venus (1962)
4.3/10
Director: Kurt Maetzig
Starring: Ignacy Machowski, Oldrich Lukes, Yoko Tani
After discovering a communications device from Venus containing a message about the impending attack of Earth, an international crew of astronauts and... Read more
Five (Blu-ray) (1951)
6.3/10
The world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. Only five Americans survive, including a pregnant woman, a neo-Nazi, a black man and a bank clerk. Read more