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.
Helix (2014)
6.8/10
Starring: Billy Campbell
Helix is an intense thriller about a team of scientists from the Center for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic... Read more
Hell (2011)
5.9/10
Director: Tim Fehlbaum
Starring: Angela Winkler, Stipe Erceg, Hannah Herzsprung, Lars Eidinger, Lisa Vicari
Post-apocalyptic horror in which a group of survivors fight for survival in a barren, desolate futureworld. It's 2016 and global warming has reduced t... Read more
Her (2013)
8/10
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams, Olivia Wilde, Rooney Mara
Set in the Los Angeles of the slight future, "Her" follows Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a complex, soulful man who makes his living writing tou... Read more
Her ( Blu-ray ) (2013)
8/10
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde
Set in the Los Angeles of the slight future, "Her" follows Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a complex, soulful man who makes his living writing tou... Read more
High Life (2018)
5.9/10
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Andre Benjamin, Mia Goth
Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to the outer reaches of the solar system. They must now rely on e... Read more
Higher Power (2018)
4.8/10
Starring: Ron Eldard, Colm Feore, Austin Stowell, Richard Portnow
When the Universe decides what it wants, it's pointless to resist. With his family's life at stake, Joseph Steadman finds himself the unwilling test s... Read more
Hollow Man (2000)
5.7/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, William Devane, Elisabeth Shue, Kim Dickens
Paul Verhoeven's nasty, high-tech variation on "The Invisible Man" stars Kevin Bacon as a self-absorbed scientist working on a government invisibility... Read more
Hollow Man ( Blu-ray ) (2000)
5.7/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, William Devane, Elisabeth Shue, Kim Dickens
Paul Verhoeven's nasty, high-tech variation on "The Invisible Man" stars Kevin Bacon as a self-absorbed scientist working on a government invisibility... Read more
Home (2015)
6.6/10
Director: Tim Johnson
Starring: Jim Parsons, Rihanna , Steve Martin, Jennifer Lopez
When Earth is taken over by the overly confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated while al... Read more
Home ( Blu-ray ) (2015)
6.6/10
Director: Tim Johnson
Starring: Jim Parsons, Rihanna , Steve Martin, Jennifer Lopez
When Earth is taken over by the overly confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated while al... Read more