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.
6.5/10
A seminal film in the annals of Science Fiction Cinema, INVADERS FROM MARS has the ability to provoke the frightened child in all of us. A young boy h... Read more
3.1/10
Insect-like aliens invade a small town. The local teenagers have been watching a sci-fi marathon in the local theater, and from those films they get i... Read more
7.8/10
The original sci-fi classic that combined outer space terror with Cold War paranoia. A small California town is under siege from alien "pods" that tur... Read more
7.4/10
When health official Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams) notices that her lover has become strangely distant, this sets in train a series of shocking di... Read more
7.4/10
When health official Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams) notices that her lover has become strangely distant, this sets in train a series of shocking di... Read more
6.1/10
The Earth is threatened by an alien race who kidnap and kill humans and even animals and and use them for their body parts. In the year 1980 S.H.A.D.O... Read more
7.9/10
Wounded and captured in Afghanistan by guerrillas who need him to build them a missile, billionaire playboy and weapons designer Tony Stark (Robert Do... Read more
7.9/10
Wounded and captured in Afghanistan by guerrillas who need him to build them a missile, billionaire playboy and weapons designer Tony Stark (Robert Do... Read more
7/10
Robert Downey Jr. returns as billionaire Tony Stark in this thrilling sequel to the worldwide blockbuster. Now that his superhero identity has been re... Read more
7/10
Robert Downey Jr. returns as billionaire Tony Stark in this thrilling sequel to the worldwide blockbuster. Now that his superhero identity has been re... Read more