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.
Kaena: The Prophecy (2003)
6.1/10
Director: Pascal Pinon, Chris Delaporte
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Richard Harris, Anjelica Huston
A visually stunning animated epic from France. Axis, a gigantic coiling plant, stretches high above the clouds and protects a village in its centre. T... Read more
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
6.1/10
Director: Stephen Chiodo
Starring: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Vernon
A spaceship looking like a circus tent lands in a field near a small town, signaling the attack of deviant, red-nosed, balloon-twisting psychos from a... Read more
Kin (2018)
5.6/10
Director: Josh Baker, Jonathan Baker
Starring: Dennis Quaid, James Franco, Michael B Jordan, Jack Reynor, Zoe Kravitz, Carrie C...
While scavenging for copper wire, Detroit teenager Eli Solinski stumbles upon a high-tech gun that holds special powers. When his brother, Jimmy, land... Read more
King of Thorn (2009)
6.4/10
Director: Kazuyoshi Katayama
Panic spreads worldwide as the Medousa Virus - a fatal pandemic that solidifies the body to stone - threatens to wipe out the human race. 160 infected... Read more
Knights Of Sidonia (Blu-ray) (2014)
7.7/10
A thousand years after the destruction of Earth by gigantic aliens called Gauna, mankind is living on massive spaceships. One of these space ships is... Read more
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
6.7/10
Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Starring: John C Reilly, John Goodman, Samuel L Jackson, John Ortiz, Brie Larson, Tom Hidd...
Scientists, soldiers and adventurers unite to explore a mythical, uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. Cut off from everything they know, they ventu... Read more
Kong: Skull Island ( Blu-ray ) (2017)
6.7/10
Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Starring: John C Reilly, John Goodman, Samuel L Jackson, John Ortiz, Brie Larson, Tom Hidd...
Scientists, soldiers and adventurers unite to explore a mythical, uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. Cut off from everything they know, they ventu... Read more
Krull (Blu-Ray) (1983)
6.1/10
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones, Francesca Annis, Trevor Martin, Be...
On the planet of Krull, an evil creature called the Beast decimates the world's army and kidnaps the lovely Princess Lyssa (Lysette Anthony), who is d... Read more
La Brea (2021)
5.6/10
Starring: Natalie Zea, Eoin Macken, Jack Martin
A massive sinkhole mysteriously opens up in Los Angeles, separating part of a family in an unexplainable primeval world, alongside a desperate group o... Read more
Land of the Lost (2009)
5.4/10
Director: Brad Silberling
Starring: Will Ferrell, Anna Friel, Danny McBride, Jorma Taccone
Will Ferrell is Dr Rick Marshall, a quantum paleontologist whose wacky ideas about time travel have seen him outcast from the scientific community. Bu... Read more