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.
Minority Report ( Blu-ray ) (2002)
7.7/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Max von Sydow, Samantha Morton, Tom Cruise, Peter Stormare, Colin Farrell
In Steven Spielberg's electrifying adaptation of Philip K Dick's short story, Tom Cruise is a detective for a government agency in 2025 Washington tha... Read more
Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack (1979)
7/10
Director: Christian Nyby, Vince Edwards
Starring: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson Jr, John Colicos,...
Lone starship the Galactica encounters another surviving battlestar in this feature-length episode. Desperation at being low on fuel turns to hope whe... Read more
Mission to Mars (2000)
5.6/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen
This big-budget sci-fi adventure follows a problem-plagued manned mission to the Red Planet, which uncovers much more than a few rust coloured rocks.... Read more
Monster Hunters (2020)
2.1/10
Starring: Tom Sizemore
When an alien prison ship crash lands and unleashes creature after creature in the California desert, the Prisoners make quick work of the dozen that... Read more
Monsters (2010)
6.4/10
Director: Gareth Edwards
Starring: Whitney Able, Scoot McNairy
Armed with a tiny crew and miniscule budget, writer/director Gareth Edwards delivers this stunning, suspenseful British sci-fi shocker set six years a... Read more
Monsters vs Aliens (2009)
6.5/10
Director: Conrad Vernon, Rob Letterman
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Jeffrey Tambor, Kiefer Sutherland, Paul Rudd, Reese Witherspoon, Ra...
In this computer-animated sci-fi tale, a meteorite hits about-to-be married Susan Murphy (voice of Reese Witherspoon) who is then transformed into a g... Read more
Monsters vs Aliens ( Blu-ray ) (2009)
6.5/10
Director: Conrad Vernon, Rob Letterman
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Jeffrey Tambor, Kiefer Sutherland, Paul Rudd, Reese Witherspoon, Ra...
In this computer-animated sci-fi tale, a meteorite hits about-to-be married Susan Murphy (voice of Reese Witherspoon) who is then transformed into a g... Read more
Monstrosity - The Atomic Brain (1964)
Director: Joseph V Mascelli
Starring: Erika Peters, Frank Fowler, Marjorie Eaton
This weird, morbid little sci-fi thriller stars Marjorie Eaton as a wealthy woman who employs a scientist to transfer her brain from its aging body in... Read more
Moon (2009)
7.9/10
Director: Duncan Jones
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Sam Rockwell, Dominique McElligott, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry, Kay...
Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is nearing the end of a three-year tour as the lone inhabitant of a lunar outpost that harvests a clean fuel source to send ba... Read more
Moon ( Blu-ray ) (2009)
7.9/10
Director: Duncan Jones
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Sam Rockwell, Dominique McElligott, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry, Kay...
Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is nearing the end of a three-year tour as the lone inhabitant of a lunar outpost that harvests a clean fuel source to send ba... Read more