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.
Planet of the Apes (1967)
5.7/10
Director: Franklin J Schaffner
Starring: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, Jame...
The original, classic sci-fi film based on Pierre Boulle's novel "Monkey Planet" stars Charlton Heston as Taylor, an astronaut who ends up stranded on... Read more
Planet of the Apes (2001)
5.7/10
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Paul Giama...
Director Tim Burton's visually stunning "re-imagining" of the beloved 60's sci-fi classic stars Mark Wahlberg as a 21st-century astronaut who is trans... Read more
Planet of the Apes ( Blu-ray ) (2001)
5.7/10
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Paul Giamatti, Michael Clarke Dun...
Director Tim Burton's visually stunning "re-imagining" of the beloved 60's sci-fi classic stars Mark Wahlberg as a 21st-century astronaut who is trans... Read more
Planet of the Apes: 5 Movie Collector's Edition (Blu-ray) (1967)
5.7/10
Director: Franklin J Schaffner, Ted Post, Don Taylor, J Lee Thompson
Starring: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, Jame...
Multiple-disc box set includes: Planet of the Apes Beneath the Planet of the Apes Escape From the Planet of the Apes Conquest of the Planet of the Ape... Read more
Pluribus Season 1 (Blu-ray) (2025)
8/10
Starring: Rhea Seehorn, Karolina Wydra
Novelist Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn) finds herself isolated after an alien virus transforms the rest of humanity into a peaceful and content hive mind... Read more
Possessor (2020)
6.5/10
Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Starring: Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Possessor follows an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people's bodies - ultimately dri... Read more
Possessor (Blu-ray) (2020)
6.5/10
Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Starring: Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Possessor follows an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people's bodies - ultimately dri... Read more
Power Rangers (2017)
6/10
Director: Dean Israelite
Starring: Ludi Lin, Bill Hader, Elizabeth Banks, Bryan Cranston, Dacre Montgomery, RJ Cyle...
Saban's "Power Rangers" follows five ordinary teens who must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove - and... Read more
Predator (1987)
7.8/10
Director: John McTiernan
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Bill Duke
An alien life form lands in the jungles of South America and Arnold Schwarzenegger, with his combat team, soon find themselves becoming the prey of th... Read more
Predator ( Blu-ray ) (1987)
7.8/10
Director: John McTiernan
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers
An alien life form lands in the jungles of South America and Arnold Schwarzenegger, with his combat team, soon find themselves becoming the prey of th... Read more