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.
Project Moonbase (1953)
Director: Richard Talmadge
Starring: Donna Martell, Larry Johns, Hayden Rorke
Intriguing sci-fi feature, culled from episodes of an unaired TV series, that was created and co-scripted by novelist Robert A. Heinlein. In the year... Read more
Prometheus (2012)
7/10
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Logan...
Director Ridley Scott's first foray into science fiction since 1982's "Blade Runner" is this epic adventure that serves as a (sort of) prequel to his... Read more
Prometheus ( Blu-ray ) (2012)
7/10
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Logan...
Director Ridley Scott's first foray into science fiction since 1982's "Blade Runner" is this epic adventure that serves as a (sort of) prequel to his... Read more
Protectors of the Universe (1983)
Director: Larry M. Jackson
In the far reach of space, a new star evokes. At that very moment, a horrible roaring sweeps across the universe. This sudden roaring, like a helpless... Read more
Proximity (2020)
4.7/10
A young NASA JPL scientist is abducted by extraterrestrials but when no one believes his story he becomes obsessed with finding proof which leads him... Read more
Psycho Goreman (2020)
6.3/10
Director: Steven Kostanski
Starring: Adam Brooks
After unearthing a gem that controls an evil monster looking to destroy the Universe, a young girl and her brother use it to make him do their bidding... Read more
Psycho Goreman (Blu-ray) (2020)
6.3/10
Director: Steven Kostanski
Starring: Adam Brooks
After unearthing a gem that controls an evil monster looking to destroy the Universe, a young girl and her brother use it to make him do their bidding... Read more
Push (2008)
6.1/10
Director: Paul McGuigan
Starring: Cliff Curtis, Djimon Hounsou, Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle
A group of telekinetic American ex-patriots must band together to take down a clandestine government agency that's genetically transforming normal cit... Read more
Quintet (1979)
5.2/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Bibi Andersson, Vittorio Gassman, Paul Newman, Fernando Rey, Brigitte Fossey
Robert Altman's vision of a post-apocalyptic 'ice city' where the remnants of mankind play a convoluted high stakes game with life and death on the ta... Read more
Race to Witch Mountain (2009)
5.7/10
Director: Andy Fickman
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig, Carla Gugino, Ciaran Hinds, T...
A rebooted reimagining of Alexander Key's sci-fi family adventure with Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson as a cab driver who gets tangled up with two aliens (... Read more