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.
Samurai Commando: Mission 1549 (2005)
5.1/10
Director: Masaaki Tezuka
Starring: Yosuke Eguchi, Kyoka Suzuki, Takeshi Kaga
When a modern-day military unit is accidentally sent back to feudal Japan, history changes and the present begins to unravel in this re-telling of the... Read more
Saturn 3 (1980)
5.1/10
Director: Stanley Donen
Starring: Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel
Space-aged, hydroponic gardeners Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett find their little astro-Eden no longer a lovely, verdant garden after that snake Harv... Read more
Scanners (1980)
6.8/10
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan
David Cronenberg directs this explosive tale of mind control and the powers that exist to govern and observe its application. Patrick McGoohan ('The P... Read more
Scanners II: The New Order (1991)
6.8/10
Director: Christian Duguay
Starring: David Hewlett, Deborah Raffin
A scanner discovers a plot by renegade elements in the city government to take power with the help of evil scanners. Read more
Scanners III: The Takeover (1991)
5.3/10
Director: Christian Duguay
A young female scanner turns from a sweet young thing into a murderous, power-crazed villain after she takes an experimental drug developed by her fat... Read more
Sci-Fi Double Feature: 'The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms' & 'Them' (1953)
6.7/10
Director: Eugene Lourie, Gordon Douglas
Starring: Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Joan Weldon, James Arness, James...
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms: 1953. Atomic testing in the Arctic revives a gigantic "rhedosaurus" frozen in the ice for millions of years, and soon t... Read more
Sci-Fi Serial Classics (1935)
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Paul Newman, Robert Kent, Thomas Mitchell, George Wallace
36 spine chilling chapters of classic Sci-fi Serials! Includes 'Radar Men from the Moon', 'Undersea Kingdom', 'Phantom Creeps' and 'Tales of Tomorrow'... Read more
Scorched Earth (2018)
5.1/10
Director: Peter Howitt
Starring: John Hannah, Ryan Robbins, Gina Carano, Stephanie Bennett
In a post-apocalyptic future bounty hunter, Gage, pursues a ruthless outlaw, at the head of a dangerous, criminal gang. Read more
Screamers (1995)
6.4/10
Director: Christian Duguay
Starring: Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, Jennifer Rubin, Andy Lauer
2078: War has devastated a distant planet; the few human survivors are pitted against 'Screamers', self-evolving robots programmed to kill... Based up... Read more
Seconds (1966)
7.7/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Will Geer
Rock Hudson is a revelation in this sinister, science-fiction-inflected dispatch from the fractured 1960s. "Seconds", directed by John Frankenheimer,... Read more