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.
the Dalek Collection (2012)
Starring: Jennie Linden
DR. WHO AND THE DALEKS sees Dr. Who travel through space and time in the Tardis to find himself on Skaro, the birthplace of his arch-nemeses, the Dale... Read more
The Dark Tower (2017)
5.7/10
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Starring: Dennis Haysbert, Matthew McConaughey, Jackie Earle Haley, Idris Elba, Fran Kranz
Roland Deschain (Idris Elba), the last Gunslinger, is locked in an eternal battle with Walter O'Dim (Matthew McConaughey), also known as the Man in Bl... Read more
The Darkest Minds (2018)
5.5/10
Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Starring: Bradley Whitford, Mandy Moore, Wade Williams, Gwendoline Christie, Amandla Stenb...
When teens mysteriously develop powerful new abilities, they are declared a threat by the government and detained. One of the most powerful young peop... Read more
The Day After (1983)
7.1/10
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, John Lithgow
The effects of a full-scale nuclear war are seen through the eyes of those living in a small Kansas town. Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Gutten... Read more
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
6.4/10
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Sela Ward, Emmy Rossum
From writer/director Roland Emmerich ("Independence Day") comes this engaging man vs. nature thriller starring Dennis Quaid as a scientist whose predi... Read more
The Day After Tomorrow ( Blu-ray ) (2004)
6.4/10
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Sela Ward, Emmy Rossum
From writer/director Roland Emmerich ("Independence Day") comes this engaging man vs. nature thriller starring Dennis Quaid as a scientist whose predi... Read more
The Day of the Dolphin (1973)
6.1/10
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Fritz Weaver, George C Scott, Paul Sorvino, Trish Van Devere
A researcher (George C. Scott) teaches the aquatic mammals to talk, then faces a crisis when he learns they are also being trained as assassins. Read more
The Day of the Triffids (1963)
6.1/10
Director: Steve Sekely
Starring: Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janet Scott
While much of the earth's population is blinded by a brilliant meteor shower, small plants called triffids undergo horrifying mutations causing them t... Read more
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
5.5/10
Director: Scott Derrickson
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm...
Keanu Reeves is apparently well-cast in the role of an emotionally bereft and expressionless alien from another planet in this remake of the 1951 clas... Read more
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
7.8/10
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Billy Gray, Hugh Marlowe, Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Sam Jaffe
A spacecraft lands in Washington D.C. and an alien emerges, with a menacing robot whose destructive powers defy imagination. So begins the science-fic... Read more