Must See Sci-Fi Movies

What are the most important, most influential, most thought provoking, most challenging, most entertaining, most fun Sci-Fi Movies of all time...


Le Voyage Dans La Lune

Metropolis

Things to Come

The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)

War of the Worlds (1953 and/or 2005)

This Island Earth

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 and/or 1978 but not 1993 or 2007)

Forbidden Planet

The Fly (1958 and/or 1986)

The Time Machine (1960)

The Last Man On Earth (1964, 1971, and/or 2007)

Fahrenheit 451

Planet of the Apes (and its sequels)

2001: A Space Odyssey (and its sequels)

Illustrated Man

A Clockwork Orange

Silent Running

Solaris (1972 and 2002)

Westworld

Soylent Green

Dark Star

Zardoz

Rollerball (1975)

Death Race 2000 (1975 and/or 2008)

Logan's Run

The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)

Star Wars (and it's sequels)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Stalker

Alien (and its sequels)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (and its sequels)

Mad Max (and its sequels)

The Black Hole

Flash Gordon

Saturn 3

Outland

Escape From New York

Blade Runner

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial

The Thing (1982)

Videodrome

The Terminator (and its sequels)

The Last Starfighter

Dune (1984)

1984

Starman

Lifeforce

The Quiet Earth

Brazil

Enemy Mine

Back to the Future (and its sequels)

Predator (and its sequels)

The Running Man

Robocop

Akira

The Abyss

Tetsuo

The Handmaid's Tale

Total Recall (1990)

Demolition Man

Strange Days

Johnny Mnemonic

Twelve Monkeys

The Postman

Starship Troopers

Gattaca

Event Horizon

The Fifth Element

Pi

Dark City

The Matrix

Pitch Black

eXistenZ

The Iron Giant

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Donnie Darko

Equilibrium

I Robot

Primer

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Serenity

The Prestige

A Scanner Darkly

Children of Men

Sunshine

Timecrimes

Wall-E

The Road

District 9

Moon

Never Let Me Go

Looper

Dredd


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