Highest-Rated Sci-Fi Movies

A thief who steals corporate secrets through use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO.Dir: Christopher Nolan With: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page

After the rebels have been brutally overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base, Luke Skywalker takes advanced Jedi training with Master Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke.Dir: Irvin Kershner With: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher

A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.Dir: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski With: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss

Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a wookiee and two droids to save the universe from the Empire’s world-destroying battle-station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the evil Darth Vader.Dir: George Lucas With: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher

A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity’s survival.Dir: Christopher Nolan With: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.Dir: Ridley Scott

A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her young son, John Connor, from a more advanced cyborg, made out of liquid metal.Dir: James Cameron With: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong

A young man is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents unite in order to save his own existence.Dir: Robert Zemeckis With: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson

The commercial vessel Nostromo receives a distress call from an unexplored planet. After searching for survivors, the crew heads home only to realize that a deadly bioform has joined them.Dir: Ridley Scott With: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt

A man suffering from insomnia is tricked into buying a drug, Lucia, that makes his desires come true in his dreams, blurring the line between fantasy and reality.Dir: Pawan Kumar With: Sathish Neenasam, Sruthi Hariharan, Achyuth Kumar

In the distant future, a small waste collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.Dir: Andrew Stanton With: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin

The planet from Alien has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, but will it be enough?Dir: James Cameron With: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn

After rescuing Han Solo from the palace of Jabba the Hutt, the rebels attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to make Vader return from the dark side of the Force.Dir: Richard Marquand With: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher

In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society’s crime problem – but not all goes according to plan.Dir: Stanley Kubrick With: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates

Shurik Timofeev builds a working model of a time machine. By accident, Ivan Bunsha, an apartment complex manager…Dir: Leonid Gayday With: Yuriy Yakovlev, Leonid Kuravlyov, Aleksandr Demyanenko

When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a procedure to have each other erased from their memories. But it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.Dir: Michel Gondry With: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson

A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. Known only by his initials, P.K.’s innocent questions and childlike curiosity will take him on a journey of love, laughter and letting-go.Dir: Rajkumar Hirani With: Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma, Sanjay Dutt.

Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.Dir: Stanley Kubrick With: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.Dir: Fritz Lang With: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich

Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt’s animated short film trilogy.Dir: Don Hertzfeldt With: Don Hertzfeldt

A woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in post apocalyptic Australia in search for her homeland with the help of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and a drifter named Max.Dir: George Miller With: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult

Concurrent theatrical ending of the TV series “Shin Seiki Evangelion” (1995).Dir: Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki With: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yûko Miyamura

A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.Dir: Ridley Scott With: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young

Kin-Dza-Dza is something like an “advanced cyberpunk film”. It’s a lot about people and social structures…Dir: Georgiy Daneliya With: Stanislav Lyubshin, Evgeniy Leonov, Yuriy Yakovlev

The universe is thrown into dimensional chaos as the dead come back to life. Now Goku and Vegeta must track down the cause of this uproar.Dir: Shigeyasu Yamauchi With: Masako Nozawa, Ryô Horikawa, Takeshi Kusao

A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky With: Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.Dir: John Carpenter With: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David

Earth’s mightiest heroes must come together and learn to fight as a team if they are to stop the mischievous Loki and his alien army from enslaving humanity.Dir: Joss Whedon With: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson

Warrior/pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.Dir: Hayao Miyazaki With: Sumi Shimamoto, Mahito Tsujimura, Hisako Kyôda

Max finds himself in possession of an ancient scroll that describes the entire history of humankind from beginning to end. Seeking to use the information for his own gain, Max triggers the mechanism that begins influencing his own life.Dir: Vladek Zankovsky With: Israel Sasha Demidov, Irina Barinova, Henry David

On December 18, Kyon finds that several traces of the SOS Brigade have mysteriously disappeared from his life…Dir: Tatsuya Ishihara, Yasuhiro Takemoto With: Aya Hirano, Tomokazu Sugita, Minori Chihara

A group of intergalactic criminals are forced to work together to stop a fanatical warrior from taking control of the universe.Dir: James Gunn With: Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper

A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident.Dir: Richard Kelly With: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell

Under constant attack by Angels, NERV introduces two new pilots: the mysterious Makinami Mari Illustrous and the intense Asuka Langley Shikinami…Dir: Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki With: Kotono Mitsuishi, Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara

A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky With: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet

During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.Dir: Steven Spielberg With: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psionic psychopath that only two kids and a group of psionics can stop.Dir: Katsuhiro Ôtomo With: Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Mitsuo Iwata

In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.Dir: Terry Gilliam With: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt

The story of a minibus driver and a fairytale princesss nestling under the wing of timeless friendship in an ordinary neighborhood.Dir: Burak Aksak With: Hande Dogandemir, Fatih Artman, Cengiz Bozkurt

A human-looking indestructible cyborg is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all costs.Dir: James Cameron With: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn

The War Game is a fictional, worst-case-scenario docu-drama about nuclear war and its aftermath in and around a typical English city…Dir: Peter Watkins With: Michael Aspel, Peter Graham, Kathy Staff

The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.Dir: Bryan Singer With: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.Dir: Hiroshi Teshigahara With: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mikijirô Hira, Kyôko Kishida

The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father’s legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful, time-traveling Romulan creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.Dir: J.J. Abrams With: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg

A hacker known as the Puppet Master is hunted by a female cyborg cop and her partner. This film is a revised version of Ghost in the Shell.Dir: Mamoru Oshii With: Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Ôtsuka, Kôichi Yamadera

One peaceful day on Earth, two remnants of Frieza’s army named Sorbet and Tagoma arrive searching for the Dragon Balls with the aim of reviving Frieza. They succeed, and Frieza subsequently seeks revenge on the Saiyans.Dir: Tadayoshi Yamamuro With: Masako Nozawa, Ryô Horikawa, Hiromi Tsuru

A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.Dir: Terry Gilliam With: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro

A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that’s designed to meet his every need.Dir: Spike Jonze With: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson

A female cyborg cop and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.Dir: Mamoru Oshii With: Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi, Akio Ôtsuka

An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology.Dir: Neill Blomkamp With: Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope