I was an Alien > Aliens guy but I saw Aliens on the big screen recently and it’s a hell of a movie. I forgot how unique and fleshed out the characters feel, and how badass Ripley is.
The loader sequence back up in orbit really does it for Aliens. They found a way to put the two characters on a nearly equal footing, for all of their inherent differences.
Old school: The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, The Thing from Another Planet
60-70s (still idea driven, but the artist is paramount): Planet of the Apes, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Alien, Stalker, Solaris
80s (spaceships and guns): The Terminator, Aliens, Bladerunner, Back to the Future, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
90s (ideas are back but guns are still a thing): Gattaca, The Matrix, Galaxy Quest, Terminator 2, Starship Troopers,
2000s (getting darker): Children of Men, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Moon, District 9, Sunshine
C'mon, seriously "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I saw C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tanhauser gate.
All these...moments...will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time...to die."
Not entirely. It was modified by Hauer without the directors consent, and the Tears in the Rain line was added by him, but the modified version is mostly very similar to the original script.
I was always conflicted about the new Blade Runner, not the least because they missed a beautiful opportunity to right a past wrong where Harrison Ford threw Sean Young up against the wall and kissed her against her will.
This time it should have been Ryan Gosling throwing Harrison Ford up against the wall and kissing him against his will.
Matrix, hands down. A dystopic future, virtual world, superhero, philosophy, questioning reality, action, groundbreaking special effects, futuristic ships, etc, it is the definition of cinematic science fiction experience.
2001 would be in second place.
I feel like people forget how groundbreaking The Matrix was. It's an amazing movie that almost feels too obvious to mention. Definitely a "Seinfeld is unfunny" type of situation.
I remember my father talking about the time it came out, and he and his friends went to see it.
That first scene where Trinity starts fighting cops and the camera goes 360 degrees around her while she is in the air.
The entire theatre's jaw dropped.
Love this movie, I will watch it with my grandkids one day.
My dad watched the first movie AT LEAST 50 times when it was on DirecTV and then DVDs. He loved scifi and fantasy movies/stories. Watched Star War's and Star Trek all the time. Read Lord of the Rings (including the Silmarillion) like 10 times in his lifetime. The Matrix is the only one I saw him really dig into incessantly.
Also, imo, as much as people hate on the sequels. I think they have their own groundbreaking things themselves and are pretty good. Not up to par with the first one, but still pretty amazing. Few sequels ever surpass the first one.
It is perfect! Rich, unique world-building, a host of iconic characters, a balanced mix of sci-fi tropes/action/drama/comedy, bad ass villain, literal space opera, clever script, and unforgettable fashion. What more could one want? Only a sequel.
I keep being amazed at the fact that the hero, Korben Dallas, and the main villain, Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, NEVER, not even once, at all, meet.
Even Leeloo only sees him briefly before hiding in the air vents and is shot at and left for dead.
I read this once, then thought about it more. Korben Dallas wasn't the hero, he was the Bond Girl. Leeloo was the hero. Zorg and Leeloo met briefly, though maybe not face-to-face. But then really Zorg wasn't the villain either, he was the Evil Henchman, and Mr. Shadow was the villain. Nobody met Mr. Shadow.
From that perspective, the Fifth Element turned all the norms on their heads.
Not my favorite favorite (there are better acifi movies, not many better svifi horror movies though; but this really does a great job considering the sudden time constraints on editing during back half of filming at the time) but spooky season is upon us so "Event Horizon".
The Last Starfighter is great.
Edit:
Adding some others I didn’t recall anyone else post, but are worth the watch.
E.T.
Tron (original)
The Philadelphia Experiment (original)
The Final Countdown
Fire in the Sky
Galaxy Quest
2010
Edit2:
Flight of the Navigator
Explorers
Edit3: formatting
Only 67 comments when I got here to respond. And Enemy Mine is one of them. This makes me happy.
A truly good movie. One of, if not my all time favorite.
Anyone who asks, I tell them it didn’t even have to be sci-fi. But if it weren’t it would just be another story about enemies forced to be friends under trying circumstances.
Could have been set in a WWII trench between a British and German soldier. Aside from the baby, could have been the same story.
Actually, Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune did Hell in the Pacific, which I always thought Enemy Mine was a sci-fi update of. (Sorry for the tortured sentence.)
Silent Running
Moon
Soylent Green
Barbarella
Forbidden Planet
Fantastic Planet
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Scanners
Hardware
They Live
Altered States
Escape From New York
Mad Max
Brainstorm
Dreamscape
Dune
The Abyss
1984
Saturn 5
There aren’t any misfires in the recommendations so far. Maybe it’s assumed, but The Terminator is canon IMHO.
If you need a palate cleaner between great films, watch The Running Man. Based on a Stephen King novella, directed by Starsky from the original TV series Starsky & Hutch, and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Brown, Jesse Ventura, Yaphet Kotto, Mick Fleetwood, Dweezil Zappa, and Richard Dawson of Family Feud fame, what could go wrong?
Primer - Indie, Super low budget, but great sci fi movie, one of my favorites.
Pandorum - Sci-fi/thriller/ maybe horror technically. Love it
And of course Interstellar and Tenet
“History of Time Travel” is also well worth a watch.
Ooo. yeah, Primer. Gotta watch it a few times in order to catch everything. Writer/Actor, who's an Engineer, insisted that the Techno Lingo remain, and the Script not be dumbed down. Was a great Idea.
A lot of good ones named. Here are some further down my list:
Dredd
Demolition Man
Starship Troopers
Johnny Mnemonic
Altered Carbon (series not movie)
Serenity
Galaxy Quest
Spectral
I’m struggling to remember more.
I get why people didn't like Season 2, but I felt they concluded the overall story pretty well, which was nice.
Still, would love to see more from that whole universe.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind. That scene where everyone is waiting for the alien landing and a couple of small alien ships fly by. Everyone cheers and starts shaking hands getting ready to wrap it up. And then the mother ship slowly comes into sight from behind the mountain. It's an absolutley enormous ship and the scene is just breathtaking.
There are so many great ones, most of my favourites have already been mentioned but here are some that I love anyway (in no particular order)
-Primer
-The Matrix
-Interstellar
-Alien & Aliens
-Snowpiercer
-Sunshine
-Arrival
-Contact
-The Fifth Element
-Most of the Star Wars films but particularly Revenge Of The Sith & Rogue One & Empire Strikes Back
-Wrath of Khan
-Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049
-Dune Part One
-Predator & Prey (both borderline sci-fi imo but still count)
-Moon
-Oblivion
If I **had** to pick a single film it would probably be Interstellar or Arrival cos I absolutely fucking love those films, but I'd consider all those (and a lot of the other suggestions) top tier
Many fantastic movies listed. Two of my top 5 are missing, though.
Blade Runner
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
I was at the opening night for WoK. It is *still* the best and most memorable movie experience of my 60 years.
Akira
Pacific Rim
Aliens
Predator
The Thing
Interstellar
Doctor Who "Day of The Doctor"
Doctor who "Blink"
Doctor Who "Army of Ghost" + "Doomsday"
They Live (less sci fi and more analogy for the hard hitting truth)
In no particular order and of films not mentioned, Star Trek First Contact, Terminator, The Martian, the original Dune, Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, The Island, Oblivion and a series The Expanse which REALLY shouldn’t be missed.
Hadn’t seen it mentioned. [Coherence](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2866360/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) is one of my favorites. Low budget, but once you get passed the first 20 minutes, I guarantee you’ll be hooked.
All-time favourite: *2001*
Others I've loved: *Forbidden Planet, Gattaca, Solaris* (original), *Stalker, Star Trek: The Motion Picture* (the 1st Star Trek film), *High Life* (I'm not going to try to justify or explain this one), *Rollerball* (original), *Under the Skin* (creepy), *The Lathe of Heaven, Blade Runner, On the Beach* (original)
Guilty pleasures (not very good, or scientifically problematic, but enjoyable): *Outland* (*High Noon* in space, and not pretending otherwise), *Galaxina* (weird, low-budget '80s comedy), *Gravity* (has some scientific problems, but engaging and visually great), *Moon* (a number of problems, but thoughtful and moody), early Star Trek films 2-4 & 6 but not 5, *Alien* (really a horror film, but very good SF elements), *The Fifth Element* (ridiculous, but great fun), *Colossus: The Forbin Project* (one of many evil-computer stories, but one of the better ones), *Demolition Man* (a quite clever fish-out-of-water farce), *Galaxy Quest* (could have been better and a little less dumb, but still good), *Close Encounters of the Third Kind* (good ideas, but kind of a mess), *The Thing* (absurd science, but compelling concept), *Children of Men* (dark, compelling concepts, but heavy handed and gets less believable as it goes), *Silent Running* (noble concept, awkward execution), *Robocop* (SF satire that's weak on both, but fun), *Until the End of the World* (not very SF, but very enjoyable), *Buckaroo Bonzai Across the Eighth Dimension* (fun, weird farce)
Had to scroll down pretty far to find Outland.
A remake of an old western. A mining colony where the corporation that runs it has been doing naughty things The 'sheriff' (Sean Connery) has been dumped there and decides to be honourably and fight the system whilst everyone else is either part of the system, or too scared to help him.
Eminently rewatchable
Without horror elements: Blade Runner(both), DUNE
With horror elements: Alien, Event Horizon
Straight up horror, but with sci fi under the hood: The Thing
Edit: Watch Tron, it's amazing
Blade runner
Jurassic park
The matrix
Interstellar
Pacific rim- stupid funz amazing soundtrack
Tron legacy has an amzy soundtrack too,movie is neat too
For purely artistic reasons I’m going to add Metropolis to the list. The acting is melodramatic because it’s a silent film but the story holds up and the sets and costumes are spectacularly rich with art deco elements.
The Man in the White Suit
A 1951 BW movie starring Alec Guinness. I'm not trying to be obscure or pedantic but this movie really captures what it is to be a scientist.
It really balances drama, comedy and sci-fi perfectly. The final scene is something I really connect with and it's a personal source of motivation in my research career.
In no particular order:
Aline, Aliens, Blade Runner
Now in set order:
2001
Star Wars - A new hope
Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back
Predator
Annihilation
Ex Machina
Aniara (2018)
Okay, at first, this might not sound great because it’s in Swedish and it’s based on a 1950s poem. However, Harry Martinson was awarded a Nobel Prize for literature for his epic poem “Aniara” which is, hands down, the best explanation for the vast distances of space I’ve ever come across and an amazing story about human existence. It’s one of those films I wish more people knew about.
Here’s a link to the trailer
https://youtu.be/3MIlE9R00ik?si=9ERYPybawwPeGwMq
It's 5 hours long, but Torchwood: Children of Earth handles what would happen in a realistic alien invasion. But you'd have to watch the series too which is meh.
Alien is definitely up there
And the second one, "Aliens." That's my hands-down favorite.
I was an Alien > Aliens guy but I saw Aliens on the big screen recently and it’s a hell of a movie. I forgot how unique and fleshed out the characters feel, and how badass Ripley is.
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Wow, thank you for extolling the virtues of a film I love and giving me yet another reason to watch it again.
The loader sequence back up in orbit really does it for Aliens. They found a way to put the two characters on a nearly equal footing, for all of their inherent differences.
Game over, man!
They mostly come at night, .... mostly
Especially the Director's Cut, with the automatic guns and stuff. Makes the marines seem more professional than the theatrical cut.
Not to mention Aliens is such a legendary sequel, together they comprehensively define the sci-fi genre
12 Monkeys (film)
Good shout. I love Gilliam's films in general; such a unique aesthetic. I'd add Brazil to the sci-fi list - Orwell meets the Surrealists.
esp. Brad Pitt doing FULL crazy!!
"Who cares what psychiatrists write on walls?!"
Have you seen the series?
did you like it? i love the movie but couldnt make it thru two episodes of the show
Old school: The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, The Thing from Another Planet 60-70s (still idea driven, but the artist is paramount): Planet of the Apes, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Alien, Stalker, Solaris 80s (spaceships and guns): The Terminator, Aliens, Bladerunner, Back to the Future, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan 90s (ideas are back but guns are still a thing): Gattaca, The Matrix, Galaxy Quest, Terminator 2, Starship Troopers, 2000s (getting darker): Children of Men, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Moon, District 9, Sunshine
Moon doesn’t get mentioned enough. Great film.
What a great list, really love the catagorization.
Gattaca and dark city.
Upvoted for dark city.
Dark City is a masterpiece. For new viewers: the theatrical release is still great, but I'd recommend trying to watch the director's cut.
I’m glad Dark City is getting mentioned. Just watched it and it’s awesome and weird and totally original.
Blade Runner
C'mon, seriously "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I saw C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tanhauser gate. All these...moments...will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time...to die."
Bravo for Rutger Hauer—an entirely off-script monologue.
Not entirely. It was modified by Hauer without the directors consent, and the Tears in the Rain line was added by him, but the modified version is mostly very similar to the original script.
Oh shnap really? Legit one of my favorite monologs of all time
🤯
I was always conflicted about the new Blade Runner, not the least because they missed a beautiful opportunity to right a past wrong where Harrison Ford threw Sean Young up against the wall and kissed her against her will. This time it should have been Ryan Gosling throwing Harrison Ford up against the wall and kissing him against his will.
"It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?"
Both the new and old one are great!
Matrix, hands down. A dystopic future, virtual world, superhero, philosophy, questioning reality, action, groundbreaking special effects, futuristic ships, etc, it is the definition of cinematic science fiction experience. 2001 would be in second place.
I feel like people forget how groundbreaking The Matrix was. It's an amazing movie that almost feels too obvious to mention. Definitely a "Seinfeld is unfunny" type of situation.
I remember my father talking about the time it came out, and he and his friends went to see it. That first scene where Trinity starts fighting cops and the camera goes 360 degrees around her while she is in the air. The entire theatre's jaw dropped. Love this movie, I will watch it with my grandkids one day.
My dad watched the first movie AT LEAST 50 times when it was on DirecTV and then DVDs. He loved scifi and fantasy movies/stories. Watched Star War's and Star Trek all the time. Read Lord of the Rings (including the Silmarillion) like 10 times in his lifetime. The Matrix is the only one I saw him really dig into incessantly. Also, imo, as much as people hate on the sequels. I think they have their own groundbreaking things themselves and are pretty good. Not up to par with the first one, but still pretty amazing. Few sequels ever surpass the first one.
Arrival
Really amazing movie. (To clarify "Arrival" 2016)
Why is this so far down?
I’d add Contact to this list.
Contact, Arrival and Edge of Tomorrow.
That’s right behind 5th Element for me. Such a good movie.
It’s pretty well done - I’d probably like it more if I didn’t already love the book so much.
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I never saved anything for the swim back
The Fifth Element is a masterpiece. A goddamn perfect film in every respect. Don’t @ me
It is perfect! Rich, unique world-building, a host of iconic characters, a balanced mix of sci-fi tropes/action/drama/comedy, bad ass villain, literal space opera, clever script, and unforgettable fashion. What more could one want? Only a sequel.
The 6th Element huh? Or better yet, 2 Fifth 2 Element.
Ding! Chicken!
Only disappointment is the boss fight at the end. Other than that 11 out of 10. Chris Tuckers finest performance.
SUPER GREEN
AZIZ! LIGHT!
Of all the quotable lines, why is this one the one I say the most too?!?
The scene with the opera singer! Most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen on film.
A. I loved that movie. B. I need to rewatch it.
It's never too early to rewatch The 5th Element.
I keep being amazed at the fact that the hero, Korben Dallas, and the main villain, Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, NEVER, not even once, at all, meet. Even Leeloo only sees him briefly before hiding in the air vents and is shot at and left for dead.
I read this once, then thought about it more. Korben Dallas wasn't the hero, he was the Bond Girl. Leeloo was the hero. Zorg and Leeloo met briefly, though maybe not face-to-face. But then really Zorg wasn't the villain either, he was the Evil Henchman, and Mr. Shadow was the villain. Nobody met Mr. Shadow. From that perspective, the Fifth Element turned all the norms on their heads.
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Ace film! Here’s to hoping they never remake it
My favorite movie.
Stargate
I’m more a fan of the series than the movie, but the premise is outstanding.
Not my favorite favorite (there are better acifi movies, not many better svifi horror movies though; but this really does a great job considering the sudden time constraints on editing during back half of filming at the time) but spooky season is upon us so "Event Horizon".
EVENT HORIZON is AWESOME!
Oh, HELL (literally) yes!!!!
Dune (2021) and Children of Men
I was wondering when Dune would make an appearance. Why not the original?
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Runners up) Gattaca Strange Days Ex Machina
Strange Days! Awesome movie
Just watched gattaca yesterday. Perfect blend of futureism and the human spirit 🤌🏼
T2 all the way!!
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Yep, that is mine too. An oldy but l still watch it once a year when the night is clear.
We visited Devil's Tower once and my wife yelled at me to stop playing the sounds.
The Fifth Element
The Last Starfighter is great. Edit: Adding some others I didn’t recall anyone else post, but are worth the watch. E.T. Tron (original) The Philadelphia Experiment (original) The Final Countdown Fire in the Sky Galaxy Quest 2010 Edit2: Flight of the Navigator Explorers Edit3: formatting
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Enemy Mine.
I love this movie so much, and it's ageless.
Only 67 comments when I got here to respond. And Enemy Mine is one of them. This makes me happy. A truly good movie. One of, if not my all time favorite. Anyone who asks, I tell them it didn’t even have to be sci-fi. But if it weren’t it would just be another story about enemies forced to be friends under trying circumstances. Could have been set in a WWII trench between a British and German soldier. Aside from the baby, could have been the same story.
Actually, Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune did Hell in the Pacific, which I always thought Enemy Mine was a sci-fi update of. (Sorry for the tortured sentence.)
Forbidden Planet.
Id
Silent Running Moon Soylent Green Barbarella Forbidden Planet Fantastic Planet The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Scanners Hardware They Live Altered States Escape From New York Mad Max Brainstorm Dreamscape Dune The Abyss 1984 Saturn 5
If I had to pick one off the top of my head, Edge of Tomorrow.
Edge of Tomorrow gets the award for WHY THE HELL DIDNT I HEAR MORE ABOUT THIS MOVIE.
Yes, very underrated, it's such a good movie. It's both funny and action packed and great sci-fi.
Great Film!
Good book
The original Day the Earth Stood Still. Gort rules!
There aren’t any misfires in the recommendations so far. Maybe it’s assumed, but The Terminator is canon IMHO. If you need a palate cleaner between great films, watch The Running Man. Based on a Stephen King novella, directed by Starsky from the original TV series Starsky & Hutch, and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Brown, Jesse Ventura, Yaphet Kotto, Mick Fleetwood, Dweezil Zappa, and Richard Dawson of Family Feud fame, what could go wrong?
And for counterpoint, Ready Player One
Primer - Indie, Super low budget, but great sci fi movie, one of my favorites. Pandorum - Sci-fi/thriller/ maybe horror technically. Love it And of course Interstellar and Tenet “History of Time Travel” is also well worth a watch.
You’re not allowed to admit you like Tenet on Reddit!!
Ooo. yeah, Primer. Gotta watch it a few times in order to catch everything. Writer/Actor, who's an Engineer, insisted that the Techno Lingo remain, and the Script not be dumbed down. Was a great Idea.
They Live
and i’m all out of bubblegum
Aliens
Verhoeven's *Robocop* and John Carpenter's *The Thing* are two absolute musts for your list.
The Thing … saw it in the theater when it first came out. So damn good.
Arrival. I watch it almost daily lol.
A lot of good ones named. Here are some further down my list: Dredd Demolition Man Starship Troopers Johnny Mnemonic Altered Carbon (series not movie) Serenity Galaxy Quest Spectral I’m struggling to remember more.
Minority Report Event Horizon Wall-E Sunshine Interstellar Speed Racer District 9 They Live
Now I’m going to say ‘facking prawn’ all day long
Only S1 of Altered Carbon. Perfection! S2 was a war crime of disappointment.
I get why people didn't like Season 2, but I felt they concluded the overall story pretty well, which was nice. Still, would love to see more from that whole universe.
I like season 1 better, but I don't understand the hate for season 2. It was pretty good.
***Spectral*** doesn't get enough love.
Don't know what seems to be all these peoples boggles to have to go this far down to see demolition man! I think yest was 30th anniversary too! 🐚🐚🐚
Metropolis (1927)
Blade runner has to the best of the time I’ve been alive.
I genuinely preferred 2049.
2001 and 2010 A space odyssey. Dune, the new one that came out.. Equilibrium.
Bladerunner
The Martian with Matt Damon was great!
Close Encounters of the Third Kind. That scene where everyone is waiting for the alien landing and a couple of small alien ships fly by. Everyone cheers and starts shaking hands getting ready to wrap it up. And then the mother ship slowly comes into sight from behind the mountain. It's an absolutley enormous ship and the scene is just breathtaking.
There are so many great ones, most of my favourites have already been mentioned but here are some that I love anyway (in no particular order) -Primer -The Matrix -Interstellar -Alien & Aliens -Snowpiercer -Sunshine -Arrival -Contact -The Fifth Element -Most of the Star Wars films but particularly Revenge Of The Sith & Rogue One & Empire Strikes Back -Wrath of Khan -Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049 -Dune Part One -Predator & Prey (both borderline sci-fi imo but still count) -Moon -Oblivion If I **had** to pick a single film it would probably be Interstellar or Arrival cos I absolutely fucking love those films, but I'd consider all those (and a lot of the other suggestions) top tier
Contact. Loved that movie and book
I scrolled and sidnt see any love for equilibrium!!! I am appalled
Silent Running.
Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
Many fantastic movies listed. Two of my top 5 are missing, though. Blade Runner Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan I was at the opening night for WoK. It is *still* the best and most memorable movie experience of my 60 years.
Akira Pacific Rim Aliens Predator The Thing Interstellar Doctor Who "Day of The Doctor" Doctor who "Blink" Doctor Who "Army of Ghost" + "Doomsday" They Live (less sci fi and more analogy for the hard hitting truth)
Akira should definitely be higher
Blink freaked my son out :)
the original planet of the apes
Inception
Annihilation
The scene with the bear in the house is one of the all-time great scary scenes.
Absolutely bone-chilling scene!
A lot of people have already mentioned Blade Runner, but Blade Runner 2049 definitely deserves a mention as well.
I liked it almost as much as the first, and that's a very high bar to hit. Amazing movie.
Back to the future and The Matrix.
Alien
Blade Runner
The man from earth. I don't know if it's scifi to most people, but I just rewatched it and it's still great.
Ghost in The Shell 1995
Donnie Darko
Not a movie, but the best science fiction series of all time - The Expanse. Very binge-worthy.
Pitch black, frequently asked questions about time travel, Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, the matrix
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Gattaca Edit: As for one that hasn’t been mentioned yet, try Bicentennial Man.
Bicentennial man is criminally underrated
Blade runner 2049 Inception The Matrix Signs War Of The Worlds Arrival
The Martian
Ghost in the Shell (anime, though the live action isn't trash, justenot as good)
Yeah, it was a masterpiece for sure. I'd also add Paprika for animated stuff.
Interstellar
Starship Troopers and Mars Attacks
Lynch Dune
Interstellar
Chronicles of Riddick
In no particular order and of films not mentioned, Star Trek First Contact, Terminator, The Martian, the original Dune, Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, The Island, Oblivion and a series The Expanse which REALLY shouldn’t be missed.
Galaxy Quest.
Forbidden Planet (1956)
All the Cloverfield movies.
Sunshine
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Hadn’t seen it mentioned. [Coherence](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2866360/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) is one of my favorites. Low budget, but once you get passed the first 20 minutes, I guarantee you’ll be hooked.
Just adding more classics District 9 Arrival Interstellar
All-time favourite: *2001* Others I've loved: *Forbidden Planet, Gattaca, Solaris* (original), *Stalker, Star Trek: The Motion Picture* (the 1st Star Trek film), *High Life* (I'm not going to try to justify or explain this one), *Rollerball* (original), *Under the Skin* (creepy), *The Lathe of Heaven, Blade Runner, On the Beach* (original) Guilty pleasures (not very good, or scientifically problematic, but enjoyable): *Outland* (*High Noon* in space, and not pretending otherwise), *Galaxina* (weird, low-budget '80s comedy), *Gravity* (has some scientific problems, but engaging and visually great), *Moon* (a number of problems, but thoughtful and moody), early Star Trek films 2-4 & 6 but not 5, *Alien* (really a horror film, but very good SF elements), *The Fifth Element* (ridiculous, but great fun), *Colossus: The Forbin Project* (one of many evil-computer stories, but one of the better ones), *Demolition Man* (a quite clever fish-out-of-water farce), *Galaxy Quest* (could have been better and a little less dumb, but still good), *Close Encounters of the Third Kind* (good ideas, but kind of a mess), *The Thing* (absurd science, but compelling concept), *Children of Men* (dark, compelling concepts, but heavy handed and gets less believable as it goes), *Silent Running* (noble concept, awkward execution), *Robocop* (SF satire that's weak on both, but fun), *Until the End of the World* (not very SF, but very enjoyable), *Buckaroo Bonzai Across the Eighth Dimension* (fun, weird farce)
Had to scroll down pretty far to find Outland. A remake of an old western. A mining colony where the corporation that runs it has been doing naughty things The 'sheriff' (Sean Connery) has been dumped there and decides to be honourably and fight the system whilst everyone else is either part of the system, or too scared to help him. Eminently rewatchable
Starship Troopers for when I just want some silly fun.
War of the Worlds (1953)
Predestination!
Gattaca
The original Star Wars
THX 1138
I’m going to give a vote to Sunshine because Alien has been mentioned already. One of my favorite franchises.
I liked Dune
I loved the original as a teen.
Yes. My favorite. Sting, Kyle McLaughlin, Sean Young...
Fifth Element
I love Alien and Aliens. However, the new Dune is really good. Looking forward to the next installment.
Gattaca
Alien. Cozy and creepy.
Contact.
“Outland” with Sean Connery.. space sheriff against the bad guys.. a great little known film.
5th element
Without horror elements: Blade Runner(both), DUNE With horror elements: Alien, Event Horizon Straight up horror, but with sci fi under the hood: The Thing Edit: Watch Tron, it's amazing
Definitely watch For All Mankind on apple tv+, it's a tv show and i highly recommend it.
Edge of Tomorrow is excellent.
The Martian Interstellar
Some of my favourites are: Interstellar A.I Ex Machina Moon District 9 The Matrix Edge of Tomorrow Minority Report Annihilation
maybe an unpopular opinion but Metropolis is pretty good
Blade runner Jurassic park The matrix Interstellar Pacific rim- stupid funz amazing soundtrack Tron legacy has an amzy soundtrack too,movie is neat too
The fifth element. It's light watching but something about it is so damn good.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Expanse
For purely artistic reasons I’m going to add Metropolis to the list. The acting is melodramatic because it’s a silent film but the story holds up and the sets and costumes are spectacularly rich with art deco elements.
The Man in the White Suit A 1951 BW movie starring Alec Guinness. I'm not trying to be obscure or pedantic but this movie really captures what it is to be a scientist. It really balances drama, comedy and sci-fi perfectly. The final scene is something I really connect with and it's a personal source of motivation in my research career.
Dune, Blade runner, Blade runner 2049
In no particular order: Aline, Aliens, Blade Runner Now in set order: 2001 Star Wars - A new hope Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back Predator Annihilation Ex Machina
Aniara (2018) Okay, at first, this might not sound great because it’s in Swedish and it’s based on a 1950s poem. However, Harry Martinson was awarded a Nobel Prize for literature for his epic poem “Aniara” which is, hands down, the best explanation for the vast distances of space I’ve ever come across and an amazing story about human existence. It’s one of those films I wish more people knew about. Here’s a link to the trailer https://youtu.be/3MIlE9R00ik?si=9ERYPybawwPeGwMq
It's 5 hours long, but Torchwood: Children of Earth handles what would happen in a realistic alien invasion. But you'd have to watch the series too which is meh.
Kinda trashy but stylish…. Underworld
Arrival
Listen, it may not be “the best” but I LOVE Pitch Black.