This list spans every corner of the Sci-Fi genre, from intimate indies to space-faring epics. All they have in common is their infinite imagination.
HIGHLIGHTS
- There is Steven Spielberg's 5 & James Cameron's 5 films on list.
1
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 · Stanley Kubrick
2
Blade Runner
1982 · Ridley Scott
3
Alien
1979 · Ridley Scott
4
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 · Steven Spielberg
5
Aliens
1986 · James Cameron
6
Star Wars
1977 · George Lucas
7
Brazil
1985 · Terry Gilliam
8
Metropolis
1927 · Fritz Lang
9
The Terminator
1984 · James Cameron
10
The Empire Strikes Back
1980 · Irvin Kershner
11
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982 · Steven Spielberg
12
The Thing
1982 · John Carpenter
13
The Matrix
1999 · Lana Wachowski Lilly Wachowski
14
Moon
2009 · Duncan Jones
15
Stalker Сталкер
1979 · Andrei Tarkovsky
16
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991 · James Cameron
17
Solaris Солярис
1972 · Andrei Tarkovsky
18
Children of Men
2006 · Alfonso Cuarón
19
The Fly
1986 · David Cronenberg
20
Forbidden Planet
1956 · Fred M. Wilcox
21
Back to the Future
1985 · Robert Zemeckis
22
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004 · Michel Gondry
23
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001 · Steven Spielberg
24
Twelve Monkeys
1995 · Terry Gilliam
25
RoboCop
1987 · Paul Verhoeven
26
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 · Don Siegel
27
A Clockwork Orange
1971 · Stanley Kubrick
28
La Jetée
1962 · Chris Marker
29
Planet of the Apes
1968 · Franklin J. Schaffner
30
Jurassic Park
1993 · Steven Spielberg
31
The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951 · Robert Wise
32
Gattaca
1997 · Andrew Niccol
33
Silent Running
1972 · Douglas Trumbull
34
Galaxy Quest
1999 · Dean Parisot
35
The Man Who Fell to Earth
1976 · Nicolas Roeg
36
Inception
2010 · Christopher Nolan
37
Primer
2004 · Shane Carruth
38
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978 · Philip Kaufman
39
Dark Star
1974 · John Carpenter
40
WALL·E
2008 · Andrew Stanton
41
They Live
1988 · John Carpenter
42
The Fifth Element
1997 · Luc Besson
43
Total Recall
1990 · Paul Verhoeven
44
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
1982 · Nicholas Meyer
45
District 9
2009 · Neill Blomkamp
46
Her
2013 · Spike Jonze
47
Contact
1997 · Robert Zemeckis
48
Ghostbusters
1984 · Ivan Reitman
49
Starship Troopers
1997 · Paul Verhoeven
50
Under the Skin
2013 · Jonathan Glazer
51
Fantastic Planet La Planète sauvage
1973 · René Laloux
52
Predator
1987 · John McTiernan
53
Akira アキラ
1988 · Katsuhiro Otomo Takashi Nakamura
54
Soylent Green
1973 · Richard Fleischer
55
Repo Man
1984 · Alex Cox
56
The Time Machine
1960 · George Pal
57
Dune
1984 · David Lynch
58
Donnie Darko
2001 · Richard Kelly
59
Gravity
2013 · Alfonso Cuarón
60
Quatermass and the Pit
1967 · Roy Ward Baker
61
Mad Max 2
1981 · George Miller
62
Dark City
1998 · Alex Proyas
63
Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
1968 · Alain Resnais
64
Sleeper
1973 · Woody Allen
65
The War of the Worlds
1953 · Byron Haskin
66
The Abyss
1989 · James Cameron
67
The Thing from Another World
1951 · Christian Nyby Howard Hawks
68
Westworld
1973 · Michael Crichton
69
Logan's Run
1976 · Michael Anderson
70
Iron Man
2008 · Jon Favreau
71
The Prestige
2006 · Christopher Nolan
72
Seconds
1966 · John Frankenheimer
73
The American Astronaut
2001 · Cory McAbee
74
Flash Gordon
1980 · Mike Hodges
75
Return of the Jedi
1983 · Richard Marquand
76
The Truman Show
1998 · Peter Weir
77
Avatar
2009 · James Cameron
78
World on a Wire Welt am Draht
1973 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
79
Ghost in the Shell
1995 · Mamoru Oshii
80
Star Trek
2009 · J.J. Abrams
81
The Iron Giant
1999 · Brad Bird
82
Pacific Rim
2013 · Guillermo del Toro
83
Things to Come
1936 · William Cameron Menzies
84
Frankenstein
1931 · James Whale
85
The Andromeda Strain
1971 · Robert Wise
86
Barbarella
1968 · Roger Vadim
87
The Damned
1963 · Joseph Losey
88
Minority Report
2002 · Steven Spielberg
89
Fantastic Voyage
1966 · Richard Fleischer
90
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984 · W.D. Richter
91
Attack the Block
2011 · Joe Cornish
92
Solaris
2002 · Steven Soderbergh
93
THX 1138
1971 · George Lucas
94
Alphaville Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
1965 · Jean-Luc Godard
95
Serenity
2005 · Joss Whedon
96
Pitch Black
2000 · David Twohy
97
Superman
1978 · Richard Donner
98
2010
1984 · Peter Hyams
99
Three Colors: Red Trois couleurs : Rouge
1994 · Krzysztof Kieślowski
100
Independence Day
1996 · Roland Emmerich