Sci-Fi
12 films
Metropolis
A towering city of the future divided between planners above and workers below. Lang imagery, the robot Maria and the machine made...
2001: A Space Odyssey
Apes, monoliths, HAL 9000, and a star child. Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke built the most rigorous science fiction film: real space...
A Clockwork Orange
Malcolm McDowell as Alex, a Beethoven loving hoodlum, is conditioned by the state out of choosing evil, and the cure becomes its o...
Star Wars
A farm boy, a princess, a smuggler, and a Death Star. Lucas recycled serials, Kurosawa, and myth into one of the highest grossing ...
Alien
In space no one can hear you scream, and a towing crew meets a perfect organism. The H.R. Giger biomechanical design, the chestbur...
The Empire Strikes Back
The middle chapter that darkened the myth: Hoth, Dagobah, Bespin, and a revelation that broke moviegoing brains in 1980. Leigh Bra...
Blade Runner
Replicants, rain, neon, and a detective who might be what he hunts. Scott layered dystopia so densely that five cuts exist and fan...
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
A boy hides a stranded alien in his closet and flies across the moon on a bicycle. The most personal Spielberg: divorce, suburbia,...
The Terminator
A cyborg assassin and a soldier chase a waitress through 1984 Los Angeles, and the future refuses to stay fixed. Cameron sold the ...
Aliens
Ripley returns with colonial marines to the colony, and the haunted house becomes a war movie. Cameron rewrote her as an action le...
Terminator 2 Judgment Day
The T-800 returns as protector, a liquid metal T-1000 pursues, and CGI became liquid too. The ILM morphing work changed effects hi...
The Matrix
A hacker learns reality is a simulation, and leather, bullets, and bullet time ensue. The Wachowskis fused anime, Hong Kong action...