Sci-Fi

12 films

Metropolis

Sci-Fi1920s

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

Sci-Fi1960s

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

Sci-Fi1970s

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

Sci-Fi1970s

A farm boy, a princess, a smuggler, and a Death Star. Lucas recycled serials, Kurosawa, and myth into one of the highest grossing ...

Alien

Sci-Fi1970s

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

Sci-Fi1980s

The middle chapter that darkened the myth: Hoth, Dagobah, Bespin, and a revelation that broke moviegoing brains in 1980. Leigh Bra...

Blade Runner

Sci-Fi1980s

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

Sci-Fi1980s

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

Sci-Fi1980s

A cyborg assassin and a soldier chase a waitress through 1984 Los Angeles, and the future refuses to stay fixed. Cameron sold the ...

Aliens

Sci-Fi1980s

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

Sci-Fi1990s

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

Sci-Fi1990s

A hacker learns reality is a simulation, and leather, bullets, and bullet time ensue. The Wachowskis fused anime, Hong Kong action...