Genre: Science Fiction
Science fiction asks what if and follows the answer — technology, the future, and the unknown, used to test what it means to be human under new conditions.
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When Worlds Collide (1951)
When Worlds Collide is the early-Cold War apocalypse film that established the planetary-impact template for the next seventy-five years. Rudolph Maté... -
Under the Skin (2013)
Under the Skin is one of the most uncompromising science fiction films of the 2010s and one of the most divisive. Jonathan Glazer directed. Walter... -
Men in Black (1997)
Men in Black is one of the most commercially successful and structurally efficient science fiction comedies of the 1990s. Barry Sonnenfeld directed. Ed... -
Independence Day (1996)
Independence Day is the alien invasion film that defined what summer blockbusters could be in the late 1990s. Roland Emmerich directed. Dean Devlin... -
Barbarella (1968)
Barbarella is the late-1960s French-Italian science fiction sex comedy that became a cult artifact more for its visual identity than for its plot. Roger... -
Demolition Man (1993)
Demolition Man is one of the funniest action films of the early 1990s and one of the most accidentally prescient. Marco Brambilla directed in his feature... -
Them! (1954)
Them! is the foundational atomic-age giant-insect film and one of the best science fiction films of the 1950s. Gordon Douglas directed. Ted Sherdeman... -
Snowpiercer (2013)
Snowpiercer is Bong Joon-ho's English-language directorial debut and one of the foundational dystopian films of the 2010s. Bong directed and co-wrote with... -
Escape from New York (1981)
Escape from New York is John Carpenter's dystopian action film and one of the foundational works of 1980s post-apocalyptic cinema. Carpenter directed and... -
The War of the Worlds (1953 and 2005)
The War of the Worlds has been adapted to film twice as a major studio production. Byron Haskin directed the 1953 version. Steven Spielberg directed the...