SciFi, a list by Adam Osborne

6.5

/563439/

66

/22027/

62

/11008/

2.5

/556106/

37

/255/

58

/41380/

40

/39/

age 13+

After seeking to live a normal life, Logan sets out to avenge the death of his girlfriend by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine.

71

7.0

/67039/

72

/2707/

69

/1137/

3.5

/24511/

87

/137/

75

/1125/

67

/33/

2.5

age 13+

Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. His grown children are concerned about their father’s well-being and buy him a caretaker robot. Initially resistant to the idea, Frank soon appreciates the benefits of robotic support – like nutritious meals and a clean house – and eventually begins to treat his robot like a true companion. With his robot’s assistance, Frank’s passion for his old, unlawful profession is reignited, for better or worse.

67

6.7

/158155/

71

/13641/

76

/3311/

2.9

/419165/

62

/149/

74

/1212/

57

/29/

3.0

age 14+

Two highly trained operatives grow close from a distance after being sent to guard opposite sides of a mysterious gorge. When an evil below emerges, they must work together to survive what lies within.

55

5.7

/225064/

63

/18076/

63

/8034/

2.4

/459698/

47

/311/

44

/2372/

46

/46/

3.0

age 14+

A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.

45

5.3

/200637/

59

/14121/

55

/6970/

2.0

/139861/

27

/273/

38

/3829/

40

/40/

2.0

age 13+

In a universe where human genetic material is the most precious commodity, an impoverished young Earth woman becomes the key to strategic maneuvers and internal strife within a powerful dynasty…

59

5.5

/47198/

56

/2605/

56

/1226/

2.9

/60385/

60

/224/

38

/510/

65

/36/

3.5

age 18+

Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.

51

5.7

/11645/

61

/1857/

62

/214/

2.8

/10132/

38

/61/

64

/52/

52

/15/

1.0

age 15+

An elite trio of astronauts aboard a years-long, possibly compromised mission to Saturn's moon Titan, gears up for a highly dangerous slingshot manoeuvre that will either catapult them to Titan or into deep space.

54

6.2

/76880/

67

/2370/

61

/1192/

2.8

/27428/

30

/46/

63

/1810/

50

/22/

2.0

age 13+

Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.

48

5.5

/61490/

59

/2225/

54

/991/

2.6

/58730/

40

/30/

38

/2733/

49

/20/

1.5

age 12+

A pair of aliens arrive on Earth to prepare for invasion, but crash instead. With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don't exactly blend in with the population of Paramus, N.J. But for some reason, everyone believes them when they say they're from France.

83

8.1

/914336/

80

/66176/

78

/20044/

4.1

/1351295/

93

/428/

91

/7189/

77

/51/

3.5

age 16+

In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.

62

6.6

/557977/

65

/25479/

62

/12420/

2.5

/748431/

68

/238/

69

/35204/

61

/38/

2.5

age 14+

Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civilization, he finds himself coming face to face with a new, deadly foe.

54

6.2

/289464/

64

/10983/

61

/5378/

2.6

/283594/

56

/163/

39

/7351/

62

/21/

1.5

age 17+

Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.

54

6.0

/82551/

60

/2524/

58

/1325/

2.6

/61738/

56

/86/

44

/6519/

53

/14/

age 18+

A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.

59

6.0

/14847/

60

/464/

58

/247/

3.1

/3682/

68

/57/

54

/1074/

57

/17/

A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.

55

5.7

/14704/

59

/1129/

58

/300/

2.6

/35448/

58

/33/

60

/77/

50

/13/

2.0

age 15+

A wildly inventive deconstruction of the romantic comedy built around the question: What would you do if you could travel to your loved ones’ past, heal their traumas, fix their problems, and change them into the perfect partner?

56

5.8

/24910/

61

/1868/

59

/574/

2.9

/53859/

67

/120/

47

/124/

52

/22/

2.0

age 16+

Nell, Simon, and their boy Art are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfect Christmas gathering. Perfect except for one thing: everyone is going to die.

58

5.7

/60042/

59

/4209/

59

/2000/

2.5

/129889/

64

/208/

57

/1065/

48

/35/

3.0

age 16+

Karen, a single mother, gifts her son Andy a Buddi doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature. A contemporary re-imagining of the 1988 horror classic.

68

6.7

/28425/

68

/989/

67

/549/

3.5

/39660/

74

/23/

70

/800/

62

/8/

In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.

41

5.4

/55155/

60

/4347/

60

/1644/

2.2

/97928/

30

/37/

25

/157/

25

/4/

1.5

age 14+

With the world under attack by deadly creatures who hunt by sound, a teen and her family seek refuge outside the city and encounter a mysterious cult.

41

5.1

/22050/

59

/2356/

56

/560/

2.1

/192504/

26

/34/

33

/213/

36

/9/

1.0

age 15+

A teen in 2024 accidentally time-travels to 2003, days before a masked killer murders her sister. Can she change the past without destroying the future?

42

5.3

/62529/

64

/6800/

60

/1397/

1.9

/75899/

16

/119/

47

/1142/

35

/28/

1.0

age 14+

The rebels gear up for battle against the ruthless forces of the Motherworld as unbreakable bonds are forged, heroes emerge — and legends are made.

52

6.2

/81110/

65

/2349/

64

/1354/

2.9

/12531/

37

/62/

45

/2072/

40

/11/

2.0

age 16+

During the reign of the Vikings, a man from another world crash-lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator. The man must fuse his advanced technology with the weaponry of the vikings to fight the monster.

47

5.3

/78940/

58

/3006/

54

/1390/

2.5

/77612/

27

/189/

32

/7810/

32

/32/

3.0

age 14+

On his latest expedition, has-been scientist Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into a space-time vortex alongside his crack-smart research assistant Holly and redneck survivalist Will into a world populated by marauding dinosaurs and painfully slow creatures called Sleestaks. With no weapons, few skills and questionable smarts, the trio must rely on their only ally, a primate named Chaka, to try to survive long enough to figure out a way back home.

53

5.6

/24490/

62

/1566/

60

/712/

2.6

/10887/

67

/15/

43

/253/

37

/7/

At an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.

76

7.4

/189637/

76

/7509/

71

/2423/

3.7

/154819/

90

/132/

79

/7307/

70

/28/

3.0

age 10+

For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector — Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Doctor Lazarus — set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space ... until their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director, and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.

55

6.3

/237949/

68

/27946/

61

/8393/

2.6

/197668/

43

/298/

51

/2603/

52

/42/

2.0

age 14+

In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

78

8.2

/518090/

81

/15609/

80

/7636/

4.3

/1151259/

85

/92/

92

/9671/

57

/13/

2.5

age 17+

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

46

5.2

/37509/

56

/2833/

52

/1135/

2.6

/43246/

45

/100/

30

/286/

62

/25/

1.0

age 17+

After being exiled to a fenced-off wasteland, Arlen is kidnapped by a group of cannibals and goes on a journey to reunite a missing girl with her father.

63

6.7

/650864/

70

/39784/

68

/16441/

2.6

/1501644/

79

/547/

45

/35103/

64

/56/

2.5

age 10+

The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

53

6.3

/199162/

64

/7420/

63

/3646/

2.9

/169915/

36

/118/

44

/4842/

46

/19/

2.0

age 16+

A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.

55

5.6

/13328/

62

/1001/

62

/573/

2.4

/11105/

38

/40/

63

/93/

38

/8/

3.0

age 16+

A group of World War II American soldiers encounter a supernatural enemy as they occupy a French castle previously under Nazi control.

53

5.7

/65763/

62

/3367/

58

/1774/

2.4

/56543/

41

/153/

44

/7013/

52

/28/

2.5

age 8+

A taxi driver gets more than he bargained for when he picks up two teen runaways. Not only does the pair possess supernatural powers, but they're also trying desperately to escape people who have made them their targets.

58

57

5.8

/10354/

64

/1099/

66

/475/

2.5

/8342/

52

/46/

Stillman, a heartbroken physics student, builds a time machine when his girlfriend breaks up with him. Going back in time, he attempts to save their relationship by fixing every mistake he made—while dragging his best friend along in the process.

60

7.1

/123881/

71

/3096/

68

/1618/

3.3

/33799/

44

/160/

73

/3407/

44

/35/

2.0

age 17+

A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.

65

6.8

/54330/

72

/1853/

69

/1026/

3.4

/20539/

61

/28/

68

/832/

59

/9/

2.5

A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.

66

7.1

/859548/

70

/34015/

66

/15859/

3.0

/858822/

57

/341/

75

/27130/

55

/47/

3.0

age 12+

A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.

39

5.5

/100520/

59

/3667/

56

/2197/

2.3

/20794/

7

/102/

26

/5749/

26

/15/

age 15+

A veteran-turned-mercenary is hired to take a young woman with a secret from post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to New York City.

43

5.6

/154313/

64

/17638/

58

/5401/

2.1

/106992/

16

/278/

44

/2173/

34

/46/

1.5

age 14+

A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.

64

6.4

/29191/

66

/797/

62

/464/

3.3

/17173/

79

/24/

64

/764/

61

/9/

2.0

A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go more awry when he falls in love with a talking brain.

79

7.8

/220772/

78

/5431/

76

/3563/

4.1

/250950/

98

/62/

90

/7405/

84

/18/

2.0

age 17+

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

64

6.5

/14619/

66

/757/

62

/250/

3.0

/8583/

69

/16/

62

/447/

When implanted in a person's wrist, a TiMER counts down to the day the wearer finds true love. But Oona O'Leary faces the rare dilemma of a blank TiMER. Her soul mate - whoever and wherever he is - has yet to have a TiMER implanted. Staring down the barrel of thirty and tired of waiting for her would-be life partner to get off the dime, Oona breaks her own rules and falls for Mikey, a charming and inappropriately young supermarket clerk with a countdown of four months.

64

6.9

/404535/

70

/24751/

65

/9061/

2.9

/774388/

69

/486/

63

/11352/

62

/54/

2.5

age 10+

Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.

60

6.4

/101460/

69

/5255/

64

/1851/

3.2

/70671/

51

/59/

42

/3049/

50

/17/

3.0

age 8+

When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.

38

5.0

/44486/

57

/3346/

52

/985/

2.1

/33991/

14

/107/

26

/767/

29

/31/

1.5

age 18+

After their first adventure with the Hot Tub Time Machine, Lou and Nick are living very well off their ill-gotten gains, while Jacob still cannot rely on Lou to be a positive role model. When an unknown assailant breaks into Lou's mansion and shoots him, Nick and Jacob take him for another trip in the hot tub. They emerge in the year 2025, where they must figure out who shot Lou and prevent it from happening again.

63

IMDb 100

6.8

/383349/

71

/19585/

65

/7692/

3.3

/451841/

51

/252/

64

/17600/

49

/40/

3.0

age 10+

Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy and daring son of Kevin Flynn, investigates his father's disappearance and is pulled into The Grid. With the help of a mysterious program named Quorra, Sam quests to stop evil dictator Clu from crossing into the real world.

60

6.6

/263361/

70

/16755/

65

/6090/

2.8

/160751/

63

/224/

65

/5434/

51

/39/

2.0

age 12+

Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.

61

6.6

/187349/

69

/6160/

65

/2686/

3.2

/154234/

59

/124/

61

/3074/

45

/12/

2.5

age 16+

By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.

58

6.1

/199167/

67

/16805/

65

/7360/

2.4

/204079/

51

/282/

71

/1877/

45

/46/