Sci-Fi Thrillers, a list by Riz

6.6

/271710/

70

/17676/

66

/8107/

2.9

/336023/

37

/409/

Audience

67

/3937/

43

/53/

2.0

age 14+

In a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.

10

83

7.7

/589059/

77

/30211/

75

/12792/

4.0

/846897/

92

/289/

Audience

86

/74240/

78

/42/

4.0

age 17+

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

67

7.3

/321049/

75

/9567/

70

/4604/

3.8

/187941/

72

/81/

Audience

70

/224884/

52

/20/

2.0

age 17+

Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs".

66

6.8

/509482/

72

/27513/

71

/16405/

3.3

/515986/

65

/172/

Audience

68

/95151/

57

/34/

2.5

age 13+

Set in a post-apocalyptic world, young Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow “runners” for a shot at escape.

86

8.4

/762843/

83

/19322/

79

/9046/

4.2

/420833/

98

/86/

Audience

94

/431177/

84

/22/

3.5

age 15+

When Ripley's lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story—all contact is lost with the planet and colonists. They enlist Ripley and the colonial marines to return and search for answers.

80

7.6

/468764/

76

/20712/

73

/10695/

3.7

/372448/

91

/319/

Audience

88

/205509/

79

/48/

3.5

age 13+

A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.

59

6.3

/163248/

69

/14830/

71

/7416/

3.1

/215268/

43

/172/

Audience

58

/17603/

50

/38/

2.5

age 13+

Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.

77

7.5

/445536/

76

/13717/

72

/6369/

3.8

/345892/

87

/236/

Audience

85

/483129/

73

/39/

3.0

age 18+

Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

82

8.1

/822909/

80

/26756/

79

/13289/

4.1

/865421/

89

/131/

Audience

91

/338977/

84

/15/

3.0

age 16+

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.

85

8.6

/1173724/

85

/24897/

81

/12313/

4.3

/524525/

91

/87/

Audience

95

/750532/

75

/22/

3.5

age 15+

Set ten years after the events of the original, James Cameron’s classic sci-fi action flick tells the story of a second attempt to get the rid of rebellion leader John Connor, this time targeting the boy himself. However, the rebellion has sent a reprogrammed terminator to protect Connor.

74

7.8

/454682/

78

/13637/

75

/7674/

3.8

/315954/

80

/60/

Audience

87

/17050/

47

/17/

3.0

age 16+

A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

84

8.1

/923949/

80

/22306/

77

/12391/

3.9

/506446/

100

/68/

Audience

89

/778168/

84

/21/

age 15+

In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?

76

7.5

/193215/

77

/5988/

73

/2786/

3.7

/86719/

89

/54/

Audience

83

/110428/

62

/14/

age 15+

A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.

71

7.3

/592474/

72

/25087/

71

/9306/

3.4

/1007828/

69

/376/

Audience

76

/5991/

69

/50/

3.0

age 14+

Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

71

6.3

/158167/

60

/5535/

61

/3272/

3.6

/261787/

84

/261/

Audience

55

/37006/

80

/44/

4.0

age 18+

A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

67

6.4

/303868/

67

/24377/

61

/8129/

3.0

/248657/

65

/408/

Audience

55

/64814/

65

/52/

4.0

age 16+

The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world.

7

71

7.2

/267370/

72

/7123/

69

/3556/

3.7

/138154/

76

/169/

Audience

73

/168726/

64

/34/

3.0

age 17+

Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.

64

6.7

/57224/

70

/1929/

66

/878/

3.2

/21904/

67

/36/

Audience

61

/25671/

53

/15/

While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.

54

6.3

/276340/

67

/19615/

67

/9957/

2.9

/241094/

48

/155/

Audience

54

/62694/

43

/29/

1.5

Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD’s vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.

77

7.1

/227047/

73

/12396/

77

/6268/

3.6

/361200/

94

/282/

Audience

74

/3034/

71

/43/

3.5

age 16+

When danger threatens her camp, the fierce and highly skilled Comanche warrior Naru sets out to protect her people. But the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced arsenal.

73

7.0

/450591/

72

/15410/

66

/7549/

3.4

/524601/

92

/294/

Audience

74

/208312/

72

/40/

3.0

age 17+

Five friends go for a break at a remote cabin, where they get more than they bargained for, discovering the truth behind the cabin in the woods.

78

7.6

/283018/

76

/9354/

73

/4794/

3.9

/238278/

92

/86/

Audience

84

/227184/

70

/17/

3.0

age 17+

In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.

62

7.6

/521054/

77

/15066/

75

/7173/

3.4

/294956/

34

/172/

Audience

81

/623782/

30

/35/

2.5

age 18+

A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.

62

6.6

/540575/

68

/17088/

64

/9277/

2.6

/286775/

57

/240/

Audience

61

/1075114/

58

/38/

3.0

age 13+

When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organised under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.

60

6.6

/253789/

69

/21730/

64

/7074/

3.0

/191899/

68

/261/

Audience

54

/1993/

54

/44/

2.0

age 16+

The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.

68

6.9

/679292/

71

/40223/

66

/19878/

3.0

/672579/

71

/360/

Audience

78

/227607/

59

/49/

3.0

age 13+

Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond.

55

6.6

/197114/

69

/7056/

65

/2644/

3.3

/129559/

34

/91/

Audience

61

/68346/

35

/20/

2.0

age 17+

In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.

59

6.5

/475940/

68

/14484/

65

/7748/

2.9

/221443/

45

/219/

Audience

50

/32749429/

47

/38/

3.0

age 14+

After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also shepherding to safety his son, trapped in New York after the city is overwhelmed by the start of the new big freeze.

56

6.7

/450700/

72

/12832/

68

/7583/

3.0

/164444/

43

/177/

Audience

73

/910082/

42

/23/

1.0

age 13+

When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.

65

7.0

/719232/

71

/29315/

68

/14871/

3.1

/505117/

67

/282/

Audience

72

/305991/

63

/46/

2.0

age 15+

Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

74

7.6

/558737/

76

/19662/

72

/11163/

3.6

/404180/

82

/272/

Audience

77

/449976/

68

/39/

3.0

age 13+

A highly intelligent chimpanzee named Caesar has been living a peaceful suburban life ever since he was born. But when he gets taken to a cruel primate facility, Caesar decides to revolt against those who have harmed him.

80

7.6

/193649/

75

/6344/

74

/3452/

3.9

/136215/

93

/58/

Audience

86

/84817/

77

/15/

3.5

Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.

58

6.7

/446219/

71

/17083/

69

/10951/

2.9

/249006/

37

/177/

Audience

51

/69922/

53

/36/

age 14+

In the not-too-distant future, the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who comes into a fortune of time is too late to help his mother from dying. He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as the "time keepers".

74

7.4

/575968/

74

/17648/

70

/9707/

3.4

/312421/

85

/248/

Audience

85

/978241/

68

/37/

3.0

age 12+

Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses—Magneto and Mystique—to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.

10

77

8.2

/1179101/

82

/29863/

79

/14016/

3.8

/557849/

73

/258/

Audience

90

/905195/

62

/39/

3.0

age 18+

In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.

81

7.6

/584233/

77

/17230/

73

/8345/

3.8

/311060/

89

/260/

Audience

80

/482218/

80

/37/

4.0

age 15+

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.

10

79

7.9

/716697/

77

/19581/

74

/9095/

3.8

/344077/

90

/314/

Audience

82

/1179153/

81

/36/

3.0

age 17+

Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9.

55

6.1

/343757/

68

/24991/

65

/11392/

2.6

/410956/

46

/433/

Audience

48

/31351/

51

/59/

2.0

age 13+

Three years after Jurassic World was destroyed, Isla Nublar now sits abandoned. When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.

76

7.4

/304642/

75

/14016/

74

/6177/

3.6

/137913/

84

/112/

Audience

75

/1458/

69

/28/

3.5

age 16+

Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

85

7.9

/529306/

78

/13470/

76

/6798/

4.3

/450033/

92

/256/

Audience

85

/531653/

84

/38/

4.0

age 17+

In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.

67

7.1

/340250/

71

/9047/

69

/4871/

3.4

/229733/

73

/151/

Audience

65

/199002/

58

/29/

age 16+

After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.

53

6.5

/377228/

66

/11167/

60

/6229/

2.5

/115009/

33

/280/

Audience

53

/885519/

49

/46/

2.0

age 14+

All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend or foe.

61

6.3

/65127/

64

/3513/

67

/991/

3.0

/176563/

82

/119/

Audience

56

/1830/

60

/16/

1.5

age 14+

An exiled anxiety-ridden homebody must battle an alien who's found its way into her home.

79

8.0

/646585/

79

/15333/

76

/7961/

3.9

/266457/

88

/75/

Audience

88

/391686/

75

/20/

3.0

age 17+

In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly, and patient Jeffrey Goines, the son of a famous virus expert, who may hold the key to the mysterious rogue group, the Army of the 12 Monkeys, thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.

9

70

7.2

/813970/

74

/24396/

72

/15137/

3.4

/444062/

68

/215/

Audience

68

/1130704/

65

/37/

3.0

age 14+

Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.

69

7.0

/420584/

69

/12077/

66

/6780/

3.4

/265899/

78

/217/

Audience

68

/420820/

64

/37/

3.0

age 14+

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

53

6.2

/255027/

66

/15700/

63

/9730/

2.4

/186783/

28

/207/

Audience

58

/76858/

42

/40/

2.5

age 14+

Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.

68

6.9

/293731/

70

/8166/

65

/4074/

3.1

/114277/

72

/199/

Audience

66

/638838/