scifi+65, a list by Saleh Badawood

6.5

/9306/

63

/712/

62

/101/

84

/54/

74

71

/20/

age 14+

A small town is forever changed when a mysterious machine appears, promising to reveal everyone's true potential. Soon residents start changing jobs, rethinking relationships, and questioning long-held beliefs—all in pursuit of a better future.

65

62

6.5

/4237/

66

/386/

71

/37/

60

/14/

age 14+

In mythical ancient Greece, a flawed family of humans, gods and monsters tries to run one of the world’s first cities without killing each other.

63

6.5

/10761/

66

/624/

77

/219/

44

/27/

86

40

/13/

age 15+

When a raging wildfire releases a supernatural creature, four young adults find themselves drawn together under a full moon.

75

57

6.5

/1309/

62

/88/

62

/20/

100

/13/

85

78

/5/

age 16+

Restless in her marriage, Slip follows Mae through a surreal journey of parallel universes, married to different people, trying to find a way back to her partner, and ultimately, herself.

66

6.5

/4828/

70

/581/

68

/64/

64

/22/

68

63

/15/

Guy Anatole joins the clandestine world of the Talamasca, an international spy agency for the immortal universe, as he searches for answers to his family's own part in the supernatural world.

67

39

6.6

/1157/

66

/125/

70

/55/

The ISS, the International Space Station has gone silent. The crew is in distress. Simultaneously, a decapitated and waxed body is found on a roof in Kazakhstan. Positive identification leaves no room for doubt: the body belongs to an American astronaut currently on a mission on the ISS. A French astronaut, dismissed from the space program, and a Kazakh cop, disowned by his ranking hierarchy, set out to solve this mysterious paradox.

63

6.6

/7495/

63

/610/

70

/108/

3.2

/815/

58

/33/

59

63

/20/

age 14+

Set in three distinct points in time, follow a class of FBI agents who grapple with immense changes as the U.S. criminal justice system is altered by artificial intelligence.

66

53

6.7

/3006/

68

/212/

65

/47/

age 13+

Neve Kelly is dead. She is stuck in limbo and must find out who killed her. This adaptation of the mystery series Beau Séjour impresses on account of its young cast and the breath-taking landscapes of England’s Lake District.

64

62

6.7

/5593/

68

/280/

67

/76/

3.2

/443/

73

/15/

57

56

/4/

A small fictional village in England is completely subdued by an alien presence for an entire day. Upon waking, it is discovered that numerous women in the town are pregnant.

66

6.7

/21600/

66

/1580/

70

/329/

72

/53/

62

63

/23/

age 11+

When a fatal accident occurs on board the International Space Station, a lone astronaut makes the heroic journey back to Earth, only to discover key pieces of her life—including her young daughter—have changed.

66

6.7

/9699/

70

/1518/

76

/127/

64

/25/

70

52

/16/

age 15+

When 14 year old genius Luke Ellis is kidnapped, he awakens at The Institute, a facility full of children who all got there the same way he did, and who are all possessed of unusual abilities. In a nearby town, haunted former police officer Tim Jamieson has come looking to start a new life, but the peace and quiet won’t last, as his story and Luke’s are destined to collide.

74

73

6.7

/6130/

65

/369/

69

/55/

90

/20/

85

71

/8/

age 14+

On one miraculous day in rural Wisconsin, the recently deceased suddenly rise from their graves. But this is no zombie story, as the 'revived' appear and act just like they once were. When local officer and single mother Dana Cypress is unexpectedly thrown into the center of a brutal murder mystery of her own, she's left to make sense of the chaos amidst a town gripped by fear and confusion where everyone, alive or undead, is a suspect.

69

6.8

/5611/

69

/616/

67

/78/

79

/14/

69

65

/13/

age 13+

The origin story of the iconic Captain Nemo: an Indian Prince robbed of his birthright and family, a prisoner of the East India Mercantile Company and a man bent on revenge against the forces that have taken everything from him.

78

58

6.9

/1054/

63

/113/

82

/33/

100

/28/

78

/9/

age 8+

Set in 1920s Shanghai, ten-year-old Sam and 12-year-old Elle return the Mogwai Gizmo back home to the lush and perilous Valley of Jade.

67

43

6.9

/2185/

63

/175/

70

/29/

age 13+

After taking a one-way trip to the Red Planet, graphic designer Jeff Cooper finds himself adrift when his bosses unceremoniously eliminate his role.

70

33

6.9

/1204/

64

/72/

78

/28/

age 14+

After discovering they are dragon-marked and cursed to serve the evil Dragon King, adversarial werewolf twins must trust each other to save themselves, their Supernatural Academy and the world.

60

20

6.9

/2416/

61

/28/

52

/6/

age 13+

A shy teen wants desperately to fit in and enjoy his high school years if only his dead best friend and a posse of rotting ghouls would stop sabotaging him at every turn.

76

7.0

/31746/

68

/1777/

69

/251/

3.5

/16957/

89

/61/

88

73

/33/

age 13+

Gen Z amateur sleuth and tech-savvy hacker Darby Hart and eight other guests are invited by a reclusive billionaire to participate in a retreat at a remote location. When one of the other guests is found dead, Darby must use her skills to prove it was murder before the killer takes another life.

71

7.0

/7419/

69

/380/

74

/67/

71

/24/

86

61

/19/

age 16+

A dysfunctional family moves from the city to a small town into a house in which terrible atrocities have taken place. But no one seems to notice except for Patricia “Pat” Phelps, who’s convinced she’s either depressed or possessed – turns out, the symptoms are exactly the same.

67

66

7.0

/5692/

69

/342/

64

/67/

69

/26/

75

59

/15/

In the post-pandemic world of 2024 during an upcoming British general election involving the UK’s first Black Conservative prime minister, a leading team of analysts at the heart of the UK’s NSA-style spy agency GCHQ attempt to ward off a cyber-attack on the country’s electoral system.

75

7.0

/51989/

71

/3300/

77

/957/

87

/82/

77

68

/26/

age 14+

After surviving Godzilla's attack on San Francisco, Cate is shaken yet again by a shocking secret. Amid monstrous threats, she embarks on a globetrotting adventure to learn the truth about her family—and the mysterious organization known as Monarch.

69

34

7.0

/1063/

66

/123/

73

/27/

3.7

/2652/

When a project to build a thousand flats in Oslo is put out to tender, architect Julie has an idea: why not convert empty underground car parks into residential buildings? A pitch-black, keenly observed satire about an all-too-near future.

70

64

7.1

/4226/

71

/207/

73

/56/

62

/13/

78

65

/8/

age 13+

As a psychic, Maggie regularly sees the future of her friends, parents, clients and random strangers on the street, but when she suddenly sees a glimpse of her own future, she is forced to start living in her own present.

77

7.1

/95737/

74

/5502/

73

/873/

94

/121/

65

85

/41/

age 15+

When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, Wendy and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat.

71

26

7.1

/1087/

71

/48/

73

/21/

age 10+

The series follows a group of kids at an adventure camp who discover a strange artefact, while also drawn to the fate of four children who mysteriously disappeared twenty years ago.

74

34

7.1

/1282/

70

/59/

83

/27/

3.4

/813/

Reincarnated as a minor character in a novel, Cha Seon-taek unexpectedly spends a night with Prince Kyungsung, sparking an intense and unexpected romance.

79

69

7.2

/2222/

66

/226/

73

/50/

3.6

/1421/

100

/8/

87

age 12+

An evil force is looming across the dark, thick-aired streets of industrial revolution London when a group of heroes dubbed Unicorn are accidentally reawakened in the bodies of teenagers instead of adult hosts they’ve embodied in the past.

75

7.2

/11347/

72

/841/

74

/192/

3.5

/461/

87

/30/

78

68

/16/

age 15+

An extraterrestrial alien arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future.

75

56

7.2

/2628/

72

/165/

82

/88/

3.0

/4315/

Hae-na who is bound to inherit her family curse which is turning into a dog after getting her first kiss. The only way to break the curse is to get a second kiss. The problem is the guy who gave Hae-na her first kiss is afraid of dogs.

69

65

IMDb 30

7.2

/3950/

71

/254/

62

/53/

70

/23/

82

61

/8/

age 13+

When an analyst discovers his eyes and ears have been hacked, he's drawn into a controlled world designed by his agency to draw out their enemies.

68

7.3

/64495/

73

/3497/

72

/514/

65

/77/

64

64

/34/

age 16+

Ten thousand years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, sisters Valya and Tula Harkonnen establish the fabled sect and female order that would become known as the Bene Gesserit to control the future of humankind.

72

7.3

/12203/

73

/756/

71

/144/

79

/36/

91

69

/11/

RogerEbert

2.0

age 14+

Gary is an emotional wreck and struggles to provide for his daughter since the death of his wife. Mary has a secret she can't bring herself to share with anyone. The universe brought these two together for a reason.

77

7.3

/14800/

73

/1162/

68

/165/

4.0

/3602/

92

/60/

81

78

/23/

age 15+

Sister Simone partners with her ex-boyfriend on a globe-spanning journey to destroy Mrs. Davis, a powerful artificial intelligence.

73

60

7.3

/3246/

71

/223/

75

/74/

3.3

/5622/

A woman who can't trust people because of her ability to hear lies and a mystic composer who hid his indescribable identity, become involved in each other's lives to uncover the truth.

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76

25

7.3

/1039/

75

/61/

80

/16/

3.6

/2485/

No Mu-jin is a labor attorney who happens to see ghosts. After coming back from the brink of death, he begins solving labor problems requested by ghosts.

69

64

7.4

/4991/

66

/201/

64

/39/

62

/34/

88

64

/21/

age 15+

A young aspiring writer discovers secrets about her family's past when she finds herself mysteriously being pulled back and forth in time to a 19th century plantation.

78

7.4

/36027/

74

/3874/

73

/369/

95

/80/

82

71

/29/

age 14+

In a high-tech future, a rogue security robot secretly gains free will. To stay hidden, it reluctantly joins a new mission protecting scientists on a dangerous planet... even though it just wants to binge soap operas.

81

7.5

/41453/

74

/2403/

70

/382/

4.2

/26712/

98

/57/

75

81

/27/

RogerEbert

4.0

age 14+

The survivors of a devastating flu attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew – while holding on to the best of what’s been lost.

72

71

7.5

/6527/

72

/386/

71

/104/

68

/31/

85

63

/18/

age 15+

Mark and his 12-year-old daughter’s lives were changed forever 10 years earlier when she was turned into a vampire. Locked in at age 12, perhaps forever, Eleanor lives a closed-in life, able to go out only at night, while her father does his best to provide her with the minimal amount of human blood she needs to stay alive.

72

44

7.5

/1832/

71

/116/

70

/44/

3.4

/1719/

Would you trade your poor but loving family for a life of riches? When Seung Cheon gets his hands on a magical spoon that allows him to switch lives with his rich best friend, he thinks it’s a no-brainer. But life-altering decisions are always accompanied by a sense of doubt, and with only three chances to change his mind, Seung Cheon has to decide which of his two possible futures is worth keeping.

73

46

7.5

/2127/

71

/129/

74

/33/

3.4

/1811/

A woman travels from 19th century Joseon to modern-day Seoul, her fate takes a twist with a ‘fake marriage’ with a man who resembles her ex-husband.

74

58

7.5

/2342/

73

/239/

74

/89/

age 8+

Forced to flee her underground sanctuary for Earth’s surface, Eva discovers a world unlike anything she expected. As she journeys across perilous terrain and unknown civilizations, Eva searches to answer the ultimate question: Is she the last human?

76

7.6

/71278/

76

/4047/

78

/570/

82

/60/

80

64

/22/

age 14+

Jason Dessen is abducted into an alternate version of his life. To get back to his true family, he embarks on a harrowing journey to save them from the most terrifying foe imaginable: himself.

82

7.7

/8921/

75

/740/

81

/193/

100

/32/

80

80

/8/

age 8+

Twenty-somethings Clark Kent, the bright and driven Lois Lane, and their best friend Jimmy Olsen begin to discover who they are and everything they can accomplish together as an investigative reporting team at the Daily Planet.

76

7.7

/46731/

74

/2294/

80

/627/

3.8

/20191/

88

/30/

76

61

/13/

age 16+

Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead... And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they've ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive – or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?

80

7.7

/16398/

77

/936/

77

/211/

91

/24/

92

69

/8/

age 14+

Maddie, a teen stuck in the afterlife investigating her own mysterious disappearance, goes on a crime-solving journey as she adjusts to high school purgatory, but the closer she gets to discovering the truth, the more secrets and lies she uncovers.

79

IMDb 62

7.8

/163346/

79

/8832/

82

/2308/

96

/53/

80

63

/11/

age 16+

Unravel the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest – including the terrifying creatures that come out when the sun goes down.

79

7.8

/26312/

75

/1381/

77

/277/

95

/40/

78