Genre: Sci-Fi
Dune
Directed by David Lynch
Famed producers Dino and Rafaella De Laurentiis took a chance on Lynch directing Dune, after the beloved novel by Frank …
2001: A Space Odyssey
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
The most legendary and widely discussed film of the 1960s, and Kubrick’s most famous work in a string of masterpieces, …
The Karman Line
Directed by Oscar Sharp
When a mother contracts a rare condition, her husband and daughter must console themselves with the thought that she’s bound …
Wyrmwood
Directed by Kiah Roache-Turner
Routine family life comes to an abrupt end for outback mechanic Barry, who, armed with a nail gun, finds little …
Coherence
Directed by James Ward Byrkit
A group of friends and ex-lovers learn why you should not throw a dinner party the night a mysterious comet …
The Congress
Directed by Ari Folman
“Folman’s follow-up to his strikingly rotoscoped Waltz with Bashir is a bold, metaphysical sci-fi satire: a live-action set-up that goes down the …
Record / Play
Directed by Jesse Atlas
War, fate, and a broken Walkman transcend time and space in this sci-fi love story.
The Whispering Star
Directed by Sion Sono
While there have been a number of films produced in Japan as a response the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of …
Contact
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Adapted from the Carl Sagan novel of the same name, Zemeckis’ film is a landmark in the big-budget Hollywood sci-fi …
Starship Troopers
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Ostensibly a huge dumb sci-fi blockbuster starring mid-’90s Hollywood lukewarm up-and-comers, in lesser directorial hands Starship Troopers would have been …
Born in Flames
Directed by Lizzie Borden
Borden’s landmark, low-budget revolutionary treatise addresses a semi-documentary, semi-fictional parallel world to ours, where competing feminist groups wander the streets …
Forbidden Planet
Directed by Fred M. Wilcox
A major landmark in the evolution of cinematic science fiction, Forbidden Planet is credited with a number of pioneering achievements: …