Genre: Sci-Fi
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, …
Accumulator 1
Directed by Jan Svěrák
Recently restored, Svěrák’s wild, prescient comedy remains one of the most popular films in Czech cinema history. Olda (Petr Forman), …
Akira
Directed by Katsuhiro Ohtomo
Ohtomo’s influential work reinvigorated Western interest in Japanese anime and still feels cutting-edge to this day. Adapting the voluminous cyberpunk …
Alien
Directed by Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror masterpiece follows the crew of the commercial spacecraft Nostromo when, on their return journey to Earth, …
Altered States
Directed by Ken Russell
Based on the novel by Paddy Chayefsky, William Hurt stars as Edward Jessup, a psychologist who begins dabbling into research …
April and the Extraordinary World
Directed by Christian Desmares, Frank Ekinci
1941. Napoléon V is the ruler of an alternative France, and without modern technology, the world runs on coal and …
Attack the Block
Directed by Joe Cornish
Eschewing the tired military defensive strategies of Hollywood alien invasion films like Independence Day and Battle: Los Angeles, Joe Cornish …
Before We Vanish
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
In Kurosawa's patiently post-modern riff on The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a trio of extraterrestrials that have assumed human …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …