Top 10 Most Influential Sci-Fi Movies


10. 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
Story follows the ascent of mankind into the near-future space age through minimalist performances and a strong visual style.

9. Blade Runner, 1982
In the year 2019, ex-detective Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to track down and eliminate a team of humanoid androids that have escaped from an outer space mining colony and have taken refuge here on Earth. During his search for the fugitives, he discovers some disturbing secrets about the future plans of the androids' manufacturer, the Tyrell Corporation.

8. Star Wars
Star Wars is an American epic space opera franchise centered on a film series created by George Lucas.

7. Metropolis, 1927
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist epic science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang. The film was written by Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou, and starred Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel and Rudolf Klein-Rogge.

6. Aliens, 1986
57 years after the original attack, Ripley and a crew of marines return to the planet to kill the remaining aliens that have slaughtered the colonists on the planet.

5. Solaris, 2002
Solaris is a 2002 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney and Natascha McElhone. It is based on the 1961 science fiction novel of the same name by Polish writer Stanislaw Lem.

4. The Fifth Element, 1977
The Fifth Element is a 1997 English-language French science fiction action film directed, co-written, and based on a story by Luc Besson. The film stars Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, and Milla Jovovich.

3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977
Several civilian people are drawn to a remote corner of the United States where aliens land in their spaceship and parley with U.S. officials.

2. Jurassic Park, 1993
In Steven Spielberg's massive blockbuster, paleontologists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) are among a select group chosen to tour an island theme park populated by dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA. While the park's mastermind, billionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), assures everyone that the facility is safe, they find out otherwise when various ferocious predators break free and go on the hunt.

1. Alien, 1979
A ship sent to investigate an SOS distress call encounters an alien that begins to kill the crew members one by one.