*THE TOP 100 SCI-FI FILMS EVER!!*

The most fun and most interesting genre of movies is and will always be, Science Fiction. This genre has brought us films that dazzled are our eyes and our minds and made us dream of the future to come. Sci-fi has also produced movies that became classics right away and that will stick with us for the rest of our lives. It's no doubt that 2 movies being released this year, Prometheus and Looper, would make this list no problem. But this is *only* for Sci-Fi movies that have already been released.

THE TOP 100 SCI-FI FILMS...EVER!

#100  The 6th Day (2000)

Plot Summary:  A man meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world.

#99  The Lawnmower Man (1992)

Plot Summary: A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.

#98  Battle: Los Angeles (2011)

Plot Summary: A Marine Staff Sergeant who has just had his retirement approved goes back into the line of duty in order to assist a 2nd Lieutenant and his platoon as they fight to reclaim the city of Los Angeles from alien invaders.

#97  The Blob (1988)

Plot Summary: A strange lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.



#96  TimeCop (1994)

Plot Summary: An officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.

#95  The Road (2010)

Plot Summary: A post-apocalyptic tale of a man and his son trying to survive by any means possible.

#94  Critters 2: The Main Course (1988)

Plot Summary: A batch of unhatched critter eggs are mistaken for Easter eggs by the country-folk inhabitants of Grover's Bend and, before long, the ferocious furballs are on the rampage again.

#93  Virus  (1999)

Plot Summary: When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.

#92  Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

Plot Summary: Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.



#91  Doom (2005)

Plot Summary: Space Marines are sent to investigate strange events at a research facility on Mars but find themselves at the mercy of genetically enhanced killing machines.

#90  The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

Plot Summary: The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.

#89  Tron: Legacy (2010)

Plot Summary: The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's creation turned bad and a unique ally who was born inside the digital domain of The Grid.

#88  Splice (2009)

Plot Summary: Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by successfully splicing together the DNA of different animals to create new hybrid animals for medical use.

#87  Gattaca (1997)

Plot Summary: A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.

#86  Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

Plot Summary: A data courier, carrying a data package literally inside his head too large to hold for long, must deliver it before he dies from it.

#85  Flight of the Navigator (1986)

Plot Summary: In 1978, a boy is moved 8 years into the future and has an adventure with the alien ship that is responsible for that.

#84  Minority Report (2002)

Plot Summary: In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.

#83  Back to the Future: Part 3 (1990)

Plot Summary: Enjoying a peaceful existence in 1885, Doctor Emmet Brown is about to be killed by Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen. Marty McFly travels back in time to save his friend.

#82  Stargate (1994)

Plot Summary: An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.

#81  Logan's Run (1976)

Plot Summary: An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at 30.

#80  Chronicle (2012)

Plot Summary: Three high school friends gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery. Soon, though, they find their lives spinning out of control and their bond tested as they embrace their darker sides.

#79  Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

Plot Summary: A spaceship arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys and natives are all that stand in their way.

#78  Escape from L.A. (1996)

Plot Summary: Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.

#77  THX 1138 (1971)

Plot Summary: Set in the 25th century, the story centers around a man and a woman who rebel against their rigidly controlled society.

#76  The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

Plot Summary: Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel world that's just like the 30's with seemingly real people with real emotions. Fuller is murdered in our real world the same night, and his colleague is suspected. Douglas discovers a bloody shirt in his bathroom and he cannot recall what he was doing the night Fuller was murdered. He logs into the system in order to find the letter, but has to confront the unexpected. The truth is harsher than he could ever imagine.

#75  2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)

Plot Summary: A joint American-Soviet space expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn what happened to the Discovery.

#74  RoboCop 2 (1990)

Plot Summary: After a successful deployment of the Robocop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer. But as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Kane. As this menace grows, it may prove to be too much for Murphy to handle. OCP tries to replicate the success of the first unit, but ends up with failed prototypes with suicidal issues... until Dr. Faxx, a scientist straying away from OCP's path uses Kane as the new subject for the Robocop 2 project.

#73 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

Plot Summary: John Connor is now in his 20's, and a female terminator, called T-X or Terminatrix, is after him. Another T-101 is sent back through time to protect John once again on the verge of the rise of the machines.

#72  Body Snatchers: The Invasion Continues (1993)

Plot Summary: A teenage girl and her father discover alien clones are replacing humans on a remote U.S. military base in Alabama.

#71  The Hidden (1987)

Plot Summary: An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place. This alien has a goal in life; power. Hotly pursued by another alien (who's borrowed the body of a dead FBI agent).

#70  Scanners (1981)

Plot Summary: A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him.

#69  In Time (2011)

Plot Summary: In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. Here, Will Salas finds himself accused of murder and on the run with a hostage - a connection that becomes an important part of the way against the system.

#68  Equilibrium (2002)

Plot Summary: In a Fascist future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.

#67  Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)

Plot Summary: Following the events in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", Cornelius, Zira and Dr. Milo flee back through time to 20th Century Los Angeles, where they face fear and persecution similar to what Taylor and Brent suffered in the future, and discover the origins of the stream of events that will shape their world.

#66  Runaway (1984)

Plot Summary: In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.

#65  The Thing: Prequel (2011)

Plot Summary: At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson.

#64  Terminator Salvation (2009)

Plot Summary: After Skynet has destroyed much of humanity in a nuclear holocaust, a group of survivors led by John Connor struggles to keep the machines from finishing the job.

#63  Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace (1999)

Plot Summary: Two Jedi Knights escape a hostile blockade to find allies and come across a young boy who may bring balance to the Force, but the long dormant Sith resurface to reclaim their old glory.

#62  Predators (2010)

Plot Summary: A group of elite warriors are hunted by members of a merciless alien race known as Predators.

#61  Avatar (2009)

Plot Summary: A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.

#60  Back to the Future (1985)

Plot Summary: In 1985, Doc Brown invents time travel; in 1955, Marty McFly accidentally prevents his parents from meeting, putting his own existence at stake.

#59  Star Trek (2009)

Plot Summary: The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful, time-traveling Romulan creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.

#58  Signs  (2002)

Plot Summary: A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.

#57  Transformers (2007)

Plot Summary: An ancient struggle reerupts on Earth between two extraterrestrial clans, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a young teenager.

#56  Back to the Future: Part 2 (1989)

Plot Summary: After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985... without interfering with his first trip.

#55  Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

Plot Summary:

Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.

#54  Enemy Mine (1985)

Plot Summary: A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.

#53  Star Wars: Episode 4 - A New Hope (1977)

Plot Summary: A spirited farm boy, Luke Skywalker, joins rebel forces to save the Princess from the evil Darth Vader, and the galaxy from the Empire's planet-destroying Death Star.

#52  Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon (2011)

Plot Summary: The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.

#51  The Island (2005)

Plot Summary: A man goes on the run after he discovers that he is actually a "harvestable being", and is being kept as a source of replacement parts, along with others, in a Utopian facility.

#50  Repo Men (2010)

Plot Summary: Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.

#49  The Hunger Games (2012)

Plot Summary: Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister's place for the latest match.

#48  Star Wars: Episode 3 - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Plot Summary: After three years of fighting in the Clone Wars, Anakin Skywalker falls prey to the Sith Lord's lies and makes an enemy of the Jedi and those he loves, concluding his journey to the Dark Side.

#47  A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Plot Summary: In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem... but not all goes to plan.

#46  Alien (1979)

Plot Summary: A mining ship, investigating a suspected SOS, lands on a distant planet. The crew discovers some strange creatures and investigates.

#45  Westworld (1973)

Plot Summary: A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.

#44  Red Planet (2000)

Plot Summary: Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.

#43  The Abyss (1989)

Plot Summary: A civilian diving team are enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.

#42  Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Plot Summary: After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

#41  Cube (1997)

Plot Summary: 7 complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps.

#40  Rollerball (1975)

Plot Summary: In a corporate controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of it's powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.

#39  Dark City (1998)

Plot Summary: A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.

#38  I Am Legend (2007)

Plot Summary: Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.

#37  Inception (2010)

Plot Summary: In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job to date: Inception.

#36  A.I. : Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Plot Summary:

A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.

#35  Blade Runner (1982)

Plot Summary: Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to earth seeking their maker.

#34  The Mist (2007)

Plot Summary: A freak storm unleashes a species of blood-thirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole-up in a supermarket and fight for their lives.

#33  Dreamcatcher (2003)

Plot Summary: Friends on a camping trip discover that the town they're vacationing in, is being plagued in an unusual fashion by parasitic aliens from outer space.

#32  The Fifth Element (1997)

Plot Summary: In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr Zorg at bay.

#31  Super 8 (2011)

Plot Summary: During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.

#30  Primer (2004)

Plot Summary: Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.

#29  Pitch Black (2000)

Plot Summary: A group of marooned space travelers struggle for survival on a seemingly lifeless sun-scorched world.

#28  Death Race 2000 (1975)

Plot Summary: In a dystopian future, a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kills brutality.

#27  Pandorum (2009)

Plot Summary: A pair of crew members aboard a spaceship wake up with no knowledge of their mission or their identities.

#26  eXiztenZ (1999)

Plot Summary: A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

#25  Cloverfield (2008)

Plot Summary: Revolves around a monster attack in New York as told from the point of view of a small group of people.

#24  Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Plot Summary: In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion.

#23  Total Recall (1990)

Plot Summary: When a man goes for virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real, or does he?

#22  They Live (1988)

Plot Summary: A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.



#21  Sunshine (2007)

Plot Summary: A team of astronauts are sent to re-ignite the dying sun 50 years into the future.

#20  Planet of the Apes (1968)

Plot Summary: An astronaut crew crash lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.

#19  District 9 (2009)

Plot Summary: An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology.

#18  Star Wars: Episode 6 - Return of the Jedi (1983)

Plot Summary: After rescuing Han Solo from the palace of Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels attempt to destroy the Second Death Star, while Luke Skywalker tries to bring his father back to the Light Side of the Force.

#17  Soylent Green (1973)

Plot Summary: In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff.

#16  Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

Plot Summary: The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission searches for the only survivor of the previous expedition. He discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by telekinetic humans.

#15  Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Plot Summary: In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.

#14  The Running Man (1987)

Plot Summary: A wrongly-convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a TV game show.

#13  Brazil (1985)

Plot Summary: A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.

#12  The Terminator (1994)



Plot Summary: A human-looking, apparently unstoppable cyborg is sent from the future to kill Sarah Connor; Kyle Reese is sent to stop it.

#11  Aliens (1986)

Plot Summary: The planet from "Alien" has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, but will it be enough?

#10  The Matrix (1999)

Plot Summary: A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.

#9  Predator (1987)

Plot Summary: A team of commandos, on a mission in a Central American jungle, find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior.

#8  RoboCop (1987)

Plot Summary: In a dystopic & crime ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him.

#7  The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

Plot Summary: Neo and the rebel leaders estimate that they have 72 hours until 250,000 probes discover Zion and destroy it and its inhabitants. During this, Neo must decide how he can save Trinity from a dark fate in his dreams.

#6  Escape from New York (1981)

Plot Summary: In 1997, when the US President crashes into Manhattan, now a giant max. security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in for a rescue.

#5  The Road Warrior (1981)

Plot Summary:  In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits.

#4  Star Wars: Episode 2 - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Plot Summary: As Luke trains with Master Yoda to become a Jedi, his friends evade the Imperial fleet under the command of Darth Vader who is obsessed with turning Skywalker to the Dark Side.

#3  E.T. : The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Plot Summary: A meek and alienated little boy finds a stranded extraterrestrial. He has to find the courage to defy the authorities to help the alien return to its home planet.

#2  Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

Plot Summary: The cyborg who once tried to kill Sarah Connor must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from an even more powerful and advanced Terminator.

#1  The Thing (1982)

Plot Summary: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.