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1. Interstellar (2014)
PG-13 | 169 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy
Votes: 2,115,647 | Gross: $188.02M
2. The Dark Tower (2017)
PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A boy haunted by visions of a dark tower from a parallel reality teams up with the tower's disillusioned guardian to stop an evil warlock known as the Man in Black who plans to use the boy to destroy the tower and open the gates of Hell.
Director: Nikolaj Arcel | Stars: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor, Dennis Haysbert
Votes: 146,194 | Gross: $50.70M
3. Arrival (II) (2016)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg
Votes: 776,539 | Gross: $100.55M
4. Eternals (2021)
PG-13 | 156 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The saga of the Eternals, a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations.
Director: Chloé Zhao | Stars: Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek
Votes: 388,153 | Gross: $164.87M
5. Moonfall (2022)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit and sends it hurtling on a collision course toward earth.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Charlie Plummer
Votes: 100,375 | Gross: $19.06M
6. Galaxy Quest (1999)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
The alumni cast of a space opera television series have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help. However, they also have to defend both Earth and the alien race from a reptilian warlord.
Director: Dean Parisot | Stars: Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub
Votes: 178,966 | Gross: $71.58M
7. Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
R | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An augmented human and Sarah Connor must stop an advanced liquid Terminator from hunting down a young girl, whose fate is critical to the human race.
Director: Tim Miller | Stars: Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes
Votes: 194,054 | Gross: $62.25M
8. The Last Airbender (2010)
PG | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, must master all four elements and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water Tribes and the Earth Kingdom.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz Beckham, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel
Votes: 175,273 | Gross: $131.56M
9. Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
PG | 95 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A young linguist named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis.
Directors: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Jim Varney, Corey Burton, Claudia Christian
Votes: 134,748 | Gross: $84.05M
10. Allegiant (2016)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
After the earth-shattering revelations of Insurgent, Tris must escape with Four beyond the wall that encircles Chicago, to finally discover the shocking truth of the world around them.
Director: Robert Schwentke | Stars: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels, Naomi Watts
Votes: 134,920 | Gross: $66.18M
11. Roswell (1999–2002)
TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
The lives of three young alien/human hybrids with extraordinary gifts in Roswell.
Stars: Shiri Appleby, Jason Behr, Katherine Heigl, Majandra Delfino
Votes: 30,779
12. Skyscraper (2018)
PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A security expert must infiltrate a burning skyscraper, 225 stories above ground, when his family is trapped inside by criminals.
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Roland Møller
Votes: 134,842 | Gross: $68.42M
13. Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat. But will mankind's new space defenses be enough?
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe
Votes: 189,215 | Gross: $103.14M
14. The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
PG-13 | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A remake of the 1951 classic science fiction film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.
Director: Scott Derrickson | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith
Votes: 178,963 | Gross: $79.37M
15. Heavy Metal (1981)
R | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
A glowing green orb that embodies ultimate evil terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories.
Directors: Gerald Potterton, John Bruno, John Halas, Julian Harris, Jimmy T. Murakami, Barrie Nelson, Paul Sabella, Jack Stokes, Pino Van Lamsweerde, Harold Whitaker | Stars: Richard Romanus, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Don Francks
Votes: 38,334
16. Phantasm (1979)
R | 89 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.
Director: Don Coscarelli | Stars: A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister, Kathy Lester
Votes: 41,428 | Gross: $11.99M
17. Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.
Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton
Votes: 132,374 | Gross: $92.00M
18. Southland Tales (2006)
R | 145 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
During a three-day heat wave just before a huge 4th of July celebration, an action star stricken with amnesia meets up with a porn star who is developing her own reality TV project, and a policeman who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
Director: Richard Kelly | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Carlos Amezcua
Votes: 40,716 | Gross: $0.28M
19. Sphere (1998)
PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A spaceship is discovered under three hundred years' worth of coral growth at the bottom of the ocean.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote
Votes: 112,795 | Gross: $37.02M
20. The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993–1994)
TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A bounty hunter rides the Old West, fighting bad guys, many with futuristic-type gadgets.
Stars: Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry, Christian Clemenson, Comet
Votes: 9,273
21. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
G | 89 min | Family, Fantasy, Music
A young boy dreams that he is in an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano-playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Hans Conried, Tommy Rettig
Votes: 4,514
22. Astro Boy (2009)
PG | 94 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
When an android replica of a boy is rejected by his aggrieved creator, he goes off to find his own identity in an adventure that would make him the greatest hero of his time.
Director: David Bowers | Stars: Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Charlize Theron
Votes: 40,021 | Gross: $19.55M
23. Inferno (1980)
R | 106 min | Horror
An American student investigates the disappearance of his sister and the death of a friend, both connected from New York to Rome by an old alchemy book.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Eleonora Giorgi, Daria Nicolodi
Votes: 24,120
24. Gantz (2004)
TV-MA | 22 min | Animation, Action, Drama
After their deaths, two teens are transported to an apartment with an ominous black sphere and must participate in a gory alien-hunting "game."
Stars: Hiroshi Kamiya, Daisuke Namikawa, John Swasey, Chris Patton
Votes: 8,677
25. Kill Switch (I) (2017)
R | 91 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong.
Director: Tim Smit | Stars: Dan Stevens, Bérénice Marlohe, Tygo Gernandt, Charity Wakefield
Votes: 8,599
26. Gantz: O (2016)
95 min | Animation, Action, Drama
After being brutally murdered in a subway station, a teen boy awakens to find himself resurrected by a strange computer named Gantz, and forced to fight a large force of invading aliens in Osaka.
Directors: Yasushi Kawamura, Kei'ichi Sato | Stars: Daisuke Ono, Mao Ichimichi, Tomohiro Kaku, Saori Hayami
Votes: 16,859
27. Pengin haiwei (2018)
Not Rated | 117 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A fourth-grader, Aoyama-kun, investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a young woman working at a dental clinic.
Director: Hiroyasu Ishida | Stars: Kana Kita, Yû Aoi, Rie Kugimiya, Megumi Han
Votes: 3,874
28. Astra Lost in Space (2019)
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Warped into outer space by a mysterious sphere, nine children find themselves in an assassination plot as they retrieve a spaceship and try to return home safely.
Stars: Jessie James Grelle, Saori Hayami, Kôki Uchiyama, Jason Liebrecht
Votes: 1,778
29. Barbie Mariposa and The Fairy Princess (2013)
TV-Y | 79 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
Join Mariposa and her new friend, Princess Catania, in this magical adventure to save the fairy land of Shimmervale. Together, the girls learn that with great friends, the sky is the limit.
Director: William Lau | Stars: Kelly Sheridan, Maryke Hendrikse, Tabitha St. Germain, Kathleen Barr
Votes: 1,783
30. Gantz (2010)
Not Rated | 130 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.
Director: Shinsuke Sato | Stars: Kazunari Ninomiya, Kanata Hongô, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Natsuna
Votes: 8,333
31. Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018)
TV-14 | 91 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Humanity, their alien allies, and Godzilla all enter their endgame as the powerful destructive entity known as Ghidorah arrives on Earth.
Directors: Hiroyuki Seshita, Kôbun Shizuno | Stars: Mamoru Miyano, Takahiro Sakurai, Kana Hanazawa, Tomokazu Sugita
Votes: 4,953
32. Flatland (2007 Video)
95 min | Animation, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Flatland is a two-dimensional universe occupied by living geometric figures - squares, triangles, circles, etc. A Square, Attorney At Law, finds himself in the middle of two upheavals: the ... See full summary »
Director: Ladd Ehlinger Jr. | Stars: Ashley Blackwell, Chris Carter, Denise Carter, Juliana Carter
Votes: 1,223
33. inFamous (2009 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Control Cole MacGrath as he evolves his newly found ability to control electricity. In a city on lock down due to plague and super-powered psychos, you must choose to act as savior to the people or become the reckless demon of Empire City.
Director: Nate Fox | Stars: Jason Cottle, Caleb Moody, Kimberli Colbourne, Phil LaMarr
Votes: 4,406
34. Magellan (2017)
103 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
After NASA picks up a trio of mysterious signals from within our own solar system, astronaut Roger Nelson is dispatched on a multi-year solo mission aboard the Magellan spacecraft to investigate the sources.
Director: Rob York | Stars: Brandon Ray Olive, K. Danor Gerald, Whitney Palmer, Matthew Mercer
Votes: 1,879
35. The Galaxy Invader (1985 Video)
PG | 79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An alien is hunted by a gang of drunken hillbillies who saw him crash-land his spaceship.
Director: Don Dohler | Stars: Richard Ruxton, Faye Tilles, George Stover, Greg Dohler
Votes: 1,484
36. Gantz: Perfect Answer (2011)
Not Rated | 141 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Kato's (Ken'ichi Matsuyama) death changes Kurono's (Kazunari Ninomiya) view of life completely. He decides to keep fighting until he earns 100 points so that he can bring back Kato. GANTZ ... See full summary »
Director: Shinsuke Sato | Stars: Kazunari Ninomiya, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Ayumi Ito
Votes: 4,691
37. Games of Survival (1989)
Unrated | 76 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A warrior from another planet must battle six opponents from different parts of the universe.
Director: Armand Gazarian | Stars: Nicholas Hill, Cindy Coatman, Steve Dalton, Roosevelt Miller Jr.
Votes: 170
38. The Glitterball (1977)
56 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Two teenage boys try to help a tiny spherical alien get back to its mothership, while the army and a devious petty crook pursue the creature for its wonderful powers.
Director: Harley Cokeliss | Stars: Ben Buckton, Keith Jayne, Ron Pember, Marjorie Yates
Votes: 278
39. OutPost 11 (2013)
TV-MA | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
OutPost 11 is a thrilling story of three Arctic Circle soldiers, Albert, Mason, and Graham, who must navigate isolation, madness, and arctic spiders to survive in an alternative past ruled by steam power.
Director: Anthony Woodley | Stars: Billy Clarke, Alexander Devrient, Luke Healy, Bernard Hill
Votes: 740
40. Zero Gravity (I) (2021)
74 min | Documentary
Zero Gravity follows a diverse group of middle-school students from San Jose, CA, who compete in a nationwide tournament to code satellites aboard the International Space Station.
Director: Thomas Verrette | Stars: Cady Coleman, Adrien Engelder, Jack Fischer, Advik Gonugunta
Votes: 27
41. California Crisis (1986)
45 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A has-been aimless man and a carefree drifter girl run across a military conspiracy to seize the "Space Mind", a mysterious ball.
Director: Mizuho Nishikubo | Stars: Mîna Tominaga, Yoshito Yasuhara, Kaneto Shiozawa, Kôsei Tomita
Votes: 166
42. Sunrise in Kimmeria (2018)
100 min | Comedy
An isolated Cypriot village goes into tragicomic overload when a flying object crash-lands in a potato field inside the adjacent UN-controlled buffer zone. A young farmer unwisely digs it out setting off a chain of incredible events.
Director: Simon Farmakas | Stars: Tim Ahern, Konstadinos Alkiviadis, Athos Antoniou, Peter Brooke
Votes: 79
43. Gumbasia (1953)
3 min | Animation, Short
Clay objects of all sizes, shapes and colors contort and reshape themselves to a jazz music score.
Director: Art Clokey
Votes: 185
44. Mega Man 5 (1992 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Proto Man, Mega Man's "brother," becomes the prime suspect of an attack involving eight robot masters. It's now up to Mega Man to get to the bottom of the Proto Man's sudden aggression.
Director: Ichirou Mihara
Votes: 544
45. Star Trek: Armada II (2001 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Borg have been spotted in Federation space using a new vessel employed to assimilate planetary surfaces. The Cardassian Union is becoming increasingly aggressive, and the Klingons are growing tired of their role as peacekeepers.
Stars: Patrick Stewart, J.G. Hertzler, Alice Krige, Judi M. Durand
Votes: 196
46. Xenopod (2011)
10 min | Animation, Short, Sci-Fi
An elite team of apache chopper pilots are sent to investigate an alien object that has plummeted from space. First contact turns into a life and death battle with a morphing bio-mechanical alien.
47. Gals Panic! (1990 Video Game)
Stars: Shiori Asano, Ayami Kida, Marina Matsumoto, Yuki Miho
Votes: 30
48. Spiral Fitness (2007 Video)
TV-G | 60 min | Documentary, Sport
Express and heal your body through continuous movement. While working alongside David Carradine, Rob Moses became an innovator and inventor in martial and therapeutic movement. Rob thus ... See full summary »
Director: David Nakahara | Stars: David Carradine, Marissa Moses, Rob Moses
Votes: 7
49. Black Beauty's Christmas (2021)
70 min | Animation
Black Beauty, the young foal next in line to the throne, must embark on a coming-of-age journey from whence he shall return as the king of the herd on Christmas Day. However Alta, Black ... See full summary »
Director: Avery Lundren | Stars: Simon Hill, Kelsey Painter, Simon Jackson, Marco Guzmán
50. Our Lady of the Sphere (1969)
Not Rated | 10 min | Animation, Short
A surreal, dreamlike experimental film blending baroque, Victorian and space age imagery with odd sound effects.
Director: Larry Jordan
Votes: 415