Movies in the Science Fiction genre

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Chronicles of Riddick, The

With a title like The Chronicles of Riddick, one can assume that David Twohy's movie comes with lofty aspirations. Indeed, there are hints of a complex, involving story here. Unfortunately, too many of the nuances are drowned out by incessant, re...

Run Time: 1:59
U.S. Release Date: 2004-06-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/ADVENTURE
Director: David Twohy
Cast: Vin Diesel, Colm Feore, Thandie Newton, ...
City of Ember

City of Ember has almost anything one could want from a science fiction-based family adventure film: likeable characters, an imaginative setting, and a fast pace. The third item on that list is notable. Recognizing that children often have limite...

Run Time: 1:35
U.S. Release Date: 2008-10-10
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Gil Kenan
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray, ...
City of Lost Children, The

In 1991, the creative team of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro introduced movie-goers to their nightmarish view of a post-apocalyptic world where troglodytes inhabited the underground and a butcher relied on apartment tenants to keep his meat cabin...

Run Time: 1:52
U.S. Release Date: 1995-12-15
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Mature Themes)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro
Cast: Daniel Emilfork, Ron Perlman, Judith Vittet, ...
Clockwork Orange, A

Throughout his 50-year career, and especially in his great films, director Stanley Kubrick had a penchant for taking the novels of others and re-shaping them to fit his own vision. Of the 16 movies Kubrick directed (including his final feature, Ey...

Run Time: 2:17
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Nudity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Warren Clarke, ...
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

In late 1977, everyone seemed to believe this. Although UFOs have been a popular subject for speculation, rumination, and investigation for more than 50 years, at no time was the phenomenon more popular than during the 1970s. Along with the Loch ...

Run Time: 2:15
U.S. Release Date: 1977-12-14
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Mature Themes)
Genre: Science Fiction
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, ...
Cloverfield Paradox, The

The decision to release The Cloverfield Project direct-to-streaming (DTS?) is not only a glimpse of how the future may look for middle-budget movies but a win-win for Paramount Pictures and Netflix. The studio has found a way to offload a whit...

Run Time: 1:42
U.S. Release Date: 2018-02-04
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Science Fiction/Horror
Director: Julius Onah
Cast: Gugu Mbataha-Raw, David Oyelowo, Daniel Bruhl, ...
Code 46

Over the years, I have come to expect great things from Michael Winterbottom. I haven't loved everything he has done, but he has made some powerful movies and even his least inspired films have been watchable. So Code 46 broadsided me, provoking an...

Run Time: 1:32
U.S. Release Date: 2004-08-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Cast: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Togo Igawa, ...
Colossal

Colossal might look like a monster movie. Indeed, it may feature a Godzilla-like giant lizard leveling a major city in the Far East but, in many ways, that’s just window dressing. Allegorical in the extreme, Colossal is really a drama about...

Run Time: 1:49
U.S. Release Date: 2017-04-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: Science Fiction/Drama
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell, ...
Contact

Contact is likely to change a lot of perceptions -- not only about the role of humankind in the universe, but about what special effects can do for a movie when they're used in the service of a story, rather than the other way around. Contact...

Run Time: 2:30
U.S. Release Date: 1997-07-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Jodie Foster, David Morse, Rob Lowe, ...
Contagion

Contagion is the best movie made to date about an epidemic/pandemic. By making the characters accessories to the story rather than the central focus, the film is able to tell the story of the evolution of the disease without being encumbered by mel...

Run Time: 1:45
U.S. Release Date: 2011-09-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, ...