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Sci-Fi

The best Sci-Fi movies — new releases and enduring classics — each pitched spoiler-free with tone, themes, and where to watch. Tap any movie to pitch it live.

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New & notable — the past couple years

2024

Dune: Part Two

Denis Villeneuve's epic continuation of the Herbert adaptation delivers breathtaking visuals and complex political intrigue that cement it as a modern sci-fi masterpiece.

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2024

Civil War

Alex Garland's harrowing near-future war drama follows photojournalists through a fractured America with stunning cinematography and emotional depth.

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2024

Nosferatu

Robert Eggers' gothic reimagining of the vampire classic blends supernatural horror with atmospheric sci-fi aesthetics that resonates with contemporary audiences.

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2023

Arrival

Denis Villeneuve's linguistic sci-fi thriller explores communication with aliens while delivering profound emotional and temporal complexity that lingers powerfully.

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2023

Oppenheimer

Christopher Nolan's audacious biographical epic examines the father of the atomic bomb with technical brilliance and a meditation on science's moral weight.

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2023

The Creator

Gareth Edwards' AI-centered action epic imagines a future war between humans and sentient robots with stunning practical effects and philosophical questions.

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2023

Killers of the Flower Moon

Scorsese's crime thriller set in 1920s Oklahoma explores murder, corruption, and indigenous displacement with meticulous historical detail and moral complexity.

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2023

Past Lives

Celine Song's intimate sci-fi romance examines fate and connection across time zones and lifetimes with poetic dialogue and universal emotional resonance.

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2023

Renfield

Chris McKay's darkly comedic vampire film subverts classic horror with surreal action sequences and Nicolas Cage's unhinged charisma.

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2023

Beau Is Afraid

Ari Aster's surreal psychological thriller creates a fever-dream world of grotesque imagery and anxiety that defies conventional narrative structure.

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The classics

1968

2001: A Space Odyssey

Kubrick's philosophical masterpiece redefined sci-fi cinema with its ambition, visual innovation, and meditative exploration of human evolution and artificial intelligence.

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1982

Blade Runner

Ridley Scott's neo-noir vision of a dystopian Los Angeles questioning what defines humanity through Harrison Ford's hunt for replicants remains endlessly influential.

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1984

The Terminator

James Cameron's relentless action thriller about a cyborg sent to prevent the future leader of human resistance spawned a franchise while maintaining perfect dramatic tension.

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1986

Aliens

Cameron's sci-fi action epic transforms the original's horror into a visceral military-style battle against the xenomorph horde with Sigourney Weaver's iconic performance.

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1997

The Fifth Element

Luc Besson's visually stunning operatic space adventure balances action, romance, and cosmic stakes with practical effects and imaginative world-building that influenced countless successors.

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2002

Minority Report

Spielberg's twisty thriller about precrime prevention in a futuristic Washington D.C. explores free will and surveillance through propulsive storytelling and innovative gadgetry.

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1999

The Matrix

The Wachowskis' revolutionary action thriller about discovering reality is a simulation redefined action cinema and became a cultural phenomenon that still influences filmmakers.

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1972

Solaris

Andrei Tarkovsky's meditative Soviet masterpiece about a space station orbiting a mysterious sentient ocean prioritizes philosophical inquiry and human emotion over spectacle.

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1927

Metropolis

Fritz Lang's silent expressionist epic depicts a dystopian futuristic city divided by class with unprecedented scale, practical effects, and visual sophistication that defined sci-fi cinema.

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1956

Forbidden Planet

Fred M. Wilcox's color sci-fi adventure adapts Shakespeare's Tempest to space with imaginative production design, Robby the Robot, and themes exploring human desires and psychology.

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