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A list of science fiction films released in the 1990s. These films include core elements of science fiction, but can cross into other genres. They have been released to a cinema audience by the commercial film industry and are widely distributed with reviews by reputable critics.
1990 1h 35m R. 3.8 (292) Rate. A sci-fi fantasy about a world where it is illegal to enjoy any kind of media except in a place called Megaville. After catching a brutal killer named Jenson, the media police send an agent, Palinov, to infiltrate Jenson's circle of criminals in Megaville because Palinov bears a striking resemblance to Jenson.
- The Matrix. Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss. 559 votes. The Matrix is a groundbreaking science fiction movie that redefined the genre. Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) leads a dual life - a corporate slave by day, and a computer hacker named Neo by night.
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong. 485 votes. Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a gripping sci-fi action thriller.
- Jurassic Park. Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum. 485 votes. In the thrilling film, Jurassic Park, eccentric billionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) invites a team of experts to visit an island theme park populated by dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA.
- The Fifth Element. Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm. 486 votes. In The Fifth Element, a science fiction spectacle directed by Luc Besson, former special forces soldier Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) finds himself in the middle of a cosmic struggle.
1. Back to the Future Part III. 1990 1h 58m PG. 7.4 (482K) Rate. 55 Metascore. Stranded in 1955, Marty McFly learns about the death of Doc Brown in 1885 and must travel back in time to save him. With no fuel readily available for the DeLorean, the two must figure how to escape the Old West before Emmett is murdered.
- Back to The Future Part III
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch
- Total Recall
- Jurassic Park
- Mars Attacks!
- Independence Day
- Star Trek: First Contact
- Starship Troopers
- Men in Black
- Contact
The trilogy capper to Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale’s indelible time travel trilogy has always lived in the shadow of its two predecessors. But like we’ve said many times on this website, Back to the Future Part III is very much worthy of your love and admiration. The way in which it seamlessly blends genres while wrapping up the emotional arcs for ...
Billy Peltzer and Gizmo take Manhattan in this off-the-walls sequel that ramps up the Mogwai chaos to an 11. Having the noxious little critters multiply in Kingston Falls is one thing, but what happens when they threaten to take over one of the most populated cities on the planet? The New Batch — once again helmed by Joe Dante — is less interested ...
Phillip K. Dick is a tricky author to adapt, but screenwriters Ronald Shusett and Dan O’Bannon (the original creative duo behind Ridley Scott’s Alien) and Gary Goldman (Big Trouble in Little China) found a way. The finished product carries all the usual hallmarks of director Paul Verhoeven’s patented brand of sci-fi schlock (we mean that as a compl...
Despite containing a mere60 VFX shots, Jurassic Park was a watershed moment in the advancement of computer-generated imagery. Of course, that turned out to be a double-edge sword with many Hollywood productions starting to rely on an overhaul of digital effects rather than shelling out for the more expensive practical ones. The CGI in Jurassic Park...
ACK! ACK! ACK! As weird as it is mean-spirited, Mars Attacks! is that rare film adaptation inspired by a set of Topps trading cards. You can't make this stuff up, folks! Director Tim Burton may have bit off a little more than he could chew with this star-studded dark comedy about a global alien invasion from the Red Planet, but its status as a bona...
The destruction of famous landmarks, an ensemble cast of memorable characters, and Bill Pullman's rousing speech make this film so beloved. Released five months before Mars Attacks!, Independence Day solidified Roland Emmerich as Hollywood's resident master of disaster (a title he continues to live up to with Moonfall) who showed a knack for juggli...
The second (and best) movie to feature the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast, First Contact is an action-packed time travel adventure that pits Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) against his most lethal enemy, the Borg, as the race of cybernetic beings sets out to prevent humanity's first contact with an alien race and thus alter the future for the...
"Come on, you apes, you wanna live forever?!” Woefully misunderstood in its time, this straight-faced satire of fascism and rabid jingoism flies in the face of everything the source material (written by sci-fi legend Robert A. Heinlein) was advocating for. Beyond that, you’ve also got some wicked special effects of giant alien insects that can rip,...
The tragedy of Men in Blackis that the slew of sequels that followed were never quite able to capture the strange magic of the first movie, which thrusts us into the mysterious — and sometimes Kafka-esque — echelons of a quasi-government agency that monitors and regulates extra-terrestrial life on this little blue marble we call home. Everything in...
A forerunner to Christopher Nolan's Interstellar — which, funnily enough, also starred Matthew McConaughey — Contactis a notable outlier when it comes to other '90s movies dealing with life beyond this planet. More procedural and grounded than it is fantastical and larger-than-life, this Carl Sagan-inspired offering from director Robert Zemeckis qu...
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I find the 90s both continue the style and legacy of old school 80s sci-fi films (Terminator 2, Total Recall, Starship Troopers...), and start the modern style that we know today (Jurassic Park, The Matrix, Men in Black...).
Ranking 90's Sci-Fi Films. by jwoehr | created - 15 Jan 2018 | updated - 15 Jan 2018 | Public. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Sort by: View: 37 titles. 1. Jurassic Park (1993) PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. 8.2. Rate. 68 Metascore.
