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Feb 1, 2024 · Take a look at our list of the best sci-fi movies overall for a deeper selection of our favorites from the genre. Note: This list pertains to U.S. Netflix subscribers.
- Sara Century
- The Adam Project (2022) The rules of time travel be damned! In The Adam Project, a fighter pilot (Ryan Reynolds) living in the year 2050 attempts to travel back to 2018 to save his wife (Zoe Saldaña), but accidentally crash lands in 2022 where he comes face-to-face with his teenage self (Walker Scobell).
- Anon (2018) Privacy and anonymity are luxuries afforded to no one in the 2018 British-American sci-fi thriller Anon. Clive Owen stars as Det. Sal Frieland, a troubled cop operating in a dystopia where the entire populace is implanted with an ocular device intended to record and track the movements of the people around them.
- Bird Box (2018) Sight becomes a barrier in Bird Box, a postapocalyptic thriller where the enemy must go unseen, or else. Sandra Bullock stars as Malorie Hayes, a woman responsible for transporting her two young children down a river while wearing blindfolds: a strategy intended to help the survivors avoid seeing the entities that attacked Earth five years earlier, and who cause those who look upon them to commit suicide.
- Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018) As it turns out, the only thing missing from the British anthology series, Black Mirror, was options. In Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, the TV show gets a movie makeover, but with a twist: The film was shot in the style of a "choose your own adventure" novel, and viewers can customize their viewing experience through their scene selections.
- Real Steel. Director: Shawn Levy. Writer: John Gatins. Cast: Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, Kevin Durand. Real Steel is one of those movies that it just seems like everyone likes.
- Jupiter Ascending. Directors/Writers: The Wachowskis. Cast: Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Douglas Booth. Even if you haven't seen Jupiter Ascending, you may be familiar with the wild sci-fi film thanks to Eddie Redmayne's quivering, screeching performance as the film's full-tilt diva space emperor, which has gone quasi-viral in the years since.
- Synchronic. Directors: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Writer: Justin Benson. Cast: Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, Ally Ioannides. The Endless and Spring filmmakers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead return to cinema's strangest, scariest cinematic universe with Synchronic.
- Oxygen. Director: Alexandre Aja. Writer: Christie LeBlanc. Cast: Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Malik Zidi. Mélanie Laurent gives one of the most commanding and technically impressive acting performances of her career in Oxygen, the clever Netflix sci-fi thriller about a woman who wakes up in a futuristic medical pod with no memory of who she is, how she got there, or how to get out.
- A Clockwork Orange. Year: 1971. Director: Stanley Kubrick. Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Miriam Karlin. Rating: R. Runtime: 136 minutes.
- Back to the Future. Year: 1985. Director: Robert Zemeckis. Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Claudia Wells.
- Okja. Year: 2017. Director: Bong Joon-ho. Stars: Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, An Seo Hyun, Byun Heebong, Steven Yeun, Lily Collins, Yoon Je Moon, Shirley Henderson, Daniel Henshall, Devon Bostick, Woo Shik Choi, Giancarlo Esposito, Jake Gyllenhaal.
- Midnight Special. Year: 2016. Director: Jeff Nichols. Stars: Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Jaeden Lieberher, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Sam Shepard. Rating: PG-13.
Aug 24, 2023 · Like horror, science fiction is a relatively underappreciated genre, but the best Netflix sci-fi movies have proven that the genre is well worth audiences' attention.
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Aug 19, 2024 · The best sci-fi movies on Netflix right now include Terminator 2, Back to the Future Part III, Star Trek Beyond, The Adjustment Bureau, Life, and more.
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Jan 19, 2023 · Rotten Tomatoes Score: 71%. From space-faring sagas to robotic rampages, these 25 sci-fi movies are the best of the genre -- and they're all currently available on Netflix.
