1. Ex Machina (2014)
15 | 108 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
7.7
Rate
78 Metascore
A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid A.I.
Director: Alex Garland | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Sonoya Mizuno
Votes: 546,923 | Gross: $25.44M
2. Her (2013)
15 | 126 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
8
Rate
91 Metascore
In a near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.
Director: Spike Jonze | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Rooney Mara
Votes: 614,526 | Gross: $25.57M
3. I, Robot (2004)
12A | 115 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
7.1
Rate
59 Metascore
In 2035, a technophobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity.
Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, Alan Tudyk
Votes: 542,663 | Gross: $144.80M
4. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
12 | 146 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
7.2
Rate
65 Metascore
A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become “real” so that he can regain the love of his human mother.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O’Connor, Sam Robards
Votes: 309,509 | Gross: $78.62M
5. Transcendence (I) (2014)
12A | 119 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
6.2
Rate
42 Metascore
A scientist’s drive for artificial intelligence takes on dangerous implications when his own consciousness is uploaded into one such program.
Director: Wally Pfister | Stars: Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy
Votes: 230,642 | Gross: $23.02M
6. Upgrade (2018)
15 | 100 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
7.5
Rate
67 Metascore
Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when the world of Grey, a self-labeled technophobe, is turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant.
Director: Leigh Whannell | Stars: Logan Marshall-Green, Melanie Vallejo, Steve Danielsen, Abby Craden
Votes: 187,330 | Gross: $11.98M
7. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
15 | 164 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
8
Rate
81 Metascore
Young Blade Runner K’s discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, who’s been missing for thirty years.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Dave Bautista
Votes: 573,313 | Gross: $92.05M
8. Chappie (2015)
15 | 120 min | Action, Crime, Drama
6.8
Rate
41 Metascore
In the near future, crime is patrolled by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.
Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver
Votes: 253,739 | Gross: $31.57M
9. Ghost in the Shell (2017)
12A | 107 min | Action, Crime, Drama
6.3
Rate
52 Metascore
In the near future, Major Mira Killian is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world’s most dangerous criminals.
Director: Rupert Sanders | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche
Votes: 216,565 | Gross: $40.56M
10. Oblivion (I) (2013)
12A | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
7
Rate
54 Metascore
A veteran assigned to extract Earth’s remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself.
Director: Joseph Kosinski | Stars: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Andrea Riseborough, Olga Kurylenko
Votes: 528,112 | Gross: $89.02M
11. Minority Report (2002)
12 | 145 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
7.6
Rate
80 Metascore
In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow
Votes: 553,678 | Gross: $132.07M
12. Automata (I) (2014)
15 | 109 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
6
Rate
37 Metascore
Human race is at edge of the end. Robot race is at edge of the beginning.
Director: Gabe Ibáñez | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Dylan McDermott, Melanie Griffith
Votes: 57,399
13. Looper (2012)
15 | 119 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
7.4
Rate
84 Metascore
In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits – someone like Joe – who one day learns the mob wants to ‘close the loop’ by sending back Joe’s future self for assassination.
Director: Rian Johnson | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano
Votes: 577,840 | Gross: $66.49M
14. Source Code (2011)
12A | 93 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
7.5
Rate
74 Metascore
A soldier wakes up in someone else’s body and discovers he’s part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train within 8 minutes.
Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright
Votes: 522,608 | Gross: $54.71M
15. Blade Runner (1982)
AA | 117 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
8.1
Rate
84 Metascore
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
Votes: 770,478 | Gross: $32.87M
16. The Machine (I) (2013)
15 | 91 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
6
Rate
52 Metascore
In efforts to construct perfect android killing machines in a war against China, UK scientists exceed their goal and create a sentient robot.
Director: Caradog W. James | Stars: Toby Stephens, Caity Lotz, Denis Lawson, Sam Hazeldine
Votes: 31,413
17. Moon (2009)
15 | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
7.8
Rate
67 Metascore
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet’s power problems.
Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Rosie Shaw
Votes: 360,867 | Gross: $5.01M
18. Eagle Eye (2008)
12A | 118 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
6.6
Rate
43 Metascore
Jerry and Rachel are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move.
Director: D.J. Caruso | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis
Votes: 188,413 | Gross: $101.11M
19. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
PG | 109 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
6.7
Rate
63 Metascore
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”
Director: Garth Jennings | Stars: Martin Freeman, Yasiin Bey, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel
Votes: 200,111 | Gross: $51.09M
20. Back to the Future (1985)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
8.5
Rate
87 Metascore
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover
Votes: 1,203,154 | Gross: $210.61M
21. WALL·E (2008)
U | 98 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
8.4
Rate
95 Metascore
In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
Director: Andrew Stanton | Stars: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard
Votes: 1,114,847 | Gross: $223.81M
22. Aliens (1986)
R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
8.4
Rate
84 Metascore
Fifty-seven years after surviving an apocalyptic attack aboard her space vessel by merciless space creatures, Officer Ripley awakens from hyper-sleep and tries to warn anyone who will listen about the predators.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Paul Reiser
Votes: 718,216 | Gross: $85.16M
23. Tron: Legacy (2010)
PG | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
6.8
Rate
49 Metascore
The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father’s corrupted creation and a unique ally who was born inside the digital world.
Director: Joseph Kosinski | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner
Votes: 339,206 | Gross: $172.06M
24. Metropolis (1927)
A | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
8.3
Rate
98 Metascore
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Votes: 175,342 | Gross: $1.24M
25. Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
A | 100 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
7.1
Rate
Thinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear missiles. But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert
Votes: 9,181
26. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
U | 92 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
7.8
Rate
An alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe
Votes: 82,591
27. WarGames (1983)
PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
7.1
Rate
77 Metascore
A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Dabney Coleman
Votes: 101,835 | Gross: $79.57M
28. Dark Star (1974)
A | 83 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
6.2
Rate
66 Metascore
In the far reaches of space, a small crew, 20 years into their solitary mission, find things beginning to go hilariously wrong.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Dan O’Bannon, Dre Pahich, Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm
Votes: 25,182
29. Demon Seed (1977)
AA | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
6.3
Rate
55 Metascore
A scientist creates Proteus–an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creators wife.
Director: Donald Cammell | Stars: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Berry Kroeger
Votes: 9,263
30. Alien: Covenant (2017)
15 | 122 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
6.4
Rate
65 Metascore
The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a harrowing escape.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride
Votes: 283,367 | Gross: $74.26M
31. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
15 | 107 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
5.5
Rate
49 Metascore
Alice returns to where the nightmare began: The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Iain Glen, Ali Larter, Shawn Roberts
Votes: 95,320 | Gross: $26.83M
32. Tomorrowland: A World Beyond (2015)
12A | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Family
6.4
Rate
60 Metascore
Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory.
Director: Brad Bird | Stars: George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie, Raffey Cassidy
Votes: 183,756 | Gross: $93.44M
33. Infinity Chamber (2016)
Not Rated | 103 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
6.2
Rate
A man trapped in an automated prison must outsmart a computer in order to escape.
Director: Travis Milloy | Stars: Christopher Soren Kelly, Cassandra Clark, Cajardo Lindsey, Jesse D. Arrow
Votes: 10,839
34. Terminator Genisys (2015)
12A | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
6.3
Rate
38 Metascore
When John Connor, leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline.
Director: Alan Taylor | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney
Votes: 279,666 | Gross: $89.76M
35. Android (2015)
15 | 85 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
6.2
Rate
The world’s first “perfect” Artificial Intelligence begins to exhibit startling and unnerving emergent behavior when a reporter begins a relationship with the scientist who created it.
Director: Matthew Leutwyler | Stars: Mark Webber, David Clayton Rogers, Lucy Griffiths, Rainn Wilson
Votes: 5,743
36. Pacific Rim (2013)
12A | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
6.9
Rate
65 Metascore
As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day
Votes: 504,139 | Gross: $101.80M
37. Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
15 | 94 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
6.2
Rate
41 Metascore
Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp.
Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Oded Fehr, Iain Glen
Votes: 197,324 | Gross: $50.65M
38. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
15 | 94 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
6.1
Rate
35 Metascore
Alice wakes up in the Raccoon City hospital after the area has been overrun by zombies, and must now make it out of the city before a nuclear bomb is dropped.
Director: Alexander Witt | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Eric Mabius, Oded Fehr
Votes: 201,286 | Gross: $51.20M
39. Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
15 | 96 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
5.8
Rate
37 Metascore
While still out to destroy the evil Umbrella Corporation, Alice joins a group of survivors living in a prison surrounded by the infected who also want to relocate to the mysterious but supposedly unharmed safe haven known only as Arcadia.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Wentworth Miller, Kim Coates
Votes: 172,970 | Gross: $60.13M
40. Resident Evil (2002)
15 | 100 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
6.6
Rate
33 Metascore
A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Ryan McCluskey, Oscar Pearce
Votes: 273,393 | Gross: $40.12M
41. Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
15 | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
5.3
Rate
39 Metascore
Alice fights alongside a resistance movement to regain her freedom from an Umbrella Corporation testing facility.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Michelle Rodriguez, Aryana Engineer
Votes: 143,961 | Gross: $42.35M
42. Underworld (2003)
15 | 121 min | Action, Fantasy, Thriller
7
Rate
42 Metascore
Selene, a vampire warrior, is entrenched in a conflict between vampires and werewolves, while falling in love with Michael, a human who is sought by werewolves for unknown reasons.
Director: Len Wiseman | Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Shane Brolly, Michael Sheen
Votes: 272,079 | Gross: $51.97M
43. Alien (1979)
X | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
8.5
Rate
89 Metascore
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounter a deadly lifeform after investigating an unknown transmission.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 882,316 | Gross: $78.90M
44. District 9 (2009)
15 | 112 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
7.9
Rate
81 Metascore
Violence ensues after an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth finds a kindred spirit in a government agent exposed to their biotechnology.
Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt
Votes: 683,723 | Gross: $115.65M
45. Elysium (I) (2013)
15 | 109 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
6.6
Rate
61 Metascore
In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth. A man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.
Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga
Votes: 450,479 | Gross: $93.05M