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51. Hardcore Henry (2015)
R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Henry is resurrected from death with no memory, and he must save his wife from a telekinetic warlord with a plan to bio-engineer soldiers.
Director: Ilya Naishuller | Stars: Sharlto Copley, Tim Roth, Haley Bennett, Danila Kozlovskiy
Votes: 102,151 | Gross: $9.25M
52. The Last Starfighter (1984)
PG | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
High schooler Alex Rogan conquers the Starfighter video game, only to find out it was just a test, and is transported to another planet. He has been recruited to join a team of the best starfighters to defend their world from the attack.
Director: Nick Castle | Stars: Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Kay E. Kuter, Dan Mason
Votes: 46,167 | Gross: $28.73M
53. Leviathan (1989)
R | 98 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Perched on the hull of a wrecked Soviet freighter, a team of deep-sea miners led by head oceanographer Steven Beck comes face to face with a mutant creature that's the product of a failed genetic experiment.
Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern
Votes: 23,910 | Gross: $15.70M
54. The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Orbiting a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis, and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
Director: Julius Onah | Stars: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Oyelowo, Daniel Brühl, John Ortiz
Votes: 113,294
55. Zardoz (1974)
R | 105 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
In the late 23rd century, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, John Alderton
Votes: 24,624 | Gross: $0.07M
56. Titan A.E. (2000)
PG | 94 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A young man learns that he has to find a hidden Earth ship before an enemy alien species does in order to secure the survival of humanity.
Directors: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman | Stars: Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore, Bill Pullman, Jim Breuer
Votes: 64,054 | Gross: $22.75M
57. Solaris (2002)
PG-13 | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Ulrich Tukur, Viola Davis
Votes: 86,361 | Gross: $14.97M
58. The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
PG | 84 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The Autobots must stop a colossal planet consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.
Director: Nelson Shin | Stars: Orson Welles, Robert Stack, Leonard Nimoy, Norman Alden
Votes: 42,034 | Gross: $5.85M
59. Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.
Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton
Votes: 132,278 | Gross: $92.00M
60. Suburban Commando (1991)
PG | 90 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
An interstellar hero from a distant world visits Earth, and tries to fit in with a mundane, yet kind, suburban family.
Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Hulk Hogan, Christopher Lloyd, Shelley Duvall, Larry Miller
Votes: 11,134 | Gross: $6.95M
61. Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008 Video)
R | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Johnny Rico is called back into action to defeat the bugs.
Director: Edward Neumeier | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Jolene Blalock, Stephen Hogan, Boris Kodjoe
Votes: 24,623
62. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
PG | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.
Director: Kerry Conran | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi
Votes: 87,555 | Gross: $37.76M
63. Silent Running (1972)
G | 89 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's botany, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.
Director: Douglas Trumbull | Stars: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint
Votes: 31,543 | Gross: $0.69M
64. Space Truckers (1996)
PG-13 | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A space trucker and his cute fiancee are on their way from a space station to Earth with an unknown cargo. When space pirates hijack them, 5000 disintegrator robots are found in the cargo.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Tim Loane, Ian Beattie, Olwen Fouéré, Shane Rimmer
Votes: 8,741
65. Big Game (2014)
PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A young teenager camping in the woods helps rescue the President of the United States when Air Force One is shot down near his campsite.
Director: Jalmari Helander | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Ray Stevenson, Victor Garber
Votes: 35,572 | Gross: $0.02M
66. DeepStar Six (1989)
R | 99 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A team of navy personnel stationed at a temporary base at the bottom of the ocean and tasked with setting up nuclear missiles discovers a huge underwater cavern which houses a giant prehistoric creature.
Director: Sean S. Cunningham | Stars: Greg Evigan, Nancy Everhard, Taurean Blacque, Miguel Ferrer
Votes: 13,275 | Gross: $8.14M
67. Lockout (2012)
PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the President's daughter from an outer-space prison taken over by violent inmates.
Directors: James Mather, Steve Saint Leger | Stars: Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare, Vincent Regan
Votes: 101,025 | Gross: $14.33M
68. Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)
PG | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
On a distant planet inhabited by mutants, two bounty-hunters race to rescue three Earth female captives from the clutches of an evil mutant warlord.
Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson, Andrea Marcovicci
Votes: 6,653 | Gross: $16.48M
69. Breach (IV) (2020)
R | 92 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
On the cusp of fatherhood, a junior mechanic aboard an interstellar ark to New Earth must outwit a malevolent cosmic terror intent on using the spaceship as a weapon.
Director: John Suits | Stars: Cody Kearsley, Bruce Willis, Rachel Nichols, Kassandra Clementi
Votes: 20,012
70. Space Raiders (1983)
PG | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew of space pirates.
Director: Howard R. Cohen | Stars: Vince Edwards, David Mendenhall, Patsy Pease, Thom Christopher
Votes: 1,666
71. Solar Crisis (1990)
PG-13 | 112 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts must fly toward the sun to drop a talking bomb at the right time for the flare to be aimed elsewhere.
Directors: Richard C. Sarafian, Arthur Marks | Stars: Tim Matheson, Charlton Heston, Peter Boyle, Annabel Schofield
Votes: 2,088
72. Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009 Video)
PG-13 | 67 min | Animation, Action, Drama
When Lex Luthor gets elected US President, he uses the threat of an oncoming kryptonite meteor striking Earth as a rationale to frame Superman.
Director: Sam Liu | Stars: Clancy Brown, Kevin Conroy, Tim Daly, Xander Berkeley
Votes: 25,542
73. Bermuda Tentacles (2014 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When Air Force One goes down over the Bermuda Triangle, the Navy sends its best rescue team. But in saving the president, the team awakens a monster which threatens America's entire Eastern Seaboard and, ultimately, the world.
Director: Nick Lyon | Stars: Trevor Donovan, Linda Hamilton, Mya, John Savage
Votes: 3,001
74. Empire of the Apes (2013)
Not Rated | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a distant galaxy three escaped female convicts crash land on a primitive world inhabited by a race of warlike apes. They fight for survival as the humanoid apes fight for their ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Polonia | Stars: Danielle Donahue, Elizabeth V. Costanzo, Marie DeLorenzo, Ken Van Sant
Votes: 160
75. Alien Arrival (2016)
TV-14 | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A tech is sprung from prison by a revolutionary leader who promises him an opportunity to save his father from a scheduled execution if he completes a data-stealing mission. But it goes awry, stranding him on a strange alien moon.
Director: Jesse O'Brien | Stars: Dan Mor, Aleisha Rose, Shaun Micallef, Mark Redpath
Votes: 2,282
76. Thunderbirds Are GO (1966)
G | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When the launch of a mission to Mars goes awry due to sabotage, International Rescue is requested to assist in the mission's second attempt.
Director: David Lane | Stars: Sylvia Anderson, Ray Barrett, Alexander Davion, Peter Dyneley
Votes: 2,600
77. Time Runner (1993)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
During the unstoppable alien invasion of 2022, one man flees through a wormhole to 1992 in hope of changing the future. But attempt after attempt is made by someone there to catch and kill him.
Director: Michael Mazo | Stars: Mark Hamill, Rae Dawn Chong, Brion James, Mark Baur
Votes: 1,146
78. Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts (2015 Video)
Not Rated | 78 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Batman, with the help of the Flash, Green Arrow, Nightwing, and Red Robin, has to try and get to the bottom of the mysterious robotic animals attacking Gotham.
Director: Butch Lukic | Stars: Roger Craig Smith, Chris Diamantopoulos, Will Friedle, Charlie Schlatter
Votes: 3,456
79. Lifepod (1993 TV Movie)
89 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Lifepod chronicles the trip of eight passengers after the ship on which they were traveling blew up on Christmas Eve 2168. Immediately people start dying. The passengers begin to investigate why the ship blew up and how it relates to them.
Director: Ron Silver | Stars: Robert Loggia, Jessica Tuck, Stan Shaw, Adam Storke
Votes: 1,230
80. Bulletstorm (2011 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Commando Grayson Hunt, his team, and their evil boss General Sarrano, whom they want dead, crash land on the planet Stygia, a former elite resort now overrun with killer plants, feral cannibal gangs and monsters with acid for blood.
Director: James D. Mortellaro | Stars: Steve Blum, Andrew Kishino, Jennifer Hale, Chris Cox
Votes: 2,233
81. Gall Force: Eternal Story (1986)
86 min | Action, Animation, Sci-Fi
Galactic war rages between amoeban Paranoids and all-female Solnoids. Solnoid battleship, Star Leaf, with crew of seven is sent to defend Chaos, a planet that's being terraformed. However, they're part of an experiment.
Director: Katsuhito Akiyama | Stars: Maria Kawamura, Naoko Matsui, Lisa Ortiz, Yuriko Yamamoto
Votes: 328
82. Velocity Trap (1999)
R | 86 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A cop framed for murder is the only one not in cryosleep when a team of thieves boards the armored treasury spaceship he's on to steal its load - 40 billion universal dollars - and then ram the ship into a comet to cover their tracks.
Director: Phillip J. Roth | Stars: Olivier Gruner, Alicia Coppola, Ken Olandt, Jorja Fox
Votes: 899
83. Spaceketeers (1978–1979)
30 min | Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Princess Aurora and 3 male companions must travel across the universe to reach the Great Planet and restore its cosmic energy. Based on the ancient book Saiyuki, also known as Journey to the West.
Stars: Eiko Masuyama, Hiroya Ishimaru, Kazuko Sugiyama, Kei Tomiyama
Votes: 353
84. Operazione Goldman (1966)
Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
A U.S. agent goes undercover as a rich playboy to stop a madman from destroying a NASA moon project.
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Anthony Eisley, Wandisa Guida, Diana Lorys, Luisa Rivelli
Votes: 351
85. Metroid: Fusion (2002 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Mystery
After the Metroids were considered to be wiped out, the deadlier X parasites attack Samus. She is given a new suit after her near-death experience and returns to an empty Galactic Federation station, where something seems out of place.
Director: Yoshio Sakamoto
Votes: 952
86. Trapped in Space (1994 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After an accident during a routine trip to Venus, a spaceship has only enough oxygen left for three people... out of five on board.
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman | Stars: Jack Wagner, Jack Coleman, Craig Wasson, Sigrid Thornton
Votes: 514
87. Pulsar (2018)
17 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A Peacemaker, who rejects his final mission to save an endangered planet, is believed to be cursed when a solar storm hits his spaceship.
Director: Aurora Fearnley | Stars: Jessie Buckley, David Gyasi, Tahirah Sharif, Anna Koval
Votes: 243
88. Hyperlight (2018)
17 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
Two elite astronauts wake up in the abyss of space before managing to return to their stranded ship, where they discover the reason behind their mission's catastrophic failure.
Director: Nguyen-Anh Nguyen | Stars: Jeananne Goossen, Peter Shinkoda, Caroline Dhavernas
Votes: 405
89. Chubbies (2014 Video)
89 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
It's Halloween night at the Bowl-o-Rama where Samantha and her friends are having a party. Everyone's having a great time... until the Chubbies arrive. From the distant planet of Snerd, ... See full summary »
Director: Mike C. Hartman | Stars: Gary Boettcher, Slasher Dave, Patrick L. Dear, David Gibson
Votes: 97
90. Out in the Cold (2024)
5 min | Short, Sci-Fi
A group of gamblers play an intense game of snakes and ladders, but an outsider ruins everything.
Director: Austin Charlesworth | Stars: James Archer, Oliver James Atkinson, Austin Charlesworth, Jenn Cooper
91. Artifact (2013)
Action, Adventure, Drama
Human's struggle to obtain ancient Artifacts that have been scattered throughout space.
Stars: Cesar D' La Torre, Rich Finley, Ksenia Valenti, Daniel Begus
Votes: 56
92. Scribblenauts Unlimited (2012 Video Game)
E10+ | Adventure, Fantasy
Maxwell must collect starites by helping people around the world in order to save Lily from turning into stone
Director: Jeremiah Slaczka
Votes: 165
93. Out of This World (1991 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A freak laboratory accident transports scientist Lester Knight Chaykin to a brutal alien world, where he must work together with a strange ally to survive.
Stars: Montana Loran, Andrew Polk
Votes: 533
94. Beyond Redemption: Space Captain (2014)
109 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror
In the year 2121, a transport ship mysteriously explodes in a remote region of space. The crew of the Redemption go to investigate and find an alluring female cyborg. Before long an alien ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Day | Stars: Paul Day, Abigail Jayne Martin, Alanah France, Kylie Stephenson
Votes: 52
95. Hi no tori: Uchû-hen (1987 Video)
48 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
This animated version of the original story by Osamu Tezuka depicts the cruelty of love through the fate of spacemen destined to drift through the universe after losing their mother ship.
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri | Stars: Katsunosuke Hori, Akira Kamiya, Keiko Toda, Tesshô Genda
Votes: 69
96. Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon (1989 Video Game)
Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
After entering the escape pod in Space Quest II, Roger fell into a deep sleep. Well, in this installment, Roger is jarred awake when his ship is sucked into a junk freighter. After escaping... See full summary »
Directors: Mark Crowe, Scott Murphy
Votes: 120
98. Space Quest, Chapter Two: Vohaul's Revenge (1987 Video Game)
Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Roger Wilco is transferred to Xenon of Station 4 and promoted to head janitor. When last we left Roger Wilco, he managed to pry the power of ultimate destruction from the hands of the ... See full summary »
Directors: Mark Crowe, Scott Murphy
Votes: 110
99. Zero Wing (1989 Video Game)
Action, Sci-Fi
A war begins in the year 2101. The player controls a "zig" fighter space ship in his quest to save the Universe.
Votes: 58
100.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Episode:
Emissary
(1993)
TV-PG | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When the troubled Commander Sisko takes command of a surrendered space station, he learns that it borders a unique stable wormhole.
Director: David Carson | Stars: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Alexander Siddig, Terry Farrell
Votes: 4,625