List of science fiction films

The tone of science fiction films is often a guide to the tone of the times the film was made: other worlds and species are viewed in turn as wonderful, terrifying, threatening, incomprehensible, and childishly benign.

Notable science fiction films include:

Prior to 1930

1902 A Trip to the Moon[?] (original title Le voyage dans la lune)

1927 Metropolis

1929 Frau im Mond[?]

1930s

1931 Frankenstein

1933 The Invisible Man

1936 Flash Gordon Serial

1938 Things to Come

1950s

1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still

1951 The Thing From Another World (Howard Hawks original)

1958 Plan 9 from Outer Space

1952 The War of the Worlds

1954 Godzilla (original title ゴジラ Gojira)

1956 Forbidden Planet

1954 This Island Earth[?]

1957 The Incredible Shrinking Man

1958 The Blob[?]

1959 Journey to the Center of the Earth[?]

1960s

1960 The Time Machine

1963 Day of the Triffids

1964 Dr. Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1966 Fahrenheit 451

1966 Seconds

1968 2001 A Space Odyssey

1969 Colossus: the Forbin Project[?]

1970s

1970 THX 1138

1971 A Clockwork Orange

1971 The Andromeda Strain

1971 The Omega Man

1972 Solaris (original title Солярис Solyaris)

1973 Sleeper[?]

1973 Soylent Green

1974 Dark Star

1975 Rollerball

1977 Star Wars

1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1979 Star Trek: The Motion Picture

1979 Alien

1980s

1980 The Empire Strikes Back

1981 Outland

1981 Escape from New York

1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

1982 Blade Runner

1982 The Thing (John Carpenter remake)

1983 Return Of The Jedi

1983 Le Prix du Danger

1984 Dune (David Lynch version)

1984 The Terminator

1984 Starman

1984 Sexmisja[?]

1985 Cocoon

1986 Aliens

1987 RoboCop[?]

1988 Akira (animated film by Katsuhiro Ôtomo)

1989 The Abyss

1990s

1990 Robocop 2[?]

1993 Jurassic Park

1995 Twelve Monkeys

1996 Mars Attacks

1997 Contact

1997 Gattaca

1999 The Matrix

1999 eXistenZ[?]

1999 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

2000s

2000 Mission to Mars[?]

2001 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

2002 Minority Report

2002 Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

2003 The Matrix Reloaded, (The Matrix Revolutions to be released in November)

See also:

• Fantasy films (as distinct from science fiction films)