Online Encyclopedia Search Tool

Your Online Encyclopedia

 

Online Encylopedia and Dictionary Research Site

Online Encyclopedia Free Search Online Encyclopedia Search    Online Encyclopedia Browse    welcome to our free dictionary for your research of every kind

Online Encyclopedia



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:

Contents

Before 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
The Thing From Another World (Howard Hawks original)
1953: The War of the Worlds
1954: Godzilla (original title ゴジラ Gojira)
This Island Earth
1955: The Quatermass Xperiment (based on the BBC Television serial The Quatermass Experiment)
1956: Forbidden Planet
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
X the Unknown
1957: The Incredible Shrinking Man
1958: The Blob
Plan 9 from Outer Space
1959: Journey to the Center of the Earth

1960s

1960: The Time Machine
1962: La Jetée
1963: Day of the Triffids
1964: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1965: Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
1966: Fahrenheit 451
Seconds
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969: Colossus: the Forbin Project

1970s

1970: THX 1138
1971: A Clockwork Orange
The Andromeda Strain
The Omega Man
1972: Solaris (original title Солярис Solyaris)
1973: Sleeper
Soylent Green
1974: Dark Star
1975: Rollerball
1977: Star Wars
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1979: Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Alien

1980s

1980: The Empire Strikes Back
1981: Outland
Escape from New York
1982: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Blade Runner
The Thing (John Carpenter remake)
Tron
1983: Return of the Jedi
Le Prix du Danger
1984: Dune (David Lynch version)
The Terminator
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Starman
Sexmisja
1985: Brazil
Cocoon
The Quiet Earth
1986: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Aliens
1987: Robocop
1988: Akira (film) (animated film by Katsuhiro Ôtomo)
Miracle Mile
1989: The Abyss
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

1990s

1990: Robocop 2
Total Recall
1991: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1993: Jurassic Park
1994: Star Trek: Generations
1995: Twelve Monkeys
Waterworld
1996: Star Trek: First Contact
Mars Attacks
1997: Contact
The Fifth Element
Gattaca
The Postman
1998: Star Trek: Insurrection
Dark City
1999: The Matrix
eXistenZ
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
The Thirteenth Floor

2000s

2000: Mission to Mars
Red Planet
Pitch Black
2001: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Vanilla Sky
Planet of the Apes
2002: Minority Report
Star Trek: Nemesis
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Equilibrium
2003: The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Revolutions
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Chronicles of Riddick
I, Robot
Thunderbirds
2005: (To be released)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

See also: Fantasy films (as distinct from science fiction films) and List of lists


Last updated: 01-22-2005 17:31:09