The Good, The Bad, The Whatever (warning, with spoilers!)
by cyberknight | created - 17 Mar 2019 | updated - 3 weeks ago | PublicEverything I have ever watched and played. There is no actual order, although I tried to keep together related films/games, while moving the best to the beginning of the list. Some times it's impossible, but c'est la vie... My scoring used to be binary, either "I liked it" or "I hated it". I grew older and wiser (yeah, sure!), so now there is 8-10 = "I loved", 6-7 = "rewatchable", 4-5 = "watchable (once)", and 1-3 = "I hated".
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1. The Last Unicorn (1982)
G | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
A beautiful unicorn sets out to learn if she truly is the last of her kind in this sparkling animated musical.
Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury, Alan Arkin
Votes: 29,494 | Gross: $6.46M
I was a child when I first watched this. It changed my vision of Cinema. Years later, I read the book on which it is based, and it changed my vision of Humankind. There is true magic here!
2. A Unicorn in the Garden (1953)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A henpecked husband sees a unicorn outside his window--or does he?
Director: William T. Hurtz | Stars: John Brown, Colleen Collins
Votes: 769
In a way, my First Unicorn! This animated short film has many layers, and I love them all!
3. Blade Runner (1982)
R | 117 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
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: 822,225 | Gross: $32.87M
The director's cut is one of those rare artworks that defines the Cyberpunk genre.
4. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
R | 164 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
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: 663,637 | Gross: $92.05M
5. Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 (2017 Video)
15 min | Animation, Short, Action
In 2022, a powerful weapon causes a global blackout that has massive implications all over the world.
Director: Shin'ichirô Watanabe | Stars: Jovan Jackson, Luci Christian, Bryson Baugus, Edward James Olmos
Votes: 9,784
6. Forbidden Planet (1956)
G | 98 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
A starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens
Votes: 53,128 | Gross: $3.00M
A technology so advanced may look like magic to us, or like demons!
7. They Live (1988)
R | 94 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George 'Buck' Flower
Votes: 145,242 | Gross: $13.01M
Have you ever had the feeling that good things only happen to the wrong people? Maybe luck or fate has nothing to do with it. Some times, there actually is a conspiracy going on...
8. Akira (1988)
R | 124 min | Animation, Action, Drama
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by a teenager, his gang of biker friends and a group of psychics.
Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo | Stars: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda
Votes: 204,934 | Gross: $0.55M
From a time when cinematic camera effects where literally hand-drawn, not computer generated, this masterpiece became the golden standard of anime.
9. The Matrix (1999)
R | 136 min | Action, Sci-Fi
When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 2,050,145 | Gross: $171.48M
This film literally changed the way action films are made and thought out. Not an original story, but very well told, maybe not with enough Science, but with a hell lot of action!
10. The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
R | 138 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Freedom fighters Neo, Trinity and Morpheus continue to lead the revolt against the Machine Army, unleashing their arsenal of extraordinary skills and weaponry against the systematic forces of repression and exploitation.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 629,881 | Gross: $281.49M
Not as good as the previous instalment, but still above the average films of its time and even after.
11. The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
R | 129 min | Action, Sci-Fi
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 542,941 | Gross: $139.31M
Again, not as good as the previous instalments, but bringing a fitting end to the story started years earlier.
12. The Matrix Resurrections (I) (2021)
R | 148 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more.
Director: Lana Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff
Votes: 278,996
This is not a sequel, it's a statement about, in "one word": show business!
13. The Animatrix (2003)
Unrated | 100 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
A collection of nine short films featuring stories related to The Matrix (1999).
Stars: James Arnold Taylor, Julia Fletcher, Dwight Schultz, Kevin Michael Richardson
Votes: 81,998
14. The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
R | 100 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A computer scientist running a virtual reality simulation of 1937 becomes the primary suspect when his colleague and mentor is murdered.
Director: Josef Rusnak | Stars: Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Vincent D'Onofrio
Votes: 77,208 | Gross: $15.50M
What happens on the thirteenth floor may not stay on the thirteenth floor!
15. Accel World (2012–2023)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Romance
Haruyuki is an overweight kid and at bottom of food chain at his middle school. Within sci-fi setting of real world he often seeks refuge in a virtual one.
Stars: Stephanie Sheh, Erik Scott Kimerer, Kira Buckland, Lucien Dodge
Votes: 2,365
By far, the best series about virtual reality. You die in the game, you DON'T die in real life! No, it's much worse: if you die in the game, you lose all the perks the game gave you, and you won't be able to ever play it again! That's much worse than a merciful death (for a serious player, at least...)
16. Accel World: Infinite Burst (2016)
TV-14 | 88 min | Animation
Nega Nebulus investigates a disturbance in the Accelerated World which is also having negative effects on the real world, and is forced to team up with the other Kings to combat the threat.
Director: Masakazu Ohara | Stars: Chinatsu Akasaki, Shintarô Asanuma, Kira Buckland, Ben Diskin
Votes: 304
Half of this film is a compilation of the whole series, the other half, a messy story with unknown characters that make no difference to the main plot. Very disappointing, ultimately killing all chances of any sequel to the series...
17. Dungeons & Dragons (1983–1985)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A group of kids are thrown into a fantasy world where they must search for a way home, armed with magic weapons that an evil tyrant wants.
Stars: Willie Aames, Don Most, Adam Rich, Peter Cullen
Votes: 6,148
Action, drama, comedy and some very deep philosophical themes make this one of the best series ever made.
18. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
Directors: John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein | Stars: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith
Votes: 223,917
Great adaptation of the role playing board game, and an amazing cameo of the 1983's animated series characters (though I missed Uni with the gang!)
19. Zootopia (2016)
PG | 108 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a rookie bunny cop and a cynical con artist fox must work together to uncover a conspiracy.
Directors: Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush | Stars: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Jenny Slate
Votes: 545,480 | Gross: $341.27M
Action, comedy and some beautiful messages, all dressed up on fur and cuteness and served with an amazing soundtrack.
20. Zootopia+ (2022)
TV-PG | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
The adventures of the creatures of the most incredible metropolis: Zootopia.
Stars: John Lavelle, Katie Lowes, Joey Lawrence, Angel Parker
Votes: 5,259
A series of short films expanding on Zootopia's story, without interfering with it.
21. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter
Votes: 718,639 | Gross: $56.95M
A film that changed how space was depicted on the screen and how the viewers perceive it.
22. 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A joint USA-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn exactly what happened to the "Discovery" and its H.A.L. 9000 computer.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban
Votes: 57,105 | Gross: $40.20M
23. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
G | 92 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
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: 85,694
Amazing special effects and a story that is still thrilling today: what is the price of peace?
24. The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
PG-13 | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A remake of the 1951 classic science fiction film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.
Director: Scott Derrickson | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith
Votes: 178,430 | Gross: $79.37M
25. Contact (1997)
PG | 150 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of extraterrestrial intelligence, sending plans for a mysterious machine.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt
Votes: 292,836 | Gross: $100.92M
The book is amazing and, although not using all elements of it, the film adds several dimensions to the story.
26. Ladyhawke (1985)
PG-13 | 121 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The thief Gaston escapes the dungeon of medieval Aquila through the latrine. Soldiers are about to kill him when Navarre saves him. Navarre, traveling with his spirited hawk, plans to kill the bishop of Aquila with help from Gaston.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern
Votes: 50,888 | Gross: $18.43M
An outlaw is entangled in the story of a couple living together, but kept forever apart from each other by the curse of a jealous villain.
27. Probe (1988)
60 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
An eccentric scientific prodigy and his secretary investigate mysteries.
Stars: Parker Stevenson, Ashley Crow, Jon Cypher, Clive Revill
Votes: 225
An eccentric scientist is hired to solve mysterious crimes that seemingly defy logic.
28. Prince of Darkness (1987)
R | 102 min | Horror
A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open the container, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all humanity.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong
Votes: 49,891 | Gross: $14.18M
One of those (few) perfect mixes of horror and science fiction.
29. Event Horizon (1997)
R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A rescue crew is tasked with investigating the mysterious reappearance of a spaceship that had been lost for seven years.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson
Votes: 196,941 | Gross: $26.67M
The story is rushed, the special effects are dated (even at the time it was released), but the idea is as good as it gets: what is beyond our known universe? Those in the Event Horizon didn't like the answer...!
30. Lifeforce (1985)
R | 101 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, beginning an apocalyptic descent into chaos.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay
Votes: 29,420 | Gross: $11.60M
The Halley Comets was coming for another pass near Earth, and with it came an ancient myth, a deadly myth. Good approach to old ideas (actually, recalling ancient ideas from Asian mythology into modern space age).
31. Moon (2009)
R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
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: 376,445 | Gross: $5.01M
32. V for Vendetta (2005)
R | 132 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.
Director: James McTeigue | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves, Stephen Rea
Votes: 1,178,372 | Gross: $70.51M
Some times, the world doesn't need justice, it needs revenge!
33. Modern Times (1936)
G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford
Votes: 259,196 | Gross: $0.16M
34. Dinosaurs (1991–1994)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
This show follows the life of a family of dinosaurs, living in a modern world. They have televisions, refrigerators, et cetera. The only humans around are cavemen, who are viewed as pets and wild animals.
Stars: Stuart Pankin, Allan Trautman, Jessica Walter, Leif Tilden
Votes: 21,696
Still today, nobody can believe that this series was produced by the "squares" at Disney! Amazing social commentary, with enough space for comedy and a comment or two on social comment comedies. Confused? That's the best part of "Dinosaurs"!
35. Ratatouille (2007)
G | 111 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A rat who can cook makes an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker at a famous Paris restaurant.
Directors: Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava | Stars: Brad Garrett, Lou Romano, Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm
Votes: 823,320 | Gross: $206.45M
Funny and touching, finally a film about food that doesn't make one lose its appetite.
36. Megamind (2010)
PG | 95 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Evil genius Megamind finally defeats his do-gooder nemesis, Metro Man, but is left without a purpose in a superhero-free world.
Director: Tom McGrath | Stars: Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey
Votes: 295,334 | Gross: $148.42M
37. Megamind: The Button of Doom (2011 Video)
TV-PG | 16 min | Animation, Short, Action
On Megamind's first day as a hero, his most evil invention comes to life and he must put a stop to it.
Director: Simon J. Smith | Stars: Will Ferrell, David Cross, Michelle Belforte, Jordan Alexander Hauser
Votes: 3,235
38. The Simpsons (1989– )
TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Comedy
The satiric adventures of a working-class family in the misfit city of Springfield.
Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright, Harry Shearer, Julie Kavner
Votes: 435,358
39. The Simpsons Movie (2007)
PG-13 | 87 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
After Homer pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpsons are declared fugitives.
Director: David Silverman | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith
Votes: 349,530 | Gross: $183.14M
40. Futurama (1999– )
TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Philip J. Fry, a pizza delivery boy, is accidentally frozen in 1999 and thawed out on New Year's Eve 2999.
Stars: Billy West, John DiMaggio, Katey Sagal, Tress MacNeille
Votes: 260,632
41. Futurama: Bender's Game (2008 Video)
Not Rated | 88 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The Planet Express crew get trapped in a fantasy world.
Director: Dwayne Carey-Hill | Stars: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille
Votes: 21,882
42. Kyatto Ninden Teyandee (1990–1991)
30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The series is set in Little Tokyo, a mechanical city which fuses feudal Japanese culture with contemporary culture, and is populated by cybernetic anthropomorphic animals. The city is ... See full summary »
Stars: Kappei Yamaguchi, Jûrôta Kosugi, Ai Orikasa, Ken'yû Horiuchi
Votes: 32
One of the best anime comedies ever!
43. Samurai Pizza Cats (1990–1991)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
The feline staff of a pizza joint fight crime as superheroes when called for.
Stars: Walter Massey, Dean Hagopian, Rick Jones, Sonja Ball
Votes: 1,059
And the worst dubbing ever!
44. Alien (1979)
R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 949,158 | Gross: $78.90M
This film changed the way space horror used to be told on the screen.
45. Aliens (1986)
R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Paul Reiser
Votes: 762,128 | Gross: $85.16M
46. Alien³ (1992)
R | 114 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Returning from LV-426, Ellen Ripley crash-lands on the maximum-security prison Fiorina 161, where she discovers that she has unwittingly brought along an unwelcome visitor.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann
Votes: 319,061 | Gross: $55.47M
47. Alien: Resurrection (1997)
R | 109 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Two centuries after her death, a powerful human/alien hybrid clone of Ellen Ripley aids a crew of space pirates in stopping the aliens from reaching Earth.
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon, Ron Perlman
Votes: 263,145 | Gross: $47.75M
48. Prometheus (I) (2012)
R | 124 min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron
Votes: 643,621 | Gross: $126.48M
49. Dark City (1998)
R | 100 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.
Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt
Votes: 212,078 | Gross: $14.38M
The story takes a different path as "Blade Runner" (1982) does, that is, that people's memories don't define or make them what they are, or maybe they do...?
50. Open Your Eyes (1997)
R | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera, Fele Martínez
Votes: 73,193 | Gross: $0.37M
Special effects are completely unnecessary when you have the right script for a good idea and the talent to put them together.
51. Vanilla Sky (2001)
R | 136 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
A self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover.
Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell
Votes: 285,488 | Gross: $100.61M
A version of "Abre los Ojos" (1997), except that the story makes no sense and... What the hell was that ending?!
52. Top Secret! (1984)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
An American rock and roll singer is invited to a cultural festival in East Germany in order to distract from a plot to destroy NATO submarines, but he accidentally becomes involved in a resistance plot to rescue an imprisoned scientist.
Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | Stars: Val Kilmer, Omar Sharif, Jeremy Kemp, Warren Clarke
Votes: 72,948 | Gross: $20.50M
Maybe the best produced comedy, ever. The plot and script are ludicrous and the timings are perfect.
53. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
G | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen
Votes: 260,397 | Gross: $8.82M
The best musical, ever.
54. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
G | 100 min | Family, Fantasy, Musical
A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.
Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear
Votes: 227,040 | Gross: $4.00M
The first time I watched this film, it caught me so off guard that I didn't realise I did it standing up, in the middle of the room, for whole length of it, and even missed my class!
55. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
PG | 115 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Charlie, a young boy from an impoverished family, and four other kids win a tour of an amazing chocolate factory run by an imaginative chocolatier, Willy Wonka, and his staff of Oompa-Loompas.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter
Votes: 528,628 | Gross: $206.46M
Interesting enough, the 1971's film is, actually, focused on Charlie meeting Wonka, while this one is focused on Wonka meeting Charlie. The soundtrack is excellent, but the songs could be better.
56. The Great Dictator (1940)
G | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 237,146 | Gross: $0.29M
57. The Gold Rush (1925)
Passed | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman
Votes: 118,528 | Gross: $5.45M
58. Big (1988)
PG | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.
Director: Penny Marshall | Stars: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard
Votes: 239,731 | Gross: $114.97M
This film created a genre, that's how good it is.
59. The Iron Giant (1999)
PG | 86 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.
Director: Brad Bird | Stars: Eli Marienthal, Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Aniston, Vin Diesel
Votes: 227,022 | Gross: $23.16M
60. RoboCop (1987)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox
Votes: 282,742 | Gross: $53.42M
Part Science Fiction, part action, all social commentary! Sure, there had been cyborgs before (like some millions dollar man), but this titanium plated police officer defined a standard.
61. RoboCop 2 (1990)
R | 117 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
RoboCop returns to protect the citizens of old Detroit but faces a deadly challenge when a rogue OCP member secretly creates a new, evil RoboCop 2.
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Belinda Bauer, Dan O'Herlihy
Votes: 93,076 | Gross: $45.68M
62. RoboCop 3 (1993)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Robocop saves the day once more. This time the half man/half robot takes on ruthless developers who want to evict some people on "their" land.
Director: Fred Dekker | Stars: Robert John Burke, Nancy Allen, Mario Machado, Remy Ryan
Votes: 54,323 | Gross: $10.70M
63. RoboCop (2014)
PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
In 2028 Detroit, when Alex Murphy, a loving husband, father and good cop, is critically injured in the line of duty, the multinational conglomerate OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer.
Director: José Padilha | Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish
Votes: 239,531 | Gross: $58.61M
64. RoboCop (1994)
TV-14 | 920 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Alex Murphy is RoboCop, a cybernetic policeman. A creation of a vast corporation, he fights crime and occasional corporate conspiracy in the near-future of Old Detroit.
Stars: Richard Eden, Yvette Nipar, Blu Mankuma, Andrea Roth
Votes: 2,917
65. RoboCop (1988)
TV-Y7 | 21 min | Animation, Action, Crime
Alex Murphy, a police officer, mortally wounded in the line of duty, is turned into a powerful cyborg and continues to serve the public trust, protect the innocent and uphold the law.
Stars: Robert Bockstael, Barbara Budd, Len Carlson, Allen Stewart-Coates
Votes: 1,105
66. RoboCop: Prime Directives (2001)
R | 375 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Thirteen years after the first Robocop, Delta City, once considered the safest place on Earth, has become a futuristic city owned and operated by OCP, and RoboCop is starting to feel his age.
Stars: Page Fletcher, Maurice Dean Wint, Maria del Mar, Anthony Lemke
Votes: 2,827
67. Brazil (1985)
R | 132 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond
Votes: 211,085 | Gross: $9.93M
Asked why he entitled the film "Brazil", Terry Gilliam said he had no reason, or, maybe, because he found out that there is a "debureaucratisation bureau" in Brazil (yes, that does indeed exist!)
68. The Thing (1982)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur
Votes: 465,920 | Gross: $13.78M
More a sequel than a remake of "The Thing from Another World" (1951), this film mixes thriller, horror and monsters with a perfect pace.
69. The Thing from Another World (1951)
Approved | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.
Directors: Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks | Stars: Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness, Robert Cornthwaite
Votes: 33,312
The military scientists find an alien spaceship frozen under the ice. What's the best thing to do? Blow it up, of course! Amazingly, it manages to get even worse, after that!
70. The Thing (I) (2011)
R | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson.
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. | Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen
Votes: 145,428 | Gross: $16.93M
Usually, people have good ideas that they don't know how to end. This film was the exact opposite, they didn't have a good idea, but they knew exactly how to end it! It's not perfect, but it's very good in its own way.
71. Time After Time (1979)
PG | 112 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.
Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner, Charles Cioffi
Votes: 20,613
Author H. G. Wells is turned into a character of his "The Time Machine" story in the plot of this film, taking him to an adventure on a strange and dangerous place: today's world!
72. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The further adventures in time and space of the alien adventurer known as the Doctor and his companions from planet Earth.
Stars: Jodie Whittaker, Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Smith
Votes: 246,226
An ancient alien travels through spacetime in its TARDIS ship, making improbable friends and fighting impossible enemies.
73. Torchwood (2006–2011)
TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
The members of the Torchwood Institute, a secret organization founded by the British Crown, fight to protect the Earth from extraterrestrial and supernatural threats.
Stars: John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Kai Owen, Gareth David-Lloyd
Votes: 43,419
A mysterious man leads a group of very much humans in their secret mission to protect Earth from outer worldly menaces, coming from all places and times.
74. Back to the Future (1985)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
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: 1,305,105 | Gross: $210.61M
Who needs Science when one has a time travelling Delorean?
75. Back to the Future Part II (1989)
PG | 108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Tom Wilson
Votes: 571,898 | Gross: $118.50M
Who needs roads when one has a flying Delorean?
76. Back to the Future Part III (1990)
PG | 118 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Stranded in 1955, Marty McFly learns about the death of Doc Brown in 1885 and must travel back in time to save him. With no fuel readily available for the DeLorean, the two must figure how to escape the Old West before Emmett is murdered.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Tom Wilson
Votes: 480,274 | Gross: $87.73M
Who needs anything when one has a smoking gun and a time machine?
77. Back to the Future (1991–1993)
TV-Y | 23 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
The time travelling adventures of Doc Brown, his family, and his friend, Marty McFly.
Stars: David Kaufman, Dan Castellaneta, Tom Wilson, Bill Nye
Votes: 1,878
78. Groundhog Day (1993)
PG | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day.
Director: Harold Ramis | Stars: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky
Votes: 684,172 | Gross: $70.91M
The worst or the best day of his life... It's up to him, alone...!
79. Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009)
PG-13 | 83 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
While drinking at their local pub, three social outcasts attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum.
Director: Gareth Carrivick | Stars: Chris O'Dowd, Marc Wootton, Dean Lennox Kelly, Anna Faris
Votes: 36,540
Travelling through time is a complex matter, but it can be made a lot more complicated!
80. Tron (1982)
PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.
Director: Steven Lisberger | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan
Votes: 129,159 | Gross: $33.00M
Fantasy film with a layer of Science Fiction to make it glow in neon lights. Amazing designs by Moebius and psychedelic imagery by the director Lisberger.
81. Tron: Legacy (2010)
PG | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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: 355,593 | Gross: $172.06M
82. Samurai Jack (2001–2017)
TV-MA | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A samurai, sent through time, fights to return home and save the world.
Stars: Phil LaMarr, Mako, Kevin Michael Richardson, Jeff Bennett
Votes: 59,485
83. Cosmos (1980)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary
Astronomer Carl Sagan leads us on an engaging guided tour of the various elements and cosmological theories of the universe.
Stars: Carl Sagan, Jaromír Hanzlík, Jonathan Fahn, Jean Charney
Votes: 43,886
84. Beakman's World (1992–1997)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Family
A wacky scientist and his companions answer viewer questions about science.
Stars: Paul Zaloom, Mark Ritts, Eliza Schneider, Alanna Ubach
Votes: 2,977
85. Eyewitness (1994– )
29 min | Documentary
Natural history series based on the Dorling Kindersley children's books.
Stars: Martin Sheen, Andrew Sachs
Votes: 182
86. Alien Nation (1988)
R | 91 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In 1988, Earth makes the first contact with an alien civilization. In 1991, these aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after three years of quarantine.
Director: Graham Baker | Stars: James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp, Kevyn Major Howard
Votes: 16,655 | Gross: $25.22M
An alien slave ship arrives Earth, bringing some dark secrets with it.
87. Alien Nation (1989–1990)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the near future, a human cop and his alien partner fight crime and discrimination in Los Angeles.
Stars: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Lauren Woodland
Votes: 5,504
Aliens arrive Earth, but they are not here to invade it, they are here to live with us...
88. Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (1994 TV Movie)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
An Overseer named Ahpossno comes to Earth to take the slaves, and all humans, back to the mothership.
Director: Kenneth Johnson | Stars: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Terri Treas
Votes: 1,538
89. Alien Nation: Body and Soul (1995 TV Movie)
87 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Sikes and Francisco are called in to a case when a mysterious young girl, who looks part Newcomer, part human, appears. Her huge, brutish counterpart tries to free her from the precinct, ... See full summary »
Director: Kenneth Johnson | Stars: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Terri Treas
Votes: 1,099
90. Alien Nation: The Enemy Within (1996 TV Movie)
91 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
When Detectives Sikes and Francisco are presented with the mysterious death of an Eeno, Matt is stupefied to discover that George had rudely snubbed the case. He, like most Newcomers, ... See full summary »
Director: Kenneth Johnson | Stars: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Terri Treas
Votes: 927
91. Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy (1997 TV Movie)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Matt and George investigate a series of strange occurrences involving Newcomers, who are found to be programmed to carry out someone's dirty work. The method by which they are brainwashed ... See full summary »
Director: Kenneth Johnson | Stars: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Terri Treas
Votes: 787
The lack of one character made this instalment slightly off putting.
92. Gattaca (1997)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.
Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Gore Vidal
Votes: 322,913 | Gross: $12.34M
How much the genes can define who people are and what one can do?
93. Short Circuit (1986)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton
Votes: 66,266 | Gross: $40.70M
A non-humanoid robot is damaged and gets a serious bug in its program: life!
94. Short Circuit 2 (1988)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Robot Johnny Five comes to the city and gets manipulated by criminals who want him for their own purposes.
Director: Kenneth Johnson | Stars: Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Tim Blaney, Cynthia Gibb
Votes: 26,840 | Gross: $21.63M
A robot avid for books. Good taste!
95. WALL·E (2008)
G | 98 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
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: 1,198,955 | Gross: $223.81M
Twenty-two years after "Short Circuit", another thread-mill footed robot would journey through space!
96. Finch (2021)
PG-13 | 115 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his creator's beloved dog learns about life, love, friendship and what it means to be human.
Director: Miguel Sapochnik | Stars: Tom Hanks, Caleb Landry Jones, Marie Wagenman, Lora Martinez-Cunningham
Votes: 96,928
The references to "WALL-E" (2008) are not just on the visuals, they go deep into the plot. Jeff, the robot, also draws connections to Johnny Five, from "Short Circuit" (1986), aside from choosing a name starting with a "J," they both learned a lot from books ("Short Circuit 2," 1988).
97. The X-Files (1993–2018)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two F.B.I. Agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained, while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.
Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis
Votes: 249,417
Sure, there were some alien conspiracy films and series before this, but it's not every day that one manages to create a mythology.
98. The X Files (1998)
PG-13 | 121 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Mulder and Scully must fight the government in a conspiracy and find the truth about an alien colonization of Earth.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville, William B. Davis
Votes: 110,120 | Gross: $83.90M
It was exactly like any other episode of the series, just a bit longer. Sincerely, I expected some resolution.
99. The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (1986)
TV-MA | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Four elite Galaxy Rangers with unique abilities defend law & order among the space colonies and protect humanity from the evil Crown Empire.
Stars: Jerry Orbach, Bob Bottone, Laura Dean, Doug Preis
Votes: 1,399
Cowboys in space...! And with superpowers! Come on, they even have robotic horses to ride!
100. The Evil Dead (1981)
NC-17 | 85 min | Horror
Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker
Votes: 232,193 | Gross: $2.40M
Low budget, some amazing ideas and the right protagonist can make a scarier film than big money, tested and safe cinematography and shining stars.
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