The Good, The Bad, The Whatever (warning, with spoilers!)

by cyberknight | created - 17 Mar 2019 | updated - 3 weeks ago | Public

Everything 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

70 Metascore

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

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: 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

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: 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

80 Metascore

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

55 Metascore

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

68 Metascore

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

73 Metascore

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

62 Metascore

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

47 Metascore

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

63 Metascore

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

36 Metascore

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

72 Metascore

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

78 Metascore

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

84 Metascore

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

53 Metascore

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

83 Metascore

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

40 Metascore

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

62 Metascore

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

64 Metascore

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

50 Metascore

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

35 Metascore

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

50 Metascore

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

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: 376,445 | Gross: $5.01M

32. V for Vendetta (2005)

R | 132 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

62 Metascore

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

96 Metascore

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

96 Metascore

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

63 Metascore

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

80 Metascore

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

89 Metascore

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

84 Metascore

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

59 Metascore

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

62 Metascore

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

64 Metascore

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

66 Metascore

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

45 Metascore

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

68 Metascore

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

99 Metascore

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

67 Metascore

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

72 Metascore

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

73 Metascore

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

85 Metascore

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

70 Metascore

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

42 Metascore

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

40 Metascore

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

52 Metascore

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

84 Metascore

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

57 Metascore

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

49 Metascore

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

69 Metascore

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

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: 1,305,105 | 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

57 Metascore

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

55 Metascore

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

72 Metascore

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

58 Metascore

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

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: 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

45 Metascore

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

64 Metascore

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

50 Metascore

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

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: 1,198,955 | 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

57 Metascore

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

60 Metascore

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

71 Metascore

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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