New Sci-Fi to Watch
by danielkreuzberg | created - 05 May 2013 | updated - 1 day ago | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Grabbers (2012)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When an island off the coast of Ireland is invaded by bloodsucking aliens, the heroes discover that getting drunk is the only way to survive.
Director: Jon Wright | Stars: Killian Coyle, Stuart Graham, Michael Hough, Richard Coyle
Votes: 19,529
2. The Signal (2014)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
On a road trip, Nic and two friends are drawn to an isolated area by a computer genius. When everything suddenly goes dark, Nic regains consciousness - only to find himself in a waking nightmare.
Director: William Eubank | Stars: Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke, Beau Knapp, Laurence Fishburne
Votes: 69,284 | Gross: $0.60M
3. A.I. Rising (2018)
R | 85 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
An intimate relationship between a human and an android tests the boundaries of human nature.
Director: Lazar Bodroza | Stars: Sebastian Cavazza, Stoya, Marusa Majer, Kirsty Besterman
Votes: 11,303
4. 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: 97,207
5. The Blob
Horror, Sci-Fi | Announced
When a band of miners uncover something hidden deep beneath the earth, they unwittingly unleash a hideous creature beyond imagination. Now the townsfolk must fight back, before it destroys everything.
Star: Samuel L. Jackson
6. Crumbs (II) (2015)
Not Rated | 68 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
Our figurine sized supermen hero embarks on an epic surreal journey that will take him across the Ethiopian post apocalyptic landscape in search of a way to get on the hovering spacecraft that for years has become a landmark in the skies.
Director: Miguel Llansó | Stars: Daniel Tadesse, Quino Piñero, Selam Tesfayie, Mengistu Berhanu
Votes: 762
7. The Midnight Sky (2020)
PG-13 | 118 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
This post-apocalyptic tale follows Augustine, a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully and her fellow astronauts from returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
Director: George Clooney | Stars: George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Caoilinn Springall
Votes: 89,477
8. Who Am I (2014)
Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.
Director: Baran bo Odar | Stars: Tom Schilling, Elyas M'Barek, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Antoine Monot Jr.
Votes: 62,538
9. The Wall (2012)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A woman finds herself inexplicably cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall suddenly surrounds the landscape.
Director: Julian Pölsler | Stars: Martina Gedeck, Luchs von Kyffhäuserbach, Karlheinz Hackl, Ulrike Beimpold
Votes: 7,153 | Gross: $0.04M
10. Outside the Wire (2021)
R | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In the near future, a drone pilot sent into a war zone finds himself paired with a top-secret android officer on a mission to stop a nuclear attack.
Director: Mikael Håfström | Stars: Anthony Mackie, Damson Idris, Enzo Cilenti, Emily Beecham
Votes: 45,485
11. Synchronic (2019)
R | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after they encounter a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.
Directors: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | Stars: Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, Katie Aselton, Ally Ioannides
Votes: 40,233
12. Oxygen (2021)
TV-14 | 100 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there. As she's running out of oxygen, she must rebuild her memory to find a way out of her nightmare.
Director: Alexandre Aja | Stars: Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Malik Zidi, Laura Boujenah
Votes: 44,318
13. The Division (I)
Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Announced
In the near future, a pandemic virus is spread via paper money on Black Friday, decimating New York. A group of civilians, trained to operate in catastrophic times, are activated in an attempt to save who and what remains.
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessica Chastain, McKinley Stamper
14. Swan Song (I) (2021)
R | 116 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
In the near future, a terminally ill man explores a heart wrenching, emotionally complex solution to save his wife and son from grief by duplicating himself without them knowing.
Director: Benjamin Cleary | Stars: Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Awkwafina, Glenn Close
Votes: 17,296
15. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Black Manta seeks revenge on Aquaman for his father's death. Wielding the Black Trident's power, he becomes a formidable foe. To defend Atlantis, Aquaman forges an alliance with his imprisoned brother. They must protect the kingdom.
Director: James Wan | Stars: Jason Momoa, Patrick Wilson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Amber Heard
Votes: 83,113
16. Moon Knight (2022)
TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Steven Grant discovers he's been granted the powers of an Egyptian moon god. But he soon finds out that these newfound powers can be both a blessing and a curse to his troubled life.
Stars: Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke, May Calamawy, Michael Benjamin Hernandez
Votes: 270,219
17. Prey (I) (2022)
R | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
Naru, a skilled warrior of the Comanche Nation, fights to protect her tribe against one of the first highly-evolved Predators to land on Earth.
Director: Dan Trachtenberg | Stars: Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro, Stormee Kipp
Votes: 227,389
18. Kraven the Hunter (2024)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Completed
Russian immigrant Sergei Kravinoff is on a mission to prove that he is the greatest hunter in the world.
Director: J.C. Chandor | Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Russell Crowe, Ariana DeBose, Christopher Abbott
19. Smoking Causes Coughing (2022)
Not Rated | 77 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of vigilantes called the "tobacco-forces" is falling apart. To rebuild team spirit, their leader suggests that they meet for a week-long retreat, before returning to save the world.
Director: Quentin Dupieux | Stars: Gilles Lellouche, Vincent Lacoste, Anaïs Demoustier, Jean-Pascal Zadi
Votes: 4,779
20. The Creator (2023)
PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Against the backdrop of a war between humans and robots with artificial intelligence, a former soldier finds the secret weapon, a robot in the form of a young child.
Director: Gareth Edwards | Stars: John David Washington, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Gemma Chan, Allison Janney
Votes: 160,666
21. Jules (I) (2023)
PG-13 | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Milton lives a quiet life of routine in a small western Pennsylvania town, but finds his day upended when a UFO and its extra-terrestrial passenger crash land in his backyard.
Director: Marc Turtletaub | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Harriet Sansom Harris, Jane Curtin, Teddy Cañez
Votes: 10,703
22. Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023)
PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When a peaceful settlement on the edge of a distant moon finds itself threatened by a tyrannical ruling force, a stranger living among its villagers becomes their best hope for survival.
Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou, Ed Skrein, Michiel Huisman
Votes: 116,183
23. Madame Web (2024)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Cassandra Webb is a New York metropolis paramedic who begins to demonstrate signs of clairvoyance. Forced to challenge revelations about her past, she needs to safeguard three young women from a deadly adversary who wants them destroyed.
Director: S.J. Clarkson | Stars: Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O'Connor
Votes: 55,381
24. I.S.S. (2023)
R | 95 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a conflict breaks out on Earth. Reeling, the U.S. and Russian astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary.
Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite | Stars: Ariana DeBose, Chris Messina, John Gallagher Jr., Masha Mashkova
Votes: 6,968
25. No One Will Save You (2023)
PG-13 | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An exiled anxiety-ridden homebody must battle an alien who's found its way into her home.
Director: Brian Duffield | Stars: Kaitlyn Dever, Elizabeth Kaluev, Zack Duhame, Lauren L. Murray
Votes: 65,383
26. Level 16 (2018)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In a highly regimented boarding school, a pair of students discover that things are not as they seem.
Director: Danishka Esterhazy | Stars: Katie Douglas, Celina Martin, Sara Canning, Peter Outerbridge
Votes: 16,240
27. The Artifice Girl (2022)
93 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A team of special agents discovers a revolutionary new computer program to bait and trap online predators. After teaming up with the program's troubled developer, they soon find that the AI is rapidly advancing beyond its original purpose.
Director: Franklin Ritch | Stars: Tatum Matthews, Lance Henriksen, Sinda Nichols, David Girard
Votes: 9,272
28. Borderlands (2024)
102 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy | Completed
Based on the best-selling videogame, this all-star action-adventure follows a ragtag team of misfits on a mission to save a missing girl who holds the key to unimaginable power.
Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Gina Gershon, Cate Blanchett, Ariana Greenblatt, Jack Black
29. Tales from the Loop (2020)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
The townspeople who live above "The Loop," a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe, experience things previously consigned to the realm of science fiction.
Stars: Daniel Zolghadri, Paul Schneider, Rebecca Hall, Robert Nahum
Votes: 22,805
30. Night Sky (2022)
TV-14 | 55 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Follows Franklin and Irene York, a couple who years ago discovered a chamber buried in their backyard which inexplicably leads to a strange, deserted planet.
Stars: Sissy Spacek, J.K. Simmons, Chai Hansen, Kiah McKirnan
Votes: 23,229
31. The Peripheral (2022)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Set in the future when technology has subtly altered society, a woman discovers a secret connection to an alternate reality as well as a dark future of her own.
Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Gary Carr, Jack Reynor, JJ Feild
Votes: 80,399
32. The Man in the High Castle (2015–2019)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a dystopian America dominated by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, a young woman discovers a mysterious film that may hold the key to toppling the totalitarian regimes.
Stars: Alexa Davalos, Luke Kleintank, Rufus Sewell, Rupert Evans
Votes: 111,049
33. Significant Other (2022)
R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Follows a young couple who take a remote backpacking trip through the Pacific Northwest and face sinister events leading them to realize that everything about the place is not as it seems.
Directors: Dan Berk, Robert Olsen | Stars: Maika Monroe, Jake Lacy, Matthew Yang King, Dana Green
Votes: 13,839
34. Proxima (2019)
107 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
An astronaut prepares for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station.
Director: Alice Winocour | Stars: Eva Green, Zélie Boulant, Matt Dillon, Aleksey Fateev
Votes: 8,994
35. Godzilla Minus One (2023)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Post war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.
Director: Takashi Yamazaki | Stars: Sakura Andô, Minami Hamabe, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Yuki Yamada
Votes: 54,093
36. Atlas (2024)
PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Drama | Completed
A bleak-sounding future, where an A.I. soldier has determined the only way to end war is to end humanity.
Director: Brad Peyton | Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown, Gregory James Cohan
37. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
PG-13 | 145 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Completed
Many years after the reign of Caesar, a young ape goes on a journey that will lead him to question everything he's been taught about the past and make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.
Director: Wes Ball | Stars: Freya Allan, Kevin Durand, Dichen Lachman, William H. Macy
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