Ultimate list of 80s 90s Sci-Fi & B-movies
by HelmutsR | created - 01 Feb 2015 | updated - 3 months ago | PublicBest of 80s 90s Sci-Fi and B category movies! Ignore the ratings in stars - there's a bunch of good stuff that only open minded kids of 80s will appreciate ;)
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1. Survival Zone (1983)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In a post-nuclear holocaust world, roving bands of motorcycle gangs attack ranchers to try to take over their land.
Director: Percival Rubens | Stars: Gary Lockwood, Camilla Sparv, Morgan Stevens, Zoli Marki
Votes: 218
2. Zone Troopers (1985)
PG | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In Italy, during World War II some American soldiers find an alien UFO.
Director: Danny Bilson | Stars: Tim Thomerson, Timothy Van Patten, Art LaFleur, Biff Manard
Votes: 1,829
3. Beyond the Rising Moon (1987)
PG | 84 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An alien spaceship is being sought by various factions on Earth. A female cyborg and a rogue trader team up to stop evil forces from taking over the ship.
Director: Philip J. Cook | Stars: Tracy Davis, Hans Bachmann, Michael Mack, Ron Ikejiri
Votes: 485
4. Within the Rock (1996 TV Movie)
R | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A team of space miners sent to stop a moon's collision course with the earth discover a hibernating creature that soon revives and starts slaughtering them.
Director: Gary J. Tunnicliffe | Stars: Xander Berkeley, Caroline Barclay, Bradford Tatum, Brian Krause
Votes: 734
5. Star Crystal (1986)
R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Crew members aboard a space ship encounter an alien life form intent on killing them.
Director: Lance Lindsay | Stars: C. Juston Campbell, Faye Bolt, John W. Smith, Taylor Kingsley
Votes: 1,242
6. DeepStar Six (1989)
R | 99 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A team of navy personnel stationed at a temporary base at the bottom of the ocean and tasked with setting up nuclear missiles discovers a huge underwater cavern which houses a giant prehistoric creature.
Director: Sean S. Cunningham | Stars: Greg Evigan, Nancy Everhard, Taurean Blacque, Miguel Ferrer
Votes: 13,240 | Gross: $8.14M
7. Leviathan (1989)
R | 98 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Perched on the hull of a wrecked Soviet freighter, a team of deep-sea miners led by head oceanographer Steven Beck comes face to face with a mutant creature that's the product of a failed genetic experiment.
Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern
Votes: 23,807 | Gross: $15.70M
8. The Rift (1990)
R | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
Siren II, a submarine under the command of Capt. Phillips, ventures into the deep on a mission to recover the missing Siren I. Their quest is hindered when the submarine becomes entangled in a patch of toxic seaweed.
Director: Juan Piquer Simón | Stars: Jack Scalia, R. Lee Ermey, Ray Wise, Deborah Adair
Votes: 2,769
9. Lords of the Deep (1989)
PG-13 | 77 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Man has finally conquered the ocean. America's first self-contained undersea laboratory is the pride of the nation, and expectations are high for an elaborate undersea mining operation. ... See full summary »
Director: Mary Ann Fisher | Stars: Bradford Dillman, Priscilla Barnes, Daryl Haney, Mel Ryane
Votes: 1,376
10. Red Sonja (1985)
PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The fearless warrior Red Sonja sets out to avenge her family's murder and rid her kingdom from the tyrannical rule of evil Queen Gedren.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brigitte Nielsen, Sandahl Bergman, Paul L. Smith
Votes: 44,909 | Gross: $6.95M
11. Timesweep (1987 Video)
85 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of people enter an old movie studio and are suddenly transported through time.
Director: Dan Diefenderfer | Stars: Kevin Brief, Martin English, Sandra Beer, Frank Vrooman
Votes: 147
12. Peacemaker (1990)
R | 100 min | Action, Romance, Sci-Fi
A doctor (Shepard) gets caught up in a war between two aliens (Edwards, Forster).
Director: Kevin Tenney | Stars: Robert Forster, Lance Edwards, Hilary Shepard, Robert Davi
Votes: 637
13. Circuitry Man (1990)
R | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
In a future where most humans have moved underground to escape the pollution, one of the few pleasures left is a kind of narcotic in the form of chips which can be plugged directly into the... See full summary »
Director: Steven Lovy | Stars: Jim Metzler, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Lu Leonard, Vernon Wells
Votes: 1,011
14. Gunhed (1989)
TV-14 | 100 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In a cyberpunk future, Kyron-5 supercomputer attempts to exterminate the human race, but Gunhed mechs stop it. In 2038, five thieves break into a condemned island facility to steal Kyron's dead CPU. The place turns out to be a deathtrap.
Director: Masato Harada | Stars: Masahiro Takashima, Brenda Bakke, James Brewster Thompson, Aya Enjôji
Votes: 1,064
15. Shadowzone (1990)
R | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Scientists experiment with Extreme Dream Sleep and find a Parallel Dimension. Now they find the door works both ways and something has come through.
Director: J.S. Cardone | Stars: Louise Fletcher, David Beecroft, James Hong, Frederick Flynn
Votes: 1,321
16. Breeders (1986)
R | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The Manhattan General Hospital admitted a string of young women raped by something otherworldly. Dr. Pace and Detective Andriotti try and isolate the strange organic material found on the victims to find the fiend.
Director: Tim Kincaid | Stars: Teresa Farley, Lance Lewman, Frances Sherman, Natalie Savage
Votes: 2,645
17. Seedpeople (1992)
R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The citizens of Comet Valley are being taken over by seeds from an alien plant that has taken root there. A sheriff investigates the strange goings-on.
Director: Peter Manoogian | Stars: Sam Hennings, Andrea Roth, Dane Witherspoon, Bernard Kates
Votes: 1,206
18. Spaced Invaders (1990)
PG | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Dimwitted Martians drop into a little Illinois town on the day that the local radio station happens to rebroadcast Orson Welles 1938 "War Of The Worlds".
Director: Patrick Read Johnson | Stars: Douglas Barr, Royal Dano, Ariana Richards, J.J. Anderson
Votes: 3,942 | Gross: $15.37M
19. UFOria (1984)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Sheldon Bart is a drifter, and a small-time con man. He meets his old friend, Brother Bud, a big-time con man into faith healing and fencing stolen cars, at his revival tent outside a small... See full summary »
Director: John Binder | Stars: Cindy Williams, Harry Dean Stanton, Fred Ward, Beverly Hope Atkinson
Votes: 510
20. Neon City (1991)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
"Mad Max" clone set in the not-too-distant future about a group of people trying to escape to a safe haven called Neon City after a solar disaster that has decimated the Earth.
Director: Monte Markham | Stars: Michael Ironside, Vanity, Lyle Alzado, Valerie Wildman
Votes: 1,248
21. Plymouth (1991 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 101 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
The residents of a town displaced by an industrial accident agree to take over a failing mining base on the Moon as their new place to live and work. Their first big test comes in the form of a wave of radiation from a massive solar flare.
Director: Lee David Zlotoff | Stars: Cindy Pickett, Richard Hamilton, Perrey Reeves, Matt Brown
Votes: 148
22. Intruders (1992)
163 min | Biography, Horror, Mystery
All over the world, people report being visited by aliens, taken aboard spaceships and clinically examined. Authorities seem to know all about these visitations but will not admit it publicly.
Stars: Richard Crenna, Mare Winningham, Susan Blakely, Daphne Ashbrook
Votes: 1,458
23. Roswell (1994 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 91 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Beginning at a 30-year reunion for members of a military nuclear bomb unit, flashbacks are presented that follow the attempts of Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth about strange ... See full summary »
Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Martin Sheen, Dwight Yoakam, Xander Berkeley
Votes: 2,718
24. Lifepod (1993 TV Movie)
89 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Lifepod chronicles the trip of eight passengers after the ship on which they were traveling blew up on Christmas Eve 2168. Immediately people start dying. The passengers begin to investigate why the ship blew up and how it relates to them.
Director: Ron Silver | Stars: Robert Loggia, Jessica Tuck, Stan Shaw, Adam Storke
Votes: 1,231
25. Trapped in Space (1994 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After an accident during a routine trip to Venus, a spaceship has only enough oxygen left for three people... out of five on board.
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman | Stars: Jack Wagner, Jack Coleman, Craig Wasson, Sigrid Thornton
Votes: 514
26. Aurora (1998)
87 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
In the 22nd century, seven explorers set out on a mission to Earth.
Director: Christopher Kulikowski | Stars: Christopher Stapleton, Michael Otis, David Jean Thomas, Christopher Heltai
Votes: 219
27. The Willies (1990 Video)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A harmless backyard camp out becomes an unforgettable night of chills and thrills for three young boys as they share their favorite scary stories.
Director: Brian Peck | Stars: Sean Astin, Jason Horst, Joshua John Miller, James Karen
Votes: 2,007
28. Monolith (1993)
R | 95 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Two cops investigating the murder of a young boy become invloved in a very secret project involving alien life. Needless to say, the authorities don't want them to stick their noses into this.
Director: John Eyres | Stars: Bill Paxton, Lindsay Frost, John Hurt, Louis Gossett Jr.
Votes: 984
29. Philadelphia Experiment II (1993)
PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In the sci-fi thriller The Philadelphia Experiment the sole survivor of a wartime experiment is catapulted 41 years into the future and must race to save the world as we know it. It's now 10 years later--1993.
Director: Stephen Cornwell | Stars: Brad Johnson, Marjean Holden, Gerrit Graham, John Christian Graas
Votes: 2,234 | Gross: $0.00M
30. Time Runner (1993)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
During the unstoppable alien invasion of 2022, one man flees through a wormhole to 1992 in hope of changing the future. But attempt after attempt is made by someone there to catch and kill him.
Director: Michael Mazo | Stars: Mark Hamill, Rae Dawn Chong, Brion James, Mark Baur
Votes: 1,144
31. Laserhawk (1997)
PG-13 | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Teenagers in a mid-west town discover that they are destined to fight off an alien invasion as the crew of a spacecraft of unknown origin. They are aided by a mysterious patient in a psychiatric hospital and a frenetic comic book artist.
Director: Jean Pellerin | Stars: Jason James Richter, Melissa Galianos, Gordon Currie, Mark Hamill
Votes: 618
32. Official Denial (1993 TV Movie)
PG | 84 min | Sci-Fi
A man who claims to have been abducted by aliens is also abducted by a top secret government agency, the Majestic Group, who want him to attempt to communicate with the only surviving alien... See full summary »
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith | Stars: Parker Stevenson, Dirk Benedict, Erin Gray, Chad Everett
Votes: 345
33. Digital Man (1995)
R | 95 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An out-of-control robot is inadvertently set loose in a small community, and a crack squad of soldiers are sent to hunt it down. Gradually, the members of the squad begin to suspect that some of them are robots.
Director: Phillip J. Roth | Stars: Ken Olandt, Kristen Dalton, Adam Baldwin, Matthias Hues
Votes: 832
34. The Invaders (1995)
148 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A man named Nolan Wood tries to stop an invasion of Earth by aliens disguised as humans.
Stars: Scott Bakula, Elizabeth Peña, Richard Thomas, DeLane Matthews
Votes: 508
35. Space Truckers (1996)
PG-13 | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A space trucker and his cute fiancee are on their way from a space station to Earth with an unknown cargo. When space pirates hijack them, 5000 disintegrator robots are found in the cargo.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Tim Loane, Ian Beattie, Olwen Fouéré, Shane Rimmer
Votes: 8,709
36. Dark Breed (1996)
R | 104 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Six astronauts are infected by an alien organism.
Director: Richard Pepin | Stars: Jack Scalia, Cindy Ambuehl, Jonathan Banks, Gregg Brazzel
Votes: 701
37. Crossworlds (1996)
PG-13 | 91 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A young man finds himself in the middle of a universal battle between good and evil when he sets up residence in a trans-dimensional valley. Only his father's mysterious crystal pendant and its lost matching scepter can guarantee victory.
Director: Krishna Rao | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Josh Charles, Stuart Wilson, Andrea Roth
Votes: 3,157
38. The Cold Equations (1996 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Lt. John Barton is sent on a special mission to deliver a special vaccine to a distant mining colony. He is infuriated to find Lee, a stowaway aboard his spacecraft. Barton has only enough ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Geiger | Stars: Billy Campbell, Poppy Montgomery, Daniel Roebuck, William R. Moses
Votes: 439
39. Max Q (1998 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 91 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
A shuttle is launched into space to release a new satellite. When an explosion occurs the crew has to think of a way to get back to Earth without atmospheric pressure (max q) crushing the damaged shuttle.
Director: Michael Shapiro | Stars: Billy Campbell, Paget Brewster, Ned Vaughn, Geoffrey Blake
Votes: 400
40. Arrival II (1998)
R | 105 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A computer hacker (Patrick Muldoon) learns of the plot of the backwards-kneed aliens to take over the Earth using their shape-shifting talents.
Director: Kevin Tenney | Stars: Patrick Muldoon, Jane Sibbett, Michael Sarrazin, Catherine Blythe
Votes: 3,191
41. Spacejacked (1997 TV Movie)
R | 89 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Luxury space cruiser Star Princess is hijacked by the treacherous second mate, who threatens to blow up the craft unless he gets access to bank accounts on Earth. A beautiful passenger and ... See full summary »
Director: Jeremiah Cullinane | Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Amanda Pays, Steve Bond, Matt Holland
Votes: 275
42. RocketMan (1997)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Fred Z. Randall is a geeky spacecraft designer who gets the chance to make his dream come true and travel to Mars.
Director: Stuart Gillard | Stars: Harland Williams, Jessica Lundy, William Sadler, Jeffrey DeMunn
Votes: 10,421 | Gross: $15.45M
43. Invasion (1997– )
TV-14 | 175 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Small rocks fall from the sky which, when touched, trigger a latent virus that has always existed in humans and begins mutating them into an alien species. Taking advantage of its hive ... See full summary »
Stars: Luke Perry, Kim Cattrall, Rebecca Gayheart, Christopher Orr
Votes: 1,223
44. Habitat (1997)
R | 120 min | Sci-Fi
In a future world where Earth's ozone layer has been completely destroyed, a brilliant but obsessed scientist, Hank Symes uses illegally obtained biological materials for an experiment that... See full summary »
Director: Rene Daalder | Stars: Balthazar Getty, Tchéky Karyo, Alice Krige, Kenneth Welsh
Votes: 963
45. Invasion Earth (1998)
50 min | Sci-Fi
In the lonely Scottish highlands, a small band of military personnel fight a desperate battle against a formidable alien intruder to prevent an invasion of the Earth.
Stars: Vincent Regan, Maggie O'Neill, Fred Ward, Phyllis Logan
Votes: 658
46. Escape Velocity (1999)
R | 100 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A psychotic spaceman takes over a deep-space observatory manned by a scientist, his wife, and teenage daughter.
Director: Lloyd A. Simandl | Stars: Wendy Crewson, Patrick Bergin, Peter Outerbridge, Michelle Beaudoin
Votes: 377
47. Iceman (1984)
PG | 100 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A prehistoric Neanderthal man found frozen in ice is revived by an arctic exploration team, who then attempt to use him for their own scientific means.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone, Josef Sommer
Votes: 6,062 | Gross: $7.34M
48. Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
PG | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A maverick motorbike racer wanders into a top-secret time-travel research test site which unintentionally teleports him to the mid-1800s and ends up having to fight violent outlaws for his survival.
Director: William Dear | Stars: Fred Ward, Belinda Bauer, Peter Coyote, Richard Masur
Votes: 2,509
49. The Wraith (1986)
PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Horror, Romance
In a small town in Arizona, a mysterious man/spirit descends from the sky and manifests in a sports car and targets a local violent road-racing gang of motor heads, headed by a ruthless bully who'll do anything to get what he wants.
Director: Mike Marvin | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Sherilyn Fenn, Randy Quaid
Votes: 19,264 | Gross: $3.50M
50. Vanishing Act (1986 TV Movie)
PG | 95 min | Mystery
A man honeymooning with his new wife in the Rockies reports his wife's disappearance to the police. Hours later, a strange woman escorted by the local priest claims to be his missing wife, despite the man's inability to recognize her.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Mike Farrell, Margot Kidder, Fred Gwynne, Graham Jarvis
Votes: 639
51. Repo Man (1984)
R | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A young punk, recruited by a car repo agency, finds himself in pursuit of a Chevrolet Malibu with a huge, $20,000 bounty--and something otherworldly stashed in its trunk.
Director: Alex Cox | Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash
Votes: 41,157 | Gross: $3.57M
52. Stranded (1987)
PG-13 | 80 min | Sci-Fi
A young woman and her grandmother living in an isolated farmhouse are kidnapped by aliens.
Director: Fleming B. Fuller | Stars: Ione Skye, Maureen O'Sullivan, Joe Morton, Susan Barnes
Votes: 465
53. Starcrossed (1985 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Romance, Sci-Fi
An alien woman is running from a deadly enemy and tries to hide on Earth where she meets a young mechanic, who helps her to get back home and to fight for the freedom of her people.
Director: Jeffrey Bloom | Stars: James Spader, Belinda Bauer, Peter Kowanko, Clark Johnson
Votes: 606
54. Flashpoint (1984)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two U.S. border patrolmen find a buried 20+ year old jeep in the desert with a skeleton, rifle and $800,000. They keep the money. Suddenly, the FBI shows a lot of interest in the car.
Director: William Tannen | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Treat Williams, Rip Torn, Kevin Conway
Votes: 3,170 | Gross: $3.85M
55. Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.
Director: Stephen Chiodo | Stars: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, John Vernon
Votes: 45,516 | Gross: $15.63M
56. Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)
R | 93 min | Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
NYPD detectives Shepard and Powell are working on a bizarre case of a ritualistic Aztec murder. Meanwhile, something big is attacking people of New York and only greedy small time crook Jimmy Quinn knows where its lair is.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: David Carradine, Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, Richard Roundtree
Votes: 9,468
57. Eye of the Tiger (1986)
R | 92 min | Action, Drama
Returning home from prison, a Vietnam War veteran sets out to clean up his hometown which has come under the control of a violent motorcycle gang.
Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: Gary Busey, Yaphet Kotto, Seymour Cassel, Bert Remsen
Votes: 2,519
58. Exterminator 2 (1984)
R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The flamethrower-wielding vigilante John Eastland returns to rid New York City of a drug lord and his gang.
Director: Mark Buntzman | Stars: Robert Ginty, Mario Van Peebles, Deborah Geffner, Frankie Faison
Votes: 2,793 | Gross: $3.74M
59. Lifepod (2020)
90 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
The first interplanetary cruise ship malfunctions halfway to Jupiter, forcing most of the crew and passengers to abandon ship. A handful of people are trapped onboard.
Director: Bruce Bryant | Stars: Joe Penny, Kristine DeBell, Carl Lumbly, Sandy Kenyon
Votes: 328
60. Saturn 3 (1980)
R | 88 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid belt of Saturn are intruded upon by an anal-retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent eight foot tall robot.
Directors: Stanley Donen, John Barry | Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel, Ed Bishop
Votes: 10,492
61. Golem (1980)
92 min | Sci-Fi
The film is set in a terrorizing world of the future, where technology commands the movements of individuals, supervised by the doctors, carrying out a program to improve the human race. ... See full summary »
Director: Piotr Szulkin | Stars: Marek Walczewski, Krystyna Janda, Joanna Zólkowska, Anna Jaraczówna
Votes: 870
62. Hangar 18 (1980)
PG | 97 min | Sci-Fi
After a UFO crashes in Arizona, due to a space collision with a NASA satellite launch, the U.S. government tries to cover-up the incident for political reasons.
Director: James L. Conway | Stars: Darren McGavin, Robert Vaughn, Gary Collins, James Hampton
Votes: 2,984 | Gross: $6.00M
63. Galaxina (1980)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
In the 31st century, sexy blonde android Galaxina helms the crew of a space cruiser on a mission to find the Blue Star, a mystical gem that holds unlimited power.
Director: William Sachs | Stars: Stephen Macht, Avery Schreiber, J.D. Hinton, Dorothy Stratten
Votes: 3,430
64. The Stuff (1985)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A delicious, mysterious goo that oozes from the earth is marketed as the newest dessert sensation, but the tasty treat rots more than teeth when zombie-like snackers who only want to consume more of the strange substance at any cost begin infesting the world.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Garrett Morris, Paul Sorvino
Votes: 18,505
65. Street Trash (1987)
Unrated | 91 min | Comedy, Horror
A liquor store owner sells alcoholic beverages to homeless people, unaware of what the bottles actually contain: toxic brew.
Director: J. Michael Muro | Stars: Mike Lackey, Bill Chepil, Vic Noto, Mark Sferrazza
Votes: 11,447
66. TerrorVision (1986)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
"TerrorVision" is a 1986 horror / science fiction movie; telling the tale of when a family's new satellite television system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world.
Director: Ted Nicolaou | Stars: Diane Franklin, Mary Woronov, Gerrit Graham, Chad Allen
Votes: 7,777 | Gross: $0.32M
67. Creature (1985)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After a member of a geological research team who was sent to Saturn's largest moon: Titan crashes their spacecraft into a space station, another team is sent to Titan to investigate, not knowing the terror that awaits them.
Director: William Malone | Stars: Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Robert Jaffe
Votes: 4,689 | Gross: $4.78M
68. The Music of the Spheres (1984)
72 min | Sci-Fi
Set in the not-too-distant future, when the existing world economy has collapsed, and the new city-states are controlled by computers, many of which require a kind of telepathic linkage ... See full summary »
Director: G. Philip Jackson | Stars: Anne Dansereau, Peter Brikmanis, Jacques Couture, Ken Lemaire
Votes: 104
69. The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.
Director: John Sayles | Stars: Joe Morton, Daryl Edwards, Rosanna Carter, Ray Ramirez
Votes: 6,570 | Gross: $3.70M
70. Android (1982)
PG | 80 min | Sci-Fi
A strange doctor secretly experiments with androids on his space station. His assistant is Max, a curious android who wants to see the world and meet a girl. Criminals hide on their station and soon violence erupts.
Director: Aaron Lipstadt | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Don Keith Opper, Brie Howard, Norbert Weisser
Votes: 2,571
71. Warp Speed (1981 TV Movie)
92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A ship is found adrift in space with no trace of its crew, or any signs of life at all. A psychic is brought into to try to "join" her mind with the memories lingering in the spacecraft so ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Sandler | Stars: Camille Mitchell, David Chandler, Adam West, Joanne Nail
Votes: 163
72. The Visitor (1979)
R | 108 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The soul of a young girl with telekinetic powers and her mother become the prize in a battle between good ETs and evil ETs.
Director: Giulio Paradisi | Stars: Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Lance Henriksen, John Huston
Votes: 4,544
73. The Noah's Ark Principle (1984)
100 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Near the end of the 20th century, WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) are retired. However, certain factions plan to use a science space station as a weapon against each other. The astronauts inside will decide the world's fate.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Richy Müller, Franz Buchrieser, Aviva Joel, Matthias Fuchs
Votes: 1,105
74. Nothing Lasts Forever (1984)
PG | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An artist fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City's Holland Tunnel. He winds up falling in love with a beautiful woman, after he takes a trip to the moon on a Lunar Cruiser.
Director: Tom Schiller | Stars: Zach Galligan, Apollonia van Ravenstein, Lauren Tom, Sam Jaffe
Votes: 960
75. DEFCON-4 (1985)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one... See full summary »
Directors: Paul Donovan, Digby Cook, Tony Randel | Stars: Lenore Zann, Maury Chaykin, Kate Lynch, Kevin King
Votes: 2,244 | Gross: $1.06M
76. 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: 29,491 | Gross: $11.60M
77. Murder in Space (1985 TV Movie)
95 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Set in the "not-so-distant future", the crew of an international space station are set to return triumphantly to Earth, until someone starts killing the other crew members.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Wilford Brimley, Michael Ironside, Martin Balsam, Damir Andrei
Votes: 259
78. Trancers (1984)
PG-13 | 76 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A gruff bounty hunter travels back in time to 1980s Los Angeles to stop a twisted criminal who can transform people into zombie-like creatures.
Director: Charles Band | Stars: Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, Michael Stefani, Art LaFleur
Votes: 7,551
79. Flight of the Navigator (1986)
PG | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
In 1978, a boy travels eight years into the future and has an adventure with an intelligent, wisecracking alien ship.
Director: Randal Kleiser | Stars: Joey Cramer, Paul Reubens, Cliff De Young, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 51,714 | Gross: $18.56M
80. *batteries not included (1987)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Aliens help a feisty old New York couple in their battle against the ruthless land developer who's out to evict them.
Director: Matthew Robbins | Stars: Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae, Elizabeth Peña
Votes: 37,718 | Gross: $32.95M
81. 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: 66,373 | Gross: $40.70M
82. Nightflyers (1987)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Professor hires a spaceship to get to the source of weird signals from deep space. The trip is cut short however when the ship's computer gets jealous because the captain is in love with one of the female passengers and it gets homicidal.
Director: Robert Collector | Stars: Catherine Mary Stewart, Michael Praed, John Standing, Lisa Blount
Votes: 1,392 | Gross: $1.15M
83. Robot Holocaust (1987)
Not Rated | 79 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A highly unlikely band of heroes traverses a post-apocalyptic wasteland to rescue a scientist from the tyrannical Dark One and his army of robots.
Director: Tim Kincaid | Stars: Norris Culf, Nadine Hartstein, J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner, Jennifer Delora
Votes: 2,097
84. Omega Doom (1996)
R | 84 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After Earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding. In the nuclear winter, only droids walk the face of the Earth, in fear of the rumored... See full summary »
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Shannon Whirry, Norbert Weisser, Tina Cote
Votes: 3,337
85. Slipstream (1989)
PG-13 | 102 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself.
Director: Steven Lisberger | Stars: Bob Peck, Mark Hamill, Kitty Aldridge, Bill Paxton
Votes: 3,067
86. Contamination (1980)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
Director: Luigi Cozzi | Stars: Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé, Siegfried Rauch
Votes: 5,297
87. The Martian Chronicles (1980)
360 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
In the 21st century, Earth begins the colonization of Mars. However, things do not go as planned, at first due to the hostile Martian natives and later because of the self-destructive Earthmen.
Stars: Rock Hudson, Gayle Hunnicutt, Bernie Casey, Christopher Connelly
Votes: 2,512
88. Ice (1998 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 93 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After the whole North of the Equator freezes below zero, a group of people in Los Angeles risk their lives while trying to "escape" from the city's hostile conditions, in order to take a ship to a hotter place on Earth.
Director: Jean de Segonzac | Stars: Grant Show, Udo Kier, Eva LaRue, Flex Alexander
Votes: 1,263
89. Something Is Out There (II) (1988)
Not Rated | 200 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Two police officers investigate a series of brutal murders in which the victims have had bodily organs removed. When one of them questions a young woman who has been seen at the crime ... See full summary »
Stars: Joe Cortese, Maryam d'Abo, George Dzundza, Gregory Sierra
Votes: 640
90. Beyond the Stars (1989)
PG | 88 min | Sci-Fi, Drama
Eric moves to his dad in Oregon after accidentally firing a rocket into his high school. He befriends Mara and a retired astronaut.
Director: David Saperstein | Stars: Martin Sheen, Christian Slater, Robert Foxworth, Sharon Stone
Votes: 1,263
91. The Star Chamber (1983)
R | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Frustrated with a legal system gone haywire, a secret society of judges hires hitmen to snuff out criminals who escape courtroom justice - but one young judge questions the ethics of their vigilante system.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless
Votes: 7,737 | Gross: $5.56M
92. The Boogens (1981)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Otherworldly creatures are released from the bootleg tunnels underneath a small-town mining community, and begin chomping on the locals.
Director: James L. Conway | Stars: Rebecca Balding, Fred McCarren, Anne-Marie Martin, Jeff Harlan
Votes: 3,124
93. Nemesis (1992)
R | 95 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Alex, a burned out LA cyborg cop, is forced by commissioner Farnsworth to find his former cyborg partner and lover Jared who's about to deliver sensitive data to cyborg terrorists who wish to wage war against humans. Is he being played?
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Olivier Gruner, Tim Thomerson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Merle Kennedy
Votes: 6,773 | Gross: $2.00M
94. Radioactive Dreams (1984)
R | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After a nuclear war, Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent fifteen years on their own in a bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, nineteen-years-old,... See full summary »
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: John Stockwell, Michael Dudikoff, Michele Little, Lisa Blount
Votes: 1,951 | Gross: $0.22M
95. Mosquito (1994)
R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A violent massacre caused by human-sized mosquitoes forces the lone survivors to band together in a fight for survival as the mosquitoes continue their onslaught.
Director: Gary Jones | Stars: Gunnar Hansen, Ron Asheton, Steve Dixon, Rachel Loiselle
Votes: 2,912 | Gross: $0.99M
96. Skeeter (1993)
R | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
As the result of a corrupt businessman's illegal toxic waste dumping, a small desert town is beset by a deadly swarm of huge bloodthirsty mutant mosquitoes!
Director: Clark Brandon | Stars: Tracy Griffith, Jim Youngs, Charles Napier, Jay Robinson
Votes: 1,066
97. Flashdance (1983)
R | 95 min | Drama, Music, Romance
An 18-year-old female amateur dancer who performs nightly at a dancing bar, and works as a welder during the day, dreams of joining the Pittsburgh ballet school.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala, Sunny Johnson
Votes: 59,593 | Gross: $94.90M
98. Communion (1989)
R | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Horror
On December 26th Whitley Strieber has a strange nightmare. In the following days, plagued by painful headaches, his behavior becomes increasingly erratic. Later, under hypnosis, he realizes that his dream was not a dream at all.
Director: Philippe Mora | Stars: Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse, Frances Sternhagen, Andreas Katsulas
Votes: 7,562 | Gross: $1.92M
99. The Goonies (1985)
PG | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A group of young misfits called The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on an adventure to find a legendary pirate's long-lost treasure.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman
Votes: 298,589 | Gross: $61.50M
100. The NeverEnding Story (1984)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A troubled boy dives into a wondrous fantasy world through the pages of a mysterious book.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Gerald McRaney
Votes: 157,049 | Gross: $20.16M
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