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1. April 2000
1. April 2000 is a 1952 Austrian science-fiction political satire directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner, commissioned by the Austrian government: in the year 2000, still-occupied Austria declares independence and defends itself before a world court.
20 Million Miles to Earth
20 Million Miles to Earth is a 1957 Columbia science fiction film directed by Nathan Juran, produced by Charles H. Schneer, with Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion Ymir, a Venusian creature that grows and rampages in Rome.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1954 American live-action Disney adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer, adapted from Jules Verne's novel, starring Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, and Peter Lorre.
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's epic science fiction film based on Clarke's The Sentinel, follows humanity from hominid origins to star-child evolution via the alien monolith and the malfunctioning computer HAL 9000, premiering April 2, 1968 and topping Sight and Sound's 2022 directors' poll.
Amphibian Man (Человек-амфибия)
Amphibian Man (Человек-амфибия): Alexander Belyaev's 1927 science-fiction novel of Ichthyander, a youth with shark gills, in Argentina; famous chiefly through the 1961 Lenfilm film by Chebotarev and Kazansky with 65 million viewers and Trieste awards.
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a 1958 American black-and-white sci-fi film directed by Nathan Juran (credited Nathan Hertz), starring Allison Hayes as heiress Nancy Fowler Archer, who grows giant after an alien encounter; a cult classic remade for HBO in 1993.
Barbarella (film)
Barbarella (1968), Roger Vadim's French-Italian sci-fi comedy starring Jane Fonda, adapted from Jean-Claude Forest's comic; produced by Dino De Laurentiis, released by Paramount, now a camp cult classic.
Beginning of the End (film)
Beginning of the End (1957) is a Bert I. Gordon American sci-fi film, also called a big bug movie, in which irradiated grasshoppers from an Illinois experimental farm attack Chicago, starring Peter Graves and Peggie Castle.
Blackbeard's Ghost
Blackbeard's Ghost is a 1968 American family fantasy comedy from Walt Disney Productions, directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, and Suzanne Pleshette.
Cat-Women of the Moon
Cat-Women of the Moon (Rocket to the Moon) is a 1953 American 3-D black-and-white sci-fi film directed by Arthur Hilton, starring Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, and Marie Windsor, about telepathic lunar women who plot to steal the astronauts' rocketship; remade as Missile to the Moon.
Charly
Charly (1968) is an American drama directed by Ralph Nelson, starring Cliff Robertson as a cognitively impaired man briefly made a genius by surgery, adapted from Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon; Robertson won the Best Actor Oscar.
Destination Moon (film)
Destination Moon (1950) is a George Pal-produced, Irving Pichel-directed Technicolor science fiction film, loosely based on Robert A. Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo, that won the Oscar for Best Special Effects and launched the 1950s science fiction film boom.
Devil Girl from Mars
Devil Girl from Mars is a 1954 British black-and-white science fiction film directed by David MacDonald, in which the Martian Nyah (Patricia Laffan) and her robot Chani trap guests at a Scottish inn to collect men as breeding stock.
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) is a black-and-white Columbia science fiction film directed by Fred F. Sears, produced by Charles H. Schneer, based on Donald E. Keyhoe's novel, with Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion saucers destroying Washington, D.C.
Face of Another (他人の顔)
The Face of Another (他人の顔, Tanin no kao) is a 1966 Japanese black-and-white film by Hiroshi Teshigahara, adapted by Kobo Abe from his 1964 novel, starring Tatsuya Nakadai as a disfigured man whose lifelike mask leads him to seduce his own wife.
Fahrenheit 451 (1966 film)
Fahrenheit 451 (1966) is François Truffaut's British science fiction film adapting Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel, starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie, shot by Nicolas Roeg with a Bernard Herrmann score, and Truffaut's only English-language film.
Fantastic Voyage
Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 American science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer, in which a miniaturized submarine and crew travel inside a scientist's body to destroy a blood clot.
First Men in the Moon (1964 film)
First Men in the Moon (1964) is a British science fiction film directed by Nathan Juran, produced by Charles H. Schneer, with Ray Harryhausen Dynamation effects, starring Edward Judd, Lionel Jeffries, and Martha Hyer, adapted from H. G. Wells's 1901 novel.
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940) is Universal's third and final Flash Gordon serial, 12 chapters directed by Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor, starring Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, and Charles Middleton as Ming battling the Purple Death.
Forbidden Planet
Forbidden Planet (1956) is MGM's first major science fiction film, directed by Fred M. Wilcox from Cyril Hume's screenplay, a loose Tempest transposition set on Altair IV with Robby the Robot and the first all-electronic film score.
Hibernatus
Hibernatus is a 1969 French-Italian comedy by Édouard Molinaro starring Louis de Funès and Claude Gensac, adapted from Jean Bernard-Luc's play about a man found frozen for 65 years.
Invaders from Mars (1953 film)
Invaders from Mars (1953) is William Cameron Menzies' color alien-invasion film in which a boy sees Martians mind-control his town, a Cold War Red Scare classic, National Film Registry 2024, remade by Tobe Hooper in 1986.
Invasion (1969 film)
Invasión (Invasion), 1969 Argentine black-and-white sci-fi political drama by Hugo Santiago, written with Borges and Bioy Casares; set in Aquilea, a fictional Buenos Aires; banned, restored, ranked 2nd best Argentine film in 2022.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Don Siegel's black-and-white sci-fi horror starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter, adapted from Jack Finney's novel; alien pods replace sleeping townsfolk in Santa Mira, spawning the term 'pod people' and remakes in 1978, 1993, and 2007.
It Came from Beneath the Sea
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) is a Columbia black-and-white sci-fi monster film directed by Robert Gordon, produced by Charles H. Schneer, with Ray Harryhausen's six-tentacled stop-motion octopus attacking San Francisco; first Harryhausen-Schneer collaboration.
It Came from Outer Space
It Came from Outer Space (1953) is Universal's first 3-D film, directed by Jack Arnold from a Ray Bradbury story, starring Richard Carlson and Barbara Rush as an astronomer and teacher who find a peaceful alien ship in Arizona.
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) is a black-and-white American sci-fi horror film directed by Edward L. Cahn, written by Jerome Bixby, in which a Martian creature stows away on a rescue ship and kills the crew, later cited as a key inspiration for Alien (1979).
Je t'aime je t'aime
Je t'aime, je t'aime (I Love You, I Love You) is a 1968 French science-fiction drama by Alain Resnais, written with Jacques Sternberg, starring Claude Rich as a suicide survivor trapped in oscillating memories after a time travel experiment malfunctions; it competed at the disrupted 1968 Cannes festival and influenced Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) is a Twentieth Century-Fox adventure film directed by Henry Levin, starring James Mason, Pat Boone, and Arlene Dahl, adapted from Verne's 1864 novel, released December 1959, with four Oscar nominations.
Kronos (film)
Kronos (1957), also released as Kronos: Ravager of Planets, is a Kurt Neumann black-and-white Regal Films science fiction film starring Jeff Morrow, about a giant alien energy-absorbing machine destroyed by overfeeding it power.