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Real Steel
Real Steel (2011) is a Shawn Levy science fiction sports film starring Hugh Jackman, based on Richard Matheson's short story "Steel"; Charlie Kenton and son Max train the robot Atom, grossing $85.5M domestic on a $110M budget.
Replicas (film)
Replicas is a 2018 sci-fi thriller directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, starring Keanu Reeves as neuroscientist William Foster, who clones his family after a fatal car crash. Released January 11, 2019; grossed about $9 million on a $30 million budget; 9% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Repo Men
Repo Men is a 2010 sci-fi action film directed by Miguel Sapochnik, starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker as organ-repossession agents, based on Eric Garcia's novel The Repossession Mambo, released by Universal on March 19, 2010. Distinct from Repo Man (1984) and Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008).
Rim of the World
Rim of the World is a 2019 Netflix Original sci-fi adventure film directed by McG and written by Zack Stentz, about four misfit teens at a California summer camp who must carry a key to stopping an alien invasion 70 miles to JPL; released May 24, 2019.
See You Yesterday
See You Yesterday is a 2019 American sci-fi film directed by Stefon Bristol, written with Fredrica Bailey, produced by Spike Lee, and released on Netflix May 17, 2019, about Brooklyn teens building time-travel backpacks to undo a police shooting; it won the 2020 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.
Self/less
Self/less is a 2015 American sci-fi action thriller directed by Tarsem Singh, starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kingsley, about a dying billionaire whose consciousness is transferred into a body with a hidden past; released July 10, 2015 by Focus Features.
Skyline (2010 film)
Skyline is a 2010 American science fiction thriller directed by Colin and Greg Strause, starring Eric Balfour, in which blue lights over Los Angeles herald an alien invasion.
Source Code
Source Code is a 2011 science fiction thriller directed by Duncan Jones and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, whose soldier relives the last eight minutes before a Chicago train bombing.
Space Cop
Space Cop is a 2016 American direct-to-video sci-fi buddy-cop comedy by Red Letter Media's Jay Bauman and Mike Stoklasa, shot in Milwaukee for $80,000 and self-distributed.
Spectral
Spectral (2016) is a military sci-fi action film directed by Nic Mathieu, starring James Badge Dale, about a Delta Force team fighting Bose-Einstein-condensate apparitions in Moldova; released as a Netflix exclusive on December 9, 2016.
Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek Into Darkness, also known as Star Trek XII, is a 2013 American science fiction action film directed by J. J. Abrams, the second in the rebooted series.
Super 8 (2011 film)
Super 8 is a 2011 American science fiction thriller film written and directed by J. J. Abrams and produced by Steven Spielberg, about kids who witness a train crash.
Tau (film)
Tau is a 2018 Netflix science fiction thriller, Federico D'Alessandro's directorial debut, starring Maika Monroe, Ed Skrein, and Gary Oldman as the voice of a captive smart-house AI; critics gave it 30% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Ten Years (十年)
Ten Years (十年) is a 2015 Hong Kong independent anthology film in which five directors imagine a dystopian 2025 Hong Kong, winning Best Film at the 2016 Hong Kong Film Awards.
The Last Days
The Last Days (Los últimos días) is a 2013 Spanish-French apocalyptic thriller by Àlex and David Pastor, starring Quim Gutiérrez and José Coronado, about an epidemic of fatal agoraphobia trapping people indoors in Barcelona.
The Machine (2013 film)
The Machine (2013) is a British sci-fi thriller by Caradog W. James, starring Caity Lotz and Toby Stephens, about a conscious android soldier; premiered at Tribeca 2013, won three BAFTA Cymru awards.
The Martian (film)
The Martian is a 2015 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, in which Matt Damon plays an astronaut stranded on Mars who must survive alone.
The Signal (2014 film)
The Signal (2014 film): American sci-fi thriller by William Eubank, starring Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke, Beau Knapp, Laurence Fishburne; Sundance premiere, $4M budget, Focus Features limited release.
The Space Between Us (film)
The Space Between Us is a 2017 STX science-fiction romance directed by Peter Chelsom, starring Asa Butterfield as the first human born on Mars and Britt Robertson; it grossed $7.8M and scored 17% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Thinning
The Thinning is a 2016 YouTube Red dystopian thriller directed by Michael J. Gallagher, starring Logan Paul and Peyton List as students exposing a rigged population-control aptitude test; a 2018 sequel, New World Order, followed.
The Titan (film)
The Titan is a 2018 sci-fi thriller directed by Lennart Ruff, starring Sam Worthington as a pilot genetically altered to survive Saturn's moon Titan. Not to be confused with the unrelated Lily Collins or Lionsgate Titan projects.
The Vast of Night
The Vast of Night (2019) is Andrew Patterson's debut indie sci-fi film, written by James Montague and Craig W. Sanger, about a 1950s New Mexico DJ and switchboard operator tracing a mysterious frequency; Slamdance Audience Award winner released by Amazon Studios.
The Watch (2012 film)
The Watch is a 2012 American science-fiction comedy directed by Akiva Schaffer, starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Richard Ayoade as suburban men fighting aliens.
The Zero Theorem
The Zero Theorem is Terry Gilliam's 2013 dystopian sci-fi film, written by Pat Rushin, starring Christoph Waltz as Qohen Leth, a hacker tasked with proving life is meaningless; shot in Bucharest for $8.5 million, released 2014.
These Final Hours
These Final Hours is a 2013 Australian apocalyptic drama, the feature debut of writer-director Zak Hilditch, set in Perth during the last 12 hours before a meteor firestorm; Nathan Phillips and Angourie Rice star, and it won the Age Critics' Award at MIFF 2013.
Time Lapse (film)
Time Lapse is a 2014 American sci-fi thriller directed by Bradley King, written with BP Cooper, in which three roommates exploit a camera that photographs 24 hours into the future; released theatrically in 2015 by XLrator Media.
Time Trap (film)
Time Trap (2017) is an American indie sci-fi adventure film directed by Mark Dennis and Ben Foster, about students trapped in a cave where time passes slowly; premiered at SIFF 2017, released by Paladin in 2018, distinct from the 1964 film of the same title.
Tomorrowland (film)
Tomorrowland, released as A World Beyond in some markets, is a 2015 Disney science fiction film directed by Brad Bird and starring George Clooney and Britt Robertson.
Total Recall (2012 film)
Total Recall is a 2012 American science fiction action film directed by Len Wiseman and starring Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, and Jessica Biel, a remake of the 1990 film.
Transcendence (2014 film)
Transcendence is a 2014 science fiction thriller starring Johnny Depp as AI researcher Will Caster, whose consciousness is uploaded to a computer; it underperformed commercially and critically.