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Ad Astra (film)
Ad Astra (2019) is a James Gray science fiction drama starring Brad Pitt as astronaut Roy McBride, who travels to Neptune to find his father Clifford (Tommy Lee Jones) amid power surges threatening Earth; released September 20, 2019, by 20th Century Fox, 2h 4m, $50.2M US gross, 83% on Rotten Tomatoes.
After Earth
After Earth (2013) is a science fiction action film directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith as Cypher and Kitai Raige, crash-landed on abandoned Earth. It grossed about $244 million on a $130 million budget and scored 12% on Rotten Tomatoes.
After the Dark
After the Dark, originally titled The Philosophers, is a 2013 sci-fi psychological thriller written and directed by John Huddles, filmed in Indonesia, about twenty Jakarta philosophy students choosing ten survivors of a nuclear apocalypse; released in the US February 7, 2014.
After the End (film)
After the End (2017), originally titled I'm OK, is an American post-apocalyptic drama directed by Ron Hanks, starring Alex Frnka and Justin Dwayne Hall as survivors in virus-ravaged Oklahoma; distinct from Andrew Morgan's grief documentary of the same name.
Alita: Battle Angel
Alita: Battle Angel (2019), Robert Rodriguez film produced and co-written by James Cameron, adapting Yukito Kishiro's cyberpunk manga Gunnm (Battle Angel Alita); stars Rosa Salazar, grossed over $404 million, sequel unconfirmed.
Aniara (film)
Aniara is a 2018 Swedish sci-fi drama, the feature debut of directors Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja, adapting Harry Martinson's 1956 epic poem about a Mars colony ship knocked permanently off course. It won four Guldbagge Awards and premiered at TIFF 2018.
Annihilation (film)
Annihilation (2018) is a sci-fi film written and directed by Alex Garland, adapted from Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach novel, starring Natalie Portman as biologist Lena exploring the mutating zone Area X; 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, $11 million opening.
Anon (film)
Anon is a 2018 sci-fi thriller written and directed by Andrew Niccol, starring Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried, released on Netflix May 4, 2018; set in a surveillance future where memories are recorded, it earned 38% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 54 Metascore.
Another Earth
Another Earth (2011), directed by Mike Cahill and co-written with Brit Marling, is an indie sci-fi drama in which Rhoda Williams, after a car crash that killed composer John Burroughs's family, seeks forgiveness as a duplicate Earth appears in the sky; Sundance Sloan and Special Jury Prize winner.
Apollo 18 (film)
Apollo 18 is a 2011 found-footage sci-fi horror film directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego, presenting a secret 1974 US moon mission; it grossed about $26.5 million on a $5 million budget despite 24% reviews.
Arctic Blast
Arctic Blast (2010) is an Australian-Canadian straight-to-DVD sci-fi disaster film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith, starring Michael Shanks as a Hobart meteorologist fighting a lethal ice fog from an atmospheric rift.
ARQ (film)
ARQ is a 2016 Netflix original sci-fi thriller written and directed by Tony Elliott, starring Robbie Amell and Rachael Taylor, in which a stolen perpetual-motion machine traps a couple in a time loop during a home invasion.
Arrival (film)
Arrival (2016) is a Denis Villeneuve science fiction film, scripted by Eric Heisserer from Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life", in which linguist Louise Banks deciphers heptapod language; eight Oscar nominations, one win.
Atlantic Rim (film)
Atlantic Rim (2013), also released as Attack from Beneath, is The Asylum's $500,000 mockbuster of Pacific Rim, directed by Jared Cohn, starring David Chokachi, Treach, and Graham Greene, released on DVD July 9, 2013.
Atlas Shrugged: Part I
Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011) is the first of three planned film adaptations of Ayn Rand's 1957 novel, directed by Paul Johansson, starring Taylor Schilling and Grant Bowler; a $10 million independent production that grossed about $4.6 million.
Attack the Block
Attack the Block: 2011 British sci-fi comedy horror, Joe Cornish's directorial debut, in which John Boyega's teen gang defends a South London estate from aliens on Guy Fawkes Night; 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, cult hit, sequel in pre-production.
Battle: Los Angeles
Battle: Los Angeles is a 2011 American sci-fi action film directed by Jonathan Liebesman, starring Aaron Eckhart as a Marine sergeant fighting aliens in Santa Monica; also known abroad as World Invasion: Battle: Los Angeles.
Before We Vanish (散歩する侵略者)
Before We Vanish (散歩する侵略者, Sanpo Suru Shinryakusha) is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2017 Japanese sci-fi drama adapted from Tomohiro Maekawa's Ikiume stage play, starring Masami Nagasawa, Ryuhei Matsuda, and Hiroki Hasegawa; aliens steal human concepts before invading, and it screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2017.
Beyond Skyline
Beyond Skyline (2017) is a sci-fi action sequel to Skyline (2010), directed by Liam O'Donnell, starring Frank Grillo, Iko Uwais, and Bojana Novakovic; a detective boards an alien ship to rescue his son, which crashes in Southeast Asia.
Beyond the Black Rainbow
Beyond the Black Rainbow is Panos Cosmatos's 2010 debut feature, a retro-futuristic 1983-set sci-fi horror film starring Michael Rogers and Eva Allan, with a Jeremy Schmidt synthesizer score.
Bleeding Steel (机器之血)
Bleeding Steel (机器之血) is a 2017 Chinese sci-fi action film directed by Leo Zhang, starring Jackie Chan, Show Lo, and Ouyang Nana; released December 22, 2017 in China and shot partly in Sydney, including a fight on the Opera House sails.
Bokeh (film)
Bokeh is a 2017 independent sci-fi drama directed and written by Geoffrey Orthwein and Andrew Sullivan, starring Maika Monroe and Matt O'Leary as an American couple in Iceland who wake to find everyone on Earth has vanished; released March 24, 2017 via Screen Media Films.
Captive State
Captive State (2019) is a Rupert Wyatt sci-fi thriller, co-written with Erica Beeney, about Chicago under alien occupation, starring John Goodman, Ashton Sanders, Jonathan Majors, and Vera Farmiga; released by Focus Features, it cost $25 million and grossed $5.9 million in the US.
Chappie (film)
Chappie is Neill Blomkamp's 2015 Sony/MRC science fiction action film about a Johannesburg police droid given true AI, starring Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Die Antwoord, Sigourney Weaver, and Hugh Jackman; $49M budget, about $102M gross, Metacritic 41.
Circle (2015 film)
Circle is a 2015 American psychological science-fiction thriller written and directed by Aaron Hann and Mario Miscione, the directing debut for both, about fifty strangers forced to vote on who is killed.
Cloud Atlas (film)
Cloud Atlas (2012) is a science fiction drama by Lana and Lilly Wachowski and Tom Tykwer, adapted from David Mitchell's 2004 novel, cross-cutting six stories from 1849 to a post-apocalyptic future with a multi-role ensemble cast.
Code 8 (2019 film)
Code 8 (2019) is a sci-fi action film directed by Jeff Chan, starring cousins Robbie and Stephen Amell as powered criminals in Lincoln City. Crowdfunded from a 2016 short, it became a Netflix hit in 2020 and spawned Code 8: Part II (2024).
Coherence (film)
Coherence (2013) is a micro-budget American sci-fi thriller, James Ward Byrkit's directorial debut, about eight friends at a dinner party whose reality fractures during a comet's passage; shot improvised over five nights for about $50,000.
Cold Skin (film)
Cold Skin (La piel fría) is a 2017 Spanish-French sci-fi horror film by Xavier Gens, adapted from Albert Sánchez Piñol's novel, starring Ray Stevenson, David Oakes, and Aura Garrido as an amphibian.
Cowboys & Aliens
Cowboys & Aliens is a 2011 American science-fiction Western directed by Jon Favreau, starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde as frontier townspeople fight alien invaders.