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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.
Under the Skin (2013 film)
Under the Skin (2013) is Jonathan Glazer's science fiction film, loosely adapted from Michel Faber's 2000 novel, starring Scarlett Johansson as an alien luring men in Scotland; shot with hidden cameras, scored by Mica Levi, premiered at Venice 2013, released 2014 via A24.
Upgrade (film)
Upgrade (2018) is a cyberpunk action-thriller written and directed by Leigh Whannell, starring Logan Marshall-Green as Grey Trace, a paralyzed widower whose AI implant STEM grants superhuman abilities for revenge; a $3 million Blumhouse film that grossed $16.7 million.
Upside Down (2012 film)
Upside Down (2012) is a French-Canadian sci-fi romance by Juan Solanas starring Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst as lovers on twinned worlds with opposite gravities. Budgeted $50-60 million, it grossed about $22-26 million worldwide and earned 29% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Upstream Color
Upstream Color (2013) is Shane Carruth's experimental sci-fi follow-up to Primer, starring Amy Seimetz; a parasite links a woman, pigs, and orchids in a looping narrative that won Sundance's Sound Design award.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Valérian et la Cité des mille planètes) is a 2017 science fiction film written and directed by Luc Besson.
Vivarium (film)
Vivarium (2019) is a sci-fi thriller by director Lorcan Finnegan and writer Garret Shanley, starring Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg as a couple trapped in Yonder, a maze of identical suburban houses, forced to raise a cuckoo-like child; Cannes Critics' Week premiere, 73% on Rotten Tomatoes.
What Happened to Monday
What Happened to Monday (2017), also released as Seven Sisters, is a Netflix dystopian sci-fi thriller directed by Tommy Wirkola, starring Noomi Rapace as septuplet sisters sharing one identity under a one-child policy, with Willem Dafoe and Glenn Close.
Womb (film)
Womb (2010), also released as Clone, is a German-Hungarian-French sci-fi drama by Benedek Fliegauf starring Eva Green and Matt Smith, about a woman who bears and raises a clone of her dead lover.
Z for Zachariah (film)
Z for Zachariah (2015) is a post-apocalyptic drama directed by Craig Zobel, written by Nissar Modi, starring Margot Robbie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Chris Pine, adapted from Robert C. O'Brien's 1974 novel; Caleb was invented for the film.
Zoe (film)
Zoe (2018) is a sci-fi romance directed by Drake Doremus, starring Léa Seydoux and Ewan McGregor as lab colleagues; Zoe learns she is a synthetic. Premiered at Tribeca April 21, 2018; Metascore 39, RT 35%, gross $401,912. Distinct from the 2025 Italian film and the 2018 Swiss film of the same name.