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A Samurai in Time
A Samurai in Time (侍タイムスリッパー, Samurai Time Slipper) is a 2024 Japanese indie comedy-drama by Junichi Yasuda in which an Edo-period samurai lands on a modern jidaigeki film set and becomes a kirareyaku; it won Best Film at the 48th Japan Academy Film Prize.
M3GAN
M3GAN (2023) is a Blumhouse-Universal sci-fi horror comedy directed by Gerard Johnstone, written by Akela Cooper and James Wan, about an AI doll (Amie Donald, voiced by Jenna Davis) that turns murderous; it earned $30.2M domestically on a $12M budget and nearly $182M worldwide.
M3GAN 2.0
M3GAN 2.0 is a 2025 American science-fiction action comedy film, directed by Gerard Johnstone, in which the AI android M3GAN is rebuilt to fight a military-grade android.
Mars Express (film)
Mars Express (2023) is a French adult animated sci-fi noir directed by Jérémie Périn, co-written with Laurent Sarfati, set in 2200 on colonized Mars; detective Aline Ruby and android Carlos Rivera investigate a robot-sabotage plot. Premiered at Cannes, competed at Annecy, César-nominated, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Megalopolis (film)
Megalopolis (full title Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis: A Fable) is a 2024 American sci-fi drama directed and self-financed for $120 million by Francis Ford Coppola, set in New Rome, starring Adam Driver, released by Lionsgate September 27, 2024, and a major box-office flop.
Mickey 17
Mickey 17 is a 2025 science-fiction film written and directed by Bong Joon Ho, starring Robert Pattinson as an expendable laborer who is killed and reprinted.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway
Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway (機動戦士ガンダム 閃光のハサウェイ), aka Hathaway's Flash, is a 2021 Sunrise anime film, first of a trilogy adapting Tomino's novels, set in U.C.0105, directed by Shuko Murase, released June 11, 2021 by Shochiku.
Monsters of Man
Monsters of Man is a 2020 sci-fi action film written, directed, shot and self-financed by Mark Toia, in which four weaponized prototype robots test-deployed in the Golden Triangle kill villagers and hunt six American doctors.
Moon Man
Moon Man (独行月球) is a 2022 Chinese sci-fi comedy by Zhang Chiyu starring Shen Teng and Ma Li, adapted from Cho Seok's webtoon; a man left on the moon is livestreamed worldwide. It grossed over 3.1 billion yuan, second in China for 2022.
Mother/Android
Mother/Android is a 2021 American post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller, Mattson Tomlin's directorial debut, starring Chloë Grace Moretz and Algee Smith as an expectant couple fleeing an android uprising; released December 17, 2021 on Hulu.
No One Will Save You
No One Will Save You is a 2023 Hulu sci-fi horror thriller written and directed by Brian Duffield, starring Kaitlyn Dever as Brynn Adams, who battles alien Greys in a nearly dialogue-free home-invasion film.
Nope (film)
Nope is a 2022 American science-fiction horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele, starring Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as siblings attempting to photograph an otherworldly presence.
OBEX
OBEX is a 2025 American black-and-white fantasy-horror film by Albert Birney, who writes, directs, edits, and stars as Conor Marsh, a 1987 recluse drawn into a computer game to rescue his dog Sandy; Sundance NEXT premiere, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Omni Loop
Omni Loop is a 2024 sci-fi drama, Bernardo Britto's feature debut, starring Mary-Louise Parker as physicist Zoya Lowe and Ayo Edebiri; a dying woman with a black hole in her chest uses pills to rewind one week repeatedly.
Operation Taco Gary's
Operation Taco Gary's is a 2026 American sci-fi comedy directed by Michael Kvamme, starring Simon Rex and Dustin Milligan as brothers who find an alien invasion hidden in a taco chain; released by Chroma February 27, 2026.
Osiris (film)
Osiris (2025) is an American sci-fi action-horror film directed by William Kaufman, starring Max Martini, Brianna Hildebrand, and Linda Hamilton, about Special Forces commandos abducted by an alien spacecraft and hunted aboard it; released July 25, 2025, 50% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Outside the Wire
Outside the Wire is a 2021 Netflix sci-fi action film directed by Mikael Håfström, starring Anthony Mackie as an android officer and Damson Idris as a drone pilot on a 2036 mission to stop a nuclear attack; it scored 36% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Plan 75 (PLAN 75)
Plan 75 (PLAN 75, プラン75) is Chie Hayakawa's 2022 debut feature, a dystopian drama about a Japanese government program of voluntary euthanasia for people 75 and older; it won the Caméra d'Or Special Mention at Cannes 2022 and was Japan's 2023 Oscar entry.
Plurality (2021 film)
Plurality (複身犯) is a 2021 Taiwanese sci-fi crime thriller directed by Aozaru Shiao, starring Tony Yang, Sandrine Pinna, and Frederick Lee; five bus-crash victims' consciousnesses are uploaded into a death-row prisoner to solve child kidnappings.
Possessor (film)
Possessor is a 2020 Canadian-British sci-fi horror thriller written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg, starring Andrea Riseborough as assassin Tasya Vos, who uses brain-implant technology to control others' bodies; Sundance 2020 premiere, Sitges award winner.
Postcard from Earth
Postcard from Earth is Darren Aronofsky's 2023 immersive sci-fi film, the first production made for the Las Vegas Sphere, shot on the 18K Big Sky camera and shown on a 16K, 160,000-square-foot LED screen with haptic 4D effects.
Primitive War
Primitive War (2025) is an Australian independent action sci-fi film directed by Luke Sparke, adapted from Ethan Pettus's 2017 novel, in which a 1968 Vietnam recon squad battles dinosaurs unleashed by a Soviet experiment; made for about $7 million, released by Fathom Entertainment, with a sequel planned.
Project Power
Project Power is a 2020 Netflix action thriller directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, written by Mattson Tomlin, starring Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Dominique Fishback; a New Orleans pill grants five-minute superpowers.
R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned
R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned is a 2022 direct-to-video supernatural Western comedy prequel to R.I.P.D., directed by Paul Leyden, starring Jeffrey Donovan as Sheriff Roy Pulsipher, set in 1876, released November 15, 2022.
Rebel Moon
Rebel Moon is Zack Snyder's two-part Netflix space opera (Part One: A Child of Fire, 2023; Part Two: The Scargiver, 2024), originally pitched to Lucasfilm as a Star Wars film, with R-rated director's cuts released in 2024 and no third film announced.
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver is Zack Snyder's 2024 Netflix sci-fi sequel to A Child of Fire, in which Kora (Sofia Boutella) and rebels defend the farming moon Veldt from the Imperium; released April 19, 2024, PG-13, 16% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Redux Redux
Redux Redux (also Find. Kill. Repeat.) is a 2025 American multiverse sci-fi thriller by twin directors Kevin and Matthew McManus, starring their sister Michaela McManus as Irene Kelly, a mother who repeatedly kills her daughter's murderer across parallel universes; released theatrically February 20, 2026 and streaming on Hulu from July 2026.
Resurrection (狂野时代) (2025 film)
Resurrection (狂野时代) is a 2025 Chinese art film starring Jackson Yee and Shu Qi. Directed by Bi Gan, it won the Special Award at the 78th Cannes Film Festival.
Rewind (2023 film)
Rewind (2023) is a Philippine romantic drama directed by Mae Cruz-Alviar, starring Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera; an MMFF 2023 entry that became the highest-grossing Filipino film until Hello, Love, Again.
Rich Flu
Rich Flu (La fiebre de los ricos) is a 2024 Spanish-Chilean satirical sci-fi thriller by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, director of The Platform, in which a virus kills the world's wealthiest people, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead.