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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.
Share?
Share? is a 2023 American sci-fi thriller directed by Ira Rosensweig, starring Melvin Gregg as prisoner #000000014 with Bradley Whitford, Alice Braga, and Danielle Campbell; shot from one fixed camera angle, released November 10, 2023.
Significant Other (film)
Significant Other is a 2022 American sci-fi horror thriller by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen, starring Maika Monroe and Jake Lacy as a couple whose Pacific Northwest backpacking trip meets a shapeshifting alien; it premiered October 7, 2022 on Paramount+.
Skylines (film)
Skylines (Skylin3s) is a 2020 sci-fi action film, the third in the Skyline trilogy after Skyline and Beyond Skyline. Directed by Liam O'Donnell, it stars Lindsey Morgan as Captain Rose Corley leading soldiers to the alien world Cobalt 1 against a virus turning alien hybrids hostile; released December 18, 2020 by Vertical Entertainment.
Songbird (2020 film)
Songbird (2020) is a dystopian pandemic thriller directed by Adam Mason, co-written with Simon Boyes, and produced by Michael Bay; the first major feature shot in lockdown Los Angeles, released December 11, 2020, about immune courier Nico saving Sara from COVID-23 quarantine camps.
Sore: A Wife from the Future
Sore: A Wife from the Future (Sore: Istri dari Masa Depan) is a 2025 Indonesian romantic science fantasy film by Yandy Laurens, adapted from his 2017 web series, starring Sheila Dara Aisha and Dion Wiyoko, released 10 July 2025 and Indonesia's 98th Academy Awards entry.
Spaceman (2024 film)
Spaceman (2024 film): Netflix sci-fi drama directed by Johan Renck, adapted from Jaroslav Kalfař's novel Spaceman of Bohemia, starring Adam Sandler as astronaut Jakub with Paul Dano voicing alien spider Hanuš.
Spiderhead
Spiderhead is a 2022 Netflix sci-fi thriller directed by Joseph Kosinski, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, starring Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, and Jurnee Smollett, adapted from George Saunders' New Yorker story "Escape from Spiderhead."
Sputnik (film)
Sputnik (Спутник) is a 2020 Russian sci-fi horror film, Egor Abramenko's feature debut, about a 1983 Soviet cosmonaut hosting an alien parasite, examined by Oksana Akinshina's neuropsychologist at a secret base; it premiered online-only in April 2020.
Stowaway (2021 film)
Stowaway (2021) is a Joe Penna sci-fi drama on Netflix: a Mars-bound crew finds an accidental stowaway who damaged the CO2 scrubber, forcing a lifeboat-style moral choice. Stars Toni Collette, Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, Shamier Anderson.
Tenet (film)
Tenet is a 2020 action science-fiction thriller written, directed, and produced by Christopher Nolan, starring John David Washington, in which a CIA operative uses time inversion to stop a future catastrophe.
The Adam Project
The Adam Project is a 2022 Netflix sci-fi action-comedy directed by Shawn Levy, starring Ryan Reynolds as a 2050 pilot who crash-lands in 2022 and teams with his 12-year-old self (Walker Scobell) and father (Mark Ruffalo); 68% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 55.