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R.U.R. (film)
R.U.R. (film) denotes two 2020s screen adaptations of Čapek's 1920 play: the Japanese centenary film RUR by Yutaka Watanabe (WARAHATA) and an Australian Alex Proyas/MoJo Global Arts musical-satire project, both documented without confirmed releases.
Ray Gunn
Ray Gunn is a 2026 American animated neo-noir science fiction mystery film directed by Brad Bird, set in the retro-futuristic city of Metropia and released on Netflix, starring Sam Rockwell as a private detective.
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.
Riddle of Fire
Riddle of Fire (2023) is Weston Razooli's debut feature, a 16mm neo-fairytale adventure premiering at Cannes Directors' Fortnight, following three Wyoming children hunting a speckled egg for a blueberry pie.
Sasquatch Sunset
Sasquatch Sunset is a 2024 American comedy-drama film directed by David and Nathan Zellner, following a family of four Sasquatches through one year of life in the Pacific Northwest.
Scarlet (2025 film)
Scarlet (果てしなきスカーレット, Hateshinaki Sukāretto) is a 2025 Japanese animated fantasy film by Mamoru Hosoda and Studio Chizu, a gender-swapped Hamlet about a princess seeking revenge in an afterlife; it premiered out of competition at Venice 2025 and opened in Japan on November 21, 2025.
Scarygirl (film)
Scarygirl is a 2023 Australian CG-animated adventure-fantasy film directed by Ricard Cussó, based on Nathan Jurevicius's toys, graphic novel, and games, following Arkie as she rescues her octopus father from Dr. Maybee.
Secret Society of Second-Born Royals
Secret Society of Second-Born Royals is a 2020 Disney+ original fantasy adventure film directed by Anna Mastro, starring Peyton Elizabeth Lee as Princess Sam of Illyria, a second-born royal who discovers superpowers from a genetic trait and trains with other second-born royals.
Seeking the King
Seeking the King (왕을 찾아서, Wangeul Chajaseo) is a South Korean SF robot film directed by Won Shin-yeon, starring Koo Kyo-hwan, Yoo Jae-myung, and Seohyun. Set in 1980 in the DMZ Punchbowl, it follows an army doctor befriending a crash-landed giant robot named Cheol-i.
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.
Sheep in the Box (箱の中の羊)
Sheep in the Box (箱の中の羊, Hako no Naka no Hitsuji) is Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2026 Japanese drama, in Competition at Cannes, about a couple (Haruka Ayase, Daigo) welcoming a humanoid replica of their dead son.
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+.
Skyline: Warpath
Skyline: Warpath (Warpath) is an upcoming sci-fi action film by Liam O'Donnell, the fourth Skyline film, starring Iko Uwais as Sua and Scott Adkins as Eric; filmed in Indonesia, still without a confirmed release after a scrapped 2026 Prime Video debut.
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.
Soul (2020 film)
Soul (2020) is a Pixar animated film directed by Pete Docter and Kemp Powers, starring Jamie Foxx as jazz pianist Joe Gardner and Tina Fey as soul 22; released on Disney+ December 25, 2020, it won Oscars for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score.
Soulm8te
Soulm8te is a 2026 sci-fi horror erotic thriller, a M3GAN-universe spin-off directed by Kate Dolan, starring Lily Sullivan and David Rysdahl. Canceled theatrically after M3GAN 2.0 flopped, it went straight to digital on August 1, 2026.
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.
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse is Sony Pictures Animation's third Spider-Verse film, concluding the Miles Morales trilogy begun in 2018. Directed by Bob Persichetti and Justin K. Thompson, delayed from March 2024, now set for June 2027.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) is the fourth Tom Holland MCU Spider-Man film, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, set four years after No Way Home, released July 31, 2026, grossing $2.52 billion worldwide.
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.
Starbright (film)
Starbright is a 2026 American fantasy adventure film directed by Francesco Lucente, starring John Rhys-Davies, Diego Boneta, and Alexandra Dowling; 148 minutes, PG-13, limited release February 27, 2026, originally announced in 2010 with a different cast.
Starman (upcoming film)
Starman is a cosmic science-fiction thriller directed by Josh Wakely. It stars Brendan Fraser as Tom Adams, a technologist on a Mars mission, and Jeff Daniels.