What are your five favorite science-fiction movies?

Scifi - not fantasy

Empire Strikes Back The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Serenity Planet of the Apes Minority Report

I love good story telling.

I'm a fan of the golden age of sci-fi films of the 1950s with Ray Harryhausen special effects, so in no particular order:

The Thing From Another World, Earth vs the Flying Saucers, It Came From Beneath the Sea, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms and Them!

1)Free Willy 2)Free Willy 2: the adventure home 3)Free Willy 3: The rescue 4)The beach 5)Pokemon 2000

Alien. Original Star Wars Trilogy. The Fifth Element. Blade Runner. Total Recall. For a start. few more kind of bubbling under.

In chronological order: "The Thing From Another World" (1951),"The Time Machine" (1960),"Robinson Crusoe On Mars" (1964),"2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968), "A Clockwork Orange" (1971)

1) Star Wars 2) Empire Strikes Back 3) Blade Runner 4) Children of Men 5) Time After Time (1979)

Does "The Truman Show" count as science fiction? That's a superb piece of work.

Soylent Green; Fifth Element; Silent Running; Star Wars; Matrix; plus any "original" Star Trek TV show

2001 A Space Odyssey, Alien, Planet of the Apes, Dune, Star Wars.

In no specific order

Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Alien, Aliens, Terminator.

I will step outside the box and offer my five favorite Japanese sci-fi movies. 5 - Latitude Zero - Cesar Romero and Joseph Cotten starring together, how can you go wrong? 4 - The Mysterians - alien abduction 35 years before the X-Files. 3 - Gorath - Utterly preposterous end of the world scenario but Kumi Mizuno in the bathtub makes it worth watching. 2 - Yog, Monster from Space - if your kaiju clips end up in a Ministry video, it has to be good. 1 - Godzilla vs Mothra - an absolute masterpiece - everything clicks - Honda's visionary directing, Ifukube's brilliant score, Tsuburaya's signature special effects, Takarada's impassioned performance, Sekizawa's genius screenplay, mighty radioactive monsters trampling Japan in a battle to the death, and the Peanuts !!!

ET Close Encounters of the Third Kind Short Circuit MAC & ME The Abyss

2001: A Space Odyssey Aliens War of The Worlds (Radio) A Clock Work Orange Prior Disaster News feeds depicting TEPCO as being at the forefront of 'safety Japan'.

In no particular order:

Dredd Forbidden Planet The Quatermass Experiment Invasion The Day the Earth Caught Fire

Moon Contact Gattaca 12 monkeys Blade Runner

Alien series Dune City of Lost Children Matrix series Starship Troopers

or

Akira Casshern Ghost in the Shell Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 20th Century Boys series

lucabrasiMay. 14, 2013 - 10:46AM JST

Does "The Truman Show" count as science fiction? That's a superb piece of work.

I reckon it counts - has some very sci-fi elements to it I really enjoyed it too

Back to the Future, Deep Impact, The Empire Strikes Back, Jurassic Park, Star Trek (1979)

1 . Dark City

2 . FFVII Advent Children

3 . Matrix Reloaded

4 . Underworld Evolution

5 . Minority Report

Blade Runner Natural City Starfighter Ultraviolet Spaceballs

Duh. That should have been "Last Starfighter"

So, lots of down votes, but not so many people putting their ideas out.

I'm like the love that 5th Element is getting. Whenever that is on, I have watch or start off the DRV. The same goes for Chronicles of Riddick, Galaxy Quest and a few other ZERO-acclaim scifi movies. Fun-to-watch should matter as much as fantastic story.

The Star Wars Trilogy, Episode 1( loooove Darth Maul!) Terminatior 1&2 ,Armageddon, Independance Day

In no particular order:

2001, A Space Odessey Dark City The Matrix Blade Runner Terminator I

And, in the great science fiction fun but not necessarily indelibly great movie-making category:

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension Star Wars Episode IV Men in Black I Independence Day Total Recall

The Thing (1982)

The Quiet Earth http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

The Wicksboro Incident http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358767/

Primer http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/?ref_=sr_1

The Empire Strikes Back

So many great ones have been mentioned. A few on my list that have been not:

Solaris Moon The Martian Chronicles (mini-series) Colossus- The Forbin Project Phase IV

Westworld and The Incredible Shrinking Man, for icing on the cake.

Can't believe no one has yet mentioned The Arrival.

Yes, Charlie Sheen could act.

Not in any order

1) Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope 2) Planet of the Apes (Charlton Heston) 3) The Fifth Element 4) Gattaca 5) Twelve Monkeys

TV series:

1) Battle Star Galactica, the Reimagined Series, and Blood and Chrome 2) Otherworld 3) Twilight Zone 4) Space 1999 5) Star Trek (hard to pick any one series)

@theFu

I agree. What's with all the down arrows. Someone must really hate Sci-fi, or have nothing more stimulating in their lives but to down arrow people

We obviously have different tastes and we will never agree, but I will say some of you really scraped the bottom of the barrel for Syfy flicks.

I personally would go "more" with Chronic's selections. Space 1999?? Holy crap forgot about that one, but it was a darn good show. I also liked Outer Limits, Kolchak-The Night Stalker Original Predator but those are my selections, don't expect ya'll to agree, I understand, tastes are subjective, but I like a lot of the classics.

heh everyone who listed movies has a negative rating.....

Some of the movies I liked from the list above...

12 Monkeys. I remember not knowing anything about it and really liking it. Terry Gilliam is amazing. Nice calls on Westworld ("sloppy with your drink"), The Thing. I saw Gattica for the first time about 2 week ago.

Has anyone seen Brazil?

The Thing

I will argue until the end of time that this movie is one of the best sci-fi horror films of all time, if not the best.

Another good little SF /Suspense movie: Cypher starring Jeremy Northam and Lucy Lui. Watch it on You tube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNKT_KSZq4g

Best when the lights are turned out and you have several beers in you! LOL And definitely with head phones on!

I like the Dystopian type SF movies like this one, Fahrenheit 451 with Oskar Werner, etc ....

And another good short lived series SF series was Space: Above and Beyond