What are your top 5 sci-fi movies?

2001
Alien
Interstellar
The Matrix
Blade Runner

 

Just 5??

ok, these are on the card and laminated (no particular order):

Gattaca
Event Horizon
Robocop
The Terminator
Children of Men

Could have been on the list on another day:
Alien
Starship Troopers
Contact
Gravity

 

Predator
Predator II
AVP
Terminator dark fate
Prometheus

 

2001
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
AI
Minority Report
Brazil

 

Stalker
X- The Man With The X-Ray Eyes
The Man Who Fell To Earth
The Fly (1986)
Sleeper

It's really hard to say with only five. There are so many more.

 

Even forgot about The Thing and Predator… so, that would be my top 11,12

 

War Of The Worlds Original and Remake
The Amazing Colossal Man
War Of The Colossal Beast
Giant Behemoth
4D Man


and dozens and dozens more...

 

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Alien (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Contact (1997)
Sunshine (2007)

HM:
-- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956): more horror/suspense than sci-fi
-- Planet of the Apes (1968)
-- The Empire Strikes Back (1980): more "fantasy / adventure" than sci-fi
-- Back To The Future (1985): more "comedy" than sci-fi

NOTE: I'm glad one (?) other poster mentioned Danny Boyle's Sunshine (2007). If we went only by the first 2/3 of that movie, it's likely my #1 sci-fi movie ever. Unfortunately, the final third is relatively disappointing. Still a 'must-see' if you haven't.

 

Planet of the Apes 68
Terminator (original)
Dark City (1998)
The Matrix (1999)
Total Recall (1990)/2001 A Space Odyssee/Blade Runner( final cut)

List always changing?!
John M.

 

Too many, but for now, I'll go for...

Solaris (original)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (original)
Bride of Frankenstein
Alien
Silent Running

Plus, you know...
Quatermas and the Pit
Blade Runner
Stalker
The Truman Show
12 Monkeys
Close Encounters
Brazil
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original)
The Thing from Another World
Seconds
Demon Seed
Dark Star
The original Planet of the Apes

 

Event Horizon
Aliens
Arrival
Moon
The Ice Pirates

 

• Andromeda Strain
• Naked Lunch
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• Clockwork Orange
• Fahrenheit 451

 

Alien
Blade Runner
Scanners
Predator
Aliens

 

I really love Fantastic Voyage. I like The Langoliers a lot until those special effects popped up. Even at the time of its TV premiere those effects were bad, but still a good movie.

 

• Andromeda Strain

 

Agreed!

Fantastic Voyage is great. And the novelization by Isaac Asimov is one of my top 3 favorite books.

Same with The Langoliers. I'm not a huge Stephen King fan, but this movie and novella are among my favorites. (The Rose Red miniseries is my other Stephen King favorite).

 

Starman
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Never Let Me Go
The Faculty
The Stuff

 

2001
Dark City
The City Of Lost Children
Forbidden Planet
Five Million Years To Earth

Honorable mention:
Gattaca
Children Of Men
Europa

 

FWIW on TCM
Tuesday, Forbidden Planet
Thursday, Rollerball
Friday, No Blade of Grass

 

This afternoon my 5 favorite sci-fi movies were made before I was born:

The Day the Earth Stood Still - 1951
The Thing - 1952
Invaders From Mars - 1953
War of the Worlds - 1953
Forbidden Planet - 1956
Invasion of the Body Snatchers - 1956

 

2001
Blade Runner
Donnie Darko
Mr Nobody
Fifth Element


5 is very hard to pin down

 

5 was difficult. Since others have included 6, I have as well.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Hidden (1987)
Until the End of the World - Director's Cut (1991)
Event Horizon (1997)
Open Your Eyes (1997)
Dark City (1998)

 

It’s meant to be difficult.

 

Enemy Mine (1985) - I don't think this movie is traditionally considered great, but I watched it when I was a little kid and I loved it. And then I watched it years later as an adult and still found it good and relevant. So I would like to give it an honorable mention

 

Blade Runner
The Empire Strikes Back
Rogue One
Aliens
Star Trek 2 - Wrath of Khan