Top 10 Science-Fiction Films

This list was voted on by IMDB, it's fairly comprehensive, but very much weighted to contemporary films, and includes a lot of non-SF films ("Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit"? "The Incredibles"?) This list was developed by this group of scientists. And this is a great site listing the top 10 Science-Fiction films that never existed.

Here's my list. I didn't include some of the older, dated films, so this is really contemporary science fiction. I also didn't include films like "Back to the Future" and "Lord of the Rings" because they don't meet my definition of science-fiction, so I'll call it hard-science fiction.

Top 10 Contemporary Hard-Science Fiction Films


1) Blade Runner (1982) Dir: Ridley Scott


2) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Dir: Stanley Kubrick


3) Star Wars (1977)/Empire Strikes Back (1980)


4) Alien (1979) Dir: Ridley Scott/Aliens (1986) Dir:James Cameron


5) The Matrix (1999) Dir: Andy & Larry Wachowski


6) John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) Dir: John Carpenter


7) Minority Report (2002) Dir: Steven Spielberg


8) Terminator (1984)/T2: Judgment day (1991) Dir: James Cameron


9) 12 Monkeys (1995) Dir: Terry Gilliam


10) The Last Starfighter (1984) Dir: Nick Castle

Runners-up (alphabetical)
The Abyss
Battlefield: Earth
Being John Malkavich (great movie)
Brazil (great movie, not really science-fiction)
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Contact (great book, didn't seem to translate)
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Dr Strangelove
Dune (great book, not as great a movie)
Enemy Mine
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (great movie)
Fifth Element (hardly true science-fiction)
Galaxy Quest
Gattaca
Ice Pirates
Jurassic Park
Men in Black
Metropolis
The Postman
Predator
The Road Warrior/Mad Max/Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Serenity
Silent Running
Solaris
Solaris: Andrei Tarkovsky
Star Trek series (not great films)
THX-1138
Time Bandits
Total Recall (another Phillip Dick movie, more of an action movie)
Vanilla Sky
War of the Worlds