1 | Alien | Ridley Scott | 1979 | 117 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
2 | Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1979 | 161 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
3 | Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis | 1985 | 116 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
4 | Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back | Irvin Kershner | 1980 | 124 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
5 | Aliens | James Cameron | 1986 | 137 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
6 | The Terminator | James Cameron | 1984 | 108 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
7 | Metropolis | Fritz Lang | 1927 | 120 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
8 | WALLE | Andrew Stanton | 2008 | 98 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
9 | Mad Max: Fury Road | George Miller | 2015 | 120 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
10 | Terminator 2: Judgement Day | James Cameron | 1991 | 135 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
11 | Frankenstein | James Whale | 1931 | 71 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
12 | Star Wars IV: A New Hope | George Lucas | 1977 | 121 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
13 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg | 1982 | 115 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
14 | Ghost in the Shell | Mamoru Oshii | 1995 | 83 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
15 | Brazil | Terry Gilliam | 1985 | 142 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
16 | The Iron Giant | Brad Bird | 1999 | 86 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
17 | The Truman Show | Peter Weir | 1998 | 104 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
18 | The Bride of Frankenstein | James Whale | 1935 | 75 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
19 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry | 2004 | 108 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
20 | Inception | Christopher Nolan | 2010 | 148 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
21 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Don Siegel | 1956 | 80 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
22 | The Matrix | The Wachowskis | 1999 | 136 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
23 | Night of the Living Dead | George A. Romero | 1968 | 96 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
24 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | 1968 | 139 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
25 | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Kwan & Scheinert | 2022 | 139 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
26 | Her | Spike Jonze | 2013 | 126 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
27 | Young Frankenstein | Mel Brooks | 1974 | 106 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
28 | Arrival | Denis Villeneuve | 2016 | 116 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
29 | Jurassic Park | Steven Spielberg | 1993 | 127 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
30 | Star Trek (2009) | J.J. Abrams | 2009 | 127 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
31 | Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón | 2013 | 91 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
32 | Dr. Strangelove | Stanley Kubrick | 1964 | 94 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
33 | Sleeper | Woody Allen | 1973 | 88 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
34 | Guardians of the Galaxy | James Gunn | 2014 | 121 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
35 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | Robert Wise | 1951 | 92 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
36 | Forbidden Planet | Fred M Wilcox | 1956 | 98 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
37 | Thor: Ragnarok | Taika Waititi | 2017 | 130 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
38 | Solaris | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1972 | 165 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
39 | Candace Against the Universe | Bob Bowen | 2020 | 84 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
40 | Children of Men | Alfonso Cuarón | 2006 | 109 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
41 | A Quiet Place | John Krasinski | 2018 | 90 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
42 | The Martian | Ridley Scott | 2015 | 144 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
43 | The Invisible Man | James Whale | 1933 | 71 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
44 | Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens | J.J. Abrams | 2015 | 138 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
45 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg | 1977 | 135 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
46 | Akira | Katsuhiro Otomo | 1988 | 124 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
47 | A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | 1971 | 137 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
48 | The Road Warrior (aka Mad Max 2) | George Miller | 1981 | 96 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
49 | Blade Runner | Ridley Scott | 1982 | 118 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
50 | Edge of Tomorrow | Doug Liman | 2014 | 113 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
51 | District 9 | Neill Blomkamp | 2009 | 112 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
52 | Godzilla | Ishiro Honda | 1954 | 96 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
53 | The Fly (1986) | David Cronenberg | 1986 | 100 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
54 | Ex Machina | Alex Garland | 2014 | 108 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
55 | 12 Monkeys | Terry Gilliam | 1995 | 131 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
56 | Moon | Duncan Jones | 2009 | 97 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
57 | Blade Runner 2049 | Denis Villeneuve | 2017 | 164 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
58 | War for the Planet of the Apes | Matt Reeves | 2017 | 140 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
59 | Star Trek: First Contact | Jonathan Frakes | 1996 | 110 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
60 | Repo Man | Alex Cox | 1984 | 92 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
61 | Donnie Darko | Richard Kelly | 2001 | 122 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
62 | Source Code | Duncan Jones | 2011 | 93 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
63 | Looper | Rian Johnson | 2012 | 119 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
64 | Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe | Calleros & Rice | 2022 | 87 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
65 | Village of the Damned | Wolf Rilla | 1960 | 78 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
66 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Philip Kaufman | 1978 | 115 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
67 | Minority Report | Steven Spielberg | 2002 | 145 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
68 | The Fly (1958) | Kurt Neumann | 1958 | 94 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
69 | RoboCop | Paul Verhoeven | 1987 | 102 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
70 | Planet of the Apes | Franklin J. Schaffner | 1968 | 112 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
71 | Men in Black | Barry Sonnenfeld | 1997 | 98 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
72 | Them! | Gordon Douglas | 1954 | 94 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
73 | Snowpiercer | Bong Joon Ho | 2013 | 126 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
74 | Aelita | Yakov Protazanov | 1924 | 113 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
75 | Prey | Dan Trachtenberg | 2022 | 100 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
76 | The Abyss | James Cameron | 1989 | 145 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
77 | WarGames | John Badham | 1983 | 114 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
78 | Galaxy Quest | Dean Parisot | 1999 | 104 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
79 | 28 Days Later | Danny Boyle | 2002 | 113 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
80 | Upgrade | Leigh Whannell | 2018 | 100 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
81 | The Invisible Man (2020) | Leigh Whannell | 2020 | 124 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
82 | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | Nicholas Meyer | 1982 | 113 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
83 | Π (Pi) | Darren Aronofsky | 1998 | 85 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
84 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Richard Fleischer | 1954 | 127 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
85 | Star Trek: Into Darkness | J.J. Abrams | 2013 | 132 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
86 | The Survivalist | Stephen Fingleton | 2015 | 104 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
87 | Little Fish | Chad Hartigan | 2021 | 101 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
88 | Serenity | Joss Whedon | 2005 | 119 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
89 | Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi | Rian Johnson | 2017 | 152 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
90 | The Vast of Night | Andrew Patterson | 2019 | 91 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
91 | Avatar | James Cameron | 2009 | 162 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
92 | The World's End | Edgar Wright | 2013 | 109 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
93 | Possessor | Brandon Cronenberg | 2020 | 104 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
94 | The War of the Worlds | Byron Haskin | 1953 | 85 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
95 | Mad Max | George Miller | 1979 | 93 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
96 | Fantastic Voyage | Richard Fleischer | 1966 | 100 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
97 | Predestination | The Spierig Brothers | 2014 | 97 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
98 | Escape From New York | John Carpenter | 1981 | 99 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
99 | Interstellar | Christopher Nolan | 2014 | 169 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
100 | Attack the Block | Joe Cornish | 2011 | 82 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
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