A Clockwork Orange (1971 film) A Clockwork Orange (movie) Stanley Kubrick's 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess's novel: a stylized, controversial dystopian crime drama that probes free will, state power, and cinematic responsibility, note…
A Quiet Place (2018 film) A Quiet Place (movie) 2018 American horror–science fiction film directed by John Krasinski, about a family forced to live in silence to survive creatures that hunt by sound; noted for its use of silence…
A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune) A Trip to the Moon Georges Méliès’s 1902 short silent film that pioneered cinematic special effects and is widely regarded as the first science fiction movie.
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars 1953 American comic science-fiction film starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, directed by Charles Lamont. A product of 1950s genre-mixing, remembered for its slapstick, period spe…
Avatar (2009 film) Avatar (2009 movie) Avatar (2009) is James Cameron's science-fiction epic set on the alien moon Pandora, noted for pioneering performance-capture, stereoscopic 3D, major box-office success and environ…
Back to the Future Part III 1990 final film of the Back to the Future trilogy: a science-fiction Western directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, notable for its Old West se…
Barbarella: 1968 science fiction film and cultural phenomenon Barbarella Barbarella is a 1968 Franco–Italian science fiction film directed by Roger Vadim, starring Jane Fonda and adapted from a French comic by Jean‑Claude Forest. Noted for its campy vis…
Battle Beyond the Stars 1980 low-budget American space opera directed by Jimmy T. Murakami for New World Pictures. Screenplay by John Sayles, early James Horner score, a space‑western take on The Magnific…
