Science fiction film

Many science fiction films were low-budget productions (eg. Day of the Triffids), but because of growing popularity and recent developments in the technology of special effects, most films are now multi-million dollar projects.

The tone of science fiction films is often a guide to the tone of the times the film was made: other worlds and species are viewed in turn as wonderful, terrifying, threatening, incomprehensible, and childishly benign.

Notable science fiction films include:

1902 [A Trip to the Moon]? (original title Le voyage dans la lune)

1927 Metropolis

1931 Frankenstein

1933 [The Invisible Man]?

1938 [Things to Come]?

1951 [The Day the Earth Stood Still]?

1951 The Thing From Another World (Howard Hawks original)

1958 [Plan 9 from Outer Space]?

1952 The War of the Worlds

1954 Godzilla

1956 [Forbidden Planet]?

1954 [This Island Earth]?

1957 The Incredible Shrinking Man

1958 [The Blob]?

1959 [Journey to the Center of the Earth]?

1960 The Time Machine

1963 Day of the Triffids

1964 Dr. Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1966 Fahrenheit 451

1968 2001 A Space Odyssey

1970 [THX 1138]?

1971 A Clockwork Orange

1972 Solaris

1973 Sleeper?

1974 Dark Star

1975 Rollerball?

1977 Star Wars

1977 [Close Encounters of the Third Kind]?

1979 Star Trek: The Motion Picture

1979 Alien

1981 Outland?

1981 Escape from New York

1982 [E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]?

1982 Blade Runner

1982 The Thing (John Carpenter remake)

1984 Dune

1984 The Terminator

1984 Starman?

1989 [The Abyss]?

1995 Twelve Monkeys

1996 Mars Attacks

1999 The Matrix

1999 eXistenZ?

2000 [Mission to Mars]?

2001 [Artificial Intelligence: AI]?