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.?

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]?