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List of science fiction films
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:
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Before 1930
- 1902: A Trip to the Moon (original title Le voyage dans la lune)
- 1927: Metropolis
- 1929: Frau im Mond
1930s
- 1931: Frankenstein
- 1933: The Invisible Man
- 1936: Flash Gordon (serial)
- 1938: Things to Come
1950s
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- The Thing From Another World (Howard Hawks original)
- 1953: The War of the Worlds
- 1954: Godzilla (original title ゴジラ Gojira)
- 1955: The Quatermass Xperiment (based on the BBC Television serial The Quatermass Experiment)
- 1956: Forbidden Planet
1960s
- 1960: The Time Machine
- 1962: La Jetée
- 1963: Day of the Triffids
- 1964: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- 1965: Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
- 1966: Fahrenheit 451
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- Seconds
1970s
1980s
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- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- Blade Runner
- The Thing (John Carpenter remake)
- Tron
- 1987: Robocop
- 1988: Akira (film) (animated film by Katsuhiro Ôtomo)
1990s
- 1990: Robocop 2
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- eXistenZ
- Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
- The Thirteenth Floor
2000s
- 2000: Mission to Mars
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- Red Planet
- Pitch Black
- 2005: (To be released)
See also: Fantasy films (as distinct from science fiction films) and List of lists
Last updated: 01-22-2005 17:31:09