111 Best Sci-Fi Films Of All Time [Alphabetical]

There's hundreds of movies over the sci-fi universe and multiple sub-genres like cyberpunk, dystopian, post-apocalyptic, some are even mixed with action, comedy, drama, romance, etc.

This is the selection I made in order to compile the best of the genre over more than a century of film history.

A scene from the masterpiece of the genre: "2001: A Space Oddissey"

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12 Monkeys

Director: Terry Gilliam

Year: 1995

Country: United States

1984

Director: Michael Radford

Year: 1984

Country: England

2001: A Space Oddissey

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Year: 1968

Country: United States

2046

Director: Wong Kar-wai

Year: 2004

Country: Hong-Kong

Screenplay: Wong Kar-wai

Cinematographer: Christopher Doyle, Kwan Pun Leung & Lai Yiu-fai

Original Sountrack: Shigeru Umebayashi

Starring: Tony Leung, Gong Li, Faye Wong, Takuya Kimura, Zhang Ziyi, Carina Lau, Chang Chen, Bird Thongchi, McIntyre, Dong Jie, Maggie Cheung

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