The updated list of SF classics what I have watched, as of 5th August 2023.
Note: I don’t count superhero films and manga as SF, they are their own
marvellous genres, and where variant titles exist, I use one of
them. I’m also not really bothered about Roger Corman’s straight-to-video stuff.
Films added in the past year are in bold.
1902
A Trip To The Moon
1926
Metropolis
1929
Woman In The Moon
1930
Just Imagine
1933
King Kong
1936
Things To Come
1942
Cat People
1950
Destination Moon
1951
The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Man In The White Suit, The
Thing, When Worlds Collide
1953
Invaders From Mars, It Came From Outer Space, War Of The
Worlds
1954
20 , 000 Leagues under The Sea, The Creature From The Black
Lagoon, Them!
1955
The Day The World Ended, It Came From Beneath The Sea, The
Quatermass Xperiment, This Island Earth
1956
1984, Earth Versus The Flying Saucers, Forbidden Planet, Invasion
Of The Body Snatchers, Plan 9 From Outer Space, X The Unknown
1957
The Abominable Snowman, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Quatermass
2
1958
The Fly
1959
Journey to The Centre Of The Earth, On The Beach, Return Of
The Fly
1960
The Last Woman On Earth, The Little Shop Of Horrors, The
Time Machine, Village Of The Damned
1961
The Day The Earth Caught Fire, The Fabulous World Of Jules
Verne, Mysterious Island, Night Tide, The Phantom Planet
1962
Doctor No, The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
1963
The Birds, The Damned, The Day Of The Triffids, La Jetee, The
Mind Benders, Unearthly Stranger, Voyage To The End Of The Universe
1964
Children Of The Damned, Doctor Strangelove, The Earth Dies
Screaming, Fail Safe, The First Men In The Moon, Goldfinger, It Happened Here, The
Last Man On Earth, Robinson Crusoe On Mars, The Time Travelers
1965
The 10th Victim, Alphaville, Crack In The World, The Curse
Of The Fly, Dr Who And The Daleks, Gonks Go Beat, Thunderball, Voyage To The
Prehistoric Planet, The War Game
1966
Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD, Fahrenheit 451, Fantastic
Voyage, Island Of Terror, Seconds
1967
Barbarella, Casino Royale, Jules Verne's Rocket To The Moon,
Night Of The Big Heat, Privilege, Quatermass And The Pit, The Terrornauts, They
Came From Beyond Space, You Only Live Twice
1968
2001-A Space Odyssey, Charly, Countdown, Planet Of The Apes
1969
The Bed Sitting Room, Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, The
Body Stealers, A Case For A Rookie Hangman, Doppelgänger, Marooned, Moon Zero
Two, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Zeta One
1970
The Andromeda Strain, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Gas-s-s-s,
No Blade Of Grass, The Mind Of Mr Soames, Toomorrow
1971
A Clockwork Orange, Diamonds Are Forever, Escape From The
Planet Of The Apes, Luminous Procuress, The Omega Man, Percy, Punishment
Park, Quest for Love, Silent Running, Solaris, THX 1138
1972
Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes, Death Line, Doomwatch, The Mind Snatchers, Slaughterhouse
Five
1973
Battle for The Planet Of The Apes, The Day Of The Dolphin, Fantastic
Planet, The Final Programme, Phase IV, Sleeper, Soylent Green, Westworld, World
On A Wire, Zardoz
1974
The Cars That Ate Paris, Dark Star, It's Alive, The Land
That Time Forgot, The Little Prince, The Man With The Golden Gun, The Stepford
Wives, The Terminal Man, Where Have All The People Gone?, Young Frankenstein
1975
A Boy And His Dog, Death Race 2000, The Rocky Horror Picture
Show, Rollerball
1976
At The Earth’s Core, The Big Bus, Futureworld, God Told Me
To, The Killer Bees, Logan’s Run, The Man Who Fell To Earth
1977
Capricorn One, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Demon
Seed, Empire Of The Ants, The Island Of Dr Moreau, The Glitterball, Orion, The
People That Time Forgot, The Spy Who Loved Me, Star Wars, Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up
And Scald Myself With Tea
1978
The Bermuda Triangle, The Boys From Brazil, Coma, A Hitch In
Time, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, Pirahna, Superman, The Swarm, Warlords Of
Atlantis
1979
Alien, The Black Hole, The China Syndrome, Mad Max, Meteor, Moonraker,
Ravagers, Spaced Out, Stalker, Star Trek, Starcrash, Time After Time, Unidentified
Flying Oddball
1980
Altered States, The Apple, Battle Beyond The Stars, The
Empire Strikes Back, The Final Countdown, Flash Gordon, Monster, The Island, Saturn
3, Scanners, Somewhere In Time, Superman II
1981
Condorman, Escape From New York, Galaxy Of Terror, Inseminoid,
Looker, Mad Max 2, Outland, Piranha II, Time Bandits
1982
Airplane II, Android, Blade Runner, Britannia Hospital, ET, Forbidden
World, Halloween III, The Thing, Tron, Videodrome, Star Trek II
1983
Brainstorm, The Dead Zone, Krull, The Man With Two Brains, Never
Say Never Again, Return Of The Jedi, Space Raiders, Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden
Zone, Superman III, Testament, The Twilight Zone: The Movie, War Games, Xtro,
Zero Zero
1984
1984, 2010, The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai, The Brother
From Another Planet, Caravan Of Courage, Dreamscape, Dune, Electric Dreams, Ghostbusters, Gremlins, The
Last Starfighter, Night Of The Comet, The Philadelphia Experiment, Repo Man, Runaway,
Slapstick Of Another Kind, Star
Trek III, Starman, Terminator, Trancers
1985
Back To The Future, Brazil, Cocoon, Creature, DARYL, Enemy
Mine, Ewoks: The Battle For Endor, Explorers, Lifeforce, Mad Max Beyond
Thunderdome, Morons From Outer Space, The Quiet Earth, Weird Science
1986
Aliens, Biggles: Adventures In Time, Critters, Flight Of The
Navigator, The Fly, Howard The Duck, Invaders From Mars, Peggy Sue Got Married,
Short Circuit, Star Trek IV, Whoops Apocalypse
1987
Bad Taste, Batteries Not Included, Cocoon: The Return, Friendship’s
Death, The Hidden, Innerspace, Predator, RoboCop, The Running Man, Spaceballs, Superman
IV: The Quest For Peace
1988
Akira, Alien Nation, The Brain, Earth Girls Are Easy, Hell Comes To Frogtown, Mac And Me, Moonwalker,
My Stepmother Is An Alien, The Salute Of The Jugger, Short Circuit II, They
Live
1989
The Abyss, Back To The Future II, Bill & Ted’s Excellent
Adventure, Communion, Deepstar Six, The Fly II, Ghostbusters II, Meet The
Applegates, Millennium, Slipstream, Star Trek V
1990
Back To The Future III, Gremlins II, The Handmaid’s Tale, Hardware,
Jacob’s Ladder, Moon 44, Prayer Of The Rollerboys, Robocop II, Spaced Invaders,
Total Recall
1991
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, Naked Lunch, The Rocketeer, Star
Trek VI, Terminator II, Until The End Of The World, Wedlock
1992
Alien 3, Freejack, The Lawnmower Man, Memoirs Of An
Invisible Man, Nemesis, Split
Second, Timescape, Universal Soldier
1993
Body Snatchers, Coneheads, Demolition Man, Groundhog Day, Les
Visiteurs, Robocop III, Jurassic Park
1994
Stargate, Star Trek: Generations, Timecop
1995
12 Monkeys, The City Of Lost Children, Congo, Cyber Zone, GoldenEye,
Johnny Mnemonic, Judge Dredd, Screamers, Species, Strange Days, Tank Girl, Waterworld
1996
The Arrival, Barb Wire, Crash, Independence Day, Mars
Attacks!, Multiplicity, Space Truckers, Star Trek: First Contact
1997
Alien Resurrection, Contact, Cube, Event Horizon, The Fifth
Element, Gattaca, The Lost World, Men In Black, The Postman, Starship Troopers
1998
Armageddon, Dark City, Deep Impact, Phantoms, Pi, Run Lola
Run, Soldier, Sphere, Star Trek: Insurrection, The X-Files
1999
Bicentennial Man, eXistenZ, Galaxy Quest, The Iron Giant, The
Matrix, Muppets From Space, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, The Thirteenth Floor
2000
Battlefield Earth, Frequency, Mission To Mars, Pitch Black, Red
Planet, Space Cowboys, Supernova,
Titan A.E., Unbreakable
2001
AI, Donnie Darko, Evolution, Ghosts Of Mars, Jurassic Park
III, Planet Of The Apes, Vanilla Sky
2002
28 Days Later, The Adventures Of Pluto Nash, Cypher, Equilibrium, Impostor, Just Visiting,
Minority Report, Solaris, Spider-Man, Star Trek: Nemesis, Star Wars: Attack Of
The Clones, Signs, The Time Machine
2003
The Core, Dreamcatcher, The Matrix Reloaded, The
Matrix Revolutions, Out Of Time, Paycheck, Riverworld, S Club; Seeing Double, Terminator III, Timeline
2004
Alien vs Predator, The Butterfly Effect, The Day After
Tomorrow, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, I, Robot, Primer, Sky Captain
And The World Of Tomorrow
2005
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, The Island, King Kong,
Robots, Serenity, A Sound Of Thunder, Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith, War Of
The Worlds, Zarutha
2006
Children Of Men, Deja Vu, The Fountain, The Host, The
Prestige, A Scanner Darkly, Southland Tales, Superman Returns, V For Vendetta
2007
28 Weeks Later, I Am Legend, The Invasion, Premonition, The
Mist, Next, Sunshine, Timecrimes
2008
City Of Ember, Cloverfield, The Happening, Iron Man, Jumper,
Outlander, WALL-E, The X-Files: I Want To Believe
2009
2012, Avatar, District 9, Frequently Asked Question About
Time Travel, Land Of The Lost, Lockout, Moon, Mr Nobody, The Road, Star Trek, The
Time Traveler’s Wife, Timer
2010
Despicable Me, Hot Tub Time Machine, Monsters, Never Let Me
Go, Skyline, Tron Legacy
2011
The Adjustment Bureau, Another Earth, Attack The
Block, Cowboys Vs Aliens, Detention, In Time, Limitless, Love, Midnight In Paris, Paul, Perfect Sense,
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, Source Code, Super 8, Thor
2012
Cloud Atlas, Dredd, The Hunger Games, John Carter, Looper, Mine
Games, Prometheus, Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World, Total Recall, Upside
Down, Vanishing Waves
2013
About Time, After Earth, The Colony, Continuum, Elysium, Ender’s Game, Frequencies, Gravity, Hard To Be A God, Her, The
Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Last Days On Mars, Oblivion, Pacific Rim, Sirius, Snowpiercer, Star Trek Into Darkness,
The World’s End, Under The Skin, The Zero Theorem
2014
After, The Anomaly, Coherence, Dawn Of The Planet Of The
Apes, Debug, Divergent, Edge Of Tomorrow, The Giver, Godzilla, Guardians Of The
Galaxy, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 1, Interstellar, Left Behind, Lucy, The
Maze Runner, Noah, Mr Peabody & Sherman, Predestination, Robot Overlords, Space
Station 76, Time Lapse, Transcendence
2015
Advantageous, Insurgent, Evolution, Ex Machina, High Rise, Hot
Tub Time Machine 2, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 2, Jupiter Ascending, Jurassic
World, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, The Martian War, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, The
Signal, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Tomorrowland
2016
10 Cloverfield Lane, Alienate, Allegiant, ARQ, Arrival, Colossal, Ghostbusters, Ghost In
The Shell, Independence Day: Midnight Special, Resurgence, Passengers, Star
Wars: Rogue One, Star Trek Beyond, The Void
2017
Alien Covenant, Anti Matter, Blade Runner 2049, Curvature, The
Discovery, Geostorm, The Humanity Bureau, Kong: Skull Island, Life, Singularity,
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Time Trap, War For The Planet Of The Apes, What Happened
To Monday
2018
2036 Origin Unknown, Aniara, Annihilation, Anon,
Await Further Instructions, The Cloverfield Paradox, High Life, Jurassic
World: Fallen Kingdom, Maze
Runner: The Death Cure, Mirage, Mortal Engines, Mute, Parallel, Prospect, A
Quiet Place, Ready Player One, Replicas, School’s Out, The Shape Of Water, Star Wars: Solo,
Time After Time, The Titan, Venom
2019
Ad Astra, Color Out Of Space, Coma, Countdown, Enhanced, Farmageddon,
Gemini Man, I Am Mother, Io, Paradise Hills, Proxima, Sea Fever, See You Yesterday,
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, Synchronic, Vivarium, The Wandering Earth, Yesterday
2020
Archive, Bill And Ted Face The Music, Black Box, Boss
Level, Last And First Men, The
Intergalactic Adventures Of Max Cloud, Love And Monsters, The Midnight Sky,
Monster Hunter, Monsters Of Man, Palm Springs, Portal, Possessor, Sputnik, Tenet,
Wonder Woman 1984
2021
2149: The Aftermath, Awake, Chaos Walking, Don’t Look Up, Free
Guy, Dune, The Green Knight,
Infinite, Infinitum: Subject Unknown, Last Night In Soho, Old, Override, Oxygen, Memoria, Prisoners Of The Ghostland, Reminiscence,
Space Sweepers, Stowaway, The Tomorrow War, Voyagers
2022
The Adam Project, Big Bug, Crimes of the Future, Everything
Everywhere All At Once, Lightyear,
Men, Moonfall, Nope,
Project Gemini, Rubikon, Three Thousand Years Of Longing, Vesper
2023
They Cloned Tyrone
Still left to see:
1925
The Lost World
1944
Curse Of The Cat People
1953
The Beast From 20 , 000 Fathoms
1955
The Conquest Of Space, Devil Girl From Mars
1956
The Gamma People
1957
The Invisible Boy
1958
Attack Of The 50ft Woman, The Blob, Teenage Caveman, Terror
In The Midnight Sun
1959
The Angry Red Planet, Teenagers From Outer Space
1961
Gorgo
1962
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
1964
Dogora
1965
Night Caller From Outer Space
1968
Je T’aime Je T’aime, Mars Needs Women
1969
The Gladiators
1970
I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen, On The Comet
1971
City Beneath The Sea
1977
Tentacles
1981
The Mysterious Castle In The Carpathians
1982
Swamp Thing
1983
The Being, Strange Invaders
1984
The Dungeonmaster, Supergirl
1989
Arena, Leviathan, Murder By Moonlight
1993
Body Bags, Fortress
1996
Phenomenon
1998
Riddler’s Moon
2000
Nautilus
2001
K-Pax
2005
Sky High
2006
Earthstorm
2007
The Man From Earth
2008
Death Race, Doomsday
2009
9, The Fourth Kind, Pandorum, Splice, Triangle
2011
Apollo 18, Cold Fusion, The Collapsed, Dimensions
2012
Earth’s Final Hours, Robert & Frank, Safety Not
Guaranteed
2013
The Congress, Europa Report, Time Runners, World War Z
2014
The History Of Time Travel, The Incident, The Infinite
Man, The Last Invasion, Robocop, Survivor
2015
Alistair1918, Chappie, Circle, Evolution, Dark Planet, Infini,
Magnetic, Rotor DR1, Turbo Kid
2016
400 Days, Andron, The Call Up, Capsule, The Darkest Dawn, Morgan,
Paradox, Spectral
2017
Beyond Skyline, The Discovery, The Endless, Guardians of
the Galaxy 2, iBoy, Naked,
Orbiter 9, Reset, Revolt,
Stasis
2018
Abduction, Attraction, The Beyond, Bumblebee, Extinction, How
It Ends, I Think We’re Alone Now, Kin, Level 16, Occupation, Seat 25, Solis, Tau,
White Chamber, UFO, Zoe
2019
Assimilate, Clara, Cosmos, Countdown, Encounter, Every Time
I Die, Jurassic Galaxy, The Last Boy, Project Ithica, The Mandela Effect, The
Vast Of Night, Volition, White Space
2020
2067, 3022, AI Rising, Anti Life, Artemis Fowl, Breach,
G-Loc, Greenland, Intersect, The Invisible Man, Lapsis, Little
Fish, Monster Hunter, Possessor, Proximity, Skylines, Skyman, Underwater, Variant,
The Wanting Mare
2021
Alienated, Assimilate, Bios, The Colony, Encounter, Faraway
Eyes, Finch, I’m Your Man, King Car, Last Train To Christmas,
M3gan, The Map Of Tiny Perfect Things, The Mitchells Vs The Machines,
Neptune Frost, Out Of Time, Restart The Earth, Settlers, Strawberry Mansion,
Warning
2022
After Young, Dual, Eight For Silver, Jurassic
World: Dominion, Meet Cute, Moonshot, Prey
2023
65, Crater,
Guardians of the Galaxy 3, Infinity Pool, War of the Worlds:
The Attack