Phobos Entertainment's "50 Science Fiction Films You Just Have to See"

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If you’re trying to understand the good, bad and ugly of science fiction films, you might want to start with Phobos’ “List of SF Films You Have To See.” No matter what its pedigree–or its quality–each film below is loaded with ideas, images or themes that have helped elevate cinematic SF to the heights it enjoys today. Picked by Keith Olexa.

  1. 1.
    Star Wars, Episode IV- A New Hope (Widescreen Edition)
    by George Lucas

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  2. 2.
    Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
    by Fritz Lang

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  3. 3.
    Forbidden Planet
    by Fred M. Wilcox

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  4. 4.
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    by Don Siegel

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  5. 6.
    The Thing From Another World
    by Christian Nyby

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  6. 7.
    The Thing - Collector's Edition

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  7. 8.
    The Empire Strikes Back

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  8. 9.
    The Matrix
    by Larry Wachowski

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  9. 10.
    Godzilla King of the Monsters
    by Terry O. Morse

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  10. 11.
    The Time Machine
    by George Pal

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  11. 12.
    The War of the Worlds
    by Byron Haskin

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  12. 14.
    Planet of the Apes
    by Franklin J. Schaffner

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  13. 15.
    The Andromeda Strain
    by Robert Wise

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  14. 16.
    This Island Earth
    by Jack Arnold

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  15. 17.
    Them!
    by Gordon Douglas

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  16. 19.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  17. 20.
    The Terminator
    by James Cameron

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  18. 21.
    Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
    by Ridley Scott

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  19. 22.
    Altered States
    by Ken Russell

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  20. 23.
    H.G. Wells - Things to Come
    by William Cameron Menzies

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  21. 24.
    Alien
    by Ridley Scott

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  22. 25.
    Aliens (Special Edition)
    by James Cameron

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  23. 26.
    The Day the Earth Stood Still
    by Robert Wise

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  24. 27.
    The Incredible Shrinking Man
    by Jack Arnold

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  25. 28.
    The Day After
    by Nicholas Meyer

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  26. 29.
    Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy
    by Roger Vadim

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  27. 30.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  28. 31.
    Sleeper

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  29. 32.
    Zardoz

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  30. 33.
    Logan's Run
    by Michael Anderson

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  31. 35.
    Tron (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
    by Steven Lisberger

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  32. 36.
    1984
    by Michael Radford

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  33. 37.
    Akira (Special Edition)
    by Katsuhiro Ôtomo

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  34. 38.
    Total Recall (Special Limited Edition)
    by Paul Verhoeven

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  35. 39.
    Independence Day (Single Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Roland Emmerich

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  36. 40.
    Galaxy Quest

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  37. 41.
    Fantastic Planet
    by René Laloux

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  38. 42.
    Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
    by Fred F. Sears

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  40. 44.
    The Bride of Frankenstein
    by James Whale

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  41. 45.
    Plan 9 from Outer Space

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  42. 46.
    The Crawling Eye (Widescreen European Edition)
    by Quentin Lawrence

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  43. 48.
    The Road Warrior
    by George Miller (II)

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  44. 49.
    When Worlds Collide
    by Rudolph Maté

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  45. 50.
    Strange Days
    by Kathryn Bigelow

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Created by Robot Co-op on Nov 30, 2005.
 

Comments

Alternative Name to "Five Million Years to Earth" and Changes — 1 year ago

I added the alternative name “Quatermass and the Pit” to the listing of “Five Million Years to Earth”. I also fixed the order back to the order on the source list. Fixed Star Wars Trilogy to Ep IV, and The Fly/The Fly II to just The Fly to better reflect the source list.