20 Sci-Fi Movies that Make Me Feel So Lucky to be Alive to See these Masterpieces

Some movies were made to be passed down generation after generations. Eventhough some movies on this list were produced with relatively old technology, the cinematography is still so good that it does not cease to impress us. This list of movies contains sci-fi that covers hit topics like time travel, space navigation, as well as artificial intelligence and the apocalypse. Ready to be blown away? brace yourself for some epic space travels (see number 1 of this list)

1

Interstellar

Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway
Christopher Nolan
2014

Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

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8.6 IMDB
2

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong
James Cameron
1991

Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.

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8.5 IMDB
3

WALL·E

Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin
Andrew Stanton
2008

WALL·E is the last robot left on an Earth that has been overrun with garbage and all humans have fled to outer space. For 700 years he has continued to try and clean up the mess, but has developed some rather interesting human-like qualities. When a ship arrives with a sleek new type of robot, WALL·E thinks he's finally found a friend and stows away on the ship when it leaves.

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8.4 IMDB
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst
Michel Gondry
2004

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

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8.3 IMDB
5

Jurassic Park

Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum
Steven Spielberg
1993

A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.

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8.1 IMDB
6

The Martian

Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig
Ridley Scott
2015

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

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8 IMDB
7

Her

Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams
Spike Jonze
2013

In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.

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8 IMDB
8

Blade Runner 2049

Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas
Denis Villeneuve
2017

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

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8 IMDB
9

Star Trek

Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy
J.J. Abrams
2009

The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.

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7.9 IMDB
10

Arrival

Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker
Denis Villeneuve
2016

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

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7.9 IMDB
11

District 9

Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt
Neill Blomkamp
2009

Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9.

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7.9 IMDB
12

Edge of Tomorrow

Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Brendan Gleeson
Doug Liman
2014

Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.

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7.9 IMDB
13

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton
David Fincher
2008

Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.

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7.8 IMDB
14

Ex Machina

Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac
Alex Garland
2015

Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

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7.7 IMDB
15

Gravity

Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris
Alfonso Cuarón
2013

Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone-tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness of space. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.

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7.7 IMDB
16

The Butterfly Effect

Ashton Kutcher, Melora Walters, Amy Smart
Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber
2004

A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.

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7.6 IMDB
17

Predestination

Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor
Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
2014

Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

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7.5 IMDB
18

Source Code

Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga
Duncan Jones
2011

Decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, discovering he's involved in a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He learns he's part of a top-secret experimental program that enables him to experience the final 8 minutes of another person's life. Colter re-lives the train incident over and over again, gathering more clues each time.

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7.5 IMDB
19

Limitless

Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish
Neil Burger
2011

A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.

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7.4 IMDB
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Snowpiercer

Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Ed Harris
Bong Joon-ho
2013

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

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7.1 IMDB