Mulder and Scully, the truth out there, and the monster-of-the-week format.
Oceanic 815 crashes on an island with a hatch and a smoke monster; the mystery that changed TV.
A schoolgirl learns to jump back in time and wastes it on small things, at first.
A writer in a Hong Kong hotel and a science-fiction train to 2046; the sequel to In the Mood for Love.
Two conspiracy theorists kidnap a CEO they think is an alien; Lanthimos and Emma Stone again.
Something in the sky above a Californian horse ranch; Jordan Peele's UFO western.
A family lives in silence because the monsters hunt by sound; John Krasinski's horror.
Two wedding guests stuck in the same day; the time loop as romantic comedy.
The time heist and the portals; the highest-grossing film for a while.
James Gunn reboots Superman with Krypto the dog; the start of the new DC.
Thanos collects the stones and snaps; half the audience gone.
Robert Pattinson dies and is reprinted on an ice planet; Bong Joon-ho's English-language satire.
Pandora, the Na'vi and the 3D film that became the highest-grossing ever.
Tom Cruise dies and repeats a D-Day against aliens; Groundhog Day as a war film.
A talking raccoon, a tree and a Walkman; Marvel's space opera comedy.
A wedding and a planet on a collision course with Earth; von Trier on depression.
Aliens in a Johannesburg township; Blomkamp's apartheid allegory as documentary sci-fi.
Scarlett Johansson as an alien picking up men in Glasgow, filmed with hidden cameras.
Gordon-Levitt hunts his older self, Bruce Willis; Rian Johnson's time-travel noir.
A programmer tests whether Ava is conscious in a glass house in the mountains.
Boarding-school children raised as organ donors; Ishiguro's quiet dystopia.
Sandra Bullock alone in orbit after the debris hits; Cuaron's 13-minute opening shot.
A South London gang fights aliens on Bonfire Night; John Boyega's debut.
A giant rabbit tells a teenager the world ends in 28 days; the cult film of 2001.
Schwarzenegger as an unstoppable machine from 2029; "I'll be back".
Liquid metal, a good Terminator and the biggest budget yet spent; the sequel that beat the original.
Jim Carrey's whole life is a TV show; the door in the sky.
A boy and a giant robot in Cold War Maine; "Superman".
Schwarzenegger on Mars, a three-breasted woman and an eyeball-popping ending; Verhoeven and Philip K. Dick.
Schwarzenegger's commandos hunted by an invisible alien in the jungle; "get to the chopper".
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