Science Fiction Movies Bucket List

A rubbish-compacting robot alone on Earth, and forty minutes without dialogue.

A linguist learns an alien language and it rearranges her sense of time.

Seven crew, one ship, one creature; the haunted house in space that started it all.

Eighteen years without a birth, and one famously unbroken shot through a war zone.

Villeneuve's sequel: a replicant cop finds a buried secret and a very old Deckard.

Ridley Scott returns to the universe with the Engineers and the origin of the black goo.

Los Angeles, 2019: a detective hunts four replicants who want more life.

A princess tries to make peace with a toxic jungle and the insects that guard it.

Pre-crime police in 2054 Washington, and the cop they come for.

A couple erase each other from memory and he changes his mind halfway through.

A spy thriller in which half the action runs backwards through time.

The original space opera that started it all (1977).

Besson’s orange-haired future: a cab driver, a diva’s aria and Gary Oldman with a plastic haircut.

Alien ships over every capital city, and a July 4th counterattack flown by a marine and a cable guy.

Philip K. Dick rotoscoped: an undercover narcotics officer assigned to watch himself.

The last man in an empty Manhattan, talking to shop mannequins and hunting deer on Fifth Avenue.

Gilliam's time-loop plague film, with Pitt twitching his way to an Oscar nomination.

Two agents in black suits neuralyse New York; the alien comedy that defined a summer.

A Korean girl goes to New York to get her superpig back from the company that bred it.

The last humans circle a frozen Earth on a train, and the tail carriage fights its way forward.

A couple trick Alan Grant into flying over Isla Sorna to look for their son; the Spinosaurus replaces the T. rex.

Caesar and Koba across a broken bridge; the best of the modern trilogy.