Best Sci Fi Movies by Year
2807
258
1961
Gerard Baldwin, Frank Braxton
William Conrad, Hans Conried, June Foray, Paul Frees, Bill Scott
Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2316
158
1960
Wolf Rilla
George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn, Laurence Naismith
Sci-Fi / Horror
UK / USA
English
2320
159
1960
George Pal
Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot, Tom Helmore
Adventure / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / War
USA
English
2605
202
1960
Roger Corman
Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Dick Miller, Myrtle Vail, Tammy Windsor
Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Cult
USA
English
2788
251
1960
Veljko Bulajic
Antun Vrdoljak, Zlatko Madunic, Ljubisa Jovanovic, Ita Rina
Drama / Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
1549
90
1959
Stanley Kramer
Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, Donna Anderson
Drama / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2511
189
1959
David Lowell Rich
Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Marjorie Bennett, Robert Colbert
Comedy / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2675
218
1959
William Castle
Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2707
234
1959
Edward D. Wood Jr.
Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore, Tom Keene, Carl Anthony
Horror / Sci-Fi / Action / Cult
USA
English
2807
258
1959
Sidney Miller
Lou Costello, Dorothy Provine, Gale Gordon, Jimmy Conlin, Charles Lane
Comedy / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2807
258
1959
Ward Kimball, Hamilton Luske, Jeff Kurtti
Walt Disney, Wernher von Braun, Leonard Maltin, Ray Bradbury, Heinz Haber
Documentary / Short / Animation / Family / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2198
136
1958
Kurt Neumann
David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall
Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2689
224
1958
Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., Russell S. Doughten Jr.
Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland, Alden 'Stephen' Chase
Horror / Sci-Fi / Comedy / Cult
USA
English
2775
245
1958
Howard W. Koch
Boris Karloff, Don 'Red' Barry, Jana Lund, Tom Duggan, Charlotte Austin
Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2807
258
1958
Thomas Carr, George Blair, Harry W. Gerstad, Lee Sholem, Philip Ford, George Reeves, Lew Landers, Howard Bretherton
George Reeves, Bill Kennedy, Jack Larson, Noel Neill, John Hamilton
Action / Family / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Comic
USA
English
2807
258
1958
Nathan Juran
Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers, Roy Gordon, George Douglas
Sci-Fi / Cult
USA
English
2807
258
1958
Edward Bernds
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eric Fleming, Dave Willock, Laurie Mitchell, Lisa Davis
Adventure / Sci-Fi / Cult
USA
English
954
52
1957
Jack Arnold
Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent, Paul Langton, Raymond Bailey
Sci-Fi / Horror / Cult
USA
English
2689
224
1957
Terence Fisher
Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Christopher Lee, Melvyn Hayes
Sci-Fi / Horror / Drama
UK
English
2689
224
1957
Gene Fowler Jr.
Michael Landon, Yvonne Lime, Whit Bissell, Tony Marshall, Dawn Richard
Horror / Sci-Fi / Drama
USA
English
2689
224
1957
Ishirô Honda
Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / War
Japan
Japanese
NR
-
1957
Irwin Allen
Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Fantasy / History / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
190
11
1956
Don Siegel
Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
836
43
1956
Fred M. Wilcox
Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens
Drama / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Action / Cult
USA
English
2689
224
1956
Ishirô Honda
Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata, Akio Kobori, Yasuko Nakata
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Action
Japan
Japanese
2689
224
1956
Edward Bernds
Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates, Nelson Leigh, Rod Taylor, Shirley Patterson
Sci-Fi
USA
English
1223
68
1954
Ishirô Honda
Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror / Cult
Japan
Japanese
1309
74
1954
Richard Fleischer
Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas
Family / Adventure / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2226
140
1954
Gordon Douglas
James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens
Sci-Fi / Horror
USA
English
2689
224
1954
Jack Arnold
Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva
Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2797
256
1954
Samuel Fuller
Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen, Cameron Mitchell, Gene Evans
Drama / Sci-Fi / Romance / Action / Spy / War
USA
English
2188
133
1953
Byron Haskin
Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
2511
189
1953
Jack Arnold
Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer, Russell Johnson
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2689
224
1953
Eugène Lourié
Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Donald Woods
Sci-Fi / Horror
USA
English
2807
258
1953
William Cameron Menzies
Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson, Hillary Brooke
Sci-Fi / Action
USA
English
2345
161
1952
Howard Hawks
Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe
Comedy / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2807
258
1952
William Beaudine
Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo, Charlita, Muriel Landers
Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Adventure
USA
English
604
26
1951
Robert Wise
Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Family
USA
English
799
36
1951
Alexander Mackendrick
Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Drama
UK
English
1104
59
1951
Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks
Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite
Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2807
258
1951
Arch Oboler
William Phipps, Susan Douglas Rubes, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin, Earl Lee
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Action
USA
English
2689
224
1950
Irving Pichel
John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson, Erin O'Brien-Moore
Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2807
258
1950
Spencer Gordon Bennet
Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill, Lyle Talbot, Tommy Bond, Pierre Watkin, Jack Ingram
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Crime / Family / Comic / Serial
USA
English
2605
202
1949
Lloyd Bacon
Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas, Ed Begley, Ted de Corsia, Ray Collins
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Sports / Fantasy
USA
English
1336
75
1948
Charles Barton
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange
Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
2511
189
1948
Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr
Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill, Carol Forman, Tommy Bond, Pierre Watkin, Jack Ingram
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Crime / Family / Comic / Serial
USA
English
2788
251
1947
Grigori Aleksandrov
Lyubov Orlova, Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Konovalov
Comedy / Musical / Romance / Sci-Fi
Soviet Union
Russian
2689
224
1944
Erle C. Kenton
Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Anne Gwynne, Peter Coe
Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2689
224
1943
Roy William Neill
Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill
Sci-Fi / Horror
USA
English
2689
224
1941
Victor Fleming
Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2807
258
1941
John English, William Witney
Tom Tyler, Frank Coghlan Jr., William 'Billy' Benedict, Louise Currie
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Serial / Comic
USA
English
2807
258
1941
Dave Fleischer
Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck, Julian Noa, Jack Mercer
Animation / Family / Short / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Crime / Comic
USA
English
2807
258
1940
Arthur Lubin
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel, Anne Gwynne
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Crime / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2807
258
1940
Nick Grinde
Boris Karloff, Roger Pryor, Jo Ann Sayers, Stanley Brown, John Dilson
Mystery / Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
1957
114
1939
Rowland V. Lee
Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Josephine Hutchinson
Sci-Fi / Horror / Drama
USA
English
759
34
1937
Frank Capra
Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Family
USA
English
898
47
1936
William Cameron Menzies
Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott
Sci-Fi
UK
English
1617
92
1936
Frederick Stephani, Ray Taylor
Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton
Sci-Fi / Adventure / Action / Family / Cult / Comic / Serial
USA
English
1934
112
1936
Lothar Mendes
Roland Young, Ralph Richardson, Edward Chapman, Ernest Thesiger, Joan Gardner
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Fantasy
UK
English
2296
153
1936
Tod Browning
Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Rafaela Ottiano
Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
132
7
1935
James Whale
Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester
Horror / Sci-Fi / Drama
USA
English
2689
224
1935
Stuart Walker
Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, Lester Matthews, Lawrence Grant
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2792
253
1935
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Stepan Shagaida, Sergei Stolyarov, Yevgeniya Melnikova
Sci-Fi / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
73
5
1933
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Sam Hardy, Noble Johnson
Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller / Horror / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
939
50
1933
James Whale
Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers, Una O'Connor
Comedy / Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2807
258
1933
Frank R. Strayer
Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, Maude Eburne, George E. Stone, Dwight Frye
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Romance / Sci-Fi / Detective
USA
English
1855
106
1932
Erle C. Kenton
Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Kathleen Burke, Arthur Hohl
Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi / Romance
USA
English
2489
183
1932
Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor
Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett
Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi / Crime
USA
English
240
12
1931
James Whale
Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
776
35
1931
Rouben Mamoulian
Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
26
2
1927
Fritz Lang
Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp
Sci-Fi / Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
1747
99
1925
Harry O. Hoyt, William Dowling
Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery, Arthur Hoyt
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
USA
English (Silent)
2792
253
1925
René Clair
Henri Rollan, Martinelli, Albert Préjean
Short / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Comedy
France
French (Silent)
2689
224
1921
Jacques Feyder
Jean Angelo, Stacia Napierkowska, Georges Melchior, Marie-Louise Iribe
Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Romance / Adventure
France / Belgium
French (Silent)
2689
224
1920
John S. Robertson
John Barrymore, Charles Lane, Brandon Hurst, Cecil Clovelly, Nita Naldi
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English (Silent)
2807
258
1916
Stuart Paton
Dan Hanlon, Edna Pendleton, Curtis Benton, Allen Holubar, Matt Moore, Jane Gail
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
USA
English (Silent)
2807
258
1904
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Short / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
France
French (Silent)
1203
65
1902
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès, Bleuette Bernon, Brunnet, Farjaut, Kelm
Sci-Fi / Short / Adventure / Fantasy / Action / Comedy
France
French (Silent)
