This is an aggregated list of the best SF films of all time, according to magazine polls, critics' lists, etc.
There are 318 films in total, based on 19 lists. The numbers in brackets indicate how many lists each film appeared on. To view a list of sources, scroll to the bottom of the page or click here.
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12 Monkeys (10)
20000 Leagues Under the Sea (2)
2001: A Space Odyssey (19)
2046 (2)
A Boy and His Dog (1)
A Clockwork Orange (10)
A Quiet Place (3)
A Scanner Darkly (4)
A Trip to the Moon (4)
Ad Astra (1)
AI (7)
Akira (9)
Alien (19)
Alien Nation (1)
Aliens (10)
Alita: Battle Angel (1)
Alphaville (4)
Altered States (3)
Annihilation (10)
Antiviral (1)
April and the Extraordinary World (1)
Arrival (14)
Attack the Block (6)
Avatar (8)
Avengers (1)
Avengers: Endgame (2)
Avengers: Infinity War (2)
Back to the Future (18)
Back to the Future Part II (1)
Back to the Future Part III (1)
Barbarella (2)
Batman (1)
Batman Begins (1)
Belle (1)
Big Hero 6 (1)
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1)
Black Panther (3)
Blade Runner 2049 (9)
Blade Runner (19)
Born in Flames (2)
Brazil (11)
Bumblebee (1)
Capricorn One (1)
Captain America: Civil War (1)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2)
Children of Men (10)
Chronicle (1)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (17)
Cloud Atlas (1)
Cloverfield (2)
Cocoon (2)
Coherence (1)
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1)
Contact (9)
Cube (3)
Dalek’s Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1)
Dark City (8)
Dark Star (2)
Dawn of the Dead (1)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2)
Daybreakers (1)
Days of Eclipse (1)
Dead Man’s Letters (1)
Death Race 2000 (1)
Demolition Man (2)
Destination Moon (1)
District 9 (11)
Donnie Darko (9)
Dr. Strangelove (1)
Dredd (3)
Dune (9)
Edge of Tomorrow (8)
Elysium (1)
Enemy Mine (1)
Escape from New York (4)
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1)
ET (17)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (12)
Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time (1)
Event Horizon (2)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2)
Evolution (2015) (1)
Ex Machina (17)
eXistenZ (1)
Face/Off (1)
Fahrenheit 451 (1)
Fantastic Planet (5)
Fantastic Voyage (2)
Flash Gordon (3)
Flight of the Navigator (2)
Forbidden Planet (10)
Frankenstein (1931) (5)
Free Guy (1)
Galaxy Express 999 (1)
Galaxy Quest (9)
Gattaca (7)
Get Out (1)
Ghost in the Shell (9)
Ghostbusters (3)
Godzilla (1954) (6)
Gravity (9)
Guardians of the Galaxy (5)
Hard to Be a God (2)
Heavy Metal (2)
Her (10)
High Life (8)
Idiocracy (1)
Inception (15)
Incredibles II (1)
Independence Day (5)
Independence Day: Resurgence (1)
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (1)
Interstellar (11)
Invaders from Mars (1)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) (8)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) (10)
Iron Man (3)
Isle of Dogs (1)
It Came from Outer Space (1)
Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1)
Je t’aime, je t’aime (3)
Jurassic Park (14)
Jurassic World (1)
Kin-dza-dza! (1)
King Kong (1)
La Jetée (3)
Life (1)
Liquid Sky (2)
Little Shop of Horrors (1)
The Lobster (1)
Logan (2)
Logan’s Run (7)
Looper (9)
Mad Max (1)
Mad Max II (6)
Mad Max: Fury Road (8)
Melancholia (2)
Memoria (1)
Men in Black (5)
Metropolis (2001) (1)
Metropolis (16)
Midnight Special (1)
Minority Report (9)
Monsters (1)
Moon (9)
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (4)
Nine Days (1)
Night of the Creeps (1)
Oblivion (2)
Okja (1)
On the Silver Globe (1)
Open Your Eyes (1)
Outland (1)
Oxygen (1)
Pacific Rim (4)
Paprika (5)
Pi (2)
Pitch Black (1)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (2)
Planet of the Apes (13)
Possessor (2)
Predator (10)
Predestination (1)
Primer (7)
Pumzi (1)
Punishment Park (1)
Quatermass and the Pit (1)
Ready Player One (1)
Real Steel (1)
Re-animator (1)
Repo Man (4)
Resident Evil: Retribution (1)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2)
RoboCop (13)
Rogue One (5)
Rollerball (1)
Scanners (3)
Screamers (1)
Seconds (4)
Serenity (5)
Shin Godzilla (1)
Short Circuit (1)
Silent Running (8)
Sleep Dealer (1)
Sleeper (4)
Snowpiercer (10)
Solaris (13)
Solaris (2002) (1)
Sorry to Bother You (1)
Source Code (2)
Soylent Green (4)
Space Is the Place (2)
Spaceballs (1)
Species (1)
Spider-Man (1)
Spider-Man II (1)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (1)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (1)
Stalker (8)
Star Trek (1979) (3)
Star Trek (2009) (3)
Star Trek Beyond (1)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (10)
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (2)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1)
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1)
Star Trek: First Contact (3)
Star Wars Ep. 1: The Phantom Menace (1)
Star Wars Ep. 3: Revenge of the Sith (1)
Star Wars Ep. 4: A New Hope (13)
Star Wars Ep. 5: Empire Strikes Back (16)
Star Wars Ep. 6: Return of the Jedi (5)
Star Wars Ep. 7: The Force Awakens (4)
Star Wars Ep. 8: The Last Jedi (4)
Starman (2)
Starship Troopers (8)
Strange Days (5)
Sunshine (6)
Superman (3)
Superman II (1)
Take Shelter (1)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (12)
The Abyss (6)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (3)
The American Astronaut (1)
The Andromeda Strain (3)
The Bed Sitting Room (1)
The Black Hole (1)
The Blob (2)
The Boys from Brazil (1)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1)
The Brood (1)
The Brother from Another Planet (4)
The Chronicles of Riddick (1)
The Congress (1)
The Crazy Ray (1)
The Damned (1)
The Day of the Triffids (1)
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (14)
The Dead Zone1
The End of Evangelion (1)
The Endless (2)
The Face of Another (2)
The Faculty (1)
The Fifth Element (8)
The Fly (10)
The Fountain (1)
The Hidden (1)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1)
The Host (3)
The Hunger Games (2)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (1)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1)
The Invisible Man (2019) (1)
The Invisible Man (1933) (2)
The Iron Giant (7)
The Last Starfighter (2)
The Lego Movie (1)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (8)
The Manchurian Candidate (1)
The Martian (8)
The Matrix (18)
The Matrix Reloaded (1)
The Matrix Revolutions (1)
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2)
The Nutty Professor (1)
The Omega Man (1)
The Prestige (1)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (2)
The Running Man (2)
The Secret of NIMH (1)
The Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution (1)
The Terminator (16)
The Thing (17)
The Thing from Another World (3)
The Time Machine (3)
The Transformers: The Movie (2)
The Truman Show (2)
The Vast of Night (3)
The Wandering Earth (1)
The World’s End (3)
Them! (3)
They Live (7)
Things to Come (6)
This Island Earth (2)
Thor: Ragnarok (2)
Thunderdome (1)
THX 1138 (4)
Timecrimes (1)
Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1)
Total Recall (7)
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1)
Tron (8)
Turbo Kid (1)
Under the Skin (10)
Upgrade (1)
Upstream Color (2)
V for Vendetta (2)
Vanilla Sky (1)
Videodrome (4)
Village of the Damned (1)
Voyage to the End of the Universe (1)
Wall-E (14)
War for the Planet of the Apes (1)
War of the Worlds (1953) (4)
War of the Worlds (2005) (4)
Wargames (1)
Westworld (6)
When Worlds Collide (1)
Wizards (1)
Wonder Woman (2)
World of Tomorrow (2)
World on a Wire (3)
X-Men (1)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (1)
The source lists
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/best-sci-fi-movies/
https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/sci-fi-movies/the-100-best-sci-fi-movies-of-all-time/
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/best-sci-fi-movies-of-all-time
https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/film/a32643057/best-sci-fi-movies/
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-sci-fi-movies-of-all-time/
https://parade.com/1258802/samuelmurrian/best-sci-fi-movies/
https://www.timeout.com/film/the-100-best-sci-fi-movies
https://www.slashfilm.com/854355/best-sci-fi-movies-ever/
https://stacker.com/stories/1634/100-best-sci-fi-movies-all-time
https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/best-sci-fi-movies/2001-a-space-odyssey
https://ew.com/movies/the-best-sci-fi-movies-of-all-time/
https://www.ign.com/articles/best-sci-fi-movies-of-all-time
https://www.space.com/best-sci-fi-movies
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/g32450364/best-sci-fi-movies/
https://www.cinemablend.com/news/1639139/30-best-sci-fi-movies-of-all-time
https://www.thedigitalfix.com/best-science-fiction-movies
https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/the-100-best-sci-fi-films-of-all-time/
https://www.starburstmagazine.com/features/top-100-sci-fi-films-time-space
Cambridge History of Science Fiction, “Chronology”