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Film4's "50 Science Fiction Films to See Before You Die"

The greatest works of futuristic cinema as voted for by Film4’s critics.

(found at: http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/feature.jsp?V=12&SV=-1&id=163138)
1. Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
by Ridley Scott
 
2. 2001 - A Space Odyssey
by Stanley Kubrick
 
3. The Matrix
by Larry Wachowski
 
4. Donnie Darko
by Richard Kelly (II)
 
5. Aliens (Special Edition)
by James Cameron
 
6. The Man Who Fell to Earth - Criterion Collection
by Nicolas Roeg
 
7. Akira (Special Edition)
by Katsuhiro Ôtomo
 
8. Star Wars, Episode V- The Empire Strikes Back (Widescreen Edition)
by Irvin Kershner
 
9. The Terminator
by James Cameron
 
10. The Road Warrior
by George Miller (II)
 
11. 12 Monkeys (Special Edition)
by Terry Gilliam
 
12. Brazil - Criterion Collection  
13. Solaris - Criterion Collection
by Andrei Tarkovsky
 
14. Forbidden Planet
by Fred M. Wilcox
 
15. The Thing (Collector's Edition)  
16. Dark Star
by John Carpenter
 
17. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (Widesceen)
by Steven Spielberg
 
18.
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Back to the Future  
19. Rollerball
by Norman Jewison
 
20. A Boy & His Dog  
21. La Jetee/Sans Soleil  
22. Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
by Fritz Lang
 
23. Planet of the Apes
by Franklin J. Schaffner
 
24. Robocop - Criterion Collection
by Paul Verhoeven
 
25. Star Wars, Episode IV- A New Hope (Widescreen Edition)
by George Lucas
 
26. Sunshine  
27. Frankenstein (75th Anniversary Edition) (Universal Legacy Series)
by James Whale
 
28. Seconds
by John Frankenheimer
 
29. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
by Don Siegel
 
30. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Widescreen Edition)
by Steven Spielberg
 
31. The Day the Earth Stood Still
by Robert Wise
 
32. Escape from New York  
33. A Clockwork Orange
by Stanley Kubrick
 
34. Starship Troopers
by Paul Verhoeven
 
35. Battle Royale
by Kinji Fukasaku
 
36. Alien (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Ridley Scott
 
37. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
by James Cameron
 
38. Children of Men
by Alfonso Cuarón
 
39. Soylent Green
by Richard Fleischer
 
40. Minority Report (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)  
41. The Fly (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)  
42. Silent Running
by Douglas Trumbull
 
43. The Fifth Element
by Luc Besson
 
44. The War of the Worlds (Special Collector's Edition)
by Byron Haskin
 
45. Jurassic Park (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
by Steven Spielberg
 
46. Quatermass and the Pit
by Roy Ward Baker
 
47. Westworld
by Michael Crichton
 
48. Tron (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
by Steven Lisberger
 
49.
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A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage Dans La Lune) [1902]
by Georges Melies
 
50. Things to Come  
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Created by Perlle on Oct 24, 2007.