Phobos Entertainment's "50 Science Fiction Films You Just Have to See"

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If you’re trying to understand the good, bad and ugly of science fiction films, you might want to start with Phobos’ “List of SF Films You Have To See.” No matter what its pedigree–or its quality–each film below is loaded with ideas, images or themes that have helped elevate cinematic SF to the heights it enjoys today. Picked by Keith Olexa.

  1. 1.
    Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope (Widescreen Edition)
    by George Lucas
  2. 2.
    Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
    by Fritz Lang
  3. 3.
    Forbidden Planet
    by Fred M. Wilcox
  4. 4.
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    by Don Siegel
  6. 6.
    The Thing From Another World [VHS]
    by Christian Nyby
  7. 7.
    The Thing - Collector's Edition

  9. 9.
    The Matrix
    by Andy Wachowski
  10. 10.
    Godzilla King of the Monsters
    by Ishirô Honda
  11. 11.
    The Time Machine
    by George Pal
  12. 12.
    The War of the Worlds
    by Byron Haskin
  14. 14.
    Planet of the Apes
    by Franklin J. Schaffner
  15. 15.
    The Andromeda Strain
    by Robert Wise
  16. 16.
    This Island Earth
    by Joseph M. Newman
  17. 17.
    Them! (Snapcase Packaging)
    by Gordon Douglas
  19. 19.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick
  20. 20.
    The Terminator
    by James Cameron
  21. 21.
    Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
    by Ridley Scott
  22. 22.
    Altered States

  23. 23.
    H.G. Wells - Things to Come
    by William Cameron Menzies
  24. 24.
    Alien
    by Ridley Scott
  25. 25.
    Aliens (Special Edition)
    by James Cameron
  26. 26.
    The Day the Earth Stood Still
    by Robert Wise
  27. 27.
    The Incredible Shrinking Man
    by Jack Arnold
  28. 28.
    The Day After [VHS]
    by Nicholas Meyer
  29. 29.
    Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy
    by Roger Vadim
  30. 30.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Stanley Kubrick
  31. 31.
    Sleeper
    by Woody Allen
  32. 32.
    Zardoz
    by John Boorman
  33. 33.
    Logan's Run
    by Michael Anderson
  34. 34.
  35. 35.
    Tron (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
    by Robert Meyer Burnett
  36. 36.
    1984
    by Michael Radford
  37. 37.
    Akira
    by Katsuhiro Ôtomo
  38. 38.
    Total Recall (Special Limited Edition)
    by Paul Verhoeven
  39. 39.
    Independence Day (Single Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Roland Emmerich
  40. 40.
    Galaxy Quest
    by Dean Parisot
  41. 41.
    Fantastic Planet
    by René Laloux
  42. 42.
    Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
    by Fred F. Sears
  43. 43.
  45. 45.
    Plan 9 From Outer Space
    by Edward D. Wood Jr.
  46. 46.
    The Crawling Eye (Widescreen European Edition)
    by Quentin Lawrence
  48. 48.
    The Road Warrior
    by George Miller
  49. 49.
    When Worlds Collide
    by Rudolph Maté
  50. 50.
    Strange Days
    by Kathryn Bigelow
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Created by Robot Co-op on Nov 30, 2005.
 

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jestill

Alternative Name to "Five Million Years to Earth" and Changes — 6 years ago

I added the alternative name “Quatermass and the Pit” to the listing of “Five Million Years to Earth”. I also fixed the order back to the order on the source list. Fixed Star Wars Trilogy to Ep IV, and The Fly/The Fly II to just The Fly to better reflect the source list.

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