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1. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
PG | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.
Director: George Lucas | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness
Votes: 1,448,891 | Gross: $322.74M
2. The NeverEnding Story (1984)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A troubled boy dives into a wondrous fantasy world through the pages of a mysterious book.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Gerald McRaney
Votes: 156,853 | Gross: $20.16M
3. War of the Worlds (2005)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An alien invasion threatens the future of humanity. The catastrophic nightmare is depicted through the eyes of one American family fighting for survival.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto
Votes: 475,000 | Gross: $234.28M
4. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
PG | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebel Alliance attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side.
Director: Richard Marquand | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams
Votes: 1,120,859 | Gross: $309.13M
5. Flash Gordon (1980)
PG | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Topol
Votes: 61,495
6. Barbarella (1968)
Approved | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
In the 41st century, an astronaut partakes in sexy misadventures while seeking to stop an evil scientist who threatens to bring evil back into the galaxy.
Director: Roger Vadim | Stars: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea
Votes: 37,702
7. Logan's Run (1976)
PG | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee Browne
Votes: 61,006 | Gross: $25.00M
8. Heavy Metal (1981)
R | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
A glowing green orb that embodies ultimate evil terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories.
Directors: Gerald Potterton, John Bruno, John Halas, Julian Harris, Jimmy T. Murakami, Barrie Nelson, Paul Sabella, Jack Stokes, Pino Van Lamsweerde, Harold Whitaker | Stars: Richard Romanus, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Don Francks
Votes: 38,131
9. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
G | 92 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
An alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe
Votes: 85,731
10. The War of the Worlds (1953)
G | 85 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite
Votes: 38,504 | Gross: $4.36M
11. The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
PG | 103 min | Comedy, Crime
After escaping from an insane asylum, the bonkers Charles Dreyfus sends 26 assassins on the trail of the forever bumbling Inspector Clouseau.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Kwouk
Votes: 31,991 | Gross: $33.83M
12. Devil Girl from Mars (1954)
Approved | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An uptight, leather-clad female alien, armed with a ray gun and accompanied by a menacing robot, comes to Earth to collect Earth's men as breeding stock.
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Hugh McDermott, Hazel Court, Peter Reynolds, Adrienne Corri
Votes: 2,096
13. Batman (1943)
Approved | 260 min | Action, Crime, Family
The very first serial to adapt the comic book character of the Batman. In it, the Batman is a secret U.S. government agent, attempting to defeat the schemes of Japanese agent Dr. Daka operating in Los Angeles at the height of World War II.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Lewis Wilson, Douglas Croft, J. Carrol Naish, Shirley Patterson
Votes: 2,472
14. Robot Monster (1953)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Family, Horror
The monstrous Ro-Man attempts to annihilate the last family alive on Earth, but finds himself falling for their beautiful daughter.
Director: Phil Tucker | Stars: George Nader, Gregory Moffett, Claudia Barrett, Selena Royle
Votes: 5,448 | Gross: $1.00M
15. Mom and Dad Save the World (1992)
PG | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
An alien Overlord plans to blow up the Earth but first, he snatches and proposes to marry an Earthman's wife.
Director: Greg Beeman | Stars: Teri Garr, Jeffrey Jones, Jon Lovitz, Thalmus Rasulala
Votes: 5,175 | Gross: $2.03M
16. The Colossus of New York (1958)
Unrated | 70 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results...
Director: Eugène Lourié | Stars: John Baragrey, Mala Powers, Otto Kruger, Robert Hutton
Votes: 1,243
17. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
Unrated | 83 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Extraterrestrials traveling in high-tech flying saucers contact a scientist as part of a plan to enslave the inhabitants of Earth.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis, Morris Ankrum
Votes: 9,102
18. Deathsport (1978)
R | 82 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Futuristic Science Fiction about a sport to the death, using "destructocycles".
Directors: Allan Arkush, Nicholas Niciphor, Roger Corman | Stars: David Carradine, Claudia Jennings, Richard Lynch, William Smithers
Votes: 2,455
19. Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A young alien and a teenage earthling fall in love, and plot to stop the alien's race from using Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet.
Director: Tom Graeff | Stars: David Love, Dawn Bender, Bryan Grant, Harvey B. Dunn
Votes: 3,854
20. Atlantis: The Lost Continent (1961)
Approved | 90 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Welcome to Atlantis, where royal guardsmen wear uniforms that could easily be from the wardrobe of Ming the Merciless and some unfortunate slaves are turned into bovine-headed beasts.
Director: George Pal | Stars: Sal Ponti, Joyce Taylor, John Dall, William Smith
Votes: 2,146
21. The Invisible Ray (1935)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A scientist becomes murderous after discovering, and being exposed to the radiation of, a powerful new element called Radium X.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton
Votes: 3,029
22. Message from Space (1978)
PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An embattled planet, which is on the edge of doom, sends an S.O.S. and an intergalactic team comes to its rescue.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Vic Morrow, Shin'ichi Chiba, Philip Casnoff, Peggy Lee Brennan
Votes: 1,647
23. Superman: The Mad Scientist (1941)
G | 10 min | Animation, Short, Action
The Man of Steel fights a mad scientist who is destroying Metropolis with an energy cannon.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Steve Muffati | Stars: Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck, Jack Mercer
Votes: 3,503
24. Mission Stardust (1967)
PG | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A team of astronauts is sent to the moon to rescue an alien who is seeking help to save her dying race. They are attacked by a force of bandit robots and discover that enemy spies are out to kill the alien.
Director: Primo Zeglio | Stars: Lang Jeffries, Essy Persson, Luis Dávila, Pinkas Braun
Votes: 877
25. Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam (1985)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Dr. Otto grows a hand out of the top of his head and tries to destroy the world.
Director: John R. Cherry III | Stars: Jim Varney, Glenn Petach, Myke R. Mueller, Jackie Welch
Votes: 725
26. Kamikaze (1986)
90 min | Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A crazy old and bored scientist invents a system which allows him to reach through the airwaves and transform live TV cameras into weapons to kill whoever is being filmed.
Director: Didier Grousset | Stars: Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru, Dominique Lavanant, Romane Bohringer
Votes: 722
27. Destroy All Humans! (2005 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Comedy
You are Cryptospordium-137, a Furon sent to Earth to collect Furon DNA embedded in humans.
Director: Brad Welch | Stars: J. Grant Albrecht, Richard Steven Horvitz, André Sogliuzzo, Nika Futterman
Votes: 963
28. Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938)
Approved | 299 min | Action, Adventure, Family
When a deadly Nitron ray strikes Earth, Flash Gordon and his friends travel to Mars to battle Ming the Merciless and his new ally Queen Azura.
Directors: Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill, Frederick Stephani | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon
Votes: 1,052
29. The Shadow (1940)
Passed | 285 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Victor Jory, Veda Ann Borg, Roger Moore, Robert Fiske
Votes: 376
30. The Phantom Empire (1935)
Approved | 245 min | Drama, Family, Romance
When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried ... See full summary »
Directors: Otto Brower, B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, Betsy King Ross, Dorothy Christy
Votes: 539
31. Uchu kara no messeji: Ginga taisen (1978– )
23 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The 15th solar system is invaded by the Stressos. Two men, Ryû and Ayato, and a man-ape, Baru, organize the resistance. They are helped by Eolia, a mysterious woman traveling on a three masted space ship.
Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Yôko Akitani, Shinzô Hotta, Jirô Shirai
Votes: 212
32. The Golden Bat (1966)
73 min | Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi
When the Earth is threatened by an evil alien, a group of UN scientists travel to the lost city of Atlantis where they unearth a superhuman mummy named The Golden Bat who is prophesied to help the humans survive this terrible attack.
Director: Hajime Satô | Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Osamu Kobayashi, Wataru Yamagawa, Hisako Tsukuba
Votes: 317
33. Mission Mars (1968)
G | 95 min | Sci-Fi
Three American astronauts who land on Mars discover the body of a frozen Russian cosmonaut and a mysterious talking orb.
Director: Nicholas Webster | Stars: Darren McGavin, Nick Adams, George De Vries, Heather Hewitt
Votes: 363
34. The Whispering Shadow (1933)
Passed | 225 min | Action, Crime, Family
A mysterious criminal known as The Whispering Shadow commits crimes by means of a gang he controls by television and radio rays. Jack Norton, whose brother was murdered by The Whispering ... See full summary »
Directors: Colbert Clark, Albert Herman | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Viva Tattersall, Malcolm McGregor, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 242
35. Chandu the Magician (1932)
Passed | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When delusional madman Roxor kidnaps a scientist in hopes of using his death ray to achieve world dominance, he is opposed by Chandu, a powerful hypnotist and yogi.
Directors: William Cameron Menzies, Marcel Varnel | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Irene Ware, Bela Lugosi, Herbert Mundin
Votes: 1,138
36. Murder by Television (1935)
Passed | 53 min | Mystery, Thriller
James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send ... See full summary »
Director: Clifford Sanforth | Stars: Bela Lugosi, June Collyer, Huntley Gordon, George Meeker
Votes: 766
37. Danger!! Death Ray (1967)
Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Secret Agent Bart Fargo chases the kidnappers of the inventor of a death ray.
Director: Gianfranco Baldanello | Stars: Gordon Scott, Delfi Mauro, Nello Pazzafini, Alberto Dalbés
Votes: 897
38. The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964)
90 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.
Directors: Hugo Fregonese, Victor De Santis | Stars: Peter van Eyck, O.E. Hasse, Yvonne Furneaux, Rika Dialyna
Votes: 421
39. The Vanishing Shadow (1934)
Passed | 242 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A 12-episode serial in which a son avenges the death of his father at the hands of corrupt politicians. He develops a wide variety of complex devices in his crusade . . . Ray guns, robots and a 'vanishing belt.'
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Onslow Stevens, Ada Ince, Walter Miller, James Durkin
Votes: 140
40. Spook Louder (1943)
Unrated | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
The stooges are salesman selling a weight reducing machine. They have no luck until they show up at the house of an eccentric inventor where they are hired as caretakers. When the scientist... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Stanley Blystone
Votes: 594
41. Tesla: Master of Lightning (2000 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 87 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Biography of electrical inventor and visionary genius Nikola Tesla.
Director: Robert Uth | Stars: Stacy Keach, Elisabeth Noone, Nikola Tesla, Leland I. Anderson
Votes: 1,062
42. Island of Lost Women (1959)
Approved | 71 min | Adventure
A plane makes an emergency landing on a jungle island inhabited by a scientist and his three nubile young daughters. Complications ensue.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Jeff Richards, Venetia Stevenson, John Smith, Diane Jergens
Votes: 331
43. 1. April 2000 (1952)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
It is the year 2000 and the World Global Union is in charge, although other countries are allowed to elect their own government leaders, as long as they support the Union. When Austria's ... See full summary »
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Hilde Krahl, Josef Meinrad, Waltraut Haas, Judith Holzmeister
Votes: 256
44. Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1938)
Approved | 57 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
The invention of an atomic weapon - a long-range ray that can detonate explosions - sends Scotland Yard and Captain Drummond into action.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner, Reginald Denny
Votes: 510
45. Death Ray 2000 (1980 TV Movie)
100 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Pilot for the television series A Man Called Sloane (1979).
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Robert Logan, Dan O'Herlihy, Penelope Windust, Ann Turkel
Votes: 65
46. The Lost City (I) (1935)
Approved | 80 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
An evil scientist plots to take over the world from his base in Africa, where he has invented a machine that can cause earthquakes.
Director: Harry Revier | Stars: William 'Stage' Boyd, Kane Richmond, Claudia Dell, Josef Swickard
Votes: 319
47. Ace Drummond (1936)
Approved | 255 min | Action, Adventure, Family
This 13 chapter serial is based on the comic strip character Ace Drummond created by Eddie Rickenbacker. Ace is a 'G-Man of the sky' working out of Washington D.C. He is sent to Mongolia to... See full summary »
Directors: Ford Beebe, Clifford Smith | Stars: John 'Dusty' King, Jean Rogers, Noah Beery Jr., Guy Bates Post
Votes: 422
48. Murder at Dawn (1932)
Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Mad scientist works on a death ray in his mountain hideaway.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Josephine Dunn, Jack Mulhall, Eddie Boland, Marjorie Beebe
Votes: 176
49. Espionage in Tangiers (1965)
98 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A secret agent is assigned to capture a criminal gang that is threatening to destroy Earth with a death ray.
Director: Gregg G. Tallas | Stars: Luis Dávila, José Greci, Perla Cristal, Tomás Blanco
Votes: 149
50. Dick Barton at Bay (1950)
68 min | Crime, Sci-Fi
Special Agent Dick Barton has been assigned to recover a kidnapped professor and de-activate a death ray before catastrophe occurs and World War III is declared.
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Don Stannard, Tamara Desni, George Ford, Meinhart Maur
Votes: 161