From classic crowd-pleasers to idiosyncratic visions of bizarre worlds, there’s a title for all among the best sci-fi movies on Netflix.
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Last Updated: December 19th
The sci-fi genre currently splits the difference between niche entertainment and the mainstream, providing diehard nerds and folks looking for a simple good time with a common ground on which they can unite and share in their enthusiasm. There was a time when tales of aliens, space travel, and robots were believed to be the strict province of four-eyed basement dwellers, but the truth is that everybody can find something to enjoy in the weird world of science fiction. The best sci-fi works in both universal truths and hyperspecific detail, using fantastical yet fully-realized worlds to tell stories about our own.
Netflix ‘s selection of good sci fi movies isn’t exhaustive, and it errs mostly on the side of direct-to-video embarrassments, but there are still plenty of pictures worth exploring nestled among the sequels and paycheck-generators. Keep on scrolling for 10 of the best sci-fi movies on Netflix streaming to watch right now, taking you from the moon, the farthest reaches of space, and to the outer fringes of reality itself.
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Availability for Netflix Canada for this list:
15. Advantageous (2015) – yes
14. The Fly (1958) – no
13. Barbarella: Queen Of The Galaxy (1968) – no
12. A Trip To The Moon (1902) – no
11. Robinson Crusoe On Mars (1964) – no
10. Hard To Be A God (2013) – no
9. Superman: The Movie (1978) – no
8. Melancholia (2011) – yes
7. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) – yes
6. Contact (1997) – no
5. Primer (2004) – no
4. E. T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) – yes
3. World Of Tomorrow (2015) – no
2. Metropolis (1927) – no
Metropolis Restored – no (it was until recently)
1. Upstream Color (2013) – yes
What a cool list. Really great movies here. Most people do not want to watch them or do not even know about them! More people should watch Upstream Color and Primer. There are such intelligent and thought-provoking gems.
What planet do you live on where Sky Captain is anything besides a hunk of shit
I tried watching Galaxy Quest again the other night. It’s crap, not funny at all.
Then maybe you are the problem and not this lovely, lovely film.
@The Lord’s Cloaca
I know. I want to like it. Killer cast, great premise. Something about it just didn’t work for me.
I’m sorry, you are wrong.
‘Contact’ was “thought provoking”? The only thought provoked was “I can’t believe how terrible this movie is”
So it provoked a thought in your mind? Isn’t that the very definition of though provoking?
And yes, I know the term is so vague that it covers literally everything, but I’m an internet guy and internet guy’s gotta snark.
That has got to be the worst description of E. T. I’ve ever read.
(This comment will make much less sense with the article is corrected but what the Hell).
It’s not for me to say what Galaxy Quest is about.
A frothy swirl of humor (or is it an ironic commentary on the death of humor in 21st century culture?), action (slyly weaving in bold contemplation on the fragility of life) and stark images of outer space which frame life’s eternal struggle to survive in a cold void as something short of hopeless, Galaxy Quest is a Rorschach blob which could (and should) be an essential part of your choice of life partner.
God, that last summary was awful.
How in goddamn bloody fuck did you not include “2001: A Space Odyssey”?!
Because 2001 is an overrated experiment, not a “good” movie in the traditional sense.
I don’t understand why you guys keep reposting these lists every week.
Especially when the writer puts 3 crap factories of movies ahead of one of the greatest Sci-Fi films of all time, let alone on Netflix (Blade Runner).
Easy to make, definite clicks, likely strong comment section when commenters inevitably argue with the writer, and more.
Terminator is my 2nd favorite movie ever. I wish Cameron had made part 2 more in tone with the original. As well as the music and the sound effects. Something more like this [www.youtube.com]
I read “World of Tomorrow” and instead thought “Tomorrowland” and wondered how you’d justify it being on the list at all, let alone #3.
“The Terminator” is the best.
Whatever happened to the original Star Wars trilogy showing up on Netflix? Did I dream that rumor a few months ago?
