Sci-fi

Few genres stretch like science fiction, a marketplace for idle prediction, utopia, apocalypse and wonder.

Xtro

A man who was abducted by aliens returns to his family years later with a sinister purpose, in this outrageously bizarre British horror.

Horror
Science Fiction
1983
87 mins
Harry Bromley Davenport

Je t'aime, je t'aime

A mysterious time-travel experiment becomes a warped voyage through memory, in this mesmerising sci-fi from acclaimed director Alain Resnais.

Drama
Science Fiction
1968
95 mins
Alain Resnais

Invaders from Mars

From three hundred million miles away…invaders from Mars!

Science Fiction
1953
80 mins
William Cameron Menzies

Air Doll

A blow-up doll comes to life and falls in love with a video store clerk in Kore-eda Hirokazu’s haunting meditation on urban alienation.

Drama
2009
116 mins
Hirokazu Koreeda

Friendship's Death

Tilda Swinton plays an extra-terrestrial android discussing life’s big questions in this unique sci-fi by influential film theorist Peter Wollen.

Science Fiction
1987
72 mins
Peter Wollen

Metropolis

Fritz Lang’s expressionist, dystopian vision is one of the first science fiction feature films, and is arguably the most influential.

Science Fiction
1927
150 mins
Fritz Lang

BFI Restoration

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

The BFI’s HD remaster of the British sci-fi classic. A journalist discovers that the Earth has been knocked off its axis and is moving ever closer to the sun. Is the Earth doomed?

Science Fiction
1961
100 mins
Val Guest

Aniara

The passengers on an interstellar space-liner are thrown into turmoil when their mission goes off course, in this compassionate and thought-provoking sci-fi drama.

Science Fiction
2018
106 mins
Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja

Last and First Men

Tilda Swinton narrates this visually stunning lament for humanity by acclaimed composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (Sicario, Arrival).

Animation & Artists Moving Image
Science Fiction
2020
70 mins
Jóhann Jóhannsson

Sky Peals

A coming-of-age tale about a father-son relationship that might just be out of this world.

Science Fiction
2023
91 mins
Moin Hussain

Little Joe

Jessica Hausner’s cool, witty and unsettling sci-fi starring Emily Beecham and Ben Whishaw.

Science Fiction
Horror
2019
105 mins
Jessica Hausner

Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea

A deliciously demented Czech time-travel romp that's both hilariously silly and impressively ingenious.

Comedy
Science Fiction
1977
90 mins
Jindrich Polák

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