FallenKingdomReads’ list of Top 10 Must-Watch Science Fiction Movies of All Time.
1. Blade Runner (1982)
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A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.
3. The Matrix (1999)
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A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.
4. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
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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.
5. The Terminator (1984)
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A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity’s future salvation.
6. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
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A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.
7. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
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Roy Neary, an electric lineman, and other people around the world are drawn to a site where extraterrestrials make contact with Earth.
8. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
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An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
9. The War of the Worlds (1953)
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A small town in California is attacked by Martians.
10. Jurassic Park (1993)
A pragmatic paleontologist visiting an almost complete theme park is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park’s cloned dinosaurs to run loose.