The 27 Best Sci-Fi Movies - Or Are They?

Are these the 27 best ever science fiction movies? Well, probably not. But they might be the 27 sci-fi films most likely to show up on a best-of list. Music is by Jerry Goldsmith. 4 Books about sci-fi movies each list the best movies. The books are: 101 Sci-fi Movies You Must See Before You Die (edited by Steven Jay Schneider) Sci-fi Movie Freak (by Robert C Ring) The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies (by John Scalzi) The Top 100 Sci-fi Movies by (Gary Gerani) Only 27 films make all 4 lists. Because of when the lists were compiled, there are no films after 2005 on the list. The films are: Metropolis (1927) Things to Come (1936) The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) The Thing from Another World (1951) The War of the Worlds (1953) 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1954) Godzilla (1954) Forbidden Planet (1956) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Alphaville (1965) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Planet of the Apes (1968) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Star Wars (1977) Alien (1979) The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Blade Runner (1982) ET: The Extraterrestrial (1982) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) Back to the Future (1985) Brazil (1985) Aliens (1986) Robocop (1987) Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) Jurassic Park (1993) The Matrix (1999)