This document lists and provides basic information about 20 influential science fiction films from the 1920s through 2010s, ranked according to the website FlickChart. It includes the film title, director, year released, and a 1-2 sentence description of the film's plot or premise for each entry. The films range from early classics like Metropolis and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to more modern blockbusters such as The Matrix, Inception, and Guardians of the Galaxy. Links to FlickChart and IMDb are also provided.

1. Note: Films are ranked in order of FlickChart’s Best Ranked Sci-fi Movies OfThe Decade

2. Metropolis
(1927)
Directed by:
Fritz Lang
In a futuristic
city sharply
Dr. Jekyll
and Mr.
Hyde
(1920)
Directed by:
John S.
Robertson
Woman in
the Moon
Frau im Mond
(orignal title)
(1929)
Directed
by:
Fritz Lang
divided between the working
class and the city planners, the
son of the city's mastermind
falls in love with a working
class prophet who predicts the
coming of a saviour to mediate
their differences.
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments
with scientific means of
revealing the hidden, dark
side of man and releases a
murderer from within
himself.
A tenacious scientist blasts
off for the moon in hopes of
riches that may be found
there.

3. The Bride of
Frankenstein
(1935)
Directed by:
James Whale
Mary Shelley
reveals the
Frankenstein
(1931)
Directed by:
James Whale
An obsessed
scientist
assembles a
The
Invisible
Man (1933)
Directed
by: James
Whale
A scientist
main characters of her novel
survived: Dr. Frankenstein
(goaded by an even madder
scientist) builds his monster a
mate.
living being from parts of
exhumed corpses.
finds a way of becoming
invisible, but in doing so, he
becomes murderously
insane.

4. Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
Meet
Frankenstein
(1948)
Directed by:
Charles Barton
House of
Dracula
(1945)
Directed by:
Erle C.
Kenton
Count
House of
Frankenstein
(1944)
Directed by:
Erle C. Kenton
An evil
scientist and
Two hapless freight handlers
find themselves encountering
Dracula, the Frankenstein
Monster and theWolf Man.
Dracula and theWolf Man
seek a cure for their
afflictions; a hunchbacked
woman, a mad scientist and
the Frankenstein monster
have their own troubles.
a hunchback escape from
prison and encounter
Dracula, theWolf Man and
Frankenstein's Monster.

5. The Day the
Earth Stood
Still (1951)
Directed by:
RobertWise
An alien lands
and tells the
Invasion of
the Body
Snatchers
(1956)
Directed
by: Don
Siegel
Forbidden
Planet (1956)
Directed by:
Fred M.
Wilcox
A star ship
crew goes to
people of Earth that they must
live peacefully or be destroyed
as a danger to other planets
*There is a 2008
remake directed
by Scott
Derrickson.
A small-town doctor learns
that the population of his
community is being replaced
by emotionless alien
duplicates.
*There is a
1978 remake
by Philip
Kauffman
goes to investigate the
silence of a planet's colony
only to find two survivors and
a deadly secret that one of
them has.

6. 2001: A Space
Odyssey
(1968)
Directed by:
Stanley
Kubrick
Planet OfThe
Apes (1968)
Directed by:
Franklin J.
Schnaffer
Seconds ( 1966)
Directed by:
john
frankenheimer
An unhappy
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.
An astronaut crew crash
lands on a planet in the
distant future where
intelligent talking apes are
the dominant species, and
humans are the oppressed
and enslaved.
An astronaut
*There is a 2001
remake of this
film byTim
Burton
middle-aged banker agrees
to a procedure that will fake
his death and give him a
completely new look and
identity - one that comes
with its own price.

7. StarWars (1977)
Directed by:
George Lucas
Luke Skywalker
joins forces with
a Jedi Knight, a
Alien (1979)
Directed by:
Ridley Scott
The
commercial
vessel
A clockwork
Orange (1971)
Directed by:
Stanley
Kubrick
In future
cocky pilot, a wookiee and two
droids to save the universe
from the Empire's world-
destroying battle-station,
while also attempting to
rescue Princess Leia from the
evil DarthVader.
Nostromo receives a distress
call from an unexplored
planet. After searching for
survivors, the crew heads
home only to realize that a
deadly bioform has joined
them.
Britain, charismatic
delinquentAlex DeLarge is
jailed and volunteers for an
experimental aversion
therapy developed by the
government in an effort to
solve society's crime problem
- but not all goes according to
plan.

8. The Empire
Strikes Back
(1980)
Directed by:
Irvin Kershner
After the rebels
have been
Return of
the Jedi
(1983)
Directed
by: Richard
Marquand
After
Back to the
Future (1985)
Directed by:
Robert
Zemeckis
A young man
is accidentally
brutally overpowered by the
Empire on their newly
established base, Luke
Skywalker takes advanced Jedi
training with MasterYoda, while
his friends are pursued by Darth
Vader as part of his plan to
capture Luke.
rescuing Han Solo from the
palace of Jabba the Hutt, the
rebels attempt to destroy the
second Death Star, while
Luke struggles to make
Vader return from the dark
side of the Force.
sent 30 years into the past in
a time-traveling DeLorean
invented by his friend, Dr.
Emmett Brown, and must
make sure his high-school-
age parents unite in order to
save his own existence.

9. The Matrix
(1999)
Directed by:
The
Wachowski
Brothers
Terminator
2:
Judgement
Day (1991)
Directed by:
James
Cameron
Jurrassic
Park (1993)
Directed
by: Steven
Spielberg
A computer hacker learns from
mysterious rebels about the
true nature of his reality and his
role in the war against its
controllers.
A cyborg, identical to the one
who failed to kill Sarah
Connor, must now protect
her young son, John Connor,
from a more advanced
cyborg, made out of liquid
metal.
During a preview tour, a
theme park suffers a major
power breakdown that allows
its cloned dinosaur exhibits to
run amok.
During a

10. Iron Man
(2008)
Directed by:
Jon Favreau
After being
held captive
in an Afghan
Wall-E
(2008)
Directed
by:
Andrew
Stanton
In the
Children of
Men (2006)
Directed
by: Alfonso
Cuaron
In 2027, in a
chaotic
cave, an industrialist creates a
unique weaponized suit of
armor to fight evil.
distant future, a small waste
collecting robot
inadvertently embarks on a
space journey that will
ultimately decide the fate of
mankind.
world in which women have
become somehow infertile, a
former activist agrees to help
transport a miraculously
pregnant woman to a
sanctuary at sea.

11. Inception
(2010)
Directed by:
Christopher
Nolan
A thief who
Guardians of
the Galaxy
(2014)
Directed by:
James Gunn
A group of
The Avengers
(2012)
Directed by:
JossWheadon
Earth’s
mightiest
steals corporate secrets
through use of dream-sharing
technology is given the inverse
task of planting an idea into
the mind of a CEO.
A group of intergalactic
criminals are forced to work
together to stop a fanatical
warrior from taking control
of the universe.
heroes must come together
and learn to fight as a team if
they are to stop the
mischievous Loki and his
alien army from enslaving
humanity.

12.  http://www.flickchart.com/Charts.aspx?genre
=Science+Fiction&decade=1920
 http://www.imdb.com/