Best Science Fiction on Paramount+, ranked by IMDb rating
65 science fiction titles on Paramount+ rate 6.0+ on IMDb — the top 50 are ranked below.
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Interstellar (2014)
★ 8.7 IMDb 🍅 73% MC 74
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
★ 8.6 IMDb 🍅 90% MC 75
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering
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Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
★ 8.0 IMDb 🍅 88% MC 81
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to
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Arrival (2016)
★ 7.9 IMDb 🍅 94% MC 81
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
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Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
★ 7.9 IMDb 🍅 91% MC 71
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back a
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Star Trek (2009)
★ 7.9 IMDb 🍅 94% MC 82
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fie
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South Park: Joining the Panderverse (2023)
★ 7.8 IMDb
Cartman's deeply disturbing dreams portend the end of the life he knows and loves. Meanwhile, the adults in South Park are wrestling with their own life decisions, as the advent of AI is turning their world upside down.
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Gravity (2013)
★ 7.7 IMDb 🍅 96% MC 96
Dr Ryan Stone, an engineer on her first space mission, and Matt Kowalski, an astronaut on his final expedition, have to survive in space after they are hit by debris while spacewalking.
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
★ 7.7 IMDb 🍅 84% MC 72
When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisi
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
★ 7.7 IMDb 🍅 87% MC 68
The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
★ 7.7 IMDb 🍅 97% MC 92
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
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Garfield: His 9 Lives (1988)
★ 7.7 IMDb
Garfield plays multiple roles including ancient Egyptian royalty, a fairyland kitten, a movie "stunt cat" and more!
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Minority Report (2002)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 89% MC 80
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 93% MC 70
The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time
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Transformers One (2024)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 89% MC 65
The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever.
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A Quiet Place (2018)
★ 7.5 IMDb 🍅 96% MC 82
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
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Total Recall (1990)
★ 7.5 IMDb 🍅 81% MC 60
Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his
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Galaxy Quest (1999)
★ 7.4 IMDb 🍅 90% MC 70
For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector — Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Doctor Lazarus — set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space... until their serie
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Face/Off (1997)
★ 7.3 IMDb 🍅 93% MC 82
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.
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Equilibrium (2002)
★ 7.3 IMDb 🍅 40% MC 33
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
★ 7.3 IMDb 🍅 81% MC 71
When a huge alien probe enters the galaxy and begins to vaporize Earth's oceans, Kirk and his crew must travel back in time in order to bring back whales and save the planet.
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
★ 7.3 IMDb 🍅 84% MC 65
After years of war, the Federation and the Klingon empire find themselves on the brink of a peace summit when a Klingon ship is nearly destroyed by an apparent attack from the Enterprise. Both worlds brace for what may b
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10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
★ 7.2 IMDb 🍅 91% MC 76
After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
★ 7.2 IMDb 🍅 76% MC 65
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this lif
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A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
★ 7.2 IMDb 🍅 91% MC 71
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)
★ 7.2 IMDb 🍅 95% MC 74
After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O'Neil helps them take on
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Transformers (2007)
★ 7.1 IMDb 🍅 57% MC 61
Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power a
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The Dead Zone (1983)
★ 7.1 IMDb 🍅 89% MC 69
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an a
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World War Z (2013)
★ 7.0 IMDb 🍅 67% MC 63
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely
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Cloverfield (2008)
★ 7.0 IMDb 🍅 78% MC 64
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their at
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Super 8 (2011)
★ 7.0 IMDb 🍅 81% MC 72
In late 1970s Ohio, a group of friends filming a homemade zombie movie witness a devastating train derailment. Soon after, their quiet town is gripped by unexplained disappearances, strange phenomena, and a growing sense
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Star Trek Beyond (2016)
★ 7.0 IMDb 🍅 86% MC 68
The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.
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Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009)
★ 7.0 IMDb
When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils) embedded on Galactica and Caprica must improvise to destroy the human
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Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022)
★ 7.0 IMDb 🍅 97% MC 70
In 1998, Beavis and Butt-Head are sentenced to Space Camp by a “creative” judge. Their obsession with a docking simulator (huh huh) leads to a trip on the Space Shuttle, with predictably disastrous results. After going t
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Vanilla Sky (2001)
★ 6.9 IMDb 🍅 41% MC 45
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troub
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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)
★ 6.9 IMDb 🍅 85% MC 56
Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. With their abilities outmatched in every way, Team Sonic must seek out
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The Island (2005)
★ 6.8 IMDb MC 50
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly t
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Bumblebee (2018)
★ 6.7 IMDb 🍅 91% MC 66
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and b
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
★ 6.7 IMDb 🍅 78% MC 58
A surprise visit from Spock's father provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock's living essence.
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Comet (2014)
★ 6.7 IMDb 🍅 44% MC 52
When a chance encounter brings together the cynical Dell and the quick-witted Kimberly, the stage is set for a tempestuous love affair that unfolds like a puzzle. As the film zigzags back and forth in time — from a meteo
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War of the Worlds (2005)
★ 6.6 IMDb 🍅 76% MC 73
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm t
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Event Horizon (1997)
★ 6.6 IMDb 🍅 36% MC 35
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinist
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The Running Man (1987)
★ 6.6 IMDb 🍅 59% MC 45
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which con
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The Faculty (1998)
★ 6.6 IMDb 🍅 58% MC 61
When creepy things start happening at Herrington High, the students begin to suspect that their faculty is being controlled by body-snatching aliens.
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Overlord (2018)
★ 6.6 IMDb 🍅 82% MC 60
On the eve of D-Day, a team of American paratroopers crash behind enemy lines and come face-to-face with a Nazi threat unlike any the world has ever seen.
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Star Trek: Generations (1994)
★ 6.6 IMDb 🍅 48% MC 55
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been d
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Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
★ 6.5 IMDb 🍅 64% MC 47
Powered with incredible speed, Sonic The Hedgehog embraces his new home on Earth. That is, until Sonic sparks the attention of super-uncool evil genius Dr. Robotnik. Now it’s super-villain vs. super-sonic in an all-out r
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Blindness (2008)
★ 6.5 IMDb 🍅 44% MC 45
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
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Godzilla (2014)
★ 6.4 IMDb 🍅 76% MC 62
Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when an ancient a
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
★ 6.4 IMDb 🍅 51% MC 50
When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.