Best Science Fiction on Paramount+, ranked by IMDb rating
52 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%
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%
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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Arrival (2016)
★ 7.9 IMDb 🍅 94%
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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Star Trek (2009)
★ 7.9 IMDb 🍅 94%
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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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
★ 7.7 IMDb 🍅 84%
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%
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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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%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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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Face/Off (1997)
★ 7.3 IMDb 🍅 93%
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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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
★ 7.3 IMDb 🍅 81%
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%
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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A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
★ 7.2 IMDb 🍅 91%
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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Tremors (1990)
★ 7.2 IMDb 🍅 88%
Val McKee and Earl Bassett are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic, man-eating creatures that live below the ground.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)
★ 7.2 IMDb 🍅 95%
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%
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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World War Z (2013)
★ 7.0 IMDb 🍅 67%
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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Super 8 (2011)
★ 7.0 IMDb 🍅 81%
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%
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%
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%
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%
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
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%
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%
A surprise visit from Spock's father provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock's living essence.
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War of the Worlds (2005)
★ 6.6 IMDb 🍅 76%
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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The Running Man (1987)
★ 6.6 IMDb 🍅 59%
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%
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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Star Trek: Generations (1994)
★ 6.6 IMDb 🍅 48%
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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Light of My Life (2019)
★ 6.6 IMDb 🍅 80%
Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is teste
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Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
★ 6.5 IMDb 🍅 64%
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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The Running Man (2025)
★ 6.4 IMDb 🍅 61%
Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards is convinced by The Running Man's charming but ruthless producer to enter the deadly competition game as a last resort. But Ben's defiance, instincts, and g
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
★ 6.4 IMDb 🍅 51%
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.
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Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
★ 6.4 IMDb 🍅 37%
En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installa
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Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
★ 6.4 IMDb 🍅 54%
When an alien race and factions within Starfleet attempt to take over a planet that has "regenerative" properties, it falls upon Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise to defend the planet's people as well as the
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Terminator Genisys (2015)
★ 6.3 IMDb 🍅 26%
The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNe
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Ghost in the Shell (2017)
★ 6.3 IMDb 🍅 43%
In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
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Small Soldiers (1998)
★ 6.3 IMDb 🍅 50%
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
★ 6.2 IMDb 🍅 35%
The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes apparent to Optimus Prime that the United States government has been les
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Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
★ 6.2 IMDb 🍅 70%
Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected al
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A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)
★ 6.2 IMDb 🍅 86%
As New York City is invaded by alien creatures who hunt by sound, a woman named Sam fights to survive with her cat.
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Universal Soldier (1992)
★ 6.1 IMDb 🍅 34%
An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
★ 6.1 IMDb 🍅 71%
When gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight them off. His ex-girlfriend, reporter Polly Perkins, has been investigating the recent disappearance of prominent scientists. S
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)
★ 6.1 IMDb 🍅 74%
Jimmy Neutron is a boy genius and way ahead of his friends, but when it comes to being cool, he's a little behind. All until one day when his parents, and parents all over Earth are kidnapped by aliens, it's up to him to
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
★ 6.0 IMDb 🍅 19%
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.