Best Science Fiction on Peacock, ranked by IMDb rating
41 science fiction titles on Peacock rate 6.0+ on IMDb — the top 41 are ranked below.
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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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Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
★ 7.8 IMDb 🍅 98% MC 95
After recovering from injuries sustained in the mob attack upon himself and his creation, Dr. Henry Frankenstein falls under control of his former mentor, Dr. Pretorius, who insists the now-chastened doctor resume his ex
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Frankenstein (1931)
★ 7.7 IMDb 🍅 94% MC 91
Obsessed scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein attempts to create life by assembling a creature from deceased body parts. Aided by his loyal misshapen assistant, Fritz, Frankenstein succeeds in animating his monster, but it f
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 91% MC 90
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
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The Fly (1986)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 82% MC 81
When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the
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The Invisible Man (1933)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 95% MC 87
After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.
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Despicable Me 2 (2013)
★ 7.3 IMDb 🍅 75% MC 62
Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal.
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Megamind (2010)
★ 7.3 IMDb 🍅 73% MC 63
After Megamind, a highly intelligent alien supervillain, defeats his long-time nemesis Metro Man, Megamind creates a new hero to fight, but must act to save the city when his "creation" becomes an even worse villain than
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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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Tremors (1990)
★ 7.2 IMDb 🍅 88% MC 65
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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Melancholia (2011)
★ 7.1 IMDb 🍅 80% MC 81
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
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Coherence (2014)
★ 7.1 IMDb 🍅 89% MC 65
Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.
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The Host (2006)
★ 7.1 IMDb 🍅 93% MC 85
A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.
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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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9 (2009)
★ 7.0 IMDb 🍅 57% MC 60
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roa
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The World's End (2013)
★ 6.9 IMDb 🍅 89% MC 81
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
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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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Paul (2011)
★ 6.9 IMDb 🍅 70% MC 57
For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection t
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Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
★ 6.9 IMDb 🍅 81% MC 68
When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scient
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28 Weeks Later (2007)
★ 6.8 IMDb 🍅 73% MC 78
Twenty-eight weeks after the spread of a deadly rage virus, the inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught, as the virus has killed everyone there. Six months later, a group of American
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Freaks (2019)
★ 6.7 IMDb 🍅 88% MC 63
Kept locked inside the house by her father, 7-year-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat—or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger offers her a glimps
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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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These Final Hours (2014)
★ 6.6 IMDb 🍅 84% MC 61
With the end of the world only hours away, self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching desperately for her missing f
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The Endless (2017)
★ 6.5 IMDb 🍅 91% MC 80
Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.
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Monsters vs Aliens (2009)
★ 6.4 IMDb 🍅 73% MC 56
When Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches. The military jumps into action and captures Susan, secreting her away to a
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Disclosure Day (2026)
★ 6.4 IMDb 🍅 79% MC 74
A cybersecurity expert becomes a whistleblower after uncovering secrets about aliens, putting him on the run from a corporation. Meanwhile, a meteorologist experiencing strange phenomena joins forces with him to prove th
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Europa Report (2013)
★ 6.4 IMDb 🍅 81% MC 68
A crew travels to Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, to investigate signs of life in its subsurface ocean, but disaster cuts them off from Earth, leading to a tense and dangerous exploration.
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Darkman (1990)
★ 6.4 IMDb 🍅 80% MC 65
Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical
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How I Live Now (2013)
★ 6.4 IMDb 🍅 65% MC 57
An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the world around her.
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If You Were the Last (2024)
★ 6.4 IMDb 🍅 88% MC 70
Adrift in their broken-down space shuttle with little hope of rescue, two astronauts argue over whether they're better off spending their remaining days as friends or something more.
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The Thing (2011)
★ 6.3 IMDb 🍅 34% MC 49
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as t
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Dreamscape (1984)
★ 6.3 IMDb 🍅 78% MC 63
In order to diagnose the psychic traumas suffered by his patients, Dr. Paul Novotny gets young Alex Gardner to enter their dreams.
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Synchronic (2020)
★ 6.2 IMDb 🍅 79% MC 64
Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.
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Brightburn (2019)
★ 6.1 IMDb 🍅 57% MC 44
What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?
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Alligator (1980)
★ 6.1 IMDb 🍅 87% MC 62
A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal escapes the city sewers and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop
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LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: Avengers Reassembled! (2015)
★ 6.1 IMDb
The Avengers are forced to “party” with Ultron when he seeks to disassemble the team by taking control of Iron Man’s armor and enact a nefarious scheme to take over the world.
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Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996)
★ 6.0 IMDb 🍅 64%
Earl Bassett's celebrity after defeating the Graboid attack against the town of Perfection has proved short-lived, until he's recruited by a Mexican oil company whose workers have found more than they bargained for under