You like science fiction, don’t you? Well, I’m going to let you in on a little secret: Amazon Prime Video has a stacked sci-fi movie library. The Amazon-owned streamer is chock-full of genre goodies — from the odd cult B movie title to next-level genre fare.
Science fiction is a genre that can be whittled down to many sub-categories. Sci-fi can be silly; it can also be slick. It can be horrifying; it can be uplifting. Whatever your taste, I’m sure Prime Video has a movie that will appeal to you. Instead of scrolling through countless titles to find something worthwhile, I’ve put this article together to guide your journey.
The science fiction movies in the list below merely crack the surface of what you can find on the streamer, but they’re a great place to start. From an epic robot actioner to a monster robot adventure and a visionary exploration of the female experience, the choices are epic. You’ve beamed down to the proper planet so keep reading to learn more.
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Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 action film Pacific Rim is essentially his homage to Godzilla, albeit without featuring the iconic beast. In the future, Kaiju — giant monstrous creatures — rose from the ocean to destroy humanity. Humans fought back with humongous robots called Jaegers. That wasn’t enough, though. Can a defamed pilot and an underdog newbie bring an out-of-commission Jaeger to the battleground and win the fight? I won’t answer that question but I will tell you this is one heck of a fun ride.
Emma Stone won the Academy Award for her groundbreaking performance as Bella Baxter in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things. Bella is a woman brought back from the dead by Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) — he’s not Dr. Frankenstein but he’s close — who experiences life without the interference of society’s guardrails. This feminist masterpiece features terrific performances by Mark Ruffalo and Ramy Youssef. This is one of those visionary works of art that must be seen to be truly appreciated. So, I don’t know, go watch it.
Jason Pargin released John Dies at the End, under the pseudonym David Wong, as a collection of stories he put online for fun — and then they gained popularity, leading to a fruitful career for the author. It probably helps that horror icon Don Coscarelli chose to adapt the first book in the series into a movie. Chase Williamson plays Dave, the guy plagued with supernatural visions, who teams up with his slacker buddy John (Rob Mayes) to investigate all sorts of weird phenomena. And boy, does this movie get weird. It’s bolstered by a superb cameo by Paul Giamatti, and it solidified itself as a cult fave. Too bad it never got a sequel.
J.J. Abrams stepped behind the camera and tapped into some hefty Steven Spielberg-flavored nostalgia with Super 8. Spielberg is a producer on the flick. The movie takes place in 1979 and follows a group of friends in an Ohio town shooting a zombie movie on a spiffy Super 8 camera. They witness a train crash, and soon after, strange things begin happening. Soon, the kids discover they may have filmed the answer to the supernatural mystery unfolding in town.
Life follows a tight-knit crew of astronauts, played by Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal and Rebecca Ferguson, who discover a life form in outer space. They do what humans in sci-fi movies tend to do: poke it and prod it until it attacks. The result is a taut space thriller reminiscent of Ridley Scott’s Alien. Mind you, it doesn’t forge new ground in the genre but it’s a solid flick nonetheless.
Trollhunter is a mockumentary in the vein of The Blair Witch Project, except audiences knew this monster movie was all fiction when it premiered in 2011. The gist is simple enough: A group of Norwegian film students investigate a string of illegal poaching. What they discover is way worse than they could have imagined: giant, hideous, blood-thirsty trolls.
Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard lead the 2015 Jurassic Park sequel, which started a new dinosaur-centered franchise that has continued thriving in the past decade. What happens when a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur — known as the Indominus Rex — escapes containment and wreaks havoc at the renovated and immersive dino-themed amusement park? Chaos, obviously.
A Quiet Place: Day One takes audiences back to the very beginning of the alien invasion. While it may not be a necessary entry in the franchise — like, say, 10 Cloverfield Lane — the movie digs its heels into the human experience amid an otherworldly cataclysmic disaster. Come for the disaster, stay for the cute cat.
In John Carpenter’s postapocalyptic cult classic, it’s 1997 in New York and the city has been ravaged by war. Manhattan has been turned into a giant walled-in prison. After the president is taken hostage, former Special Forces officer (and current prisoner) Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is recruited to save the day in return for his own freedom.
This mind-bending cult classic stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a misunderstood high schooler who, after seemingly surviving a horrific accident, begins traveling through time. In the process, he discovers the joy of being alive and in love. Themes of depression, repression and alternative universes fill this delightfully bizarre film. Also, let’s not forget that giant demon bunny named Frank.
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