Nonetheless, there are several key films that stand out for their outstanding impact on the genre.

Here are the ten best sci-fi films that are perfectly directed.

Once there, she seduces and sends them into another dimension where they are nothing more than meat.

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A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

Anderson, Guy Ritchie, Zack Snyder,andMatthew Vaughn.

Although Spielberg has made many science fiction classics likeMinority Report, A.I.

The Alien, played by Scarlett Johansson, sits in a car and looks at the distance in the film Under the Skin.

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A farm boy from a desert planet becomes an unlikely hero in the fight against the oppressive Galactic Empire.

As he learns about the mystical Force, he discovers his destiny and the true strength within himself.

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Disguising itself as a human female, an extraterrestrial drives around Scotland attempting to lure unsuspecting men into her van. Once there, she seduces and sends them into another dimension where they are nothing more than meat.

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Alien

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The Terminator, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, puts on his sunglasses in ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’.

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A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.

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Dr. Miles J. Bennell, killing a pod with a pitchfork in Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

The rainy noir influences seen in The Matrix (1999).

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When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth–the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.

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Max Rockatansky walking down a lonely highway holding a gun in Mad Max 2- The Road Warrior’

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After avenging the death of his wife and young son at the hands of a vicious gang leader, Max (Mel Gibson) drives the post-apocalyptic highways of the Australian outback, fending off attacks from nomadic tribes that prey on outsiders. Falling into an encampment led by the relatively peaceful Pappagallo (Mike Preston), Max at first schemes to steal their oil but soon becomes the group’s reluctant defender against the hulking Humungus (Kjell Nilsson) and his ruthless marauders.

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A child stares out an open front door where an ominous orange glow is coming though

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Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi in ‘Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope’ (1977).

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A farm boy from a desert planet becomes an unlikely hero in the fight against the oppressive Galactic Empire. Guided by a former Jedi Knight and alongside a rebellious princess, a smuggler, and his co-pilot, he embarks on a mission to destroy the Death Star, a massive space station capable of annihilating entire planets. As he learns about the mystical Force, he discovers his destiny and the true strength within himself.

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A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

A red-suited astronaut walks down a white, brightly lit hallway aboard the space station in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’

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After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.

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