Suggest lesser-known good Sci-Fi films

[tlin]

Runaway - another I remember fondly although I'm guessing this one might not have aged well. Bonus - Gene Simmons is the villain!

 

[hex168]

Damnation Alley is a terrible film, but worth a watch... once.

The Strange Saga of The Landmaster from Damnation Alley 1

The Strange Saga of The Landmaster from Damnation Alley

www.hypnogoria.com

Of all the Zelazny novels they could have made a movie out of, they pick this one.

 

[hex168]

Brainstorm (1983)

 

[Berwhale]

Of all the Zelazny novels they could have made a movie out of, they pick this one.

Indeed. Today We Choose Faces might be an interesting one, that book freaked me out when I read it as a young teenager.

 

[Thefaster]

The Signal (2014)

Low budget movie, it seems to me that it has not been mentioned in this thread.

 

[notsodeadlizard]

The score is not impressive but this movie is very... cinematic maybe, it's hard to forget him

Screamers

Cmdr. Joe Hendricksson (Peter Weller) and new recruit Ace Jefferson (Andy Lauer) set out across the surface of Sirius 6B, where they hope to settle a violent labor dispute at a remote mining outpost. After going too far to turn back, they find the desert riddled with deadly Autonomous Mobile...

www.rottentomatoes.com

 

[Thefaster]

Captive State (2019)

...this too seems to me not to have been mentioned

 

[Thefaster]

The score is not impressive but this movie is very... cinematic maybe, it's hard to forget him

Screamers

Cmdr. Joe Hendricksson (Peter Weller) and new recruit Ace Jefferson (Andy Lauer) set out across the surface of Sirius 6B, where they hope to settle a violent labor dispute at a remote mining outpost. After going too far to turn back, they find the desert riddled with deadly Autonomous Mobile...

www.rottentomatoes.com

Seen on VHS many years ago.
I have good memories of it.

 

[Kegemusha]

The Signal
Pi
The Cube
Color out of Space
Event Horizont

 

[TonyJZX]

just as an aside i remember maybe 5-10yrs ago they remade a bunch of fairly recent sci fi movies that werent that old

robocop 1987 2014

total recall 1992 2015

conan 1982 2012

(dates might be off)

there's at least one more i'm forgetting but i think they given on up this tripe

i personally cant think of a scifi movie that really hit me as hard as certain eps of the 'modern' Outer Limits (I want to say 1995-2002)

I think you older guys would have enjoyed Rod Serling's b&w originals...

I seem to recall Serling's is only 2 seasons so it wasnt hard to get but the original aired TV 'new' Outer Limits is close to impossible to get or stream etc.

 

[olbobcat]

I have watched some of these movies listed over 10 times.
Two of my favorite newer films would be

Interstellar
Ex Machina

also a big fan of

Pixar's Nine

And the dystopian film

Children of Men.

Do you want some epic steampunk?

City of Lost Children

 

[Herbert]

Malevil

Malevil (film) - Wikipedia

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