History of Science Fiction

Note: Films are ranked in order of FlickChart’s Best Ranked Sci-fi Movies Of The Decade

1920sMetropolis (1927)

Directed by:Fritz Lang

In a futuristic city sharply

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1920)

Directed by:John S. Robertson

Woman in the Moon Frau im Mond (orignal title) (1929)

Directed by:Fritz Lang

divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a saviour to mediate their differences.

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.

1930sThe Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Directed by: James Whale

Mary Shelley reveals the

Frankenstein (1931)

Directed by: James Whale

An obsessed scientist assembles a

The Invisible Man (1933)

Directed by: James Whale

A scientist

main characters of her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein (goaded by an even madder scientist) builds his monster a mate.

living being from parts of exhumed corpses.

finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.

1940sBud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Directed by: Charles Barton

House of Dracula (1945)

Directed by: Erle C. Kenton

Count

House of Frankenstein (1944)

Directed by:Erle C. Kenton

An evil scientist and

Two hapless freight handlers find themselves encountering Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster and the Wolf Man.

Dracula and the Wolf Man seek a cure for their afflictions; a hunchbacked woman, a mad scientist and the Frankenstein monster have their own troubles.

a hunchback escape from prison and encounter Dracula, the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's Monster.

1950sThe Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Directed by: Robert Wise

An alien lands and tells the

Invasion of the Body Snatchers  (1956)

Directed by: Don Siegel

Forbidden Planet (1956)

Directed by: Fred M. Wilcox

A star ship crew goes to

people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets

*There is a 2008 remake

directed by Scott

Derrickson.

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

1978 remake by

Philip Kauffman

goes to investigate the silence of a planet's colony only to find two survivors and a deadly secret that one of them has.

1960s2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Planet Of The Apes (1968)

Directed by: Franklin J. Schnaffer

Seconds ( 1966)

Directed by: john frankenheimer

An unhappy  Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.

An astronaut crew crash lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.

An astronaut

*There is a 2001 remake of this film by

Tim Burton

middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity - one that comes with its own price.

1970sStar Wars (1977)

Directed by: George Lucas

Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a

Alien (1979)

Directed by: Ridley Scott

The commercial vessel

A clockwork Orange (1971)

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick

In future cocky pilot, a wookiee and two droids to save the universe from the Empire's world-destroying battle-station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the evil Darth Vader.

Nostromo receives a distress call from an unexplored planet. After searching for survivors, the crew heads home only to realize that a deadly bioform has joined them.

Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem - but not all goes according to plan.

1980sThe Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Directed by: Irvin Kershner

After the rebels have been

Return of the Jedi (1983)

Directed by: Richard Marquand

After

Back to the Future (1985)

Directed by: Robert Zemeckis

A young man is accidentally

brutally overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base, Luke Skywalker takes advanced Jedi training with Master Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke.

rescuing Han Solo from the palace of Jabba the Hutt, the rebels attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to make Vader return from the dark side of the Force.

sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents unite in order to save his own existence.

1990sThe Matrix (1999)

Directed by: The Wachowski Brothers

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

Directed by: James Cameron

Jurrassic Park (1993)

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.

A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her young son, John Connor, from a more advanced cyborg, made out of liquid metal.

During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.

During a

2000sIron Man (2008)

Directed by: Jon Favreau

After being held captive in an Afghan

Wall-E (2008)

Directed by: Andrew Stanton

In the

Children of Men (2006)

Directed by: Alfonso Cuaron

In 2027, in a chaotic

cave, an industrialist creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.

distant future, a small waste collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.

 world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.

2010sInception (2010)

Directed by: Christopher Nolan

A thief who

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Directed by: James Gunn

A group of

The Avengers (2012)

Directed by: Joss Wheadon

Earth’s mightiest

steals corporate secrets through use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO.

A group of intergalactic criminals are forced to work together to stop a fanatical warrior from taking control of the universe.

heroes must come together and learn to fight as a team if they are to stop the mischievous Loki and his alien army from enslaving humanity.

Sources

http://www.flickchart.com/Charts.aspx?genre=Science+Fiction&decade=1920

http://www.imdb.com/