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Best Science Fiction Movies

of the 1970s

The 20 highest-rated science fiction movies released between 1970 and 1979, ranked by IMDb score.

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Alien poster

Alien(1979)

8.5 IMDb93% RT89 Meta

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs

2
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession poster

Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession(1973)

8.2 IMDb

A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.

3
Stalker poster

Stalker(1979)

8 IMDb100% RT85 Meta

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, sp

4
Solaris poster

Solaris(1972)

7.9 IMDb92% RT93 Meta

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water o

5
Dawn of the Dead poster

Dawn of the Dead(1978)

7.8 IMDb92% RT71 Meta

During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shop

6
Close Encounters of the Third Kind poster

Close Encounters of the Third Kind(1977)

7.6 IMDb91% RT90 Meta

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.

7
Superman poster

Superman(1978)

7.4 IMDb87% RT82 Meta

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over th

8
Invasion of the Body Snatchers poster

Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1978)

7.4 IMDb93% RT75 Meta

The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.

9
The Rocky Horror Picture Show poster

The Rocky Horror Picture Show(1975)

7.4 IMDb81% RT65 Meta

After getting a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter the eerie mansion of the flamboyant, seductive Dr Frank-N-Furter and a variety of eccentric characters

10
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie poster

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie(1979)

7.3 IMDb100% RT

A collection of Warner Brothers short cartoon features, "starring" the likes of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Wile.E.Coyote. These animations are interspersed by Bugs Bunny reminiscing on past events and

11
Eraserhead poster

Eraserhead(1977)

7.2 IMDb87% RT87 Meta

First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

12
The Andromeda Strain poster

The Andromeda Strain(1971)

7.2 IMDb67% RT60 Meta

When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group

13
Time After Time poster

Time After Time(1979)

7 IMDb88% RT69 Meta

Writer H. G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to modern day San Francisco after the infamous serial killer steals his time machine to escape the 19th century.

14
Soylent Green poster

Soylent Green(1973)

7 IMDb70% RT66 Meta

In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.

15
Westworld poster

Westworld(1973)

6.9 IMDb83% RT77 Meta

Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all b

16
Battlestar Galactica poster

Battlestar Galactica(1978)

6.8 IMDb35% RT

After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.

17
Capricorn One poster

Capricorn One(1977)

6.8 IMDb61% RT38 Meta

In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astron

18
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla poster

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla(1974)

6.2 IMDb86% RT

An Okinawan prophecy that foretells the destruction of the Earth is seeming fulfilled when Godzilla emerges to return to his destructive roots. But not all is what it seems after Godzilla breaks his a

19
Terror of Mechagodzilla poster

Terror of Mechagodzilla(1975)

6.1 IMDb43% RT

A submarine expedition to salvage the remains of Mechagodzilla is thwarted by a massive dinosaur named Titanosaurus. An Interpol investigation leads biologist Ichinose to uncover the work of Dr. Mafun

20
Godzilla vs. Hedorah poster

Godzilla vs. Hedorah(1971)

6.1 IMDb71% RT

An ever evolving alien life-form arrives on a comet from the Dark Gaseous Nebula and proceeds to consume pollution. Spewing mists of sulfuric acid and corrosive sludge, neither humanity nor Godzilla m

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