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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.

1

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(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

A Clockwork Orange(1971)

8.2 IMDb86% RT77 Meta

In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. Th

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

Fantastic Planet(1973)

7.7 IMDb91% RT73 Meta

On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those wh

8

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

Superman(1978)

7.4 IMDb88% 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

10

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 character

11

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

12

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.

13

The Andromeda Strain(1971)

7.2 IMDb68% 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

14

Sleeper(1973)

7.1 IMDb100% RT77 Meta

Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.

15

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.

16

Westworld(1973)

6.9 IMDb84% 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

17

Battlestar Galactica(1978)

6.8 IMDb35% RT

A compilation of Battlestar Galactica episodes 1 and 5, with alternate footage. After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet

18

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(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(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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