Amazon Prime Video has a stacked sci-fi movie library. Shocking, isn’t it? While many viewers may head off to other big-name streamers like Hulu, Netflix or Peacock, I am here to tell you the Amazon-owned streamer is jam-packed with genre goodies.
Science fiction is a genre that isn’t easily contained. Sci-fi can be silly; it can also be slick. It can be terrifying; it can be inspiring. Whatever your taste, I’m sure Prime Video has a movie that will appeal to your preferred flavor of science fiction. You don’t have to scroll through countless titles to find something to click play on; I’ve curated the below list to help guide your journey.
The science fiction movies in the list below merely crack the surface of what you can find on the streamer but they’re a great place to start. From an epic robot actioner to a monster robot adventure and a visionary exploration of the female experience, the choices are epic. You’ve beamed down to the proper planet so keep reading to learn more.
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Jude Law’s first big Hollywood film is also one of the best sci-fi movies you may have never seen. Ethan Hawke stars as Vincent Freeman, a man deemed as genetically inferior to fly to outer space. To achieve his dream, he buys the genes of a man named Jerome Morrow (Law), who is deemed as genetically “valid.” Vincent must train himself mentally and physically to pass as Morrow, contend with new love interest Irene (Uma Thurman) and skirt a growing murder investigation that may thwart his outer-space plans.
Spaceballs
Molli and Max in the Future is a delightfully fresh sci-fi mashup. It stars Zozia Mamet as Molli and Aristotle Athari as Max, two characters who, over the course of many years, dimensions and planets, continue running into each other. I suppose you can say it’s like if When Harry Met Sally and Bladerunner had a baby. And that’s meant as a compliment.
Pacific Rim
Emma Stone won the Academy Award for her groundbreaking performance as Bella Baxter in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things. Bella is a woman brought back from the dead by Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) — he’s not Dr. Frankenstein but he’s close — who experiences life without the interference of society’s guardrails. This feminist masterpiece features terrific performances by Mark Ruffalo and Ramy Youssef. This is one of those visionary works of art that must be seen to be truly appreciated. So, I don’t know, go watch it.
John Dies at the End
Trollhunter is a mockumentary in the vein of The Blair Witch Project, except audiences knew this monster movie was all fiction when it premiered in 2011. The gist is simple enough: A group of Norwegian film students investigate a string of illegal poaching. What they discover is way worse than they could have imagined: giant, hideous, blood-thirsty trolls.
A Quiet Place: Day One
In John Carpenter’s postapocalyptic cult classic, it’s 1997 in New York and the city has been ravaged by war. Manhattan has been turned into a giant walled-in prison. After the president is taken hostage, former Special Forces officer (and current prisoner) Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is recruited to save the day in return for his own freedom.
Donnie Darko
