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Best Sci-Fi Movies of the 1960s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
71 sci-fi films from the 1960s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), at 8.3 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 6.7. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Alphaville, 6.9 on IMDb against 92 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2001: A Space Odyssey '1968 | Sci-Fi / Mystery | 8.3 | 91% | 84 | 8.0 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 2 | La Jetée '1962 | Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi | 8.2 | 90% | - | 7.9 | Chris Marker |
| 3 | Planet of the Apes '1968 | Sci-Fi / Drama / Action | 8.0 | 86% | 79 | 7.7 | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| 4 | Night of the Living Dead '1968 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.8 | 95% | 89 | 7.6 | George A. Romero |
| 5 | The Time Machine '1960 | Thriller / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Romance | 7.5 | 77% | 67 | 7.4 | George Pal |
| 6 | The Face of Another '1966 | Drama / Sci-Fi | 7.8 | 86% | - | 7.8 | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
| 7 | Seconds '1966 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror | 7.6 | 79% | 71 | 7.4 | John Frankenheimer |
| 8 | Village of the Damned '1960 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.3 | 93% | 77 | 7.2 | Wolf Rilla |
| 9 | Amphibian Man '1962 | Sci-Fi / Romance | 6.9 | - | - | 6.8 | Vladimir Chebotaryov |
| 10 | The Day the Earth Caught Fire '1961 | Sci-Fi / Drama | 7.2 | 86% | - | 6.8 | Val Guest |
| 11 | Fahrenheit 451 '1966 | Drama / Sci-Fi | 7.2 | 82% | - | 7.1 | François Truffaut |
| 12 | The Damned '1962 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 6.6 | 88% | 72 | 6.3 | Joseph Losey |
| 13 | Panic in Year Zero! '1962 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 6.6 | 70% | - | 6.3 | Ray Milland |
| 14 | King Kong vs. Godzilla '1962 | Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Action | 6.2 | 52% | - | 6.9 | Ishirō Honda |
| 15 | Ikarie XB 1 '1963 | Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 100% | - | 6.8 | Jindřich Polák |
| 16 | Quatermass and the Pit '1967 | Sci-Fi / Horror | 7.0 | 88% | - | 6.7 | Roy Ward Baker |
| 17 | Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime '1968 | Drama / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 90% | - | 6.6 | Alain Resnais |
| 18 | The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll '1960 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 6.3 | 83% | - | 6.1 | Terence Fisher |
| 19 | Alphaville '1965 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 6.9 | 92% | 92 | 6.9 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 20 | Charly '1968 | Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 55% | 50 | 6.5 | Ralph Nelson |
| 21 | Mothra '1961 | Sci-Fi / Fantasy | 6.6 | 80% | - | 7.2 | Ishirō Honda |
| 22 | The 10th Victim '1965 | Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi | 6.6 | 82% | - | 6.7 | Elio Petri |
| 23 | Matango '1963 | Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Fantasy | 6.4 | - | - | 6.7 | Ishirō Honda |
| 24 | Mysterious Island '1961 | Sci-Fi | 6.7 | 82% | - | 6.6 | Cy Endfield |
| 25 | The Absent-Minded Professor '1961 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 6.7 | 83% | 75 | 6.5 | Robert Stevenson |
| 26 | X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes '1963 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror | 6.6 | 88% | - | 6.6 | Roger Corman |
| 27 | Fantastic Voyage '1966 | Sci-Fi | 6.8 | 91% | 72 | 6.7 | Richard Fleischer |
| 28 | Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed '1969 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 6.7 | 70% | 74 | 6.3 | Terence Fisher |
| 29 | First Men in the Moon '1964 | Sci-Fi | 6.5 | 57% | - | 6.3 | Nathan Juran |
| 30 | The Last Man on Earth '1964 | Sci-Fi / Drama / Horror | 6.7 | 79% | - | 6.6 | Ubaldo Ragona |
| 31 | Frankenstein Created Woman '1967 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 6.5 | 62% | 63 | 6.4 | Terence Fisher |
| 32 | Hibernatus '1969 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 6.6 | - | - | 6.7 | Édouard Molinaro |
| 33 | Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster '1964 | Sci-Fi / Action / Fantasy | 6.5 | 77% | - | 7.0 | Ishirō Honda |
| 34 | The Nutty Professor '1963 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 6.6 | 80% | - | 6.5 | Jerry Lewis |
| 35 | The War of the Gargantuas '1966 | Action / Horror / Sci-Fi | 6.2 | - | - | 6.3 | Ishirō Honda |
| 36 | Robinson Crusoe on Mars '1964 | Sci-Fi | 6.4 | 94% | - | 6.3 | Byron Haskin |
| 37 | Mothra vs. Godzilla '1964 | Drama / Action / Sci-Fi | 6.5 | 93% | - | 7.0 | Ishirō Honda |
| 38 | Our Man Flint '1966 | Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 6.4 | 78% | - | 6.4 | Daniel Mann |
| 39 | Doppelgänger '1969 | Sci-Fi | 6.3 | 40% | - | 6.3 | Robert Parrish |
| 40 | Children of the Damned '1964 | Drama / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi | 6.2 | 73% | 42 | 6.1 | Anton Leader |
| 41 | Island of Terror '1966 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 6.1 | - | - | 5.9 | Terence Fisher |
| 42 | Planet of the Vampires '1965 | Sci-Fi / Horror / Action | 6.2 | 71% | - | 6.4 | Mario Bava |
| 43 | Invasion of Astro-Monster '1965 | Sci-Fi / Action | 6.2 | 50% | - | 6.8 | Ishirō Honda |
| 44 | The Curse of the Fly '1965 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 5.2 | - | - | 5.4 | Don Sharp |
| 45 | Destroy All Monsters '1968 | Sci-Fi / Action | 6.4 | 82% | - | 6.9 | Ishirō Honda |
| 46 | The Evil of Frankenstein '1964 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 6.0 | 57% | 54 | 6.2 | Freddie Francis |
| 47 | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea '1961 | Drama / Sci-Fi | 6.0 | 71% | 49 | 5.6 | Irwin Allen |
| 48 | The Valley of Gwangi '1969 | Sci-Fi / Western | 6.2 | 73% | - | 7.1 | Jim O'Connolly |
| 49 | The Lost World '1960 | Fantasy / Sci-Fi | 5.5 | - | - | 5.8 | Irwin Allen |
| 50 | The Day of the Triffids '1963 | Sci-Fi / Horror | 6.1 | 78% | - | 6.1 | Steve Sekely |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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Directors on this list
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