Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "science-fiction-literature-on-screen"

1. Spaceman (I) (2024)

R | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Half a year into his solo mission on the edge of the solar system, an astronaut concerned with the state of his life back on Earth is helped by an ancient creature he discovers in the bowels of his ship.

Director: Johan Renck | Stars: Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Paul Dano, Kunal Nayyar

Votes: 32,381

2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

PG-13 | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The Guardians struggle to keep together as a team while dealing with their personal family issues, notably Star-Lord's encounter with his father, the ambitious celestial being Ego.

Director: James Gunn | Stars: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel

Votes: 760,086 | Gross: $389.81M

3. Bird Box (2018)

R | 124 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a mother and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

Director: Susanne Bier | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, Sarah Paulson

Votes: 386,548

4. Logan's Run (1976)

PG | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.

Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee Browne

Votes: 61,064 | Gross: $25.00M

5. In the Tall Grass (2019)

TV-MA | 101 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

After hearing a young boy's cry for help, a sister and brother venture into a vast field of tall grass in Oklahoma but soon discover there may be no way out...and that something evil lurks within.

Director: Vincenzo Natali | Stars: Laysla De Oliveira, Avery Whitted, Patrick Wilson, Will Buie Jr.

Votes: 64,725

6. Swamp Thing (1982)

PG | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

After a violent incident with a special chemical, a research scientist is turned into a swamp plant monster.

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise, David Hess

Votes: 16,363

7. The Quiet Earth (1985)

R | 91 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A scientist awakens to find himself alone in the world. In a desperate attempt to search for others, he finds only two who have their own agenda.

Director: Geoff Murphy | Stars: Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, Pete Smith, Anzac Wallace

Votes: 27,646 | Gross: $2.12M

8. Eyes Without a Face (1960)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror

A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face.

Director: Georges Franju | Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault

Votes: 35,170 | Gross: $0.05M

9. Mother/Android (2021)

R | 110 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In a post-apocalyptic world rocked by a violent android uprising, a young pregnant woman and her boyfriend desperately search for safety.

Director: Mattson Tomlin | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Algee Smith, Raúl Castillo, Linnea Gardner

Votes: 21,189

10. The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)

PG | 99 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

A shipwrecked survivor discovers a remote island owned by a crazed scientist who is carrying out sinister experiments on the island's inhabitants.

Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera

Votes: 7,159 | Gross: $8.72M

11. The 10th Victim (1965)

Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

In a future where a human vs. human "Big Hunt" is used as an alternative to war, a veteran huntress' plan to kill a "victim" for a major TV sponsorship deal is compounded by romance.

Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, Salvo Randone

Votes: 5,002

12. Voyage to the End of the Universe (1963)

81 min | Sci-Fi

The year is 2163. Starship Ikarie XB 1 embarks on a long journey across the universe to search for life on the planets of Alpha Centauri.

Director: Jindrich Polák | Stars: Zdenek Stepánek, Frantisek Smolík, Dana Medrická, Irena Kacírková

Votes: 2,967

13. School's Out Forever (2021)

105 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

A 15-year old flees to his school after an apocalyptic event.

Director: Oliver Milburn | Stars: Oscar Kennedy, Liam Lau-Fernandez, Anthony Head, Alex Macqueen

Votes: 1,205

14. The Cabbage Soup (1981)

102 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

2 buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.

Director: Jean Girault | Stars: Louis de Funès, Jean Carmet, Jacques Villeret, Claude Gensac

Votes: 9,583

15. The Man in the White Suit (1951)

Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

An altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough

Votes: 10,819 | Gross: $0.01M

16. Bug (1975)

PG | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James ... See full summary »

Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland, Jamie Smith-Jackson

Votes: 2,640 | Gross: $3.60M

17. Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (1979)

84 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Police gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be all right. Suddenly, an avalanche cuts them out from the rest of the world, and strange things are going to happen.

Director: Grigori Kromanov | Stars: Uldis Pucitis, Jüri Järvet, Lembit Peterson, Mikk Mikiver

Votes: 1,661

18. The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981)

97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpathians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions which include, even at this early date, television and a film camera.

Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Michal Docolomanský, Evelyna Steimarová, Vlastimil Brodský, Milos Kopecký

Votes: 1,420

19. Hibernatus (1969)

Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

A rich businessman faces a quite weird problem - his wife's grandfather has been revived thanks to science. But he is not aware that many decades have passed.

Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Louis de Funès, Michael Lonsdale, Claude Gensac, Bernard Alane

Votes: 6,637

20. Invention for Destruction (1958)

Unrated | 83 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

An evil millionaire named Artigas plans to use a super-explosive device to conquer the world from his headquarters inside an enormous volcano.

Director: Karel Zeman | Stars: Lubor Tokos, Arnost Navrátil, Miroslav Holub, Frantisek Slégr

Votes: 2,797

21. R.U.R.

Sci-Fi | Filming

A young woman visits the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots to emancipate the robots from capitalist exploitation, with catastrophic results. Based on the famous 1920 play by Karel Capek, a satire ever more potent for today.

Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Mallory Jansen, Lindsay Farris

22. Ferat Vampire (1982)

90 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A doctor Marek is shocked when his beloved nurse Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver. A fellow doctor makes him believe ... See full summary »

Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Jirí Menzel, Dagmar Havlová, Jana Brezková, Petr Cepek

Votes: 649

23. Mrs. Hyde (2017)

Unrated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

Mrs. Géquil is a teacher despised by her colleagues and students. On a stormy night, she is struck by lightning and faints. When she wakes up, she feels different. Will she be able to keep the powerful and dangerous Mrs. Hyde contained?

Director: Serge Bozon | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Romain Duris, José Garcia, Adda Senani

Votes: 1,658 | Gross: $0.02M

24. Unexpected Encounters (1995 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Crew of a spaceship spearheading colonization of a planet comes into contact with just one local inhabitant - a humanoid boy that looks remarkably human.

Director: Irena Pavlásková | Stars: Petr Rícánek, Lukás Vaculík, Josef Abrhám, Martina Mensíková

Votes: 81

25. The Drifting Classroom (1987)

104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

An international school in Kobe, Japan is catapulted into the future after a time-slip occurs.

Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Yasufumi Hayashi, Aiko Asano, Vajra Barzaghi, Leana D'Aloisio

Votes: 293

26. Frankenstein 90 (1984)

100 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.

Director: Alain Jessua | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Eddy Mitchell, Fiona Gélin, Herma Vos

Votes: 396

27. R.U.R.: Genesis (2013)

7 min | Short, Action, Drama

Set in the style of a sexy, alt-history 1969, this adaptation depicts a world populated by genetically engineered workers ("artificials") -- perfect, made-to-order people who lack fundamental rights.

Director: James Kerwin | Stars: Chase Masterson, Kipleigh Brown, James Ellis Lane, Amara Cash

Votes: 32

28. On the Comet (1970)

74 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

When a comet passes the earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa with it. Carried along is a bunch of people. Among them Angelika, who just escaped from a ruthless weapon ... See full summary »

Director: Karel Zeman | Stars: Magda Vásáryová, Emil Horváth, Frantisek Filipovský, Cestmír Randa

Votes: 688

29. The Lifeforce Experiment (1994 TV Movie)

95 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Eccentric scientist Dr. MacLean wants to determine if the afterlife exists by recording the moment the soul leaves a dying body. A terminally ill boy, a psychic girl and an undercover agent Jessica Saunders help him.

Director: Piers Haggard | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Mimi Kuzyk, Vlasta Vrana, Corin Nemec

Votes: 223

30. R.U.R. (1938 TV Movie)

35 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

Technological progress, in the shape of Rossum's Universal Robots, threatens to dominate and wipe out mankind.

Stars: Derek Bond, Harvey Braban, William Lyon Brown, Cherry Cottrell

Votes: 19

31. Krakatit (1948)

97 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

After an accidental explosion in the lab, its inventor slips in and out of dream-like hallucinations, realizing that he had given the formula to one of his colleagues, who he tries to stop before it is too late.

Director: Otakar Vávra | Stars: Karel Höger, Florence Marly, Eduard Linkers, Jirí Plachý

Votes: 477

32. The Island of Doctor Agor (1971)

Animation, Short, Horror

An adaptation of the classic H.G. Wells story "The Island of Doctor Moreau".

Director: Tim Burton | Star: Tim Burton

Votes: 267

33. Krakatit (2017 TV Movie)

105 min | Drama, Music, Sci-Fi

About a chemist who is able to produce exceptionally powerful explosive. He calls it "Krakatit," after the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa. A special feature of Krakatit is that erupts seemingly without cause.

Directors: Blazena Honcarivová, Alice Nellis | Stars: Karel Hábl, Zuzana Krónerová, Klára Lidová, Lenka Smídová

34. Ukradená vzducholod (1967)

84 min | Family, Adventure, Fantasy

Five young boys take off in a lighter-than-air machine from the Centenary Exposition in Prague.

Director: Karel Zeman | Stars: Hanus Bor, Jan Cizek, Jan Malát, Michal Pospísil

Votes: 664

35. It's Me, It's Me (2013)

119 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

The world is full of me.

Director: Satoshi Miki | Stars: Kazuya Kamenashi, Yuki Uchida, Ryô Kase, Ai Aita

Votes: 348

36. Skeleton on Horseback (1937)

78 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

"The White Sickness", a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war.

Director: Hugo Haas | Stars: Hugo Haas, Bedrich Karen, Zdenek Stepánek, Václav Vydra

Votes: 382

37. Loss of Feeling (1935)

85 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi

In an unnamed English-speaking capitalist land, a young engineer invents inexhaustible giant robots to replace the fragile human workers on high-volume assembly-lines, and soon finds his ... See full summary »

Director: Aleksandr Andriyevsky | Stars: Sergei Vecheslov, Vladimir Gardin, Mariya Volgina, Anna Chekulaeva

Votes: 182

38. The Crabs (1976)

12 min | Animation, Short, Horror

A sci-fi film that is an allegory about the suicidal character of war waged by militant factions. A military scientist who originally intends to breed perfect robots - crabs, based on the ... See full summary »

Director: Václav Mergl

Votes: 115

39. The Secret of Steel City (1979)

85 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

Two scientists use their inherited fortune differently. One designs a beautiful town called Fortuna, while the second builds huge factories to make munitions known as Steel City.

Director: Ludvík Ráza | Stars: Jaromír Hanzlík, Martin Ruzek, Josef Vinklár, Jan Potmesil

Votes: 321

40. Temné slunce (1980)

135 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi

A remake of the 1948 atomic-age film, "Krakatit", by the same director. A scrupulous scientist is in the throes of a serious ethical dilemma after creating a highly-efficient explosive which may bring immeasurable suffering to mankind.

Director: Otakar Vávra | Stars: Radoslav Brzobohatý, Rudolf Hrusínský, Magda Vásáryová, Jerzy Kamas

Votes: 58

41. The Newt Congress (2022)

16 min | Short

For years now, giant talking newts have been used both for their labor and as laboratory animals. The Newt Congress takes place at a conference building surrounded by nature where ... See full summary »

Directors: Immanuel Esser, Matthias Sahli | Stars: Ursula Benz, Manuela Biedermann, Tobias Bienz, Peter Hottinger

Votes: 29

42. Srazhenie (1986)

10 min | Animation, Short, Action

A man kills a toy designer and steals his latest product. The product, a mini-army complete with weapons, then wages war on the killer.

Director: Mikhail Titov

Votes: 224

43. Záhada trí kapitánu (1990– )

Family, Sci-Fi

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Stars: Klára Jandová, Oldrich Vízner, Petr Kostka, Ilona Jirotková

44. 'Babicky dobíjejte presne!' (1984)

101 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

A family purchases a home robot designed to look like a grandmum. Their neighbours immediately buy a more expensivve model as the two families always try to up the other one. Both grandmums... See full synopsis »

Director: Ladislav Rychman | Stars: Jirí Lábus, Daniela Kolárová, Libuse Havelková, Jana Dítetová

Votes: 144

45. I Am the Doorway (2017)

15 min | Short, Horror, Mystery

A man is trapped in a spaceship with a strange virus growing inside him, altering his mind. To save himself he must take drastic action.

Director: Robin Kasparik | Stars: Radim Vizváry, Eva Gorcicová

Votes: 39

46. R.U.R. (1948 TV Movie)

60 min | Sci-Fi

A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explored dehumanization through technology and the failure of a technologically driven utopia.

Director: Jan Bussell | Stars: Anthony Eustrel, Eugene Leahy, Derek Tansley, Maurice Bannister

47. Retsept yeyo molodosti (1983)

92 min | Comedy, Musical

A musical comedy based on the play by K. Capek "The Makropulos Affair". A fantastic longevity story of a famous actress. She looks 30 - in fact, about three hundred. The secret of her youth is in a special potion invented a long time ago.

Director: Evgeniy Ginzburg | Stars: Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Borisov, Aleksandr Abdulov, Anatoliy Romashin

Votes: 90

48. Bambinot (1984– )

60 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

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Stars: Josef Abrhám, Eliska Balzerová, Petr Cepek, Milos Kopecký

Votes: 51

49. The Lost Face (1965)

85 min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi

Central Europe, 1930s: Czech physician Bartos (Vlastimil Brodský) devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration of ... See full summary »

Director: Pavel Hobl | Stars: Jarmila Bechynová, Jana Brejchová, Jana Brezková, Vlastimil Brodský

Votes: 51

50. Návsteva z vesmíru (1977 TV Movie)

Mystery, Sci-Fi

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Director: Otakar Kosek | Stars: Petr Gleich, Zdenek Hradilák, Premysl Matousek, Svatopluk Matyás