Off the beaten path scifi movies

JazzHands- I forgot about Cube. That was a sleeper hit for me. I didn't care for the sequel though.

Lone

Great list. I have seen some of those and heard of others.

All- thanks for giving me stuff to watch!

I forgot They Live. Nice little Orwellianesque flick.

Dang it- Planet of the Apes. Well, that is well known but pretty old!

Some good pics above - some repeats here but my 2 cents:

Moon (a good 'human' sci-fi)

A Scanner Darkly (crazy but moral, kind of, drug tale)

*Under the Skin (must see just for the creepiest death scene ever and, being honest, Scarlet Johansen . . .)

Ex Machina (when AI goes bad ;)  but not in a cliched way)

Sunshine (a nice, uneventful trip to the sun)

and, not really off radar but

12 Monkeys (time travel, Terry Gilliam strangeness, top stuff)

*this would be my top pick if you've not seen it.  Very dark.  Combines alien invasion/abduction, alien AI and aliens on motorbikes, gross out scenes and Glaswegian night life.    Random stuff but very well done imo.  I think if you're British it's possibly even more unnerving . . .

Deep Space 12 Monkeys was great! I need to dust my dvd collection.

Under the Skin sounds interesting too. Thanks!

A Boy and His Dog

No worries dk :)

Im just gutted I've seen most if not all of those recommended above . . .

Hence why I can't wait for AC!

I've seen so many sci-fi films in the past, and I managed to find a few of these on the memory lane, some of which I still enjoy provided that I use my Nostalgia-Vision (TM)

- Saturn 3 

- Outland 

- Battle Beyond the Stars 

- Robot Jox 

- Innerspace 

- The Blob

Hey don't laugh! 

Sci-fi films are best enjoyed in grainy VHS screen quality on a fatass CRT TV imo (especially 80's space adventure films with lens flare, synth music, sometimes outrageous leather clothing, guy-in-a-suit monsters, stop motion and matte painting backgrounds.)

A huge 4k screen with a massive HT set-up is the 2nd best thing.

Like your style Neo :) 

Thanks for the thumbs up on Arrival dk!Great lists!Under the Skin is on my must see too!

Excellent list Lone!And I thought I was the only one who liked Soldier 

If any of you are into the "so bad it's good" thing, I recommend Starcrash. It's so stupid that it's awesome.

If that makes sense.

"so bad it's good"

Movies like these are routine for MST3K.

- Screamers

- Silent Running

- Enemy Mine

Man, I'm 44 and have seen so many movies. But can i remember them when needed? No! Balls!

- Brazil

-  A.I.

- Her

- Clockwork Orange

- The Abyss

- Moon 44

- Pitch Black

- Dune (1984)

- Contact 

Oops, only 5.... Oh well....

Yes @Jazzhands! definitely The Cube and Cube Zero (not the second one)

Deepstar Six (The Abyss' younger brother, but still a little gem)

The Divide (mainly because Michael Biehn is in it lol)

Ooh...almost forgot:

"Galaxy of Terror"!

Event Horizon was cool when i was a bit younger.  Arrival was pretty frigging awesome..and I have to throw it out there.. Interstellar was pretty dope

Tiwaz No worries about more than 5!

I have a story about Pitch Black. I was leaving for military duty for 6 months and my family wanted a going away party for me- it was an emotional time. My daughter and I went to rent a movie (VHS) and our minds were on the changes about to occur. We wandered around and saw Pitch Black- never heard of it but we picked it up just to grab some kind of scifi movie. I had zero expectations and was just floored by the movie. I have three DVDs of it- just in case!

@dk Nice one.

I watched Dune when it came to the cinemas, 1984. I was 11 back then an dragged my granny along. I was like "WOAH!", especially the sandworms. I wonder what my granny was thinking. Probly something like "WTF?!". XD

Top Sci-Fi movies for me:

Close Encounters

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

The Day the Earth Stood Still (Original)

War of the Worlds (Original, Gene Barry version)

Sunshine

Flash Gordon (1980)

My Dad loved how Michael Rennie portrayed the alien visitor was in the Day the Earth Stood Still.