Top 20 sci-fi movies that will tear you from reality

Ranker has published the top most popular sci-fi movies of all time. In this list you will find all the favorite classics, and even, maybe, discover something new. But one we guarantee exactly — these films will be able to tear you from reality.

20. Stargate (1994)

Stargate (1994)

1928. Egypt. The archaeologist finds a strange structure. Many years later, his daughter now attracts a young specialist Jackson to solve the mystery, over which scientists are fighting at a military base in the mountains.

The mysterious structure is a passage to other worlds. With a group of special forces, Jackson and the colonel go through the stargate to meet the unknown. And there they are faced with severe trials and struggles, on whose outcome the fate of mankind depends.

19. 12 monkeys (1995)

12 monkeys (1995)

The year 2035 & hellip; A monstrous, incurable virus destroyed five billion people, that is 99% of the world's population. The survivors are forced to live underground.

The criminal James Cole voluntarily goes on a dangerous journey in a time machine. It should fall into the past to help scientists find the source of this terrible virus and uncover the mystery of the Twelve Monkeys &

18. The Star Trek (2009)

< When Nero from the planet Romulus comes from the future to avenge the Federation, competitors Kirk and Spock must unite to prevent him from destroying everything that is dear to them. During this turbulent journey, filled with spectacular battles, humor and cosmic threats, the newly minted members of the warship's crew, the Enterprise & raquo; safely meet face-to-face with unimaginable dangers

17. . Beginning (2010)

Beginning (2010)

Cobb — a talented thief, the best of the best in the dangerous art of extraction: he steals valuable secrets from the depths of the subconscious during sleep, when the human mind is most vulnerable. Rare abilities of Cobb made him a valuable player in the world of industrial espionage, customary to betrayal, but they also turned him into a perpetual fugitive and deprived of everything he ever loved.

16. Planet of the Apes (2001)

The Planet of the Apes (2001)

The future. 2029 year. On a giant space station, astronaut Leo Davidson teaches monkeys to fly aircraft. Unexpectedly, one of his students loses control of the spacecraft and takes him to the unexplored area of ​​the space-time tunnels.

Leo rushes to the rescue of the chimpanzee without hesitation, but the same fate befalls him. Passing through the tunnel, he makes a leap in time and gets on an unknown planet, where the civilization of the militant monkeys turned people into slaves. After being captured by the monkeys, Leo tries to defend the rights of humanity to freedom.

15. Ghostbusters (1984)

Ghostbusters (1984)

At the end of the twentieth century, it turns out that in New & mdash ; In New York, not only ordinary citizens live, but also & hellip; ghosts. A multimillion-strong population can not withstand the onslaught of the supernatural.

After all, there is no one left on the path of countless monsters — except for three scientists — parapsychologists who know everything about the other world, though only in theory. And now they will have to leave dusty cabinets and apply their knowledge to practice & hellip;

14. Predator (1987)

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An American helicopter was shot down by partisans in South America. The surviving crew is in captivity. The Central Intelligence Agency of the USA is throwing its best forces for the liberation of American citizens.

The elite group of special forces led by Datche was abandoned to the South American jungle.

13. Fifth Element (1997)

The fifth element (1997)

Evil in the form of a red-hot mass, endowed with intelligence, is coming to Earth. It can be defeated only by gathering together four elements (they are the elements of earth, water, air and fire) and adding to them a mysterious fifth element.

12. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan ( 1982)

Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

Crisis middle age, happened at Admiral Kirk, seemed to him a thing of prime importance. But only until he received a message from the planet Seth Alpha 5 that his long-time enemy, thirsting for revenge, appeared.

Khan, a genetically engineered superman with a strong intellect, physical strength and ambition, already met once with the team of the Enterprise, but then he and his men who decided to seize the ship were stopped and left on punishment for the first available for the life of the planet.

11. Alien (1982)

Alien (1982)

The alien, a body like a tortoise without a shell, and a muzzle simultaneously on a pug and Albert Einstein, flew to the ground with peaceful intentions & mda sh; in the research group. Specialists from NASA noticed the approach of the flying saucer and felt that they were simply obliged to catch at least one of the alien creatures. The unhappy creatures were forced to retreat so quickly that they forgot to take one of their colleagues. Earth boy Elliot, as well as his brother and sister, overcoming aversion to an unpleasant looking creature, save him.

10. & Jurassic Park (1993)

The Jurassic Park (1993)

The expansive rich man and professor persuades a pair of paleontologists to come on an island off the coast of Costa Rica, where he built a relict park. In the park, there are ancient animals — dinosaurs, which, according to his idea, should become the highlight of the program of the new attraction.

There are several days left before the opening, and one of the employees, trying to sell the & laquo; seedlings & raquo; to the left, violates the security system, which, combined with a thunderstorm, leads to the fact that prehistoric animals find themselves in the wild, where they act in accordance with their instincts.

9. Space Odyssey 2001 (1968)

The Space Odyssey of 2001 (1968)

Who are we? What place do we occupy in the universe? These questions face the characters of the film. Crew of the spaceship SS Discovery — captains Dave Bowman, Frank Poole and their on-board computer HEL-9000 — should explore the area of ​​the galaxy and understand why aliens are watching the Earth. On this way, they are waiting for a lot of unexpected discoveries & hellip;

8. Blade Runner (1982)

Blade Runner (1982)

Retired Detective Rick Decard was reinstated in the Los Angeles Police Force, To search for a group of cyborgs headed by Roy Batty, who escaped from a space colony to Earth.

The police believe that cyborgs are trying to meet Endol Tyrell, the head of a corporation that is experimenting with cybernetic intelligence. Rick Deckard gets the task to find out the motives of the cyborgs' actions, and then destroy them.

7. & Star Wars. Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)

Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)

In the sixth episode of the Star Wars, & raquo; Darth Vader creates the second & laquo; Death Star & raquo ;. Luke Skywalker, along with Princess Leia and the faithful droids R2D2 and C-3PO, is sent to save her friend Khan Solo, who was captured by the disgusting Jabba Hattu — the mighty ruler of criminals.

6. Back to the Future (1985)

Back to the Future (1985)

Teenage boy using a time machine built by his friend Professor Doc Brown, comes from the 80's in the distant 50's. There he meets his future parents, still teens, and a friend, a professor, quite young.

5. Terminator (1984) Terminator (1984) "The history of confrontation between soldier Kyle Reese and the cyborg terminator, who arrived in 1984 from a post-apocalyptic future, where the world the machine-killer rules, and humanity is on the verge of extinction. The aim of the cyborg is to kill a girl named Sarah Connor, whose unborn son by 2029 will win the war of humanity with the machines. The purpose of Riza is to save Sarah and stop the Terminator at any cost.

4. Matrix (1999)

Matrix (1999)

The life of Thomas Anderson is divided into two parts: during the day, he is the most common office worker who gets scolded by his superiors, and at night turns into a hacker named Neo, and there is no place in the network where he could not reach. But one day everything changes — the hero, unwittingly, recognizes the terrible truth: everything that surrounds him — nothing more than an illusion, the Matrix, and people — only a power source for artificial intelligence, which enslaved mankind. And only Neo is able to change the alignment of forces in this suddenly alien and terrible world.

3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) : It's been more than a decade since the cyborg terminator from 2029 tried to destroy Sarah Connor — a woman whose future son will win the war of humanity against machines. Now Sarah's son John was born and the time when he leads the surviving people to fight against the machines is inexorably approaching. It is at this point that a new terminator arrives from the post-apocalyptic future — almost invulnerable and capable of taking any form. The goal of the new terminator is not Sarah, but the destruction of the young John Connor.

2. Alien (1979)

Alien (1979)

In the distant future, the cargo space ship returning to Earth intercepts the outgoing Unknown planet unidentified signal. The crew decides to land and figure out what's wrong. Once on the planet, astronauts everywhere discover unidentified objects that look like giant cocoons & hellip;

1. Star Wars. Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

The struggle for the galaxy is exacerbated in the fifth episode of the space saga. The forces of the Emperor are beginning a massive attack on the rebels and their allies.

Han Solo and Princess Leia take refuge in the Cloud City, in which they are captured by Darth Vader, while Luke Skywalker is on the mysterious planet of the Dagoba jungle./p>

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