If you're looking for some solid sci-fi titles to dig into, Prime Video has what you're looking for.
Let's be honest, there are so many movies to sift through nowadays, it can be tough to find the stuff that really fits your taste. Sure, sci-fi is an expansive genre that can't be contained into just one box, but that's what makes it so incredible. If you're in a silly mood, there's a movie for that. You want something bleak and dystopian, Prime Video has you covered. From high-brow to some B movie-flavored ridiculousness, there's pretty much something for every fan.
Instead of spending hours scrolling through the streamer's stacked library, I put together a list of titles for you to check out. This roundup merely scratches the surface of what you can find on the streamer, but it's a great starting point. From an AI romance to the return of an iconic movie monster and a terrifying alien invasion, the choices are epic. The only challenge now is to figure out which title you're going to click play on first.
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Screenshot by Aaron Pruner/CNET Godzilla Is 2014's Godzilla the best movie in the monster's long-running canon? The answer to that question can be debated for days. I'm not going to rank this release, but Gareth Edwards's take on the iconic kaiji does a great job of reintroducing audiences to this universe while also delivering a whole new set of story circumstances and characters. Unlike 1999's big screen adaptation, this one ain't goofy and the cast (Bryan Cranston, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, etc.) is pretty great.
Screenshot by Aaron Pruner/CNET Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey The second installment in the Bill and Ted trilogy finds Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reuniting as everyone's favorite slacker duo. This ridiculously fun sequel finds the buds grappling with an unexpected scenario: They get murdered by robot clones and go to Hell. Yes, that sounds silly, and it's all by design. Everything is fun in this one, and William Sadler's performance as the Grim Reaper steals the show.
Screenshot by Aaron Pruner/CNET Gattaca 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.
Universal Pictures Serenity This is the cult hit that continued the story of Joss Whedon's sci-fi series Firefly, which answered many of the questions the program was unable to. The whole crew is here: from Nathan Fillion's Mal to Alan Tudyk's Wash. Summer Glao's River is the focal point of the story as the crew works to protect her from an outside threat. Honestly, it's the fun writing and cast dynamic that make this one a fun watch.
Annapurna Pictures Her Spike Jonze can see the future. At least, that's what I think after looking back on his 2013 movie Her. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix as Theodore, a man who writes heartfelt letters for other people who is left emotionally shattered when his marriage ends. He ends up finding a new lease on life when he develops a deep emotional connection to a program named Samantha (Scarlett Johansson). It's a thought-provoking, beautiful story. In the age of AI, though, it feels like a baffling prediction.
Screenshot by Aaron Pruner/CNET Molli and Max in the Future 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.
Screenshot by Aaron Pruner/CNET John Dies at the End Jason Pargin released John Dies at the End, under the pseudonym David Wong, as a collection of stories he put online for fun -- and then they gained popularity, leading to a fruitful career for the author. It probably helps that horror icon Don Coscarelli chose to adapt the first book in the series into a movie. Chase Williamson plays Dave, the guy plagued with supernatural visions, who teams up with his slacker buddy John (Rob Mayes) to investigate all sorts of weird phenomena. And boy, does this movie get weird. It's bolstered by a superb cameo by Paul Giamatti, and it solidified itself as a cult fave. Too bad it never got a sequel.
Paramount Pictures A Quiet Place: Day One A Quiet Place: Day One takes audiences back to the very beginning of the alien invasion. While it may not be a necessary entry in the franchise -- like, say, 10 Cloverfield Lane -- the movie digs its heels into the human experience amid an otherworldly cataclysmic disaster. Come for the disaster, stay for the cute cat.
City Films Escape From New York 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.