Charles, among the top 10 in the sci-fi list of Pahle is “Brazil”. I have over 2,800 reviews, really just comments, reactions and memory-joggers, on IMDb, and among them are a few reactions to “Brazil” dating from May, 2012, including some on its visionary anti-state elements: “The story has several very strong points. It accurately foresaw the present 27 years ago. It saw that police would become incredibly heavy-handed. It saw that the establishment would use terrorism as an excuse to hamstring everyone. It foresaw police wreaking havoc when they break into a home. It foresaw constant surveillance. In short, it foresaw present day England and America.”
Here are 25 sci-fi films in no special order that I personally like. I can’t say they’re the best or the top because I haven’t seen every sci-fi film ever made and I find such judgments impossible anyway. But I can say that these are films that I can watch again and again, and I arbitrarily stopped at 25, for there are more.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Frankenstein (1931)
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Five Million Years to Earth (1967) aka Quatermass and the Pit
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
War of the Worlds (1953)
Total Recall (1990)
The Terminator (1984)
This Island Earth (1955)
Soylent Green (1973)
Robocop (1987)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
On the Beach (1959)
King Kong (1933)
Flash Gordon Space Soldiers (1936)
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (1956)
Blade Runner (1982)
The Final Countdown (1980)
Invaders from Mars (1953)
Metropolis (1927)
The Village of the Damned (1960)
Westworld (1973)
The Time Machine (1960)
