Sci-Fi Movies 2020 List

With Justin Long • Tommy Flanagan • Bill Sage • Carl W. Lucas • Ronnie Gene Blevins • Gille Klabin • Sarah Minnich • Monique Candelaria • Sheila Vand • Blythe Howard • Donald Faison

Frank (Justin Long), an opportunistic insurance lawyer, thinks he’s in for the time of his life when he goes out on the town to celebrate an upcoming promotion with his co-worker, Jeff. But their night takes a turn for the bizarre when Frank is dosed with a hallucinogen that completely alters his perception of the world, taking him on a psychedelic quest through board meetings, nightclubs, shootouts, and alternate dimensions. As Frank ping-pongs between reality and fantasy, he finds himself on a mission to find a missing girl, himself… and his wallet.

With Susan Sarandon • Thomas Lennon • Charlyne Yi • Tim Robbins • Mark Proksch • Kerri Kenney-Silver • John Gremberling • Prettiest Eyes • Weyes Blood • Jack Henry Robbins • Nunzio Randazzo

A bizarre retro comedy shot entirely on VHS, VHYes takes us back to a simpler time, when twelve-year-old Ralph mistakenly records home videos and his favorite late night shows over his parents’ wedding tape. The result is a nostalgic wave of home shopping clips, censored pornography, and nefarious true-crime tales that threaten to unkindly rewind Ralph’s reality.

With Nicolas Cage • Elijah Wood • Joely Richardson • Richard Stanley • Madeleine Arthur • Tommy Chong • Brendan Meyer • Daniel Noah • Julian Hilliard • Elliot Knight with Q'Orianka Kilcher • Scarlett Amaris

A rural town is struck by a meteorite and a family finds themselves battling a mutant extraterrestrial organism infecting their minds and bodies.

With Ivan Massagué • Antonia San Juan • Zorion Eguileor

In a future dystopia, prisoners housed in vertically stacked cells watch hungrily as food descends from above — feeding the upper tiers, but leaving those below ravenous and radicalized.

With Connie Nielsen • Dougray Scott • Hermione Corfield • Olwen Fouéré • Neasa Hardiman • Ardalan Esmaili

Siobhán's a marine biology student who prefers spending her days alone in a lab. She has to endure a week on a ragged fishing trawler, where she’s miserably at odds with the close-knit crew. But out in the deep Atlantic, an unfathomable life form ensnares the boat. When members of the crew succumb to a strange infection, Siobhán must overcome her alienation and anxiety to win the crew’s trust, before everyone is lost.

With Jake Horowitz • Bruce Davis • Andrew Patterson • Gail Cronauer • James Montague • Sierra McCormick • Craig W. Sanger

In the twilight of the 1950s, on one fateful night in New Mexico, a young, winsome switchboard operator Fay (Sierra McCormick) and charismatic radio DJ Everett (Jake Horowitz) discover a strange audio frequency that could change their small town and the future forever. Dropped phone calls, AM radio signals, secret reels of tape forgotten in a library, switchboards, crossed patchlines and an anonymous phone call lead Fay and Everett on a scavenger hunt toward the unknown.

With Jake Horowitz • Bruce Davis • Andrew Patterson • Gail Cronauer • James Montague • Sierra McCormick • Craig W. Sanger

In the twilight of the 1950s, on one fateful night in New Mexico, a young, winsome switchboard operator Fay (Sierra McCormick) and charismatic radio DJ Everett (Jake Horowitz) discover a strange audio frequency that could change their small town and the future forever. Dropped phone calls, AM radio signals, secret reels of tape forgotten in a library, switchboards, crossed patchlines and an anonymous phone call lead Fay and Everett on a scavenger hunt toward the unknown.

With Dustin Leighton • Caleb Thomas • Joseph Mbah • Jose Rosete • Anna Harr • Alaina Laethem • Adam Michael Gold • Titus Covington • Robert Conway

Weekend campers, an escaped convict, young lovers and a police officer experience a night of terror when a hostile visitor from another world descends on a small Arizona town.

With Michael W.Bachochin • Naomi Prentice • Nelson Ritthaler • Hattie Smith

A young artist wakes up in a life that she doesn't recognize, spending her time asleep haunted by nightmares of drowning in a black abysmal void. As she begins to uncover the truths of the life that she's found herself in, the gravity of her failing reality weighs heavily on her psychological identity and the reliability of her sanity is called into question.

With Magda Apanowicz • Aleks Paunovic • Tony Dean Smith • Ryan W. Smith • Adrian Glynn McMorran • John Cassini • Frank Cassini • Bill Marchant

In this time-bending cerebral science-fiction thriller, a man afflicted with clairvoyance tries to change his fate when a series of events leads to a vision of his own imminent murder. Awarded as BEST FEATURE at the Philip K. Dick Film Festival, among a slew of other awards and critical acclaim, VOLITION is a tightly-wound puzzle of a ride.

With Theo James • Stacy Martin • Toby Jones • Rhona Mitra • Gavin Rothery

2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI. His latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest. Especially as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs: being reunited with his dead wife.

With Leonardo DiCaprio • Ridley Scott • Alden Ehrenreich • Jessica Brown Findlay • George DiCaprio • Michael Costigan • Farhad Safinia • Harry Lloyd

In a utopia where stability hinges upon control of monogamy and privacy, members of the collective begin to question the rules of their society.

With Greg Grunberg • Kevin Smith • Lukas Gage • Lin Shaye • Joey Morgan • Hassie Harrison • Martin Kove • Tom Plumley • Joseph D. Reitman • Wil Wheaton • Scott Conditt • Jeremy Tremp

When small-town video game store clerk Max Jenkins (Tom Plumley) discovers and plays the only known copy of Nether Dungeon, the legendary lost installment of the Nether Game series, he accidentally unleashes the ancient "Curse of The Ages," turning friends and family into possessed ghouls hell-bent on destroying civilization. It's up to Max and his best friends Reggie (Joey Morgan) and Liz (Hassie Harrison) along with old-school gaming gurus Eugene Wylder (Greg Grunberg) and Barton Grabowski (Joseph D. Reitman) to figure out how to beat the dark forces of The Nether before it's GAME OVER for humanity.

With Simon Brunne • Damien Boisseau • Didier Brunner • Jean Regnaud • Damien Brunner • Gaëtan David • André Logie • Tanguy de Kermel • Valérie Magis • Isaac Lobé-Lebel • Lior Chabbat • Jérémy Prévost • Sébastien Desjours • Léopold Vom Dorp • Victoire Pauwels • Léovanie Raud • Laurent Maurel • Marie-Eugénie Maréchal • Philippe Spiteri • Françoise Pavy

SamSam seems like he has it all: great family, great friends, and even his own flying saucer. But he’s still trying to find one thing that will make his life even better - actual superpowers. Thanks to Mega, a mysterious new student in school, SamSam’s about to find them - while learning what it really takes to fight monsters and how many ways there are to be a hero.

With Fedor Bondarchuk • Oksana Akinshina • Pyotr Fyodorov • Egor Abramenko

Due to her controversial methods, young doctor Tatiana Yurievna (Oksana Akinshina) is on the precipice of losing her medical license. Her career may not be over, though. After she’s recruited by the military, Tatiana is brought to a secure science research facility to assess a very special case, that of Konstantin Sergeyevich (Pyotr Fyodorov), a cosmonaut who survived a mysterious space accident and has returned to Earth with a unique condition: there’s something living inside of him that only shows itself late at night. The military has nefarious plans for it. Tatiana wants to stop it from killing Konstantin. And the creature itself thrives on destruction.

With Jamie Foxx • Joseph Gordon-Levitt • Ariel Schulman • Henry Joost • Mattson Tomlin • Machine Gun Kelly

On the streets of New Orleans, word begins to spread about a mysterious new pill that unlocks superpowers unique to each user. The catch: You don’t know what will happen until you take it. While some develop bulletproof skin, invisibility, and super strength, others exhibit a deadlier reaction. But when the pill escalates crime within the city to dangerous levels, a local cop (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) teams with a teenage dealer (Dominique Fishback) and a former soldier fueled by a secret vendetta (Jamie Foxx) to fight power with power and risk taking the pill in order to track down and stop the group responsible for creating it.

With Leonardo DiCaprio • Tom Hardy • Christopher Nolan • Cillian Murphy • Joseph Gordon-Levitt • Ellen Page • Emma Thomas • Ken Watanabe • Marion Cotillard

Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction: stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible-inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse; their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming.

With Bruce Willis • Jesse Metcalfe • Joe Russo • Natalie Eva Marie • Chris LaMont

A team of mercenaries find themselves racing the clock to stop a world-changing computer program from being triggered.

With Simon Kinberg • Anya Taylor-Joy • Scott Neustadter • Charlie Heaton • Lauren Shuler Donner • Josh Boone • Maisie Williams • Alice Braga • Karen Rosenfelt • Michael H. Weber • Henry Zaga • Blu Hunt

A new group of teenaged mutant superheroes which includes include Native American Danielle Moonstar, Scots girl Wolfsbane, Brazilian ladies man Sunspot, a Kentuckian code-named Cannonball and Russian teen Magik all train at the Xavier Institute.

With Carmen Miccio • Ciro Sorrentino • Sam Gittins • Mino Sferra • Ellie Poussot

A father and son team of scientists unlock the secret of time travel while researching time movement. During their first test they get trapped in a Time Loop, where their actions, in the past, have grave consequences, for the present and future.

With Skylar Astin • Anna Mastro • Alex Livak • Peyton Elizabeth Lee • Noah Lomax • Faly Rakotohavana • Greg Bryk • Elodie Yung • Niles Fitch • Andrew Green • Ashley Liao • Isabella Blake-Thomas • Olivia Deeble

The film follows Sam, a rebellious princess second in line to the throne of the kingdom of Illyria. Just as Sam’s disinterest in the royal way of life is at an all-time high, she is stunned to learn that she has superpowers and belongs to a secret society with a longstanding tradition of covertly keeping the peace throughout the kingdom. The movie follows Sam’s adventures at a top-secret training program for a new class of second-born royals tasked with saving the world.

With Jimi Jackson • Thomas Sainsbury • Shae Sterling • Jojo Waaka • Harry Summerfield

With Kodi Smit-McPhee • Ryan Kwanten • Seth Larney

By the year 2067, Earth has been ravaged by climate change and humanity is forced to live on artificial oxygen. An illness caused by the synthetic O2 is killing the worlds’ population and the only hope for a cure comes in the form of a message from the future: “Send Ethan Whyte”. Ethan, an underground tunnel worker, is suddenly thrust into a terrifying new world full of unknown danger as he must fight to save the human race.

With Sean Bean • Andrea Riseborough • Jennifer Jason Leigh • Brandon Cronenberg • Rossif Sutherland • Christopher Abbott • Tuppence Middleton

From the visionary mind of writer/director Brandon Cronenberg, POSSESSOR is an arresting sci-fi thriller about elite, corporate assassin Tasya Vos. Using brain-implant technology, Vos takes control of other people’s bodies to execute high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.

With Nathan Letteer • Garret Wang • Pat Tanaka • Heath C. Heine

After their comic book dreams are crushed, a group of sci-fi cosplayers are granted superpowers and are transported into the multiverse to do real battle with evil alien forces bent on earth's destruction.

With Shawn Levy • Dylan O'Brien • Jessica Henwick • Brian Duffield • Ariana Greenblatt • Craig Johnson • Michael Rooker • Dan Ewing • Melanie Zanetti • Michael Matthews • Ellen Hollman • Amali Golden

Living underground after giant creatures took control of Earth, Joel Dawson (Dylan O’Brien) reconnects with his girlfriend Aimee (Jessica Henwick) on the radio. Against all logic, Joel decides to risk it all on an epic 80-mile journey to find her.

With Josh Bangle • Cat Merritt • Devin Leigh • Ryan Barnes • Andre Pelzer • Shashana Pearson • Kodi Zene

Follows Isaac Ward, the first person to turn “hue” in this black and white world. After being shot in a downtown crossfire, he is found bleeding “red”. As Isaac’s body also begins to streak with color, other outbreaks develop across the globe. Isaac now struggles to survive while society tears itself apart to try to capture and comprehend these new unexplainable “hues”. Leaving countries at odds, at war and Isaac determined to find answers.

With Anthony Mackie • Justin Benson • Jamie Dornan • Katie Aselton • Aaron Moorhead • Ally IIoannides

When New Orleans paramedics and longtime best friends Steve (Anthony Mackie) and Dennis (Jamie Dornan) are called to a series of bizarre, gruesome accidents, they chalk it up to the mysterious new party drug found at the scene. But after Dennis’s oldest daughter suddenly disappears, Steve stumbles upon a terrifying truth about the supposed psychedelic that will challenge everything he knows about reality—and the flow of time itself.

With Eric Roberts • Nick Moran • J.P. Manoux • Arman Darbo • Shannon Briggs • Bill Oberst Jr • Dana Ziyasheva • Chloe Ray Warmoth • Igor Darbo

The coming of age story of Ulysses set in imaginary country Greatland, whose citizens, the “Greats” are too evolved to bother with government, work, education, law, technology or money. Trapped in this world of perpetual fun and inter-species love ruled by a universal Mother, Ulysses must cross the forbidden frontier to save his childhood sweetheart, as an absurd election and a deadly Virus lead to chaos and violence.

With Sean Bean • Andrea Riseborough • Jennifer Jason Leigh • Brandon Cronenberg • Rossif Sutherland • Christopher Abbott • Tuppence Middleton

From the visionary mind of writer/director Brandon Cronenberg, POSSESSOR is an arresting sci-fi thriller about elite, corporate assassin Tasya Vos. Using brain-implant technology, Vos takes control of other people’s bodies to execute high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.

With Nicolas Cage • Frank Grillo • Tony Jaa • Marie Avgeropoulos • Rick Yune • Juju Chan • Alain Moussi • Martin Barab

An ancient order of Jiu Jitsu fighters faces a vicious race of alien invaders in an epic battle for the survival of Earth.

With Mena Suvari • Ema Horvath • Trey Tucker • Braden R. Duemmler

Liberty, a socially awkward 16-year-old, returns from two months at camp to a blindsided introduction of her Mother’s fiancé, John Smith, whose charm, intelligence, and beauty paint the picture of a man too perfect to be human.

With Alyssa Diaz • Mark O'Brien • Aml Ameen • Scott Blaszak • Kathleen Quinlan • Georgia King • David Harewood • Martin Wallstrom • Isaac Ezban

A group of friends stumble upon a mirror that serves as a portal to a ‘multiverse.’ They soon discover that importing knowledge from the other side in order to better their lives brings increasingly dangerous consequences.

With George Clooney • Felicity Jones • Kyle Chandler • David Oyelowo • Demian Bichir • Ethan Peck • Sophie Rundle • Tiffany Boone • Caoilinn Springall

This post-apocalyptic tale follows Augustine (George Clooney), a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully (Felicity Jones) and her fellow astronauts from returning home to Earth, where a mysterious global catastrophe has taken place.