Best sci-fi crime films - Charts
Best sci-fi crime films
1. Adela Has Not Had Her Supper Yet (1978)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Oldřich Lipský
3. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
UK / USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee
4. I, Robot (2004)
USA / Germany, Sci-fi / Action
Directed by: Alex Proyas
Cast: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan
5. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)
Japan / USA, Animation / Action
Directed by: Shin'ichirō Watanabe, Yoshiyuki Takei
Cast: Ai Kobayashi, Kōichi Yamadera
7. Frequency (2000)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Gregory Hoblit
Cast: Dennis Quaid, James Caviezel
9. In Time (2011)
USA, Sci-fi / Thriller
Directed by: Andrew Niccol
Cast: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried
10. Despicable Me 2 (2013)
USA / France, Animation / Sci-fi
Directed by: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
Cast: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig
11. Mauvais Sang (1986)
France / Switzerland, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Leos Carax
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche
12. Ghost in the Shell Arise: Border 1 - Ghost Pain (2013)
Japan, Animation / Action
Directed by: Kazuchika Kise, Masahiko Murata
Cast: Maaya Sakamoto, Miyuki Sawashiro
13. Save the Green Planet! (2003)
South Korea, Drama / Sci-fi
Directed by: Joon-hwan Jang
Cast: Ha-kyun Shin, Yoon-shik Baek
14. Psycho-Pass: The Movie (2015)
Japan, Animation / Action
Directed by: Katsuyuki Motohiro, Naoyoshi Shiotani
Cast: Kenji Nojima, Miyuki Sawashiro
15. Looper (2012)
USA / China, Sci-fi / Action
Directed by: Rian Johnson
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis
16. Strange Days (1995)
USA, Sci-fi / Mystery
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett
17. A Scanner Darkly (2006)
USA, Animation / Crime
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr.
18. Ghost in the Shell: Arise – Border 2: Ghost Whispers (2013)
Japan, Animation / Action
Directed by: Kazuchika Kise
Cast: Maaya Sakamoto, Kazuya Nakai
19. Possible Worlds (2000)
Canada, Mystery / Sci-fi
Directed by: Robert Lepage
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Tom McCamus
20. Ghost in the Shell: Arise – Border 4: Ghost Stands Alone (2014)
Japan, Animation / Action
Directed by: Kazuchika Kise
Cast: Maaya Sakamoto, Kazuya Nakai
22. The Green Hornet (1974)
USA, Action / Crime
Directed by: William Beaudine, Norman Foster
Cast: Van Williams, Bruce Lee
23. Restore Point (2023)
Czech Republic / Slovakia, Sci-fi / Crime
Directed by: Robert Hloz
Cast: Andrea Mohylová, Matěj Hádek
24. Repo Men (2010)
USA / Canada, Action / Crime
Directed by: Miguel Sapochnik
Cast: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker
25. The Phantom Creeps (1939)
USA, Crime / Sci-fi
Directed by: Saul A. Goodkind, Ford Beebe
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent
26. The Walking Dead (1936)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez
27. Ghost in the Shell: Arise – Border 3: Ghost Tears (2014)
Japan, Animation / Action
Directed by: Kazuchika Kise
Cast: Maaya Sakamoto, Kazuya Nakai
28. The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Nick Grinde
Cast: Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray
29. Black Friday (1940)
USA, Crime / Sci-fi
Directed by: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
30. A.D. Police Files (1990)
Japan, Animation / Action
Directed by: Akira Nishimori
Cast: Miina Tominaga, Tesshō Genda
31. Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard (1963)
West Germany, Crime / Thriller
Directed by: Paul May
Cast: Peter van Eyck, Dieter Borsche
32. Goku: Midnight Eye (1989)
Japan, Animation / Action
Directed by: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Cast: Mami Koyama, Norio Wakamoto
33. Night Key (1937)
USA, Crime / Sci-fi
Directed by: Lloyd Corrigan
Cast: Boris Karloff, Warren Hull
34. Patlabor WXIII (2002)
Japan, Animation / Action
Directed by: Fumihiko Takayama, Takuo Tominaga
Cast: Miina Tominaga, Atsuko Tanaka
35. Nerve (2016)
USA, Adventure / Crime
Directed by: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Cast: Emma Roberts, Dave Franco
36. Tales from the Hood (1995)
USA, Horror / Crime
Directed by: Rusty Cundieff
Cast: Clarence Williams III, Joe Torry
37. Robot and Frank (2012)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Jake Schreier
Cast: Frank Langella, Peter Sarsgaard
38. Split Second (1992)
UK, Action / Crime
Directed by: Tony Maylam, Ian Sharp
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall
39. Chappie (2015)
South Africa / USA, Sci-fi / Action
Directed by: Neill Blomkamp
Cast: Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel
40. The Dead Mountaineer Hotel (1979)
Estonia / Soviet Union, Crime / Sci-fi
Directed by: Grigori Kromanov
Cast: Uldis Pūcītis, Jüri Järvet
41. The Cell (2000)
USA / Germany, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: Tarsem Singh
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Dylan Baker
42. Black Mask (1996)
Hong Kong, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Daniel Lee
Cast: Jet Li, Françoise Yip
43. God Told Me To (1976)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Larry Cohen
Cast: Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin
45. Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)
UK / USA, Crime / Thriller
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill
46. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
USA / Hong Kong, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Steve Barron
Cast: Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas
48. The Cannibal in the Jungle (2015)
USA / UK, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Simon George
Cast: Richard Brake, Jim Sturgeon
49. Goku II: Midnight Eye (1989)
Japan, Animation / Action
Directed by: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Cast: Kōichi Yamadera, Takeshi Aono
50. BioHunter (1995)
Japan, Animation / Crime
Directed by: Yūzō Satō
Cast: Toshihiko Seki, Chikao Ohtsuka
51. Criminal (2016)
UK / USA, Mystery / Sci-fi
Directed by: Ariel Vromen
Cast: Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman
52. Armitage III: Poly Matrix (1997)
Japan / USA, Animation / Adventure
Directed by: Satoshi Saga, Hiroyuki Ochi
53. Mega Time Squad (2018)
New Zealand, Comedy / Sci-fi
Directed by: Tim van Dammen
Cast: Anton Tennet, Hetty Gaskell-Hahn
54. Venom: Truth in Journalism (2013)
USA / France, Short / Crime
Directed by: Joe Lynch
Cast: Ryan Kwanten, Danny Belrose
55. Moon Zero Two (1969)
UK, Crime / Sci-fi
Directed by: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: James Olson, Adrienne Corri
56. The Green Hornet (2011)
USA, Action / Crime
Directed by: Michel Gondry
Cast: Seth Rogen, Jay Chou
58. France société anonyme (1974)
France, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Alain Corneau
Cast: Michel Bouquet, Daniel Ceccaldi
59. Appleseed (1988)
Japan, Animation / Action
Directed by: Kazuyoshi Katayama
Cast: Norio Wakamoto, Mika Doi
60. Ace Attorney (2012)
Japan, Crime / Comedy
Directed by: Takashi Miike
Cast: Hiroki Narimiya, Mayumi Yamazaki
61. The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966)
UK / West Germany, Crime / Horror
Directed by: Don Sharp
Cast: Christopher Lee, Heinz Drache
62. The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)
Spain / West Germany, Adventure / Crime
Directed by: Jesús Franco
Cast: Christopher Lee, Götz George
63. Ghost in the Shell (2017)
USA / India, Action / Drama
Directed by: Rupert Sanders
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Michael Pitt
65. The Soul (2021)
China / Taiwan, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Wei-hao Cheng
Cast: Chen Chang, Janine Chang
66. The Devil Bat (1940)
USA, Mystery / Crime
Directed by: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren
67. Scream and Scream Again (1970)
UK, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Gordon Hessler
Cast: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee
68. Control (2004)
USA / Aruba, Thriller / Crime
Directed by: Tim Hunter
Cast: Ray Liotta, Willem Dafoe
69. Time to Hunt (2020)
South Korea, Action / Sci-fi
Directed by: Seong-hyeon Yoon
Cast: Je-hoon Lee, Jae-hong Ahn
70. In the Shadow of the Moon (2019)
USA, Thriller / Mystery
Directed by: Jim Mickle
Cast: Boyd Holbrook, Michael C. Hall
71. Full Metal Yakuza (1997)
Japan, Action / Sci-fi
Directed by: Takashi Miike
Cast: Shôko Nakahara, Tomorowo Taguchi
72. The I Inside (2004)
UK / USA, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Roland Suso Richter
Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Polley
73. The Blood Beast Terror (1968)
UK, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Vernon Sewell
Cast: Peter Cushing, Robert Flemyng
74. Before the Fall (2008)
Spain, Thriller / Crime
Directed by: Francisco Javier Gutiérrez
Cast: Víctor Clavijo, Mariana Cordero
75. Shock Treatment (1973)
France / Italy, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Alain Jessua
Cast: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot
77. Repo Man (1984)
USA, Comedy / Sci-fi
Directed by: Alex Cox
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton
78. Indestructible Man (1956)
USA, Crime / Sci-fi
Directed by: Jack Pollexfen
Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., Max Showalter
79. R.I.P.D. - Rest in Peace Department (2013)
USA, Fantasy / Sci-fi
Directed by: Robert Schwentke
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Ryan Reynolds
83. The Batman (1943)
USA, Adventure / Crime
Directed by: Lambert Hillyer
Cast: Lewis Wilson, Douglas Croft
86. Robo Vampire (1988)
USA / Hong Kong, Action / Crime
Directed by: Godfrey Ho
Cast: Robin Mackay, Nian Watts
87. Retroactive (1997)
USA, Sci-fi / Thriller
Directed by: Louis Morneau
Cast: Jim Belushi, Kylie Travis
88. Brick Mansions (2014)
France / Canada, Action / Crime
Directed by: Camille Delamarre
Cast: Paul Walker, David Belle
89. Alien Nation (1988)
USA, Sci-fi / Crime
Directed by: Graham Baker
Cast: James Caan, Mandy Patinkin
90. Ferat Vampire (1981)
Czechoslovakia, Sci-fi / Horror
Directed by: Juraj Herz
Cast: Jiří Menzel, Dagmar Havlová
91. Future Force (1989)
USA, Action / Crime
Directed by: David A. Prior
Cast: David Carradine, Robert Tessier
92. The Astro-Zombies (1969)
USA, Crime / Sci-fi
Directed by: Ted V. Mikels
Cast: Wendell Corey, John Carradine
94. Loop (2016)
Hungary, Crime / Sci-fi
Directed by: Isti Madarász
Cast: Dénes Száraz, Dorina Martinovics
95. Hotel Artemis (2018)
UK / USA, Sci-fi / Action
Directed by: Drew Pearce
Cast: Jodie Foster, Jeff Goldblum
96. Virtual Weapon (1997)
France / Italy, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Antonio Margheriti
Cast: Terence Hill, Richard Liberty
97. Code 8: Part II (2024)
USA, Sci-fi / Action
Directed by: Jeff Chan
Cast: Robbie Amell, Stephen Amell
98. Judge Dredd (1995)
USA, Sci-fi / Crime
Directed by: Danny Cannon
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Diane Lane
99. Chrysalis (2007)
France, Crime / Sci-fi
Directed by: Julien Leclercq
Cast: Albert Dupontel, Marie Guillard
100. Ticking Clock (2011)
USA, Action / Crime
Directed by: Ernie Barbarash
Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Neal McDonough