By leah jones
Science fiction is a fascinating genre as it explores the (often terrifying) possibilities of what reality would look like with advancements in technology, space, time and more.
Here is a mix of the highest regarded science fiction movies and new films that are taking risks and pushing boundaries in the genre.
This film takes place in a dystopian future where a "blade runner" hunts down bioengineered humans called replicants but ends up falling in love with one of them.
In Intersellar, Earth is dying, so a team of astronauts abandon their lives to travel through a wormhole in search of a new home for humanity.
Inception follows a thief who specializes in corporate espionage as he has the ability to enter people’s dreams and discover their secrets.
Children of Men takes place in a bleak future where humans have become infertile. However, when a woman becomes miraculously pregnant, a man must protect her.
In a future set in 2054 where crimes are stopped before they happen, a cop is accused of a murder he hasn’t committed – yet.
Alien refugees land on Earth and are forced to live in slums in South Africa in this film. When an agent contracts a virus that changes his DNA, he must hide with the aliens in District 9.
When alien ships land on Earth, a linguist is brought in to attempt to communicate with them in an intense effort to avoid a global war.
Nope takes place in a remote California desert where two siblings running a horse ranch discover a terrifying, skyborne phenomenon and try to capture proof of its existence.
The Substance is a body horror sci-fi thriller about a middle-age woman who uses a mysterious product that promises physical perfection – but it comes at a grotesque cost.
A reclusive woman is suddenly thrust into a fight for her life when gray-skinned aliens invade her isolated home in this film with almost no dialogue.
In Annihilation, a team of women enters "The Shimmer," a quarantined zone of bizarre, mutating landscapes. What they find threatens their safety and sanity.