List of science fiction films
This list of science fiction films provides an overview of the history of the genre. The films are listed in chronological order. This sequence is summarized in developing strands and eras.
A thematic work-up can be found in Articles science fiction movie and science fiction. The latter deals with film and literature, and historical and thematic priorities.
Thematic approaches
Graph to Hahn / Jansen
A generally accepted definition of the science fiction film does not exist because the genre has taken in recent decades, a range of topics and sub-genres in that even experts such as Norman Spinrad to statements such as " Science fiction is anything published as science fiction. " get carried away. So also provides the following definition Schaubildnur a possibility dar.
Definition according Koebner
Thomas Koebner followed in his work movie genre science fiction a more focused approach than tap / Jansen:
First ideas of a historical rule deviates or worsening model society that have been designed as utopias since the Renaissance and darken later than one hundred years as Schreckprophetien of embracing dictatorship or anarchy Stone Age outlook.
The second encounter with extraterrestrial life, which penetrates from outer space to us, hostile or well-disposed of incredible shape or assimilated into our bodies.
3 The artificial humans that can be markedly from the Prometheus complex and its modern variant, the Frankenstein complex, derived: unambiguous robots that serve as brave or rebellious servants, the " master race ", or duplicates, likenesses, Humanoids, where one can determine little more, how they differ from real people.
4, especially after the Second World War pervasive fear of the changes brought about by nuclear explosions Apocalypse and the scantily - pathetic life then when it because life then still - here, the anti- utopian predictions of terrorist systems overlap with dramatic end-time visions.
5 expeditions into space, rides in the vast space as a variant of adventure into the unknown, which leads to distant stars and beings that sometimes a rather grotesque and malicious, then reawaken a moderately bizarre impression that sometimes seem so commensurable that one they can do in terms of a global forgiveness that covers the entire space population, even in your own space ships.
6 traveling through time, dream ideas sometimes bailouts future heroes that slip on the timeline back to change in the past, the fateful story so great disasters could be avoided by living in a different era, which can turn into nightmare experiences, etc.
Lists after decades
- Science fiction movies until 1919
- Science fiction films of the 1920s
- Science fiction films of the 1930s
- Science fiction films of the 1940s
- Science fiction films of the 1950s
- Science fiction films of the 1960s
- Science fiction films of the 1970s
- Science fiction films of the 1980s
- Science fiction films of the 1990s
- Science fiction films of the 2000s
- Science fiction films of the 2010s