English-language science fiction thriller films

2013 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón

2012 film directed by Gary Ross

2001 film directed by Richard Kelly

2012 film directed by Ridley Scott

2011 film directed by Michael Bay

2014 film directed by Luc Besson

2001 film directed by Joe Johnston

2005 film directed by Steven Spielberg

Tenet (stylized in all caps, sometimes as TENƎꓕ) is a 2020 science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with his wife Emma Thomas. It stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh. The film follows a former CIA officer who is recruited into a secret organization, tasked with tracing the origin of objects that are traveling backward through time and their connection to an attack from the future to the present.

2009 film directed by Neill Blomkamp

2004 film directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber

2001 film by Cameron Crowe

1992 film directed by David Fincher

Gattaca is a 1997 American dystopian science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol in his feature directorial debut. It stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman with Jude Law, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal, and Alan Arkin appearing in supporting roles. The film presents a future society driven by eugenics where children are conceived through genetic selection to ensure they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents. The principal character, Vincent Freeman, played by Hawke, was conceived outside the eugenics program and struggles to overcome genetic discrimination to

2014 film directed by Gareth Edwards

2021 film directed by Lana Wachowski

2006 film directed by Tony Scott

Face/Off is a 1997 American science fiction action thriller film directed by John Woo, from a screenplay by Mike Werb and Michael Colleary. It stars John Travolta as an FBI agent and Nicolas Cage as a terrorist, who undergo an experimental surgery to swap their faces and identities. The film co-stars Joan Allen, Gina Gershon, and Alessandro Nivola in his film debut, and features Dominique Swain in her film debut, Nick Cassavetes, Harve Presnell, Colm Feore, CCH Pounder, and Thomas Jane in supporting roles.

2005 film directed by Michael Bay

2014 film directed by Alex Garland

2016 film directed by M. Night Shyamalan

2009 film directed by Alex Proyas

2002 film directed by M. Night Shyamalan

2000 film directed by M. Night Shyamalan

2011 film by Duncan Jones

2011 film directed by George Nolfi

2011 film directed by J. J. Abrams

2014 film by José Padilha

2015 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

2014 film directed by Wally Pfister

2011 film directed by Neil Burger

2017 film directed by Rupert Sanders

2007 film directed by Danny Boyle

2024 film directed by Fede Álvarez

2008 film directed by M. Night Shyamalan

1978 film by Franklin J. Schaffner

2024 film directed by S. J. Clarkson

1973 film directed by Richard Fleischer

2023 film directed by Francis Lawrence

2014 film directed by James DeMonaco

2023 film directed by Gareth Edwards

2016 film directed by Dan Trachtenberg

1998 film by Barry Levinson

1973 film directed by Michael Crichton

2005 film by John Maybury

1995 film by Kathryn Bigelow

2012 film by Josh Trank

2003 film by Robert Rodriguez

2000 film by Gregory Hoblit

2008 film by Chris Carter

2025 film directed by Drew Hancock

2002 film by Rob Bowman

1971 film directed by Boris Sagal

Prey is a 2022 American science fiction action horror film directed by Dan Trachtenberg from a screenplay by Patrick Aison, based on a story by Aison and Trachtenberg. It is the fifth installment in the Predator franchise and a prequel to Predator (1987), set in the Northern Great Plains in 1719. It stars Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro, Michelle Thrush, Stormee Kipp, Julian Black Antelope, and Bennett Taylor. The story revolves around a young Comanche woman, Naru, who is striving to prove herself as a hunter. She finds herself having to protect her people from a vicious, humanoid alien that hunts humans for sport.

Flatliners is a 1990 American science fiction psychological horror film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by Michael Douglas and Rick Bieber, and written by Peter Filardi. It stars Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt, and Kevin Bacon. The film is about five medical students who attempt to find out what lies beyond death by conducting clandestine experiments that produce near-death experiences. The film was shot on the campus of Loyola University Chicago between October 1989 and January 1990, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing in 1990 (

2016 film directed by Gore Verbinski

2018 film directed by Gerard McMurray

1971 film by Robert Wise

2000 film directed by Tarsem Singh

2014 film directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig