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[kengr]

This is the Science Fiction Film Canon, 50 most influential (not necessarily best or worst) films as listed by John Scalzi in his Rough Guide to Science Fiction Films. As usual, bold those you've seen; italicize those you want to see and strike those you have no desire whatsoever to put before your retinas.

Modification: Put an asterisk after the ones you own on DVD.

• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!*
  
• Akira
  
• Alien
  
• Aliens
  
• Alphaville
  
• Back to the Future
  
• Blade Runner*
  
• Brazil
  
• Bride of Frankenstein
  
• Brother From Another Planet
  
• A Clockwork Orange
  
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  
• Contact
  
• The Damned
  
• Destination Moon*
  
• The Day The Earth Stood Still*
  
• Delicatessen
  
• Escape From New York
  
• ET: The Extraterrestrial
  
• Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers (serial)
  
• The Fly (1985 version)
  
• Forbidden Planet*
  
• Ghost in the Shell
  
• Gojira/Godzilla
  
• The Incredibles
  
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 version)
  
• Jurassic Park
  
• Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior
  
• The Matrix*
  
• Metropolis
  
• On the Beach (and read the book decades before I saw it)
  
• Planet of the Apes (1968 version)
  
• Robocop
  
• Sleeper
  
• Solaris (1972 version)
  
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
  
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  
• Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
  
• The Stepford Wives
  
• Superman
  
• Terminator 2: Judgement Day
  
• The Thing From Another World (I think)
  
• Things To Come*
  
• Tron
  
• 12 Monkeys
  
• 28 Days Later
  
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
  
• La Voyage Dans la Lune
  
• War of the Worlds (1953 version)
  

and here's a bonus... My DVDs