Name a sci-fi movie (tagged Sci-Fi on IMDb, 1,000+ votes)

November 4, 2026 · Daily Dive #112

Explore 4,140 recorded answers and their points for question 5 on November 4, 2026.

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4,140 recorded names on November 4, 2026, 3,453 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Work the long tail of the catalogue rather than the famous shelf: filter by the genre label, sort by vote count, and move through decades and countries. Any feature film or made-for-television movie carrying the Sci-Fi label in its database genre field with more than one thousand votes qualifies; shorts, series episodes and untagged titles do not.

4,140 recorded answers3,453 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut3,45285 pts
  • Rare58560 pts
  • Schooler9130 pts
  • Plankton1110 pts
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Recorded answers

4,140 recorded answers

How to approach it

Recommendation instinct needs reversing here. Rather than reaching for the celebrated titles everyone knows, assemble a private list of the strange, the cheap and the barely reviewed: late-night television films, imported genre pictures, animated oddities, unwanted sequels, anything glimpsed on a streaming shelf at three in the morning. Check each candidate against the two hard conditions before committing, since a thin vote count or a genre field lacking the tag makes a title worthless however futuristic it feels. Then rank the survivors by how unlikely another player is to name them, and spend the answer on the oddest title you can defend as genuinely eligible.

Get a hint

Bear in mind that a database label, not reputation, defines this category, so the pool holds hundreds of films nobody would bring up in an ordinary conversation.

A little more

Steer toward the edges of the catalogue: low-budget productions, regional cinema, animated features, straight-to-video entries and old black-and-white titles sit under the same tag as the blockbusters.

One step further

Once a candidate comes to mind, confirm that its vote count genuinely passes four figures and that the genre field lists the science-fiction tag explicitly, since a title that merely feels futuristic but is filed elsewhere earns nothing.

Reveal answers 4,140
  • Woman in the MoonOne in a Krillion100points
  • .com for MurderDeep Cut85points
  • *Batteries Not IncludedDeep Cut85points
  • +1Deep Cut85points
  • 100 Million BCDeep Cut85points
  • 12 to the MoonDeep Cut85points
  • 12:01Deep Cut85points
  • 1959Deep Cut85points
  • 1984 (1956)Deep Cut85points
  • 1990: The Bronx WarriorsDeep Cut85points
  • 2-Headed Shark AttackDeep Cut85points
  • 2:22Deep Cut85points
  • 2.0Deep Cut85points
  • 20 Million Miles to EarthDeep Cut85points
  • 20 Years AfterDeep Cut85points
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)Deep Cut85points
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)Deep Cut85points
  • 2001: A Space TravestyDeep Cut85points
  • 2009: Lost MemoriesDeep Cut85points
  • 2012: DoomsdayDeep Cut85points
  • 2012: Ice AgeDeep Cut85points
  • 2012: SupernovaDeep Cut85points
  • 2019: After the Fall of New YorkDeep Cut85points
  • 2020Deep Cut85points
  • 2020 Texas GladiatorsDeep Cut85points
  • 2025: The World Enslaved by a VirusDeep Cut85points
  • 2036 Origin UnknownDeep Cut85points
  • 2046Deep Cut85points
  • 2047: Sights of DeathDeep Cut85points
  • 2047: Virtual RevolutionDeep Cut85points
  • 2050Deep Cut85points
  • 2067Deep Cut85points
  • 2073Deep Cut85points
  • 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the EndDeep Cut85points
  • 2307: Winter's DreamDeep Cut85points
  • 24Deep Cut85points
  • 24 Hours to LiveDeep Cut85points
  • 3-Headed Shark AttackDeep Cut85points
  • 30,000 Leagues Under the SeaDeep Cut85points
  • 3022Deep Cut85points
  • 4Deep Cut85points
  • 4:44 Last Day on EarthDeep Cut85points
  • 40 Days and NightsDeep Cut85points
  • 400 DaysDeep Cut85points
  • 41Deep Cut85points
  • 4D ManDeep Cut85points
  • 5 Headed Shark AttackDeep Cut85points
  • 51Deep Cut85points
  • 57 SecondsDeep Cut85points
  • 5th PassengerDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

The recorded pool ran to 4,118 titles, and the shape of the scoring is the lesson. A single answer reached 100 points, 3,440 sat at 85 and 547 stopped at 60, with only 130 slipping below the line, so the gap between a good result and a mediocre one was almost never validity; it was distance from the crowd's first thoughts. Titles such as Woman in the Moon (100), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) (85), 2-Headed Shark Attack (85), *Batteries Not Included (85) and A Boy and His Dog (85) all live in the high band, and what they share is a refusal to be obvious: a silent space voyage, a remade Victorian adventure, a creature feature, a family comedy about hardware, a post-apocalyptic road movie. Franchise entries are legal but crowded, so they settle lower. Rarity, not fame, is what the leaderboard paid for.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 4 Nov, 06:10 UTC

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