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

November 4, 2026 · Daily Dive #112

Explore 4,153 recorded answers and their points for question 5 on November 4, 2026.

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4,153 recorded names on November 4, 2026, 3,534 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.

4,153 recorded answers3,534 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut3,53385 pts
  • Rare52460 pts
  • Schooler8430 pts
  • Plankton1110 pts
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Recorded answers

4,153 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 4,153
  • Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard KingDeep Cut85points
  • Black ForestDeep Cut85points
  • Black Friday (1940)Deep Cut85points
  • Black GardenDeep Cut85points
  • Black LightningDeep Cut85points
  • Black Magic M-66Deep Cut85points
  • Black MaskDeep Cut85points
  • Black Mask 2: City of MasksDeep Cut85points
  • Black MoonDeep Cut85points
  • Black Mountain SideDeep Cut85points
  • Black NoiseDeep Cut85points
  • Black OpsDeep Cut85points
  • Black RiverDeep Cut85points
  • Black Scorpion (1995)Deep Cut85points
  • Black SheepDeep Cut85points
  • Black SiteDeep Cut85points
  • Black SwarmDeep Cut85points
  • Blackenstein: The Black FrankensteinDeep Cut85points
  • Blame!Deep Cut85points
  • BlankDeep Cut85points
  • BlastedDeep Cut85points
  • Bleeding SteelDeep Cut85points
  • Blind Date (1984)Deep Cut85points
  • Blind Willow, Sleeping WomanDeep Cut85points
  • BlinkDeep Cut85points
  • BlissDeep Cut85points
  • Blood BeachDeep Cut85points
  • Blood Beast from Outer SpaceDeep Cut85points
  • Blood FreakDeep Cut85points
  • Blood GlacierDeep Cut85points
  • Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer LampreysDeep Cut85points
  • Blood MachinesDeep Cut85points
  • Blood MonkeyDeep Cut85points
  • Blood of the VampireDeep Cut85points
  • BloodshotDeep Cut85points
  • BloodsuckersDeep Cut85points
  • BloodthirstDeep Cut85points
  • Bloodwork (2012)Deep Cut85points
  • Blue DemonDeep Cut85points
  • Blue MonkeyDeep Cut85points
  • Blue World OrderDeep Cut85points
  • BoaDeep Cut85points
  • Boa vs. PythonDeep Cut85points
  • BoBoiBoy: The MovieDeep Cut85points
  • Body BagsDeep Cut85points
  • Body MeltDeep Cut85points
  • Body PartsDeep Cut85points
  • Body SnatchersDeep Cut85points
  • Body TroopersDeep Cut85points
  • BokehDeep 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, 12:25 UTC

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