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
- Circle (2015)Deep Cut85points
- Circle of EightDeep Cut85points
- Circuitry ManDeep Cut85points
- Cities of Last ThingsDeep Cut85points
- Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IVDeep Cut85points
- City in the SeaDeep Cut85points
- City LimitsDeep Cut85points
- City of EmberDeep Cut85points
- City Rush 3Deep Cut85points
- City Rush 4Deep Cut85points
- City Under SiegeDeep Cut85points
- CJ7Deep Cut85points
- ClaraDeep Cut85points
- Class of 1999Deep Cut85points
- Class of 1999 II: The SubstituteDeep Cut85points
- Class of Nuke 'Em HighDeep Cut85points
- Class of Nuke 'Em High Part 3: The Good, the Bad and the SubhumanoidDeep Cut85points
- Class of Nuke 'Em High Part II: Subhumanoid MeltdownDeep Cut85points
- ClawDeep Cut85points
- ClayfaceDeep Cut85points
- Cleopatra (1970)Deep Cut85points
- ClockstoppersDeep Cut85points
- Cloned: The Recreator ChroniclesDeep Cut85points
- Closer to GodDeep Cut85points
- Cocoon: The ReturnDeep Cut85points
- Code 46Deep Cut85points
- Code 8Deep Cut85points
- Code 8: Part IIDeep Cut85points
- Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 2 - The Torn-Up WyvernDeep Cut85points
- Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;SurrectionDeep Cut85points
- Code RedDeep Cut85points
- Codename: Kids Next Door - Operation Z.E.R.O.Deep Cut85points
- Cody the RobosapienDeep Cut85points
- Cold GroundDeep Cut85points
- Cold SkinDeep Cut85points
- Cold StorageDeep Cut85points
- Cold ZoneDeep Cut85points
- Collision EarthDeep Cut85points
- Color Out of SpaceDeep Cut85points
- ColossalDeep Cut85points
- Colossus: The Forbin ProjectDeep Cut85points
- ComaDeep Cut85points
- Come TrueDeep Cut85points
- CometDeep Cut85points
- CommunionDeep Cut85points
- Concrete UtopiaDeep Cut85points
- ConfinementDeep Cut85points
- CongoDeep Cut85points
- Conquest of SpaceDeep Cut85points
- Conquest of the Planet of the ApesDeep 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.