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
  • Descent (2005)Deep Cut85points
  • Destination MarfaDeep Cut85points
  • Destination MoonDeep Cut85points
  • Destroy All MonstersDeep Cut85points
  • DetentionDeep Cut85points
  • Detention of the DeadDeep Cut85points
  • DeusDeep Cut85points
  • Devil FishDeep Cut85points
  • Devil Girl from MarsDeep Cut85points
  • Devil's GateDeep Cut85points
  • Dexter's Laboratory: Ego TripDeep Cut85points
  • DhimahiDeep Cut85points
  • DhoomakethuDeep Cut85points
  • DiamantinoDeep Cut85points
  • Diary of the DeadDeep Cut85points
  • Dick Figures: The MovieDeep Cut85points
  • Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of EchsenfriedlDeep Cut85points
  • Die, Monster, Die!Deep Cut85points
  • DifferentDeep Cut85points
  • Digging Up the MarrowDeep Cut85points
  • Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution KizunaDeep Cut85points
  • Digimon: The MovieDeep Cut85points
  • DikkiloonaDeep Cut85points
  • DinocrocDeep Cut85points
  • Dinocroc vs. SupergatorDeep Cut85points
  • Dinosaur IslandDeep Cut85points
  • Dinosaurus!Deep Cut85points
  • DinosharkDeep Cut85points
  • Disaster L.A.Deep Cut85points
  • Disaster MovieDeep Cut85points
  • Disaster!Deep Cut85points
  • Disco RajaDeep Cut85points
  • District B13Deep Cut85points
  • Disturbing BehaviorDeep Cut85points
  • DittoDeep Cut85points
  • Ditto (2022)Deep Cut85points
  • Divine LoveDeep Cut85points
  • DivinityDeep Cut85points
  • Division 19Deep Cut85points
  • DNADeep Cut85points
  • Doctor Blood's CoffinDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor Who: The MovieDeep Cut85points
  • Doctor XDeep Cut85points
  • Dog 51Deep Cut85points
  • DoghouseDeep Cut85points
  • DogoraDeep Cut85points
  • Doin' Time on Planet EarthDeep Cut85points
  • DollmanDeep Cut85points
  • Dollman vs. Demonic ToysDeep Cut85points
  • DomainDeep 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

Names and scores reflect the linked dated reveal. The original game makes the final decision on live acceptance. Editorial policy