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, 3,521 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 answers3,521 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut3,52085 pts
  • Rare52460 pts
  • Schooler8430 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
  • 5th PassengerDeep Cut85points
  • 7 Aum ArivuDeep Cut85points
  • 7:11 PMDeep Cut85points
  • 8 x 10 TasveerDeep Cut85points
  • 9 (2019)Deep Cut85points
  • 9 Miles DownDeep Cut85points
  • 95ers: EchoesDeep Cut85points
  • 96 SoulsDeep Cut85points
  • 964 PinocchioDeep Cut85points
  • A Boy and His DogDeep Cut85points
  • A Breath AwayDeep Cut85points
  • A Cold Night's DeathDeep Cut85points
  • A Cure for WellnessDeep Cut85points
  • A Flying JattDeep Cut85points
  • A Journey to the Beginning of TimeDeep Cut85points
  • A Little Bit ZombieDeep Cut85points
  • A Monster in ParisDeep Cut85points
  • A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur HellDeep Cut85points
  • A Rough DraftDeep Cut85points
  • A Shaun the Sheep Movie: FarmageddonDeep Cut85points
  • A Sound of ThunderDeep Cut85points
  • A spasso nel tempoDeep Cut85points
  • A Ticket to SpaceDeep Cut85points
  • A Wind Named AmnesiaDeep Cut85points
  • A Wrinkle in Time (2003)Deep Cut85points
  • A-X-LDeep Cut85points
  • A.I. AssaultDeep Cut85points
  • A.I. RisingDeep Cut85points
  • A.M.I.Deep Cut85points
  • A.P.E.X.Deep Cut85points
  • A.R.O.GDeep Cut85points
  • Aa Dekhen ZaraDeep Cut85points
  • Aachi & SsipakDeep Cut85points
  • Abbott and Costello Go to MarsDeep Cut85points
  • Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeDeep Cut85points
  • Abduction (2019)Deep Cut85points
  • AberrationDeep Cut85points
  • Abominable (2006)Deep Cut85points
  • Abraxas, Guardian of the UniverseDeep Cut85points
  • AbsolonDeep Cut85points
  • Absolutely AnythingDeep Cut85points
  • Accumulator 1Deep Cut85points
  • AcidDeep Cut85points
  • AcidmanDeep Cut85points
  • Action ReplayyDeep Cut85points
  • AdbhuthamDeep Cut85points
  • Addio fottuti musi verdiDeep Cut85points
  • Adela Has Not Had Supper YetDeep Cut85points
  • Aditya 369Deep Cut85points
  • AdiyaeDeep 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, 07:15 UTC

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