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
  • EvidenceDeep Cut85points
  • Evil Alien ConquerorsDeep Cut85points
  • Evil AliensDeep Cut85points
  • Evils of the NightDeep Cut85points
  • EvolverDeep Cut85points
  • Ewoks: The Battle for EndorDeep Cut85points
  • ExcursionDeep Cut85points
  • Executive OrderDeep Cut85points
  • Expelled from ParadiseDeep Cut85points
  • Experiment in EvilDeep Cut85points
  • ExpiredDeep Cut85points
  • ExplorersDeep Cut85points
  • ExtinctDeep Cut85points
  • ExtinctionDeep Cut85points
  • Extinction (2015)Deep Cut85points
  • Extinction: The G.M.O. ChroniclesDeep Cut85points
  • Extra Terrestrial VisitorsDeep Cut85points
  • ExtractedDeep Cut85points
  • Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek StoryDeep Cut85points
  • ExtraterrestrialDeep Cut85points
  • Extraterrestrial (2011)Deep Cut85points
  • Eye of the BeastDeep Cut85points
  • EyeborgsDeep Cut85points
  • F.R.E.D.I.Deep Cut85points
  • Fahrenheit 451 (2018)Deep Cut85points
  • Fantastic PlanetDeep Cut85points
  • Far CryDeep Cut85points
  • Fascisti su MarteDeep Cut85points
  • Fast ColorDeep Cut85points
  • Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in AmericaDeep Cut85points
  • Fateful FindingsDeep Cut85points
  • FatherlandDeep Cut85points
  • Fearless (2020)Deep Cut85points
  • FeedersDeep Cut85points
  • Felix the Cat: The MovieDeep Cut85points
  • FemalienDeep Cut85points
  • Ferocious PlanetDeep Cut85points
  • Fetching CodyDeep Cut85points
  • FidoDeep Cut85points
  • Fiend Without a FaceDeep Cut85points
  • Final (2001)Deep Cut85points
  • Final Fantasy VII: Advent ChildrenDeep Cut85points
  • Final PrayerDeep Cut85points
  • FinchDeep Cut85points
  • FingernailsDeep Cut85points
  • Fire in the SkyDeep Cut85points
  • Fire Maidens of Outer SpaceDeep Cut85points
  • Fire SerpentDeep Cut85points
  • FirestarterDeep Cut85points
  • Firestarter (2022)Deep 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