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
  • GrowthDeep Cut85points
  • GuardiansDeep Cut85points
  • Guest from the FutureDeep Cut85points
  • Gumby: The MovieDeep Cut85points
  • GundalaDeep Cut85points
  • Gundam Wing: The Movie - Endless WaltzDeep Cut85points
  • GunhedDeep Cut85points
  • Gurren Lagann the Movie: Childhood's EndDeep Cut85points
  • Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are StarsDeep Cut85points
  • GuyverDeep Cut85points
  • Guyver: Dark HeroDeep Cut85points
  • H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (2005)Deep Cut85points
  • H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005)Deep Cut85points
  • H0us3Deep Cut85points
  • HabitatDeep Cut85points
  • HalDeep Cut85points
  • Halloween III: Season of the WitchDeep Cut85points
  • Halo LegendsDeep Cut85points
  • Hands of SteelDeep Cut85points
  • Hangar 10Deep Cut85points
  • Hangar 18Deep Cut85points
  • Happy End (2009)Deep Cut85points
  • HappyendDeep Cut85points
  • Harbinger DownDeep Cut85points
  • Hard to Be a GodDeep Cut85points
  • Hard to Be a God (1989)Deep Cut85points
  • Hardcore HenryDeep Cut85points
  • HardwareDeep Cut85points
  • HardwiredDeep Cut85points
  • Harlock: Space PirateDeep Cut85points
  • HarmonyDeep Cut85points
  • Harrison BergeronDeep Cut85points
  • Haunted HighDeep Cut85points
  • HauntersDeep Cut85points
  • Have Rocket -- Will TravelDeep Cut85points
  • He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas SpecialDeep Cut85points
  • He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the SwordDeep Cut85points
  • HeadspaceDeep Cut85points
  • Heart of a DogDeep Cut85points
  • HeartbeepsDeep Cut85points
  • HeatseekerDeep Cut85points
  • Heavy MetalDeep Cut85points
  • Heavy Metal 2000Deep Cut85points
  • HellDeep Cut85points
  • Hell Comes to FrogtownDeep Cut85points
  • Hell of the Living DeadDeep Cut85points
  • Hellboy Animated: Blood and IronDeep Cut85points
  • Hellboy Animated: Sword of StormsDeep Cut85points
  • Hellboy: The Crooked ManDeep Cut85points
  • HelldriverDeep 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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