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
  • Adrenalin: Fear the RushDeep Cut85points
  • AdvantageousDeep Cut85points
  • Adventures in Dinosaur CityDeep Cut85points
  • Adventures of Captain MarvelDeep Cut85points
  • AE: Apocalypse EarthDeep Cut85points
  • Aelita, the Queen of MarsDeep Cut85points
  • AffectionDeep Cut85points
  • AfflictedDeep Cut85points
  • AfraidDeep Cut85points
  • After BlueDeep Cut85points
  • After DarknessDeep Cut85points
  • After Last SeasonDeep Cut85points
  • After the DarkDeep Cut85points
  • After the PandemicDeep Cut85points
  • After YangDeep Cut85points
  • AfterburnDeep Cut85points
  • Aftermath (2014)Deep Cut85points
  • Aftermath (2024)Deep Cut85points
  • Aftermath: Population ZeroDeep Cut85points
  • Against the DarkDeep Cut85points
  • Age of DinosaursDeep Cut85points
  • Age of TomorrowDeep Cut85points
  • AgentDeep Cut85points
  • Agent for H.A.R.M.Deep Cut85points
  • Agent ReconDeep Cut85points
  • Agent RevelationDeep Cut85points
  • AI Love YouDeep Cut85points
  • Air (2015)Deep Cut85points
  • Airplane II: The SequelDeep Cut85points
  • AirwolfDeep Cut85points
  • Ajin: Demi-HumanDeep Cut85points
  • Alien 2: On EarthDeep Cut85points
  • Alien AbductionDeep Cut85points
  • Alien Abduction (2005)Deep Cut85points
  • Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake CountyDeep Cut85points
  • Alien AgentDeep Cut85points
  • Alien ApocalypseDeep Cut85points
  • Alien ArmageddonDeep Cut85points
  • Alien ArrivalDeep Cut85points
  • Alien AutopsyDeep Cut85points
  • Alien CargoDeep Cut85points
  • Alien CodeDeep Cut85points
  • Alien ConquestDeep Cut85points
  • Alien from L.A.Deep Cut85points
  • Alien from the DeepDeep Cut85points
  • Alien HunterDeep Cut85points
  • Alien Invasion: S.U.M.1Deep Cut85points
  • Alien LockdownDeep Cut85points
  • Alien NationDeep Cut85points
  • Alien Nation (1989)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, 07:15 UTC

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