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
  • MagneticDeep Cut85points
  • Making ContactDeep Cut85points
  • Making Mr. RightDeep Cut85points
  • Mako: The Jaws of DeathDeep Cut85points
  • MalcolmDeep Cut85points
  • MalevilDeep Cut85points
  • Malibu Shark AttackDeep Cut85points
  • Mammoth (2006)Deep Cut85points
  • Man Facing SoutheastDeep Cut85points
  • Man Made MonsterDeep Cut85points
  • Man Vs.Deep Cut85points
  • Man with the Screaming BrainDeep Cut85points
  • Man-ThingDeep Cut85points
  • Man's Best FriendDeep Cut85points
  • ManborgDeep Cut85points
  • MandrakeDeep Cut85points
  • Maniac (1934)Deep Cut85points
  • MansquitoDeep Cut85points
  • Mardock Scramble: The First CompressionDeep Cut85points
  • Mardock Scramble: The Second CombustionDeep Cut85points
  • MargauxDeep Cut85points
  • Marjorie PrimeDeep Cut85points
  • Mark AntonyDeep Cut85points
  • Maro PrapanchamDeep Cut85points
  • MaroonedDeep Cut85points
  • Mars ExpressDeep Cut85points
  • Mars Needs MomsDeep Cut85points
  • Mars Needs WomenDeep Cut85points
  • MarshmallowDeep Cut85points
  • Martian LandDeep Cut85points
  • Mary Shelley's FrankensteinDeep Cut85points
  • Mass Effect: Paragon LostDeep Cut85points
  • Master of the UniverseDeep Cut85points
  • Master of the WorldDeep Cut85points
  • Masters of the Universe (1987)Deep Cut85points
  • Masthishka MaranamDeep Cut85points
  • Max HeadroomDeep Cut85points
  • Max Reload and the Nether BlastersDeep Cut85points
  • Max SteelDeep Cut85points
  • Max Winslow and the House of SecretsDeep Cut85points
  • Maximum OverdriveDeep Cut85points
  • Maximum RideDeep Cut85points
  • MaybeDeep Cut85points
  • Mazinger Z: InfinityDeep Cut85points
  • MeanderDeep Cut85points
  • Meanwhile on EarthDeep Cut85points
  • Meatball MachineDeep Cut85points
  • Meet DaveDeep Cut85points
  • Meet the ApplegatesDeep Cut85points
  • Mega PiranhaDeep 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