Name a sci-fi movie (tagged Sci-Fi on IMDb, 1,000+ votes)

November 4, 2026 · Daily Dive #112

Explore 4,144 recorded answers and their points for question 5 on November 4, 2026.

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4,144 recorded names on November 4, 2026, 3,525 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.

4,144 recorded answers3,525 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut3,52485 pts
  • Rare52460 pts
  • Schooler8430 pts
  • Plankton1110 pts
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Recorded answers

4,144 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 4,144
  • Alien Nation: Body and SoulDeep Cut85points
  • Alien Nation: Dark HorizonDeep Cut85points
  • Alien Nation: MillenniumDeep Cut85points
  • Alien OriginDeep Cut85points
  • Alien OutpostDeep Cut85points
  • Alien PlanetDeep Cut85points
  • Alien PredatorDeep Cut85points
  • Alien RaidersDeep Cut85points
  • Alien StormDeep Cut85points
  • Alien TrespassDeep Cut85points
  • Alien UprisingDeep Cut85points
  • Alien vs. NinjaDeep Cut85points
  • Alien WarfareDeep Cut85points
  • Alien: RubiconDeep Cut85points
  • AlienatorDeep Cut85points
  • AlienoidDeep Cut85points
  • Alienoid: The Return to the FutureDeep Cut85points
  • Aliens Ate My HomeworkDeep Cut85points
  • Aliens in the AtticDeep Cut85points
  • Aliens on the Moon: The Truth ExposedDeep Cut85points
  • Aliens vs. AvatarsDeep Cut85points
  • Alive (2002)Deep Cut85points
  • All Superheroes Must DieDeep Cut85points
  • All the Creatures Were StirringDeep Cut85points
  • All the Gods in the SkyDeep Cut85points
  • All You Need Is KillDeep Cut85points
  • All-Star SupermanDeep Cut85points
  • AllegroDeep Cut85points
  • AlligatorDeep Cut85points
  • Alligator II: The MutationDeep Cut85points
  • Almost HumanDeep Cut85points
  • Alone in the DarkDeep Cut85points
  • Alpha CodeDeep Cut85points
  • AlphavilleDeep Cut85points
  • AlteredDeep Cut85points
  • Altered (2025)Deep Cut85points
  • Altered Carbon: ResleevedDeep Cut85points
  • Altered StatesDeep Cut85points
  • AlterscapeDeep Cut85points
  • AlterverseDeep Cut85points
  • AltitudeDeep Cut85points
  • Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet FrankensteinDeep Cut85points
  • Amazon Women on the MoonDeep Cut85points
  • Amelia 2.0Deep Cut85points
  • America 3000Deep Cut85points
  • America: The Motion PictureDeep Cut85points
  • American Cyborg: Steel WarriorDeep Cut85points
  • American HeroDeep Cut85points
  • American UltraDeep Cut85points
  • American WarshipsDeep 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, 08:15 UTC

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