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
  • Phase IVDeep Cut85points
  • Philadelphia Experiment IIDeep Cut85points
  • Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd DimensionDeep Cut85points
  • Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the UniverseDeep Cut85points
  • Phoenix ForgottenDeep Cut85points
  • Phoenix the WarriorDeep Cut85points
  • Pichaikkaran 2Deep Cut85points
  • Pilot Pirx's InquestDeep Cut85points
  • Pinocchio 3000Deep Cut85points
  • PiranhaDeep Cut85points
  • Piranha (1995)Deep Cut85points
  • Piranha 3DDDeep Cut85points
  • Piranha II: The SpawningDeep Cut85points
  • PiranhacondaDeep Cut85points
  • Pixel PerfectDeep Cut85points
  • PlagueDeep Cut85points
  • PlaguersDeep Cut85points
  • Plan 75Deep Cut85points
  • Plan 9 (2015)Deep Cut85points
  • Planet 51Deep Cut85points
  • Planet DuneDeep Cut85points
  • Planet EarthDeep Cut85points
  • Planet HulkDeep Cut85points
  • Planet of DinosaursDeep Cut85points
  • Planet of the SharksDeep Cut85points
  • Planet of the VampiresDeep Cut85points
  • Planeta burDeep Cut85points
  • PlanktonDeep Cut85points
  • PlutoDeep Cut85points
  • PodDeep Cut85points
  • PoisonDeep Cut85points
  • Pokémon 3 the Movie: Spell of the UnownDeep Cut85points
  • Pokémon HeroesDeep Cut85points
  • Pokémon the Movie: Destiny DeoxysDeep Cut85points
  • Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend AwakenedDeep Cut85points
  • Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of JusticeDeep Cut85points
  • Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the JungleDeep Cut85points
  • Pokémon the Movie: The Power of UsDeep Cut85points
  • Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of LifeDeep Cut85points
  • Pokémon: Jirachi - Wish MakerDeep Cut85points
  • Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of MewDeep Cut85points
  • Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back - EvolutionDeep Cut85points
  • Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes BackDeep Cut85points
  • Pokémon: The Rise of DarkraiDeep Cut85points
  • Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of IllusionsDeep Cut85points
  • Polar StormDeep Cut85points
  • PontypoolDeep Cut85points
  • PortalsDeep Cut85points
  • Poseidon RexDeep Cut85points
  • PossessorDeep 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