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
  • Amphibian ManDeep Cut85points
  • Amphibious Creature of the DeepDeep Cut85points
  • Anaconda 3: OffspringDeep Cut85points
  • Anatomy 2Deep Cut85points
  • AndoverDeep Cut85points
  • AndroidDeep Cut85points
  • Android ApocalypseDeep Cut85points
  • Android CopDeep Cut85points
  • Android Kunjappan Ver 5.25Deep Cut85points
  • AndronDeep Cut85points
  • Angel's EggDeep Cut85points
  • Angels FallenDeep Cut85points
  • Angry Video Game Nerd: The MovieDeep Cut85points
  • AniaraDeep Cut85points
  • Animal (2014)Deep Cut85points
  • Animal WorldDeep Cut85points
  • AnimaliaDeep Cut85points
  • AnnaDeep Cut85points
  • AnonDeep Cut85points
  • Another EarthDeep Cut85points
  • Another EndDeep Cut85points
  • Another WorldDeep Cut85points
  • Antariksham 9000 kmphDeep Cut85points
  • Anti MatterDeep Cut85points
  • AntibirthDeep Cut85points
  • AntibodyDeep Cut85points
  • AntisocialDeep Cut85points
  • AntiviralDeep Cut85points
  • Ape vs. MonsterDeep Cut85points
  • Apex (2021)Deep Cut85points
  • Apocalypse ClownDeep Cut85points
  • Apocalypse of IceDeep Cut85points
  • Apocalypse ZDeep Cut85points
  • Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the EndDeep Cut85points
  • Apollo 18Deep Cut85points
  • AporiaDeep Cut85points
  • AppDeep Cut85points
  • ApplesDeep Cut85points
  • AppleseedDeep Cut85points
  • Appleseed (1988)Deep Cut85points
  • Appleseed AlphaDeep Cut85points
  • Appleseed: Ex MachinaDeep Cut85points
  • Approaching the UnknownDeep Cut85points
  • April and the Extraordinary WorldDeep Cut85points
  • Aquarium of the DeadDeep Cut85points
  • ArachniaDeep Cut85points
  • ArachnidDeep Cut85points
  • ArachnoquakeDeep Cut85points
  • ArcadeDeep Cut85points
  • Arcadia of My YouthDeep 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