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.

Dated record7 questions · 30,015 recorded answers

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
  • TestamentDeep Cut85points
  • Tetsuo II: Body HammerDeep Cut85points
  • Tetsuo: The Bullet ManDeep Cut85points
  • Tetsuo: The Iron ManDeep Cut85points
  • ThanksKilling 3Deep Cut85points
  • The 10th VictimDeep Cut85points
  • The 12 Disasters of ChristmasDeep Cut85points
  • The 27th DayDeep Cut85points
  • The 30 Foot Bride of Candy RockDeep Cut85points
  • The AbandonDeep Cut85points
  • The Absent Minded ProfessorDeep Cut85points
  • The Adventure of A.R.I.: My Robot FriendDeep Cut85points
  • The Adventure of Denchu-KozoDeep Cut85points
  • The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th DimensionDeep Cut85points
  • The Adventures of Mark TwainDeep Cut85points
  • The Adventures of Pluto NashDeep Cut85points
  • The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-DDeep Cut85points
  • The Adventures of Taura: Prison Ship Star SlammerDeep Cut85points
  • The AerialDeep Cut85points
  • The Aftermath (1982)Deep Cut85points
  • The Age of StupidDeep Cut85points
  • The Alien DeadDeep Cut85points
  • The Alien FactorDeep Cut85points
  • The Alligator PeopleDeep Cut85points
  • The Alpha IncidentDeep Cut85points
  • The Amazing BulkDeep Cut85points
  • The Amazing Colossal ManDeep Cut85points
  • The Amazing Transparent ManDeep Cut85points
  • The AmbushersDeep Cut85points
  • The American AstronautDeep Cut85points
  • The Angry Red PlanetDeep Cut85points
  • The AnimalDeep Cut85points
  • The Animal Kingdom (2023)Deep Cut85points
  • The AnomalyDeep Cut85points
  • The ApeDeep Cut85points
  • The Ape ManDeep Cut85points
  • The ApocalypseDeep Cut85points
  • The App (2019)Deep Cut85points
  • The AppleDeep Cut85points
  • The Arrival (1996)Deep Cut85points
  • The Artifice GirlDeep Cut85points
  • The AsphyxDeep Cut85points
  • The AssessmentDeep Cut85points
  • The Astounding She-MonsterDeep Cut85points
  • The Astro-ZombiesDeep Cut85points
  • The AstronautDeep Cut85points
  • The Astronaut FarmerDeep Cut85points
  • The Astronaut's WifeDeep Cut85points
  • The Atomic SubmarineDeep Cut85points
  • The Attack of the Giant MousakaDeep 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