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
  • The Avengers (1998)Deep Cut85points
  • The Bad BatchDeep Cut85points
  • The Bat WomanDeep Cut85points
  • The Batman Superman Movie: World's FinestDeep Cut85points
  • The BayDeep Cut85points
  • The Beach HouseDeep Cut85points
  • The BeastDeep Cut85points
  • The Beast from 20,000 FathomsDeep Cut85points
  • The Beast of Hollow MountainDeep Cut85points
  • The Beast of Yucca FlatsDeep Cut85points
  • The Beast with a Million EyesDeep Cut85points
  • The Bed Sitting RoomDeep Cut85points
  • The BeesDeep Cut85points
  • The BeingDeep Cut85points
  • The Bermuda DepthsDeep Cut85points
  • The BeyondDeep Cut85points
  • The Big Broadcast of 1938Deep Cut85points
  • The Big EmptyDeep Cut85points
  • The Black DemonDeep Cut85points
  • The Black HoleDeep Cut85points
  • The Black Hole (2006)Deep Cut85points
  • The Black ScorpionDeep Cut85points
  • The Black SleepDeep Cut85points
  • The BlackoutDeep Cut85points
  • The Blackout (2009)Deep Cut85points
  • The Blob (1958)Deep Cut85points
  • The Block Island SoundDeep Cut85points
  • The Blood of HeroesDeep Cut85points
  • The Blue TrailDeep Cut85points
  • The Bone SnatcherDeep Cut85points
  • The BoogensDeep Cut85points
  • The BorrowerDeep Cut85points
  • The Bothersome ManDeep Cut85points
  • The Boys from BrazilDeep Cut85points
  • The BrainDeep Cut85points
  • The Brain EatersDeep Cut85points
  • The Brain from Planet ArousDeep Cut85points
  • The Brain That Wouldn't DieDeep Cut85points
  • The BrainiacDeep Cut85points
  • The Brave Little Toaster Goes to MarsDeep Cut85points
  • The BreedDeep Cut85points
  • The Bride (1985)Deep Cut85points
  • The Bride!Deep Cut85points
  • The BroodDeep Cut85points
  • The Brother from Another PlanetDeep Cut85points
  • The Butterfly Effect 2Deep Cut85points
  • The Butterfly Effect 3: RevelationsDeep Cut85points
  • The Cabbage SoupDeep Cut85points
  • The CalculatorDeep Cut85points
  • The CallDeep 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