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
  • ArcadianDeep Cut85points
  • ArchiveDeep Cut85points
  • ArcoDeep Cut85points
  • Arctic BlastDeep Cut85points
  • Arctic VoidDeep Cut85points
  • Area 407Deep Cut85points
  • Area 51Deep Cut85points
  • ArenaDeep Cut85points
  • Arena WarsDeep Cut85points
  • AresDeep Cut85points
  • Ari: My Name Is NobodyDeep Cut85points
  • Arif V 216Deep Cut85points
  • Armitage III: Dual MatrixDeep Cut85points
  • Armitage III: Poly-MatrixDeep Cut85points
  • Around the World Under the SeaDeep Cut85points
  • ARQDeep Cut85points
  • Arrival IIDeep Cut85points
  • Artemis FowlDeep Cut85points
  • As the Gods WillDeep Cut85points
  • AshDeep Cut85points
  • AshfallDeep Cut85points
  • Assassin (2023)Deep Cut85points
  • Assassin 33 A.D.Deep Cut85points
  • Assassination ClassroomDeep Cut85points
  • Assassination Classroom: The GraduationDeep Cut85points
  • AssassinautDeep Cut85points
  • Assault GirlsDeep Cut85points
  • Assignment TerrorDeep Cut85points
  • Assignment: Outer SpaceDeep Cut85points
  • AssimilateDeep Cut85points
  • AsteroidDeep Cut85points
  • Asteroid (2021)Deep Cut85points
  • Asteroid vs EarthDeep Cut85points
  • AstralDeep Cut85points
  • Astro BoyDeep Cut85points
  • Astronaut: The Last PushDeep Cut85points
  • Asylum: Twisted Horror and Fantasy TalesDeep Cut85points
  • At First LightDeep Cut85points
  • At the Earth's CoreDeep Cut85points
  • Atlantic RimDeep Cut85points
  • Atlantic Rim: ResurrectionDeep Cut85points
  • Atlantis InterceptorsDeep Cut85points
  • Atlantis: Milo's ReturnDeep Cut85points
  • Atlantis: The Lost ContinentDeep Cut85points
  • AtlasDeep Cut85points
  • Atlas Shrugged II: The StrikeDeep Cut85points
  • Atlas Shrugged: Part IDeep Cut85points
  • Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?Deep Cut85points
  • Atom Age VampireDeep Cut85points
  • Atomic TwisterDeep 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