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 Nest (1987)Deep Cut85points
  • The Night of the HuntedDeep Cut85points
  • The Noah's Ark PrincipleDeep Cut85points
  • The NorthlanderDeep Cut85points
  • The Nude BombDeep Cut85points
  • The Nutty Professor (1963)Deep Cut85points
  • The ObjectiveDeep Cut85points
  • The Occupant (2025)Deep Cut85points
  • The OctoGamesDeep Cut85points
  • The Omega ManDeep Cut85points
  • The Osiris ChildDeep Cut85points
  • The Other Me (2000)Deep Cut85points
  • The Outer ThreatDeep Cut85points
  • The OutwatersDeep Cut85points
  • The Passenger (2021)Deep Cut85points
  • The Penitent ManDeep Cut85points
  • The People That Time ForgotDeep Cut85points
  • The Perfect WeaponDeep Cut85points
  • The Phantom CreepsDeep Cut85points
  • The Phantom from 10,000 LeaguesDeep Cut85points
  • The Phantom PlanetDeep Cut85points
  • The Philadelphia ExperimentDeep Cut85points
  • The Philadelphia Experiment (2012)Deep Cut85points
  • The Phoenix IncidentDeep Cut85points
  • The Phoenix Tapes '97Deep Cut85points
  • The PhoneDeep Cut85points
  • The Pink CloudDeep Cut85points
  • The Place Promised in Our Early DaysDeep Cut85points
  • The Platform 2Deep Cut85points
  • The Pod GenerationDeep Cut85points
  • The PostmanDeep Cut85points
  • The PowerDeep Cut85points
  • The Powerpuff Girls MovieDeep Cut85points
  • The President's AnalystDeep Cut85points
  • The Prey: Legend of KarnoctusDeep Cut85points
  • The PrimevalsDeep Cut85points
  • The Princess BladeDeep Cut85points
  • The Prize of PerilDeep Cut85points
  • The ProdigiesDeep Cut85points
  • The Projected ManDeep Cut85points
  • The Prometheus ProjectDeep Cut85points
  • The PrototypeDeep Cut85points
  • The Proud Family MovieDeep Cut85points
  • The PumamanDeep Cut85points
  • The Puppet MastersDeep Cut85points
  • The Quatermass XperimentDeep Cut85points
  • The Quiet EarthDeep Cut85points
  • The Quiet HourDeep Cut85points
  • The Rage: Carrie 2Deep Cut85points
  • The Rat SaviorDeep 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