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 RatsDeep Cut85points
  • The RecallDeep Cut85points
  • The Reconstruction of William ZeroDeep Cut85points
  • The Red SpectaclesDeep Cut85points
  • The RelicDeep Cut85points
  • The Reluctant AstronautDeep Cut85points
  • The Return (1980)Deep Cut85points
  • The Return (2020)Deep Cut85points
  • The Return of Captain InvincibleDeep Cut85points
  • The Return of Doctor XDeep Cut85points
  • The Return of Dr. MabuseDeep Cut85points
  • The Return of GodzillaDeep Cut85points
  • The Return of Swamp ThingDeep Cut85points
  • The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic WomanDeep Cut85points
  • The Revenge of FrankensteinDeep Cut85points
  • The RezortDeep Cut85points
  • The RiftDeep Cut85points
  • The Rift: Dark Side of the MoonDeep Cut85points
  • The Road to Hong KongDeep Cut85points
  • The Robot vs. The Aztec MummyDeep Cut85points
  • The Rocket ListDeep Cut85points
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp AgainDeep Cut85points
  • The RoverDeep Cut85points
  • The Sacred SpiritDeep Cut85points
  • The SandDeep Cut85points
  • The Satan BugDeep Cut85points
  • The Savage BeesDeep Cut85points
  • The ScribblerDeep Cut85points
  • The SeedDeep Cut85points
  • The SenderDeep Cut85points
  • The Sender (1998)Deep Cut85points
  • The Shadow EffectDeep Cut85points
  • The Shadow MenDeep Cut85points
  • The Shaft (2001)Deep Cut85points
  • The Shape of Things to ComeDeep Cut85points
  • The Sheriff and the Satellite KidDeep Cut85points
  • The ShiftDeep Cut85points
  • The Shrinking ManDeep Cut85points
  • The ShroudsDeep Cut85points
  • The SignalDeep Cut85points
  • The Signal (2007)Deep Cut85points
  • The SilenceDeep Cut85points
  • The SimilarsDeep Cut85points
  • The Six Million Dollar ManDeep Cut85points
  • The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and WarDeep Cut85points
  • The Sky CrawlersDeep Cut85points
  • The Slime PeopleDeep Cut85points
  • The Snow CreatureDeep Cut85points
  • The SorcerersDeep Cut85points
  • The Soul (2021)Deep 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