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
- ThoughtcrimesDeep Cut85points
- ThreadsDeep Cut85points
- Three InchesDeep Cut85points
- Thrill SeekersDeep Cut85points
- Thunder ForceDeep Cut85points
- Thunderbird 6Deep Cut85points
- ThunderbirdsDeep Cut85points
- Thunderbirds Are GoDeep Cut85points
- ThunderpantsDeep Cut85points
- Ticking ClockDeep Cut85points
- TicksDeep Cut85points
- Tidal WaveDeep Cut85points
- Tik Tik TikDeep Cut85points
- Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's ParadoxDeep Cut85points
- Time AddictsDeep Cut85points
- Time After TimeDeep Cut85points
- Time ChangerDeep Cut85points
- Time ChasersDeep Cut85points
- Time CutDeep Cut85points
- Time FreakDeep Cut85points
- Time LapseDeep Cut85points
- Time of EveDeep Cut85points
- Time of the ApesDeep Cut85points
- Time RunnerDeep Cut85points
- Time TrapDeep Cut85points
- Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through TimeDeep Cut85points
- Time WalkerDeep Cut85points
- Time WarpDeep Cut85points
- TimebombDeep Cut85points
- Timecop: The Berlin DecisionDeep Cut85points
- TimelineDeep Cut85points
- TimerDeep Cut85points
- Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle SwannDeep Cut85points
- TimestalkersDeep Cut85points
- Titan A.E.Deep Cut85points
- TitaneDeep Cut85points
- To Every You I've Loved BeforeDeep Cut85points
- To the Solitary Me Who Loved YouDeep Cut85points
- To the Stars by Hard WaysDeep Cut85points
- Toad RoadDeep Cut85points
- Tobor the GreatDeep Cut85points
- Tokyo Gore PoliceDeep Cut85points
- Tokyo RevengersDeep Cut85points
- Tom and Jerry Blast Off to Mars!Deep Cut85points
- Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with TeaDeep Cut85points
- Top of the Food ChainDeep Cut85points
- Tora ToraDeep Cut85points
- Tornado WarningDeep Cut85points
- Totally KillerDeep Cut85points
- Touch MeDeep 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.