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
  • VipersDeep Cut85points
  • ViralDeep Cut85points
  • VirtualityDeep Cut85points
  • VirtuosityDeep Cut85points
  • VirusDeep Cut85points
  • Virus (1980)Deep Cut85points
  • VisioneersDeep Cut85points
  • Visit to a Small PlanetDeep Cut85points
  • Visitor of a MuseumDeep Cut85points
  • VixenDeep Cut85points
  • VolitionDeep Cut85points
  • Voyage of the Rock AliensDeep Cut85points
  • Voyage to the Bottom of the SeaDeep Cut85points
  • Voyage to the End of the UniverseDeep Cut85points
  • Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric WomenDeep Cut85points
  • Voyage to the Prehistoric PlanetDeep Cut85points
  • VoyagersDeep Cut85points
  • War of the Colossal BeastDeep Cut85points
  • War of the DeadDeep Cut85points
  • War of the PlanetsDeep Cut85points
  • War of the SatellitesDeep Cut85points
  • War of the Worlds (2025)Deep Cut85points
  • War of the Worlds 2: The Next WaveDeep Cut85points
  • War of the Worlds the True StoryDeep Cut85points
  • War of the Worlds: GoliathDeep Cut85points
  • War of the Worlds: The AttackDeep Cut85points
  • War WolvesDeep Cut85points
  • WarbirdsDeep Cut85points
  • WarGames: The Dead CodeDeep Cut85points
  • Warlords of the DeepDeep Cut85points
  • WarningDeep Cut85points
  • Warning from SpaceDeep Cut85points
  • Warning SignDeep Cut85points
  • Warrior of the Lost WorldDeep Cut85points
  • Warriors of FutureDeep Cut85points
  • Warriors of the WastelandDeep Cut85points
  • Warriors of the Wasteland (2024)Deep Cut85points
  • Warriors of the Year 2072Deep Cut85points
  • Watch the SkiesDeep Cut85points
  • Watchers (1988)Deep Cut85points
  • Watchers IIDeep Cut85points
  • Watchmen: Chapter IDeep Cut85points
  • WavelengthDeep Cut85points
  • Waxwork II: Lost in TimeDeep Cut85points
  • Way... Way OutDeep Cut85points
  • We Can Be HeroesDeep Cut85points
  • We're Back! A Dinosaur's StoryDeep Cut85points
  • WeaponDeep Cut85points
  • WeaponizedDeep Cut85points
  • WebmasterDeep 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