Best Sci-Fi Thrillers on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Sci-Fi Thrillers on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 100 titles in category code 11014. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. Inception (2010)
Rated 8.8/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2010, 2h 28m. In this mindbending sci-fi thriller, a man runs an espionage business built around entering the subconscious of his targets to steal their thoughts.
2. Interstellar (2014)
Rated 8.6/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2014, 2h 49m. With humanity teetering on the brink of extinction, a group of astronauts travels through a wormhole in search of another inhabitable planet.
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1991, 2h 27m. A reprogrammed Terminator arrives from the future to protect young John Connor from a relentless shape-shifting cyborg in this sequel to Terminator.
4. Erased (2016)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, from 2016, 2h 00m. Aspiring manga artist Satoru inadvertently travels back through time, enabling him to prevent fatalities from occurring to people near him.
5. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Rated 8.4/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2012, 2h 44m. Billionaire Bruce Wayne must once again don the cape of his alter ego, Batman, when Gotham is threatened by new foes such as Catwoman and Bane.
6. Aliens (1986)
Rated 8.3/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1986, 2h 17m. Found after decades in hypersleep, Ripley joins a team of Marines on a mission to the planet where she first encountered a vicious, gut-busting alien.
7. V for Vendetta (2005)
Rated 8.2/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2005, 2h 12m. A masked freedom fighter known as 'V' takes up arms against a totalitarian government and finds an unlikely ally in a young woman.
8. Ju Chang Ban PSYCHO-PASS saikopasu (2016)
Rated 8.2/10 on IMDb, from 2016, 1h 53m. In a future Japan, a network of crime-predicting surveillance tools is poised to be launched worldwide when terrorists infiltrate the system.
9. Jurassic Park (1993)
Rated 8.1/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1993, 2h 06m. A multimillionaire unveils a theme park where visitors can see live dinosaurs, but an employee tampers with the security system and the dinos escape.
10. Blade Runner: Theatrical Cut (1982)
Rated 8.1/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1982, 1h 57m. In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to snuff out a quartet of escaped androids.