Best Classic Sci-Fi & Fantasy on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Classic Sci-Fi & Fantasy on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 13 titles in category code 47147. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. Back to the Future (1985)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1985, 1h 56m. Eccentric inventor Doc Brown turns a DeLorean into a time machine that inadvertently sends his young friend, Marty McFly, 30 years into the past.
2. 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.
3. Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982)
Rated 8.1/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1982, 1h 57m. In a smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to snuff a quartet of escaped 'replicants.'
4. Groundhog Day (1993)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 1993, 1h 41m. Sent to cover the annual ritual of groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, a self-centered TV weatherman mysteriously begins living the same day again and again.
5. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 1939, 1h 41m. There's no place like home for a girl who's swept away from farm life to a wonderland of munchkins, flying monkeys, and different-colored horses.
6. Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Rated 7.8/10 on IMDb, from 1989, 1h 48m. Marty and Doc are at it again in this sequel to the 1985 blockbuster as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud.
7. Ghostbusters (1984)
Rated 7.8/10 on IMDb, from 1984, 1h 45m. Parapsychologists create a business exterminating ghouls and hobgoblins -- and end up facing one killer demon in a cellist's apartment.
8. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Rated 7.8/10 on IMDb, from 1982, 1h 59m. Steven Spielberg's 1982 smash hit tells the heartwarming story of the special bond 10-year-old Elliot forges with an alien he names E.T.
9. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Rated 7.6/10 on IMDb, from 1977, 2h 14m. As inexplicable events baffle experts worldwide, a UFO-obsessed man is drawn to a mysterious mountain that leads to a life-changing encounter.
10. Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Rated 7.4/10 on IMDb, from 1990, 1h 58m. The final installment of the trilogy finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking up Doc in the Wild West of 1885.