Sci-Fi Dramas on Netflix

With humanity teetering on the brink of extinction, a group of astronauts travels through a wormhole in search of another inhabitable planet.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 8.6
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:49:02
Netflix ID: 70305903 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After learning that his ex-girlfriend had an experimental medical procedure to purge all memories of him, a man decides to do the same with her.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:43:22
Netflix ID: 60034545 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While investigating the appearance of mysterious monoliths throughout the universe, two astronauts battle their ship's intelligent computer system.

Year: 1968
IMDb: 8.3
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:28:47
Netflix ID: 207856 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A masked freedom fighter known as 'V' takes up arms against a totalitarian government and finds an unlikely ally in a young woman.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 8.2
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:12:29
Netflix ID: 70039175 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 1982
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:57:08
Netflix ID: 70053131 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

SOS Brigade chief Haruhi Suzumiya announces that they are going to hold a Christmas party, but a couple of days later, Haruhi goes missing.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:43:05
Netflix ID: 70223722 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the year 2029, as Wolverine's abilities fade, he and a gravely ill Professor X struggle to protect a powerful new mutant from dark forces.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 8.1
Runtime: 02:17:21
Netflix ID: 80149316 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While investigating the death of a businessman, a prosecutor and his wife uncover occult secrets as they face their own life-and-death dilemma.

Year: 2021
IMDb: 8.1
Runtime: 02:10:23
Netflix ID: 81415286 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Love comes to a lonely writer in the sleekest of packages when he finds himself falling for the advanced operating system he bought to run his life.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 02:05:46
Netflix ID: 70278933 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Abandoned on the surface of Mars, an astronaut presumed dead after a dust storm struggles to survive on the hostile planet and send a message home.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Runtime: 02:21:32
Netflix ID: 80058399 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The contents of a hidden grave draw the interest of an industrial titan and send Officer K, an LAPD blade runner, on a quest to find a missing legend.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 8
Runtime: 02:43:31
Netflix ID: 80185760 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a grim future in which humans can no longer reproduce, one woman mysteriously becomes pregnant, and a conflicted bureaucrat fights to protect her.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:44:39
Netflix ID: 70044903 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Set in the year 2071, this engaging animated tale follows an eclectic crew of space bounty hunters as they hunt down a biochemical terrorist on Mars.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:54:58
Netflix ID: 60027581 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A linguist charged with finding a way to communicate with aliens that have landed on Earth uncovers a connection with meaning for mankind and herself.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.9
Runtime: 01:56:22
Netflix ID: 80117799 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The last mortal in a world of immortals, Nemo Nobody begins reviewing his life at the age of 120, trying to determine if he made the right decisions.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:36:06
Netflix ID: 70117580 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 1982
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:59:55
Netflix ID: 60022398 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This anime follows the adventures of a seemingly ordinary high school student who learns that she has the ability to travel back in time.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:38:19
Netflix ID: 70108975 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When debris destroys their shuttle, a medical engineer and a seasoned astronaut find themselves floating through space, with no connection to Earth.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:30:54
Netflix ID: 70274337 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A coder at a tech company wins a week-long retreat at the compound of his company's CEO, where he's tasked with testing a new artificial intelligence.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.7
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:48:10
Netflix ID: 80023689 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

As inexplicable events baffle experts worldwide, a UFO-obsessed man is drawn to a mysterious mountain that leads to a life-changing encounter.

Year: 1977
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 02:14:42
Netflix ID: 70144496 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After her triumph in the Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen travels through the districts on a 'Victor's Tour' while a rebellion gathers steam around her.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 4.3/5
Runtime: 02:26:12
Netflix ID: 70278934 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A wily crew arrives at an abandoned space station to colonize Mars. But with different goals and big personalities, they may drive each other mad first.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.5
Runtime: 01:27:34
Netflix ID: 81335322 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:47:08
Netflix ID: 60024935 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the year 2042, Joe is a Looper, a hired assassin for the mob who kills people sent from the future. But what will he do when the mob decides to 'close the loop,' sending back Joe's future self for assassination?

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:58:37
Netflix ID: 70199724 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this star-studded drama, six seemingly disparate stories explore the complicated links that humanity shares through the generations.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 02:45:04
Netflix ID: 70248183 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a dystopian future, teens Katniss and Peeta are drafted for a televised event pitting young competitors against each other in a fight to the death.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Runtime: 02:22:30
Netflix ID: 70206672 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.2
Runtime: 00:02:02
Netflix ID: 80988062 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:47:21
Netflix ID: 70105596 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The Earth's remaining inhabitants are confined to a single train circling the globe as revolution brews among the class-divided cars.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:06:11
Netflix ID: 70270364 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Charlton Heston stars as a gumshoe investigating the murder of an executive whose company makes a nutritious synthetic food called Soylent Green.

Year: 1973
IMDb: 7.1
Runtime: 01:36:44
Netflix ID: 60029267 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Writer-director J.J. Abrams crafts a supernatural tale about six kids who witness something incredible while shooting a movie with a Super 8 camera.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:52:00
Netflix ID: 70171581 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After waking from his hibernation decades ahead of schedule, a lonely passenger on an interplanetary journey decides to rouse a fellow traveler.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7
Runtime: 01:56:17
Netflix ID: 80117456 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When her husband vanishes during a secret mission, biologist Lena joins an expedition into a mysterious region sealed off by the U.S. government.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 6.9
Runtime: 01:55:08
Netflix ID: 80206300 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the 22nd century, the crew of a Russian spaceship travels to a mysterious planet orbiting Alpha Centauri that may be home to extraterrestrial life.

Year: 1963
IMDb: 6.9
Runtime: 01:23:54
Netflix ID: 81289477 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a dystopian future where humans are given narcotics to suppress their emotional and sexual desires, two city dwellers rebel against the status quo.

Year: 1971
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 01:28:31
Netflix ID: 70000760 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Back in District 13 after demolishing the Hunger Games, Katniss reluctantly becomes the icon of a groundswell rebellion against the Capitol.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 02:02:49
Netflix ID: 70305908 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 02:04:22
Netflix ID: 80196789 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a future society without hardship or free choice, young Jonas discovers a powerful truth and becomes determined to expose it.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 01:37:19
Netflix ID: 70307663 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Katniss Everdeen and her allies bring their fight to the Capitol, as they aim to liberate all of Panem by assassinating the dictator President Snow.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:16:53
Netflix ID: 80057972 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Devastated from police violence years before, two men living in a dystopian slum, along with a visitor from the future, plot to take down the system.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:35:16
Netflix ID: 80103378 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The stakes rise on Saburo's masquerade as Oda Nobunaga, with the real Nobunaga plotting from within his entourage and a fateful date approaching fast.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.4
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 02:05:54
Netflix ID: 80115453 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After barely surviving a space accident, a Soviet cosmonaut returns to Earth, where it turns out that he has brought something ominous with him.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 6.4
Runtime: 01:53:46
Netflix ID: 81278474 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Fired after telling his boss he's found proof of intelligent life in outer space, undaunted astronomer Zane Zaminsky sets out to find more evidence.

Year: 1996
IMDb: 6.3
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 01:55:11
Netflix ID: 70114897 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A scientist whose proof of an afterlife caused a rash of suicides forges ahead with his research, while his disapproving son falls for a troubled woman.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.3
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:42:24
Netflix ID: 80115857 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Aboard a spaceship where souls of the deceased are readied for reincarnation, a lone crew member’s rigid existence is disrupted by a spry new assistant.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 6.3
Runtime: 01:53:07
Netflix ID: 81297470 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

With a massive comet threatening to destroy Earth, the U.S. president appoints a steely veteran astronaut to lead a crew into space to destroy it.

Year: 1998
IMDb: 6.2
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 02:01:17
Netflix ID: 11819345 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In order to keep her job at a biomedical engineering firm that prizes youth, a middle-aged woman must submit to a drastic experimental procedure.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.2
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 01:31:32
Netflix ID: 80038420 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An unemployed New York party girl who's returned to her hometown comes to believe she has a connection to a mega-monster running amok in Seoul.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.2
Runtime: 01:49:22
Netflix ID: 80158202 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two young lovers depart from the norm simply by having romantic feelings for each other in a society where humans have been relieved of all emotions.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.1
Netflix rating: 2.7/5
Runtime: 01:41:57
Netflix ID: 80067754 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a future where technology has rendered privacy obsolete, a detective investigates a serial assassin who has been deleted from all visual records.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 6.1
Runtime: 01:40:10
Netflix ID: 80195964 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Sent from the future to look after a lonely girl, Eggy finds himself falling for her. But dating is forbidden and would risk both their fates.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 6.1
Runtime: 01:42:23
Netflix ID: 81362509 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a group of strangers is seized and awaits execution, they face the impossible task of choosing the one person among them worthy of being spared.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:26:28
Netflix ID: 80070182 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When an alien race implants a parasite soul named Wanderer into Melanie Stryder's body, she resists the takeover and the two become reluctant allies.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 5.9
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 02:05:16
Netflix ID: 70243448 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An earnest high school history teacher and her excitable students travel back to the Edo era and try really hard not to alter the course of time.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 5.9
Runtime: 01:47:49
Netflix ID: 80191922 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A woman who's been alone on a spaceship her whole life becomes enamored with an engineer who suddenly enters her life and upends her universe.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 5.9
Runtime: 01:34:47
Netflix ID: 80222823 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Struggling to raise his little sister on his own, a young street magician turns to drug dealing, unaware of how ruthless his supplier can be.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 5.9
Runtime: 01:29:29
Netflix ID: 80097391 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A crew consisting of death-row prisoners and a duplicitous doctor sets out on a mysterious journey to the outer reaches of space.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 5.8
Runtime: 01:52:26
Netflix ID: 81032217 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a young newlywed enters the one chamber in her husband’s mansion that’s off-limits, she faces the horrifying consequences of defying the rules.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 5.7
Runtime: 01:48:44
Netflix ID: 81004717 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A local weatherman's life turns upside down after he receives an extraterrestrial message: he's really a Martian and the Earth is in serious trouble.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 5.7
Runtime: 02:08:06
Netflix ID: 81195156 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two schoolmates make it through a massive train accident inside a tunnel, only to emerge into an apocalyptic wasteland overrun by homicidal survivors.

Year: 2003
IMDb: 5.6
Runtime: 02:02:22
Netflix ID: 70038314 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a series of natural disasters heralds the sinking of the Japanese archipelago, bureaucrats and scientists race to save as many people as they can.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 5.6
Runtime: 02:14:47
Netflix ID: 70085351 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Five visionary directors imagine life in Japan ten years into the future, when current issues like the aging population have found dystopian solutions.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 5.6
Runtime: 01:38:53
Netflix ID: 81404298 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

With the world's economy in dire straits, corporate protagonist Dagny Taggart searches for a solution amid the rubble of a long-abandoned factory.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 5.4
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:51:33
Netflix ID: 70248595 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young woman lands a job at a powerful internet company but soon discovers that its lavish perks and gung-ho culture conceal a troubling agenda.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 5.3
Runtime: 01:49:26
Netflix ID: 80098473 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While alchemist Edward Elric searches for a way to restore his brother Al's body, the military government and mysterious monsters are watching closely.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 5.3
Runtime: 02:14:26
Netflix ID: 80223731 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A group of medical students explores life after death by temporarily stopping their hearts, unaware the experiment comes with terrifying side effects.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 5.2
Runtime: 01:50:04
Netflix ID: 80183339 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Plagued by dreams of an alien invasion, a family man faces his worst nightmare when an extraterrestrial force begins exterminating Earth's inhabitants.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 5.1
Runtime: 01:35:20
Netflix ID: 80236421 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A couple must endure a self-imposed quarantine and elude authorities after a mysterious virus proves lethal to the world’s female population.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 5.1
Runtime: 01:37:10
Netflix ID: 80206413 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

As two teen prodigies try to master the art of time travel, a tragic police shooting sends them on a series of dangerous trips to the past.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 5
Runtime: 01:27:12
Netflix ID: 80216758 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An astronaut alone on the first manned mission to Mars struggles with loneliness and fights to survive after a life-support catastrophe in mid-flight.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 4.8
Netflix rating: 2.7/5
Runtime: 01:30:17
Netflix ID: 80107735 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

On a bleak future Earth, a soldier endures a radical genetic transformation to save humanity. But his wife fears he's becoming more creature than man.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 4.8
Runtime: 01:37:30
Netflix ID: 80148210 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 4.7
Runtime: 01:36:02
Netflix ID: 80134721 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Stuck in another dimension by himself, a disillusioned artist welcomes his solitude — free from problems of his past — until a mysterious woman appears.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 4.5
Runtime: 01:43:33
Netflix ID: 81281018 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An American platoon stationed in the Middle East is thrust into battle with a breed of tentacled aliens whose rapid spread threatens human survival.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 4.3
Netflix rating: 2.6/5
Runtime: 01:59:03
Netflix ID: 70253597 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young man falls for a heroic general and soon follows her footsteps as humans defend Earth against extraterrestrials seeking a precious energy source.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 4.2
Runtime: 01:47:02
Netflix ID: 81161230 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After becoming an overnight star via the internet, teenage rocker Jem and her sisters journey to LA, where fame, fun and a family mystery await.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 4.1
Runtime: 01:58:27
Netflix ID: 80052540 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A bank robber joins a plot to commit one final, historic heist before the government turns on a mind-altering signal that will end all criminal behavior.

Year: 2020
IMDb: 3.6
Runtime: 02:29:02
Netflix ID: 80198975 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While in Rome to shoot his first movie, actor and industrial heir Nick becomes obsessed with a dating app that sends him into a self-destructive spiral.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 2.6
Runtime: 01:19:18
Netflix ID: 81150338 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A seductive alien prowls the streets in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell, only to be consumed by a strange liquid pool.

Year: 2013
Netflix rating: 2.6/5
Runtime: 01:48:09
Netflix ID: 70293812 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A woman working at a cutting-edge relationship lab finds her world upended when she falls for a scientist who's developing synthetic companions.

Year: 2018
Runtime: 01:44:00
Netflix ID: 80175806 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A Philadelphia detective slowly unravels as he nurses a lifelong obsession with an enigmatic female serial killer whose crimes defy explanation.

Year: 2019
Runtime: 01:55:32
Netflix ID: 80231903 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a man spots his missing father in a documentary, he sets off to America to find him and learns about the nature of his mysterious disappearance.

Year: 2018
Runtime: 01:47:45
Netflix ID: 81319492 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the aftermath of a global catastrophe, a lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts with a warning not to return to Earth.

Year: 2020
Runtime: 01:58:32
Netflix ID: 80244645 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Chasing after space debris and faraway dreams in year 2092, four misfits unearth explosive secrets during the attempted trade of a wide-eyed humanoid.

Year: 2021
Runtime: 02:16:30
Netflix ID: 81094067 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this collection of bitterly funny, character-driven films from Cem Yılmaz, ordinary protagonists embark on surreal, extraordinary journeys.

Year: 2019
Netflix ID: 81205938 · Watch on Netflix

Tipped by a mysterious tramp, a meek fry cook discovers she has superpowers — and kindred spirits — and uncovers an unsavory, widespread conspiracy.

Year: 2020
Runtime: 01:32:40
Netflix ID: 81058434 · Watch on Netflix

A family is forced to move back to a working-class neighborhood. Though strange events unfold, they continue with their normal lives.

Year: 2019
Runtime: 01:49:21
Netflix ID: 81180845 · Watch on Netflix