Cult Sci-Fi & Fantasy on Netflix

This cult classic comedy-romance follows a peasant farmhand as he battles bumbling outlaws and an evil prince to win the hand of his one true love.

Year: 1987
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 01:38:19
Netflix ID: 60000361 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to snuff a quartet of escaped 'replicants.'

Year: 1982
IMDb: 8.1
Runtime: 01:57:28
Netflix ID: 70082907 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Amid the backdrop of the Cold War, a 9-year-old boy befriends a colossal yet gentle robot that a paranoid government agent is intent on destroying.

Year: 1999
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:26:31
Netflix ID: 70015683 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the year 2035, a convict volunteers to travel back in time to determine the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out the population decades earlier.

Year: 1995
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:09:25
Netflix ID: 17672318 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this animated film based on the anime series, two childhood friends are pulled into the underworld of Neo-Tokyo and forced to fight for survival.

Year: 1988
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 02:04:23
Netflix ID: 60021103 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this cyberpunk anime classic, a government cyborg is tasked with apprehending a hacker who's taking over the minds of computer-enhanced humans.

Year: 1995
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:22:54
Netflix ID: 540533 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Prohibited from using their powers in a parallel Earth in 1985, a band of superheroes unites to defend themselves when one of their own is murdered.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:42:07
Netflix ID: 70099111 · 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 Jim Henson's fantasy, teen Sarah embarks on a life-altering quest to rescue her little brother from the clutches of a treacherous goblin.

Year: 1986
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:41:02
Netflix ID: 680020 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the wake of a plague, America is overrun by millions of cannibalistic zombies. A small group of survivors tries to find refuge in a shopping mall.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:40:03
Netflix ID: 60033340 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Clueless as to how they got there or why they were chosen, six people are caught in a maze of interlocking cubes with no apparent way out.

Year: 1997
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 01:30:23
Netflix ID: 60027486 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In the near future, criminal and war hero Snake must rescue the President from New York City -- which has been turned into a maximum-security prison.

Year: 1981
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:39:10
Netflix ID: 60002839 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a race of fire-spitting, brain-sucking bugs attack Earth and obliterate Buenos Aires, an infantry unit heads to the bugs' planet for a showdown.

Year: 1997
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 02:09:28
Netflix ID: 1181616 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a seismologist gets unusual readings on her equipment, handymen discover 30-foot-long carnivorous worms that suck their prey underground.

Year: 1990
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:36:24
Netflix ID: 60033108 · 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

This paragon of modern action fantasy follows the story of Connor MacLeod, a member of a clan of immortals who've been battling for centuries.

Year: 1986
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:52:47
Netflix ID: 60024212 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After crash-landing on a desolate planet, a pilot and her passengers, one of whom is a convicted killer, must fend off a race of carnivorous aliens.

Year: 2000
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:48:13
Netflix ID: 60000414 · 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

A mutant creature has developed from toxic chemical dumping. When the monster scoops up the granddaughter of a snack-bar owner, he races to save her.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Runtime: 01:59:37
Netflix ID: 70059029 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a post-apocalyptic future, a malicious gang murders Max's family as an act of retaliation, forcing Max to hit the open road seeking vengeance.

Year: 1979
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 01:33:06
Netflix ID: 725024 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While caught in the middle of a galactic war waged by the leader of an evil sect, escaped convict Riddick must rescue an old friend from prison.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 6.7
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:59:05
Netflix ID: 60034579 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A cult classic featuring a thumping metal soundtrack, this animated extravaganza centers on a menacing meteorite thought to be the root of all evil.

Year: 1981
IMDb: 6.7
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:30:19
Netflix ID: 22006357 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb