genre film, 1980–1999

1980
Battle Beyond the Stars,  USA  JIMMY T. MURAKAMI
La Bestia Nello Spazio / The Beast in Space,  Italy  ALFONSO BRESCIA
Contamination,  Italy/West Germany  LUIGI COZZI
The Fall of the House of Usher,  Czechoslovakia  JAN ŠVANKMAJER
Flash Gordon,  USA / UK  MIKE HODGES
Galaxina,  USA  WILLIAM SACHS  [ review ]
Gamera: Super Monster,  Japan  NORIAKI YUASA
Humanoids from the Deep,  USA  BARBARA PEETERS & JIMMY T. MURAKAMI
The Lathe of Heaven,  USA  DAVID LOXTON 
Somewhere in Time,  USA  JEANNOT SZWARC
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back,  USA  IRVIN KERSHNER 
Superman II,  USA  RICHARD LESTER 

1981
An American Werewolf in London,  UK / USA  JOHN LANDIS
Dragonslayer,  USA  MATTHEW ROBBINS
Escape from New York,  USA  JOHN CARPENTER
Galaxy of Terror,  USA  BRUCE D. CLARK  [ review ]
Heavy Metal,  Canada  GERALD POTTERTON
The Incredible Shrinking Woman,  USA  JOEL SCHUMACHER
Inseminoid,  UK  NORMAN J. WARREN
Mad Max 2,  Australia  GEORGE MILLER
The Mystery of the Third Planet,  Russia  ROMAN KACHANOV
Outland,  UK  PETER HYAMS
Scanners,  Canada  DAVID CRONENBERG
Time Bandits,  USA  TERRY GILLIAM

1982
Android,  USA  AARON LIPSTADT
The Dark Crystal,  USA  JIM HENSON & FRANK OZ
Blade Runner,  USA  RIDLEY SCOTT
The Entity,  USA  SIDNEY J. FURIE
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,  USA  STEVEN SPIELBERG
Forbidden World,  USA  ALLAN HOLZMAN
Parasite,  USA  CHARLES BAND
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,  USA  NICHOLAS MEYER
The Thing,  USA  JOHN CARPENTER
Time Walker,  USA  TOM KENNEDY
Tron,  USA  STEVEN LISBERGER

1983
The Being,  USA  JACKIE KONG
The Crimson Permanent Assurance,  UK  TERRY GILLIAM
The Day After,  USA  NICHOLAS MEYER  [ review ]
Krull,  UK  PETER YATES
The Man with Two Brains,  USA  CARL REINER
The Raiders of Atlantis / Atlantis Inferno,  Italy  RUGGERO DEODATO
Skywhales,  UK  PHIL AUSTIN & DEREK HAYES
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone,  Canada / USA  LAMONT JOHNSON
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi,  USA  RICHARD MARQUAND
Strange Invaders,  USA  MICHAEL LAUGHLIN
Superman III,  USA  RICHARD LESTER
Twilight Zone: The Movie,  USA  JOHN LANDIS, STEVEN SPIELBERG, JOE DANTE & GEORGE MILLER
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,  Hong Kong  CHANG KUO-MING
V,  USA  KENNETH JOHNSON
Videodrome,  USA  DAVID CRONENBERG
Warrior of the Lost World,  Italy/USA  DAVID WORTH
Xtro,  UK  HARRY BROMLEY DAVENPORT

1984
1984,  UK  MICHAEL RADFORD
2010,  USA  PETER HYAMS
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzi Across the Eighth Dimension!,  USA  W.D. RICHTER
The Brother From Another Planet,  USA  JOHN SAYLES  [ review ]
Dune,  USA  DAVID LYNCH
Ghostbusters,  USA  IVAN REITMAN
Gremlins,  USA  JOE DANTE
The Ice Pirates,  USA  STUART RAFFILL
The Last Starfighter,  USA  NICK CASTLE
Lensman,  Japan  YOSHIAKI KAWAJIRI & KAZUYUKI HIROKAWA
Night of the Comet,  USA  THOM EBERHARDT
The Neverending Story,  West Germany  WOLFGANG PETERSEN
Repo Man,  USA  ALEX COX
Runaway,  USA  MICHAEL CRICHTON
Starman,  USA  JOHN CARPENTER
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock,  USA  LEONARD NIMOY
Supergirl,  USA  JEANNOT SZWARC
The Terminator,  USA  JAMES CAMERON

1985
Back to the Future,  USA  ROBERT ZEMECKIS
Brazil,  USA  TERRY GILLIAM
Cocoon,  USA  RON HOWARD
Creature,  USA  WILLIAM MALONE  [ review ]
D.A.R.Y.L.,  USA  SIMON WINCER
Enemy Mine,  USA  WOLFGANG PETERSEN
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor,  USA  JIM WHEAT & KEN WHEAT
Lifeforce,  USA  TOBE HOOPER
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome,  Australia  GEORGE MILLER & GEORGE OGILVIE
Max Headroom,  USA  ANNABEL JANKEL & ROCKY MORTON
Morons from Outer Space,  UK  MICHAEL HODGES
My Science Project,  USA  JONATHAN R. BETUEL
The Quiet Earth,  New Zealand  GEOFF MURPHY  [ review ]
Starchaser: The Legend of Orin,  USA  STEVEN HAHN
Star Crystal,  USA  LANCE LINDSAY  [ review ]
The Stuff,  USA  LARRY COHEN
Trancers,  USA  CHARLES BAND

1986
America 3000,  USA  DAVID ENGELBACH
The Aurora Encounter,  USA  JIM McCULLOUGH, SR.
Critters,  USA  STEPHEN HEREK
Deadly Friend,  USA  WES CRAVEN
Eliminators,  USA  PETER MANOOGIAN
Flight of the Navigator,  USA  RANDAL KLEISER
From Beyond,  USA  STUART GORDON
Gröna gubbar från Y.R.,  Sweden  HANS HATWIG
Highlander,  UK  RUSSELL MULCAHY
Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star,  USA  PETER HUNT
King Kong Lives,  USA  JOHN GUILLERMIN
Night of the Creeps,  USA  FRED DEKKER
Peggy Sue Got Married,  USA  FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Short Circuit,  USA  JOHN BADHAM
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,  USA  LEONARD NIMOY
Superman IV,  USA  SIDNEY J. FURIE
Troll,  USA  JOHN CARL BUECHLER
The Wraith,  USA  MIKE MARVIN

1987
Bad Taste,  New Zealand  PETER JACKSON
Cherry 2000,  USA  STEVE DE JARNATT
Creepozoids,  USA  DAVID DeCOTEAU
Cyclone,  USA  FRED OLEN RAY
Demon of Paradise,  USA  CIRIO H. SANTIAGO
Gor,  USA  FRITZ KIERSCH
The Hidden,  USA  JACK SHOLDER
The Lost Boys   USA   JOEL SCHUMACHER
Masters of the Universe,  USA  GARY GODDARD
Predator,  USA  JOHN McTIERNAN
The Princess Bride   USA   ROB REINER
Robocop   USA   PAUL VERHOEVEN
Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity,  USA  KEN DIXON
Spaceballs,  USA  MEL BROOKS
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace   USA   SIDNEY J. FURIE
The Time Guardian   Australia   BRIAN HANNANT
The Witches of Eastwick   USA   GEORGE MILLER

1988
Akira,  Japan  KATSUHIRO OTOMO
Alien Nation,  USA  GRAHAM BAKER
Beetlejuice,  USA  TIM BURTON
Besökarna / The Visitors,  Sweden  JOAKIM ERSGARD
Cocoon: The Return,  USA  DANIEL PETRIE
Deep Space,  USA  FRED OLEN RAY
Earth Girls Are Easy,  USA  JULIEN TEMPLE
It Came from Somewhere Else,  USA  HOWARD HASSLER
Killer Klowns from Outer Space,  USA  STEPHEN CHIODO
Not of this Earth,  USA  JIM WYNORSKI
Phantom Empire,  USA  FRED OLEN RAY
Short Circuit 2,  USA  KENNETH JOHNSON
They Live,  USA  JOHN CARPENTER

1989
The Abyss,  USA  JAMES CAMERON
Alienator,  USA  FRED OLEN RAY
Arena,  Italy / USA  PETER MANOOGIAN
Back to the Future Part II,  USA  ROBERT ZEMECKIS
Beyond the Stars,  USA  DAVID SAPERSTEIN
Communion,  USA  PHILIPPE MORA
Cyborg,  USA  ALBERT PYUN
DeepStar Six,  USA  SEAN S. CUNNINGHAM
Dr. Alien,  USA  DAVID DeCOTEAU
Flesh Gordon 2,  USA  HOWARD ZIEHM
Ganheddo / Gunhed,  Japan  MASATO HARADA
Lobster Man from Mars,  USA  STANLEY SHEFF
Martians Go Home,  USA  DAVID ODELL
Moontrap,  USA  ROBERT DYKE
Outlaw of Gor / Gor II,  USA  JOHN CARDOS
Robocop 2,  USA  IRVIN KERSHNER
Slipstream,  USA  STEVEN LISBERGER
Spaced Invaders,  USA  PATRICK READ JOHNSON
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier,  USA  WILLIAM SHATNER
The Terror Within,  USA  THIERRY NOTZ

1990
Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe,  USA  DAMIAN LEE
Back to the Future Part III,  USA  ROBERT ZEMECKIS
Edward Scissorhands,  USA  TIM BURTON
Hardware,  USA  RICHARD STANLEY
Megaville,  USA  PETER LEHNER
Moon 44,  USA  ROLAND EMMERICH
A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell,  USA  BRETT PIPER
Predator 2,  USA  STEPHEN HOPKINS
Robo-C.H.I.C.,  USA  ED HANSEN & JEFF MANDEL
Solar Crisis,  USA  ALAN SMITHEE ( RICHARD C. SARAFIAN )  [ review ]
Total Recall,  USA  PAUL VERHOEVEN
Ultra Warrior,  Peru/USA  AUGUSTO TAMAYO SAN ROMÁN & KEVIN TENT

1991
Dead Space,  USA  FRED GALLO
Highlander II: The Quickening,  UK  RUSSELL MULCAHY
Kafka,  France/USA  STEVEN SODERBERGH
Rocketeer,  USA  JOE JOHNSTON
Scanners II: The New Order,  Canada  CHRISTIAN DUGUAY
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country,  USA  NICHOLAS MEYER
Terminator 2: Judgement Day,  USA  JAMES CAMERON
Trancers II,  USA  CHARLES BAND
Universal Soldier,  USA  ROLAND EMMERICH
Until the End of the World,  Germany/France/Australia/USA  WIM WENDERS
Xtro II: The Second Encounter,  Canada  HARRY BROMLEY DAVENPORT

1992
Alien 3,  USA  DAVID FINCHER
Freejack,  USA  GEOFF MURPHY
The Lawnmower Man,  USA  BRETT LEONARD
Nemesis,  USA  ALBERT PYUN
Scanners III: The Takeover,  Canada  CHRISTIAN DUGUAY
Sleepwalkers,  USA  MICK GARRIS
Split Second,  UK  TONY MAYLAM
Trancers III,  USA  C. COURTNEY JOYNER
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,  USA  DAVID LYNCH

1993
Babylon 5: The Gathering,  USA  RICHARD COMPTON
Body Snatchers,  USA  ABEL FERRARA
Coneheads,  USA  STEVE BARRON
Demolition Man,  USA  MARCO BRAMBILLA
Fire in the Sky,  USA  ROBERT LIEBERMAN
Fortress,  USA  STUART GORDON  [ review ]
Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life,  UK  PETER CAPALDI
Groundhog Day,  USA  HAROLD RAMIS
Mandroid,  USA  JACK ERSGARD
Robocop 3,  USA  FRED DEKKER
The Tommyknockers,  USA  JOHN POWER
The Trial,  UK  DAVID JONES

1994
A.P.E.X.,  USA  PHILIP J. ROTH
The City of Lost Children,  France  JEUNET & CARO
Cybertracker,  USA  RICHARD PEPIN
Ed Wood,  USA  TIM BURTON
Highlander III: The Sorcerer,  UK  ANDREW MORAHAN
Macross Plus,  Japan  SHÖJI KAWAMORI & SHINICHIRÖ WATANABE
Oblivion,  USA  SAM IRVIN
Plan 10 from Outer Space,  USA  TRENT HARRIS
Roswell: The U.F.O. Cover-Up,  USA  JEREMY KAGAN
Scanner Cop,  Canada  PIERRE DAVID
Stargate,  USA  ROLAND EMMERICH
Star Trek: Generations,  USA  DAVID CARSON
Timecop,  USA  PETER HYAMS
Trancers 4: Jack of Swords,  USA  DAVID NUTTER
Trancers 5: Sudden Deth,  USA  DAVID NUTTER
Vampire Vixens of Venus,  USA  TED A. BOHUS

1995
Alien Terminator,  USA  DAVE PAYNE
Congo,  USA  FRANK MARSHALL 
Ghost in the Shell,  Japan  MAMORU OSHII
Harrison Bergeron,  USA  BRUCE PITTMAN 
Johnny Mnemonic,  USA  ROBERT LONGO
The Langoliers,  USA  TOM HOLLAND 
Mechanical Violator Hakaider,  Japan  KEITA AMEMIYA
Nemesis II: Nebula,  USA  ALBERT PYUN
Not of this Earth,  USA  TERENCE H. WINKLESS 
Scanners: The Showdown,  USA  STEVE BARNETT
Screamers,  Canada/USA/Japan  CHRISTIAN DUGUAY 
Species,  USA  ROGER DONALDSON 
Specimen,  USA  JOHN BRADSHAW 
Strange Days,  USA  KATHRYN BIGELOW 
Toy Story,  USA  JOHN LASSETER 
Twelve Monkeys,  USA  TERRY GILLIAM 
Unknown Origin,  USA  SCOTT LEVY 
Village of the Damned,  USA  JOHN CARPENTER 
Virtuosity,  USA  BRETT LEONARD
Visitors of the Night,  USA  JORGE MONTESI 
Waterworld,  USA  KEVIN REYNOLDS 
Xtro III: Watch the Skies,  UK  HARRY BROMLEY DAVENPORT
— DOCUMENTARY —
Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?,  USA  TOM McGOUGH

1996
Alien of Darkness,  Japan  NORIO TAKANAMI
Alien Species,  USA  PETER MARIS
The Arrival,  USA  DAVID TWOHY
Darkbreed,  USA  RICHARD PEPIN
Doctor Who: The Movie,  UK  GEOFFREY SAX
Escape from L.A.,  USA  JOHN CARPENTER
Femalien,  USA  SYBIL RICHARDS
Humanoids from the Deep,  USA  JEFF YONIS
Independence Day,  USA  ROLAND EMMERICH
The Island of Dr. Moreau,  USA  JOHN FRANKENHEIMER
Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace,  USA  FARHAD MANN
The Lottery,  USA  DANIEL SACKHEIM
Mars Attacks!,  USA  TIM BURTON
Memory Run,  USA  ALLAN A. GOLDSTEIN  [ review ]
Mystery Science Theatre 3000: The Movie,  USA  JIM MALLON
Nemesis III: Prey Harder,  USA  ALBERT PYUN
Oblivion 2: The Backlash,  USA  SAM IRVIN
Orion's Key / Alien Chaser,  USA  MARK ROPER
Star Trek: First Contact,  USA  JONATHAN FRAKES
Vampirella,  USA  JIM WYNORSKI
Zarkorr! The Invader,  USA  MICHAEL DEAK & AARON OSBORNE  [ review ]

1997
Alien Agenda: Under the Skin,  USA  RON FORD, MICHAEL LEGGE, KEVIN J. LINDENMUTH & TOM VOLLMAN
Alien Resurrection,  USA  JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET
Asteroid,  USA  BRADFORD MAY
Breeders,  UK  PAUL MATTHEWS
Contact,  USA  ROBERT ZEMECKIS
Cube,  USA  VINCENZO NATALI
DNA,  USA  WILLIAM MESA
Event Horizon,  UK  PAUL ANDERSON
Epsilon / Alien Visitor,  Australia  ROLF DE HEER  [ review ]
The Fifth Element,  France/USA  LUC BESSON
Gattaca,  USA  ANDREW NICCOL
The Invader,  USA  MARK ROSMAN
Invasion,  USA  ARMAND MASTROIANNI
Laserhawk,  Canada  JEAN PELLERIN
Men in Black,  USA  BARRY SONNENFELD
Princess Monokone,  Japan  HAYAO MIYAZAKI
Moonbase,  USA  PAULO MAZZUCATO
The Silencers,  USA  RICHARD PEPIN
Starship Troopers,  USA  PAUL VERHOEVEN
— DOCUMENTARY —
Area 51: America's Most Secret Base,  USA  KEVIN FRASER

1998
Alien Agenda: Endangered Species,  USA  GABRIEL CAMPISI, RON FORD, KEVIN J. LINDENMUTH & TIM RITTER
Armageddon,  USA  MICHAEL BAY
Babylon 5: In the Beginning,  USA  MICHAEL VEJAR
Babylon 5: The River of Souls,  USA  JANET GREEK
Babylon 5: Thirdspace,  USA  JESÚS SALVADOR TREVIÑO
The Colony,  USA  PETER GEIGER
Dark City,  Australia/USA  ALEX PROYAS
Deep Impact,  USA  MIMI LEDER
Disturbing Behavior,  USA  DAVID NUTTER
The Faculty,  USA  ROBERT RODRIGUEZ
Future Fear,  USA  LEWIS BAUMANDER
Godzilla,  USA  ROLAND EMMERICH
Kraa! The Sea Monster,  USA  AARON OSBORNE & DAVE PARKER
Lost in Space,  USA  STEPHEN HOPKINS
Meet Joe Black,  USA  MARTIN BREST
Pi,  USA  DARREN ARONOFSKY
The Second Arrival,  USA  KEVIN S. TENNEY
Soldier,  USA  PAUL ANDERSON
Species II,  USA  PETER MEDAK
Sphere,  USA  BARRY LEVINSON
Star Trek: Insurrection,  USA  JONATHAN FRAKES
The Truman Show,  USA  PETER WEIR
Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms,  USA  JEFF WOOLNOUGH
Wild Wild West,  USA  BARRY SONNENFELD
The X-Files Movie: Fight the Future,  USA  ROB BOWMAN
— DOCUMENTARY —
Lost in Space Forever,  USA  KEVIN BURNS

1999
Alien Files,  USA  ROLFE KANEFSKY
The Astronaut's Wife,  USA  RAND RAVICH  [ review ]
Babylon 5: A Call to Arms,  UK  MICHAEL VEJAR
Deep Blue Sea,  USA  RENNY HARLIN
The Dinosaur Chronicles,  USA  MARK & JOHN POLONIA
Emmanuelle in Space: First Contact,  USA  L.L. SHAPIRA
eXistenZ,  Canada  DAVID CRONENBERG
Fortress 2: Re-Entry,  USA  GEOFF MURPHY  [ review ]
Galaxy Quest,  USA  DEAN PARISOT
Interceptor Force / Interceptors,  USA  PHILIP J. ROTH
The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human,  USA  JEFF ABUGOV
The Matrix,  USA  THE WACHOWSKI BROTHERS
My Favorite Martian,  USA  DONALD PETRIE
Mystery Men,  USA  KINKA USHER
Naked Space,  USA  BRUCE KIMMEL
Planet Patrol,  USA  RUSS MAZZOLLA
The Sixth Sense,  USA  M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN
Supernova,  USA  THOMAS LEE ( WALTER HILL )  [ review ]
Teenage Space Vampires,  Romania / Canada  MARTIN WOOD  [ review ]
Thumb Wars: The Phantom Cuticle,  USA  STEVE OEDEKERK
The Thirteenth Floor,  Germany / USA  JOSEF RUSNAK
Top of the Food Chain / Invasion!,  Canada  JOHN PAIZS
Total Reality,  USA  PHILIP J. ROTH  [ review ]
Toy Story 2,  USA  JOHN LASSETER, ASH BRANNON & LEE UNKRICH
Universal Soldier: The Return,  USA  MIC RODGERS
Virus,  USA  JOHN BRUNO
Wing Commander,  USA  CHRIS ROBERTS
— DOCUMENTARY —
Trekkies,  USA  ROGER NYGARD