25 Highest-Rated Sci-Fi Movies on Netflix in December 2023, Ranked by Rotten Tomatoes

It's December 2023, and while the outside world is decking the halls and singing about snowmen, we've been scouring the depths of Netflix 's seemingly endless galaxy for something much more thrilling. We're talking about those mind-bending, space-traveling, time-warping sci-fi movies that make you question reality and your won existence. We haven't just picked any old sci-fi films; we've gone full-on Roger Ebert with this and have ranked the 25 highest-rated sci-fi movies currently available on Netflix, as per the all-knowing, all-powerful critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

25. "The Titan" (2018)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 20%

In the near future, with Earth's resources dwindling, a military family participates in a groundbreaking experiment for genetic evolution, aiming to relocate humanity to Saturn's moon, Titan, which leads to unforeseen and dangerous consequences.

24. "Mute" (2018)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 21%

Set in a futuristic Berlin, a mute bartender searches for his missing girlfriend in a city filled with gangsters and intrigue, uncovering a complex web of secrets and corruption.

23. "Awake" (2021)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 24%

After a mysterious global event wipes out all electronics and eliminates humans' ability to sleep, a former soldier fights to save her family as society and her own sanity spiral into chaos.

22. "TAU" (2018)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 25%

A woman is imprisoned in a futuristic smart house and hopes to escape by outsmarting the Artificial Intelligence that controls the house and conducts sinister experiments on her.

21. "Extinction" (2018)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 31%

A man haunted by visions of an alien invasion becomes a hero when Earth is suddenly invaded by a force bent on destruction, challenging his understanding of reality and humanity's place in the universe.

20. "Anon" (2018)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 36%

In a future where privacy and anonymity are outlawed and everyone's lives are transparent, an investigator encounters a woman who has no digital footprint and appears to be invisible to the surveillance system.

19. "JUNG_E" (2023)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 50%

Set in a dystopian future, this film explores the story of a brilliant scientist who embarks on a groundbreaking project to clone and transfer the consciousness of a legendary soldier into a robot, confronting ethical and emotional challenges.

18. "Don't Look Up" (2021)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 55%

Two low-level astronomers go on a media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy Earth, facing disbelief, political indifference, and media circus in their desperate attempt to save the world.

17. "Paradise" (2023)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 55%

A gripping story set in a futuristic world, where the characters navigate a complex society and confront ethical dilemmas in their pursuit of happiness and the ideal of paradise.

16. "Project Power" (2020)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 61%

In New Orleans, a mysterious pill that grants temporary, unpredictable superpowers sparks a dangerous underground market, leading a local cop, a teenage dealer, and a former soldier to team up to stop its distribution.

15. "Beyond Skyline" (2017)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 67%

A tough-as-nails detective embarks on a relentless pursuit to free his son from a nightmarish alien warship, leading to an unlikely alliance and a global battle against an extraterrestrial threat.

14. "iBOY" (2017)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 69%

After a teenager wakes up from a coma with fragments of his smartphone embedded in his brain, he discovers he has new powers and uses them to seek revenge against a gang responsible for his friend's assault.

13. "The Adjustment Bureau" (2011)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 72%

A rising politician's life takes an unexpected turn when he discovers that a secret, powerful organization is controlling every aspect of his life and must fight against his predetermined fate to be with the woman he loves.

12. "Prometheus" (2012)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 73%

A team of explorers on a spaceship called Prometheus journey to a distant world to uncover the secrets of humanity's origins, only to find a threat that could cause the extinction of the human race.

11. "War of the Worlds" (2005)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 76%

A dockworker struggles to keep his children safe during an extraterrestrial invasion, facing immense challenges and a relentless alien threat in a fight for survival.

10. "Synchronic" (2020)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 79%

Two New Orleans paramedics encounter a series of bizarre, gruesome accidents linked to a mysterious new designer drug with strange, otherworldly effects that challenge the boundaries of time and space.

9. "Psychokinesis" (2018)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 80%

A down-on-his-luck security guard gains telekinetic powers after drinking water from a mountain spring, using his newfound abilities to help his estranged daughter and her neighborhood fight a corrupt construction company.

8. "The Soul" (2021)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 80%

In a futuristic world, a prosecutor investigating a murder uncovers a web of corporate intrigue and shocking secrets connected to the victim's involvement in a controversial project to transfer human consciousness.

7. "Code 8" (2019)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 81%

In a world where a minority of the population possesses superpowers, a young man with special abilities struggles against a police force equipped to combat the enhanced, leading him into a dangerous underworld.

6. "Dune " (2021)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 83%

In a distant future, the young Paul Atreides is thrust into a vast interstellar conflict over the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the universe's most valuable substance, as he navigates politics, betrayal, and prophecy.

5. "I Am Mother" (2019)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 89%

In a post-apocalyptic bunker, a teenage girl, raised by a robot mother designed to repopulate Earth, begins to question her mother's motives and the nature of humanity after encountering an injured stranger.

4. "Oxygen" (2021)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 89%

A woman wakes up in a cryogenic chamber with no memory of how she got there and must find a way out before running out of air, uncovering a complex web of truths about her identity and reality.

3. "See You Yesterday" (2019)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%

Two Brooklyn teenage prodigies build makeshift time machines to save one's brother from being wrongfully killed by a police officer, but their actions have unintended and complex consequences.

2. "Snowpiercer " (2013)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 94%

In a post-apocalyptic world where a failed climate-change experiment has killed off all life except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, a class system revolution emerges.

1. "They Cloned Tyrone" (2023)

Rotten Tomatoes score: 95%

A pulpy mystery caper revolving around an unlikely trio who investigate a series of eerie events, uncovering a sinister conspiracy in their neighborhood.