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classic sci-fi and fantasy (on or before 1980)

To mostly compile this list I sorted from earliest release date from the Total Sci-Fi’s 100 Greatest Movies list and Butler’s Fantasy Cinema: Impossible Worlds on Screen. I added my favorites from that list and then added The Rocky Horror Picture Show and called it a day.

  • The Wizard of Oz

    1

  • Solaris

    2

  • La Jetée

    3

  • Beauty and the Beast

    4

  • A Clockwork Orange

    5

  • Westworld

    6

  • Planet of the Apes

    7

  • Stalker

    8

  • Fantastic Planet

    9

  • The Man Who Fell to Earth

    10

  • Onibaba

    11

  • Mad Max

    12

  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    13

  • Alien

    14

  • THX 1138

    15

  • Godzilla

    16

  • Alphaville

    17

  • Metropolis

    18

  • Logan's Run

    19

  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    20

  • Altered States

    21

  • Star Wars

    22

  • The Empire Strikes Back

    23

  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show

    24

  • Frankenstein

    25

  • King Kong

    26

  • Fantasia

    27

  • Orpheus

    28

  • The Birds

    29

  • Juliet of the Spirits

    30