:::Citing the 2nd paragraph on the definition of Science fiction: In organizational or marketing contexts, science fiction can be synonymous with the broader definition of speculative fiction, encompassing creative works incorporating imaginative elements not found in contemporary reality; this includes fantasy, horror, and related genres. Vidocq ist definitly not a sciene fiction movie in the style of Alien or Star Trek, but it is a speculative fiction, which is part of this genre too. Even if the story is not set in the future the fiction is easyly regocnizable. For the time period it was set in some of the happenings would be futuristic.