# List of science fiction films of the 1970s

A list of science fiction films released in the 1970s. These 235 films include core elements of science fiction, but can cross into other genres. They have been released to a cinema audience by the commercial film industry and are widely distributed with reviews by reputable critics.
During the 1970s, blockbuster science fiction films, which reached a much larger audience than previously, began to make their appearance. The financial success of these films resulted in heavy investment in special effects by the American film industry, leading to big-budget, heavily marketed science fiction film releases during the 1990s. Collectively, the science fiction films from the 1970s received 11 Academy Awards, 10 Saturn Awards, six Hugo Awards, three Nebula Awards and two Grammy Awards. Two of these films, Star Wars (1977, currently known as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope) and Superman (1978), were the highest-grossing films of their respective years of release.

## List

* 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1970 :
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes |
| Assignment: Terror | Hugo Fregonese Tulio Demicheli | Paul Naschy, Michael Rennie, Karin Dor, Craig Hill | Spanish | |
| Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Ted Post | James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans | United States | |
| Beast Of Blood | Eddie Romero | John Ashley, Celeste Yarnall, Eddie Garcia, Liza Belmonte | Philippines | |
| Colossus: The Forbin Project | Joseph Sargent | Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent | United States | |
| Crimes of the Future | David Cronenberg | Ronald Mlodzik, Jon Lidolt, Tania Zolty | Canada | |
| Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde | Roy Ward Baker | Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick, Gerald Sim, Lewis Fiander | United Kingdom | |
| Gamera vs. Jiger | Noriaki Yuasa | Tsutomu Takakuwa, Kelly Varis, Katherine Murphy | Japan | |
| Gas-s-s-s | Roger Corman | Robert Corff, Elaine Giftos, Bud Cort | United States | |
| Horror Of The Blood Monsters | Al Adamson | John Carradine, Robert Dix, Vicki Volante, Joey Benson | United States | |
| The Horror of Frankenstein | Jimmy Sangster | Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara, Veronica Carlson | United Kingdom | |
| I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen | Oldřich Lipský | Jiří Sovák, Jana Brejchová, Lubomír Lipský | Czechoslovakia | |
| The Mind of Mr. Soames | Alan Cooke | Terence Stamp, Robert Vaughn, Nigel Davenport | United Kingdom United States | |
| No Blade of Grass | Cornel Wilde | Nigel Davenport, Jean Wallace, John Hamill | United States United Kingdom | |
| On the Comet | Karel Zeman | Emil Horváth, Magda Vášáryová, František Filipovský | Czechoslovakia | |
| Scream and Scream Again | Gordon Hessler | Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing | United Kingdom | |
| Signals: A Space Adventure | Gottfried Kolditz | Piotr Pawłowski, Yevgeniy Zharikov, Gojko Mitić | East Germany Poland | |
| Space Amoeba | Ishirō Honda | Akira Kubo, Atsuko Takahashi, Yukiko Kobayashi | Japan | |
| Toomorrow | Val Guest | Olivia Newton-John, Benny Thomas, Vic Cooper | Switzerland, United Kingdom | |
| Trog | Freddie Francis | Joan Crawford, Michael Gough, Bernard Kay, Kim Braden | United Kingdom | |
| When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth | Val Guest | Victoria Vetri, Robin Hawdon, Patrick Allen | United Kingdom United States | |
| 1971 |||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Andromeda Strain | Robert Wise | James Olson, Arthur Hill | United States | |
| The Blue Planet | Viktor Chugunov | | Soviet Union | Romance |
| A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates | United Kingdom United States | |
| Escape from the Planet of the Apes | Don Taylor | Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman | United States | |
| Gamera vs. Zigra | Noriaki Yuasa | Koji Fujiyama, Daigo Inoue, Reiko Kasahara | Japan | |
| Glen and Randa | Jim McBride | Steven Curry, Shelley Plimpton, Woody Chambliss | United States | |
| Godzilla vs. Hedorah | Yoshimitsu Banno | Akira Yamauchi, Toshie Kimura, Hiroyuki Kawase | Japan | |
| The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant | Anthony Lanza | Bruce Dern, Patricia Ann Priest | United States | |
| The Million Dollar Duck | Vincent McEveety | Dean Jones, Sandy Duncan, Joe Flynn | United States | |
| Octaman | Harry Essex | Pier Angeli, Kerwin Mathews, Jeff Morrow, David Essex | Mexico United States | |
| The Omega Man | Boris Sagal | Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash | United States | |
| Out of the Darkness | Chatrichalerm Yukol | Sorapong Chatree | Thailand | |
| Quest for Love | Ralph Thomas | Joan Collins, Tom Bell, Denholm Elliott | United Kingdom | |
| The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler | Bob Wynn | Leslie Nielsen, Bradford Dillman, James Daly | United States | |
| THX 1138 | George Lucas | Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley | United States | |
| You Are a Widow, Sir | Václav Vorlíček | Iva Janžurová, Olga Schoberová, Eduard Cupák | Czechoslovakia | |
| 1972 |||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| 93° Tunnel | Claudinê Perina Camargo | | Brazil | Super 8 eco-dystopian film. Portuguese title: Túnel 93° |
| The Asphyx | Peter Newbrook | Robert Stephens, Robert Powell, Jane Lapotaire, Alex Scott | United Kingdom | Sci Fi Horror |
| Beware! The Blob | Larry Hagman | Robert Walker Jr., Gwynne Gilford, Richard Stahl | United States | Comedy Horror |
| The Boy Who Turned Yellow | Michael Powell | Mark Dightam, Robert Eddison, Helen Weir | United Kingdom | Adventure Family Fantasy |
| Conquest of the Planet of the Apes | J. Lee Thompson | Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalbán | United States | Action |
| Doomsday Machine | Herbert J. Leder | Bobby Van, Ruta Lee, Mala Powers | United States | |
| Doomwatch | Peter Sasdy | Ian Bannen, Judy Geeson, John Paul | United Kingdom | Horror Mystery Thriller |
| Eolomea | Herrmann Zschoche | Cox Habbema, Ivan Andonov, Rolf Hoppe | East Germany Soviet Union Bulgaria | Drama Romance |
| Godzilla vs. Gigan (a.k.a. Chikyû kogeki meirei: Gojira tai Gaigan) | Jun Fukuda | Hiroshi Ishikawa, Yuriko Hishimi, Minoru Takashima | Japan | Action Adventure Family Kaiju |
| The Groundstar Conspiracy | Lamont Johnson | George Peppard, Michael Sarrazin, Christine Belford | Canada United States | Action Crime Mystery Romance Thriller |
| The Happiness Cage (a.k.a. The Mind Snatchers) | Bernard Girard | Christopher Walken, Joss Ackland, Ralph Meeker | Denmark United States | Drama |
| Horror Express (a.k.a. Pánico en el Transiberiano) | Eugenio Martín | Telly Savalas, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing | Spain United Kingdom | Adventure Horror Thriller |
| Love 2002 (a.k.a. Liebe 2002) | Joachim Hellwig | Chris Wallasch, Susan Baker, Emöke Pöstenyi | East Germany | Science fiction/documentary hybrid short film. |
| Man with the Transplanted Brain (L'homme au cerveau greffé) | Jacques Doniol-Valcroze | Mathieu Carrière, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Marianne Eggerickx, Michel Duchaussoy | France Italy West Germany | Drama Horror Thriller |
| Night of the Lepus | William F. Claxton | Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun | United States | Horror Thriller |
| Now You See Him, Now You Don't | Robert Butler | Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn | United States | Comedy Family |
| Phaethon, The Son of the Sun (a.k.a. Фаэтон - сын Солнца) | Vasiliy Livanov | Mariya Babanova (voice), Aleksey Konsovskiy (voice), Yuriy Yakovlev (voice) | Soviet Union | Animated short film. |
| Silent Running | Douglas Trumbull | Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin | United States | Drama |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | George Roy Hill | Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche | United States | Comedy Drama War |
| Solaris (a.k.a. Solyaris) | Andrey Tarkovskiy | Natal'ya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet | Soviet Union | Drama Mystery |
| Superbeast | George Schenck | Antoinette Bower, Craig Littler, Harry Lauter, Vic Díaz | United States | |
| The Thing with Two Heads | Lee Frost | Rosey Grier, Ray Milland, Don Marshall | United States | Comedy |
| The Twilight People | Eddie Romero | Pam Grier, John Ashley, Pat Woodell, Jan Merlin | Philippines United States | Adventure Horror |
| Z.P.G. | Michael Campus | Oliver Reed, Geraldine Chaplin, Don Gordon | Denmark United States | Thriller |
| 1973 |||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Battle for the Planet of the Apes | J. Lee Thompson | Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy | United States | Action |
| Beyond Atlantis | Eddie Romero | Patrick Wayne, John Ashley, Leigh Christian | Philippines United States | Action Adventure Fantasy Horror Mystery Thriller |
| Blackenstein | William A. Levey | John Hart, Ivory Stone , Andrea King, Roosevelt Jackson | United States | |
| The Clones | Lamar Card, Paul Hunt | Michael Greene, Gregory Sierra, Otis Young, Susan Hunt | United States | |
| The Crazies | George A. Romero | Lane Carroll, Will MacMillan, Harold Wayne Jones | United States | Action Horror |
| The Creeping Flesh | Freddie Francis | Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Lorna Heilbron, George Benson | United Kingdom | |
| Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World | Joseph McGrath | Jim Dale, Spike Milligan, Angela Douglas | United Kingdom | Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy |
| The Day of the Dolphin | Mike Nichols | George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino | United States | Drama Thriller |
| Fantastic Planet | René Laloux | Jennifer Drake (voice), Eric Baugin (voice), Jean Topart (voice) | France Czechoslovakia | Animation |
| The Final Programme | Robert Fuest | Jon Finch, Jenny Runacre, Sterling Hayden | United Kingdom | Thriller |
| Flesh for Frankenstein | Paul Morrissey | Udo Kier, Joe Dellessandro, Monique van Vooren | Italy France | Horror |
| Frankenstein: The True Story | Jack Smight | James Mason, Leonard Whiting, David McCallum, Jane Seymour | United Kingdom United States | |
| Godzilla vs. Megalon (a.k.a. Gojira tai Megaro) | Jun Fukuda | Katsuhiko Sasaki, Hiroyuki Kawase, Yutaka Hayashi | Japan | Action Adventure Family Kaiju |
| Horror Hospital | Antony Balch | Michael Gough, Robin Askwith, Vanessa Shaw, Ellen Pollock, | United Kingdom | |
| Idaho Transfer | Peter Fonda | Kelly Bohanon, Kevin Hearst, Caroline Hildebrand | United States | |
| Invasion of the Bee Girls | Denis Sanders | William Smith, Anitra Ford, Victoria Vetri | United States | Horror |
| Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (a.k.a. Ivan Vasilevich menyaet professiyu) | Leonid Gayday | Yuriy Yakovlev, Leonid Kuravlyov, Aleksandr Demyanenko | Soviet Union | Adventure Comedy |
| Mazinger Z vs. Devilman (a.k.a. Majingâ Zetto tai Debiruman) | Tomoharu Katsumata | Hiroya Ishimaru (voice), Ryôichi Tanaka (voice), Minori Matsushima (voice) | Japan | Adventure Short Action Horror Animation |
| The Miracle | Anatoliy Petrov | | Soviet Union | Third segment of the fifth episode of the animated anthology series Happy Merry-Go-Round. Russian title: Чудо, tr. Chudo |
| Murder in a Blue World (a.k.a. Una gota de sangre para morir amando) | Eloy de la Iglesia | Sue Lyon, Christopher Mitchum, Jean Sorel | Spain France | Crime Drama Thriller |
| The Neptune Factor | Daniel Petrie | Ben Gazzara, Walter Pidgeon, Ernest Borgnine | Canada | Action Adventure Drama Thriller |
| Sleeper | Woody Allen | Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck | United States | Comedy |
| Soylent Green | Richard Fleischer | Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young | United States | Crime Mystery Thriller |
| Tah Tien | Sompote Sands | Supak Likitkul, Sombat Metanee, Sukon Kewlhiem | Thailand | Kaiju |
| Sssssss | Bernard L. Kowalski | Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies, Richard B. Shull | United States | |
| Submersion of Japan (a.k.a. Nippon chinbotsu) | Shiro Moritani | Keiju Kobayashi, Hiroshi Fujioka, Ayumi Ishida | Japan | Action Drama Thriller |
| Westworld | Michael Crichton | Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin | United States | Action Thriller Western |
| Who is Beta? (a.k.a. Quem é Beta?) | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Frédéric de Pasquale, Sylvie Fennec, Regina Rosenburgo | France Brazil | Drama |
| Wonder Women | Robert O'Neil | Nancy Kwan, Ross Hagen, Maria De Aragon, Roberta Collins | United States | Action Thriller Horror |
| 1974 |||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The 6 Ultra Brothers vs. the Monster Army (a.k.a. Urutora 6-kyodai tai kaijû gundan) | Sompote Sands, Shohei Tôjô | Ko Kaeoduendee, Anan Pricha, Yodchai Meksuwan | Thailand Japan | Superhero Action |
| Chosen Survivors | Sutton Roley | Jackie Cooper, Alex Cord, Richard Jaeckel | Mexico United States | Action Adventure Drama Horror Thriller |
| Dark Star | John Carpenter | Dan O'Bannon, Dre Pahich, Brian Narelle | United States | Comedy |
| Esupai | Jun Fukuda | Hiroshi Fujioka, Kaoru Yumi, Masao Kusakari | Japan | Action Adventure Mystery Thriller |
| Flesh Gordon | Michael Benveniste, Howard Ziehm | Jason Williams, Suzanne Fields, Joseph Hudgins | United States | Comedy |
| Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (a.k.a. Gojira tai Mekagojira ) | Jun Fukuda | Masaaki Daimon, Kazuya Aoyama, Reiko Tajima | Japan | Action Adventure Family Fantasy Kaiju |
| Hanuman and the 5 Kamen Riders (a.k.a. Hanuman pob Har Aimoddaeng) | Sompote Sands | Yodchai Meksuwan, Thanyarat Lohanan, Akiji Kobayashi | Thailand Japan | Action Superhero |
| Invasion from Inner Earth | Bill Rebane | Paul Bentzen, Debbi Pick, Nick Holt | United States | Drama Horror |
| The Island at the Top of the World | Robert Stevenson | David Hartman, Donald Sinden, Jacques Marin | United States | Adventure Family Fantasy |
| Jumborg Ace & Giant (a.k.a. Yuk Wud Jaeng Vs. Jumbo A) | Sompote Sands, Shohei Tôjô | Chaiya Suriyun, Aranya Namwong, Sipeuak, Sri Suriya | Thailand Japan | Action Comedy |
| Let Sleeping Corpses Lie | Jorge Grau | Cristina Galbó, Ray Lovelock, Arthur Kennedy | Spain Italy | Horror |
| The Land That Time Forgot | Kevin Connor | Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon | United Kingdom United States | Adventure Fantasy |
| The Little Prince | Stanley Donen | Richard Kiley, Steven Warner, Joss Ackland | United Kingdom United States | Family Fantasy Musical |
| Mazinger Z vs. The Great General of Darkness (a.k.a. Majingâ Zetto tai Ankoku Daishôgun) | Nobutaka Nishizawa | Hiroya Ishimaru (voice), Kiyoshi Kobayashi (voice), Ryōichi Tanaka (voice) | Japan | Action Short Adventure Animation |
| Morel's Invention (a.k.a. L'invenzione di Morel) | Emidio Greco | Giulio Brogi, Anna Karina, John Steiner | Italy | |
| Moscow : Cassiopea (a.k.a. Moskva-Kassiopeya) | Richard Viktorov | Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Vasiliy Merkur'yev, Lev Durov | Soviet Union | Family Comedy |
| The Mutations | Jack Cardiff | Donald Pleasence, Tom Baker, Brad Harris | United Kingdom United States | Horror |
| Phase IV | Saul Bass | Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick | United Kingdom United States | Horror Sci-Fi Thriller |
| Prophecies of Nostradamus (a.k.a. Nosutoradamusu no daiyogen) | Toshio Masuda | Tetsurō Tamba, Toshio Kurosawa, Kaoru Yumi | Japan | Action |
| Space Is the Place | John Coney | Barbara Deloney, Sun Ra, Raymond Johnson | United States | Music |
| The Terminal Man | Mike Hodges | George Segal, Joan Hackett, Richard Dysart | United States | Horror Thriller |
| UFO: Target Earth | Michael A. DeGaetano | Nick Plakias, Cynthia Cline, LaVerne Light | United States | |
| Zardoz | John Boorman | Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman | Ireland United States | Adventure Fantasy |
| 1975 |||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| A Boy and His Dog | L.Q. Jones | Don Johnson, Jason Robards, Susanne Benton | United States | Comedy Drama Thriller |
| Black Moon | Louis Malle | Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart | France West Germany | Fantasy Horror Mystery |
| Bug | Jeannot Szwarc | Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland | United States | Horror Mystery Thriller |
| Death Race 2000 | Paul Bartel | David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth | United States | Action Comedy Sport |
| Escape to Witch Mountain | John Hough | Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence | United States | Adventure Family Fantasy Mystery |
| The Flight of Mr. McKinley (a.k.a. Begstvo mistera Mak-Kinli) | Mikhail Shveytser | Donatas Banionis, Zhanna Bolotova, Angelina Stepanova | Soviet Union | Fantasy |
| Flowers for the Man in the Moon (a.k.a. Blumen für den Mann im Mond) | Rolf Losansky | Jutta Wachowiak, Stefan Lisewski, Sven Grothe | East Germany | Family Fantasy |
| Footprints on the Moon (a.k.a. Le orme) | Luigi Bazzoni | Florinda Bolkan, Peter McEnery, Nicoletta Elmi | Italy | Horror Mystery Thriller |
| The Giant Spider Invasion | Bill Rebane | Steve Brodie, Barbara Hale, Robert Easton | United States | Horror |
| The Great Battle of the Flying Saucers (a.k.a. Uchû Enban Daisensô) | Yugo Serikawa | Isao Sasaki (voice), Noriko Ohara (voice), Minori Matsushima (voice) | Japan | Animation Short Action |
| Great Mazinger vs. Getter Robo (a.k.a. Gurêto Majingâ tai Gettâ Robo) | Masayuki Akehi | Akira Kamiya (voice), Junji Yamada (voice), Keiichi Noda (voice) | Japan | Animation Short |
| Great Mazinger vs. Getter Robo (a.k.a. Gurêto Majingâ tai Gettâ Robo) | Masayuki Akehi | Akira Kamiya (voice), Junji Yamada (voice), Keiichi Noda (voice) | Japan | Animation Short |
| The Big Space Travel | Valentin Selivanov | Lyudmila Berlinskaya, Sergey Obrazov, Igor' Sakharov | Soviet Union | Romance |
| Hu-Man | Jérôme Laperrousaz | Terence Stamp, Jeanne Moreau, Agnès Stevenin | France | |
| A Long Return (a.k.a. Largo retorno) | Pedro Lazaga | Mark Burns, Lynne Frederick, Charo López | Spain | Drama Romance |
| Moon Flight | Sándor Reisenbüchler | | Hungary | Animated short film. Hungarian title: Holdmese |
| The Noah | Daniel Bourla | Robert Strauss, Geoffrey Holder, Sally Kirkland | United States | Drama Fantasy |
| The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Jim Sharman | Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick | United Kingdom United States | Musical Comedy Horror |
| Rollerball | Norman Jewison | James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams | United Kingdom United States | Action Sport |
| Shivers | David Cronenberg | Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry | Canada | Horror |
| The Stepford Wives | Bryan Forbes | Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson | United States | Horror Mystery Thriller |
| The Strongest Man in the World | Vincent McEveety | Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Eve Arden | United States | Comedy Family |
| Infra-Man (a.k.a. Zhong guo chao ren) | Hua-Shan | Danny Lee, Terry Liu, Hsieh Wang | Hong Kong | Action |
| Teens in the Universe (a.k.a. Otroki vo vselennoy) | Richard Viktorov | Mikhail Yershov, Aleksandr Grigor'yev, Vladimir Savin | Soviet Union | Family Comedy Adventure |
| Terror of Mechagodzilla (a.k.a. Mekagojira no gyakushu) | Ishirō Honda | Katsuhiko Sasaki, Tomoko Ai, Akihiko Hirata | Japan | Action Adventure Family |
| The Ultimate Warrior | Robert Clouse | Yul Brynner, Max von Sydow, Joanna Miles | United States | Action |
| 1976 |||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Any Day Now (a.k.a. Vandaag of morgen) | Roeland Kerbosch | Ansje van Brandenberg, Huib Broos, Ton van Duinhoven | Netherlands | |
| At the Earth's Core | Kevin Connor | Doug McClure, Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro | United Kingdom United States | Adventure Fantasy |
| Breakdown | Krzysztof Kiwerski | | Poland | Animated short film. Polish title: Awaria |
| Embryo | Ralph Nelson | Rock Hudson, Barbara Carrera, Diane Ladd | United States | Horror |
| The Food of the Gods | Bert I. Gordon | Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker | United States | Adventure Horror |
| Futureworld | Richard T. Heffron | Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill | United States | Thriller |
| God Told Me To | Larry Cohen | Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis | United States | Crime Horror Mystery Thriller |
| Grendizer, Getter Robo G, Great Mazinger: Decisive Battle! The Great Sea Monster | Masayuki Akehi | Kei Tomiyama (voice), Hiroya Ishimaru (voice), Keiichi Noda (voice) | Japan | Animation Short Action Adventure |
| In the Dust of the Stars (a.k.a. Im Staub der Sterne) | Gottfried Kolditz | Jana Brejchová, Alfred Struwe, Ekkehard Schall | East Germany | |
| Logan's Run | Michael Anderson | Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan | United States | Action Adventure |
| The Man Who Fell to Earth | Nicolas Roeg | David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark | United Kingdom | Drama |
| Mirror of Time (a.k.a. Zerkalo vremeni) (a.k.a. Зеркало времени) | Vladimir Tarasov | Mariya Vinogradova (voice), Lev Lyubetskiy (voice) | Soviet Union | Animation Short tr. |
| The Rat Savior (a.k.a. Izbavitelj) | Krsto Papić | Ivica Vidović, Mirjana Majurec, Relja Bašić | Yugoslavia | Horror |
| Scenes with Beans | Ottó Foky | | Hungary | Stop-motion animation short film. Hungarian title: Babfilm |
| UFO Robot Grendizer vs. Great Mazinger (UFO robo Gurendaizâ tai Gurêto Majingâ) | Osamu Kasai | Kei Tomiyama (voice), Hiroya Ishimaru (voice), Joji Yanami (voice) | Japan | Animation Short Action |
| 1977 |||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Capricorn One | Peter Hyams | Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Sam Waterston | United States | Action Adventure Drama Thriller |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg | Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr | United States | Drama |
| Cosmos: War of the Planets (a.k.a. Anno zero - Guerra nello spazio) | Alfonso Brescia | John Richardson, Yanti Somer, West Buchanan | Italy | Adventure |
| Damnation Alley | Jack Smight | Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard, Dominique Sanda | United States | |
| Demon Seed | Donald Cammell | Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham | United States | Horror |
| Empire of the Ants | Bert I. Gordon | Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson | United States | Adventure Horror |
| End of the World | John Hayes | Christopher Lee, Sue Lyon, Kirk Scott | United States | Horror Mystery Thriller |
| Time, Forward! (a.k.a. Vpered, vremya!) | Vladimir Tarasov | Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy (voice) | Soviet Union | Animated short film. Russian title: Вперёд, время!, tr. |
| The Glitterball | Harley Cokeliss (as Harley Cokliss) | Ben Buckton, Keith Jayne, Ron Pember | United Kingdom | Adventure Family |
| Talíře nad Velkým Malíkovem (a.k.a. The Flying Saucers Over Velky Malikov City) | Jaromil Jireš | Vlastimil Brodský, Jan Tříska, Iva Janžurová | Czechoslovakia | Comedy |
| The Incredible Melting Man | William Sachs | Alex Rebar, Burr DeBenning, Myron Healey | United States | Horror |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | Don Taylor | Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport | United States | Adventure Fantasy Horror Romance Thriller |
| Kingdom of the Spiders | John Cardos | William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, Woody Strode | United States | Horror |
| Legend of Dinosaurs & Monster Birds (a.k.a. Kyôryû kaichô no densetsu) | Junji Kurata | Tsunehiko Watase, Nobiko Sawa, Shotaro Hayashi | Japan | |
| How About a Plate of Spinach? (a.k.a. Coz takhle dát si spenát) | Václav Vorlíček | Vladimír Menšík, Jiří Sovák, Iva Janžurová | Czechoslovakia | Comedy |
| The People That Time Forgot | Kevin Connor | Patrick Wayne, Doug McClure, Sarah Douglas, Dana Gillespie | United Kingdom United States | Adventure |
| Planet of Dinosaurs | James K. Shea | Mary Appleseth, Harvey Shain, Derna Wylde | United States | Drama |
| Polygon | Anatoliy Petrov | Anatoliy Kuznetsov (voice), Aleksandr Belyavskiy (voice), Vsevolod Yakut (voice) | Soviet Union | Animation short film |
| Prey | Norman J. Warren | Barry Stokes, Sally Faulkner, Glory Annen Clibbery | United Kingdom | Horror Mystery |
| Rabid | David Cronenberg | Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Joe Silver | Canada United States | Horror |
| Space Battleship Yamato (a.k.a. Uchû senkan Yamato) | Toshio Masuda | Gorô Naya (voice), Kei Tomiyama (voice), Shūsei Nakamura (voice) | Japan | Animation Action Adventure Drama Romance |
| Star Wars | George Lucas | Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher | United States | Action Adventure Fantasy |
| Starship Invasions | Ed Hunt | Robert Vaughn, Christopher Lee, Daniel Pilon | Canada | |
| Sunday (a.k.a. Pühapäev) | Avo Paistik | | Soviet Union | Animation short film |
| Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (a.k.a. Zítra vstanu a oparím se cajem) | Jindřich Polák | Petr Kostka, Jiří Sovák, Vladimír Menšík | Czechoslovakia | Comedy Romance War |
| The War in Space (a.k.a. Wakusei daisenso) | Jun Fukuda | Kensaku Morita, Yuko Asano, Ryō Ikebe | Japan | Action Adventure |
| Welcome to Blood City | Peter Sasdy | Jack Palance, Keir Dullea, Samantha Eggar | Canada United Kingdom | Drama Mystery Thriller Western |
| Wizards | Ralph Bakshi | Jesse Welles (voice), Bob Holt (voice), Richard Romanus (voice) | United States | Animation Adventure Fantasy |
| 1978 |||||||
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Alien Factor | Donald M. Dohler | Don Leifert, Tom Griffith, Richard Dyszel | United States | Horror |
| The Alpha Incident | Bill Rebane | Ralph Meeker, Stafford Morgan, John F. Goff | United States | Horror |
| Battlestar Galactica | Richard A. Colla | Lorne Greene, Dirk Benedict, Richard Hatch | United States | Theatrical release |
| The Bermuda Triangle | René Cardona Jr. | John Huston, Gloria Guida, Marina Vlady | Mexico Italy | Horror |
| Blue Christmas | Kihachi Okamoto | Hiroshi Katsuno, Keiko Takeshita, Eiji Okada | Japan | |
| The Boys from Brazil | Franklin J. Schaffner | Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason | United Kingdom United States | Thriller |
| The Cat from Outer Space | Norman Tokar | Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan | United States | Comedy |
| Contact | Vladimir Tarasov | | Soviet Union | Animated short film |
| Deathsport | Allan Arkush, Nicholas Niciphor, Roger Corman | David Carradine, Claudia Jennings, Richard Lynch | United States | |
| Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato: In the Name of Love | Toshio Masuda, Leiji Matsumoto | Kei Tomiyama (voice), Yôko Asagami (voice), Gorô Naya (voice) | Japan | |
| The Fury | Brian De Palma | Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Amy Irving | United States | Supernatural thriller |
| Hardware Wars | Ernie Fosselius | Frank Robertson, Scott Mathews, Jeff Hale | United States | Short film parody |
| He Flew In Only Once | Lev Shukalyukov | | Soviet Union | Animated short film. Russian title: Он прилетал лишь однажды, tr. On priletal lish' odnazhdy |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Philip Kaufman | Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright | United States | Horror |
| Laserblast | Michael Rae | Kim Milford, Cheryl Smith, Gianni Russo | United States | |
| Libra | Patty Newman | Wayne Grace, Gordon Ross, Jim Hess | United States | Short film |
| The Medusa Touch | Jack Gold | Richard Burton, Lee Remick, Lino Ventura | United Kingdom France | Supernatural thriller, horror |
| Message from Space | Kinji Fukasaku | Vic Morrow, Sonny Chiba, Philip Casnoff | Japan | Space opera |
| The Mystery of Mamo | Sōji Yoshikawa | Yasuo Yamada (voice), Eiko Masuyama (voice), Kiyoshi Kobayashi (voice) | Japan | First anime film of the Lupin III franchise |
| Patrick | Richard Franklin | Susan Penhaligon, Robert Helpmann, Rod Mullinar | Australia | Horror |
| Return from Witch Mountain | John Hough | Bette Davis, Christopher Lee, Kim Richards | United States | Adventure |
| Science Ninja Team Gatchaman: The Movie | Hisayuki Toriumi | Katsuji Mori (voice), Isao Sasaki (voice), Kazuko Sugiyama (voice) | Japan | Anime superhero film |
| Starcrash | Luigi Cozzi | Marjoe Gortner, Caroline Munro, Christopher Plummer | United States | Space opera |
| Stop 88: Alert Limit | José de Anchieta | Regina Duarte, Joel Barcellos, Yara Amaral | Brazil | Eco-dystopian film. Portuguese title: Parada 88: O Limite de Alerta |
| Superman | Richard Donner | Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve | United Kingdom Switzerland Panama United States | Superhero |
| The Swarm | Irwin Allen | Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark | United States | Disaster, horror |
| Warlords of Atlantis | Kevin Connor | Doug McClure, Peter Gilmore, Shane Rimmer | United Kingdom | Fantasy |
| Xenogenesis | James Cameron | William Wisher Jr., Margaret Umbel | United States | Short film |
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| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Alien | Ridley Scott | Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt | United Kingdom United States | |
| The Black Hole | Gary Nelson | Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster | United States | |
| The Brood | David Cronenberg | Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle | Canada | |
| Buck Rogers in the 25th Century | Daniel Haller | Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Pamela Hensley | United States | |
| The Dark | John Cardos | William Devane, Cathy Lee Crosby, Richard Jaeckel | United States | |
| The Day Time Ended | John Cardos | Jim Davis, Dorothy Malone, Christopher Mitchum, Scott Kolden | United States | |
| Flying Towards the Future | Xiaoya Lu, Ling Miao | Yun Qu, Ling Huang | China | Children's film |
| The Fortress | Miklós Szinetár | Bella Tanay, Sándor Oszter, József Madaras | Hungary | |
| Galaxy Express 999 | Rintaro | Masako Nozawa (voice), Masako Ikeda (voice), Yôko Asagami (voice) | Japan | |
| G.I. Samurai | Kosei Saito | Sonny Chiba, Jun Etô, Moeko Ezawa | Japan | |
| Goldengirl | Joseph Sargent | Susan Anton, James Coburn, Curd Jürgens | United States | |
| H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come | George McCowan | Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, Barry Morse | Canada | |
| The Hamburg Syndrome | Peter Fleischmann | Helmut Griem, Fernando Arrabal, Carline Seiser | West Germany France | |
| The Humanoid | Aldo Lado | Richard Kiel, Corinne Cléry, Leonard Mann | Italy | |
| Inquest of Pilot Pirx | Marek Piestrak | Sergey Desnitskiy, Bolesław Abart, Vladimir Ivashov | Poland Soviet Union | |
| Island of the Fishmen | Sergio Martino | Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Richard Johnson | Italy | |
| Little Orbit the Astrodog and the Screechers from Outer Space | Jean Image | | France | |
| Mad Max | George Miller | Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne | Australia | |
| The Medic | Pierre Granier-Deferre | Alain Delon, Véronique Jannot, Bernard Giraudeau | France West Germany | |
| Meteor | Ronald Neame | Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden | United States Hong Kong | |
| Moonraker | Lewis Gilbert | Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michel Lonsdale | United Kingdom France United States | |
| On Your Mark! | Lev Shukalyukov | | Soviet Union | Animated short film. Russian title: Вам старт!, tr. Vam start! |
| Outer Touch | Norman J. Warren | Barry Stokes, Tony Maiden, Glory Annen Clibbery | United Kingdom | |
| Panic | Sándor Reisenbüchler | | Hungary | Animated short film. Hungarian title: Pánik |
| Phantasm | Don Coscarelli | Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister | United States | |
| Plague | Ed Hunt | Daniel Pilon, Kate Reid, Céline Lomez | Canada United States | |
| Quintet | Robert Altman | Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey | United States | |
| Ravagers | Richard Compton | Richard Harris, Ernest Borgnine, Ann Turkel | United States | |
| Shooting Range | Vladimir Tarasov | | Soviet Union | Animated short film |
| Stalker | Andrey Tarkovskiy | Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoly Solonitsyn | Soviet Union | Art film |
| Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Robert Wise | William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley | United States | |
| Supersonic Man | Juan Piquer Simón | Antonio Cantafora, Cameron Mitchell, Diana Polakov | Spain | |
| The Thing in the Castle | Gottfried Kolditz | Erwin Geschonneck, Vlastimil Brodský, Jaecki Schwarz | East Germany | German title: Das Ding im Schloß |
| Thirst | Rod Hardy | Chantal Contouri, Shirley Cameron, Max Phipps | Australia | Horror |
| Time After Time | Nicholas Meyer | Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner | United States | |
| Under the Constellation Gemini | Boris Ivchenko | Vsevolod Gavrilov, Gennadiy Shkuratov, Boris Belov | Soviet Union | |
| Unidentified Flying Oddball | Russ Mayberry | Dennis Dugan, Jim Dale, Ron Moody | United Kingdom United States | |
| I viaggiatori della sera | Ugo Tognazzi | Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Vanoni, Roberta Paladini | Italy Spain | |
| The Visitor | Giulio Paradisi | Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, Lance Henriksen | Italy United States | |
| The Year of the Plague | Felipe Cazals | Alejandro Parodi, José Carlos Ruiz, Rebeca Silva | Mexico | |