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1. The Thing (1982)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur
Votes: 466,841 | Gross: $13.78M
2. Meg 2: The Trench (2023)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A research team encounters multiple threats while exploring the depths of the ocean, including a malevolent mining operation.
Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Jason Statham, Jing Wu, Shuya Sophia Cai, Cliff Curtis
Votes: 78,461 | Gross: $82.60M
3. The Meg (2018)
PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of scientists exploring the Marianas Trench encounter the largest marine predator that has ever existed - the Megalodon.
Director: Jon Turteltaub | Stars: Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn Wilson, Cliff Curtis
Votes: 207,616 | Gross: $143.01M
4. GoldenEye (1995)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Years after a friend and fellow 00 agent is killed on a joint mission, a secret space based weapons program known as "GoldenEye" is stolen. James Bond is assigned to stop a Russian crime syndicate from using the weapon.
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen
Votes: 270,279 | Gross: $106.60M
5. Underwater (2020)
PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A crew of oceanic researchers working for a deep sea drilling company try to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their deepwater research and drilling facility located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Director: William Eubank | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, Mamoudou Athie, T.J. Miller
Votes: 97,199 | Gross: $17.29M
6. Deep Blue Sea (1999)
R | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Searching for a cure to Alzheimer's disease, a group of scientists on an isolated research facility become the prey, as a trio of intelligent sharks fight back.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, Samuel L. Jackson, Jacqueline McKenzie
Votes: 142,592 | Gross: $73.65M
7. Jason X (2001)
R | 92 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Jason Voorhees is cryogenically frozen at the beginning of the 21st century, and is discovered in the 25th century and taken to space. He gets thawed, and begins stalking and killing the crew of the spaceship that's transporting him.
Director: James Isaac | Stars: Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig, Jeff Geddis, David Cronenberg
Votes: 61,547 | Gross: $13.12M
8. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
PG | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.
Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 129,243 | Gross: $78.91M
9. The Midnight Sky (2020)
PG-13 | 118 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
This post-apocalyptic tale follows Augustine, a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully and her fellow astronauts from returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
Director: George Clooney | Stars: George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Caoilinn Springall
Votes: 89,463
10. The Silent Sea (2021)
TV-MA | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
During a perilous 24-hour mission on the moon, space explorers try to retrieve samples from an abandoned research facility steeped in classified secrets.
Stars: Bae Doona, Gong Yoo, Lee Joon, Kim Sun-young
Votes: 25,208
11. Piranha (1978)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies-Urich, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 24,720 | Gross: $6.00M
12. Whiteout (2009)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko tracks a killer in Antarctica as the sun is about to set for six months.
Director: Dominic Sena | Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt, Columbus Short
Votes: 40,857 | Gross: $10.28M
13. Morgan (2016)
R | 92 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A corporate risk-management consultant must decide whether or not to terminate an artificially created humanoid being.
Director: Luke Scott | Stars: Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rose Leslie, Michael Yare
Votes: 46,114 | Gross: $3.91M
14. Saturn 3 (1980)
R | 88 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid belt of Saturn are intruded upon by an anal-retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent eight foot tall robot.
Directors: Stanley Donen, John Barry | Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel, Ed Bishop
Votes: 10,491
15. Black Crab (2022)
TV-MA | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In a post-apocalyptic world, six soldiers on a covert mission must transport a mysterious package across a frozen archipelago. Noomi Rapace stars.
Director: Adam Berg | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Jakob Oftebro, Dar Salim, Erik Enge
Votes: 26,340
16. Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018 Video)
R | 94 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A brilliant billionaire creates five genetically altered bull sharks, which proceed to wreak havoc for a group of scientists on an isolated research facility.
Director: Darin Scott | Stars: Danielle Savre, Rob Mayes, Michael Beach, Nathan Lynn
Votes: 8,321
17. Forbidden World (1982)
R | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.
Director: Allan Holzman | Stars: Don Olivera, Jesse Vint, June Chadwick, Linden Chiles
Votes: 6,298
18. Phase IV (1974)
PG | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Suddenly, desert ants form a group intelligence and wage war on the humans. It's up to a couple of scientists and a girl to stop them
Director: Saul Bass | Stars: Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick, Alan Gifford
Votes: 9,578
19. Skyfire (2019)
Not Rated | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Tianhuo Island is as beautiful as a paradise. It almost makes people forget that it is located in the "Ring of Fire" the world-famous Pacific Rim volcanic belt. The volcano erupted, and the fate of the people in the island was entangled.
Director: Simon West | Stars: Bee Rogers, Alice Rietveld, Xueqi Wang, Hannah Quinlivan
Votes: 4,182
20. 6-Headed Shark Attack (2018 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Attendees of a marriage boot camp on a remote island have to fight a 6-headed shark that attacks the beach.
Director: Mark Atkins | Stars: Brandon Auret, Thandi Sebe, Cord Newman, Naima Sebe
Votes: 1,547
21. Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell (2018 Video)
PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The new sequel finds Burt Gummer, who's dying from Graboid poison, and his son Travis at a remote research station in Canada's Nunavut Territory, where they must go up against a new batch of Graboids to save Burt's life.
Director: Don Michael Paul | Stars: Jay Anstey, Alistair Moulton Black, Paul du Toit, Michael Gross
Votes: 6,916
22. Bear Island (1979)
PG | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
On the remote Norwegian Bear Island, used as a submarine base by the Germans during World War II, U.N. scientist Larsen sends a distress signal using an emergency N.A.T.O. frequency, and is received by scientific vessel Morning Rose.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee
Votes: 2,736
23. Virus (1980)
PG | 108 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
After a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Masao Kusakari, Tsunehiko Watase, Isao Natsuyagi, Shin'ichi Chiba
Votes: 3,044
24. The Satan Bug (1965)
Approved | 114 min | Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A germ that could destroy life on Earth is stolen from a biological warfare lab and the thief threatens to release it into the open, prompting a security officer to act.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews
Votes: 3,040
25. Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
G | 99 min | Documentary
Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the characters living there.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Werner Herzog, Scott Rowland, Stefan Pashov, Doug MacAyeal
Votes: 19,257 | Gross: $0.94M
26. Ice Soldiers (2013)
R | 95 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A scientist discovers the bodies of three frozen genetically modified Russians buried in the Canadian North. Upon thawing them out he realizes he has unleashed a deadly threat to Western society and must stop them at all costs.
Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: Dominic Purcell, Adam Beach, Gabriel Hogan, Michael Ironside
Votes: 2,919
27. Blood Glacier (2013)
Not Rated | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Scientists working in the Austrian Alps discover that a glacier is leaking a liquid that appears to be affecting local wildlife.
Director: Marvin Kren | Stars: Gerhard Liebmann, Edita Malovcic, Santos, Hille Beseler
Votes: 4,121
28. Nazis at the Center of the Earth (2012 Video)
R | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Researchers in Antarctica are abducted and dragged underground by a team of Nazi survivors planning the revival of the Third Reich.
Director: Joseph J. Lawson | Stars: Dominique Swain, Jake Busey, Joshua Michael Allen, Christopher Karl Johnson
Votes: 3,871
29. Deep Shock (2003 TV Movie)
R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A mysterious trench has formed on the ocean floor, and a deadly species of creature emerges from the depths.
Director: Phillip J. Roth | Stars: David Keith, Simmone Mackinnon, Mark Sheppard, Sean Whalen
Votes: 1,077
30. Sometimes They Come Back... for More (1998 Video)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
On a arctic circle radio shack, an ancient evil lurks, ready to strike at a psychologist, an army man and their collective forces.
Director: Daniel Zelik Berk | Stars: Clayton Rohner, Faith Ford, Max Perlich, Chase Masterson
Votes: 2,529
31. Land Shark (2017)
Unrated | 80 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Lucinda Regis, Director of Development at MALCO Oceanic Research, becomes the target of a dangerous killer after unraveling a sinister plot to inject sharks with human DNA.
Director: Mark Polonia | Stars: Sarah French, Peter Baldo, Kathryn Sue Young, Eric Spudic
Votes: 468
32. Operation Delta Force (1997 TV Movie)
R | 93 min | Action, Thriller
A team of military experts and scientists go after a terrorist group that has seized a deadly virus and is threatening to release it.
Director: Sam Firstenberg | Stars: Ernie Hudson, Jeff Fahey, Rob Stewart, Frank Zagarino
Votes: 1,035
33. Ice Sharks (2016 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A group of scientists at a research facility based in the Arctic battle a breed of sharks that have invaded Arctic waters.
Director: Emile Edwin Smith | Stars: Edward DeRuiter, Jenna Parker, Kaiwi Lyman, Clarissa Thibeaux
Votes: 1,449
34. Frozen Sasquatch (2018)
73 min | Horror
Scientists investigate mysterious disappearances at a research base where it has been reported a savage creature was spotted.
Director: Mark Polonia | Stars: Titus Himmelberger, Natalie Himmelberger, Noyes J. Lawton, Jamie Morgan
Votes: 142
35. Virus Shark (2021)
Not Rated | 74 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The world is ravaged by a new virus, SHVID-1, spread by a shark bite. At the bottom of the ocean, a group of scientists are racing against the clock to find a cure.
Director: Mark Polonia | Stars: Jamie Morgan, Steve Diasparra, Ken Van Sant, Natalie Himmelberger
Votes: 412
36. Lake Vostok: At the Mountains of Madness (2017)
90 min | Documentary
More than 100 years ago, explorers raced to discover the South Pole. Now scientists are racing to discover the secret subterranean world of rivers and lakes buried miles beneath it. In 1974... See full summary »
Director: Ekaterina Eremenko
Votes: 15
37. Metroid: Fusion (2002 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Mystery
After the Metroids were considered to be wiped out, the deadlier X parasites attack Samus. She is given a new suit after her near-death experience and returns to an empty Galactic Federation station, where something seems out of place.
Director: Yoshio Sakamoto
Votes: 945
38. Wende im Eis - Die Geschichte der letzten DDR-Antarktisforscher (2020 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, History
In 1989, thirteen GDR scientists and technicians set off from East Berlin to the Georg Forster research station in the Antarctic. During their expedition the Berlin Wall fell on November ... See full summary »
Director: Anna Schmidt | Stars: Hans Henrik Wöhler, Jean-Baptiste Marcenac, Norbert Flaake, Thomas Gerloff
Votes: 12
39. The Steps with No Name (2020)
124 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Ample white, glistening polar light, a silhouette in the distance: Ray Mondt was a polar explorer, a seeker who never shied away from any obstacles on the path of knowledge. His workplace: ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Smithee | Stars: Stefan Lampadius, Tancredi Volpert, Fari Shams, Simon Rußig
40. Men in Black: The Game (1997 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Survival horror game loosely based on the first Men in Black film. Jay, Kay, Laurel and Zed investigate four separate cases set in New York, the Arctic, Brazil and the Pacific Ocean that have one thing in common - an alien conspiracy.
Directors: David Koenig, Yoni Koenig | Stars: Mystro Clark, Victor Brandt, Lani Minella, Nicholas Reiner
Votes: 69
41. 72 gradusa nizhe nulya (1977)
81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A mission to save Antarctic station "Vostok" faces deadly cold and fuel freezes. Despite despair and desertion, perseverance and a heroic act of redemption guide the team to safety against all odds in polar autumn.
Directors: Sergei Danilin, Yevgeni Tatarsky | Stars: Nikolay Kryuchkov, Aleksandr Abdulov, Oleg Korchikov, Yuriy Demich
Votes: 77
42. Les aventures d'archives
Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi | Post-production
Director: Tyler Meyer | Stars: Elvis Presley, Charles Chaplin, Walt Disney, Barack Obama
43. Great Barrier Reef (1968)
27 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
Stars: Robert Bustard, Frank Talbot
44. The Thing (2016 Video Game)
Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Fan-made RPG Maker sequel to the official 2002 The Thing video game. Set after the events of The Thing (1982), gamers play as a rescue team sent on a mission to find Captain Blake and escort him back to Alaska.
Director: Richard Smith | Stars: Stephen Farbman, Joe Filippone, Tuong Klein, Elissa Park
Votes: 26
45. Antarkticheskaya povest (1980 TV Movie)
219 min | Adventure, Drama
Director: Sergey Tarasov | Stars: Konstantin Grígoryev, Anatoliy Romashin, Aleksandr Vdovin, Aleksandr Belyavskiy
Votes: 21
48.
Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
Episode:
The Hastings Secret
(1955)
30 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A team of investigators go to Peru after incomplete notes are sent from Dr Hastings. They know he was working on new insecticides to use against termites, but when they arrive at the ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Herzberg | Stars: Truman Bradley, Bill Williams, Barbara Hale, Morris Ankrum
Votes: 32
49.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
The Empath
(1968)
TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Trapped in an alien laboratory, Kirk, Spock and McCoy meet an empath and are involved in a series of experiments.
Director: John Erman | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Kathryn Hays
Votes: 3,172
50.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
A Matter of Perspective
(1990)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The widow of respected scientist Dr. Nel Apgar accuses Riker of seducing her and killing her husband. Rather than turn Riker over for unfavorable trial, the Enterprise reconstructs the facts.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,335