2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968) (UK/US)

Akira (Otomo, 1988)  (Japanese)

Aniara (Kagerman/Lilja, 2018) (Swedish) - saddest sf ever made?

Arrival (Villeneuve, 2016) (US)

Avalon (Oshii, 2001) (Japanese)

Big Man Japan (Matsumoto, 2007) (Japanese) - wicked satire

Black Sheep (King, 2006) (New Zealand) - also wicked satire

Brainstorm (Trumbull, 1983) (US)

Brother from Another Planet (Sayles, 1984) (US)

Children of Men (Cuaron, 2006) (US/UK)

Code 46 (Winterbottom, 2003) (UK)

Cosmic Journey (Zhuralvyov, 1936) (Russian) - the only Stalinist space epic, a beauty

Cube (Natali, 1997) (Canadian)

Day the Earth Caught Fire (Guest, 1961) (UK)

Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise, 1950) (US)

Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964) (US)

Earth Girls Are Easy (Temple, 1988) (US) -- underappreciated gem

Enter the Void (Noe, 2009) (French) -- visionary meta-sf

Ex Machina (Garland, 2015) (US)

Forbidden Planet (Wilcox, 1956) (US)

G.O.R.A. (Sorak, 2004) (Turkish) -- loony Turkish self-satire

Gattaca (Niccol, 1997) (US)

Ghost in the Shell (Oshii, 1996) (Japanese)

Grabbers (Jon Wright, 2011) (Irish) -- hilarious, one of my favorites

Happy Accidents (Anderson, 2011) (US) - underappreciated gem

Hard to be a God (German, 2015) (Russian)

Holy Motors (Carax, 2012) (French) -- visionary meta-sf

Idiocracy (Judge, 2006) (US)

Incredible Shrinking Man (Arnold, 1957) (US)

Infestation (Rankin, 2009) (US) -- beautiful cheese

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Siegel, 1956) (US)

It Happened Here (Bronlow/Mollo) (UK)

King Kong (Cooper, 1933) (US)

La Antena (Sapir, 2007) (Argentine) - beautiful, silent sf allegory

La Jetee (Marker, 1962) (French)

Last Night (McKellar, 1998) (Canadian) - barely sf, but very warm

Letters from a Dead Man (Lopunshanskiy, 1986) (Russian)

Liquid Sky (Tsukerman, 1982) (US) -- pure indy strangeness

Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (Miller, 1985) (Australian)

Man Facing Southeast (Subielo, 1986) (Argentine) - one of the best sf allegories

Metropolis (Rintaro, 2001) (Japanese) - I much prefer it to the Lang original

Miracle Mile (DeJarnatt, 1988) (US) - underappreciated gem

Monsters (Edwards, 2010) (US)

Moon (Jones, 2009) (US).

Mr. Nobody (Van Dormael, 2009) (Belgian)

Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (Ward, 1988) (New Zealand) - underappreciated gem

Paprika (Kon, 2006) (Japanese)

Pi (Aronofsky, 1998) (Canadian)

Planeta Bur (Klushantsev, 1962) (Soviet)

Primer (Carruth, 2004) (US)

Save the Green Planet (Jang, 2003) (South Korean)

Scanners (Cronenberg, 1981) (Canadian)

Seconds (Frankenheimer, 1966) (US)

Shin Godzilla (Anno/Higuchi, 2016) (Japanese) - my favorite Godzilla

Sleep Dealer (Rivera, 2008) (US/Mexican)

Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972) (Russian)

Southland Tales (Kelly, 2006) (US)

Space Traders (Hudlin, 1994) (US) – a segment for Cosmic Slop, a mind-blowing African-American adaptation of the famous story by Derrick Bell.

Space Truckers (Gordon, 1996) (US) – pure B-movie ecstasy, smart, funny, and surprising.

Stalker (Tarkovksy, 1972) (Russian)

Strange Days (Bigelow, 1995) (US)

The Cosmonaut (Alacala, 2013) (Spanish) – a poetic, romantic shoestring indy film, very inventive

The Congress (Folman, 2013) (Israeli) – half live action, half animated adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s Futurological Congress.

The Fly (Cronenberg, 1986) (Canadian)

The World Sinks Except Japan (Kawasaki, 2006) (Japanese) – Japanese satire of themselves and Americans

They Live (Carpenter, 1988) (US) - maybe the greatest B-movie political sf allegory ever made

Thomas in Love (Renders, 2000) (Belgian) –  warm, funny, but also disorienting; underappreciated.

THX-1138 (Luca, 1971) (US)

Uforia (Binder, 1985) (US) –  indy satire, with some of the best country music you’ll ever hear in an sf film

Videodrome (Cronenberg, 1983) (Canadian)

Village of the Damned (Rilla, 1960) (UK)

Wall-E (Stanton, 2008) (US)

Wild in the Streets (Shear, 1968) (US)

Zardoz (Boorman, 1974) (UK) – so camp it’s avant-garde.