20 Best Sci-Fi Movies on AMC+ 2026
Explore 20 sci-fi picks on AMC+, from The Terminator and Spaceballs to cult horror, action, and new releases, updated regularly for movie-night browsing.
If you’re hunting for the best sci-fi movies on AMC+, this lineup gives you a little of everything: time-travel chaos, alien terror, dark humor, and offbeat future shock. Start with The Terminator (1984) for a classic mix of action and sci-fi, then pivot to Spaceballs (1987) when you want a smarter-than-it-looks parody with real rewatch value. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) brings fast-paced survival energy, while Phantasm (1979) and Humanoids from the Deep (1980) lean into stranger, creepier corners of genre cinema. You’ll also find newer picks like The Spine of Night (2021), The Cured (2017), and Touch Me (2025), which help keep the page fresh across action, adventure, sci-fi, comedy, and action & adventure.
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The Terminator
action · adventure · sci-fi
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?
Directed by James CameronCast Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Lance HenriksenAmazon Prime VideoAMC+More details on IMDb → -
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The One I Love
comedy · drama · fantasy · mystery · romance · sci-fi · thriller
Ethan and Sophie are a married couple on the brink of separation when, at the urging of their therapist, they decide to salvage their relationship by escaping to a beautiful vacation house for the weekend.
Directed by Charlie McDowellCast Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Moss, Ted Danson, Kiana Cason, Kaitlyn DodsonAmazon Prime VideoAMC+FreeveeMore details on IMDb → -
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The Outwaters
horror · sci-fi · thriller
Four travelers encounter menacing phenomena while camping in a remote stretch of the Mojave Desert.
Directed by Robbie BanfitchCast Robbie Banfitch, Angela Basolis, Scott Schamell, Michelle May, Leslie Ann BanfitchAMC+More details on IMDb → -
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The Faculty
horror · mystery · sci-fi
When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make the chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: their teachers really are from another planet!
Directed by Robert RodriguezCast Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, Josh Hartnett, Shawn HatosyAMC+Paramount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse
action & adventure · horror · mystery & thriller · science-fiction · made in europe
As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have turned into zombies. She then joins a small band of elite soldiers, who are enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. Once lack of luck and resources happen, they begin to wage an exhilarating battle to survive and escape before the Umbrella Corporation erases its experiment from the face of the earth.
Directed by Alexander WittCast Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann, Sophie VavasseurAMC+Paramount PlusMore details on IMDb →
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Killer Klowns from Outer Space
comedy · horror · sci-fi
Aliens disguised as clowns crash land on Earth in a rural town to capture unsuspecting victims in cotton candy cocoons for later consumption.
Directed by Stephen ChiodoCast Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, John Vernon, Michael S. SiegelAmazon Prime VideoAMC+More details on IMDb → -
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch
horror · mystery · sci-fi · thriller
After a terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked and brought to the hospital clutching the year's most popular Halloween mask, Dr. Daniel Challis sets out to investigate the strange events and finds himself thrust into a nightmarish conspiracy.
Directed by Tommy Lee WallaceCast Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy, Michael Currie, Ralph StraitAmazon Prime VideoPeacock PremiumAMC+More details on IMDb → -
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The Mist
horror · sci-fi · thriller
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
Directed by Frank DarabontCast Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher, Toby JonesAmazon Prime VideoAMC+FreeveeMore details on IMDb → -
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Spaceballs
adventure · comedy · sci-fi
When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of "The Schwartz." Can he master it in time to save the day?
Directed by Mel BrooksCast Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne ZunigaAmazon Prime VideoAMC+FreeveeMore details on IMDb → -
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Color Out of Space
horror · mystery · sci-fi · thriller
The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.
Directed by Richard StanleyCast Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight, Tommy ChongAMC+More details on IMDb → -
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WarGames
3 Oscar nominations Best Original Screenplay (1984)
action · drama · sci-fi · thriller
High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
Directed by John BadhamCast Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry CorbinAMC+More details on IMDb → -
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Land of the Dead
horror · sci-fi · thriller
The living dead have taken over the world, and the remaining humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they cope with the situation.
Directed by George A. RomeroCast Simon Baker, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Asia Argento, Robert JoyAmazon Prime VideoAMC+More details on IMDb → -
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Face/Off
1 Oscar nomination
action · crime · sci-fi · thriller
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.
Directed by John WooCast John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, Gina GershonAMC+More details on IMDb → -
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V/H/S/94
fantasy · horror · mystery · sci-fi · thriller
After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police SWAT team launches a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.
Directed by Simon Barrett, Steven Kostanski, Chloe Okuno, Ryan Prows, Jennifer ReederCast Anna Hopkins, Christian Potenza, Brian Paul, Tim Campbell, Gina Louise PhillipsAMC+More details on IMDb → -
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Before the Fall
crime · drama · mystery & thriller · science-fiction
A meteorite is about to collide with Earth and the planet is gripped by despair and chaos. The inhabitants of the little town of Laguna listen to the news in terror. Ale decides to spend his last days shut away, getting drunk and listening to his favorite music. But his plans change when he is forced to help his mother and protect his brother’s four children. Then an ambiguous, disturbing stranger appears.
Directed by F. Javier GutiérrezCast Víctor Clavijo, Mariana Cordero, Eduard Fernández, Elvira de Armiñán, Ana de las CuevasAMC+More details on IMDb → -
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Humanoids from the Deep
horror · sci-fi
After a new cannery introduces scientifically augmented salmon to a seaside town in the Pacific Northwest, a species of mysterious, mutated sea creatures begin killing the men and raping the women.
Directed by Barbara Peeters, Jimmy T. MurakamiCast Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow, Cindy Weintraub, Anthony PenaAmazon Prime VideoAMC+FreeveeMore details on IMDb → -
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Touch Me
comedy · horror · sci-fi
Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world.
Directed by Addison HeimannCast Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jordan Gavaris, Marlene Forte, Paget BrewsterAMC+More details on IMDb → -
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The Spine of Night
animation · action · adventure · fantasy · horror · sci-fi
When ancient dark magic falls into sinister hands and unleashes ages of suffering onto mankind, a group of heroes from different eras and cultures must band together in order to defeat it at all costs.
Directed by Philip Gelatt, Morgan Galen KingCast Richard E. Grant, Lucy Lawless, Patton Oswalt, Betty Gabriel, Joe ManganielloAMC+More details on IMDb → -
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Phantasm
horror · sci-fi
A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.
Directed by Don CoscarelliCast A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister, Kathy Lester, Terrie KalbusAmazon Prime VideoPeacock PremiumAMC+FreeveeMore details on IMDb → -
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The Cured
drama · horror · sci-fi · thriller
What happens when the undead return to life? In a world ravaged for years by a virus that turns the infected into zombie-like cannibals, a cure is at last found and the wrenching process of reintegrating the survivors back into society begins.
Directed by David FreyneCast Elliot Page, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Stuart Graham, Paula MalcomsonAMC+Paramount PlusMore details on IMDb →
Wrapping Up
This collection works because it doesn’t stop at the obvious favorites; it also surfaces cult oddities, newer releases, and genre blends that make AMC+ worth browsing. Whether you want a sharp sci-fi classic, a campy detour, or something more unsettling, there’s enough variety here to match different moods and movie nights. Bookmark this page and come back when you want a quick answer without digging through the catalog yourself. It’s updated regularly, so the mix can shift as new titles arrive and old ones rotate out.
Frequently Asked Questions
How often is this list updated?
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Do I need a AMC+ subscription to watch these?
Yes — every title on this list is currently available on AMC+. Availability can change, so we recommend checking the streaming link on each title before you start watching.
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