20 Best Sci-Fi Movies on Starz 2026
Find the top sci-fi picks streaming on Starz, from Back to the Future and Looper to Minority Report, Waterworld, and more fan favorites.
If you’re hunting for the best sci-fi movies on Starz, this list makes it easy to jump straight to the good stuff. You’ll find time-bending thrills in Back to the Future and Looper, sharp future-noir tension in Minority Report, and offbeat fun in Evolution. For viewers who like their genre picks with more grit, Priest and Waterworld bring action-heavy worlds with big stakes, while Atlas Shrugged: Part I and Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike lean into drama-driven sci-fi ideas. With 20 titles on the page, there’s a solid mix of action, adventure, comedy, and science-fiction to match whatever mood you’re in.
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Jurassic Park
Won 3 Oscars
adventure · sci-fi
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
Directed by Steven SpielbergCast Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob PeckHuluStarzDisney PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Won 4 Oscars Best Picture (1983) · 9 nominations
action & adventure · kids & family · science-fiction
An alien is left behind on Earth and saved by the 10-year-old Elliott who decides to keep him hidden in his home. While a task force hunts for the extra-terrestrial, Elliott, his brother, and his little sister Gertie form an emotional bond with their new friend, and try to help him find his way home.
Directed by Steven SpielbergCast Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, Drew BarrymoreStarzMore details on IMDb → -
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Minority Report
1 Oscar nomination
action · crime · mystery · sci-fi · thriller
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
Directed by Steven SpielbergCast Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow, Steve Harris, Neal McDonough, Patrick KilpatrickAmazon Prime VideoStarzParamount PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Ant-Man
1 BAFTA Film Award nomination
action · comedy · sci-fi
Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Doctor Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.
Directed by Peyton ReedCast Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Bobby CannavaleStarzDisney PlusMore details on IMDb → -
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Black Sheep
comedy · horror · sci-fi
After a childhood prank by his brother Angus causes Henry to develop a phobia of sheep, he must step up to the onslaught of a genetically-mutated man-eating flock with the help of his friend and a young environmentalist.
Directed by Jonathan KingCast Matthew Chamberlain, Nick Fenton, Sam Clarke, Eli Kent, Nathan MeisterStarzMore details on IMDb →
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Looper
action · drama · sci-fi · thriller
In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
Directed by Rian JohnsonCast Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Noah SeganStarzMore details on IMDb → -
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Priest
action · fantasy · horror · sci-fi · thriller
In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down. He is accompanied by the niece's boyfriend, who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess.
Directed by Scott StewartCast Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Lily CollinsStarzMore details on IMDb → -
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Waterworld
1 Oscar nomination
action · adventure · sci-fi
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.
Directed by Kevin ReynoldsCast Kevin Costner, Chaim Jeraffi, Rick Aviles, R.D. Call, Zitto KazannStarzMore details on IMDb → -
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Atlas Shrugged: Part I
drama · mystery · sci-fi
Railroad executive Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden form an alliance to fight the increasingly authoritarian government of the United States.
Directed by Paul JohanssonCast Taylor Schilling, Grant Bowler, Matthew Marsden, Edi Gathegi, Jsu GarciaNetflixStarzMore details on IMDb → -
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Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike
drama · mystery · sci-fi
Railroad owner Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden search desperately for the inventor of a revolutionary motor as the U.S. government continues to spread its control over the national economy.
Directed by John PutchCast Diedrich Bader, Jason Beghe, Jordana Capra, Jennifer Cortese, Rebecca DunnNetflixStarzMore details on IMDb → -
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Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?
drama · mystery · sci-fi
In a post-apocalyptic America, the iron fist of the totalitarian government seeks to crush one mysterious man named John Galt, who has the power and influence to change everything...
Directed by James ManeraCast Kristoffer Polaha, Laura Regan, Peter Mackenzie, Greg Germann, Larry CedarNetflixStarzMore details on IMDb → -
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2012
action · adventure · sci-fi
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.
Directed by Roland EmmerichCast John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandiwe Newton, Oliver PlattHuluStarzMore details on IMDb → -
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Volcano
action · drama · sci-fi · thriller
An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.
Directed by Mick JacksonCast Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann, Don Cheadle, Jacqueline KimStarzMore details on IMDb → -
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1 Oscar nomination
action · adventure · sci-fi
Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.
Directed by Steven SpielbergCast Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Arliss Howard, Richard AttenboroughHuluStarzMore details on IMDb → -
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Let Us In
horror · sci-fi
A 12 year old girl is determined to uncover who or what is behind the rash of disappearances occurring in her small town.
Directed by Craig MossCast Makenzie Moss, O'Neill Monahan, Eric Callero, Tobin Bell, Sadie StanleyStarzMore details on IMDb → -
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Jurassic Park III
action · adventure · sci-fi · thriller
In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla Sorna. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose and the stranded wayfarers must fight for survival as a host of new -- and even more deadly -- dinosaurs try to make snacks of them.
Directed by Joe JohnstonCast Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor MorganHuluStarzMore details on IMDb → -
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Battle of the Damned
action & adventure · horror · mystery & thriller · science-fiction
Following a deadly viral outbreak, private military soldier Max Gatling leads a handful of survivors and a ragtag band of robots against an army of the infected.
Directed by Christopher HattonCast Dolph Lundgren, Melanie Zanetti, Matt Doran, David Field, Jen Kuo SungStarzMore details on IMDb → -
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Doom
action · horror · sci-fi
A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge, is sent to a science facility on Mars after somebody reports a security breach. There, they learn that the alert came after a test subject, a mass murderer purposefully injected with alien DNA, broke free and began killing people. Dr. Grimm, who is related to team member Reaper, informs them all that the chromosome can mutate humans into monsters -- and is highly infectious.
Directed by Andrzej BartkowiakCast Dwayne Johnson, Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike, Deobia Oparei, Ben DanielsStarzMore details on IMDb → -
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Black Ops
action · horror · sci-fi
Special ops squad "Hell's Bastards" are sent to infiltrate a civil war to retrieve intel. The unit soon find themselves trapped on a never-ending stairwell forced to climb or die. To survive, they must revisit their past sins if they ever want to get off.
Directed by Tom PatonCast Shayne Ward, Bentley Kalu, Samantha Schnitzler, Alana Wallace, Toby OsmondStarzMore details on IMDb → -
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Death Race
action · sci-fi · thriller
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.
Directed by Paul W.S. AndersonCast Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Ian McShane, Tyrese Gibson, Natalie MartinezStarzMore details on IMDb →
Wrapping Up
Whether you want clever concepts, fast-moving action, or a more character-driven sci-fi story, this roundup gives you a strong place to start. From crowd-pleasers like Back to the Future to deeper cuts such as Atlas Shrugged: Part I and Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike, the lineup covers plenty of different tastes. Bookmark this page so you can come back whenever you want a fresh pick, and check in again as it’s updated regularly with new streaming changes.
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