Best Sci-Fi Movies for Kids

Space has been an intriguing and fascinating subject, especially for children, and space movies for kids are both entertaining and educative. With the latest developments in technology, frequently new finding reveals some knowledge and adds to the puzzle of various mysteries.

There are many movies that enhance the experience of learning about space by presenting them as mysteries. We have brought you a list of English Sci Fi movies for kids.

Best Sci Fi Movies for Kids

Here’s a list of some of the best English Sci-Fi movies for kids.

1. Aliens in the Attic

Duration1 hour 26 minutes
Directed byJohn Schultz
IMDb Rating8.3
Rotten Tomatoes Rating60%
Release Year2009
CastAshley Boettcher, Austin Butler, Carter Jenkins, Walt Jones, Mike O’Neal, Keith Roberts, Douglas Smith, Roberto Smith, Ashley Tisdale
sci fi movies for kids

The first on the list of sci fi movies for kids is Allieans in the Attic. A family vacation is anything but restful when young Tom Pearson (Carter Jenkins), his siblings, and his cousins encounter an invading force of tiny aliens who are bent on conquering Earth. 

The aliens gain control of Ricky, the boyfriend of Tom’s sister Bethany (Ashley Tisdale). Using an implant in his brain, they use him to carry out their plot. When Tom learns that the implant works only on grown-ups, he sees a chance to fight off the invaders — but only if the adults are kept clueless.

2. Ant-Man

Duration1 hour 58 minutes
Directed byPeyton Reed
IMDb Rating7.3
Rotten Tomatoes Rating87.5%
Release Year2015
CastPaul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Corey Stoll, Evangeline Lilly, Bobby Cannavale, Anthony Mackie, Judy Greer, Abby Ryder Fortson, Michael Peña, David Dastmalchian, Wood Harris, Hayley Atwell, John Slattery
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Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, con-man Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Dr. 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.

3. Astro Boy

Duration1 hour 34 minutes
Directed byDavid Bowers
IMDb Rating6.2
Rotten Tomatoes Rating60%
Release Year2009
CastAnimated Movie

Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Charlize Theron, Ryan Stiles, Eugene Levy, Donald Sutherland, Bill Nighy, David Alan Grier, Alan Tudyk, Newell Alexander, Bob Logan
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Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he has lost. Unable to fulfill the grieving man’s expectations, our hero embarks on a journey in search of acceptance, experiencing betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before he returns to save Metro City and reconcile with the father who had rejected him.

4. Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Duration1 hour 35 minutes
Directed byGary Trousdale and Kirk Wise
IMDb Rating7.1
Rotten Tomatoes Rating58%
Release Year2001
CastMichael J. Fox, Corey Burton, Jim Varney, Claudia Christian, James Garner, John Mahoney, Phil Morris, Leonard Nimoy, Don Novello, Jacqueline Obradors, Florence Stanley, David Ogden Stiers, Natalie Strom, Cree Summer
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Milo Thatch, grandson of the great Thaddeus Thatch works in the boiler room of a museum. He knows that Atlantis was real, and he can get there if he has the mysterious Shepherd journal, which can guide him to Atlantis. But he needs someone to fund a voyage. His employer thinks he’s dotty, and refuses to fund any crazy idea. 

He returns home to his apartment and finds a woman there. She takes him to Preston B. Whitmore, an old friend of his Grandfather.

He gives him the shepherd journal, a submarine, and a 5-star crew. They travel through the Atlantic ocean, face a large lobster called the Leviathan, and finally get to Atlantis. But does the Atlantis crew have a lust for discovery, or something else?

5. Big Hero 6

Duration1 hour 42 minutes
Directed byDon Hall and Chris Williams
IMDb Rating7.4
Rotten Tomatoes Rating70%
Release Year2014
CastAnimated Movie

Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, Jamie Chung, T.J. Miller, Daniel Henney, Damon Wayans Jr., Genesis Rodriguez, James Cromwell, Alan Tudyk, Maya Rudolph, Abraham Benrubi, Katie Lowes
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When a devastating event befalls the city of San Fransokyo and catapults Hiro into the midst of danger, he turns to Baymax and his close friends’ adrenaline junkie Go Go Tomago, neatnik Wasabi, chemistry whiz Honey Lemon and fanboy Fred. Determined to uncover the mystery, Hiro transforms his friends into a band of high-tech heroes called “Big Hero 6.”

6. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Duration1 hour 55 minutes
Directed bySteven Spielberg
IMDb Rating7.9
Rotten Tomatoes Rating92%
Release Year1982
CastHenry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton, K.C. Martel, Sean Frye, C. Thomas Howell, Erika Eleniak, David M. O’Dell, Richard Swingler
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After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott (Henry Thomas). Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister, Gertie (Drew Barrymore), and the children decide to keep its existence a secret. Soon, however, E.T. falls ill, resulting in government intervention and a dire situation for both Elliott and the alien.

7. Escape from Planet Earth

Duration1 hour 29 minutes
Directed byCal Brunker
IMDb Rating7.1
Rotten Tomatoes Rating77%
Release Year2012
CastAnimated Movie

Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Alba, Rob Corddry, Ricky Gervais, Jonathan Morgan Heit, Sofía Vergara, Paul Scheer, Jason Simpson, Doug Abrahams, Jason Benson, Trevor Devall
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The story takes place on planet Baab where admired astronaut Scorch Supernova (Brendan Fraser) is a national hero to the blue alien population. A master of daring rescues, Scorch pulls off astonishing feats with the quiet aid of his nerdy brother, Gary (Rob Corddry), head of mission control at BASA.

8. Explorers

Duration1 hour 49 minutes
Directed byJoe Dante
IMDb Rating6.4
Rotten Tomatoes Rating62.5%
Release Year1985
CastEthan Hawke, River Phoenix, Bobby Fite, Bradley Gregg, Georg Olden, Chance Schwass, Amanda Peterson, Danny Nucci, Jason Presson, Dana Ivey
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This space adventure stars Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix as misfit best friends whose dreams of space travel become a reality when they create an interplanetary spacecraft in their homemade laboratory. Ben Crandall is a young visionary who dreams of space travel while watching late-night B monster movies, pouring over comic books, and playing Galaga in the confines of his bedroom.

But one night he has a vivid dream of flying over a space-like circuit board and shares his visions with his best friend Wolfgang Muller, a young scientific genius who is able to translate his dreams into a complex computer program that actually works. With the help of their new friend Darren Woods, they create a homemade spacecraft and embark on a secret adventure to another galaxy where they find that things are not always as different as they seem.

9. Flight of the Navigator

Duration1 hour 30 minutes
Directed byRandal Kleiser
IMDb Rating6.9
Rotten Tomatoes Rating80%
Release Year1986
CastJoey Cramer, Paul Reubens, Cliff De Young, Veronica Cartwright, Sarah Jessica Parker, Albie Whitaker, Matt Adler, Howard Hesseman, Robert Small, Jonathan Sanger, Iris Acker, Richard Liberty
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A 12-year-old boy goes missing in 1978, only to reappear once more in 1986. In the eight years that have passed, he hasn’t aged. It is no coincidence that at the time he “comes back”, a flying saucer is found, entangled in power lines.

10. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

Duration1 hour 22 minutes
Directed byJohn A. Davis
IMDb Rating6.7
Rotten Tomatoes Rating60%
Release Year2001
CastAnimated Movie

Debi Derryberry, Rob Paulsen, Megan Cavanagh, Mark DeCarlo, Jeffrey Garcia, Bob Goen, Mary Hart, Carolyn Lawrence, Andrea Martin, Candi Milo, Crystal Scales, Martin Short
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Jimmy Neutron is a boy genius and way ahead of his friends, but when it comes to being cool, he’s a little behind. All until one day when his parents and parents all over Earth are kidnapped by aliens, it’s up to him to lead all the children of the world to rescue their parents.

11. Journey to the Center of the Earth

Duration1 hour 33 minutes
Directed byEric Brevig
IMDb Rating6.1
Rotten Tomatoes Rating80%
Release Year2008
CastBrendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem, Seth Meyers, Jean Michel Paré, Jane Wheeler, Frank Fontaine, Giancarlo Caltabiano, Kaniehtiio Horn, Garth Gilker
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Professor Trevor Anderson receives his teenager nephew Sean Anderson. He will spend ten days with his uncle while his mother, Elizabeth, prepares to move to Canada. She gives a box to Trevor that belonged to his missing brother, Max, and Trevor finds a book with references to the last journey of his brother.

He decides to follow the steps Max with Sean and they travel to Iceland, where they meet the guide Hannah Ásgeirsson. While climbing a mountain, there is a thunderstorm and they protect themselves in a cave. However, lightning collapses the entrance and the trio is trapped in the cave. They seek an exit and fall in a hole, discovering a lost world in the center of the Earth.

12. Lilo & Stitch

Duration1 hour 25 minutes
Directed byChris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
IMDb Rating7.3
Rotten Tomatoes Rating80
Release Year2002
CastAnimated Movie 

Daveigh Chase, Chris Sanders, Tia Carrere, David Ogden Stiers, Kevin McDonald, Ving Rhames, Zoe Caldwell, Jason Scott Lee, Kevin Michael Richardson, Susan Hegarty
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In a place far, far away, illegal genetic experiment #626 is detected: Ruthless scientist Dr. Jumba Jookiba has created a strong, intelligent, nearly indestructible and aggressive being with only one known weakness: The high density of his body makes it impossible for the experiment to swim in the water. The scientist is sentenced to jail by the Grand Council of the Galactic Federation.

The experiment is supposed to be transported to a prison asteroid, yet manages to escape Captain Gantu, who was supposed to deliver him there. With a stolen police cruiser (the red one), the destructive being races towards a little and already doomed planet: Earth. Stranded in Hawaii, experiment #626 can’t actually do much harm: water all around, no big cities, and two well-equipped representatives of the Galactic Federation already following close behind to catch him again.

But Dr. Jookiba and the Earth expert Pleakley never could have guessed that earth girl Lilo adopts the experiment as a dog, gives him the name Stitch and actually causes an emotional development in the little beast. Her dysfunctional family, consisting only of Lilo and her sister Nani, is about to be ripped apart by social worker Cobra Bubbles. Stitch as the new family member brings quite some action into all their lives, and after a while, not even Pleakley and Dr. Jookiba can recognize their former target. But how shall they bring the news of failure to the Grand Councilwoman without being punished?

13. Mars Needs Moms

Duration1 hour 28 minutes
Directed bySimon Wells
IMDb Rating6.7
Rotten Tomatoes Rating80%
Release Year2011
CastSeth Green, Joan Cusack, Dan Fogler, Elisabeth Harnois, Mindy Sterling, Kevin Cahoon, Tom Everett Scott, Jacquie Barnbrook, Matthew Henerson, Adam Jennings, Stephen Kearin, Amber Gainey Meade
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On Mars, the female babies are nursed by robots while the male babies are dumped in the junkyard under the command of the Supervisor. They research Earth and find that the boy Milo is raised by his Mom with love and discipline. The Martians come to Earth and abduct Mom, to use her brain to instruct the robots about how to raise children. 

However, Milo sneaks into the spaceship and comes to Mars. He meets Gribble, a young man that behaves like a child, and together with the hippie Martian Ki and Gribble’s friend Wingnut, they try to rescue Mom and bring her back to Earth. But Supervisor will give her best efforts to stop Milo and his friends.

14. Meet Dave

Duration1 hour 30 minutes
Directed byBrian Robbins
IMDb Rating5.8
Rotten Tomatoes Rating60%
Release Year2008
CastEddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Scott Caan, Ed Helms, Kevin Hart, Mike O’Malley, Pat Kilbane, Judah Friedlander, Marc Blucas
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A spaceship shaped like a human land face-first on Liberty Island. Its crew (of tiny, intelligent, and unemotional beings) is looking for an orb sent from its planet to extract the oceans’ salt, which will ruin Earth. The orb is in the possession of Josh, the fifth-grade son of a single mom whose car strikes the ambulatory alien spaceship and cripples its power supply.

The crew has 48 hours to recover the orb, throw it in the Atlantic, and leave Earth. Over the course of two days, the ship’s crew experiences chaos and emotion in New York. Do Earth’s giants – Josh and his mom – have anything to teach these brainy aliens? Meanwhile, mutiny is afoot and the cops are closing in.

15. MegaMind

Duration1 hour 35 minutes
Directed byTom McGrath
IMDb Rating7.3
Rotten Tomatoes Rating60%
Release Year2010
CastAnimated Movie

Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, David Cross, Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux, Jessica Schulte, Tom McGrath, Emily Nordwind, J.K. Simmons, Ella Stiller
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After super-villain Megamind (Ferrell) kills his good-guy nemesis, Metro Man (Pitt), he becomes bored since there is no one left to fight. He creates a new foe, Titan (Hill), who, instead of using his powers for good, sets out to destroy the world, positioning Megamind to save the day for the first time in his life.

16. Mom and Dad Save the World

Duration1 hour 31 minutes
Directed byGreg Beeman
IMDb Rating5.2
Rotten Tomatoes Rating80%
Release Year1992
CastTeri Garr, Jeffrey Jones, Jon Lovitz, Thalmus Rasulala, Wallace Shawn, Eric Idle, Dwier Brown, Kathy Ireland, Suzanne Ventulett, Michael Stoyanov
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Emperor Tod Spengo sees Marge Nelson and using a giant magnet, kidnaps her and her husband Dick, hoping to make her his bride before blowing up the Earth. He and the other inhabitants of his planet are somewhat less than bright, and Dick begins reliving episodes of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in order to rescue Marge, save the Earth, and restore the rightful king to the throne.

17. Monsters vs. Aliens

Duration1 hour 34 minutes
Directed byConrad Vernon and Rob Letterman
IMDb Rating6.4
Rotten Tomatoes Rating75%
Release Year2009
CastReese Witherspoon, Rainn Wilson, Stephen Colbert, Seth Rogen, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland, Paul Rudd, Julie White, Jeffrey Tambor
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When a meteorite from outer space hits a young California woman named Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon) and turns her into a giant monster, she is taken to a secret government compound where she meets a ragtag group of monsters also rounded up over the years.

As a last resort, under the guidance of General W.R. Monger (Kiefer Sutherland), on a desperate order from President Hathaway (Stephen Colbert), the motley crew of Monsters is called into action to combat the aliens and save the world from imminent destruction.

18. Next Gen

Duration1 hour 47 minutes
Directed byKevin R. Adams and Joe Ksander
IMDb Rating6.6
Rotten Tomatoes Rating60%
Release Year2018
CastAnimated Movie

John Krasinski, Charlyne Yi, Jason Sudeikis, Michael Peña, David Cross, Constance Wu, Kiana Ledé, Anna Akana, Issac Ryan Brown, Reba Buhr
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A friendship with a top-secret robot turns a lonely girl’s life into a thrilling adventure as they take on bullies, evil bots and a scheming madman.

19. Pixels

Duration1 hour 46 minutes
Directed byChris Columbus
IMDb Rating5.6
Rotten Tomatoes Rating70%
Release Year2015
CastAdam Sandler, Kevin James, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Monaghan, Josh Gad, Matt Lintz, Brian Cox, Sean Bean, Jane Krakowski, Dan Aykroyd
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Sam has been one of the best arcade gamers of his time. Once in an international tournament, NASA sent a video recording of all the games to space for intelligent beings to find and know more about humans.

However, the aliens interpreted the games as a challenge and began attacking Earth using video game data. It’s now up to Sam and other old-time arcade game champions to save the Earth from the video game alien invasion.

20. Planet 51

Duration1 hour 31 minutes
Directed byJorge Blanco
IMDb Rating6
Rotten Tomatoes Rating52%
Release Year2009
CastAnimated Movie

Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Gary Oldman, John Cleese, Freddie Benedict, Alan Marriott, Mathew Horne, James Corden, Lewis Macleod, Emma Tate
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Lem is just an average teenager working on getting the girl and furthering his career at the local planetarium – except that he’s an alien. At least to U.S. astronaut Captain Charles T. Baker who lands on Lem’s planet hoping for a quick flag plant and a hasty return to earth and his millions of screaming fans. 

But on this alien planet, the media has tagged spacemen as brain-eating, zombie-creating monsters, causing Baker to run for his life and into Lem’s house. Now it’s up to the green native to get the clumsy astronaut back to his spaceship before military dictator General Grawl and mad scientist Professor Kipple manage to exterminate the Earthly visitor.

21. Robots

Duration1 hour 31 minutes
Directed byChris Wedge
IMDb Rating6.4
Rotten Tomatoes Rating64%
Release Year2004
CastAnimated Movie

Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Mel Brooks, Robin Williams, Paula Abdul, Lucille Bliss, Terry Bradshaw, Jim Broadbent, Amanda Bynes, Drew Carey, Jennifer Coolidge, Dylan Denton
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Even in a world populated entirely by mechanical beings Rodney Copperbottom is considered a genius inventor. Rodney dreams of two things, making the world a better place and meeting his idol, the master inventor Bigweld. On his journey, he encounters Cappy, a beautiful executive ‘bot with whom Rodney is instantly smitten, the nefarious corporate tyrant Ratchet who locks horns with Rodney, and a group of misfit ‘bots known as the Rusties, led by Fender and Piper Pinwheeler.

22. Short Circuit

Duration1 hour 38 minutes
Directed byJohn Badham
IMDb Rating6.6
Rotten Tomatoes Rating56%
Release Year1986
CastAlly Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, G.W. Bailey, Brian McNamara, Tim Blaney, Marvin J. McIntyre, John Garber, Penny Santon, Vernon Weddle, Barbara Tarbuck
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Number 5, one of a group of experimental military robots, undergoes a sudden transformation after being struck by lightning. He develops self-awareness, consciousness, and a fear of the reprogramming that awaits him back at the factory. With the help of a young woman, Number 5 tries to evade capture and convince his creator that he has truly become alive.

23. Small Soldiers

Duration1 hour 50 minutes
Directed byJoe Dante
IMDb Rating6.2
Rotten Tomatoes Rating62.5%
Release Year1998
CastKirsten Dunst, Gregory Smith, David Cross, Jay Mohr, Alexandra Wilson, Denis Leary, Dick Miller, Jacob Smith, Jonathan Bouck, Kevin Dunn, Ann Magnuson, Wendy Schaal
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Fifteen-year-old Alan Abernathy, the son of a toy store owner, tries out some new action figures: The Commando Elite versus The Gorgonites. But three months ago, a toy company believes it is onto something when it employs the latest government military technology in a series of action figures, enabling them to talk.

They underestimate the power of the special microchips they’ve employed, however, as the two opposing sides of the toy line start thinking for themselves and engaging in real combat! The Commando Elite vow to wipe out the Gorgonites in a suburban neighborhood. Alan, his neighbor Christy Fimple, (on whom he has a massive crush) with the help of the kind Gorgonites, must protect his home and family from the Commandos.

24. SpaceCamp

Duration1 hour 47 minutes
Directed byHarry Winer
IMDb Rating6.2
Rotten Tomatoes Rating60%
Release Year1986
CastKate Capshaw, Lea Thompson, Kelly Preston, Larry B. Scott, Joaquin Phoenix, Tate Donovan, Tom Skerritt, Barry Primus, Terry O’Quinn, Mitchell Anderson
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American kids go to a space camp during the summer holidays. They learn how to operate the Space Shuttle. A team consisting of a guy who just entered to meet girls, a wanna-be astronaut, and an instructor who wanted to go on a mission instead of teaching can sit in the Shuttle while testing the engines. Then they launched by mistake the space shuttle.

25. Spy Kids

Duration1 hour 28 minutes
Directed byRobert Rodriguez
IMDb Rating5.6
Rotten Tomatoes Rating93%
Release Year2001
CastAlexa PenaVega, Daryl Sabara, Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alan Cumming, Tony Shalhoub, Teri Hatcher, Cheech Marin, Robert Patrick, Danny Trejo 
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Two young kids become spies in an attempt to save their parents, who are ex-spies, from an evil mastermind. Armed with a bag of high-tech gadgets and out-of-this-world transportation, Carmen (Alexa Vega) and Juni (Daryl Sabara) will bravely jet through the air, dive under the seas, and crisscross the globe in a series of thrilling adventures on a mission to save their parents … and maybe even the world.

26. Interstellar

Duration2 hours 49 minutes
Directed byChristopher Nolan
IMDb Rating8.6
Rotten Tomatoes Rating90%
Release Year2014
CastMatthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, Timothée Chalamet, David Oyelowo, Collette Wolfe, Francis X. McCarthy, Bill Irwin, Andrew Borba
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Earth’s future has been riddled by disasters, famines, and droughts. There is only one way to ensure mankind’s survival: Interstellar travel. A newly discovered wormhole in the far reaches of our solar system allows a team of astronauts to go where no man has gone before, a planet that may have the right environment to sustain human life.

27. The Martian

Duration2 hours 24 minutes
Directed byRidley Scott
IMDb Rating8
Rotten Tomatoes Rating91%
Release Year2015
CastMatt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Sean Bean, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, Chiwetel Ejiofor
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During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit, and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. 

Millions of miles away, NASA and a team of international scientists work tirelessly to bring “the Martian” home, while his crewmates concurrently plot a daring, if not impossible, rescue mission. As these stories of incredible bravery unfolds, the world comes together to root for Watney’s safe return.

28. The Matrix

Duration2 hours 16 minutes
Directed byLana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
IMDb Rating8.7
Rotten Tomatoes Rating87.5%
Release Year1999
CastKeanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Gloria Foster, Joe Pantoliano, Marcus Chong, Julian Arahanga, Matt Doran, Belinda McClory
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Thomas A. Anderson is a man living two lives. By day he is an average computer programmer and by night a hacker known as Neo. Neo has always questioned his reality, but the truth is far beyond his imagination. Neo finds himself targeted by the police when he is contacted by Morpheus, a legendary computer hacker branded a terrorist by the government.

As a rebel against the machines, Neo must confront the agents: super-powerful computer programs devoted to stopping Neo and the entire human rebellion.

29. The Last Starfighter

Duration1 hour 41 minutes
Directed byNick Castle
IMDb Rating6.7
Rotten Tomatoes Rating80%
Release Year1984
CastLance Guest, Robert Preston, Kay E. Kuter, Dan Mason, Dan O’Herlihy, Catherine Mary Stewart, Barbara Bosson, Norman Snow, Chris Hebert, John O’Leary, George McDaniel, Charlene Nelson
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Alex Rogan lives in a remote trailer court where his mother is a manager and everyone is like a massive extended family. He defeats Starfighter, a stand-up arcade game to the applause of everyone on the court, and later finds out he has been turned down for a student loan for college.

Depressed, he meets Centauri, who introduces himself as a person from the company that made the game, before Alex really knows what is going on, he is on the ride of his life in a sports car flying through space.

Chosen to take the skills he showed in the video game into real combat to protect the galaxy from an invasion. Alex gets as far as the Starfighter base before he really realized that he was conscripted and requests to be taken back home. When he gets back home, he finds a Zando-Zan (alien bounty hunter) stalking him. Unable to go home and live, Alex returns to the Starfighter base to find all the pilots have been killed and he is the galaxy’s only chance to be saved from invasion. To defeat the invaders, who are paying the bounty on him, he must be victorious.

30. Back to the Future

Duration1 hour 56 minutes
Directed byRobert Zemeckis
IMDb Rating8.5
Rotten Tomatoes Rating87.5%
Release Year1985
CastMichael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Tom Wilson, Claudia Wells, Marc McClure, Wendie Jo Sperber, George DiCenzo, Frances Lee McCain, James Tolkan, J.J. Cohen
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Marty McFly, a typical American teenager of the Eighties, is accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean “time machine” invented by a slightly mad scientist. During his often hysterical, always amazing trip back in time, Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be meet and fall in love – so he can get back to the future.

31. Super 8

Duration1 hour 52 minutes
Directed byJ.J. Abrams
IMDb Rating7
Rotten Tomatoes Rating81%
Release Year2011
CastElle Fanning, AJ Michalka, Kyle Chandler, Joel Courtney, Jessica Tuck, Joel McKinnon Miller, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills, Riley Griffiths, Gabriel Basso, Ron Eldard, Andrew Miller
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In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth – something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.

32. The Incredibles

Duration1 hour 55 minutes
Directed byBrad Bird
IMDb Rating8
Rotten Tomatoes Rating97%
Release Year2004
CastAnimated Movie

Craig T. Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee, Dominique Louis, Teddy Newton, Jean Sincere, Eli Fucile, Maeve Andrews, Wallace Shawn, Spencer Fox, Lou Romano
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Bob Parr (A.K.A. Mr. Incredible), and his wife Helen (A.K.A. Elastigirl), are the world’s greatest famous crime-fighting superheroes in Metroville, always saving lives and battling evil on a daily basis.

But 15 years later, they have been forced to adopt civilian identities and retreat to the suburbs where they have no choice but to retire as superheroes to live a “normal life” with their three children Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack, who were born with secret superpowers. Itching to get back into action, Bob gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top-secret assignment. He soon discovers that it will take a super family effort to rescue the world from total destruction.

33. The Iron Giant

Duration1 hour 26 minutes
Directed byBrad Bird
IMDb Rating8.1
Rotten Tomatoes Rating90%
Release Year1999
CastAnimated Movie

Eli Marienthal, Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Aniston, Vin Diesel, James Gammon, Cloris Leachman, Christopher McDonald, John Mahoney, M. Emmet Walsh, Jack Angel
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This is the story of a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth Hughes who makes friends with an innocent alien giant robot that came from outer space. Meanwhile, a paranoid U.S. Government agent named Kent Mansley arrives in town, determined to destroy the giant at all costs. It’s up to Hogarth to protect him by keeping him at Dean McCoppin’s place in the junkyard.

34. The Last Mimzy

Duration1 hour 30 minutes
Directed byRobert Shaye
IMDb Rating6.2
Rotten Tomatoes Rating62.5%
Release Year2007
CastJoely Richardson, Rainn Wilson, Timothy Hutton, Chris O’Neil, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Kathryn Hahn, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kirsten Alter, Irene Snow, Marc Musso
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The siblings Noah and Emma travel with their mother Jo from Seattle to the family cottage in Whidbey Island to spend a couple of days while their workaholic father David Wilder is working. They find a box of toys from the future in the water and bring it home, and Emma finds a stuffed rabbit called Mimzy, stones, and a weird object, but they hide their findings from their parents.

Mimzy talks telepathically to Emma and the siblings develop special abilities, increasing their intelligence to the level of genius. Their father becomes very proud when Noah presents a magnificent design in the fair of science and technology, and his teacher Larry White and his mystic wife Naomi Schwartz become interested in the boy when he draws a mandala. When Noah accidentally assembles the objects and activates a powerful generator creating a blackout in the state, the FBI arrests the family trying to disclose the mystery. But Emma reveals the importance to send Mimzy back to the future.

35. The Last Starfighter

Duration1 hour 41 minutes
Directed byNick Castle
IMDb Rating6.7
Rotten Tomatoes Rating80%
Release Year1984
CastLance Guest, Robert Preston, Kay E. Kuter, Dan Mason, Dan O’Herlihy, Catherine Mary Stewart, Barbara Bosson, Norman Snow, Chris Hebert, John O’Leary
sci fi movies for kids

Alex Rogan lives in a remote trailer court where his mother is a manager and everyone is like a massive extended family. He defeats Starfighter, a stand-up arcade game to the applause of everyone on the court, and later finds out he has been turned down for a student loan for college.

Depressed, he meets Centauri, who introduces himself as a person from the company that made the game, before Alex really knows what is going on, he is on the ride of his life in a sports car flying through space. Chosen to take the skills he showed on the video game into real combat to protect the galaxy from an invasion. Alex gets as far as the Starfighter base before he really realized that he was conscripted and requests to be taken back home. When he gets back home, he finds a Zando-Zan (alien bounty hunter) stalking him. Unable to go home and live, Alex returns to the Starfighter base to find all the pilots have been killed and he is the galaxy’s only chance to be saved from invasion. To defeat the invaders, who are paying the bounty on him, he must be victorious.

FAQs

Is Sci-Fi for kids?

Like most other movie genres, even many science fiction movies are oriented toward a younger audience and be suitable for children.

What is the best Sci-Fi movie for kids?

There are many sci-fi movies that kids can watch. Some of these are Aliens in the Attic, Astro Boy, Big Hero 6, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Escape from Planet Earth, Explorers, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Lilo & Stitch, Short Circuit, SpaceCamp, Spy Kids.

Conclusion

We hope you enjoyed our article about the best English Sci-Fi movies for kids! There are plenty of unique and fun movies for kids that will get you and your child excited for a fun family night. We hope this guide was able to help you narrow down your choices.

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