The Best Netflix Original Sci-Fi Movies

Updated August 15, 2023 1.7K votes 611 voters 48.0K views

Over 600 Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The Best Netflix Original Sci-Fi Movies

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Only Netflix original films.

Here are the best Netflix original sci-fi movies currently streaming right now. Featuring aliens, outer space, and dystopian futures, this list of Netflix sci-fi originals is updated with new and popular movies. What is the best Netflix original sci-fi movie?

The latest and newest Netflix original sci-fi movies feature Hollywood's biggest stars, like Amanda Seyfried, Jake Gyllenhaal, Alexander Skarsgard, and Paul Rudd. Must-watch Netflix original sci-fi movies include Spectral, Okja, Mute, Anon, and The Titan.

Vote up the best original sci-fi movies on Netflix, and add your favorites if they're missing from the list.

Most divisive: The Titan

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What Happened to Monday
Noomi Rapace, Willem Dafoe, Glenn Close
137 votes
- Released: 2017
- Directed by: Tommy Wirkola
In a world where families are allowed only one child due to overpopulation, resourceful identical septuplets must avoid governmental execution and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
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Spectral
James Badge Dale, Emily Mortimer, Max Martini
111 votes
- Released: 2016
- Directed by: Nic Mathieu
Soldiers battle supernatural forces in New York.
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I Am Mother
Hilary Swank, Clara Rugaard, Rose Byrne
88 votes
- Released: 2019
- Directed by: Grant Sputore
A teenage girl is raised by a robot designed to repopulate Earth. Their bond is tested when a stranger arrives with alarming news.
- #52 of 73
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Extinction
Michael Peña, Lizzy Caplan, Mike Colter
89 votes
- Released: 2018
- Directed by: Ben Young
A man's home life starts to suffer when he has recurring nightmares about a destructive and unknown force. He must soon find the strength to save his wife and two daughters when extraterrestrials launch a devastating attack on the planet.
- #120 of 175
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ARQ
Robbie Amell, Rachael Taylor, Gray Powell
64 votes
- Released: 2016
- Directed by: Tony Elliott
The oil supply has run dry, and corporations fight against nations for the world's remaining energy supplies. Trapped in a house and surrounded by a gang of mysterious masked intruders, an engineer (Robbie Amell) must protect a technology that could deliver unlimited energy and end the wars that have consumed the world. The only problem is that the technology has created a time loop that condemns him and his friends to relive the same day over and over.
- #25 of 56
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Cargo
Martin Freeman, Anthony Hayes, Susie Porter
30 votes
- Released: 2017
- Directed by: Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke
Stranded in rural Australia in the aftermath of a violent pandemic, an infected father desperately searches for a new home for his infant child and a means to protect her from his own changing nature.
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