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The Best Geek Movies

Updated January 8, 2020 81.2k votes 7.5k voters 337.4k views191 items

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A list of the best geek movies. These are films featuring geeks, geek culture, or they're simply *for* geeks. If you believe we've missed a geek film, please feel free to add it to the list yourself. Say what you want about the freaks, geeks, nerds, and dorks of this world, but they have great taste in movies and have made a hell of an entertaining list of the best geek films. Sure, most of them are going to be sci-fi and fantasy, but there are a few other genres on this list of geek films as well.

Some of these films don't even have computers in them, nor do they have anything to do with math. And the end of the day, everybody has a little bit of a geek in them, and with that in mind, perhaps these geek movies are ultimately for everyone. What are the top geek movies? Take a look and enjoy these amazing geek films!

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Star Wars
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Back to the Future
Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd
Released: 1985
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Released: 1985
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The Terminator
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Paxton
Released: 1984
Directed by: James Cameron
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
John Cleese, Terry Gilliam
Released: 1975
Directed by: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Released: 1975
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Alien
Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt
Released: 1979
Directed by: Ridley Scott
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Aliens
Sigourney Weaver, Bill Paxton
Released: 1986
Directed by: James Cameron
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Ghostbusters
Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver
Released: 1984
Directed by: Ivan Reitman
Released: 1984
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Spaceballs
Joan Rivers, John Hurt
Released: 1987
Directed by: Mel Brooks
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Blade Runner
Harrison Ford, Daryl Hannah
Released: 1982
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Released: 1982
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Zombieland
Emma Stone, Amber Heard
Released: 2009
Directed by: Ruben Fleischer
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The Hobbit
John Huston, Otto Preminger
Released: 1977
Directed by: Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass
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The Princess Bride
Billy Crystal, Robin Wright
Released: 1987
Directed by: Rob Reiner
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Sam Rockwell, Mos Def
Released: 2005
Directed by: Garth Jennings
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Charlie Sheen, Matthew Broderick
Released: 1986
Directed by: John Hughes
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Office Space
Jennifer Aniston, John C. McGinley
Released: 1999
Directed by: Mike Judge
Released: 1999
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Inception
Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy
Released: 2010
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
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Tron
Jeff Bridges, David Warner
Released: 1982
Directed by: Steven Lisberger
Released: 1982
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RoboCop
Alex Van Halen, Peter Weller
Released: 1987
Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
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Labyrinth
Jennifer Connelly, David Bowie
Released: 1986
Directed by: Jim Henson
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