Here are some of mine …
- Mad Max
- Soylent Green
- The Andromeda Strain
- Panic in the Year Zero
- Westworld
- Logans Run
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- THX 1138
- Solaris
- Alien
- Alphaville
I recently picked up the 4k Blu-ray of Alien and holy crap it looks so good. What an amazing and terrifying film
It is a classic in every sense of the word.
I always think of Alien as 80s but was very late 70s. similarly Close encounters but that was even earlier in 77.
Rollerball
Planet of the ApesI recently forced myself to watch zardoz.
That was a hell of a ride. I probably should have been high or something watching it but it was interesting.
Apparently the town that was that this movie was filmed in had a massive explosion of new births 9 months after this film was filmed, apparently everybody and their brother were all getting high and humping like bunnies throughout the entire filming and it makes me wonder how many bastard children of Sean Connery are currently living in Ireland
Some of these border on drive-in schlock or worse, but that’s exactly what I look for in sci-fi movies of that era:
- A Boy and his Dog
- The Omega Man
- The Last Man on Earth
- The Terminal Man
- Futureworld
- Dark Star
- Laserblast
- Starcrash
- The Alien Factor
- This is Not a Test
- Mission Stardust
- Countdown (1967)
- Starship Invasions
- Silent Running
- Fantastic Planet
- Fantastic Voyage
- The Visitor / Stridulum
- Children of the Damned
- most Planet(s) of the Apes
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
So many good films mentioned here.
A nice little Gerry Anderson (Thunderbirds, Space 1999, etc.) flick is Doppelgänger (Journey to the Far Side of the Sun).
No one has mentioned Star Wars (1977) (later renamed Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope) probably because it seems too obvious. It changed SF, cinema and the media landscape forever.
For sci-fi “2001: a space Odyssey” from 1968 would be an obvious pick
