quality sci-fi movies to watch with kids

Science fiction films for families

0-9 years old

Animated
Big Hero 6
The Iron Giant
Robots
WALL-E

Live Action
The Black Hole
Cocoon
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Flight of the Navigator
Innerspace
The Rocketeer
Short Circuit
Spy Kids
War Games

10-13 or so

A.I.
Arrival
Avatar
Back to the Future
Edge of Tomorrow
Earth to Echo
The Fifth Element
Gattaca
Guardians of the Galaxy
I, Robot
Independence Day
Jumper
Martian
Men in Black
Stargate
Super 8
Tomorrowland
The Truman Show

Teens and up

PG / PG-13
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Adjustment Bureau
Alphaville
The Butterfly Effect
Ender’s Game
Equilibrium
Inception
Interstellar
In Time
Limitless
Looper
Minority Report
Oblivion
Planet of the Apes
Signs
War of the Worlds
Waterworld
World War Z

R
12 Monkeys
About Time
The Abyss
Alien
Aliens
Annihilation
Blade Runner
Blade Runner: 2049
Children of Men
Cloud Atlas
Dark City
District 9
Elysium
Ex Machina
The Fountain
Logan
Mad Max
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Matrix
Outbreak
Pitch Black
Predator
Primer
Prometheus
The Running Man
Snowpiercer
Source Code
Soylent Green
The Terminator
Terminator 2 : Judgment Day
Total Recall