...that it seems aren't that well known. You know the sort. Equilibrium, Dark City, eXistenZ, etc. So, any more gems that may have missed me by that I can look into?

Someone requested a list.. well, here it is...

Films

2001: A Space Odyssey (Only put in because so many people don't seem to have either heard of it, or watched it, despite bing THE seminal Sci-fi flick!)
2010: The Year we make Contact
A boy and his dog
A sound of thunder
A.P.E.X.
Aeon Flux
Alien Raiders
Altered
Altered States
Bad Taste
Battle Beyond the Stars
Brainstorm
Brazil
Buckaroo Banzai
Cargo
Casshern
Charlie Jade
Colossus: Forbin Project
Critters, and the multitude of sequels
Cyborg
Cypher
Damnation Alley
Dark City
Dark Star
Daybreakers
Death Machine
Deja Vu
Demon Seed
Devil Girl from Mars
District 9
Dreamscape
Dune
Dust Devil
Enemy Mine
Equilibrium
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
eXistenZ
Explorers
Final countdown
Fire in the Sky
Fortress
Frankenstein Unbound
Freejack
Gattaca
Gunhed
Halloween III
Hardware
Hardware
Ice Pirates
Iceman
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Iron Sky
Island of Terror
La Jetee
Les Visiteurs
Leviathan
Life Force
Lockout
Logan's Run
Megaforce (Avoid. terrible!)
Melancholia
Millenium
Monsters
Moon
Moon 44
Moontrap
Morons from outer space
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Night of the Comet
Night Watch (and sequels)
No Blade of Grass
Outland
Outlander
Pandorum
Phase IV
Pitch black
Planet of Terror
Primer
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
Robot Jox & Crash and Burn
Runaway
Salute of the Jugger
Saturn 3
Scanners
Screamers
Serendity
Shocker
Short Circuit
Silent Running
Slipstream
Solaris
Southland Tales
Soylent Green
Spacehunter
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Split Second
Stalker
Strange Days
Sunshine
Supernova
Tetsuo : The Iron Man
The Adjustment Bureau
The Andromeda Strain
The Arrival & The Arrival 2
The Brood
The Butterfly Effect
The Cube trilogy
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Eliminators
The Flipside of Dominic Hide
The Fly
The Green Slime
The Guyver
The Hidden
The Host (Korean film)
The island
The jacket
The Keep
The Langoliers
The Last Star Fighter
The Martian Chronicles
The Mist
The One
The philadelphia Experiment
The Quatermass Experiment
The Quiet Earth
The Thirteenth Floor
They Live
THX 1138
Time after Time
Time Bandits
Trancers
Triangle
Ultraviolet
Until the end of the world
Videodrome
Virtual Nightmare
Virus
Westworld & Futureworld
Wing Commander
Zardoz (I am hesitant to put such a crap film on the list)




TV Shows

Above and Beyond
Chimera
Dark Skies
Farscape
Firefly
First Born
Lexx
Sapphire and Steel
Seaquest DSV
Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles
The Nightmare Man
Tron:Uprising

Seen that. Thought it was very good.

Another goodun.

What was the film where they'd rover round in big tank like things, with either big wheels, or tracks. It's the only part I remember.

Dark Star.

They Live.

Moon, I thought it was excellent, and thought provoking also.

The Jacket

Outstanding movie.

Love it!

The Jacket was superb. LOVE that sort of Film. 12 Monkeys is up there with uber cool sci-fi flicks. Not sure they count as background.

Into infinity rings a bell. Family in space get lost and go through a black hole.

Something with Bruce Dern looking after bio domes in space, last of Earths vegetation. Googles.... silent running.

Yeah, that was good.

What about the one with Christopher Lambert in prison. That was good.