Special Report

Best R-Rated Sci-Fi Movies of All Time

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30. The Dead Zone (1983)
> IMDb user rating: 7.2/10 (66,295 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 76% (36,485 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 90% (48 reviews)
> Directed by: David Cronenberg

After waking from a five-year coma, a man realizes that he has psychic abilities to see into the past and the future. When he begins using his powers to try to do good in the world, he discovers that fate may indeed be malleable.

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29. Freaks (2018)
> IMDb user rating: 6.7/10 (30,802 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 86% (152 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 88% (84 reviews)
> Directed by: Adam Stein & Zach Lipovsky

Seven-year-old Chloe has never been outside. Stuck in a decrepit house with her paranoid father and strange visions of a ghostly woman in her closet, she longs to experience the world – but when she finally escapes, she learns why she’s been kept in hiding.

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28. The City of Lost Children (1995)
> IMDb user rating: 7.5/10 (66,670 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 90% (65,843 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 79% (56 reviews)
> Directed by: Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet

When orphans in a French port city begin to go missing, a kindhearted carnival strong-man teams up with a young girl to rescue his little brother, and discovers the wicked plot behind the kidnappings.

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27. Face/Off (1997)
> IMDb user rating: 7.2/10 (360,443 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 82% (450,429 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 92% (87 reviews)
> Directed by: John Woo

FBI Agent Archer undergoes a facial transplant to assume the identity of criminal mastermind Castor Troy, who has planted a bomb in Los Angeles. As soon as he finds out where the bomb is, Troy shows up wearing Archer’s face, seeking revenge.

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26. V for Vendetta (2005)
> IMDb user rating: 8.1/10 (1,066,529 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 90% (904,466 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 73% (256 reviews)
> Directed by: James McTeigue

As a fascist regime controls the UK, executing those it deems undesirable, a masked anarchist attempts to overthrow the government with the help of a young woman who was orphaned by the system.

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