Special Report

Best R-Rated Sci-Fi Movies of All Time

Source: Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics

25. Take Shelter (2011)
> IMDb user rating: 7.4/10 (97,354 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 81% (25,822 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 92% (166 reviews)
> Directed by: Jeff Nichols

When a small-town man begins having strange dreams and visions of the apocalypse, he alienates his friends – and builds a bomb shelter in his backyard to protect his family.

Source: Courtesy of Arrow Films

24. Donnie Darko (2001)
> IMDb user rating: 8.0/10 (763,860 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 80% (30,984,568 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 86% (118 reviews)
> Directed by: Richard Kelly

After a troubled teen begins hallucinating a grotesque rabbit figure who tells him that the world will end in less than a month, he commits a series of strange crimes and develops an obsession with time travel.

Source: Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox

23. Predator (1987)
> IMDb user rating: 7.8/10 (387,266 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 87% (389,324 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 82% (49 reviews)
> Directed by: John McTiernan

When an elite special forces team sets out on a rescue mission in the rainforest of Guatemala, they soon discover that they are being hunted by an alien foe with preternatural skills.

Source: Courtesy of Sony Pictures Releasing

22. Looper (2012)
> IMDb user rating: 7.4/10 (550,438 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 82% (180,475 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 93% (269 reviews)
> Directed by: Rian Johnson

In a future where every person is tracked, disposing of bodies is impossible; so sending them back in time to be assassinated has become the norm. But when assassins has lived out their purpose, their future selves come to get rid of the evidence.

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21. Upgrade (2018)
> IMDb user rating: 7.5/10 (171,876 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 87% (6,048 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 88% (193 reviews)
> Directed by: Leigh Whannell

An auto mechanic who has been paralyzed by muggers who kill his wife accepts an experimental implant that allows him to regain use of his body, and begins hunting down his assailants.

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