Special Report

Best R-Rated Sci-Fi Movies of All Time

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10. The Matrix (1999)
> IMDb user rating: 8.7/10 (1,759,161 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 85% (33,324,202 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 88% (155 reviews)
> Directed by: Lana & Lilly Wachowski

After discovering that the world he thinks he knows is only a simulation, a hacker joins a group of rebels intent on freeing the human race from their enslavement by intelligent machines.

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9. Blade Runner (1982)
> IMDb user rating: 8.1/10 (721,985 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 91% (338,132 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 90% (121 reviews)
> Directed by: Ridley Scott

Based on the classic novel, this film follows an L.A. cop who is tasked with hunting down a group of androids who have escaped a space work colony and are attempting to blend in as humans on earth.

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8. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
> IMDb user rating: 8.3/10 (785,984 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 93% (437,137 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 86% (73 reviews)
> Directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Set in a shocking futuristic Britain, this dystopian film portrays a young gang on a violent, drug-fueled crime spree and the subsequent incarceration and attempted rehabilitation of its maniacal leader.

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7. Logan (2017)
> IMDb user rating: 8.1/10 (688,052 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 90% (93,272 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 93% (423 reviews)
> Directed by: James Mangold

Wolverine and Professor X live a quiet life in hiding in Mexico; but when a young mutant named Laura shows up, Logan must decide if he is willing to help her reach a safe haven that may not even exist.

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6. Brazil (1985)
> IMDb user rating: 7.9/10 (194,716 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 90% (103,103 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 98% (49 reviews)
> Directed by: Terry Gilliam

In a future that runs on comically inefficient technologies, a menial government worker discovers that an innocent man has been wrongfully arrested and killed – but his attempts to right the wrong put his own life in danger.

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