10 Best British Sci-Fi Movies

By Vlad Zakh · January 26, 2026

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British sci-fi tends to favor a single, contained premise over spectacle, one astronaut alone on the moon, one AI in one house, one virus emptying out London, and gets more mileage out of that restraint than most bigger-budget productions manage.

High-Rise (2015) 01

High-Rise (2015)

IMDb ★ 5.9

A modern apartment tower's residents descend into full class-warfare chaos floor by floor.

Attack the Block (2011) 02

Attack the Block (2011)

IMDb ★ 6.6

A group of London teens defend their housing estate from an alien invasion.

Under the Skin (2013) 03

Under the Skin (2013)

IMDb ★ 6.3

An alien in human form hunts men across Scotland with almost no dialogue at all.

Annihilation (2018) 04

Annihilation (2018)

IMDb ★ 6.9

A biologist joins an expedition into a mysterious zone that rewrites everything inside it.

Never Let Me Go (2010) 05

Never Let Me Go (2010)

IMDb ★ 7.2

Three childhood friends slowly learn the devastating purpose behind their boarding school.

Sunshine (2007) 06

Sunshine (2007)

IMDb ★ 7.2

A crew is sent to reignite the dying sun with a bomb the size of a small country.

28 Days Later (2002) 07

28 Days Later (2002)

IMDb ★ 7.4

A man wakes from a coma to find Britain emptied out by a rage-fueled virus.

Moon (2009) 08

Moon (2009)

IMDb ★ 7.8

A lunar miner nearing the end of his solitary contract discovers something deeply wrong with his own memory.

Ex Machina (2014) 09

Ex Machina (2014)

IMDb ★ 7.7

A programmer's Turing test with an android grows more unsettling the longer it runs.

Children of Men (2006) 10

Children of Men (2006)

IMDb ★ 7.9

Humanity has been infertile for eighteen years, and one miracle pregnancy changes everything.

Vlad Zakh

Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix, built to fix a specific annoyance: most recommendation sites are just algorithm-driven noise. Our lists are researched and organized by who's in a film, where it's from, and the mood you're actually in tonight.