10 Best Sci-Fi Movies of the Last 10 Years to Stream on Netflix in March
Some of the highest-rated (by Rotten Tomatoes) sci-fi hits of the past decade are currently available to watch on Netflix.
Sci-fi movies take us on wild rides to distant planets and future worlds where anything can happen, from space battles to time travel, and the last decade has given us some of the coolest stories that make our imaginations soar; these are the kind of movies you can find on Netflix this March, ready to stream whenever you're in the mood for an adventure.
10. The Midnight Sky (2020)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 49%
A lonely scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning to Earth unaware of a global catastrophe that has devastated the planet, struggling through harsh conditions and personal demons to prevent them from coming home to an uninhabitable world.
9. Don't Look Up (2021)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 55%
Two low-level astronomers discover a comet on a direct collision course with Earth, but when they try to warn humanity, they find themselves entangled in a media circus and bureaucratic indifference, racing against time to prevent global catastrophe while society remains absurdly indifferent.
8. Project Power (2020)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 61%
In New Orleans, a pill that grants unpredictable superpowers for five minutes hits the streets, leading a cop, a teenage dealer, and a former soldier to team up to take down the group responsible for its creation, uncovering a conspiracy and personal stakes tied to the pill's distribution.
7. Ready Player One (2018)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 72%
In a dystopian future, the creator of a massive virtual reality universe called the OASIS dies and leaves his fortune to whoever can find a digital Easter egg he has hidden, sparking a competition that draws a young hero into a fantastical quest filled with danger, discovery, and alliance against a ruthless corporation seeking control of the OASIS.
6. Vivarium (2019)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 73%
A young couple looking for the perfect home finds themselves trapped in a mysterious, surreal neighborhood of identical houses, where raising a strange child becomes their only escape from an endless suburban nightmare that challenges their sanity and their fate.
5. Stowaway (2021)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 76%
On a mission to Mars, a spacecraft's crew discovers an accidental stowaway shortly after launch, leading to a critical resource shortage that threatens the lives of everyone on board, forcing them to make moral decisions in a fight for survival in the vast emptiness of space.
4. Synchronic (2019)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 79%
Two New Orleans paramedics, whose lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of bizarre, gruesome deaths linked to a designer drug with otherworldly effects, face a mind-bending mystery when one of them discovers the drug can alter time, leading to a desperate search for redemption and a lost love.
3. Code 8 (2019)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 81%
In a world where a minority of the population possesses supernatural abilities, a young man with special powers struggles against a discriminatory society and police brutality, turning to a life of crime to pay for his mother's medical treatment, entangling with a criminal underworld that exploits people like him.
2. I Am Mother (2019)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 89%
After a global extinction event, a girl, raised by a robot named Mother in an underground bunker designed to repopulate Earth, begins to question everything she's been taught when a wounded stranger arrives, disrupting her orderly world and revealing chilling secrets about humanity's fate and Mother's true intentions.
1. Oxygen (2021)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 89%
A woman wakes up in a cryogenic pod with no memory of who she is or how she got there, fighting against time and dwindling oxygen levels to recall her identity and escape, while uncovering disturbing truths about her past and the reality outside.