Top 20 Sci-Fi Movies Editor's Choice from 1980

In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang. See more about Mad Max / IMDB / YouTube

A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes. Check out Stalker / IMDB / YouTube

A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth. Details on Flash Gordon / IMDB / YouTube

A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories. Get info on Altered States / IMDB / YouTube

A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Details on The Final Countdown / IMDB / YouTube

A pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. Twelve years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have entered the menu. Read about Alligator / IMDB / YouTube

Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid belt of Saturn are intruded upon by an anal-retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent eight foot tall robot. Explore Saturn 3 / IMDB / YouTube

A farm boy recruits a band of outlaws to save the planet Akir from dark forces that threaten to wipe them out from the face of the universe. A battle stretching beyond the stars begins here. Info on Battle Beyond the Stars / IMDB / YouTube

Humanoid sea creatures start killing a fishing town's residents, and raping their women. It's up to the townsfolk and a visiting biologist to fight back and fend them off. Explore Humanoids from the Deep / IMDB / YouTube

Sandy and Greg are teenagers who go camping, despite warnings not to, with their friends. They soon encounter aliens, who are using the area as a hunting ground. Info on Without Warning / IMDB / YouTube

Thousands of years ago, aliens visited Earth and fathered the Pumaman, a man-god with supernatural powers entrusted by a gold mask with the ability to control people's minds, which in present-day London, falls upon the wrong hands. Learn about The Pumaman / IMDB / YouTube

The soul of a young girl with telekinetic powers and her mother become the prize in a battle between good ETs and evil ETs. Look into The Visitor / IMDB / YouTube

Maxwell Smart is recalled to duty to help fight a villian who threatens to detonate a weapon that destroys clothing. Learn about The Nude Bomb / IMDB / YouTube

In the 31st century, sexy blonde android Galaxina helms the crew of a space cruiser on a mission to find the Blue Star, a mystical gem that holds unlimited power. Explore Galaxina / IMDB / YouTube

In a future where dying of illness is very rare, terminally ill Katherine Mortenhoe becomes a celebrity and Roddy, a man with camera implants in his brain, secretly records her for a morbid TV show called Death Watch. Find out about Death Watch / IMDB / YouTube

After a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race. Get info on Virus / IMDB / YouTube

Bud Spencer is, as always, getting into fights - especially after getting a job as sheriff. He's looking after a small boy who's actually an extraterrestrial with special abilities thus the military wants him. Bud's got his hands full. Look into Everything Happens to Me / IMDB / YouTube

A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails. See more about The Children / IMDB / YouTube

In a highly controlled and overpopulated society, a man who has terrifying dreams that affect reality is assigned a psychiatrist who takes advantage of the situation. Find out about The Lathe of Heaven / IMDB / YouTube

In 1994, a young couple enters the world of the music industry, and subsequently the world of drugs. Info on The Apple / IMDB / YouTube