Beyond the classics or the best movies in history, we collect science fiction movies on Disney Plus that cover all possible types, genres, audiences. From classic sagas like Alien or Star Wars to Marvel movies or blockbusters like Avatar but also other less known and original and exclusive to the platform if you are looking for movies with children or adolescents or simply if you are looking for something lighter and more enjoyable with which to spend a good time.
Avatar
Avatar is one of the mythical films of the cinema, a project that achieved a resounding success in its premiere in 2009 and that managed to break records at the box office. James Cameron is behind this film of almost three hours in which a dispute between humans and an alien race, the Na’vi. Set in the future (specifically in the year 2154) in the world of Pandora, it tells us how humans have achieved the technology that allows their mind to be inserted into an avatar of this alien race. This technology will allow can know their weak points but everything gets complicated when the love between the two spices arises. A spectacular movie that we can see on Disney Plus as a family with striking scenes, action, adventure.
Platform: Disney Plus
Year: 2009
Duration: Two hours and 42 minutes
Thematic: Action & Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Recommended age: For over twelve years
Tron Legacy
Released thirty years later than the original and located seven years after it in fiction, Tron Legacy is a science fiction, video game, visual effects movie. Flynn (played by Jeff Bridges) is the creator of the “best video game in the world” but has been missing for twenty years until his son, now a 27-year-old programmer, investigate that parallel worldor the one in which his father is locked up and in which he will dive right in to find him.
Platform: Disney +
Year: 2020
Duration: Two hours and seven minutes
Thematic: Action and adventure, science fiction and video games
Age: For over twelve years
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Artemis Fowl
One of the Disney premieres in 2020 is Artemis Fowl based on the book by Eoin Colfer. Its protagonist gives the film its name and is a twelve-year-old boy, a rare adolescent: he is a genius and belongs to a line of “brains”. Now must use your intelligence to find your father, who have been kidnapped. To do this, he will infiltrate an underground civilization and must find a powerful object. A science fiction movie to enjoy with the family, for those over twelve years old, where we will see adventure or villains in a police thriller of heroes, powers, gadgets, ships and all kinds of creatures.
Platform: Disney +
Year: 2020
Duration: One hour and 39 minutes
Thematic: Action, adventure, science fiction and police
Age: For over twelve years
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I robot
Another classic, starring Will Smith, is Yo, Robot. A futuristic science fiction film in which Smith plays a technology-phobic police officer. Set in 2035 (launched in 2004) takes us to Chicago to show us how humanoid robots are part of everyday life and everyday life as long as they comply with the three laws of robotics. But a robot has been plunged into a crime by a leading scientist and Del Spooner (Will Smith) must investigate what happened.
Platform: Disney +
Year: 2004
Duration: One hour and 55 minutes
Thematic: Science fiction, thriller and adventure, police
Age: For over twelve years
Other science fiction movies
Less well known than the previous ones but also available on Disney Plus for a futuristic, fantastic and special effects cinema session.
Tomorrowland: The World of Tomorrow
George Clooney and Britt Robertson play Frank and Casey. They are both looking forward to fleeing from their surroundings and will end up discovering the land of Tomorrowland, “a secret place where nothing is impossible, a miraculous place where you could change the world ”. An enigmatic place where the teenager and the “old genius” will discover all kinds of secrets, adventures and missions.
Platform: Disney +
Year: 2018
Duration: Two hours and ten minutes
Thematic: Science fiction, adventure, action
Age: For over twelve years
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The secret club of the non-heirs to the throne
Originally from Disney and released in 2020, The Secret Club of the Non-Heirs to the Throne is a princess movie that looks little or nothing like the usual princesses. Sam is the protagonist, a princess who does not belong to reign because she was born second. But she has been sent to boarding school to teach in the summer. A different, peculiar boarding school. One in which she will discover that she and her new colleagues and friends have something in common: they have a special gene, a gift, the gene of the second born with royal blood that gives them special abilities, superpowers they must learn to use to save the rest of the world.
Platform: Disney +
Year: 2020
Duration: One hour and 39 minutes
Thematic: Fantasy / Action and adventure / Superheroes and princesses
Age: For over six years
See The Secret Club of Non-Heirs to the Throne on Disney Plus
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Most popular sagas
Although we do not collect all the films one by one, there are many science fiction sagas that we can see in Disney Plus in its entirety and dozens of related films. For example, all Marvel movies (from Avengers to Ant-Man, Captain America …) to the classic Star Wars movies where creatures of all kinds, spaceships or the power of the force are not lacking.
Star wars
Disney has an entire section for these sci-fi movies, the most mythical of the entire catalog. All the Star Wars trilogies are available on Disney Plus if you are looking for a saga that has been gaining followers for decades. We can see them in the order we want, chronological or by release date. In addition, there are not only the classic trilogies but we can also see the Han Solo or Rogue One movie that complete the universe and that will assure us hours and hours of movie marathon.
In addition, Star Wars also has a wide collection of series available as well as special LEGO programs or movies for Halloween or Christmas in which we can enjoy around 45 or 50 minutes of science fiction film and cartoons, in a mood to watch as a family
Marvel
As with Star Wars, the same goes for Marvel. There are hundreds of science fiction movies available in the Disney catalog and not just one, so just go to the franchise section and choose the one you like the most. We can find them in phases, in chronological order or even with sections such as “Marvel classics” and here we will find all the characters that have been accompanying us for decades. Deadpool, X-Men, Captain Marvel, Guardians of the Galaxy… You can see all the movies on Disney + and have a marathon of action, fiction and superheroes.
As in other cases, Marvel also has children’s movies or cartoons science fiction both in feature film format and shorts or animated series for children of all ages, even the little ones.
Alien
Alien is another of the sagas that we can see on Disney + from the first movie to the most current. The first of them was born in the late seventies and became one of the classics of science fiction. He tells us how the Nostrodomo ship returns to earth with its occupants “in a state of sleep” but receives a call that will change the path. A distress signal alerts the crew and it will deviate the course. Horror, science fiction and characters that marked an entire generation such as Lieutenant Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver.
Also, as we say, you can not only see the first movie but also the entire main trilogy and new feature films released years later. Of course, you should bear in mind that neither the original nor the new films are suitable for viewing with young children and all are recommended. for people over 16 or 18 years old.
See Alien, the eighth passenger on Disney Plus
See Aliens: The Return on Disney Plus
Watch Alien: Resurrection on Disney Plus
See Alien: Covenant on Disney Plus
Cartoon
If you want science fiction but to enjoy with children, there are movies of this genre that we can see. Cartoons to enjoy with the family. Some of them classics, like Atlantis or The Treasure Planet but also others more modern and unknown.
The treasure Planet
Boys and girls of the nineties will remember this animated film, pirates and science fiction that covers the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson but opting for a futuristic touch. The protagonist is Jim Hawkins, a young man who will embark on an adventure after discovering a map to find “the most important treasure in the universe.” Hawkins will be accompanied by other crew members on the solar galleon as John Sylver, the robot Ben, and Captain Amelia. Together they must do their best to find this treasure in a story about space pirates that they roam all over the universe looking to complete his mission.
Platform: Disney +
Year: 2002
Duration: One hour and 35 minutes
Thematic: Cartoon / Space / Pirates
Recommended age: For over six years
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Atlantis
Another classic of the boys and girls of the nineties is undoubtedly Atlantis. Released a year before the previous one, it takes us to the bottom of the sea to discover the submerged kingdom that gives the film its name. Milo thatch is a historian who must dive deep underwater to find the kingdom of Atlantis. But it will not be enough to find it, it will also have to be protected.
Platform: Disney +
Year: 2001
Duration: One hour and 38 minutes
Thematic: Cartoon / Underwater Action & Adventure
Recommended age: For over six years
Wall-E
One of the best animated films that we can see on Disney + is, without a doubt, Wall-e. Whether you are looking for science fiction or not, that of the robot is an essential that was launched in 2008 and that achieved the Oscar for best animated feature film as well as five other nominations. A cartoon artwork that takes us into the future (set in 2800) to introduce us to a robot tasked with cleaning the planet of trash. WALL-E is Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class. But he discovers that, beyond the garbage, he may have a new mission in the galaxy.
Platform: Disney Plus
Year: 2008
Duration: One hour and 38 minutes
Thematic: Sci-Fi, Family, Animation
Age: For all audiences
Phineas and Ferb – Candance against the Universe
If you are looking for something new and original, Phineas and Ferb – Candance against the Universe is the film of these two brothers that came to Disney Plus in 2020 as a original feature film from the streaming platform. In this adventure, Phineas and Ferb must save Candance, his sister. She has been kidnapped and abducted by aliens so they will have to do what they can, with their classic wacky and crazy inventions, to save her. There is no lack of the usual trinkets, jokes, humor and the essential platypus Perry who accompanies them on all adventures since the animated series began.
Platform: Disney +
Year: 2020
Duration: One hour and 28 minutes
Thematic: Animated Adventure Comedy
Age: For over six years
Watch Phineas and Ferb: The Movie – Candance vs. the Universe on Disney Plus