The Best Futuristic Movies and TV Shows on Syfy
Finding a good Futuristic movie and TV show to watch can be hard, so we've ranked the best ones and included where to watch them. Check out our list of the best Futuristic movies and TV shows of all time streaming on Syfy.
1. Futurama
What it's about: The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century.
Where to Watch: 140 episodes (99%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu, fuboTV & TVision). 15 episodes (11%) are available to stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Syfy & Comedy Central). 142 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $0.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
2. The Expanse
What it's about: A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
Where to Watch: 56 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video). 5 episodes (9%) are available to stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Syfy). 46 episodes (82%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
3. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
What it's about: In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures. At the center of Alpha is a mysterious dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Syfy) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
4. Incorporated
What it's about: Set in a near future where corporations have unlimited power, a young executive conceals his true identity to infiltrate a dangerous corporate world to save the woman he loves.
Where to Watch: 1 episodes (9%) are available to stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Syfy). 9 episodes (82%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
5. The Fifth Element
What it's about: In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Syfy) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
6. Tomorrowland
What it's about: Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomorrowland."
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Disney+), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Syfy) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
7. Realive
What it's about: Marc, a successful, ambitious man, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and is given a few months to live. Unable to accept death, he decides to cryogenically freeze himself. The love of his life is devastated. Seventy years later, Marc becomes the first cryogenic resuscitated person in history. But this doesn't happen in the idealized way he dreamt of.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (TVision), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Syfy) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).
8. Empire of the Sharks
What it's about: On a future earth where 98% of the surface is underwater, a Warlord who controls an army of sharks meets his match when he captures the daughter of a mysterious shark caller who must learn to marshal a supernatural ability if she is to free her people from the Warlord's dominion.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (fuboTV, Hoopla & TVision), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Syfy) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).
9. Hover
What it's about: In a near future when environmental havoc is causing food shortages and compelling the government to protect its organized crop system by deploying sentinel drones, a handful of locals discover a sinister connection between sick farmland inhabitants and the tech that’s meant to be protect them.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (TVision), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Syfy) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).
10. Atomica
What it's about: In the near future, when communications go offline at a remote nuclear power plant isolated in the desert, a young safety inspector, Abby Dixon, is forced to fly out to bring them back online. Once inside the facility, mysterious clues and strange behaviors cause Abby to have doubts about the sanity, and perhaps identities, of the two employees onsite.
Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (TVision), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Syfy) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).