The 40 most popular chinese science fiction movies, ranked. Click any film for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


The Wandering Earth II
2023 · 2h 54m · CN
Humans built huge engines on the surface of the earth to find a new home. But the road to the universe is perilous. In order to save earth, young people once again have to step forward to start a race against time for life and death.


The Wandering Earth
2019 · 2h 6m · CN
When the Sun begins to expand in such a way that it will inevitably engulf and destroy the Earth in a hundred years, united mankind finds a way to avoid extinction by propelling the planet out of the Solar System using gigantic engines, moving it to a new home located four light years away, an epic journey that will last thousands of years.


CJ7
2008 · 1h 28m · HK
A poor construction worker, who struggles to keep his son in private school, mistakes an orb he finds in a junkjard for a toy which proves to be much, much more once the young boy starts to play with it.


Resurrection
2025 · 2h 39m · CN
In a world where humanity has lost the ability to dream in exchange for eternal life, one creature remains entranced by the fading illusions of the dreamworld. This monster, adrift in reverie, clings to visions no one else can see - until a woman appears. As she allows him to dream one final time, his life of different identities is replayed as they journey through his century of existence.


Escape Plan 2: Hades
2018 · 1h 33m · CN
Ray Breslin manages an elite team of security specialists trained in the art of breaking people out of the world's most impenetrable prisons. When his most trusted operative, Shu Ren, is kidnapped and disappears inside the most elaborate prison ever built, Ray must track him down with the help of some of his former friends.


Blood: The Last Vampire
2009 · 1h 31m · CN
On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old "halfling". Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts.


24 Hours to Live
2017 · 1h 34m · US
An assassin seeks redemption after being given a second chance at life.


Bureau 749
2024 · 2h 3m · CN
A traumatized young man with physical abnormalities is forced to join a mysterious bureau to confront a disaster spreading across the earth caused by an unknown creature. He embarks on an adventure uncovering mysteries about his life.


Warriors of Future
2022 · 1h 41m · CN
When a meteor carrying a destructive plant strikes the world, a suicide squad is given hours to save their post-apocalyptic city from total collapse.


Bleeding Steel
2017 · 1h 49m · CN
A hardened special forces agent fights to protect a young woman from a sinister criminal gang. At the same time, he feels a special connection to the young woman, like they have met in a different life.


Boonie Bears: Time Twist
2024 · 1h 45m · CN
When Vick gets a chance to start his life again as a logger, he must save his friends by embarking on an adventure through time and space.


Boonie Bears: Future Reborn
2025 · 1h 47m · CN
Bramble, Briar, and Vick unexpectedly follow a time traveller 100 years in the future, where they find Earth beset by environmental catastrophe, with humanity barely able to survive.


Mutant
2024 · 1h 33m · CN
In 2150, artificial intelligence mutated and replaced humans' control of the earth, and launched an eradication operation against humans. The surviving humans united together to form a resistance army, and with simple weapons, they fought a desperate battle with the artificial intelligence army.


Per Aspera Ad Astra
2026 · 1h 51m · CN
Set in the near future, the story revolves around the emergence of the virtual dream reality technology "Good Dreams", which allows people to do whatever they desire within their self-created dreams. However, a crisis triggered by these dreams quietly unfolds.


Boonie Bears: The Wild Life
2021 · 1h 39m · CN
Bear brothers Briar and Bramble set off on an adventure with their human friend Vick to Wild Land, an amusement park where humans can turn into animals using a gene-technology bracelet.


Back to the Past
2025 · 1h 47m · HK
In the Qin Dynasty, time-traveller Hong Siu-lung has lived in seclusion with his family for twenty years. Yet every step he takes remains under the watchful eye of his former disciple, now the Qin Emperor. On the brink of ultimate power after conquering the six warring states, the emperor is suddenly ambushed by a mysterious team wielding advanced weapons clearly originating from Hong’s time. Drawn together by fate again, Hong and Qin Emperor are forced to confront the long-buried conflict between them, because the future now depends on how they settle their past.


Super Wings: Maximum Speed
2023 · 1h 29m · CN
In a world where toys have become unpopular, villain Billy Willy sets up a terrifying plot to kidnap YouTubers and blow them into space. One million YouTuber Da-in goes out to find Billy Willy with fastest aircraft Sky to save her kidnapped mother! Can Sky save the Earth with Maximum Speed?


Boonie Bears: The Big Shrink
2018 · 1h 29m · CN
Briar and Bramble, two bear brothers who constantly annoy Vick, are about to have a rude awakening. Vick goes to meet them to make them disappear and remove them from his life. During the commotion, all three are caught in by a shrink ray and miniaturized. The tiny team must return to the device to reverse the effects, but their efforts are thwarted by Vick's father. All three of them embark on a crazy race through a beautiful world, right under our feet, not only to return to their right , but also to find their families.


Moon Man
2022 · 2h 2m · CN
Working as a maintenance crew member on the moon, Duguyue is left behind after the evacuation mission forgets about him. A meteorite then destroys planet Earth, leaving him as the only man left alive in existence.


One More Shot
2022 · 1h 22m · CN
After his wife's death professional bodyguard Lung Wei went overseas to find doctors for his daughter, but instead found a new job as a virtual reality tester.


Iceman
2014 · 1h 44m · CN
An imperial guard and his three traitorous childhood friends ordered to hunt him down get accidentally buried and kept frozen in time. 400 years later, they are defrosted continuing the battle they left behind.


Restart the Earth
2021 · 1h 29m · CN
When a drug to replicate plant cells creates a sentient form of flower, the planet is over taken by flora and humankind is depleted. A Chinese task force, a widowed father and his young daughter fight to survive in a mission to inject an antidote to the core of the plants to reverse their growth.


The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity
2020 · 2h 12m · CN
Every few hundred years, the most powerful demon on earth—a snake demon—awakens, and the Yin-Yang Masters are summoned to the capital. Meanwhile, the Princess of the realm has her own plans, as she conspires to claim the demon’s power.


Animal World
2018 · 2h 5m · CN
Backed into a corner by mounting debts, a youth agrees to submit himself to a high stakes game of chance in international waters aboard a disused warship.


Spark: A Space Tail
2016 · 1h 31m · CA
Teenage monkey Spark and his friends, Chunk and Vix, are on a mission to regain Planet Bana - a kingdom overtaken by the evil overlord Zhong.


Reset
2017 · 1h 46m · CN
In 2025, a scientist on the verge of making a major discovery related to time travel is suddenly put in peril when a rival kidnaps her young son and demands a hefty ransom: her entire research.


Boonie Bears: Back to Earth
2022 · 1h 39m · CN
When an unknown object from space lands on Earth, Bramble gains new abilities and an extraterrestrial sidekick.


Shanghai Fortress
2019 · 1h 47m · CN
Set in the future, the city of Shanghai battle to defend itself against an ongoing attack by an alien force that has attacked and laid siege to numerous cities around the globe in it's quest to harvest a hidden energy only found on earth.


Death Ray on Coral Island
1980 · CN
Said to be the first science-fiction film produced in China (and perhaps having its North American theatrical premiere in Future Imperfect?), Death Ray on Coral Island spares no bile, camp, or latent envy in portraying America as the cunning archenemy that will stop at nothing—industrial espionage, assassinations, even ballroom dancing—to steal China’s futuristic weaponry. The film occupies a pivotal moment in China’s modern history, representing a legacy of the Great Cultural Revolution and a harbinger of the nation’s ascension on the global economic stage. Courtesy of the China Film Archive and Shanghai Film Group.


Monster of The Deep
2023 · 1h 18m · CN
Since witnessing the death of his wife in a shipwreck, Zhang Yang, who has spent half of his life at sea, vowed never to set foot in the ocean again. However, on his daughter's 12th birthday, Zhang Yang, who could not resist his best friend's persuasion to fulfil his daughter's wish, broke his vow and participated in a sea smuggling and embarked on an ocean liner that was no different from a steel prison. At the same time, a horrible accident happened, a deep sea monster that has never been seen before has escaped from the ship's laboratory. With the genes of the natural predator, the human on board launched a merciless hunt, will all be put to the test of survival. (Source: iQiyi)


Battlefield: Fall of The World
2022 · 1h 41m · CN
Earth has completely succumbed to an alien invasion, and the planet, which was once everyone's home, has become a hell. To stop the monsters from invading, the guard troops formed by different countries have disregarded their personal safety to defend what is left. Cheng Ling, who barely survived the times by scavenging from the garbage, met Zhu Rong's team when he was being attacked by an alien hellhound. With the help of Gao Ren and the others, Cheng Ling believes that it's destiny that leads him here, so he decided to accept the mission to destroy the aliens' evil plans and search for new hope for humanity. Along the way, the team was encircled by the plunderers and chased by hellhounds. They met Dr. Dojepamo, who had mastered the technology to subdue the hellhounds. When the group finally arrived at the resistance point, they discovered that the so-called resistance point was just a trap set by the hellhound hunters. The real danger has just begun...


Escape from the 21st Century
2024 · 1h 38m · CN
Three friends discover that they have the power to travel back and forth 20 years with a sneeze. However, the future is not as good as they hope, and they need to take on the responsibility of saving the world.


The Lake
2022 · 1h 44m · TH
A little girl brings back the big egg she finds by a nearby lake to her home. However, the egg belongs to a mysterious and dangerous creature, and it soon starts searching for it.


The Shallows
2025 · 1h 13m · CN
A scientist passionate about extreme sports, Li Qiang, faces off against a ruthless predator at the top of the ocean's food chain in a life-and-death game. Beneath the ominous clouds, danger lurks just beneath the surface.


Comic Girl Squad
2019 · CN
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A Chinese Tall Story
2005 · 1h 43m · HK
The young monk Taka and his three disciples are captured by a demonic tree. Taka manages to escape thanks to the magic stick of Monkey King and decided to go free his companions. En route, he encounters a strange ally called Meiyan, a girl who is half-human and half monster. As Taka and his new friend set off on a fantastic adventure they will face many hardships and battles and may very well decide the fate of humanity and the entire universe...


L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties
2016 · 1h 53m · CN
Based on the novel of the same name, the film depicts the endless battles of four kingdoms as they fight for power and domination of the one ultimate realm.Based on his 2 beloved fantasy novels with 6 million copies sold, L.O.R.D is acclaimed writer and director Guo Jingming’s follow up to his Tiny Times films. The action-adventure odyssey is set in a world of warring Sorcerers, Lords and Beasts. The first CGI Film to come from China


Boonie Bears: Guardian Code
2023 · 1h 34m · CN
Briar and Bramble, who lost their mother Barbara when they were cubs, are thrown into danger when escorting a scientist, which may lead them to a family reunion.


Super Typhoon
2008 · 1h 34m · CN
When a super typhoon strikes the city of a million people, only the heroic mayor can save the day.


The Lovers
2015 · 1h 49m · AU
The Lovers is an epic romance time travel adventure film. Helmed by Roland Joffé from a story by Ajey Jhankar, the film is a sweeping tale of an impossible love set against the backdrop of the first Anglo-Maratha war across two time periods and continents and centred around four characters — a British officer in 18th century colonial India, the Indian woman he falls deeply in love with, an American present-day marine biologist and his wife.
Chinese cinema encompasses the Fifth Generation directors who broke through internationally in the 1980s, the wuxia martial-arts epic, and one of the largest domestic box offices in the world.
Science fiction uses the future — or a plausible alternative present — to think through the current moment. It's produced some of cinema's most influential images, and the genre's biggest leaps have usually followed leaps in effects technology.