WOW! Thank you I had never heard of this movie before but I loved it, it was obviously done on a budget and it shows in a few areas but it is amazing what they were able to do on the cheap. Some of the models even look really good, certainly not jarring and the plot and characters are interesting enough to hold your attention. This is the best movie I’ve seen in awhile:)
Oh I found it under the title of Beyond The Rising Moon just to let you know, same movie though.
I always liked victorian era Sci-Fi-some good ones:
-“The First Men In The Moon”-good British adaption of the HG Wells classic
-“The Time Machine”-another HG Wells tale
-“From The Earth To The Moon”-starring Joseph Cotten
Yes, this is a must-see. It’s an incredibly good film, yet the total budget was only $7000!
Spacehunter Adventures In The Forbidden Zone
An ok slightly tongue in cheek scifi romp, three girls crash in a lifepod on a quarantined planet and a bounty hunter comes to rescue them from pirates for the bounty.
The Outpost is a fun film. I’ll also suggest Deep Rising, even though it’s not technically a sci-fi film.
Idaho Transfer - 1973 - directed by Peter Fonda and proof all the really good drugs didn’t end with Easy Rider. The short version is hippies travel through time to study or escape dwindling resources.
Time travelling hippies turn out to be an alternative fuel in the future
Time Rider - 1982 - co-written by Mike Nesmith of the Monkees ------- who must have found a fairly good stash of his own. A cross-country motorcycle racer gets off course and is sent back to the wild west.
Another vote for this.
And another.
Came in to mention Blood of Heroes, a post-apocalyptic blood sport movie.
It stars Rutger Hauer, back when that meant something.
Not sure if these have been mentioned yet.
Terrorvision-
Nominally scifi, more like a comedy/horror movie hybrid. Very 80’s and only for those that like this kinda thing. A mutant disposal facility on planet Pluton accidentally transmits a mutant monster to earth, mayhem ensues.
Robinson Crusoe On Mars-
Just what it says on the tin basically, the old story transplanted to an astronaut and the planet Mars(not hard scifi!), I liked it pretty good.
“You are false data. I will ignore you.”
LUH 3417 shot first!
Oh how did I forget this one!
Technotise, Edit and I-
This is a really fascinating movie, Serbian made animated scifi cyberpunk. Has a very plausible near future world of implanted memory enhancement devices and holograms and robotic pets(that get hacked by viruses!)in every home. A college student gets a memory implant to help her with tests, and it somehow grows out of control and take on a mind of its own. What makes this movie so cool is the background details and animation, unlike anything I’ve seen, the plot is also very un-Hollywood and original. I also liked how this brings cyberpunk out fot he dark rainy city into the real world where there is a sun :).
Well-known at the time, possibly less so now: Outland starring Sean Connery as a police marshal stationed at a remote mining colony on Io who uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy.
Harlan Ellison’s dissection of this film, without anaesthetic, is a joy to read. It’s in the collection Screen Flights/Screen Fantasies, a book of essays on SF film put out by the defunct magazine Omni in 1984, and I don’t know if it’s ever been reprinted. Look it up if you can.
AKA “High Noon in Outer Space.” 
I wrote a paper about this movie in college. I think I still have a copy of it on VHS somewhere. It’s well worth watching.
Not sci-fi, but definitely a fun film.
“That’s it? No ‘Joey, what happened to your leg?’ ‘Joey, are you okay?’”
“Joey, do you want to be the appetizer or the entree? Move!”
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise, an anime from the 1980’s, is pretty neat. It’s the story of a very Earthlike extraterrestrial civilization and their own first steps into space. It has some interesting extraterrestrial cultural differences that are played pretty well and there is a pretty obvious hint hint reference to the Cold War which you see in other anime of the era.
I really liked Altered. A different take on alien abduction, for sure.
This is based on Vic And Blood: A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison. If you shop around, you might be able to find the graphic novel drawn by Richard Corben (remember “Den” from Heavy Metal?) that goes deeper into the story.
Alex: “It’ll be a slaughter!”
Grig: “That’s the spririt!”
It wasn’t until rewatching the 25th anniversary edition years later that I realized underneath Grig’s creature effects is Dan O’Herlihey, who played the “Old Man” who runs OCP in RoboCop. Seeing his mannerisms and hearing his voice again, though, it clicked right away for me.
I want that car. I need the keys!
I read Roadside Picnic, and found it interesting, and I know at least one of the brothers was involved in getting the film made, but from the descriptions I’ve read, it seems like a minimalist retelling of only one of the many plot points in the book.
You’re comparing it to the wrong movie, GuanoLad. Small Soldiers is basically a remake of Gremlins.
I want to nominate Returner. A young girl from the future is sent back in time to stop an alien invasion that will, in her era, wipe out humanity. She enlists the aid of a trained gunman who has a grudge against the crime lord who may be responsible for the whole thing in the first place!