| 100% | BACK | 4 | "___ to the Future," sci-fi film franchise |
| 58% | BACK | 4 | "___ to the Future" (1985 time-travel film) |
| 58% | FUTURE | 6 | "Back to the ___," 1985 sci-fi film starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd |
| 58% | ATRIP | 5 | "___ to the Moon" (seminal 1902 sci-fi film) |
| 57% | GIJOE | 5 | Sci-fi film based on a toy franchise, "___: The Rise of Cobra": 3 wds. |
| 57% | FUTURE | 6 | "Back to the ___," 1985 sci-fi film starring Michael J. Fox with an oxymoronic title |
| 57% | SNACK | 5 | "___ to the Future," swap "Back" with a rhyming word to get a sci-fi film where Marty goes back in time to look for munchies |
| 56% | THISISLANDEARTH | 15 | 1955 sci-fi film that was one of the first to use Technicolor |
| 56% | SHUE | 4 | Actress Elisabeth of two "Back to the Future" films |
| 54% | JURASSIC | 8 | "___ Park," "Weird Al" Yankovic song that's a tribute to the eponymous dinosaur sci-fi franchise |
| 53% | BUCKHENRY | 9 | Actor-writer who played Oliver Farnsworth in 1976 sci-fi film The Man Who Fell to Earth |
| 53% | CROSSWORLDS | 11 | 1996 sci-fi film featuring Jack Black about a college student who holds the key to another dimension |
| 52% | ADASTRA | 7 | 2019 sci-fi film whose title means "to the stars" |
| 52% | ADASTRA | 7 | 2019 sci-fi film whose name means "to the stars" |
| 51% | UFO | 3 | Sci-fi film with Alex Sharp and Gillian Anderson about events at the Cincinnati Intl. Airport, released straight to video in 2018 |
| 51% | DAVID | 5 | & 2D Singer-actor who starred as Thomas Jerome Newton in 1976 sci-fi film The Man Who Fell to Earth |
| 51% | STARW/TA/RR/ES/K | 16 | The better of two major sci-fi film franchises? |
| 50% | ALIENROMULUS | 12 | New sci-fi horror movie that's the seventh film in a franchise that began in 1979: 2 wds. |
| 49% | ALIEN | 5 | Sci-fi film set aboard the Nostromo |
| 49% | PARK | 4 | "Jurassic ___," sci-fi film franchise about dinosaurs that took over cereal boxes in the '90s |
| 49% | ALIENS | 6 | 80's sci-fi thriller film starring Sigourney Weaver that is a sequel to a horror film of the same name |
| 48% | APES | 4 | Sci-fi franchise "Planet of the ___" |
| 48% | FUTURE | 6 | "Back to the ___," popular sci-fi movie |
| 48% | FUTURE | 6 | "Back to the ___" (1985 sci-fi movie) |
| 48% | SCI | 3 | ___-fi (genre for "Back to the Future") |
| 48% | THEMATRIX | 9 | 1999 sci-fi action movie added to the National Film Registry in 2012: 2 wds |
| 47% | THEMATRIX | 9 | 90s sci-fi film made by the Wachowskis |
| 47% | BACK | 4 | "___ to the Future" (1985 movie) |
| 47% | NORTH | 5 | ''__ to the Future'' (Alaska motto) |