| 100% | ALIEN | 5 | '79 sci-fi thriller |
| 80% | ALIEN | 5 | 1979 sci-fi thriller |
| 80% | FANTASTICVOYAGE | 15 | 1966 sci-fi thriller |
| 75% | ABYSS | 5 | "The ___" (1989 sci-fi thriller) |
| 75% | ALIEN | 5 | Sigourney Weaver sci-fi thriller |
| 73% | EVENT | 5 | "___ Horizon" (Laurence Fishburne sci-fi thriller) |
| 73% | ALIEN | 5 | 1979 Sigourney Weaver sci-fi thriller |
| 73% | MATTER | 6 | Dark __, Blake Crouch sci-fi thriller |
| 73% | EDGE | 4 | "____ of Tomorrow" (2014 sci-fi thriller) |
| 73% | TENET | 5 | 2020 Christopher Nolan sci-fi thriller |
| 72% | ELYSIUM | 7 | Sci-fi thriller starring Matt Damon and 28-Across |
| 72% | ORPHAN | 6 | "___ Black," 2013 Canadian sci-fi thriller series |
| 70% | ABYSS | 5 | 1989 James Cameron sci-fi thriller, with "The" |
| 70% | EDGE | 4 | 2014 Tom Cruise sci-fi thriller "___ of Tomorrow" |
| 70% | GRAVITY | 7 | 2013 sci-fi thriller that won seven Oscars |
| 70% | TIMECOP | 7 | 1994 Jean-Claude Van Damme sci-fi thriller |
| 70% | STRANGEDAYS | 11 | *1995 sci-fi thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow |
| 70% | THEYLIVE | 8 | 1988 sci-fi thriller starring "Rowdy" Roddy Piper |
| 70% | TENET | 5 | Palindromic 2020 sci-fi thriller starring Robert Pattinson |
| 70% | SKY | 3 | "Vanilla ___," 2001 sci-fi psychological thriller |
| 68% | MEG | 3 | Sci-fi thriller about a seventy-foot shark (with “The”) (August, 2018) |
| 67% | ORPHAN | 6 | "___ Black," 2013 Canadian sci-fi thriller series starring Tatiana Maslany |
| 67% | IROBOT | 6 | 2004 sci-fi thriller inspired by a classic 1950 book |
| 67% | INCEPTION | 9 | 2010 sci-fi thriller with main characters who are "extractors" |
| 66% | CHAOSWALKING | 12 | Sci-fi thriller starring Daisy Ridley, Tom Holland, and 44-Across (2 wds.) |
| 63% | GOMEZ | 5 | Rick ___ who portrayed Nestor Rosario on ABC's sci-fi thriller "The Crossing" |
| 63% | MIST | 4 | Spike's 2017 short-lived "The ___", a sci-fi horror thriller |
| 62% | AVATAR | 6 | Sci fi film that went really big |
| 61% | ALIENCOVENANT | 13 | 2017 sci-fi thriller with the tagline "Discover the Origin of Terror" (2 wds.) |
| 61% | CHAINREACTION | 13 | 1996 sci-fi thriller film starring Morgan Freeman as Dr. Paul Shannon: 2 wds. |