This period is sometimes described as the 'classic' or 'golden' era of science fiction theate. With at least 204 sci-fi films produced, it holds the record for the largest number of science fiction produced per decade. Much of the production was in a low-budget form, targeted at a teenage audience. Many were formulaic, gimmicky, comic-book-style films. They drew upon political themes or public concerns of the day, including depersonalization, infiltration, or fear of nuclear weapons. Invasion was a common theme, as were various threats to humanity.[1]
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| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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| Destination Moon | Irving Pichel | Warner Anderson, John Archer, Tom Powers | United States | Adventure Drama Thriller [2] |
| Flying Disc Man from Mars | Fred C. Brannon | Kent Fowler, Gregory Gaye | United States | Action Adventure Crime Fantasy Serial film |
| The Flying Saucer | Mikel Conrad | Mikel Conrad, Pat Garrison, Hanz von Teuffen | United States | Thriller |
| The Invisible Monster | Fred C. Brannon | Stanley Price, Richard Webb, Aline Towne, Lane Bradford | United States | Action Adventure Crime Thriller Serial film |
| Rocketship X-M | Kurt Neumann | Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery | United States | Family |
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| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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| Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man | Charles Lamont | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Guild | United States | Comedy Family Sport |
| Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell | Judd Holdren, Gene Roth | United States | Adventure Serial film |
| The Day the Earth Stood Still | Robert Wise | Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe | United States | Drama [3] |
| Five | Arch Oboler | William Phipps, Susan Douglas, James Anderson | United States | Drama Horror |
| Flight to Mars | Lesley Selander | Marguerite Chapman, Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz | United States | Drama |
| I'll Never Forget You | Roy Ward Baker | Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth | United States |
| Lost Continent | Sam Newfield | Cesar Romero, Hillary Brooke, Chick Chandler | United States | Adventure Fantasy |
| Lost Planet Airmen | Fred C. Brannon | Tristram Coffin, Mae Clarke, I. Stanford Jolley | United States | Action Crime [4] |
| The Man from Planet X | Edgar G. Ulmer | Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Raymond Bond | United States | Horror Romance Thriller |
| The Man in the White Suit | Alexander Mackendrick | Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Ernest Thesiger | United Kingdom | Comedy Drama |
| Mysterious Island | | Richard Crane, Marshall Reed, Karen Randle, Ralph Hodges | United States | Action Family Serial film |
| Superman and the Mole Men | Lee Sholem | George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, Jeff Corey | United States | Action Adventure Drama Family Fantasy Romance |
| The Thing from Another World | Christian Nyby | Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite | United States | Horror |
| Two Lost Worlds | Norman Dawn, Norman Kennedy | James Arness, Laura Elliott | United States | Adventure Romance |
Unknown World
a.k.a. Night Without Stars | Terrell O. Morse | Bruce Kellogg, Marilyn Nash, Jim Bannon, Otto Waldis | United States | Adventure |
| When Worlds Collide | Rudolph Maté | Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen, John Hoyt | United States | Action Thriller |
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| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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| Alraune | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Hildegard Knef, Erich von Stroheim | West Germany | Horror |
| 1. April 2000 | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Hilde Krahl, Joseph Meinrad, Curd Jürgens | Austria | Comedy Fantasy Romance [5] |
| Captive Women | Stuart Gilmore | Robert Clarke, Margaret Field, Gloria Saunders | United States | [6] |
| Invasion USA | Alfred E Green | Gerald Mohr, Peggie Castle, Dan O'Herlihy | United States | Drama War |
| Monkey Business | Howard Hawks | Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe | United States | Comedy |
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
a.k.a My Son, the Vampire (USA) | John Gilling | Arthur Lucan, Bela Lugosi | UK | Horror Comedy |
| Radar Men from the Moon | Fred C. Brannon | George D. Wallace, Aline Towne, Roy Barcroft | United States | Action Family Serial film |
| Red Planet Mars | Harry Horner | Peter Graves, Andrea King, Orley Lindgren | United States | Drama |
| Untamed Women | Merle W. Connell, James R. Connell | Mikel Conrad, Doris Merrick, Richard Monahan | United States | War |
| Zombies of the Stratosphere | Fred C. Brannon | Judd Holdren | United States | Action Adventure Serial film |
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| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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| Abbott and Costello Go to Mars | Charles Lamont | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mari Blanchard | United States | Comedy Family Fantasy |
| Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Charles Lamont | Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff | United States | Comedy Horror Mystery |
| The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms | Eugène Lourié | Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway | United States | Horror |
| Cat-Women of the Moon | Arthur D. Hilton | Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, Marie Windsor, Carol Brewster | United States | Adventure [7] |
| Harry Keller, Franklin Adreon, Fred C. Brannon | Judd Holdren, Aline Towne | United States | Action Adventure Serial film |
| Donovan's Brain | Felix E. Feist | Lew Ayres, Gene Evans, Nancy Davis | United States | Horror |
| Flight to the Moon (a.k.a Полёт на Луну) | Brumberg sisters | Vera Bendina (voice), Yevgeniya Mores (voice), Valentina Sperantova (voice) | Soviet Union | Animation Short Adventure Family[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] |
| Four Sided Triangle | Terence Fisher | Barbara Payton, John Van Eyssen, Percy Marmont | United Kingdom | Romance |
| Invaders from Mars | William Cameron Menzies | Jimmy Hunt, Arthur Franz, Helena Carter | United States | Horror |
| It Came from Outer Space | Jack Arnold | Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake | United States | Horror |
| The Lost Planet | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Judd Holdren, Vivian Mason, Michael Fox | United States | Family Serial film |
| The Magnetic Monster | Curt Siodmak | Richard Carlson, King Donovan, Harry Ellerbe | United States | Horror |
| Mesa of Lost Women | Herbert Tevos, Ron Ormond | Jackie Coogan, Richard Travis, Allan Nixon, Mary Hill | United States | Horror |
| The Neanderthal Man | Ewald Andre Dupont | Robert Shayne, Doris Merrick, Richard Crane | United States | Horror |
| Phantom from Space | W. Lee Wilder | Ted Cooper, Rudolph Anders, Noreen Nash | United States | Horror |
Port Sinister
a.k.a Beast of Paradise Isle (UK) | Harold Daniels | James Warren, Lynne Roberts, Paul Cavanagh | United States | Adventure Crime [13] |
| Project Moonbase | Richard Talmadge | Donna Martell, Hayden Rorke, Ross Ford | United States | |
| Robot Monster | Phil Tucker | George Nader, Claudia Barrett, Selena Royle | United States | Comedy Family Horror [14] |
| Spaceways | Terence Fisher | Howard Duff, Eva Bartok, Alan Wheatley | United Kingdom
United States | Thriller |
| The Twonky | Arch Oboler | Hans Conried, Billy Lynn, Gloria Blondell, Janet Warren | United States | Comedy [15] |
| The War of the Worlds | Byron Haskin | Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Lewis Martin | United States | Action Thriller [16] |
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| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Richard Fleischer | Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas | United States | Adventure Drama Family Fantasy [17] |
| Creature from the Black Lagoon | Jack Arnold | Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno | United States | Horror |
| Devil Girl from Mars | David MacDonald | Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott, Adrienne Corri | United Kingdom | Horror |
| Godzilla (a.k.a Gojira) | Ishirō Honda | | Japan | Horror Kaijū |
| Gog | Ivan Tors | Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall | United States | Drama Horror Romance Thriller |
| Killers from Space | W. Lee Wilder | Peter Graves, Barbara Bestar, James Seay, Frank Gerstle | United States | Horror Mystery |
| Monster from The Ocean Floor | Wyott Ordung | Anne Kimball, Stuart Wade, Dick Pinner | United States | Horror |
| Riders to the Stars | Richard Carlson | William Lundigan, Herbert Marshall | United States | Drama |
| The Rocket Man | Oscar Rudolph | Charles Coburn, Spring Byington, Anne Francis, John Agar, George Winslow | United States | Comedy Famille |
| The Snow Creature | W. Lee Wilder | William Phipps | United States | Horror |
| Stranger From Venus | Burt Balaban | Patricia Neal, Helmut Dantine, Derek Bond | United States | [18] |
| Target Earth | Sherman A. Rose | | United States | Horror |
| Them! | Gordon Douglas | James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness | United States | Horror |
| Tobor the Great | Lee Sholem | Charles Drake, Karin Booth, Billy Chapin | United States | Adventure Family |
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| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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| The Beast with a Million Eyes | David Kramarsky | Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, Dona Cole, Dick Sargent | United States | Horror [19] [20] [21] |
| Bride of the Monster | Edward D. Wood Jr. | Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy, Loretta King | United States | Horror |
| Creature with the Atom Brain | Edward L. Cahn | Richard Denning, Angela Greene, S. John Launer | United States | Crime Horror Thriller [22] |
| Conquest of Space | Byron Haskin | Walter Brooke, Eric Fleming, Mickey Shaughnessy | United States | |
| The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues | Dan Milner | Kent Taylor, Cathy Downs, Michael Whalen | United States | Horror |
| Day the World Ended | Roger Corman | Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Paul Birch, Touch Connors | United States | Horror |
| Godzilla Raids Again (a.k.a. Gigantis, the Fire Monster) | Motoyoshi Oda | | Japan | Horror Kaijū (released in U.S. in 1959) |
| It Came from Beneath the Sea | Robert Gordon | Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis | United States | Horror |
| Journey to the Beginning of Time | Karel Zeman | Josef Lukáš,Petr Herrmann,Zdeněk Husták,Vladimír Bejval | Czechoslovakia | Dinosaurs |
| King Dinosaur | Bert I. Gordon | Josef Lukáš,Petr Herrmann,Zdeněk Husták,Vladimír Bejval | United States | Adventure [23] [24] |
| Half Human | Ishirō Honda | Akira Takarada, Akemi Negishi | Japan | Horror. Japanese version. See 1958 for USA version |
| The Quatermass Xperiment | Val Guest | Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth, Margia Dean | United Kingdom | Horror [25] |
| Revenge of the Creature | Jack Arnold | John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva | United States | Horror |
| Tarantula | Jack Arnold | John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva | United States | Horror |
| This Island Earth | Jack Arnold, Joseph Newman | Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason | United States | Horror Mystery |
| Timeslip (a.k.a The Atomic Man (USA)) | Ken Hughes | Gene Nelson, Faith Domergue | United Kingdom | |
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| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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| 1984 | Michael Anderson | Edmond O'Brien, Jan Sterling, Michael Redgrave, Donald Pleasence | United Kingdom | Drama |
| The Beast of Hollow Mountain | Edward Nassour, Ismael Rodríguez | Guy Madison, Patricia Medina, Carlos Rivas | United States | Horror Romance Thriller Western |
| The Black Sleep | Reginald Le Borg | Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, Herbert Rudley, Patricia Blake, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson | United States | Horror |
| The Creature Walks Among Us | John Sherwood | Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, Leigh Snowden | United States | Horror [26] |
| Earth vs. the Flying Saucers | Fred Sears | Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis, Morris Ankrum | United States | Action Horror |
| Fire Maidens from Outer Space | Cy Roth | Anthony Dexter, Susan Shaw | United Kingdom | [27] |
| Forbidden Planet | Fred Wilcox | Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen | United States | Adventure |
| The Gamma People | John Gilling | Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok, Leslie Phillips | United Kingdom | Drama Horror Thriller |
| Godzilla, King of the Monsters! | Terrell O. Morse, Ishirō Honda | Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Akira Takarada, Kenji Sahara, Momoko Kochi | United States
Japan | Action Horror Kaijū |
| Indestructible Man | Jack Pollexfen | Lon Chaney Jr., Max Showalter, Marian Carr | United States | Crime Horror |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Don Siegel | Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan | United States | Horror |
| It Conquered the World | Roger Corman | Peter Graves, Beverly Garland, Lee Van Cleef | United States | Horror |
| The Mole People | Virgil Vogel | John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont, Nestor Paiva | United States | Adventure Fantasy Horror |
| Rodan (a.k.a Sora no Daikaijū Radon) | Ishirō Honda | Kenji Sahara. Yumi Shirakawa, Yoshifumi Tajima | Japan | Horror Kaijū [28] |
| Satellite in the Sky | Paul Dickson | Kieron Moore, Lois Maxwell, Donald Wolfit, Bryan Forbes | United Kingdom | |
| Supersonic Saucer [29] | Guy Fergusson | Marcia Manolescue,Gillian Harrison,Fella Edmonds | United Kingdom | Adventure Family |
| UFO (a.k.a Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers) | Winston Jones | Tom Towers | USA | Semi-documentary / Sci fi |
| The Werewolf | Fred F. Sears | Don Megowan, Joyce Holden, Steven Ritch, Eleanore Tanin | United States | |
| World Without End | Edward Bernds | Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates, Rod Taylor | United States | Adventure Romance |
| X the Unknown | Leslie Norman | Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern | United States
United Kingdom | Horror |
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| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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| 20 Million Miles to Earth | Nathan H. Juran | William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia, John Zaremba | United States | Adventure Family Fantasy Horror Thriller |
| The 27th Day | William Asher | Gene Barry, Valerie French, George Voskovec | United States | |
| The Astounding She-Monster | Ronnie Ashcroft | Jeanne Tatum, Ewing Brown, Robert Clarke | United States | Crime Horror |
| The Amazing Colossal Man | Bert I. Gordon | Glenn Langan, Cathy Downs, William Hudson | United States | |
| Attack of the Crab Monsters | Roger Corman | Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson | United States | Horror |
| Beginning of the End | Bert I. Gordon | Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum | United States | Horror |
| The Black Scorpion | Edward Ludwig | Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas | United States | Horror |
| The Brain from Planet Arous | Nathan H. Juran | John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller | United States | Action Adventure Horror Thriller |
| The Cyclops | Bert I. Gordon | James Craig, Gloria Talbott, Lon Chaney Jr. | United States | Horror |
| The Deadly Mantis | Nathan H. Juran | Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton | United States | Family Horror Thriller |
| From Hell It Came | Dan Milner | Tod Andrews, Tina Carver, Linda Watkins | United States | Horror |
| The Giant Claw | Fred Sears | Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum | United States | Fantasy Horror Thriller |
| Half Human | Ishirō Honda, Kenneth G. Crane | John Carradine, Morris Ankrum | Japan
United States | Horror. USA version. See 1955 for Japan version |
| The Invisible Man vs The Human Fly | Mitsuo Murayama | Yoshirô Kitahara, Ryûji Shinagawa,Junko Kanô, Ikuko Môri | Japan | Crime Mystery Horror [30] |
| The Incredible Shrinking Man | Jack Arnold | Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent | United States | Horror [31] |
| Invasion of the Saucer Men | Edward L. Cahn | Steve Terrell, Gloria Castillo, Frank Gorshin, Lyn Osborne | United States | Family Horror |
| The Invisible Boy | Herman Hoffman | Richard Eyer, Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster | United States | Adventure Comedy Family |
| The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly | Mitsuo Murayama | Ryuji Shinagawa, Yoshiro Kitahara, Junko Kano | Japan | Only released in Japan |
| I Was a Teenage Frankenstein | Herbert L. Strock | Whit Bissell, Phyllis Coates, Robert Burton, Gary Conway, George Lynn | USA | Drama Fantasy Horror |
| I Was a Teenage Werewolf | Gene Fowler Jr. | Michael Landon, Whit Bissell, Yvonne Lime | USA | Horror |
| Kronos | Kurt Neumann | Jeff Morrow, Barbara Lawrence, John Emery, George O'Hanlon | United States | Action Drama Horror Romance |
| The Land Unknown | Virgil Vogel | Jock Mahoney, Shawn Smith, William Reynolds | United States | Adventure Fantasy Thriller |
| The Man Without a Body | Charles Saunders,W. Lee Wilder | Robert Hutton,George Coulouris,Julia Arnall | United Kingdom | Horror |
| The Man Who Turned to Stone | László Kardos | Victor Jory, William Hudson | United States | Horror |
| The Monolith Monsters | John Sherwood | Grant Williams, Lola Albright, Les Tremayne | United States | Drama Horror |
| Monster from Green Hell | Kenneth G. Crane | Jim Davis | United States | Horror |
| The Monster That Challenged the World | Arnold Laven | Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried | United States | Horror Thriller |
| The Mysterians (a.k.a Chikyû Bôeigun) | Ishirō Honda | Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kochi | Japan | Action Family Thriller Kaijū |
| The Night the World Exploded | Fred Sears | Kathryn Grant, William Leslie, Tristram Coffin | United States | |
| Not of This Earth | Roger Corman | Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones | United States | Horror |
| Quatermass 2 | Val Guest | Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sid James | United Kingdom | Horror [32] |
| Road To The Stars (a.k.a Doroga K Zvezdam) | Pavel Klushantsev | Georgi Solovyov | Soviet Union | Biography [33] [34] |
| The Secret of Two Oceans | Konstantin Pipinashvili | Igor Vladimirov, Sergej Golovanov, Sergej Stoljarov | Soviet Union | Adventure Crime Fantasy Mystery [35] |
| She Devil | Kurt Neumann | Albert Dekker, Jack Kelly, Mari Blanchard | United States | Crime Horror Thriller |
| The Unearthly | Brooke Peters | John Carradine, Myron Healey, Allison Hayes | United States | Horror |
| The Unknown Terror | Charles Marquis Warren | John Howard, Mala Powers, Paul E. Richards, May Wynn | United States | Horror |
| The Vampire | Paul Landres | John Beal, Colleen Gray, Kenneth Tobey | United States | Horror Thriller |
| The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy (a.k.a La momia azteca contra el robot humano) | Rafael Portillo | Ramon Gay, Rosita Arenas, Luis Aceves Castaneda | Mexico | Horror |
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| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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| Attack of the 50 Foot Woman | Nathan H. Juran | Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers | United States | Horror |
| Attack of the Puppet People | Bert I. Gordon | John Agar, Michael Mark, Jack Kosslyn | United States | Horror |
| Ballad of the Ming Tombs Reservoir (a.k.a Shi san ling shui ku chang xiang qu) | Jin Shan | Jin Shan, Yu Daiqin, Zhang Yisheng | China | [36] [37] [38] |
| The Blob | Irvin Shortess Yeaworth Jr. | Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe | United States | Horror |
| Blood of the Vampire | Henry Cass | Donald Wolfit, Barbara Shelley, Vincent Ball, Victor Maddern | United Kingdom | |
| The Brain Eaters | Bruno Ve Sota | Ed Nelson, Alan Frost, Jack Hill | United States | Horror |
| The Colossus of New York | Eugène Lourié | Ross Martin, Mala Powers, Charles Herbert | United States | Horror |
| Curse Of The Faceless Man | Edward L. Cahn | Richard Anderson, Elaine Edwards, Adele Mara, Luis van Rooten | United States | |
| The Day the Sky Exploded (a.k.a La morte viene dallo spazio) | Paolo Heusch | Paul Hubschmid, Fiorella Mari, Gérard Landry, Dario Michaelis | France
Italy | [39] |
| Earth vs. the Spider | Bert I. Gordon | Ed Kemmer, Gene Persson, Gene Roth | United States | Family Horror Thriller |
| Escapement (a.k.a The Electronic Monster) | Montgomery Tully, David Paltenghi | Rod Cameron, Mary Murphy, Meredith Edwards | United Kingdom
United States | Crime Horror Mystery [40] |
| Invention for Destruction (a.k.a Vynález zkázy) | Karel Zeman | Lubor Tokoš, Jana Zatloukalová | Czechoslovakia | Animation Adventure Fantasy |
| Fiend Without a Face | Arthur Crabtree | Kynaston Reeves, Marshall Thompson, Terry Kilburn | United Kingdom
United States | Horror |
| The Flame Barrier | Paul Landres | Arthur Franz, Kathleen Crowley | United States | Horror |
| The Fly | Kurt Neumann | Vincent Price, Patricia Owens, Herbert Marshall | United States | Drama Horror |
| Frankenstein 1970 | Howard W. Koch | Boris Karloff, Tom Duggan, Jana Lund | United States | Horror |
| Frankenstein's Daughter | Richard Cunha | Donald Murphy, John Ashley, Sandra Knight | United States | Horror Romance Thriller |
| From the Earth to the Moon | Byron Haskin | Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget | United States | Adventure Fantasy |
| Giant from the Unknown | Richard E. Cunha | Ed Kemmer, Sally Fraser, Buddy Baer | United States | Drama Horror |
| The H-Man (a.k.a Bijo to ekitai ningen) | Ishirō Honda | Yumi Shirakawa, Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata | Japan | Crime Horror Thriller |
| The Hideous Sun Demon | Robert Clarke | Robert Clarke, Patricia Manning, Nan Peterson | United States | Horror |
| How to Make a Monster | Herbert L. Strock | Robert H. Harris, Gary Conway, Gary Clarke, Morris Ankrum | USA | Horror |
| I Married a Monster from Outer Space | Gene Fowler | Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Ken Lynch | United States | Horror |
| It! The Terror from Beyond Space | Edward L. Cahn | Marshall Thompson, Shawn Smith, Kim Spalding | United States | Horror Thriller |
| The Lost Missile | Lester William Berke | Robert Loggia, Ellen Parker, Phillip Pine | United States | [41] |
| Missile Monsters | Fred C. Brannon | Kent Fowler, Gregory Gaye | United States | Action Adventure Crime Fantasy.
Recut of Flying Disc Man from Mars serial |
| Missile to the Moon | Richard E. Cunha | K. T. Stevens, Richard Travis, Lisa Simone | United States | Drama |
| Monster on the Campus | Jack Arnold | Arthur Franz, Joanna Cook Moore | United States | Horror [42] |
| The New Invisible Man (a.k.a El hombre que logró ser invisible) | Alfredo B. Crevenna | Arturo de Córdova, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Raúl Meraz | Mexico | Fantasy Horror [43] |
| Night of the Blood Beast | Bernard Kowalski | Michael Emmet, Angela Greene, John Baer | United States | Horror |
| Queen of Outer Space | Edward Bernds | Zsa Zsa Gabor, Laurie Mitchell, Eric Fleming | United States | Adventure Fantasy |
| The Revenge of Frankenstein | Terence Fisher | Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, Michael Gwynn | United Kingdom | Horror |
| Rocket Attack U.S.A. a.k.a Five Minutes to Zero | Barry Mahon | Monica Davis, John McKay, Daniel Kern, Edward Czerniuk, Phillip St. George | United States | |
| Satan's Satellites | Fred C. Brannon | Judd Holdren, Aline Towne, Lane Bradford | United States | Recut of Zombies of the Stratosphere serial |
| She Demons | Richard E. Cunha | Irish McCalla, Tod Griffin, Victor Sen Yung | United States | Horror |
| The Space Children | Jack Arnold | Adam Williams, Michel Ray, Johnny Crawford, Sandy Descher | United States | |
| Space Master X-7 | Edward Bernds | Robert Ellis, Bill Williams, Lyn Thomas | United States | Horror Thriller |
| The Strange World of Planet X (UK) (a.k.a. Cosmic Monsters) | Gilbert Gunn | Forrest Tucker, Gaby Andre, Martin Benson | United Kingdom | Drama Horror [44] |
| Teenage Cave Man | Roger Corman | Robert Vaughn, Leslie E. Bradley, Frank de Kova | United States | Adventure |
| Teenage Monster | Jacques R. Marquette | Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade | United States | Horror Western [45] [46] |
| The Trollenberg Terror | Quentin Lawrence | Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Janet Munro | United Kingdom | Horror [47] |
| Varan the Unbelievable (a.k.a Daikaijû Baran) | Ishirō Honda | Tsuruko Kobayashi, Kōzō Nomura, Ayumi Sonoda | Japan | Horror Kaijū [48] |
| War of the Colossal Beast | Bert I. Gordon | Sally Fraser, Dean Parkin, Roger Pace | United States | Horror |
| War of the Satellites | Roger Corman | Susan Cabot, Richard Devon, Eric Sinclair | United States | Horror [49] |
| Terror from the Year 5000 (a.k.a. Cage Of Doom) | Robert J. Gurney Jr. | Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, John Stratton, Salome Jens,Fred Herrick | United States | |
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| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
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| The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock | Sidney Miller | Lou Costello, Dorothy Provine, Gale Gordon | United States | Comedy |
| 4D Man | Irvin Shortess Yeaworth Jr. | Robert Lansing, Lee Meriwether, James Congdon | United States | Action Horror Romance Thriller |
| The Angry Red Planet | Ib Melchior | Gerald Mohr, Les Tremayne, Nora Hayden | United States | Adventure Horror |
| The Atomic Submarine | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey | United States | Thriller |
| Attack of the Giant Leeches | Bernard Kowalski | Jan Shepard, Gene Roth, Yvette Vickers | United States | Horror |
| Battle Beyond the Sun | Mikhail Kozyry | Aleksandr Shvorin, Ivan Pereverzhev | Soviet Union | Adventure |
| Battle in Outer Space (a.k.a Uchû sai sensô) | Ishirō Honda | Ryō Ikebe, Koreya Senda | Japan | Action |
| Caltiki – The Immortal Monster (a.k.a Caltiki, il mostro immortale) | Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava | John Merivale,Didi Perego,Gérard Herter,Giacomo Rossi-Stuart | Italy | Horror |
| The Cosmic Man | Herbert Greene | Bruce Bennett, John Carradine, Angela Greene | United States | Adventure Thriller [50] |
| The Final War (aka Dai-sanji sekai taisen: Yonjû-ichi jikan no kyôfu) | Shigeaki Hidaki | Tatsuo Umemiya, Yoshiko Mita | Japan | Action Adventure War |
| First Man into Space | Robert Day | Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards | United Kingdom | Drama Horror [51] |
| The Giant Gila Monster | Ray Kellogg | Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone, Fred Graham | United States | Horror Thriller |
| Have Rocket, Will Travel | David Lowell Rich | Jerome Cowan, Anna-Lisa, Curly Joe DeRita | United States | Comedy Family |
| The Head (a.k.a Die Nackte und der Satan) | Victor Trivas | Michel Simon, Horst Frank, Christiane Maybach | West Germany | Horror [52] [53] |
| The Incredible Petrified World | Jerry Warren | John Carradine, Phyllis Coates, Robert Clarke | United States | Action Adventure Thriller |
| Invisible Invaders | Edward L. Cahn | John Agar, Jean Byron, Philip Tonge, Robert Hutton, John Carradine | United States | Horror |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | Henry Levin | Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker | United States | Adventure Family Fantasy Romance |
| The Killer Shrews | Ray Kellogg | James Best, Ken Curtis, Ingrid Goude | United States | Horror |
| The Manster | George Breakston, Kenneth G. Crane | Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Satoshi Nakamura, Terri Zimmern | Japan
United States | Horror (released in U.S. in 1962)[54] [55] [56] |
| The Man Who Could Cheat Death | Terence Fisher | Anton Diffring, Christopher Lee | United Kingdom | Drama Horror [57] |
| The Monster of Piedras Blancas | Irvin Berwick | Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis, John Harmon | United States | Horror |
| Nebo Zovyot (a.k.a Battle Beyond the Sun) | Mikhail Karyukov, Aleksandr Kozyr | Ivan Pereverzev | Soviet Union | Adventure |
| On the Beach | Stanley Kramer | Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire | United States | Drama Romance |
| Plan 9 from Outer Space | Edward D. Wood Jr. | Bela Lugosi, Mona McKinnon, Gregory Walcott, Vampira | United States | Horror |
| Return of the Fly | Edward Bernds | Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, John Sutton | United States | Drama Fantasy Horror |
| Invasion of the Animal People (a.k.a Terror in the Midnight Sun) | Virgil W. Vogel | Bengt Blomgren, John Carradine | United States
Sweden | Horror |
| Teenagers from Outer Space | Tom Graeff | David Love, Dawn Anderson, Harvey B. Dunn | United States | Horror Thriller |
| The Tingler | William Castle | Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman | United States | Horror [58] |
| The Giant Behemoth (a.k.a. Behemoth, the Sea Monster or The Behemoth) | Eugène Lourié, Douglas Hickox | Gene Evans, André Morell | United States | Horror |
| The Ugly Duckling | Lance Comfort | Bernard Bresslaw, Jon Pertwee, Reginald Beckwith | United Kingdom | Comedy |
| The Wasp Woman | Roger Corman | Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Barboura Morris, Michael Mark, Bruno Ve Sota | United States | Horror |
| The World, the Flesh and the Devil | Ranald MacDougall | Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer | United States | Drama Romance |
| The Ugly Duckling | Lance Comfort | Bernard Bresslaw, Reginald Beckwith, Jon Pertwee, Maudie Edwards | United Kingdom | Comedy Crime [59] | |
