Often, when we think of a Hollywood blockbuster, it's the sci-fi genre that we most closely associate with such big-budget projects. Whether it be the planet-leaping excess of Christopher Nolan's Interstellar or the thought-provoking extravaganzas from the modern master Denis Villeneuve, when most movie lovers think of sci-fi, Hollywood is the first celestial land that comes to mind.
Yet, to simply consider American cinema is to disregard some of the best and certainly some of the most influential sci-fi movies of all time. After all, even though the genre is widely associated with Hollywood, the so-called 'mother and father of science fiction' pioneered the beloved form of writing outside of America, with French author Jules Verne penning Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea in 1970 and English novelist Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein in 1818.
This list counts down all the sci-fi films from around the world that trump all the Hollywood blockbusters out today.
