Best TV shows — science-fiction on Netflix : our Top 20

2011 · Charlie Brooker · 7 seasons

A reality-twisting anthology that unfolds uncanny vignettes exposing humanity’s darkest impulses, its most brilliant inventions, and the unsettling costs that connect them.

With Michaela Coel, Daniel Lapaine, Hannah John-Kamen, Aaron Paul, Claire Keelan, Sinead Matthews and Anna Wilson-Jones

2018 · Laeta Kalogridis · 2 seasons

Reawakened after 250 years in suspended animation and fitted into a new body, a convict is offered a single shot at freedom—if he can unravel a baffling, reality-warping murder.

With Renée Elise Goldsberry, Chris Conner, Dichen Lachman, Martha Higareda, Ato Essandoh, Joel Kinnaman and James Purefoy

2022 · Joaquín Górriz, Guillermo López Sánchez · 2 seasons

Zoa and four other striking young influencers are summoned to a secret island for the most exclusive launch party of the year, hosted by a glamorous new beverage brand. Promised endless luxury, fame, and unforgettable content, they arrive ready to indulge — but the glittering weekend soon unravels. Behind the curated smiles lie manipulation, hidden agendas, and escalating dangers that test loyalties and reveal how far each will go to protect their image. What began as a dream campaign becomes a battle for truth, control, and survival.

With Amaia Salamanca, Amaia Aberasturi, Belinda, Lola Rodríguez, Sergio Momo, Begoña Vargas and Berta Vázquez

2017 · 1 season

Kim Min Gyu has everything money can buy, yet a bizarre allergy to other people keeps him confined to a solitary life. His carefully controlled existence is upended when he falls for a woman who, to placate her brilliant ex—a robotics professor—has been masquerading as an android.

With Yoo Seung-ho, Chae Soo-bin, Uhm Ki-joon, Kang Ki-young, Hwang Seung-eon, Kim Ha-kyoon and Park Se-wan

1987 · Gene Roddenberry · 7 seasons

Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his steadfast crew command the advanced USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D as they traverse the stars, encountering strange civilizations, unexplored worlds and the mysteries of the cosmos.

With Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis, LeVar Burton and Gates McFadden

2015 · Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, J. Michael Straczynski · 2 seasons

A single gunshot and a life cut short create a split-second, timeless bond that fuses the minds of eight strangers scattered around the world, dragging them into each other’s lives, exposing buried secrets and into dire danger. Ordinary people are suddenly reborn as Sensates—a shared, intimate network of consciousness that forces them to navigate one another’s memories, forge fragile alliances, and protect one another across continents.

With Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Max Riemelt, Jamie Clayton, Bae Doona, Brian J. Smith, Tuppence Middleton and Tina Desai

2018 · Cary Joji Fukunaga, Patrick Somerville · 1 season

When two strangers sign up for a secret drug trial that guarantees a permanent, complication-free solution to their problems, they expect their lives to be fixed — but the experiment quickly unravels, unleashing unexpected and dangerous consequences.

With Emma Stone, Jonah Hill, Sonoya Mizuno, Justin Theroux, Sally Field, Kathleen Choe and Danny Hoch

2018 · Chen Wei-Ling, Yu Pei-Hua, Wu Chih-Yu · 1 season

Drawing on Wu Hsiao-Le’s novel, this ten-episode series presents five self-contained stories that explore the complexities of parenthood and the intense pressures children face as they grow up. Each story is told in two parts and investigates how societal expectations, controlling parents and dysfunctional family dynamics can culminate in tragic outcomes.

With Su-Yun Ko, Hsin-Yu Ling, Figaro Tseng, Jozie Lu, Christina Mok, Hsin-Ling Chung and Tong Chih-Wei

2016 · Brad Wright · 3 seasons

Centuries from now, the final survivors of humanity discover a method to project minds into the past, embedding their consciousnesses within 21st-century bodies. Dubbed travelers, they quietly assume the identities of ordinary, unsuspecting people and work in covert, coordinated teams to carry out urgent missions intended to prevent a devastating future and secure humanity’s survival.

With Eric McCormack, MacKenzie Porter, Nesta Cooper, Jared Abrahamson, Reilly Dolman, Patrick Gilmore and Jennifer Spence

2018 · 1 season

When scientists uncover an enigmatic substance that can alter human thought, rival factions erupt into a ruthless struggle to seize and weaponize its extraordinary power.

With Yoshiki Nakajima, Shigeo Kiyama, Kentaro Tone, Tarusuke Shingaki, Megumi Ogata, Reina Ueda and Hiroo Sasaki

2023 · Liu Cixin · 1 season

Across decades and continents, five brilliant friends uncover revelations that overturn the foundations of science and ignite a mounting existential threat.

With Zhang Luyi, Yu Hewei, Chen Jin, Wang Ziwen, Lin Yongjian, Li Xiaoran and He Dujuan

2016 · Pedro Aguilera · 4 seasons

Floortje Dessing and Sebastiaan Labrie anchor a travel series that each episode adds a guest presenter, who travels to and reports from an eco-conscious destination, spotlighting sustainable travel, local culture, and conservation efforts.

With Bianca Comparato, Vaneza Oliveira, Rodolfo Valente, Rafael Lozano, Thais Lago, Laila Garin and Bruno Fagundes

1966 · Gene Roddenberry · 3 seasons

The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five-year exploratory voyage across the galaxy, commanded by Captain James T. Kirk with his Vulcan first officer, Mr. Spock. With a steadfast crew at his side, the starship confronts Klingon and Romulan adversaries, untangles bewildering temporal anomalies, deals with proliferating tribbles, and faces genetically engineered opponents led by Khan Noonien Singh, all while charting unfamiliar star systems and encountering new forms of life and civilizations.

With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig

2019 · Yana Vagner · 2 seasons

Set against a worldwide collapse, a mysterious contagion turns Moscow into a deserted, haunted metropolis. Money loses all meaning, supply lines collapse, and the few uninfected are driven to ruthless measures to find food, shelter and any hope of survival as society unravels.

With Kirill Käro, Viktoriya Isakova, Aleksandr Robak, Maryana Spivak, Yuriy Kuznetsov, Saveliy Kudryashov and Natalya Zemtsova

2019 · Christopher Keyser · 1 season

Left alone when the rest of their affluent town inexplicably disappears, the teenagers of West Ham must invent a new social order, claim leadership, and fight to survive amid mounting scarcity and moral conflict.

With Kathryn Newton, Gideon Adlon, Sean Berdy, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Jacques Colimon, Olivia DeJonge and Alex Fitzalan

2020 · Josh Friedman, Graeme Manson · 4 seasons

Years after the planet was plunged into an unending ice age, the last fragments of humanity cling to life aboard a vast, constantly moving train that travels the globe. Within its crowded cars, brutal social hierarchies and unequal access to resources ignite fierce class conflicts, systemic injustice, and ruthless political maneuvering for survival.

With Jennifer Connelly, Daveed Diggs, Mickey Sumner, Alison Wright, Iddo Goldberg, Sergio Borrero and Lena Hall

2019 · Timothy Greenberg · 1 season

Exhausted and jaded, Miles submits to an odd treatment at a run-down strip‑mall spa — then awakens to find his life inhabited by a smoother, more successful version of himself.

With Paul Rudd, Aisling Bea, Desmin Borges, Karen Pittman, Zoë Chao, Zach Cherry and James Seol

2015 · Tony Ayres, Louise Fox · 3 seasons

A weary police detective and a compassionate doctor are pulled into a deeply emotional mystery when seven members of their town, all previously declared dead, suddenly reappear in seemingly perfect health. As secrets, old grief and public hysteria collide, the pair must untangle scientific impossibility from human pain to discover why they returned—and what price the truth will demand.

With Patrick Brammall, Emma Booth, Sean Keenan, Hannah Monson, Aaron L. McGrath, Rodger Corser and John Leary

2019 · Glen Dolman · 1 season

Twelve months after a catastrophic flood took five residents from a peaceful rural town, a mysterious new plant emerges—its uncanny ability to reverse age promises to return the lost to youthful life, upending the community and blurring the line between miracle and menace.

With Phoebe Tonkin, Bryan Brown, Genevieve Morris, Tom Budge, Terry Norris, Anne Charleston and Jacki Weaver

2020 · Jason George · 2 seasons

As the sun inexplicably becomes lethal, passengers on a red‑eye departing Brussels are plunged into a midair survival nightmare, forced to unite and resort to desperate measures to stay alive.

With Pauline Étienne, Laurent Capelluto, Jan Bijvoet, Mehmet Kurtuluş, Alba Gaïa Bellugi, Nicolas Alechine and Ksawery Szlenkier