The Best Sci-fi Movies Streaming on Peacock: April 2025

Looking for some quality science fiction cinema to watch this month?

Peacock has you covered with quite the selection of movies to choose from — whether it’s the tale of a sentient robot raising a gosling as her own, a side-splitting road trip involving foul-mouthed visitor from beyond the stars, or the old standby of man-eating dinosaurs running amok. The world — or rather the NBCUniversal streaming platform — is your oyster when it comes to sci-fi options!

Looking to take out a subscription? Peacock offers two plans: Premium ($7.99 a month with ads) and Premium Plus ($13.99 a month with no ads and download access for certain titles). Students, meanwhile, can enjoy Premium for just $1.99 for an entire year!

What are the best sci-fi movies now streaming on Peacock?

Monsters (2010)

Before Gareth Edwards returns us to the world of dinosaurs in this summer’s Jurassic World Rebirth, we highly recommend checking out his debut feature. Made for less than $1 million, Monsters established Edwards (a VFX artist turned filmmaker) as a rising talent with an eye for visual, high-concept storytelling. What really makes the piece work, though, is the blossoming human relationship between Andrew Kaulder (Scott McNairy) and Samantha Wynden (Whitney Able) as they travel through a highly restricted quarantine zone teeming with strange alien life between the border of the United States and Mexico.

Stream Monsters here

Apollo 18 (2011)

Why did NASA stop sending astronauts to the Moon after 1972? Apollo 18 sets out to answer that question via a found footage tale of terror centered around a final, ill-fated mission to Earth’s cratered satellite. “What if you brought Paranormal Activity into space?” screenwriter Brian Miller told SYFY WIRE of his inspiration for the movie. “What if you could somehow blend it with the real footage? [Show] the real technical things that they were doing up on these Apollo Moon missions, but blend it with horror? I’ve always been a big fan of Ridley Scott, the original Alien, and that factored very heavily into this.”

Stream Apollo 18 here

Source Code (2011)

Director Duncan Jones’ follow-up to Moon “finds genuinely optimistic and redemptive hope within what seems like certain tragedy — even, in the end, if it stretches the limits of what science currently allows in order to get us there,” writes SYFY WIRE’s own Benjamin Bullard. “Then again, in this movie, breaking beyond what science currently allows is kind of the whole point.”

Stream Source Code here

Limitless (2011)

Limitless makes full use of its core concept — a pill that makes you smarter — through Bradley Cooper’s charismatic performance, general wish fulfillment, and a playful use of color. Before the protagonist, Eddie Mora (Cooper), is introduced to the miracle drug known as NZT-48, the world appears drab and borderline monochrome. Once his IQ starts to skyrocket, reality becomes brighter and more vibrant.

Stream Limitless here

Paul (2011)

A parody of friendly alien flicks, particularly the ones made by Steven Spielberg, Paul stars “Cornetto Trilogy” veterans Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as a pair of UFO-believing fanboys who come into contact with an honest-to-goodness extraterrestrial voiced by Seth Rogen. A far cry from the curious, waddling cosmic visitors of old, Paul is basically a crude party boy with a bulbous head and a government target on his back. The film is worth watching for this Spielberg cameo alone.

Stream Paul here

The Invisible Man (2020)

Made on a modest budget of $7 million, writer-director Leigh Whannell’s contemporary take on a Universal Monsters classic proved to be a critical and box office success (one of the few real hits of an otherwise dark year for Hollywood). Drawing loosely from the H.G. Wells novel of the same name, The Invisible Man brings the material into the 21st century with a harrowing exploration of how toxic masculinity and domestic abuse don’t always take physical shape.

Stream The Invisible Man here

Jurassic World Dominion (2022)

The epic conclusion to the Jurassic World trilogy does what fans of the franchise have wanted for years: reunites the original Jurassic Park trio of Alan Grant (Sam Neill), Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), and Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum). Years after they braved the jaw-snapping perils of Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna (aka Site B), the original protagonists find themselves caught up in a nefarious conspiracy involving Biosyn, the greedy company that bribed Dennis Nedry into causing all the chaos of the first movie. This, of course, brings them on a collision course with Jurassic World heroes Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard).

Stream Jurassic World Dominion here

Meet Cute (2022)

When Harry Met Sally meets Groundhog Day. That’s the basic elevator pitch for Meet Cute, in which a woman named Sheila (Kaley Cuoco) uses a time machine to relive a magical date with Gary (Pete Davidson) over and over again,  with the eventual goal of turning him into the perfect man. “I saw it as this deconstruction of a rom-com, and it kind of subverts both the time travel tropes and the rom-com tropes, while honoring them,” director Alex Lehmann told ScreenRant in 2022. “It kind of made me fall in love with what rom-coms can be, and I also just thought that it was a fun take on time travel that I hadn’t quite seen before.”

Watch Meet Cute here

If You Were the Last (2023)

As they drift aimlessly through space with little hope of rescue, two astronauts — Adam (Anthony Mackie) and Jane (Zoë Chao) — debate whether they should remain friends or take their relationship into romantic territory. “One of the things I hear people talk about when they talk to me about this film is, ‘Oh, what a surprising film. I didn’t expect these things to happen. I usually predict this, but this happened,'” director Kristian Mercado told CBR in 2023. “There’s definitely a little bit of a deconstruction of some of the tropes of the rom-com in a way that it still serves as a rom-com, which I think is the coolest thing ever.”

Watch If You Were the Last here

The Wild Robot (2024)

Hailing from director Chris Sanders (one of the minds behind the beloved Lilo & Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon franchises), The Wild Robot adapts the children’s novel of the same name by author/illustrator Peter Brown. Academy Award-winner Lupita Nyong’o leads the ensemble voice cast as a machine that becomes one with nature after she’s marooned on an island solely inhabited by wildlife. The DreamWorks Animation offering, which scored three Academy Award nominations, also features the voice talents of Kit Connor, Pedro Pascal, Catherine O’Hara, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Hsu, Mark Hamill, Matt Berry, and Ving Rhames.

Watch The Wild Robot here