Uncommon movies in space
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1. The Last Push (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
When a tragic accident cuts short the first manned mission to explore life on the moons of Jupiter, Michael Forrest must make the 3 year journey home to Earth in pure solitude.
Director: Eric Hayden | Stars: Khary Payton, Lance Henriksen, Brian Baumgartner, James Madio
Votes: 1,849
2. Cargo (2009)
112 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Dr. Laura P. takes a job on a cargo spaceship for 4 years plus 4 years back. She'll join her sister on Rhea. 44 months later, in Laura's shift, strange things happen in cargo. The crew is reanimated and the captain dies mysteriously.
Directors: Ivan Engler, Ralph Etter | Stars: Anna Katharina Schwabroh, Martin Rapold, Regula Grauwiller, Yangzom Brauen
Votes: 20,117
3. Europa Report (2013)
PG-13 | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
An international crew of astronauts undertakes a privately funded mission to search for life on Jupiter's fourth largest moon.
Director: Sebastián Cordero | Stars: Sharlto Copley, Michael Nyqvist, Christian Camargo, Embeth Davidtz
Votes: 75,543 | Gross: $0.13M
4. The Last Days on Mars (2013)
R | 98 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of astronaut explorers succumb one by one to a mysterious and terrifying force while collecting specimens on Mars.
Director: Ruairi Robinson | Stars: Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas, Romola Garai, Olivia Williams
Votes: 38,986 | Gross: $0.02M
5. Capsule (2015)
TV-14 | 91 min | Drama, History, Sci-Fi
After years of flying fighter planes and 5 years as test pilot, Guy is now, Dec. 4, 1959, on a secret British space capsule orbiting Earth trying to reenter but things start going wrong. Can he, despite cold war, get back to Earth safely?
Director: Andrew Martin | Stars: Edmund Kingsley, Lisa Greenwood, David Wayman, Nigel Barber
Votes: 7,279
6. Approaching the Unknown (2016)
R | 90 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A U.S. astronaut prepares for a mission to Mars.
Director: Mark Elijah Rosenberg | Stars: Mark Strong, Luke Wilson, Sanaa Lathan, Anders Danielsen Lie
Votes: 9,162
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
PG | 109 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Director: Garth Jennings | Stars: Martin Freeman, Yasiin Bey, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel
Votes: 208,464 | Gross: $51.09M
8. Mission to Mars (2000)
PG | 114 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Tim Robbins, Gary Sinise, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen
Votes: 76,511 | Gross: $60.88M
9. Apollo 18 (2011)
PG-13 | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Decades-old found footage from NASA's abandoned Apollo 18 mission, where three American astronauts were sent on a secret expedition, reveals the reason the U.S. has never returned to the moon.
Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego | Stars: Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen, Ryan Robbins, Michael Kopsa
Votes: 57,988 | Gross: $17.69M
10. Countdown (1967)
Approved | 101 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Desperate to land a man on the moon before Russia does, NASA hastily preps a would-be spaceman for a mission that would leave him alone in a lunar shelter for a year.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: James Caan, Robert Duvall, Joanna Moore, Barbara Baxley
Votes: 2,593
11. Moon (2009)
R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.
Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Rosie Shaw
Votes: 376,832 | Gross: $5.01M
12. Solaris (2002)
PG-13 | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Ulrich Tukur, Viola Davis
Votes: 86,284 | Gross: $14.97M
13. Life (I) (2017)
R | 104 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars and now threatens all life on Earth.
Director: Daniel Espinosa | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada
Votes: 254,095 | Gross: $30.23M
14. Pandorum (2009)
R | 108 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
Two crew members of a spaceship wake up from hypersleep to discover that all their colleagues are missing. Despite this, it appears that they are not alone.
Director: Christian Alvart | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Antje Traue
Votes: 159,594 | Gross: $10.33M
15. ISRA 88 (2016)
Not Rated | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
A scientist and a pilot volunteer for a high profile mission to reach the end of the universe. After 13 years, the ship crashes through the end of the universe and into the unknown.
Director: Thomas Zellen | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Sean Maher, Adrienne Barbeau, Eden Riegel
Votes: 1,889
16. Passengers (I) (2016)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
A malfunction in a sleeping pod on a spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet wakes one passenger 90 years early.
Director: Morten Tyldum | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne
Votes: 447,940 | Gross: $100.01M
17. Órbita 9 (2017)
TV-14 | 95 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Helena has lived on a spaceship since birth 20 years ago. She meets her first human besides her dead parents, when Álex repairs the oxygen supply. Things are not what they seem.
Director: Hatem Khraiche | Stars: Clara Lago, Álex González, Andrés Parra, Belén Rueda
Votes: 8,478
18. High Life (2018)
R | 113 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André 3000, Mia Goth
Votes: 41,067 | Gross: $1.23M
19. Jupiter Ascending (2015)
PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A young woman discovers her destiny as an heiress of intergalactic nobility and must fight to protect the inhabitants of Earth from an ancient and destructive industry.
Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean
Votes: 194,598 | Gross: $47.39M
20. Pitch Black (2000)
R | 109 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A transport ship crashes and leaves its crew stranded on a desert planet inhabited by bloodthirsty creatures that come out during an eclipse.
Director: David Twohy | Stars: Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Vin Diesel, Keith David
Votes: 253,069 | Gross: $39.24M
21. The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
R | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The wanted criminal Richard Bruno Riddick arrives on a planet called Helion Prime and finds himself up against an invading empire called the Necromongers, an army that plans to convert or kill all humans in the universe.
Director: David Twohy | Stars: Vin Diesel, Judi Dench, Colm Feore, Thandiwe Newton
Votes: 241,929 | Gross: $57.76M
22. Riddick (2013)
R | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Left for dead on a sun-scorched planet, Riddick finds himself up against an alien race of predators. Activating an emergency beacon alerts two ships: one carrying a new breed of mercenary, the other captained by a man from Riddick's past.
Director: David Twohy | Stars: Vin Diesel, Karl Urban, Katee Sackhoff, Jordi Mollà
Votes: 178,069 | Gross: $42.03M
23. The Expanse (2015–2022)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
The disappearance of rich-girl-turned-political-activist links the lives of Ceres detective, accidental ship captain and U.N. politician. Amidst political tension between Earth, Mars and the Belt, they unravel the greatest conspiracy.
Stars: Steven Strait, Dominique Tipper, Wes Chatham, Shohreh Aghdashloo
Votes: 172,476
24. Salyut-7 (2017)
111 min | Action, Drama, History
USSR, June 1985. Based on actual events. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life.
Director: Klim Shipenko | Stars: Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Samoylenko, Mariya Mironova
Votes: 12,250
25. Enemy Mine (1985)
PG-13 | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During a long space war, the lives of two wounded enemies become dependent on their ability to forgive and to trust.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James, Richard Marcus
Votes: 51,452 | Gross: $4.27M
26. The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
Not Rated | 80 min | Sci-Fi
An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visits to Earth and Earth's man-made demise, while human astronauts attempt to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Brad Dourif, Donald Williams, Ellen Baker, Franklin Chang-Diaz
Votes: 3,889
27. Galaxy Quest (1999)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
The alumni cast of a space opera television series have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help. However, they also have to defend both Earth and the alien race from a reptilian warlord.
Director: Dean Parisot | Stars: Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub
Votes: 178,332 | Gross: $71.58M
28. The Cosmonaut (2013)
TV-MA | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Stas, the cosmonaut, gets lost in space. When he comes back he finds Earth completely empty of human life. Yulia and Andrei wait for him on the other side of a collapsing world. How far would you go for love?
Director: Nicolás Alcalá | Stars: Katrine De Candole, Leon Ockenden, Max Wrottesley, David Barrass
Votes: 825
29. The Clone Returns Home (2008)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
The Clone Returns Home is a compelling meditation on the paradox of life and death, and the meaning of love and family. Set in an imaginary - yet utterly imaginable - future, this quietly ... See full summary »
Director: Kanji Nakajima | Stars: Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Eri Ishida, Hiromi Nagasaku, Kyûsaku Shimada
Votes: 667
30. Event Horizon (1997)
R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A rescue crew is tasked with investigating the mysterious reappearance of a spaceship that had been lost for seven years.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson
Votes: 197,289 | Gross: $26.67M
31. Spacewalk (2017)
137 min | Drama, History
Trying to hold the lead in the Space Race, the Soviet Union is preparing two cosmonauts for the first spacewalk.
Director: Dmitriy Kiselev | Stars: Evgeniy Mironov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Ilin, Anatoliy Kotenyov
Votes: 8,087
32. The Beyond (2017)
TV-14 | 103 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
After observing an anomaly in space, scientists transplant human brains in to synthetic bodies and send them through the wormhole.
Director: Hasraf Dulull | Stars: Jane Perry, Nigel Barber, Noeleen Comiskey, Ezra Faroque Khan
Votes: 6,762
33. First Man (2018)
PG-13 | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History
A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler
Votes: 202,359 | Gross: $44.94M
34. Magellan (2017)
103 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
After NASA picks up a trio of mysterious signals from within our own solar system, astronaut Roger Nelson is dispatched on a multi-year solo mission aboard the Magellan spacecraft to investigate the sources.
Director: Rob York | Stars: Brandon Ray Olive, K. Danor Gerald, Whitney Palmer, Matthew Mercer
Votes: 1,872
35. The First (2018)
TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Fictional series to chronicle the effort to send the first crewed mission to Mars.
Stars: Sean Penn, Natascha McElhone, LisaGay Hamilton, Hannah Ware
Votes: 8,204
36. Mars (2016–2018)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The first manned mission from Earth to Mars in 2033 attempts to colonize the red planet.
Stars: Jihae, Alberto Ammann, Sammi Rotibi, Clémentine Poidatz
Votes: 15,207
37. Ad Astra (2019)
PG-13 | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.
Director: James Gray | Stars: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland
Votes: 260,614 | Gross: $50.19M
38. 2036 Origin Unknown (2018)
TV-14 | 94 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After a deadly Mars mission crash, mission controller Mackenzie Wilson (Sackhoff) and A.R.T.I. uncover a mysterious Mars object that could alter our planet's future.
Director: Hasraf Dulull | Stars: Katee Sackhoff, Ray Fearon, Julie Cox, Steven Cree
Votes: 10,056
39. Capricorn One (1977)
PG | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston
Votes: 24,742
40. Voyage to the End of the Universe (1963)
81 min | Sci-Fi
The year is 2163. Starship Ikarie XB 1 embarks on a long journey across the universe to search for life on the planets of Alpha Centauri.
Director: Jindrich Polák | Stars: Zdenek Stepánek, Frantisek Smolík, Dana Medrická, Irena Kacírková
Votes: 2,967
41. Solis (2018)
92 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
After a space mining operation gone bad, Troy is on an emergency escape vehicle drifting towards the sun. He gets radio contact with possible help but will they get there in time?
Director: Carl Strathie | Stars: Steven Ogg, Alice Lowe, Sid Phoenix, Henry Douthwaite
Votes: 3,770
42. A.I. Rising (2018)
R | 85 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
An intimate relationship between a human and an android tests the boundaries of human nature.
Director: Lazar Bodroza | Stars: Sebastian Cavazza, Stoya, Marusa Majer, Kirsty Besterman
Votes: 11,305
43. The Wandering Earth (2019)
TV-MA | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
With the sun dying out, a group of brave astronauts set out to find new planet for the whole human race.
Director: Frant Gwo | Stars: Jing Wu, Chuxiao Qu, Guangjie Li, Man-Tat Ng
Votes: 36,357 | Gross: $5.88M
44. Prospect (2018)
R | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They've secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon's toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness and the job quickly devolves into a fight to survive. Forced to contend not only with the forest's other ruthless inhabitants, but with her own ... See full summary »
Directors: Christopher Caldwell, Zeek Earl | Stars: Sophie Thatcher, Jay Duplass, Pedro Pascal, Luke Pitzrick
Votes: 34,538
45. Warning (II) (2021)
R | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
The meaning of life explored through multiple interconnected lives set in the near future.
Director: Agata Alexander | Stars: Thomas Jane, Tomasz Kot, Toni Garrn, Rupert Everett
Votes: 5,982
46. Blood Machines (2019)
50 min | Adventure, Music, Sci-Fi
An artificial intelligence escapes her spaceship to turn into a female ghost and challenges two blade runners to a galactic chase.
Directors: Raphaël Hernandez, Seth Ickerman, Savitri Joly-Gonfard | Stars: Elisa Lasowski, Anders Heinrichsen, Christian Erickson, Natasha Cashman
Votes: 3,905
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