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Spaceman(2024)

3.4/5 (with 260 votes)

During a research mission, an astronaut discovers that his marriage is in trouble. Luckily, he has the help of a mysterious creature hidden in his ship.

Gravity(2013)

PG-13
| 1h 31min | Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama
3.6/5 (with 7,277 votes)

Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone-tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness of space. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.

Moonfall(2022)

PG-13
| 2h 10min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Action
3.2/5 (with 1,204 votes)

A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it.

2001: A Space Odyssey(1968)

4.0/5 (with 5,105 votes)

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

Planet of the Apes(1968)

3.8/5 (with 1,451 votes)

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.

Armageddon(1998)

3.4/5 (with 3,602 votes)

When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.

The Martian(2015)

PG-13
| 2h 24min | Drama, Adventure, Science Fiction
3.8/5 (with 9,058 votes)

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

Life(2017)

3.2/5 (with 3,287 votes)

The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.

Zathura: A Space Adventure(2005)

3.2/5 (with 1,458 votes)

After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay inside. Walter and Danny, who anticipate a boring day, are shocked when they begin playing Zathura, a space-themed board game, which they realize has mystical powers when their house is shot into space. With the help of an astronaut, the boys attempt to return home.

Mission to Mars(2000)

PG
| 1h 54min | Science Fiction, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 600 votes)

When contact is lost with the crew of the first Mars expedition, a rescue mission is launched to discover their fate.

Apollo 13(1995)

PG
| 2h 20min | History, Drama, Adventure
3.7/5 (with 2,401 votes)

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.

Beneath the Planet of the Apes(1970)

3.1/5 (with 536 votes)

The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission discovers a planet ruled by apes, and an underground city run by telepathic humans.

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First Man(2018)

PG-13
| 2h 21min | History, Drama
3.5/5 (with 2,472 votes)

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.

Deep Impact(1998)

3.1/5 (with 1,340 votes)

A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.

Shark Side of the Moon(2022)

2.7/5 (with 62 votes)

Decades ago, the USSR developed unkillable sharks and launched them to the moon. Today, a team of American astronauts will endure the fight of their lives.

Solaris(1972)

PG
| 2h 47min | Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery
3.9/5 (with 723 votes)

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

The Midnight Sky(2020)

PG-13
| 1h 58min | Science Fiction, Drama
2.9/5 (with 794 votes)

A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.

Solaris(2002)

PG-13
| 1h 39min | Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 557 votes)

A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.

2010(1984)

PG
| 1h 56min | Thriller, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 395 votes)

While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.

A Million Miles Away(2023)

PG
| 2h 1min | Drama, History
4.0/5 (with 140 votes)

The life of engineer and former NASA astronaut José M. Hernández, the first migrant farmworker to go to space.

Stowaway(2021)

2.9/5 (with 162 votes)

A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.

Apollo 18(2011)

PG-13
| 1h 26min | Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction
2.6/5 (with 430 votes)

Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies its authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.

Ad Astra(2019)

PG-13
| 2h 3min | Science Fiction, Drama
3.0/5 (with 2,941 votes)

The near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond. While a mysterious phenomenon menaces to destroy life on planet Earth, astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across the immensity of space and its many perils to uncover the truth about a lost expedition that decades before boldly faced emptiness and silence in search of the unknown.

Species II(1998)

R
| 1h 33min | Science Fiction, Action, Horror
2.6/5 (with 283 votes)

Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate with Ross.

Red Planet(2000)

PG-13
| 1h 46min | Thriller, Action, Science Fiction
2.9/5 (with 439 votes)

Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.

Escape from Planet Earth(2012)

2.9/5 (with 333 votes)

Astronaut Scorch Supernova finds himself caught in a trap when he responds to an SOS from a notoriously dangerous alien planet.

Directed by Cal Brunker

Capricorn One(1977)

3.4/5 (with 187 votes)

In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.

The Astronaut's Wife(1999)

R
| 1h 49min | Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 400 votes)

When astronaut Spencer Armacost returns to Earth after a mission that nearly cost him his life, he decides to take a desk job in order to see his beautiful wife, Jillian, more often. Gradually, Jillian notices that Spencer's personality seems to have changed, but her concerns fade when she discovers that she's pregnant. As Jillian grows closer to becoming a mother, her suspicions about Spencer return. Why does it seem as if he's a different person?

Terms of Endearment(1983)

PG
| 2h 12min | Drama, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 329 votes)

Aurora, a finicky woman, is in search of true love while her daughter faces marital issues. Together, they help each other deal with problems and find reasons to live a joyful life.

The Right Stuff(1983)

PG
| 3h 13min | Drama, History, Adventure
3.7/5 (with 361 votes)

A chronicle of the original Mercury astronauts in the formation of America's space program: Alan Shepherd, the first American in space; Gus Grissom, the benighted astronaut for whom nothing works out as planned; John Glenn, the straight-arrow 'boy scout' of the bunch who was the first American to orbit the earth; and the remaining pilots: Deke Slayton, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, and Gordon Cooper.

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