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Don't Look Up(2021)

Κ-12
| 2h 25min | Comedy, Science Fiction, Drama
3.6/5 (with 3,671 votes)

Two American astronomers attempt to warn humankind about an approaching comet that will wipe out life on planet Earth.

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.

A Trip to the Moon(1902)

4.0/5 (with 740 votes)

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.

Addicted to Love(1997)

3.1/5 (with 175 votes)

Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life leaves him for a suave Frenchman. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee would do — go to New York and set up home in the abandoned building opposite his ex-girlfriend's apartment, wait until she decides to leave her current lover, and then win her back.

Roxanne(1987)

3.2/5 (with 285 votes)

In this modern take on Edmond Rostand's classic play "Cyrano de Bergerac," C. D. Bales is the witty, intelligent, and brave fire chief of a small Pacific Northwest town who, due to the size of his enormous nose, declines to pursue the girl of his dreams, lovely Roxanne Kowalski. Instead, when his shy underling Chris McConnell becomes smitten with Roxanne, C.D. feeds the handsome young man the words of love to win her heart.

Sailor Moon S the Movie: Hearts in Ice(1994)

3.9/5 (with 61 votes)

As Usagi and her friends enjoy Christmas vacation, an unusual and fierce snowstorm hits town... The evil Snow Queen Kaguya has returned to claim Earth as her own. Crucial to Queen Kaguya's plan is a magical crystal from outer space, approaching Earth disguised as a comet. Once she gets hold of the crystal, she will have the power to suck away all life energy and cover the Earth in ice. Will Sailor Moon find the crystal before Queen Kaguya? Will her powers be enough to save the Earth from permanent winter? All hope lies with the Legendary Ultimate Scout Power!

Directed by Hiroki Shibata

The Arrival(1996)

13
| 1h 55min | Science Fiction, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 311 votes)

Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.

Directed by David Twohy - With Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Schiff, Ron Silver, Teri Polo, Buddy Joe Hooker, ...

It Came from Outer Space(1953)

3.2/5 (with 82 votes)

Author & amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona, but Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...

Clara(2018)

3.9/5 (with 90 votes)

An astronomer becomes obsessed with searching the cosmos for signs of life beyond Earth which leads to a shocking discovery.

Directed by Akash Sherman - With Patrick J. Adams

The Astronomer's Dream(1898)

3min | Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 79 votes)

An astronomer has a terrifying dream.

H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds(2005)

1h 40min | Science Fiction
2.7/5 (with 19 votes)

In this modern retelling of H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi horror, civilization is laid to ruin when a super race of aliens invades Earth. In a blink of an eye, massive "walkers" cover the planet, annihilating all in their path. As cities crumble and human flesh is ripped from the bone, one man struggles to find the one weapon that will turn the tide for mankind.

Nostalgia for the Light(2010)

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| 1h 33min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 62 votes)

In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.

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Asteroid(1997)

2.9/5 (with 19 votes)

With the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it. When the plan fails, all the world can do is wait. The main impact zone is revealed to be Dallas, Texas. Generally, the plot follows the lives and reactions of several characters: an astronomer, her father, her son, two firefighters from Kansas, two young doctors in Dallas and the heads of the government agency in charge of the situation.

The Heavenly Body(1944)

3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

The beautiful wife of a tweedy astronomer becomes convinced that her astrologer's prediction of a new dream man in her life will come true.

José Maza, Sky Traveller(2010)

13min | Documentary
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A short documentary interviewing a renown astronomer and astrophysicist.

Cosmis Flows: The Cartographers of the Universe(2019)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Man has always sought to seek further afield. After the seafaring explorers of the 16th century, 21st century cosmologists today navigate more celestial oceans, with each mission providing an ever-broader and more impressive cartography of our surroundings. At the avant garde of modern technology, these strange travellers are actually immobile, and their vessels are powerful and spectacular telescopes, on the Earth or in space, constantly widening the limits of our knowledge and giving form to our dreams of infinity. From Hawaii to Australia, via South Africa and China, we set out on an incredible scientific and human adventure to visit the planet's greatest cosmic exploration centres to discover the new challenges involved in understanding the universe. A journey on Earth and in the heavens that will take your breath away!

Black Hole Hunters(2019)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A team of international scientists attempt to document the first-ever image of a black hole.

Pluto and Beyond(2019)

4.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Since it explored Pluto in 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft has been zooming toward NASA's most distant target yet. Join the mission team as the probe attempts to fly by Ultima Thule, an object 4 billion miles from Earth.

From the Atoms to the Stars(2017)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An incredible travel through space and time between the walls of the Paris Observatory, which is celebrating its 350th birthday. Place of discoveries such as speed of light or Neptune’s existence, it is still today one of the oldest operating observatories and the greatest hub in the world for astronomy and astrophysics researches, second only to Harvard.

Searching for Planet 9(2022)

55min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

At the edge of our solar system supposedly lies an immense planet. Five to ten times the size of the Earth. Several international teams of scientists have been competing in a frantic race to detect it, in uncharted territories, far beyond Neptune. The recent discovery of several dwarf planets, with intriguing trajectories, have put astronomers on the trail of this mysterious planet. Why is this enigmatic planet so difficult to detect? What would a ninth planet teach us about our corner of the universe? Could it help us unlock some of the mysteries of our solar system?

María Teresa and the Brown Dwarf(2010)

12min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A short documentary interviewing an astronomer.

The Astronomer's Sun(2010)

A young man, accompanied by his mysterious mechanical bear, visits an abandoned observatory to confront memories of his past and follow his Father on a journey into the unknown.

For Beauty's Sake(1941)

1h 1min | Comedy

A woman-hater who inherits a beauty salon gets a new perspective on females after capturing a gang of thieves.

Directed by Shepard Traube - With Ned Sparks

A Play Entitled Sehnsucht(2012)

1h 14min | Drama, Mystery
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A hypnotic play going inside the mind of a mental astronomer.

A Sidewalk Astronomer(2005)

1h 19min | Documentary

John Dobson, an 89 year old with a white ponytail and knack for comedy, is the inventor of the Dobsonian telescope mount, which revolutionized astronomy by making large, inexpensive telescopes and deep space observing available to amateur astronomers around the world.

With John Dobson