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Over the Moon(2020)

PG
| 1h 40min | Animation, Adventure, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 581 votes)

In this animated musical, a girl builds a rocket ship and blasts off, hoping to meet a mythical moon goddess.

Directed by Glen Keane
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October Sky(1999)

PG
| 1h 48min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 520 votes)

Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes, and eventually became a NASA scientist.

Directed by Joe Johnston - With Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen, William Lee Scott, Chad Lindberg, ...
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A Grand Day Out(1990)

23min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 358 votes)

Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese.

Directed by Nick Park

Operation Crossbow(1965)

PG-13
| 1h 55min | Drama, War
3.4/5 (with 46 votes)

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.

Directed by Michael Anderson - With George Peppard, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Tom Courtenay, Richard Johnson, ...
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The Gendarme Takes Off(1970)

1h 30min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 219 votes)

The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.

Directed by Jean Girault - With Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Claude Gensac, Sara Franchetti, Ugo Fangareggi, Jean Lefebvre, ...

When Worlds Collide(1951)

1h 23min | Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 79 votes)

When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the planet.

Directed by Rudolph Maté - With Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen, John Hoyt, Rachel Ames, Hayden Rorke, ...
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The Astronaut Farmer(2006)

PG
| 1h 44min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
3.1/5 (with 145 votes)

Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he's an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he's built and wants to take into space. It's his dream. The FBI puts him under surveillance when he tries to buy rocket fuel, and the FAA stalls him when he files a flight plan – but Charles is undeterred.

Directed by Michael Polish - With Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen, Bruce Dern, Max Thieriot, Jon Gries, Mark Polish, ...
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In Like Flint(1967)

1h 54min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 31 votes)

Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed 3 Minutes while golfing with the President. Flint finds that the President has been replaced by an actor (Flint's line [with a wistful look] is "An Actor as President?") Flint finds that a group of women have banded together to take over the world through subliminal brainwashing in beauty salons they own.

Directed by Gordon Douglas - With James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale, Andrew Duggan, Herb Edelman, Anna Lee, ...
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The Quatermass Xperiment(1955)

1h 22min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 79 votes)

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.

Directed by Val Guest - With Brian Donlevy, Lionel Jeffries, Jack Warner, Gordon Jackson, Margia Dean, Thora Hird, ...

In the Shadow of the Moon(2007)

PG
| 1h 49min | Documentary, History
3.7/5 (with 48 votes)

Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus interviews with the surviving astronauts, including Jim Lovell, Dave Scott, John Young, Gene Cernan, Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Edgar Mitchell, Charlie Duke and Harrison Schmitt.

Directed by David Sington, Christopher Riley - With Alan Bean, Buzz Aldrin, Charles Duke, David Scott, Edgar Mitchell, Eugene Cernan, ...

Quatermass 2(1957)

1h 25min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 52 votes)

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.

Directed by Val Guest - With Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sid James, Bryan Forbes, William Franklyn, Vera Day, ...

First Man into Space(1959)

NR
| 1h 17min | Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
2.5/5 (with 19 votes)

The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside...

Directed by Robert Day - With Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards, Robert Ayres
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Tobor the Great(1954)

1h 17min | Science Fiction
2.6/5 (with 12 votes)

To avoid the life-threatening dangers of manned space exploration, Professor Nordstrom creates highly advanced form of artificial intelligence capable of piloting a starship to other worlds. In order to transmit alien data, the extraordinary robot is infused with a powerful telepathic device that enables it to instantly read and even feel emotions. Danger strikes when a sinister band of covert agents kidnaps Gadge, the professor's 10-year-old grandson. But Gadge has a powerful ally. For he has developed a psychic, emotional bond with his grandfather's robot. And now Gadge's captors must suffer the wrath of his protective friend. They must face a mechanical monstrosity bent on a killing rampage of revenge and destruction.

Directed by Lee Sholem - With Charles Drake, Taylor Holmes, Billy Chapin, Steven Geray, Henry Kulky, Peter Brocco, ...

Riders to the Stars(1954)

1h 21min | Drama, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world.

Directed by Richard Carlson, Herbert L. Strock - With William Lundigan, Martha Hyer, Herbert Marshall, Richard Carlson
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Space Adventure(2011)

1h 9min | Animation, TV Movie
4.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Get set for a thrilling, full-length outer space adventure aboard the Clubhouse Rocket. Blast off with Mickey and his crew and race across the galaxy on an interplanetary quest for hidden out-of-this-world treasure. Twinkling treasure stars will help point the way, but first, you'll have to find them - with a little help from Toodles - and the right Mouseketools! Meet Moon Men Chip and Dale, Martian Mickey from Mars, and Pluto from Pluto, but watch out for crafty Space Pirate Pete, who wants the treasure all for himself. Packed with songs and surprises, Space Adventure will transport you to a whole new dimension of fun.

Road to the Stars(1957)

49min | Documentary, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

This film consists of three parts. The first dramatizes the life of the founder of Soviet astronautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky; the second describes the development of rocket technology; and the third visualizes the future with enactments of the first manned spaceflight, spacewalk, space station construction and humans on the moon.

Directed by Pavel Klushantsev

The Space Children(1958)

1h 9min | Science Fiction
1.9/5 (with 17 votes)

A glowing brain-like creature arrives on a beach near a rocket test site via a teleportation beam. The alien communicates telepathically with the children of scientists. The kids start doing the alien's bidding as the adults try to find out what's happening to their unruly offspring.

Directed by Jack Arnold, William Alland, Bernard C. Schoenfeld - With Michel de Carvalho, Jackie Coogan, Adam Williams, Peggy Webber, Russell David Johnson, Ty Hardin, ...
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Whoa, Be-Gone!(1958)

NR
| 6min | Animation
3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

Wile E. Coyote's plans for catching the Road Runner involve a giant elastic spring, a gun and trampoline, TNT sticks in a barrel, and tornado seeds. The last of these schemes results in the Coyote being swept up by a twister and carried into a mine field.

Directed by Chuck Jones

Panic Mechanic(1996)

1h 40min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

When Hanky Pranky (alias Schucks), star of a candid camera TV show, loses his job to affirmative action, he applies for a job at a stress academy. It´s not long before Schucks discovers his new boss, Jack Paddaman, is as crooked as they come, but it´s too late: the employment contract is signed and sealed.A year passes, and Schucks is no better off. However, his candid camera videos, which poke fun at all sectors of post-1994 South Africa, prove a big hit with stressed-out government ministers. When the president asks Paddaman to make a movie to benefit street children, Schucks and his pals do all the hard work while Paddaman plans how he can get hold of the profits from the video sales. Add a scatterbrained secretary, a lovelorn traffic cop and a cunning street child and you have a roll-in-the aisles comedy with a distinctly South African flavour.

Manhunt in Space(1956)

1h 18min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Kids & Family
1.4/5 (with 4 votes)

Rocky Jones, Space Ranger fights space pirates over an invisible spaceship.

Directed by Hollingsworth Morse - With Richard Crane, Scotty Beckett, Sally Mansfield
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Mister Deathman(1977)

1h 33min | Action
2.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Geoffrey Graves is a secret agent who comes ourt of retirement for a mission in South Africa. Stella Stevens stars as an enemy agent.

Directed by Michael D. Moore - With David Broadnax, Stella Stevens, Arthur Brauss, Lena Farugia, Brian O'Shaughnessy, Ronald France, ...
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Rocketman(2014)

12min | Science Fiction, Drama, Fantasy

Nine year old Harry has a plan. A plan to build a rocket and fly his mum to safety just like his hero The Star Ship Captain from his favourite TV show. With only his best friend Jordan by his side, can they blast off before it's too late?

Agent X-77 Orders to Kill(1966)

1h 40min | Adventure
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A government agent tries to prevent foreign spies from obtaining a scientist's formula for a solid-rocket-fuel.

Directed by Maurice Cloche, Silvio Siano - With Gérard Barray, Sylva Koscina, José Suárez, Yvette Lebon, Renato Baldini, Gemma Cuervo, ...

Brazil Year 2000(1969)

1h 35min | Science Fiction, Music, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Year 2000. Brazil was partially devastated by the Third World War. An immigrant family arrives in a small town, which they call "I Forgot." The trio is recruited by an indigenist to pretend to be indigenous during the visit of a general. In the dilemma of integrating into the system or preserving individual freedom, the family moves toward disintegration as the city prepares to launch a space rocket.

Directed by Walter Lima, Jr. - With Anecy Rocha

Deadly Heroes(1993)

1h 45min | Drama, Action
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Ex-Navy SEAL Brad Cartowski is injured during an attack at Athens airport by terrorists who kidnap his wife and fly her on a hijacked plane to North Africa. Cartowski goes in pursuit, aided by another ex-SEAL, Cody Grant. Cartowski soon finds the terrorists' hide-out but is captured and electro-tortured before he manages to escape. He soon returns with reinforcements to rescue his wife and to wreak vengeance on Carlos, head of the terrorist ring.

Directed by Menahem Golan - With Michael Paré, Jan-Michael Vincent, Billy Drago, Claudette Mink

Our Century(1983)

50min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

A man paves his own way to his own soul through an intellectual quest, tragedies of nations and personal drama. The road moving through the cosmic distances is a flight into one's internal world. This flight and this drama are revealed in this philosophical film-poem.

Project 42: The universal message(2015)

1h 47min | Science Fiction

A 107-minute long message that will be sent by a rocket to aliens who were detected from outside our solar system. The film is about the making of this message, and it follows the building of the space capsule from the signals received until the launch of the rocket. The valuable and illuminating interviews made with 42 role models tries to answer the big quesions of the human existence with unique humour. The message of the film is actually intended for everybody who is searching for their path, a handhold, motivation, to live their daily life to the fullest.

Zweisitzrakete(2013)

1h 32min | Comedy
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

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Directed by Hans-Jörg Hofer - With Manuel Rubey, Simon Schwarz, Alissa Jung, Thomas Stipsits, Alexander Jagsch, Andreas Patton, ...

Rocketman: Mad Mike's Mission to Prove the Flat Earth(2019)

1h 34min | Documentary
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Rocketman is a hilarious glimpse into the true story of Michael "Mad Mike" Hughes, a flat Earther who made headlines around the globe with his attempt to prove the flat Earth by building a homemade rocket to launch himself into space.

Stargazing Challenges(2012)

29min | Documentary

Blue Peter presenters Helen Skelton and Barney Harwood want to learn more about the solar system so they challenge scientists Helen Czerski and Jem Stansfield to find out more. They look at how to make telescopes and rockets, and use a toilet roll to measure the distances between planets.

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