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Theme: Journeys Inside the Solar System

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

26 April 200123 February 2020

Rating: ★★★★★

Stargate/Amok AI/Human Evolution/Space Mission

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rains
Category: Science Fiction

2010 (1984)

5 May 200126 April 2019

Rating: ★★★★

2001: A Space Odyssey Sequel

Director: Peter Hyams
Actors: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, …
Category: Science Fiction

3022 (2019)

2 October 20204 January 2021

Rating: ★★

Space Station Crew Survive the Destruction of Earth

Director: John Suits
Actors: Omar Epps, Kate Walsh, Angus MacFayden, Miranda Cosgrove, …
Category: Science Fiction

Ad Astra (2019)

14 December 20192 January 2021

Rating: ★★★★

Mission to the Outer Reaches of the Solar System

Director: James Gray
Actors: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, Ruth Negga, …
Category: Science Fiction

Age of Tomorrow (2014)

29 October 201515 June 2019

Rating: ★½

The Asylum Mockbuster/Alien Invasion

Director: James Kondelik
Actors: Kelly Hu, Robert Picardo, Anthony Marks, Lane Townsend, …
Category: Science Fiction

A.I. Rising (2018)

25 May 20204 December 2020

Rating: ★★★

Human-Android Relationship on a Space Mission

Director: Lazar Bodroza
Actors: Sebastian Cavazza, Stoya, Marusa Majer, Kirsty Besterman
Category: Science Fiction

Alien Cargo (1999)

14 April 200113 July 2020

Rating: ★★

Paranoia-Inducing Alien Virus

Director: Mark Haber
Actors: Jason London, Missy Crider, Elizabeth Allen, Alan Dale, …
Category: Science Fiction

All-Star Superman (2011)

23 July 201215 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Comic-Book Superhero/Animation

Director: Sam Liu
Actors: James Denton, Christina Hendricks, Anthony LaPaglia, Steve Blum, …
Category: Science Fiction

The American Astronaut (2001)

6 October 200115 August 2019

Rating: ★★

Gonzo Musical Space Western

Director: Cory McAbee
Actors: Cory McAbee, Rocco Sisto, Gregory Russell Cook, Annie Golden, …
Category: Science Fiction

Another Earth (2011)

12 August 201112 October 2020

Rating: ★★½

Mirror Earth

Director: Mike Cahill
Actors: Brit Marling, William Mapother, Kumar Pallana, Robin Lord Taylor, …
Category: Science Fiction

Armageddon (1998)

31 July 199921 September 2019

Rating: 0­

Asteroid on a Collision Course with Earth

Director: Michael Bay
Actors: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Steve Buscemi, …
Category: Science Fiction

Attack of the Monsters (1969)

2 April 200627 September 2019

Rating: ★★★

Japanese Monster Movie

Director: Noriaki Yuasa
Actors: Nobuhiro Kajima, Christopher Murphy, Reiko Kasahara, Hiroko Kai, …
Category: Science Fiction

Battle Beyond the Sun (1963)

21 October 20074 November 2019

Rating: ★★½

Space Expedition/Russian SF Film

Director: Francis Ford Coppola, M. Karzhukov, Aleksandr Kozyr
Actors: Edd Perry, Ivan Pereverzev, Andy Stewart, Alexandr Shvorin, …
Category: Science Fiction

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)

14 August 200317 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Anime/Future Bounty Hunters

Director: Shinichiro Watanabe
Category: Science Fiction

Doomsday Machine (1972)

27 August 20202 October 2020

Rating: 0­

Astronauts Survive the End of the World

Director: Harry Hope, Lee Sholem
Actors: Bobby Van, Grant Williams, James Craig, Mala Powers, …
Category: Science Fiction

Doppelganger (1969)

21 December 200227 August 2020

Rating: ★★

Mirror-Reversed Counter-Earth

Director: Robert Parrish
Actors: Roy Thinnes, Ian Hendry, Patrick Wymark, Lynn Loring, …
Category: Science Fiction

Europa Report (2013)

24 November 201315 October 2020

Rating: ★★

Space Expedition

Director: Sebastian Cordero
Actors: Sharlto Copley, Michael Nyqvist, Anamaria Marinca, Daniel Wu, …
Category: Science Fiction

Event Horizon (1997)

29 June 20085 December 2020

Rating: ★★

Haunted Spaceship

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Joely Richardson, Kathleen Quinlan, …
Category: Science Fiction

Fire Maidens of Outer Space (1956)

3 February 201414 December 2020

Rating: ½

Astronauts Discover All-Female Planet

Director: Cy Roth
Actors: Anthony Dexter, Susan Shaw, Harry Fowler, Sydney Tafler
Category: Science Fiction

Galaxy Express 999 (1979)

16 December 20007 January 2019

Rating: ★★★

Anime Space Opera

Director: Rintaro
Actors: Saffron Henderson, Kathleen Barr, Janyse Jaud, Terry Klassen, …
Category: Science Fiction

Galaxy Turnpike (2015)

13 April 20177 July 2020

Rating: ★★

Intergalactic Burger Bar Comedy

Director: Koki Matani
Actors: Shingo Katon, Haruka Ayase, Yuka, Zen Kajiwara, …
Category: Science Fiction

Gods of Egypt (2016)

5 March 201626 November 2020

Rating: ★★½

Ancient Egyptian Mythology

Director: Alex Proyas
Actors: Gerard Butler, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Brenton Thwaites, Elodie Yung, …
Category: Fantasy

Gor (1987)

18 January 201030 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Barbarian Planet

Director: Fritz Kiersch
Actors: Urbano Barberini, Oliver Reed, Rebecca Ferratti, Paul L. Smith, …
Category: Science Fiction

Gorath (1962)

21 June 201715 June 2020

Rating: ★★½

Rogue Planet on a Collision Course with Earth

Director: Ishiro Honda
Actors: Ryo Ikebe, Akira Kubo, Yumi Shirakawa, Ken Uehara, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Green Slime (1968)

9 October 20038 January 2020

Rating: ★★

Alien Nasty

Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Actors: Richard Jaeckel, Luciana Paluzzi
Category: Science Fiction

Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)

9 September 201610 December 2020

Rating: 0­

Animation/Prehistoric Talking Animals

Director: Mike Thurmeier, Galen Tan Chu
Actors: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Simon Pegg, …
Category: Fantasy

An Impossible Voyage (1904)

23 September 201110 March 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Train Journey Into Space

Director: Georges Melies
Category: Science Fiction

The Incredible Melting Man (1977)

16 May 199927 July 2019

Rating: ★★½

Melting Astronaut

Director: William Sachs
Actors: Burr de Benning, Alex Rebar, Myron Healey, Michael Alldredge, …
Category: Science Fiction

Interstellar (2014)

8 November 20145 December 2020

Rating: ★★★★½

Space Expedition

Director: Christopher Nolan
Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Matt Damon, …
Category: Science Fiction

Invasion of the Neptune Men (1961)

3 November 200817 June 2019

Rating: 0­

Alien Invasion/Japanese Space Opera

Director: Koji Ota
Actors: Sonny Chiba, Kappei Matsumoto, Shinjiro Ebara, Mitsue Komiya, …
Category: Science Fiction

Io (2019)

24 November 201929 November 2019

Rating: ★★

Environmentally Devastated Future

Director: Jonathan Helpert
Actors: Margaret Qualley, Anthony Mackie, Danny Huston
Category: Science Fiction

Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962)

3 September 200230 August 2018

Rating: ★★½

Planet of Illusions

Director: Sidney Pink
Actors: John Agar, Greta Thyssen, Carl Ottosen, Peter Monch, …
Category: Science Fiction

Jupiter Ascending (2015)

7 February 201518 June 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Space Opera

Director: The Wachowskis
Actors: Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, …
Category: Science Fiction

Last and First Men (2020)

6 June 20206 June 2020

Rating: ★★★½

The Future Evolution of Humanity

Director: Jóhann Jóhansson
Actors: Tilda Swinton
Category: Science Fiction

Mars et Avril (2012)

5 February 201314 December 2019

Rating: ★

Expedition to Mars/Future Music Making and the Meaning of It All

Director: Martin Villeneuve
Actors: Jacques Languirand, Caroline Dhavernas, Paul Ahmarani, Robert LePage, …
Category: Science Fiction

Melancholia (2011)

20 November 20114 February 2019

Rating: ★★★

Depression and the End of the World

Director: Lars von Trier
Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgard, …
Category: Science Fiction

Melies Cinemagician (2011)

12 June 200223 May 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Compilation of Georges Melies Shorts

Director: Georges Melies
Category: Fantasy

The Midnight Sky (2020)

8 January 20218 January 2021

Rating: ★★½

Last Man on Earth Tries to Communicate with a Space Mission

Director: George Clooney
Actors: George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Caoilinn Springall, …
Category: Science Fiction

Monster Zero (1965)

17 November 20103 December 2020

Rating: ★★★

Japanese Monster Bash/Space Opera

Director: Ishiro Honda
Actors: Nick Adams, Akira Takarada, Kumi Mizuno, Jun Tazaki, …
Category: Science Fiction

Moon Rainbow (1983)

19 May 201626 May 2019

Rating: ★

Soviet SF/Mysterious Alien Zone

Director: Andrei Yermash
Actors: Vladimir Gostyukhin, Igor Starygin, Vasily Livonov, Yuri Solomin, …
Category: Science Fiction

Moon Zero Two (1969)

6 May 20027 February 2020

Rating: ★★★

Lunar Adventures

Director: Roy Ward Baker
Actors: James Olson, Catherine Schell, Warren Mitchell, Adrienne Corri, …
Category: Science Fiction

The ? Motorist (1906)

14 May 201326 March 2020

Rating: ★★★

Motorcar Travels Into Space

Director: Walter R. Booth
Category: Fantasy

The Night Caller (1965)

21 June 201626 May 2019

Rating: ★★

Aliens Abduct Models

Director: John Gilling
Actors: John Saxon, Maurice Denham, Patricia Haines, Alfred Burke, …
Category: Science Fiction

On the Comet (1970)

21 June 201716 June 2020

Rating: ★★½

Jules Verne Adaptation/Swept Away on a Comet

Director: Karel Zeman
Category: Science Fiction

Outland (1981)

7 February 200124 November 2019

Rating: ★★★

Action Set on One of Jupiter’s Moons

Director: Peter Hyams
Actors: Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James B. Sikking, …
Category: Science Fiction

Saturn 3 (1980)

9 June 20036 July 2020

Rating: ★★

Robot Amok

Director: Stanley Donen
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, Harvey Keitel
Category: Science Fiction

Silent Running (1972)

27 April 20033 November 2019

Rating: ★★½

Saving the World’s Last Forest in Space

Director: Douglas Trumbull
Actors: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint, …
Category: Science Fiction

Solar Crisis (1990)

1 June 201530 August 2018

Rating: ★★★

Space Mission

Director: Allan Smithee, Richard C. Sarafian
Actors: Tim Matheson, Charlton Heston, Jack Palance, Corin Nemec, …
Category: Science Fiction

Solis (2018)

20 June 201924 June 2020

Rating: ★★

Space Rescue Mission

Director: Carl Strathie
Actors: Steven Ogg, Alice Lowe
Category: Science Fiction

Somnus (2016)

8 October 201826 October 2018

Rating: ★

Space Mission Problems/The End of the World

Director: Chris Reading
Actors: Marcus McMahon, Cullum Austin, Rohit Gokani, Meryl Griffiths, …
Category: Science Fiction

Space Truckers (1996)

17 April 200118 July 2019

Rating: ★★★

Interstellar Adventures

Director: Stuart Gordon
Actors: Dennis Hopper, Stephen Dorff, Debi Mazar, Charles Dance, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Stranger (1973)

3 August 201712 October 2020

Rating: ★★

Counter Earth

Director: Lee H. Katzin
Actors: Glenn Corbett, Cameron Mitchell, Sharon Acker, Lew Ayres, …
Category: Science Fiction

Sunshine (2007)

19 April 200727 April 2020

Rating: ★★★

Solar Expedition

Director: Danny Boyle
Actors: Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Cliff Curtis, …
Category: Science Fiction

Teleios (2017)

8 August 201917 July 2020

Rating: ★★

Space Rescue Mission

Director: Ian Truitner
Actors: Sunny Mabrey, Mykel Shannon Jenkins, Weetus Cren, T. J. Hoban, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Terrornauts (1967)

22 July 201315 December 2018

Rating: ★★

Communications from Space

Director: Montgomery Tully
Actors: Simon Oates, Zena Marshall, Charles Hawtrey, Stanley Meadows, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Titan (2018)

14 April 201820 July 2020

Rating: ★★

Bio-Engineering Humans to Live on Titan

Director: Lennart Ruff
Actors: Sam Worthington, Taylor Schilling, Tom Wilkinson, Agyness Deyn, …
Category: Science Fiction

Valley of the Dragons (1961)

25 August 20148 October 2019

Rating: ★

Jules Verne Adaptation/Prehistoric Lost World on a Comet

Director: Edward L. Bernds
Actors: Sean McClory, Cesare Danova, Joan Staley, Danielle De Metz, …
Category: Science Fiction

Vixen Highway 2006: It Came from Uranus! (2010)

18 December 201130 August 2018

Rating: 0­

Gonzo Exploitation Homage

Director: Tony Watt, Vivita
Actors: Tony Watt, Amabelle Singson, James Taggart, Angela Faulkner, …
Category: Horror

The Wandering Earth (2019)

26 May 20194 August 2019

Rating: ★★

Moving the Earth/Mass Destruction Spectacle

Director: Frant Gwo
Actors: Qu Chuxiao, Wu Jing, Zhao Jinnai, Ng Man Tat, …
Category: Science Fiction

War Between the Planets (1966)

19 September 200816 January 2020

Rating: ★★

Italian Space Opera

Director: Antonio Margheriti
Actors: Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Ombretta Colli
Category: Science Fiction

Warning from Space (1956)

12 October 202012 October 2020

Rating: ★

Japanese Alien Visitors Film

Director: Koji Shima
Category: Science Fiction

Within the Rock (1996)

18 May 199930 September 2019

Rating: ★★

Alien Nasty

Director: Gary J. Tunnicliffe
Actors: Xander Berkeley, Caroline Barclay, Barbara Patrick, Michael Zelniker, …
Category: Science Fiction

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Theme Essays

  • Disaster Movies
  • Steampunk Films
  • Documentaries
  • Films About Halloween
  • Films About Prophecy
  • Nazis
  • Magicians and Sorcerers
  • Secret Societies
  • Real-Life People in Fiction
  • Techno-Thrillers
  • Twins in Fantastic Cinema
  • Asylums
  • Possession Films
  • Sexual Fetishism in Fantastic Cinema
  • Films About Imaginary and Magical Lands
  • Religion in Fantastic Cinema
  • Romantic Comedies
  • Film Noir
  • Spy Films
  • Jekyll and Hyde Films
  • Films That Make Dubious Claims to Being Based on True Stories
  • Coming of Age Stories in Fantastic Cinema
  • Films About Cryogenics and Suspended Animation
  • Alternate History Films
  • Disturbed Psychology as Portrayed on Film
  • Law Enforcement in Fantastic Cinema
  • Weird Westerns

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