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Theme: Space Stations and Habitats

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

26 April 200121 April 2025

Rating: ★★★★★

Stargate/Amok AI/Human Evolution/Space Mission

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

3022 (2019)

2 October 20209 April 2024

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 201912 April 2025

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

Alien: Resurrection (1997)

20 December 200923 October 2024

Rating: ★★

Alien Sequel

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Dominique Pinon, …
Category: Science Fiction

Alien: Romulus (2024)

26 October 202426 October 2024

Rating: ★★★

Alien Sequel

Director: Fede Alvarez
Actors: Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Spike Fearn, …
Category: Science Fiction

Android (1982)

4 May 199919 June 2025

Rating: ★★★

Android Gains Self-Awareness

Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Actors: Don Opper, Klaus Kinski, Brie Howard, Norbert Weisser, …
Category: Science Fiction

Armageddon (1998)

31 July 199929 January 2024

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

Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons (2022)

13 November 202231 May 2024

Rating: ★★★

Comic-Book Superheroes/Animation

Director: Matt Peters
Actors: Jack Dylan Grazer, Jack Griffo, Travis Willingham, Troy Baker, …
Category: Science Fiction

Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016)

18 December 201610 April 2025

Rating: ★★★

Animation/Retro 1960s Batman

Director: Rick Morales
Actors: Adam West, Burt Ward, Julie Newmar, Jeff Bergman, …
Category: Fantasy

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

15 January 20116 January 2024

Rating: ★★★

Space Opera

Director: Jimmy T. Murakami
Actors: Richard Thomas, George Peppard, Sybil Danning, John Saxon, …
Category: Science Fiction

Battle Beyond the Sun (1963)

21 October 200723 November 2024

Rating: ★★½

Space Expedition/Russian SF Film

Director: Francis Ford Coppola, M. Karzhukov, Aleksandr Kozyr
Category: Science Fiction

The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

17 February 201826 April 2025

Rating: ★★

Experiment Opens Up Alternate Timeline

Director: Julius Onah
Actors: Gugu Mbatha Raw, Daniel Brühl, David Oyelowo, Chris O'Dowd, …
Category: Science Fiction

Conquest of Space (1955)

1 June 19996 July 2022

Rating: ★★

Expedition to Mars

Director: Byron Haskin
Actors: Walter Brooke, Eric Fleming, Mickey Shaughnessy, Benson Fong, …
Category: Science Fiction

Contact (1997)

25 May 20094 December 2024

Rating: ★★★½

Communications from Space

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, James Woods, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Creator (2023)

25 November 202329 June 2025

Rating: ★★★★½

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Director: Gareth Edwards
Actors: John David Washington, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Gemma Chan, Allison Janney, …
Category: Science Fiction

Dante 01 (2008)

12 January 20126 June 2020

Rating: ★★

Insane Asylum on a Space Station

Director: Marc Caro
Actors: Lambert Wilson, Gerald Laroche, Dominique Pinon, Simona Maicanescu, …
Category: Science Fiction

Dead Fire (1996)

24 May 199931 October 2024

Rating: ★★

Space Station Action

Director: Robert Lee
Actors: Matt Frewer, C. Thomas Howell, Monika Schnarre, Colin Cunningham, …
Category: Science Fiction

Defcon-4 (1985)

13 October 200122 September 2020

Rating: ★★★

Nuclear Holocaust and After

Director: Paul Donovan
Actors: Tim Choate, Lenore Zann, Maury Chaykin, Kate Lynch, …
Category: Science Fiction

Elysium (2013)

9 August 20138 October 2021

Rating: ★★★

Future Class Divide

Director: Neill Blomkamp
Actors: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, …
Category: Science Fiction

Ender’s Game (2013)

2 November 201327 March 2020

Rating: ★★

Space Military Recruits in Training

Director: Gavin Hood
Actors: Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Abigail Breslin, …
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

Fantastic Four (2005)

8 July 200525 April 2025

Rating: ★★★

Comic-Book Superheroes

Director: Tim Story
Actors: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans, …
Category: Science Fiction

Foe (2023)

13 December 202413 December 2024

Rating: ★★

Near Future/Android Replacement

Director: Garth Davis
Actors: Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal, Aaron Pierre
Category: Science Fiction

Fortress 2: Re-Entry (2000)

20 August 200517 December 2020

Rating: ★★

Prison in Orbit

Director: Geoff Murphy
Actors: Christopher Lambert, Patrick Malahide, Pam Grier, Willie Garson, …
Category: Science Fiction

Galaxy Turnpike (2015)

13 April 201713 October 2023

Rating: ★★

Intergalactic Burger Bar Comedy

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

Geostorm (2017)

3 December 201719 November 2019

Rating: ★½

Weather Control/Disaster Movie

Director: Dean Devlin
Actors: Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Alexandra Maria Lara, …
Category: Science Fiction

Gravity (2013)

5 October 201322 November 2024

Rating: ★★★★★

Astronaut Stranded in Orbit

Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Actors: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney
Category: Science Fiction

The Green Slime (1968)

9 October 200321 May 2021

Rating: ★★

Alien Nasty

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

Heavy Metal (1981)

3 May 200011 December 2024

Rating: ★★½

Adult Animation Anthology

Director: Gerald Potterton, Harold Whitaker, Pino Van Lamsweerde, Jack Stokes, …
Actors: John Candy, Jackie Burroughs, Eugene Levy, John Vernon, …
Category: Science Fiction, Fantasy

Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996)

16 February 200811 October 2022

Rating: ★★

Sadomasochistic Demons

Director: Alan Smithee, Kevin Yagher
Actors: Bruce Ramsay, Doug Bradley, Valentina Vargas, Kim Myers, …
Category: Horror

I.S.S. (2023)

17 February 202414 March 2025

Rating: ★★★★

International Space Station Drama

Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Actors: Ariana DeBose, Chris Messina, Pilou Asbæk, John Gallagher Jr, …
Category: Science Fiction

Incoming (2018)

19 June 202520 June 2025

Rating: ★★

Action/The I.S.S. as a Prison

Director: Eric Zaragoza
Actors: Scott Adkins, Michelle Lehane, Aaron McCusker, Lukas Loughran, …
Category: Science Fiction

Interstellar (2014)

8 November 201417 December 2024

Rating: ★★★★½

Space Expedition

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

Jung_E (2023)

28 January 202328 January 2023

Rating: ★★

Android Soldier Program

Director: Yeon Sang-ho
Actors: Kang Soo-yeon, Kim Hyun-joo, Ryu Kyung-soo, Lee Dong-hee, …
Category: Science Fiction

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010)

3 February 201321 March 2023

Rating: ★★★

Animation/Comic-Book Superheroes

Director: Sam Liu, Lauren Montgomery
Actors: William Baldwin, Mark Harmon, Chris Noth, Gina Torres, …
Category: Science Fiction

Life (2017)

10 June 201722 November 2024

Rating: ★★★

Alien Organism Amok on the International Space Station

Director: Daniel Espinosa
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada
Category: Science Fiction

Lockout (2012)

5 May 201231 December 2024

Rating: ★★★

Future Orbiting Prison/Action

Director: James Mather, Stephen Saint Leger
Actors: Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Vincent Regan, Joseph Gilgun, …
Category: Science Fiction

Love (2011)

2 November 20232 November 2023

Rating: ★★

Astronaut Stranded Aboard the Space Station

Director: William Eubank
Actors: Gunner Wright, Corey Richardson
Category: Science Fiction

Machete Kills (2013)

12 October 20132 January 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Gonzo Action Film

Director: Robert Rodriguez
Actors: Danny Trejo, Mel Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez, Demian Bachir, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Marvels (2023)

27 January 202413 April 2024

Rating: 0­

Marvel Comics Superheroes

Director: Nia DaCosta
Actors: Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Samuel L. Jackson, …
Category: Science Fiction

Moonraker (1979)

10 June 200210 January 2025

Rating: ★

James Bond in Space

Director: Lewis Gilbert
Actors: Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel, …
Category: Science Fiction

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)

20 July 199924 January 2022

Rating: ★

Old SF Movie with Laugh-Track

Director: Jim Mallon
Category: Science Fiction

The Noah’s Ark Principle (1984)

3 December 20007 April 2022

Rating: ★★

Action Aboard a Weather Satellite

Director: Roland Emmerich
Category: Science Fiction

Oblivion (2013)

19 April 201323 January 2025

Rating: ★★★

Post-Holocaust Deserted Earth/Conceptual Breakthrough

Director: Joseph Kosinski
Actors: Tom Cruise, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Morgan Freeman, …
Category: Science Fiction

Pandorum (2009)

14 January 201030 January 2025

Rating: ★★★

Space Mission Gone Wrong

Director: Christian Alvart
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Norman Reedus
Category: Science Fiction

Project Moon Base (1953)

26 December 200221 November 2022

Rating: ★★

Expedition to the Moon

Director: Richard Talmadge
Actors: Ross Ford, Donna Martell, Hayden Rorke
Category: Science Fiction

Project Shadowchaser III (1995)

21 November 200314 February 2025

Rating: ★½

Shapechanging Killer Android

Director: John Eyres
Actors: Sam Bottoms, Christopher Neame, Frank Zagarino, Musetta Vander, …
Category: Science Fiction

Queen of Outer Space (1958)

6 January 200115 June 2023

Rating: 0­

Planet of Women

Director: Edward L. Bernds
Actors: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eric Fleming, Paul Birch, Laurie Mitchell
Category: Science Fiction

Rampage (2018)

27 October 20181 March 2025

Rating: ★★½

Videogame Adaptation/Giant Animals Amok

Director: Brad Peyton
Actors: Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, …
Category: Science Fiction

Reign of the Supermen (2019)

8 April 20194 February 2024

Rating: ★★★

Comic-Book Superhero/Animation

Director: Sam Liu
Actors: Jerry O'Connell, Rebecca Romijn, Rainn Wilson, Patrick Fabian, …
Category: Science Fiction

Rubikon (2022)

30 June 202314 February 2024

Rating: ★★

Space Station Crew Survive the End of the World

Director: Leni Lauritsch
Actors: Julia Franz Richter, Mark Ivanir, George Blagden, Nick Monu, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Signal (2014)

7 September 20143 November 2021

Rating: ★★★

Possible Alien Abductees/Reality Bender

Director: William Eubank
Actors: Brenton Thwaites, Laurence Fishburne, Olivia Cooke, Beau Knapp, …
Category: Science Fiction

Solar Crisis (1990)

1 June 201519 March 2025

Rating: ★★★

Space Mission

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

Solaris (1972)

14 June 200225 May 2023

Rating: ★★★★★

Enigmatic Alien Planet/Ghosts of Memory

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Actors: Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk
Category: Science Fiction

Solaris (2002)

1 April 20034 August 2020

Rating: ★★½

Enigmatic Alien Planet/Ghosts of Memory

Director: Steven Soderbergh
Actors: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Davies, Viola Davis
Category: Science Fiction

Space Milkshake (2012)

6 September 201617 June 2024

Rating: ★★

Space Station Comedy

Director: Armen Evrensel
Actors: Billy Boyd, Kristin Kreuk, Amanda Tapping, George Takei, …
Category: Science Fiction

Space Station 76 (2014)

4 January 201520 March 2025

Rating: ★★

1970s TV SF Parody

Director: Jack Plotnick
Actors: Patrick Wilson, Liv Tyler, Matt Bomer, Marisa Coughlan, …
Category: Science Fiction

Space Sweepers (2021)

19 February 202219 February 2022

Rating: ★★★

Space Junk Collectors/Korean Space Opera

Director: Jo Sung-Hee
Actors: Song Joon-ki, Kim Tae-n, Jin Seon-kyu, Yoo Hae-jin, …
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

Spiders (2013)

16 April 201321 March 2025

Rating: ★★½

Giant Spiders

Director: Tibor Takacs
Actors: Patrick Muldoon, Christa Campbell, William Hope, Sydney Sweeney, …
Category: Science Fiction

Star Trek: Beyond (2016)

30 July 20168 February 2025

Rating: ★★

Intergalactic Adventures

Director: Justin Lin
Actors: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, …
Category: Science Fiction

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

31 August 20028 February 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Intergalactic Adventures

Director: Nicholas Meyer
Actors: William Shatner, Ricardo Montalban, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, …
Category: Science Fiction

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

17 August 20008 February 2025

Rating: ★★

Intergalactic Adventures

Director: Leonard Nimoy
Actors: William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, …
Category: Science Fiction

Star Trek: Section 31 (2025)

8 February 20258 February 2025

Rating: ★★

Intergalactic Adventures

Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi
Actors: Michelle Yeoh, Omari Hardwick, Sven Ruygrok, Kacey Rohl, …
Category: Science Fiction

Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (2005)

15 December 20053 November 2022

Rating: ★★★

Star Trek/Babylon 5 Parody

Director: Timo Vuorensola
Category: Science Fiction

Strange New World (1975)

23 February 202323 February 2023

Rating: ★★

Cryogenic Sleepers Awake in a Post-Apocalyptic World

Director: Robert Butler
Actors: John Saxon, Keene Curtis, James Olson, Martine Beswick, …
Category: Science Fiction

Thunderbirds (2004)

21 September 200422 August 2021

Rating: ★

Hi-Tech Rescue Organisation/TV Series Remake

Director: Jonathan Frakes
Actors: Ben Kingsley, Anthony Edwards, Bill Paxton, Brady Corbet, …
Category: Science Fiction

Titan A.E. (2000)

18 June 200017 July 2019

Rating: ★★★

Animation/Space Opera

Director: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Actors: Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore, Bill Pullman, Nathan Lane, …
Category: Science Fiction

Ultramarines (2010)

10 July 201114 May 2025

Rating: ★★

Animation/Wargame Adaptation/Space Marines vs Demonic Forces

Director: Martyn Pick
Actors: Terence Stamp, Sean Pertwee, John Hurt, Steven Waddington, …
Category: Science Fiction

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

18 November 201718 September 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Space Opera/Comic-Book Adaptation

Director: Luc Besson
Actors: Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rihanna, …
Category: Science Fiction

Wall-E (2008)

9 October 20085 June 2025

Rating: ★★★★½

Pixar Animation/Lonely Robot

Director: Andrew Stanton
Actors: Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy
Category: Science Fiction

The Wandering Earth (2019)

26 May 201930 December 2024

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

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Theme Essays

  • Films About Atlantis
  • Werewolf Films
  • Virtual Reality
  • Imprisonment Thrillers
  • Films Depicting NASA and the Space Program
  • Human Bloodsports and Death Games
  • Animals Attack Films
  • Films About Plague and Pandemic
  • Disaster Movies
  • Steampunk Films
  • Documentaries
  • Films About Halloween
  • Films About Prophecy
  • Magicians and Sorcerers
  • Secret Societies
  • Real-Life People in Fiction
  • Techno-Thrillers
  • Twins in Fantastic Cinema
  • Asylums
  • Possession Films
  • 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 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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