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Theme: Space Exploration

The films listed here concern astronauts on missions to explore space and other planets. The very first of these could be considered Georges Melies’ A Trip to the Moon (1902) and there have been a number of other works ranging all the way through the adventures of Flash Gordon to Star Trek (1966-9) and its assorted incarnations.

There were several works predicting the Moon Landing. Of these, Destination Moon (1950) created an interest in real world space exploration (see Films Depicting NASA and the Space Program). Many films and tv series of the 1950s and 60s feature astronauts exploring the Solar System or landing on and exploring alien worlds near and far.

The space exploration film has largely died down since the 1970s and been replaced by the Space Opera, concerning adventures in a familiar, lived-in universe. The 2010s have shown a renewed interest in the exploration of near space with the hit of Gravity (2013) and the films that followed, which focused around a scientifically believable exploration of the solar system and the potential landing on Mars and other worlds.


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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

2010 (1984)

5 May 200113 May 2025

Rating: ★★★★

2001: A Space Odyssey Sequel

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

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)

6 June 200011 February 2020

Rating: ★★

Two Idiots Go to Venus

Director: Charles Lamont
Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mari Blanchard, Jack Kruschen, …
Category: Science Fiction

Aelita (1924)

21 December 201120 January 2025

Rating: ★★½

Soviet Science-Fiction/Expedition to Mars

Director: Yakov Protazanov
Category: Science Fiction

A.I. Rising (2018)

25 May 202028 June 2022

Rating: ★★★

Human-Android Relationship on a Space Mission

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

Alien (1979)

2 May 199920 August 2024

Rating: ★★★★★

Alien Nasty on a Spaceship

Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm, John Hurt, Yaphet Kotto, …
Category: Science Fiction

Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

1 June 199926 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Anthology of Comedy Skits & Genre Parodies

Director: Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horten, John Landis, …
Actors: Arsenio Hall, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rosanna Arquette, Monique Gabrielle, …
Category: Science Fiction

Andromeda Nebula (1967)

25 May 2022

Rating: ★★

Soviet SF Film/Space Exploration

Director: Yevgeny Sherstobitov
Category: Science Fiction

The Angry Red Planet (1959)

9 June 200122 December 2021

Rating: ★★

Mission to Mars

Director: Ib Melchior
Actors: Nora Hayden, Gerald Mohr, Les Tremayne, Jack Kruschen
Category: Science Fiction

Aniara (2018)

1 February 202119 August 2024

Rating: ★★★

Spaceflight Goes Off Course

Director: Pella Kägerman, Hugo Lilja
Actors: Emilie Jonsson, Arvin Kananian, Bianca Cruzeiro, Anneli Martini, …
Category: Science Fiction

Ascension (2014)

17 April 20156 September 2019

Rating: ★★★

Generation Ship

Director: Stephen Williams, Vincenzo Natali, Robert Lieberman, Mairzee Almas, …
Actors: Tricia Helfer, Gil Bellows, Brandon P. Bell, Brian Van Holt, …
Category: Science Fiction

Astro (2018)

21 December 202021 December 2020

Rating: 0­

Alien Visitor

Director: Asif Akbar
Actors: Gary Daniels, Louis Mandylor, Michael Paré, Marshal Hilton, …
Category: Science Fiction

Astronaut: The Last Push (2012)

24 August 202324 August 2023

Rating: ★★

Space Mission Gone Wrong

Director: Eric Hayden
Actors: Khary Paton, Lance Henriksen, Alec Gillis
Category: Science Fiction

Baron Munchausen (1962)

17 October 201316 June 2020

Rating: ★★★★

World’s Greatest Liar’s Adventures

Director: Karel Zeman
Category: Fantasy

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 Black Hole (1979)

3 January 20001 July 2022

Rating: ★★

Lost Spaceship/Mad Scientist/Journey into a Black Hole

Director: Gary Nelson
Actors: Maximilian Schell, Robert Forster, Yvette Mimieux, Anthony Perkins, …
Category: Science Fiction

Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)

1 November 200228 September 2023

Rating: ★

All-Female Lunar Society/Classic Bad Movie

Director: Arthur Hilton
Actors: Sonny Tufts, Marie Windsor, Victor Jory, Douglas Fowley, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Cold Equations (1996)

2 December 200716 December 2022

Rating: ★★

Tough Moral Choices on a Space Mission

Director: Peter Geiger
Actors: Billy Campbell, Poppy Montgomery, Daniel Roebuck, William R. Moses
Category: Science Fiction

The Colour of Magic (2008)

11 January 200923 July 2021

Rating: ★★★

Fantasy Comedy/Terry Pratchett Adaptation

Director: Vadim Jean
Actors: David Jason, Sean Astin, Tim Curry, David Bradley, …
Category: Fantasy

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

Cosmic Voyage (1936)

3 April 20243 April 2024

Rating: ★★★

Soviet Moon Launch

Director: Vasily Zhuravlyov
Category: Science Fiction

Countdown (1967)

15 December 20016 August 2021

Rating: ★★½

Expedition to the Moon

Director: Robert Altman
Actors: James Caan, Robert Duvall, Joanna Moore, Steve Ihnat, …
Category: Science Fiction

Dark Planet (1996)

27 November 200011 June 2020

Rating: ★★

Interstellar Mission

Director: Albert Magnoli
Actors: Paul Mercurio, Michael York, Harley Jane Kozak, Maria Ford, …
Category: Science Fiction

Dark Star (1974)

9 June 200023 February 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Space Mission Gone Wrong Comedy

Director: John Carpenter
Category: Science Fiction

Destination Moon (1950)

1 April 200319 October 2021

Rating: ★★★★

Expedition to the Moon

Director: Irving Pichel
Actors: John Archer, Warner Anderson, Dick Wesson, Tom Powers
Category: Science Fiction

Destroy All Monsters (1968)

16 November 20003 December 2020

Rating: ★★

Japanese Monster Bash

Director: Ishiro Honda
Actors: Akira Kubo, Yukiko Kobayashi, Jun Tazaki, Yoshio Tsuchiya
Category: Science Fiction

Deus (2022)

9 July 20239 July 2023

Rating: ★

Space Expedition Finds Gateway to Heaven

Director: Steve Stone
Actors: Claudia Black, David O'Hara, Phil Davis, Richard Blackwood, …
Category: Science Fiction

Doomsday Machine (1972)

27 August 202020 November 2024

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 200222 April 2021

Rating: ★★

Mirror-Reversed Counter-Earth

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

Dracula 3000 (2004)

18 August 201431 August 2020

Rating: ★

Dracula on a Spaceship

Director: Darrell James Roodt
Actors: Casper Van Dien, Erika Eleniak, Tom Tiny Lister Jr, Coolio, …
Category: Horror

Earth Star Voyager (1988)

2 July 201427 March 2023

Rating: ★★

Space Expedition

Director: James Goldstone
Actors: Brian McNamara, Duncan Regehr, Julia Montgomery, Tom Breznahan, …
Category: Science Fiction

Escape from Mars (1999)

31 December 200813 October 2020

Rating: ★★

Expedition to Mars

Director: Neill Fearnley
Actors: Christine Elise, Peter Outerbridge, Kavan Smith, Allison Hossack, …
Category: Science Fiction

Europa Report (2013)

24 November 201311 September 2022

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

Explorers (1985)

18 January 200125 April 2025

Rating: ★★★½

Teenagers Build Spaceship

Director: Joe Dante
Actors: Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson, Dick Miller, …
Category: Science Fiction

Fire Maidens of Outer Space (1956)

3 February 201420 March 2023

Rating: ½

Astronauts Discover All-Female Planet

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

First Man Into Space (1959)

20 December 200015 December 2020

Rating: ★★

Mutated Astronaut

Director: Robert Day
Actors: Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Carl Jaffe, Robert Ayres
Category: Science Fiction

The First Men in the Moon (1964)

5 September 200224 October 2019

Rating: ★★

Victorian Lunar Expedition/H.G. Wells Adaptation

Director: Nathan Juran
Actors: Lionel Jeffries, Edward Judd, Martha Hyer
Category: Science Fiction

The First Men in the Moon (2010)

28 January 20113 January 2022

Rating: ★★★½

Victorian Lunar Expedition/H.G. Wells Adaptation

Director: Damon Thomas
Actors: Mark Gatiss, Rory Kinnear, Philip Jackson
Category: Science Fiction

First on the Moon (2005)

21 March 201315 December 2020

Rating: ★★½

Soviet Moon Landing Mockumentary

Director: Aleksey Fedorchenko
Category: Science Fiction

First Spaceship on Venus (1959)

19 June 200515 November 2024

Rating: ★★

Soviet Space Mission

Director: Kurt Maetzig
Actors: Yoko Tani
Category: Science Fiction

Flash Gordon (1936)

1 February 201016 April 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Serial/Space Opera

Director: Frederick Stephani
Actors: Larry Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Frank Shannon, Charles Middleton, …
Category: Science Fiction

Flash Gordon (1980)

20 June 20007 June 2024

Rating: ★★★

Campy Space Opera

Director: Mike Hodges
Actors: Sam Jones, Max Von Sydow, Timothy Dalton, Brian Blessed, …
Category: Science Fiction

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)

12 February 200526 June 2024

Rating: ★★★

Serial/Space Opera

Director: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor
Actors: Larry Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon, …
Category: Science Fiction

Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars (1938)

1 February 200115 December 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Serial/Space Opera

Director: Ford Beebe, Robert Hill
Actors: Larry Buster Crabbe, Frank Shannon, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton
Category: Science Fiction

Flight to Mars (1951)

9 March 200115 December 2020

Rating: ★★

Mission to Mars

Director: Lesley Selander
Actors: Arthur Franz, Cameron Mitchell, Margeurite Chapman, Virginia Huston, …
Category: Science Fiction

Forbidden Planet (1956)

20 June 20025 March 2025

Rating: ★★★★½

Alien Artefacts/Monster from the Subconscious

Director: Fred McLeod Wilcox
Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Warren Stevens, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Fountain (2006)

26 February 20076 June 2025

Rating: ★★

Mystical Quest for Immortality

Director: Darren Aronofsky
Actors: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn, Fernando Hernandez, …
Category: Science Fiction

From the Earth to the Moon (1958)

17 January 200123 October 2024

Rating: ★★

Victorian Moon Expedition/Jules Verne Adaptation

Director: Byron Haskin
Actors: Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget, Carl Esmond
Category: Science Fiction

Have Rocket — Will Travel (1959)

4 January 20234 January 2023

Rating: ★★

Idiots Launched Into Space Comedy

Director: David Lowell Rich
Actors: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Jerome Cowan
Category: Science Fiction

Heaven Ship (1918)

30 April 20143 April 2024

Rating: ★★½

Expedition to Mars

Director: Holger-Madsen
Category: Science Fiction

High Life (2018)

27 April 20199 April 2025

Rating: ★★★

Space Mission

Director: Claire Denis
Actors: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth, Jessie Ross, …
Category: Science Fiction

Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970)

19 February 20132 October 2024

Rating: ½

Space Expedition to a Prehistoric Planet

Director: Al Adamson
Actors: John Carradine, Robert Dix, Joey Benson, Jennifer Bishop
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

Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962)

3 September 200218 December 2024

Rating: ★★½

Planet of Illusions

Director: Sidney Pink
Actors: John Agar, Greta Thyssen, Carl Ottosen, Ann Smyrner
Category: Science Fiction

King Dinosaur (1955)

9 June 202130 October 2024

Rating: ★½

Planet of Dinosaurs

Director: Bert I. Gordon
Actors: Douglas Henderson, Bill Bryant, Marvin Miller
Category: Science Fiction

The Last Scout (2017)

26 November 202010 February 2021

Rating: ★★

Space Expedition

Director: Simon Phillips
Actors: Blaine Gray, Simon Phillips, Rebecca Ferdinando, Peter Woodward, …
Category: Science Fiction

Lost Continent (1951)

20 January 202221 July 2023

Rating: ★★

Prehistoric Lost World

Director: Sam Newfield
Actors: Cesar Romero, John Hoyt, Hugh Beaumont, Whit Bissell, …
Category: Science Fiction

Lost in Space (1998)

31 July 19991 January 2025

Rating: ★★★

Intergalactic Adventures/TV Series Remake

Director: Stephen Hopkins
Actors: William Hurt, Matt LeBlanc, Gary Oldman, Heather Graham, …
Category: Science Fiction

Mars et Avril (2012)

5 February 20139 September 2022

Rating: ★

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

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

Melies Cinemagician (2011)

12 June 200221 July 2023

Rating: ★★★★

Compilation of Georges Melies Shorts

Director: Georges Melies
Category: Fantasy

A Million Days (2023)

8 June 20258 June 2025

Rating: ★★★

Eve of a Space Mission/Rogue A.I.

Director: Mitch Jenkins
Actors: Simon Merrells, Hermione Corfield, Kemi-Bo Jacobs, Darrell D'Silva
Category: Science Fiction

Missile to the Moon (1958)

15 June 202315 June 2023

Rating: ★★

Expedition to the Moon/All-Female Lunar Society

Director: Richard E. Cunha
Actors: Richard Travis, Gary Clarke, Michael Whalen, Cathy Downs, …
Category: Science Fiction

Mission to Mars (2000)

10 March 200020 August 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Mars Landing/Alien Artefact

Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen, …
Category: Science Fiction

Moon Rainbow (1983)

19 May 201610 January 2025

Rating: ★

Soviet SF/Mysterious Alien Zone

Director: Andrei Yermash
Category: Science Fiction

Moscow-Cassiopeia (1973)

24 July 201916 June 2021

Rating: ★★½

Soviet Science-Fiction/Space Expedition

Director: Richard Viktorov
Category: Science Fiction

The ? Motorist (1906)

14 May 201326 March 2020

Rating: ★★★

Motorcar Travels Into Space

Director: Walter R. Booth
Category: Fantasy

Mouse on the Moon (1963)

17 February 200310 January 2025

Rating: ★★★

World’s Smallest Country Launches a Moon Mission

Director: Richard Lester
Actors: Ron Moody, Terry-Thomas, Bernard Cribbins, David Kossoff, …
Category: Science Fiction

Nightflyers (1987)

19 March 201924 April 2025

Rating: ★★★

Space Expedition Goes Wrong

Director: Robert Collector
Actors: Catherine Mary Stewart, Michael Praed, John Standing, Michael Des Barres, …
Category: Science Fiction

Orbiter 9 (2017)

25 March 201922 November 2024

Rating: ★★

Lone Girl on a Space Mission Discovers the Real World

Director: Hatem Khraiche Ruiz-Zorrilla
Actors: Clara Lago, Alex Gonzalez, Andres Parra, Belen Rueda, …
Category: Science Fiction

Oxygen (2021)

18 June 202229 October 2024

Rating: ★★★½

Woman Imprisoned in a Cryogenic Capsule

Director: Alexandre Aja
Actors: Melanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Malik Zidi, Eric Herson Macarel
Category: Science Fiction

The Phantom Planet (1961)

27 May 20072 April 2021

Rating: ★

Miniature Planet

Director: William Marshall
Actors: Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Anthony Dexter, Dolores Faith, …
Category: Science Fiction

Project Gemini (2022)

22 November 20223 June 2025

Rating: ★★

Space Expedition Gets Lost

Director: Serik Beyseu
Actors: Egor Koreshkov, Alyona Konstantinova, Konstantin Samoukov, Nikita Dubanov, …
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

The Quatermass Experiment (2005)

31 October 200521 March 2023

Rating: ★★★

Mutating Astronaut

Director: Sam Miller
Actors: Jason Flemyng, Adrian Dunbar, David Tennant, Mark Gatiss, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)

2 February 200122 August 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Mutating Astronaut

Director: Val Guest
Actors: Brian Donlevy, Richard Wordsworth, Thora Hird, Gordon Jackson
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

Red Planet (2000)

31 December 200025 December 2022

Rating: ★★★

Mission to Mars

Director: Antony Hoffman
Actors: Val Kilmer, Carrie-Ann Moss, Tom Sizemore, Benjamin Bratt, …
Category: Science Fiction

Riders to the Stars (1954)

2 May 200028 February 2025

Rating: ★★½

Space Launch

Director: Richard Carlson
Actors: William Lundigan, Richard Carlson, Martha Hyer, Herbert Marshall, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Right Stuff (1983)

26 August 200224 May 2025

Rating: ★★★½

Story of the True Life Space Mission

Director: Philip Kaufman
Actors: Sam Shepard, Dennis Quaid, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, …
Category: Science Fiction

Robot World (2015)

15 November 201724 September 2020

Rating: ★★★

Astronaut Stranded on a World of Robots

Director: Neil Rowe
Actors: Ian Rowe
Category: Science Fiction

Rocketship X-M (1950)

9 March 201019 October 2021

Rating: ★★★

Space Expedition

Director: Kurt Neumann
Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery Jr, …
Category: Science Fiction

Salvage (1979)

22 April 20137 November 2019

Rating: ★★★

Junk Collector Mounts a Trip to The Moon

Director: Lee Philips
Actors: Andy Griffith, Joel Higgins, Trish Stewart, Richard Jaeckel, …
Category: Science Fiction

Slingshot (2024)

22 November 202422 November 2024

Rating: ★★★

Space Expedition/Onboard Paranoia

Director: Mikael Håfström
Actors: Casey Affleck, Laurence Fishburne, Tomer Capone, Emily Beecham, …
Category: Science Fiction

Storm Planet (1962)

5 October 20215 October 2021

Rating: ★★★

Soviet SF Film/Expedition to Venus

Director: Pavel Klushantsev
Category: Science Fiction

Sunshine (2007)

19 April 20071 April 2025

Rating: ★★★

Solar Expedition

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

Supernova (2000)

15 January 20002 April 2025

Rating: ★★

Spaceship Rescues Mutated Killer

Director: Walter Hill
Actors: James Spader, Angela Bassett, Peter Facinelli, Robin Tunney, …
Category: Science Fiction

Test Pilot Pirx (1979)

31 December 201416 June 2021

Rating: ★★★

Soviet SF/Android Saboteur Aboard a Space Mission

Director: Marek Piestrak
Category: Science Fiction

Things to Come (1936)

9 October 20035 September 2021

Rating: ★★★½

Building a Scientific Utopia

Director: William Cameron Menzies
Actors: Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke, Edward Chapman, …
Category: Science Fiction

Thunderbirds Are Go (1966)

18 March 200322 April 2021

Rating: ★★★

Hi-Tech Rescue Organisation/Puppet Film

Director: David Lane
Actors: Sylvia Anderson, Ray Barrett, Alexander Davion, Peter Dyneley, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Time Capsule (2022)

22 October 202322 October 2023

Rating: ★★½

Man’s Teenage Love Returns Unaged from a Space Journey

Director: Erwann Marshall
Actors: Todd Grinnell, Brianna Hildebrand, KaDee Strickland, Baron Vaughn, …
Category: Science Fiction

A Trip to the Moon (1902)

18 May 201229 August 2021

Rating: ★★★½

Expedition to the Moon/Comedy

Director: Georges Melies
Actors: Georges Melies
Category: Science Fiction

Voyage to the End of the Universe (1963)

30 November 200923 July 2019

Rating: ★★

Soviet Space Mission

Director: Jindrick Polak
Actors: Zdenek Stepanek, Radovan Lukavskij, Otto Lasckovic, Frantisek Smolik, …
Category: Science Fiction

Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968)

20 March 20094 June 2025

Rating: ★★

Expedition to Venus/Russian SF Film

Director: Derek Thomas, Peter Bogdanovich
Actors: Mamie Van Doren, Peter Bogdanovich
Category: Science Fiction

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)

21 April 200816 June 2021

Rating: ★★½

Expedition to Venus/Russian SF Film

Director: Curtis Harrington
Actors: Faith Domergue, Basil Rathbone
Category: Science Fiction

Voyagers (2021)

8 May 20216 October 2024

Rating: ★★

Generation Ship Descends Into Chaos

Director: Neil Burger
Actors: Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp, Colin Farrell, Fionn Whitehead, …
Category: Science Fiction

War of the Satellites (1958)

11 June 202028 September 2023

Rating: ★★½

Aliens Sabotage Space Launches

Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Dick Miller, Richard Devon, Susan Cabot, Robert Shayne, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

24 July 200611 April 2020

Rating: ★★½

Alien Visitors/Space Journey Mockumentary

Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Brad Dourif
Category: Science Fiction

The Wings of Honneamise (1987)

12 March 201017 May 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Anime/Alternate World Spacelaunch

Director: Hiroyuki Yamaga
Category: Science Fiction

Woman in the Moon (1929)

20 December 200027 June 2022

Rating: ★★★★

Expedition to the Moon

Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Willy Fritsch, Gerda Marcus, Gustav von Waggenheim, Fritz Rasp
Category: Science Fiction

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