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- Whether a story unfolds in the past, the present, or the future — in our own galaxy or one far, far away — space makes a great setting for film. For one thing, it’s always trying to kill characters, which raises the storytelling stakes. Its scale, and the speed required to traverse it, make space a natural special-effects showcase.
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1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Film. Science fiction. Director: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood. Many argue that this film is cinema’s GOAT – us, among them – and its...
- Sunshine
- Moon
- Europa Report
- Hidden Figures
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Alien
- Gravity
- Star Wars
- Solaris
- Apollo 13
What's it about? With the sun dying, a team of astronauts attempts to save the planet by journeying through space to reignite it. Why should you watch it? Despite its stunning visuals and strong cast, Sunshine didn't do all that well at the box office. It was a bit of a flop, in fact. Danny Boyle's sci-fi thriller cost $40 million, and it only made...
What's it about? A lonely astronaut working on the far side of the moon begins to suffer hallucinations. Why should you watch it? If travelling through space as part of a skeleton crew sounds like a potentially lonely task (which, if the other films on this list are anything to go by, it almost certainly is), then imagine how Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell...
What's it about? A team of astronauts tries to find life on one of Jupiter's moons. Why should you watch it? On the surface, Europa Reporthas all the elements of a standard space horror hybrid: there's the voyage to find other life, a case of mysterious lights, and the rapidly-escalating tension that comes from realising things are about to go horr...
What's it about? Three Black women whose work made modern space travel possible. Why should you watch it? Theodore Melfi's 2016 film tells the true story of mathematicians Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), and Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), three Black women working at NASA during the space race. Despite their ...
What's it about? An astronaut travels on a mission to Jupiter with a sentient AI. Why should you watch it? Stanley Kubrick's first and only foray into space is over 50 years old now, but it's truly timeless. One of the most instantly recognisable science-fiction movies of all time, Kubrick's Academy Award-winning, sprawling exploration of artificia...
What's it about? The crew of a spaceship encounters an unknown alien species while investigating a strange transmission. Why should you watch it? Alien isn't just one of the best space movies of all time — it's also one of the best moviesof all time, full stop. Thanks to Ridley Scott's direction and visual design led by Swiss artist H. R. Giger, th...
What's it about? After their NASA space shuttle is damaged by space debris, two stranded astronauts must find a way to return to Earth. Why should you watch it? I get a little nervy when it comes to heights. Back when I was a teenager, in fact, I distinctly remember the sense of vertigo I felt sitting at the very back of the cinema while watching V...
What's it about? A truly colossal, multigenerational space battle between good and evil. Why should you watch it? Make the jump to lightspeed into a galaxy far, far away, to a moment when a young, determined George Lucas had the audacity to start an empire at Episode IV. As Mashable’s Chris Taylor notes in his book How Star Wars Conquered the Unive...
What's it about? Following reports of some strange occurrences, a psychologist travels to a space station orbiting the planet Solaris. Why should you watch it? The first thing to make clear is that there are actually two movies called Solaris, both of which are based on the same 1961 novel by Stanislaw Lem. First, there's the 1972 film by Russian a...
What's it about? Three men are trying to go to the moon, but then…they have a problem. Why should you watch it? Nominated for nine Oscars and winning two, Ron Howard’s gleaming recreation of the doomed 1970 moon mission is a masterclass in merging Hollywood blockbuster tension and emotional stakes with painstaking attention to historical and techni...
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74 Metascore. When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans. Director Christopher Nolan Stars Matthew McConaughey Anne Hathaway Jessica Chastain. 7.
- The Martian. Director Ridley Scott. Year of release 2015. Matt Damon plays an astronaut stranded on Mars and presumed dead. With years to wait until he is rescued, can he work out how to produce his own food and rocket fuel to become a self-sustaining Martian?
- Interstellar. Director Christopher Nolan. Year of release 2014. Set in a dystopian future and starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain, Interstellar follows humanity’s attempt to pass through a wormhole in space in search of a new Earth.
- First Man. Director Damien Chazelle. Year of release 2018. Ryan Gosling plays Neil Armstrong in this retelling of the Apollo 11 mission to land on the Moon.
- Gravity. Director Alfonso Cuarón. Year of release 2013. Sandra Bullock plays an International Space Station astronaut who gets caught in a debris storm during a spacewalk.
- Interstellar (2014) Explorers arrive on a world covered in knee-high water. Distant “mountains” come sweeping towards them: a planet-spanning kilometres-high killer tide.
- Moon (2009) Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is preparing to leave the moon at the end of his three-year stint as sole supervisor of a helium-3 mine. (Robert Zubrin’s book Entering Space gave Duncan Jones the film’s industrial premise.)
- Proxima (2019) Shot in the European Space Agency’s training facilities in Germany, and in the complex outside Moscow that is home to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Alice Winocour’s third feature Proxima never leaves the ground, and yet it remains an out-of-this-world experience.
- Alien (1979) Sigourney Weaver plays Ripley, member of a sensible and resourceful space-going cargo crew whose capabilities are going to prove of no use whatsoever as they confront a predatory, stowaway alien.
Jan 27, 2022 · The great thing about space movies is they can be anything: comedy, drama, horror. Space is just a setting, a background upon which storytellers can craft whatever kind of tale suits their...
Mar 15, 2021 · Home. Space. News. The best space movies of all time. By Michileen Martin and Blair Marnell March 15, 2021. Space, or more specifically outer space, is always within our sight and yet...
