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1. Elysium (I) (2013)
R | 109 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth. A man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.
Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga
Votes: 471,172 | Gross: $93.05M
2. First Man (2018)
PG-13 | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History
A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler
Votes: 202,306 | Gross: $44.94M
3. You Only Live Twice (1967)
PG | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond and the Japanese Secret Service must find and stop the true culprit of a series of space hijackings, before war is provoked between Russia and the United States.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsurô Tanba
Votes: 117,570 | Gross: $43.08M
4. The Dead Don't Die (2019)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
The peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Tom Waits
Votes: 85,455 | Gross: $6.56M
5. The Right Stuff (1983)
PG | 193 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid
Votes: 65,364 | Gross: $21.50M
6. Lifeforce (1985)
R | 101 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, beginning an apocalyptic descent into chaos.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay
Votes: 29,483 | Gross: $11.60M
7. Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.
Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton
Votes: 132,088 | Gross: $92.00M
8. Lockout (2012)
PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the President's daughter from an outer-space prison taken over by violent inmates.
Directors: James Mather, Steve Saint Leger | Stars: Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare, Vincent Regan
Votes: 100,960 | Gross: $14.33M
9. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon (2001 Video)
47 min | Documentary, History
A documentary on the evidence which shows that the Apollo 11 astronauts never actually landed on the moon.
Director: Bart Sibrel | Stars: Anne Tonelson, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins
Votes: 706
10. Love (I) (2011)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
A man spends years alone on a space station orbiting Earth after losing communication with Houston/Earth. He spends time on maintenance, exercise, watching old messages, and reading a journal by a soldier in the American Civil War.
Director: William Eubank | Stars: Gunner Wright, Corey Richardson, Bradley Horne, Nancy Stelle
Votes: 8,965
11. The Dark Side of the Moon (1990)
R | 87 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
In 2022, a repair crew is sent to fix an orbital weapon but their spaceship malfunctions and ends up heading towards the dark side of the moon. There, in a mysterious, seemingly abandoned space shuttle, a sinister force lies in wait.
Director: D.J. Webster | Stars: Robert Sampson, Will Bledsoe, Joe Turkel, Camilla More
Votes: 2,923
12. Salyut-7 (2017)
111 min | Action, Drama, History
USSR, June 1985. Based on actual events. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life.
Director: Klim Shipenko | Stars: Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Samoylenko, Mariya Mironova
Votes: 12,247
13. Fortress 2: Re-Entry (2000)
R | 92 min | Action, Sci-Fi
7 years after the original Fortress movie, Brennick along with the rebels are captured and sent to a new, more sophisticated fortress prison, in outer space.
Director: Geoff Murphy | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Beth Toussaint, Willie Garson, Aidan Ostrogovich
Votes: 7,314
14. Capsule (2015)
TV-14 | 91 min | Drama, History, Sci-Fi
After years of flying fighter planes and 5 years as test pilot, Guy is now, Dec. 4, 1959, on a secret British space capsule orbiting Earth trying to reenter but things start going wrong. Can he, despite cold war, get back to Earth safely?
Director: Andrew Martin | Stars: Edmund Kingsley, Lisa Greenwood, David Wayman, Nigel Barber
Votes: 7,279
15. A Trip to Mars (1918)
97 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A group of researchers from Earth travel in a spaceship to Mars, where, to big surprise, they find a peaceful vegetarian and pacifist civilization.
Director: Holger-Madsen | Stars: Gunnar Tolnæs, Zanny Petersen, Nicolai Neiiendam, Alf Blütecher
Votes: 817
16. What Happened on the Moon? - An Investigation Into Apollo (2000 Video)
225 min | Documentary
An in-depth British breakdown of how NASA never had the technology to overcome putting a man on on the moon or anywhere further than low orbit from the Apollo moon missions even today with ... See full summary »
Director: David S. Percy | Stars: Ronnie Stronge, H.J.P. Arnold, Mary Bennett, Ian Crawford
Votes: 88
17. Space Brothers (2012)
129 min | Comedy
As children, two Japanese brothers promise to one day be astronauts and meet each other in space. Years later, the older one has recently lost his job when he remembers that childhood's dream his younger brother is so close to fulfilling.
Director: Yoshitaka Mori | Stars: Shun Oguri, Buzz Aldrin, Kumiko Asô, Masaki Okada
Votes: 487
18. Our Heavenly Bodies (1920)
70 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi
Documentary on physics and astronomy.
Director: Hanns Walter Kornblum | Stars: Paul Bildt, Willy Kaiser-Heyl, Theodor Loos, Oscar Marion
Votes: 170
19. Five Numbers! (2011)
TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Short, Action
Five people and a cat discover themselves in a prison, with the power cut, no guards - and no exit. Where are they? And what are they doing there? And what is the significance of the numbers on their uniforms?
Director: Hiroaki Andô | Stars: Greg Ayres, Luci Christian, Tiffany Grant, Matt Greenfield
Votes: 82
20. Apollo Zero (2009)
60 min | Documentary, Fantasy, History
Stars: Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Alan Bean, Eugene Cernan
Votes: 48
21. Edinstvennyy vykhod (1981)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Viktor Man | Stars: Georgy Grechko, Yuri Romanenko
22.
Futurama (1999– )
Episode:
Crimes of the Hot
(2002)
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Earth is unable to offset its rising temperature through the usual process, which is the dropping of a giant ice cube into the ocean.
Director: Peter Avanzino | Stars: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille
Votes: 2,456
23.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Tomorrow Is Yesterday
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise is thrown back in time to 1960s Earth.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Roger Perry, DeForest Kelley
Votes: 4,308
24.
Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007)
Episode:
The Serpent's Lair
(1998)
TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
As the Goa'uld attack fleet approaches Earth, all four members of the SG-1 team are taken prisoner. They get help from an unexpected source when Bra'tac, Teal'c's mentor, reveals that he is... See full summary »
Director: Jonathan Glassner | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge
Votes: 1,512
25.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
The Faceless Ones: Episode 4
(1967)
TV-PG | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When Spencer attempts to kill them, the Doctor, Jamie and Sam become convinced Chameleon Tours are hiding something and Sam decides to book a ticket on one of their flights.
Director: Gerry Mill | Stars: Patrick Troughton, Donald Pickering, Bernard Kay, Gilly Fraser
Votes: 404
26.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
The Faceless Ones: Episode 5
(1967)
TV-PG | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Jamie finds himself aboard the Chameleons' satellite and meets their Director while the Doctor forces the Chameleon Meadows to tell him the aliens' plans.
Director: Gerry Mill | Stars: Patrick Troughton, Colin Gordon, Wanda Ventham, Donald Pickering
Votes: 402
27.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
The Faceless Ones: Episode 6
(1967)
TV-PG | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The Doctor and Pinto are captured by the Chameleons but the Doctor manages to use their dependence on their human originals to create dissent in their ranks.
Director: Gerry Mill | Stars: Patrick Troughton, Madalena Nicol, Donald Pickering, Gilly Fraser
Votes: 403
28.
The Real Ghostbusters (1986–1991)
Episode:
Spacebusters
(1990)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
Winston gets to live a childhood dream when he and the rest of the Ghostbusters head off into space to bust a class 7 entity that is haunting a space station.
Directors: Stan Phillips, Will Meugniot | Stars: Dave Coulier, Buster Jones, Maurice LaMarche, Kath Soucie
Votes: 56
29.
Thunderbirds Are Go (2015–2020)
Episode:
Bolt from the Blue
(2017)
TV-G | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
An orbiting solar energy station with Lady Penelope and Parker on board malfunctions. It endangers an airplane carrying a rare giant panda.
Director: Theo Baynton | Stars: Thomas Brodie-Sangster, David Menkin, Kayvan Novak, Rasmus Hardiker
Votes: 39
30.
Good Morning Britain (2014– )
Episode:
Episode dated 7 February 2018
(2018)
TV-14 | 150 min | News, Talk-Show
Stars: Piers Morgan, Susanna Reid, Ranvir Singh, John Redwood