Having spent three years on the moon with a computer for company, an interesting encounter results in astronaut Sam Bell’s helping to solve the power issues on Earth.
A privately funded expedition sees a team of astronauts undertake a mission to search for life on on of Jupiter’s moons.
Having been presumed dead by his fellow crew after an accident on a mission to Mars, an astronaut finds himself stranded and must fight for survival and a way to return to Earth.
A team of international astronauts are sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057.
When their spacecraft becomes damaged, three astronauts must find another way to return to Earth.
Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.
After disaster leaves them stranded in orbit, an engineer and an astronaut struggle to survive.
A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board.
In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's botany, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.
A team of explorers are lead to one of the darkest corners of the universe in the search for the origins of mankind, and instead find themselves trying to save the future of the human race.
Two crew members aboard a space ship wake up with no idea who they are or why they are there.
An astronaut struggles as his life support dwindles when he finds himself stranded on the International Space Station.
After a biological outbreak occurs, a ‘search and rescue’ team are sent to rescue the lone survivor of the disaster.
A team of astronauts and their robotic dog search on Mars for the solution to saving a dying Earth, but their mission doesn’t go as planned.
Two American astronauts are sent on a secret expedition to the moon. Decades later, footage is found of the mission which reveals why NASA never tried to return.
When their relationship isn’t working out how they’d planned, a couple attempt to erase each other from their memories… Only to find that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.
An amazing leap in technology results in a young programmer’s participation in an experiment concerning a humanoid.
A computer operating system proves to be an unforeseen companion to a lonely writer.
Four young intellectuals fight over their new invention, each realising that its potential is much greater than they’d initially believed.
On the night when a comet is passing through the sky, a group of friends meet for a dinner party, only to notice that something strange is happening.
Movies in the vein of 'Gravity': tense space-based thrillers in which one of the manifold things that can go wrong on a space mission inevitably does, leaving the crew stranded and understandably a bit miffed at Houston.
Sick of sci-fi blockbusters with big-budgets and no brain? Then look no further than this collection of modern indie masterpieces guaranteed to make you ponder time, space, and everything in between. At least a couple gems you've never heard of guaranteed!
Movies in the vein of 'Limitless': contemporary mystery films made especially labyrinthine by the introduction of space-age tech, extraterrestrial interlopers, and time travel.
Movies in the vein of Interstellar: These cerebral sci-fi masterpieces are guaranteed to get you thinking about time, space, destiny, free-will, and pretty much every other insoluble existential mystery. The thinking man's blockbusters!
Webster's English Dictionary defines hard science fiction as being 'characterized by an emphasis on scientific accuracy or technical detail or both' (just kidding it's Wikipedia). So, basically sci-fi that would satisfy 'Comic Book Guy' from The Simpsons.
A one-man-show movie centers, often exclusively, on a lone protagonist. Isolation takes many forms: buried underground, being the last man on earth, or finding oneself trapped between a rock and..a rock. They never even had a shot at the Best Supporting Actor and Actress Oscars.
Will Smith is both a Legend and a Robot, but the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises made a comeback in the 2000’s. Don’t worry, Jar Jar Binks is not on this list. We left him in the 90’s.
Alongside the regular Hollywood blockbuster production line runs a rich vein of progressive arthouse filmmaking, spawning such boundary pushing films stretching from existential horror classic 'Eraserhead' to modern sci-fi gem 'Melancholia'.
