Movies like Trapped in Space

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Trapped in Space (1994)
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Trapped in Space (1994)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After an accident during a routine trip to Venus, a spaceship has only enough oxygen left for three people... out of five on board.
Style: exciting, suspense, tense, captivating, space horror, psychotronic, surprise ending, twist ending, independent film, minimal cast
Plot: asteroid, survival, spacecraft, space travel, astronaut, space, rescue, survivor, space opera, oxygen, disaster, venus the planet, outer space, dog, death, murder, suicide, coffee, card playing, drunkenness, crew, spacewalk, pet dog, female astronaut, punched in the face ...

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Most similar movies to Trapped in Space

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, futuristic and captivating films with plots about space, survival, outer space, spacecraft, space travel, danger and astronaut mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Trapped in Space: Supernova (2000), Stowaway (2021), Deep Impact (1998), Event Horizon (1997), Interceptor Force (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Supernova (2000)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the 22nd century, when a battered salvage ship sends out a distress signal, the seasoned crew of the rescue hospital ship Nova-17 responds. What they find is a black hole--that threatens to destroy both ships--and a mysterious survivor whose ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, space horror, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, outer space, space, robot, rescue, space and aliens, survival, danger, end of the world, natural disaster, heroic mission, race against time ...
Time: future, year 2000, y2k, 22nd century
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 5.7
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Stowaway (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.
Style: futuristic, suspense, minimal cast, tense, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space travel, outer space, space, trapped in space, spacecraft, mars, space exploration, space adventure, teamwork, struggle for survival, survival, astronaut ...
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100%
 6.2
 189K
Deep Impact (1998)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian ...
Style: suspense, touching, serious, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, apocalypse, nasa, president, tsunami, save the world, destruction, life & death, self sacrifice ...
Time: future, 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new york, washington d.c., virginia, tucson arizona, philadelphia ...
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100%
 6.6
 196K
Event Horizon (1997)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the year 2047 a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the long lost starship "Event Horizon". The ship disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage and with its return comes even more mystery as the ...
Style: suspenseful, futuristic, scary, lovecraft, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, outer space, supernatural, space station, spaceship, trapped in space, insanity, space and aliens, cosmic horror, hallucination, nightmare, rescue team ...
Time: future, 90s, year 1997, 2040s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Interceptor Force (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the near future the US Government has created an elite team of soldiers specially trained for action in the event of a hostile alien encounter. A multi-national force, they are the last line of defense
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, danger, save the world, special agent, satellite, heroes, space and aliens, evil alien, ufo, apocalypse, alien disguised as human, alien ...
Time: 90s
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100%
 5.3
 3K
Stranded (2001)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A team of astronauts on the first mission to Mars crashes onto the surface, losing contact with Earth. With no other recourse, and help millions of miles away, the crew is forced to make desperate choices in order to stay alive. Will they be able to ...
Style: thought provoking, suspenseful, serious, tense, hispanic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, spaceship crash, survival, space and aliens, mars, space, astronaut, heroic mission, save the world, alien encounter, rescue, danger ...
Time: future
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100%
 5.9
 6K
Marooned (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to earth only to find their rockets wont fire. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, exciting, suspense, melancholic ...
Plot: space travel, nasa, astronaut, space, rescue, spacewalk, survival, space opera, space exploration, rescue mission, stranded, confined ...
Time: 20th century, year 1969, 60s
Place: usa
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49%
Approaching the Unknown (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Captain William Stanaforth is on a one-way solo mission to take the first steps in colonising Mars. Like all pioneers throughout history, Stanaforth will face insurmountable odds and life and death decisions as he rockets bravely through space.
Style: psychological, captivating, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot: trapped in space, mars, astronaut, space, survival, space travel, hopes, distant planet, isolation, nasa, trapped, escapades ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 5.9
 8K
Orbiter 9 (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, Colombia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Helena, a young woman on a deep space mission, has been alone for 20 years. Her parents abandoned ship after a technical malfunction made it impossible for all three of them to reach their intended destination. Alex, an isolated engineer, is about ...
Style: captivating, surprise ending, exciting, suspense, twisted ...
Audience: teens
Plot: female astronaut, love story, space travel, secret laboratory, space station, trapped in space, scientist, rescue, love affair, space opera, space, distopia ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.7
 4K
Virtuality (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a 10-year trek to explore a distant planetary system. In order to endure the stress of being confined to their high-tech vessel, the crew passes the time ...
Style: exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, futuristic, space horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: virtual reality, spacecraft, outer space, space, survival, save the world, danger, escape from reality, imaginary, trapped in space, murder, crew ...
Time: future
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46%
 6.4
 75K
Europa Report (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.
Style: cerebral, suspense, suspenseful, lovecraft, space horror ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: space travel, found footage, outer space, space exploration, spacecraft, astronaut, space, distant planet, alien, moon, spacewalk, survival ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 1972, 21st century
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45%
 7.2
 266K
Sunshine (2007)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, philosophical, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: space travel, outer space, end of the world, sun, earth, self sacrifice, spaceship, expedition, astronaut, heroic mission, space, danger ...
Time: future, year 2007, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
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45%
The Midnight Sky (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, suspense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot: space travel, space station, astronaut, survival, post apocalypse, nuclear radiation, space colony, scientist, spaceship, space exploration, snow, space ...
Time: 2020s, 2040s, 21st century
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44%
 5.4
 86K
65 (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills quickly discovers he's actually stranded on Earth…65 million years ago. Now, with only one chance at rescue, Mills and the only other survivor, Koa, must make their way across an ...
Style: minimal cast, captivating, suspenseful, tense, space horror ...
Plot: space, space exploration, space adventure, survival, astronaut, creature, tyrannosaurus rex, castaway, galaxy, planet, dinosaur, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 2020s, prehistoric times
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44%
 5.5
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Lifepod (1993)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Lifepod cronicles the trip of eight passengers after the ship they were traveling on blew up on Christmas Eve. Immediately people start dying. The passengers begin to investigate why the ship blew up and how it relates to them
Style: suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, serious
Plot: trapped in space, terrorism, spacecraft, survival, rescue, escapades, space and aliens, danger, disaster, outer space, murder, evil corporation ...
Time: future
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 3.7
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Polar Storm (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a piece of the massive comet "Copernicus" collides with the Earth, it knocks the planet off of its axis and unleashes a disaster never before witnessed. Dr. James Mayfield (Jack Coleman) and his highly trained research team are the ...
Style: exciting, apocalyptic, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, collision, comet, natural disaster, forces of nature, danger, family relations, one last chance, save the day, survival, end of the world, apocalypse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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43%
 4.1
 2K
Solar Crisis (1990)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial Intelligence (Freddy) and a Japanese pilot (as a back up if the Artificial Intelligence fail) at ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, anamorphic, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, space, spacecraft, post apocalyptic, fantasy world, alien, space opera, space travel, apocalypse, nasa, death ...
Time: future
Place: new york
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42%
 3.5
 2K
Solitary (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A man wakes up inside a room to discover he's a prisoner sent into space to form Earth's first colony, and worse - his cell mate Alana is hell bent on destroying everything.
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: prisoner, survival, stranded, peril, left for dead, struggle for survival, space and aliens, danger, escapades, couples, male protagonist, rescue ...
Time: future
Place: europe
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42%
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Ad Astra (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Brazil
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An astronaut travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. He uncovers secrets which challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.
Style: exciting, suspense, futuristic, touching, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: space exploration, outer space, astronaut, moon, solar system, obsession, father son relationship, space pirate, space travel, spacecraft, trapped in space, space station ...
Time: 2010s, future, year 2019, near future
Place: space western
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42%
Meteor Apocalypse (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A gigantic meteors enters Earth's orbit and begins to disintegrate, showering the entire planet with debris.
Style: exciting, bleak, apocalyptic, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, asteroid, meteor shower, space and aliens, apocalypse, earth, chaos, race against time, bible, danger, society, heroes ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california
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42%
 5.4
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Capsule (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Guy is an experienced British fighter pilot who is in command of Britain's first manned mission to space. He has trained for this for three years at the height of the Cold War and now he is alone in space with a malfunctioning capsule. He has ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: space, astronaut, space exploration, spy, deception, spaceship crash, trapped in space, human in outer space, trapped, cosmonaut, struggle for survival, spacewalk ...
Time: 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
51 Degrees North (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Story: When Damon Miller, a talented, young London filmmaker becomes involved in the disturbing research surrounding Near-Earth Objects he stumbles onto the discovery that the Earth stands on the brink of an extraterrestrial disaster.
Style: suspense, psychotronic, tense, independent film
Plot: found footage, conspiracy, science, armageddon, fear, love, death, murder, asteroid, twists and turns, threat, space station ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: london, germany
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42%
 4.5
 6K
3022 (2019)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A group of astronauts living in the haunting emptiness of deep space awakens to find earth has suffered an extinction-level event.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, exciting, futuristic, visually appealing ...
Plot: spacecraft, asteroids and comets, outer space, trapped in space, space, astronaut, survival, space shuttle, space station, space travel, space program, disaster ...
Time: future, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Beyond White Space (2018)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary, Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a deep space fishing vessel is robbed by a gang of pirates, the Captain makes a daring decision to go after a rare and nearly extinct species. His obsession propels them further into space as the crew spins toward mutiny and betrayal.
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, outer space, harvest, alien, fight, hunting, alien monster, escapades, danger, mission, extraterrestrial, alien contact ...
Time: future, 22nd century
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41%
Empire of Danger (2004)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A newly designed spacecraft capable of going through time is sent to Mars to rescue a crew previously lost on Mars. The ship is sent through the past but to the wrong time, years later than the first crew. Once they land on Mars, the crew finds that ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, exciting
Plot: space travel, tomb, spacecraft, astronaut, time travel, princess, outer space, space, mars, alien planet, time warp
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41%
 3.6
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Dune Drifter (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When the trainee pilot and her mortally wounded gunner are shot down, they crash land on a nearby planet. An enemy craft offers the chance of spare parts to fix her ship, but then she spots another survivor - an enemy alien soldier with no intention ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
Plot: distant planet, rescue, struggle for survival, danger, chase, survival, escapades, peril, youth, astronaut, chases and races, left for dead ...
Time: future
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.5
 44K
Oxygen (2021)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.
Style: suspense, apocalyptic, suspenseful, minimal cast, psychological ...
Plot: oxygen, isolation, trapped in space, memory loss, cryogenics, virus, outer space, space travel, panic, survival, clone, female protagonist ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.7
 60K
Red Planet (2000)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.
Style: futuristic, bleak, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot: mars, survival, space travel, astronaut, robot, space, space opera, spacecraft, catastrophe, save the world, ecological disaster, desert ...
Time: future, year 2000, y2k, 2020s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 3.7
 1K
Dark Space (2013)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: College friends Devin, Jack, Shelly, Kristy, Shaun, and Flower rent a spacecraft to autopilot them to Centauri Five for a holiday break. Impatient over the rental agency restricting the ship’s speed to 10x, Devin and the others convince Shaun to ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, escapades, evil alien, danger, space and aliens, distant planet, running for your life, spaceship crash, space wars, death, fight, spacecraft ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 1.9
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Space (2020)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the year 2050, Dr. Ada Gray and her fellow astronauts aboard The Udo fight for survival after an accident leaves them stranded in deep space.
Style: captivating, scary, suspenseful, bleak, exciting ...
Plot: space travel, trapped in space, survival, survival horror, spacecraft, outer space, human in outer space, sole survivor, danger, fear, space, astronaut ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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