Movies and TV shows like Ascension

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Ascension (2014)
 7.1
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Ascension (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 231 min.
TV show
Story: In this three-part miniseries, a young woman's murder causes the subjects of a century-long mission to populate a new world to question the true nature of the project as they approach the point of no return.
Style: captivating, talky, serious, sexy, mind bending, existential, intellectual, stylized, psychological, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, spacecraft, space, survival, space opera, twists and turns, investigation, science, murder mystery, secrets, catastrophe, relationships, betrayal, conspiracy theory, nasa, social differences, murder, infidelity, spaceship, distopia, virtual reality, astronomy, space program, existentialism, space mission ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 1950s, 21st century, 1960s, contemporary
Keyword: doctors, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, futuristic, exciting and suspenseful films and TV series with plots about outer space, danger, space, space travel, space opera, spacecraft and spaceship mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Ascension: Childhood's End (2015), Lost in Space (2018), Salvation (2017), Dark Matter (2015), Foundation (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Childhood's End (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 247 min.
TV show
Story: After peaceful aliens invade earth, humanity finds itself living in a utopia under the indirect rule of the aliens, but does this utopia come at a price?
Style: philosophical, suspense, serious, futuristic, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien invasion, space travel, demon, alien, space and aliens, technology, religion, humanity, science, danger, creativity, humanity in peril ...
Time: future, near future, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.3
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Lost in Space (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After crash-landing on an alien planet, the Robinson family fights against all odds to survive and escape. But they're surrounded by hidden dangers.
Style: exciting, tense, sincere, futuristic, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: outer space, spacecraft, robot, survival, alien planet, space exploration, danger, space, youth, alien creature, twists and turns, space adventure ...
Time: future, near future
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100%
 6.9
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Salvation (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: An MIT grad student and a tech superstar bring a low-level Pentagon official a staggering discovery that an asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, apocalyptic
Audience: adult
Plot: asteroid, end of the world, save the planet, apocalypse, comet, conspiracy, betrayal, investigation, disaster, danger, tragedy, escape ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 45K
Dark Matter (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: The six-person crew of a derelict spaceship awakens from stasis in the farthest reaches of space. Their memories wiped clean, they have no recollection of who they are or how they got on board. The only clue to their identities is a cargo bay full ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, action adventure, mind blowing ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot: space travel, outer space, memory loss, space opera, space and aliens, space wars, time travel, androids, distant planet, survival, friendship, danger ...
Time: future
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Foundation (2021)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Follow a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire.
Style: futuristic, tense, captivating, novela, apocalyptic ...
Plot: prophecy, space travel, human clone, star wars, outer space, empire, supernatural ability, a vision, space, human existence, supernatural power, strong female lead ...
Time: distant future, future
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Interstellar (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Style: futuristic, mind bending, cerebral, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot: space travel, time travel, outer space, father daughter relationship, nasa, astronaut, space, survival, end of the world, distopia, natural disaster, apocalypse ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, colorado
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100%
Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search of the missing soldier in order ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, futuristic
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, space and aliens, outer space, stargate, space opera, egyptian mythology, escapades, danger, confined, heroes, imaginary, space ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 916K
The Martian (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Hungary, Jordan
Duration: 144 min.
Story: During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw ...
Style: futuristic, biting, clever, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night
Plot: survival, mars, astronaut, space travel, stranded, nasa, isolation, outer space, science, scientist, space, loneliness ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, 2030s, near future ...
Place: china, london, houston texas, pasadena california, north america ...
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100%
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11.22.63 (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.
Style: stylized, exciting, period piece, tense, light ...
Plot: time travel, assassination, stephen king, time, time traveler, changing the past or future, altering history, kennedy assassination, murder, love, conspiracy theory, danger ...
Time: 60s, future, 20th century, year 1963, 2010s ...
Place: usa, dallas texas
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100%
Defying Gravity (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Germany
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Defying Gravity is a multi-nationally produced space travel television science fiction drama series which first aired on August 2, 2009 on ABC and CTV and was canceled in the autumn of 2009. Set in the year 2052, the series follows eight astronauts ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, stylized, philosophical, mind bending ...
Plot: space travel, outer space, spacecraft, space and aliens, space, space exploration, space mission, survival, friends, couple relations, danger, space opera ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 182 min.
TV show
Story: Sixty days on and Rygel is retrieving pieces of John and Aeryn from the sea bed. The Diagnosan re-crystalises them and they start getting to know the local species. Meanwhile, Scorpius and Sikozu are aboard a Peacekeeper Command Carrier on a recon ...
Style: atmospheric, talky, witty, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space opera, space wars, space travel, human in outer space, outer space, space and aliens, spacecraft, couple relations, escapades, space, twists and turns, betrayal ...
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38%
 6.7
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Crusade (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Crusade is an American spin-off TV show from J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5. Its plot is set in AD 2267, five years after the events of Babylon 5, and just after the movie A Call to Arms. The Drakh have released a nanovirus plague on Earth, ...
Style: apocalyptic, thrilling, futuristic, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: outer space, space travel, space opera, spacecraft, space and aliens, space, post apocalypse, space adventure, military, dystopia, intergalactic, deep space ...
Time: future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.6
 3K
Missions (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: The first manned mission to Mars is now approaching the red planet. The crew includes top-flight scientists and a young female psychiatrist, responsible for their mental health. But just as they are about to land, something goes wrong.
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense
Plot: outer space, mars, spacecraft, astronaut, female astronaut, cosmonaut, space mission, space exploration, trapped in space, space travel, problem, space program ...
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36%
 7.4
 15K
Mars (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The maiden crew of the Daedalus spacecraft must push itself to the brink of human capability in order to successfully establish the first sustainable colony on Mars. Set both in the future and in the present day, this series blends scripted elements ...
Style: exciting, serious, clever, captivating, semi documentary ...
Plot: mars, space colony, problem solving, space, friendship, journey, space exploration, storytelling, adaptation, twists and turns, danger, catastrophe ...
Time: future, year 2016, near future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.6
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The First (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Follow the first human mission to Mars, exploring the challenges of taking the first steps toward interplanetary colonization. The story focuses not only on the astronauts, but also on their families and loved ones, as well as the ground team on ...
Style: serious, captivating, thought provoking, emotional, sentimental
Plot: mars, space colony, astronaut, space, space mission, family relations, waiting, nasa, society, flying, space program, atheism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Babylon 5 (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, it's goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be ...
Style: serious, saga, suspense, philosophical, retro ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space opera, outer space, space travel, space station, benign alien, time travel, good versus evil, danger, space and aliens, space, culture clash, friendship ...
Time: future, 23rd century, 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Star Trek: Discovery (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Ten years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise there was Discovery. Star Trek, one of the most iconic and influential global television franchises, returns 50 years after it first premiered featuring a new ship, new characters and new missions, ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, breathtaking, epic
Audience: teens
Plot: star trek, outer space, alien, space travel, spacecraft, space, lgbt, spaceship, homosexual, friendship, time travel, alien species ...
Time: future, 23rd century, 2020s, 2010s, 24th century
Place: space western, toronto ontario canada
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34%
Star Trek: Picard (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Set twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, we follow the now-retired Admiral Picard into the next chapter of his life.
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, epic, breathtaking ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: star trek, space travel, space, spacecraft, spaceship, alien, exploration, outer space, human in outer space, friendship, space opera, space exploration ...
Time: future, 24th century, 2020s
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33%
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Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2008)
Genre: Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 3 min.
TV show
Story: The 10 webisodes, entitled "The Face of the Enemy," tell a story that takes place between seasons 4.0 and 4.5 of Battlestar and follow Lt. Gaeta when he is sent off in a Raptor with a handful of strangers and one of them mysteriously dies. ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, serious, stylized, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, space opera, battlestar galactica, space and aliens, imaginary, isolation, confined, spacecraft, danger, survival, cyborgs, galaxy ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Space: 1999 (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, spooky ...
Audience: kids
Plot: space and aliens, space travel, moon, astronaut, space, moon base, space exploration, ufo, space opera, outer space, disaster, survival ...
Time: future, year 1999, 90s
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33%
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Andromeda (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Andromeda is a Canadian/American science fiction television series, based on unused material by the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett. It starred Kevin ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: space travel, alien, outer space, spacecraft, space battle, artificial intelligence, space wars, intergalactic, space, spaceship, androids and robots, military ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.3
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After We Leave (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A sci-fi drama about a man struggling to find his wife, who he abandoned six years ago, before their visa to emmigrate to an off-world colony expires.
Style: stylized, serious, philosophical, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: dystopic future, space travel, colony, post apocalypse, fate of humanity, outer space, twists and turns, danger, demolished city, apocalypse, life & death, imaginary ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.6
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Outcasts (2010)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Outcasts is a 2011 British television science-fiction drama serial, starring Liam Cunningham, Hermione Norris, Amy Manson, Daniel Mays, Jamie Bamber, Eric Mabius and Ashley Walters. It originally aired on BBC One, and BBC HD. It was broadcast in the ...
Style: contemplative, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating ...
Plot: space colony, survival, mysterious planet, distant planet, human nature, society, expedition, isolation, danger, hopes, chaos, epidemic ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Killjoys (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: An action-packed adventure series following a fun-loving, hard living trio of interplanetary bounty hunters (a.k.a. Killjoys) sworn to remain impartial as they chase deadly warrants around the Quad, a system of planets on the brink of revolution.
Style: exciting, captivating, semi serious, tense, dark ...
Audience: adult
Plot: outer space, imaginary, space and aliens, space travel, danger, space opera, bounty hunter, space, space mission, distant planet, spaceship, escapades ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Final Days of Planet Earth (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 173 min.
TV show
Story: An archaeologist discovers that aliens posing as government officials are secretly harvesting human bodies in a bid to take over earth.
Style: serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien planet, alien, space and aliens, evil alien, survival, save the world, danger, heroic mission, space travel, artificial intelligence, journalism, race against time ...
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Star Trek: The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. The show is set in the nearby regions of the Milky Way galaxy, approximately during the 2360s and ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, epic, intellectual ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, teens
Plot: space travel, space opera, star trek, space exploration, outer space, alien planet, space, spacecraft, captain, alien encounter, benign alien, spaceship ...
Time: future, 24th century
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Stargate Atlantis (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: With the Ancients' city of Atlantis discovered in the Pegasus Galaxy by Stargate Command, Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Major Sheppard lead a scientific expedition to the ancient abandoned city. Once there, the team not only find themselves unable to ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, action adventure, epic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, outer space, fate of humanity, space opera, spacecraft, danger, alien planet, space adventure, ancient mystery, good versus evil, parallel world, space wars ...
Time: 2000s, future
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.3
 38K
Another Life (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: After a massive alien artifact lands on Earth, Niko Breckinridge leads an interstellar mission to track down its source and make first contact.
Style: tense, disturbing, touching, apocalyptic, futuristic ...
Plot: outer space, space mission, space travel, space, shemale, alien, astronaut, space shuttle, space exploration, spacecraft, survival, danger ...
Time: future
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction TV series and a prequel to the original Star Trek set 100 years before. The series premiered September 26, 2001 on the UPN television network with the final episode airing on May 13, 2005. The series takes ...
Style: captivating, serious, exciting, epic, saga ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: space travel, outer space, time travel, space and aliens, space opera, spacecraft, space exploration, star trek, alien life-form, alien invasion, intergalactic, space ...
Time: future, 22nd century
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 8.0
 4K
Blake's 7 (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.
Style: cult classic, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space opera, space, spaceship, spacecraft, dystopia, artificial intelligence, star wars, future war, bad guys win, magic, bad guy, robot ...
Time: future
Place: britain, space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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