Movies like Bye Bye Jupiter

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Bye Bye Jupiter (1984)
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Bye Bye Jupiter (1984)
Original name: さよならジュピター
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In the 22nd century, scientists from an energy-depleted Earth research new fuel sources in the far corners of the solar system, where they discover an ancient alien race from Jupiter as well as the emergence of an apocalyptically dangerous black hole. Koji Hashimoto's 1983 sci-fi adventure was conceived as a Japanese competitor to the upcoming sequel to Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001, titled 2010, and often mirrors the sequel's plot.
Plot: black hole, space opera, kaiju, spacecraft, terrorism, space exploration, space colony, space mission, sabotage, jupiter, outer space, overpopulation, jupiter the planet, terrorist, space
Time: 22nd century

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, futuristic and exciting films with plots about outer space, spacecraft, space travel, space, space exploration, spaceship and space opera mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Bye Bye Jupiter: The Big Everything (2015), Project-M (2014), The Beyond (2017), Space Battleship Yamato (2010), Tidal Wave (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Big Everything (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Niels is overjoyed when he hears about the black hole that will drastically reduce his prison sentence. He’s been chosen for his talents as a mechanic to take part in a special mission: escorting a band of eccentric scientists in a spaceship to a ...
Style: captivating, exciting, thought provoking
Plot: outer space, space travel, science, asteroid, astronomy, black hole, spacecraft, space exploration, spaceship, white rabbit
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Special Report: Journey to Mars (1996)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV-network GNN begins its live coverage of the last two hours of the mission and then the problems start. The landing-computer malfunctions, the captain Eugene Slader gets very ...
Plot: mars, martian, spacecraft, outer space, sabotage, space travel
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Project-M (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Four astronauts have to stay 1000 days in a space station around Earth in order to prove that a trip to Europa, one of Jupiter's moon, is possible. The experience goes well until something happens on earth.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: astronaut, space station, space mission, space exploration, spacecraft, cosmonaut, human in outer space, mission, space program, trapped in space, outer space
Time: near future, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 4.9
 7K
The Beyond (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Set in 2019, The Beyond chronicles the groundbreaking mission which sent astronauts - modified with advanced robotics, through a newly discovered wormhole known as the Void. When the mission returns unexpectedly, the space agency races to discover ...
Style: futuristic, enigmatic, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: space exploration, found footage, trapped in space, space travel, alien invasion, robot, space mission, human in outer space, hi-tech, space program, discovery, advanced technology ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, spacecraft, outer space, space battle, self sacrifice, escapades, heroic mission, space and aliens, danger, save the world, heroes, siege ...
Time: future, 2010s, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The European Space Exploration Council decide to send American astronaut Glenn Ross and British ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, offbeat, futuristic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: space travel, space, space exploration, outer space, parallel universe, planet, spaceship, european, space opera, giant monster, dystopia, unhappy ending ...
Time: year 1969, future, 20th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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 516
Tidal Wave (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Racked by earthquakes and volcanos, Japan is slowly sinking into the sea. A race against time and tide begins as Americans and Japanese work together to salvage some fraction of the disappearing Japan
Style: action thriller, serious, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot: apocalypse, forces of nature, tsunami, distopia, natural disaster, epidemic, evacuation, disaster, chaos, rescue, chases and races, race against time ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: asia, japan, mount fuji, tokyo, australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Cosmic Princess (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An alien princess aids people (Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell) stranded on out-of-orbit Moonbase Alpha.
Plot: space travel, space opera, alien planet, eagle, evil alien, mad scientist, brain, space colony, father daughter relationship, outer space, shapeshifter, friendly alien
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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 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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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 547
Native (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two scientists are selected to travel across the universe to the source of a distant transmission and potential life.
Style: tense, thrilling, captivating, action adventure
Plot: universe, scientist, travel, space, space adventure, space mission, space exploration, space program, space shuttle, science, space travel, european ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Astronaut: The Last Push (2012)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a tragic accident cuts short the first manned mission to explore life on the moons of Jupiter, Michael Forrest must make the 3 year journey home to Earth in pure solitude
Style: psychological, atmospheric, serious, philosophical, independent film ...
Plot: space travel, accident, solitude, confined, mission gone awry, isolation, space, space exploration, human in outer space, male protagonist, heroes, loneliness ...
Time: 2010s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 ⇓
52%
 6.6
 8K
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 ⇓
50%
 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 ⇓
49%
Planet of Dinosaurs (1977)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A space-ship gets lost and is forced to make an emergency landing on an unknown planet. The planet looks much like Earth, only with no trace of civilization. Soon the crew discovers that there are dinosaurs on the planet, and blood-thirsty buggers ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense, retro ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: dinosaur, survival, rescue, astronaut, heroic mission, deadly creature, danger, spacecraft, battles, space travel, stop motion, kaiju ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.5
 150
Able Edwards (2004)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The story of the clone of a famous entertainment mogul created to revive the glory days of his deceased predecessor's corporation. In the process of restoring reality entertainment to a synthetic, virtual world, the clone relizes he has yet to ...
Style: experimental, contemplative, serious, thought provoking, clever ...
Plot: space station, outer space, workplace, cyberspace, society, ambition, life is a bitch, boss and employee, rivalry, unfulfillment, workplace intrigue, cloning ...
Time: future
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
War Between the Planets (1966)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Scientists try to prevent a collision between Earth and a planet that is heading for it.
Style: suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic
Plot: space opera, spacesuit, monster, kaiju, giant monster, alien planet, spaceship, bare chested male, outer space, space station, collision, planet ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.6
 31K
Silent Running (1972)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet's ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed so that the spacecraft can be reused for ...
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, philosophical, cult classic, visually stunning ...
Plot: space travel, robot, dystopia, distopia, environmental, space opera, loneliness, spaceship, post apocalypse, space and aliens, androids, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 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
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The time is the 21st century, after the fall of the Galactic Republic. Technology is at a standstill, families have been dismantled, and those who have survived the destruction now live in a savage age ruled by evil warlords. When a young sister of ...
Style: psychotronic
Plot: space opera, future war, star wars, distopia, space adventure, spaceship, blaster, outer space, alien, pilot, female bodyguard, civil war ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Bunglers in the Planet Wars (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Coming from outer space, Prince Flick asks the Trapalhões to help him free his planet from the domain of evil Zuco and free Princess Myrna, who has been taken prisoner. He offers a reward, the four friends accept the mission and embark in a ...
Style: slapstick comedy, slapstick
Plot: space opera, star wars, kaiju, alien, car chase, spacecraft, outer space, princess, kidnapping, planet, disco, giant spider ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 3.0
 271
Spacejacked (1997)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The luxury space cruiser Star Princess' maiden voyage is sabotaged when the treacherous second make, Alex Barnes (Corbin Bernsen), kills the captain and "spacejacks" the ship. Barnes then severs communications with Earth and activates ...
Style: independent film
Plot: space opera, spacecraft, space travel, sabotage, virtual reality, abduction, androids, nudity, woman's neck broken, dead woman on floor, woman shot, neck breaking
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.1
 19K
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, existential ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, spacecraft, space, survival, space opera, murder mystery, science, secrets, investigation, twists and turns, relationships, betrayal ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Wandering Earth II (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: China
Duration: 173 min.
Story: A prequel to The Wandering Earth.
Style: tense, captivating, thrilling
Plot: space, space station, space travel, space adventure, space exploration, race against time, adventurer, humanity, space mission, planet, spacecraft, space shuttle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.5
 2K
G-Loc (2020)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: With Earth virtually destroyed, Bran Marshall flees to Rhea, a nearby planet now hostile towards "Earthers". Escaping onto a Rhean supply ship, he finds the crew slaughtered, with the only survivor a female warrior named Ohsha. As the two ...
Style: futuristic, tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: distant planet, space wars, space battle, spacecraft, refugee, dystopian future, space mission, struggle for survival, humanity, space adventure, space travel, teamwork ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Spaceflight IC-1 (1965)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 65 min.
Story: In the year 2015, a spaceship, the IC-1, travels through outer space looking for a suitable planet to settle on. The commander, Captain Ralston, is stern and brutal in which one cadet, Steven, plots a revolt to turn the leadership of the command ...
Plot: spacesuit, space, spacecraft, spaceship, dystopia, group, outer space, murder, suicide, funeral, suspended animation, mutiny ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 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
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.3
 361
Mission Mars (1968)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three American astronauts who land on Mars discover the body of a frozen Russian cosmonaut and a mysterious talking orb.
Style: psychotronic, independent film
Plot: mars, space opera, spacesuit, rocket, astronaut, cosmonaut, space, spaceship, alien, spacecraft, outer space, journey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 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 ⇓
33%
Star Quest: The Odyssey (2009)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: At the end of mankind's greatest battle, empires will crumble, alliances will form, enemies will rise and heroes will fall. World's will end, and a new journey will begin.
Style: psychotronic, futuristic, exciting, humorous, suspenseful
Plot: space opera, space wars, time travel, space travel, star trek, teamwork, alternate reality, commander, space station, space mission, spacecraft, intergalactic ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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