Movies like Aurora 1998

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Aurora (1998)
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Aurora (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the 22nd century, seven explorers set out on a mission to earth's nearest sister planet, AURORA. Their mission - to survey and explore for future colonization. When their ship suddenly malfunctions, the crew is forced to crash land on the planet's surface, where crippling heat, poisonous water, and fierce storms threaten their lives at every turn. With a handful of supplies and little hope of rescue, their only option is a grueling four hundred mile trek to their ship's lost supply bunkers. To survive, the men will have to push their endurance to the limit and entrust their lives to a leader who will risk everything to succeed, no matter what the consequences.
Style: futuristic, independent film
Plot: rescue, heat wave, alien planet, space opera, water shortage, outer space, survival, fight, desert, spacecraft, water, death, space travel, accident, interracial relations, astronaut, leadership, thirst, crash landing, sandstorm, broken leg, black man, desert planet, stranded in the desert, gangrene ...

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Most similar movies to Aurora

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, futuristic, psychotronic and suspenseful films with plots about outer space, space travel, space opera, space, spacecraft, danger and space and aliens mostly in Sci-Fi, Adventure and Action genres. Some movies like Aurora: Planet Dune (2021), Assassinaut (2019), Stowaway (2021), Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964), War of the Planets (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Planet Dune (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A crew on a mission to rescue a marooned base on a desert planet turns deadly when the crew finds themselves hunted and attacked by the planet’s apex predators: giant sand worms.
Style: tense, scary, disturbing, harsh, suspenseful ...
Plot: desert, rescue mission, monster, alien planet, desert planet, good versus evil, distant planet, survival, rescue, planet, mission, outer space
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95%
 4.2
 2K
Assassinaut (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Assassinaut is a science-fiction adventure film about a young girl who braves the alien wilderness of a faraway planet to save the President of Earth from a murderous astronaut.
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: astronaut, alien, teenager, space mission, distant planet, space travel, space exploration, struggle for survival, outer space, fate of humanity, space program, mission ...
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93%
 5.7
 52K
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union, USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella. The leader ship ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, retro, independent film, serious ...
Plot: dinosaur, space and aliens, space opera, space exploration, kaiju, monster, venus the planet, pterodactyl, outer space, astronaut, reptiles, space ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, future, 2000s, 2020s
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food on the lifeless planet.
Style: exciting, apocalyptic, semi serious, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, boys' night
Plot: mars, stranded, monkey, desert, survival, astronaut, human alien relationship, monster, distopia, space, alien, planet ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three women makes an emergency landing on a planet plagued with a fatal disease, but are captured by dictator Overdog. Adventurer Wolff goes there to rescue them and meets Niki, the only Earthling left from a medical expedition. Combining their ...
Style: grindhouse, intense, semi serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, family outing, teens
Plot: space opera, space travel, survival, dystopian future, monster, post apocalypse, space and aliens, danger, maze, daring rescue, rescue, woman in danger ...
Time: year 1983
Place: space western
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82%
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A groups of astronauts crash-land on Venus and find themselves on the wrong side of a group of Venusian women when they kill a monster that is worshipped by them.
Style: psychedelic, independent film, exciting, serious, psychotronic
Plot: space opera, dinosaur, matriarchy, kaiju, spacesuit, venus the planet, lava, sword and sorcery, sorcery, occult, sorority, exploitation ...
Time: stone age, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
War of the Planets (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A strange signal arrives on the Earth disturbing all communications, while an UFO appears above the Antarctic sea. Captain Alex Hamilton is sent with his spaceship and crew to the space outside the Solar System to find the origin of that signal. ...
Style: mysterious, offbeat, bleak, semi serious, ambiguous ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: spacewalk, outer space, alien, alien invasion, space opera, kaiju, giant monster, star wars, new year's eve, dystopia, satellite, spacecraft ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An U.S. Spaceship lands on a desolate planet, stranding astronaut Taylor in a world dominated by apes, 2000 years into the future, who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his ...
Style: philosophical, twist ending, futuristic, suspense, mind blowing ...
Audience: kids, date night, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, astronaut, ape, planet of the apes, space and aliens, time travel, end of the world, trial, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, plot twist, survival ...
Time: future, stone age, 20th century, distant future, year 1968 ...
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77%
 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
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Destination Moonbase-Alpha (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After an atomic explosion blasts the Moon out of Earth orbit, Moonbase Alpha drifts in space, with 300 people on board. When a rescue team from Earth arrives in a faster-than-light space ship, everyone is overjoyed that they can now return to Earth. ...
Style: futuristic, psychotronic
Plot: space opera, space travel, moon, space, moon base, madness, spaceship, alien, nuclear waste, alien space craft, insanity, earth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, psychedelic, mind bending, cerebral ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, adult
Plot: space travel, astronaut, outer space, space, artificial intelligence, moon, scientist, computer, trippy, space opera, human versus computer, space station ...
Time: future, year 2001, 20th century, stone age, year 1968 ...
Place: persia
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74%
 5.7
 16K
SpaceCamp (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Andie Bergstrom, an astronaut eagerly awaiting her first trip to space, runs a summer camp for teenagers with her NASA-employed husband, Zach. One night during an engine test, Andie and four teenage campers are accidentally shot into space. ...
Style: intense, melancholic, entertaining, semi serious, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, boys' night, pre-teens
Plot: space shuttle, space travel, nasa, astronaut, space, space program, survival, trapped in space, childhood, space opera, coming of age, life philosophy ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 60s
Place: alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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
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72%
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Storm Planet (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Four Soviet cosmonauts land on the planet Venus and find it teeming with life, some of it dangerous.
Style: exciting, captivating, semi serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: dinosaur, space opera, evil alien, venus the planet, giant monster, space, survival, alien encounter, robot, kaiju, reptiles, european ...
Time: future, 60s, prehistoric times
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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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 ...
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72%
The War of the Robots (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An alien civilization, which facing eminent extinction, kidnaps two famous genetic scientists from Earth. A troop of soldiers is dispatched to combat the humanoid robots and rescue the victims.
Style: classic horror
Plot: robot, creature, invasion, star wars, cyborgs, space opera, swing, organ transplant, alien abduction, nuclear threat, alien planet, slavery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth. This film is adapted from a television series that aired on ABC from ...
Style: suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids
Plot: space battle, androids and robots, military, space, space opera, survival, save the world, battlestar galactica, man versus machine, rescue, danger, good versus evil ...
Time: future, year 1978
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Mission to Mars (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When contact is lost with the crew of the first Mars expedition, a rescue mission is launched to discover their fate.
Style: futuristic, serious, suspense, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Plot: mars, space travel, astronaut, space station, alien, alien encounter, spacecraft, mysterious planet, trapped in space, space, space and aliens, nasa ...
Time: future, year 2000, y2k, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The year is 2306… 12 years ago, Captain Kirk was swept away by the Nexus. One year later, Commander Scott was reported missing along with the USS Jenolen. The remaining USS Enterprise crew have split. Captain Spock and Doctor McCoy are on ...
Style: psychotronic, exciting, intellectual, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: star trek, space travel, space opera, space wars, good versus evil, commander, surrealism, alien species, space and aliens, spacecraft, benign alien, heroic mission ...
Time: future, 24th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young farmer assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil tyrant.
Style: futuristic, humorous, independent film, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: good versus evil, space opera, space travel, spaceship, alien, space battle, female warrior, vengeance, cowboy, planet, robot, space ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Dune (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 137 min.
Story: In the year 10,191, the world is at war for control of the desert planet Dune – the only place where the time-travel substance 'Spice' can be found. But when one leader gives up control, it's only so he can stage a coup with some ...
Style: atmospheric, futuristic, epic, visual, psychedelic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: desert, space travel, messiah, prophecy, space opera, space, dystopia, chosen one, future war, desert planet, dune, space wars ...
Time: future, distant future, 20th century, year 1984
Place: south pole, space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Stargate (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
Style: exciting, futuristic, entertaining, visually stunning, visual ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, archaeology, space opera, slavery, pyramid, teleportation, creature, mythology, evil alien, archaeologist, ancient egypt, alien ...
Time: future, 90s, near future, 20th century, 1920s
Place: egypt, colorado, space western, middle east, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 4.0
 8K
Starcrash (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A pair of smugglers manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zartharn. The smugglers are soon ...
Style: futuristic, psychotronic, grindhouse, funny, retro ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space opera, robot, space, space travel, female warrior, lightsaber, spacecraft, space battle, emperor, exploitation, father son reunion, supernatural power ...
Time: year 1978
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Terminal Voyage (1995)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: It is 2035 A.D. and the final countdown has begun for a voyage that will reach across the vastness of outer space -- to explore the nearest Earth-Like planet. An international crew has been placed in cryogenic suspended animation for the journey. ...
Style: futuristic, independent film
Plot: space opera, monster, dialogue, post nuclear, outer space, spacecraft, space travel, post apocalypse, trapped in space
Time: near future, 2030s, future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Running low on fuel, the Battlestar Galactica receives the help of the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus which is taking the offensive with the Cylons.
Plot: battlestar galactica, cyborgs, robot, space, distopia, military, superhero, space opera, space travel, spacecraft, alien, alien life-form ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 4.3
 17K
Wing Commander (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Hollywood version of the popular video game series "Wing Commander". Unlike other video games to feature film transitions, series creator Chris Roberts was heavily involved in the film's creation. This is the story of Christopher ...
Style: exciting, uplifting, disgusting, action adventure, fast ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space opera, space wars, space and aliens, space, spacecraft, space travel, heroic mission, outer space, save the world, danger, video game, alien encounter ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1998
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter ...
Style: psychotronic, saga, uplifting, cult classic, futuristic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space adventure, space opera, time travel, astronaut, alien invasion, space, space travel, superhero, intergalactic, cosmic horror, distopia, women ...
Time: year 1979, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
Style: saga, futuristic, scenic, exciting, stylized ...
Audience: teens, family outing, boys' night, adult
Plot: star wars, alien, space opera, space travel, obesity, resistance fighter, fantasy world, space, space and aliens, female protagonist, super weapon, good versus evil ...
Time: future, year 2015, 2010s
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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