Movies like The Astronaut

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The Astronaut (1972)
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The Astronaut (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: To avoid having the space program cancelled, officials substitute a lookalike for an astronaut who died on a Mars mission.
Plot: mars, astronaut, nasa, space exploration, space travel, impostor, space mission, cover-up, politics, cold war, government conspiracy, ruse, secret, cover up, fake identity, love interest, body double, dead husband, pretending to be someone else
Time: near future
Place: soviet union, ussr

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Most similar movies to The Astronaut

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, serious and tense films with plots about astronaut, nasa, space exploration, outer space, soviet, space travel and explosion mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and History genres. Some movies like The Astronaut: An Englishman Abroad (1983), The Challenger Disaster (2019), X-15 (1961), Apollo 11 (1996), Challenger (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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An Englishman Abroad (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 61 min.
Story: Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.
Plot: cold war, gay, actress playing herself, hamlet, loneliness, cold war era, desertion, spy, iron curtain, autobiography, defector, espionage
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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95%
The Challenger Disaster (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: On the eve of the Challenger explosion in 1986 one engineer goes to the extreme to stop the launch. This hot-headed engineer makes a desperate race against the clock to call off the billion dollar multi-delayed Challenger launch, convinced the ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, psychological
Plot: nasa, space shuttle, race against time, rocket launching, corporate greed, moral dilemma, engineer, risk, space exploration, real life, catastrophe, launch ...
Time: year 1986
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87%
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X-15 (1961)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men who flew it and the women who loved them.
Style: independent film, tense, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: aviation, nasa, u.s. air force, outer space, space exploration, cold war, astronaut, flying, exploration, test pilot, space travel, airplane ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: usa, soviet union
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85%
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Apollo 11 (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Fearful that the Russians would continue their lead in the space race and be the first to put a man on the moon, NASA felt an enormous pressure to push the Apollo Program forward as quickly as possible, though they knew that pushing too hard could ...
Style: uplifting
Plot: space exploration, astronaut, exploration, nasa, moon landing, space travel, space race, mission, alien, apollo program, outer space
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Challenger (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 160 min.
Story: A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its explosion upon takeoff. The center point of the film is the safety inspections and arguments ...
Style: sad, realistic, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: space shuttle, nasa, exploration, space exploration, astronaut, disaster, danger, escapades, space and aliens, heroes, test pilot, tragedy ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century, year 1985
Place: texas, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Gulag Barashevo (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Artists, Poets, Writers, Musicians, and Dissidents, Husbands and Wives, in the Marxist USSR GULAG camps of Barashevo and Vorkuta, suffer in and survive their Gulag death camps. It is a ultimately a spiritual struggle.
Style: spiritual
Plot: marxist, artist, love, genocide, humanity, courage, freedom, dissident, gulag
Place: soviet union, ussr
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78%
Gulag Vorkuta (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two dissidents, fall in love in a Marxist USSR Gulag death camp. As their friends die, they commit to the seeming impossible, escape, but both must first answer their deepest moral questions about the meaning of life, sacrifice and freedom.
Plot: landscape, marxist, gulag, dissident, faith, marxism, christian, genocide, communism, love, artist
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Day the Earth Moved (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: An aerial photography team tries to alert a small town about an impending earthquake, but no one believes the duo until the tremors start and the walls begin to collapse.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, occult, 666, earthquake, bare chested male, war veteran, tourist attraction, dog, chase, fire, small town ...
Place: nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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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 ⇓
70%
The Criminal Shall Not Escape (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Mukhtar comes to live and work at the police kennels through rather unusual circumstances. Together with his handler, Glazychev, Mukhtar helps to solve large and small crimes.
Plot: police dog, human animal relationship, crime investigation, german shepherd, police, soviet
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Space Between Us (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A young man raised by scientists on Mars returns to Earth to find his father.
Style: romantic, futuristic, light, sweet, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family outing, date night, teen drama
Plot: mars, love story, teenage love, teenager, nasa, astronaut, travel, road trip, life & death, beautiful scenery, outer space, space mission ...
Time: future, near future, year 2017
Place: usa, california, las vegas
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60%
Separate Tables (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two one-act plays explore love and loneliness. In "Table by the Window" an aging fashion model contrives a reunion with her ex-husband, a politician ruined by scandal, and their passion is rekindled. In "Table Number Seven" a ...
Plot: model, alcoholic, love interest, ex husband ex wife relationship, writers, hotel, secret, small town, false identity
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Wild Pigeon (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a poor provincial town, the ragamuffin boys are frenziedly drilled for combat, and at nights the local elite, gathered in a pool room, boasts of fictitious biographies, while bands of boys amuse themselves with bloody fights on trashy vacant ...
Audience: kids
Plot: pigeon, boy, teenager, escape, van, rocket, astronaut, bicycle, tattoo, memory, father son relationship, soviet ...
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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
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57%
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Landing Up (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a young woman finds herself living life on the streets she learns the art of picking up men to put a roof over her head. But when she meets the guy of her dreams her secret threatens to ruin their perfect relationship.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: secret, love affair, love and romance, relationship problems, male female relationship, female protagonist, couple relations, intrigue, con artists, love interest, social problems, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the ...
Style: period drama
Plot: napoleonic wars, russian empire, soviet, novel
Time: 19th century
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min.
Story: In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has got it, and it's not much fun.
Style: spiritual
Plot: perestroika, spirituality, depression, loneliness, female nudity, male nudity, teacher, soviet, live action, film within a film
Time: year 1990
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
We, the Undersigned (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story: While a newly-built industrial bakery can produce bread, a three-person committee refused to sign acceptance documents citing numerous deficiencies. Lyonya Shindin, who works for a construction company, which built the bakery, follows the committee ...
Plot: politics, construction, industry, construction worker, train, committee, pantyhose, taking off shoes, female stockinged legs
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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The Second Circle (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.
Style: spiritual, avant garde
Plot: underground, spirit, european, existentialism, loss of father, death, snow, soviet, coffin
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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54%
Good Bye, Southern City (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Azerbaijan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The film takes place in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku at the end of the 1980s. At this time, the Soviet Union was starting to fall apart, and with this came the start of a number of ethnic conflicts. Fariz and his family move into a Baku apartment ...
Plot: ethnic conflict, apartment building, gun
Place: azerbaijan, soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Collapse (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 1986, Chernobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.
Plot: disaster, post apocalypse, survival, environmental issue, radioactivity, power plant, tragedy, evacuation, contamination, nuclear power, nuclear power plant, radiation sickness ...
Time: 80s, year 1986
Place: ussr, soviet union, ukraine, chernobyl
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Two Is a Happy Number (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first time, she finds life difficult to cope with and for a time lives with the hope that her husband will come back to her. After uncovering disturbing new ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: marriage, dating, divorce, husband, wife, feminist, cheating, friendship, starting over, support group, looking for love, infidelity ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
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50%
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Defense Play (1988)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Professor Vandemeer works on a secret project for the US-Air-Force called DART: a very small helicopter for scouting and defense. When he gets killed, Colonel Denton gets under suspicion. His son Scott and Vandemeers daughter Karen believe in his ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: computer, anti hero, danger, undercover, chases and races, espionage, heroes, teenage life, computers and web, nudity, violent content, russian spy ...
Time: year 1988, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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And Then There Was You (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Newly divorced Natalie, who’s soured on relationships, meets a new man who challenges the boundaries of her trust and her ability to fall in love again.
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot: secret, love interest, male female relationship, fall in love, black, in love, marital infidelity, love affair, changing lives, relationships, social problems, relationship problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Madoff: Made Off with America (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Bernie Madoff is at the hub of the biggest conspiracy the world has ever known, according to Mr. X. Dave Edmund, a small Independent film maker puts it all on the line to bring the world the truth.
Plot: jewish mob, bank, mafia, liar, money, conspiracy, politics, thief, theft, russian mafia, impostor, money laundering ...
Place: usa, america, cannes, manhattan new york city, los angeles ...
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45%
The Lonely Voice of Man (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The film is Sokurov's feature film debut and is based on the novel The River Potudan by Andrei Platonov. It's a story about the lives of people in the Russian countryside in the beginning of the 20th century. The film was completed in 1979 ...
Style: poetic, spiritual, contemplative, avant garde
Plot: mental disorder, spirituality, underground, moving, european, civil war, loneliness, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, soviet, archive footage
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Those People of the Nile (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt, Soviet Union
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The construction of the Aswan dam as seen by those who took part in it: engineers and workers, Egyptians and Soviets. Beginning with the day the waters of the Nile were diverted, Chahine shows how individual concerns sometimes outweigh the myth ...
Plot: engineering, marriage proposal, friendship between men, flashback, childhood memory, world war two veteran, working class, prostitute, women's rights, journalist, voice over narration, dam ...
Time: 60s
Place: soviet union, egypt, moscow russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (2009)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Man's landing on the moon was our greatest technological achievement. The Apollo 11 mission was truly the stuff of dreams. For the first time, our species walked on another celestial body. Even more remarkable was their ability to make it back. ...
Style: captivating, exciting, serious, realistic, uplifting ...
Plot: space travel, moon, nasa, spacewalk, heroic mission, human spirit, space exploration, escapades, heroes, heroism, astronaut, exploration ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1969
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Metropolitan Archbishop Lakota of L'viv, freed after twenty years in the Soviet Gulag, travels to Rome where circumstances conspire to see him elevated to the Papacy. Inspired by the life story of Ukrainian Catholic Cardinal Josyf Slipyj,
Style: tense, serious, realistic, epic, spiritual ...
Plot: pope, catholic church, politics, clergy, vatican, catholic, catholicism, cold war, state affairs, society, revolution, political unrest ...
Time: 60s
Place: europe, china, asia, rome italy, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 ⇓
42%
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