Movies and TV shows like Away

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Away (2020)
 6.6
 26K
Away (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: American astronaut Emma Green must leave her husband and teenage daughter behind to command an international space crew embarking upon a treacherous mission. A series about hope, humanity and how we need one another if we are to achieve impossible things.
Style: thought provoking, psychological, captivating, feel good, action adventure, powerful, exciting
Plot: astronaut, female astronaut, mars, outer space, dangerous mission, space colony, separation from family, space, wilderness, loneliness, lesbian, spacecraft, father daughter relationship, supernatural, space program, sister, space opera, disabled character, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, gay couple, daughter, husband, mother, lesbian love ...

Most similar movies to Away

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, futuristic and tense films and TV series with plots about space, outer space, space travel, spacecraft, astronaut, space program and space opera mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Romance genres. Some movies like Away: Mars (2016), Foundation (2021), The First (2018), For All Mankind (2019), Defying Gravity (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 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 ⇓
100%
 7.6
 94K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
46%
For All Mankind (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Explore an aspirational world where NASA and the space program remained a priority and a focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families.
Style: realistic, exciting, disturbing, suspense, stylized ...
Plot: space program, astronaut, space race, nasa, space travel, lesbian, mining, moon, u.s. president, moon landing, space, lgbt ...
Time: year 1969, future, 70s, 60s, 80s ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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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 ⇓
35%
 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 ⇓
18%
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 ⇓
33%
 6.7
 877
Pioneer One (2010)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Pioneer One is a 2010 American web series produced by Josh Bernhard and Bracey Smith. It has been funded purely through donations, and is the first series created for and released on BitTorrent networks.
Style: serious, tense, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: agent, terrorism, uncover truth, investigation, politics, danger, satellite, space mission, conspiracy, mars, state affairs, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, montana, soviet union, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.4
 6K
The Ark (2023)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: 100 years in the future, planetary colonization missions have begun as a necessity to help secure the survival of the human race. The first of these missions on a spacecraft known as Ark One encounters a catastrophic event causing massive ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, dramatic, detective
Plot: space, space colony, space travel, spacecraft, life, spacesuit, biosphere, cosmonaut, ship, space adventure, spaceship, space opera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 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 ⇓
31%
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 ⇓
31%
 6.6
 6K
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 ⇓
31%
 8.5
 170K
The Expanse (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
Style: futuristic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: outer space, space travel, space opera, human in outer space, spacecraft, spaceship, space station, investigation, space colony, alien life-form, space wars, conspiracy ...
Time: future, near future, 24th century, 23rd century
Place: space western, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 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 ⇓
31%
Stargate Universe (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: The adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way Galaxy. They evacuated there and are now trying to figure out a way to return to ...
Style: exciting, futuristic, tense, thrilling, cliffhanger ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, spacecraft, outer space, human existence, space opera, space and aliens, human in outer space, technology, military, alien planet, team, stargate ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Don't Look Deeper (2020)
Genre: Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
TV show
Story: In near-future California, high school senior Aisha learns a dark secret about herself. She goes from dreams of graduation and college...to suddenly running for her life.
Style: captivating, psychological, thought provoking
Plot: artificial intelligence, coming of age, father daughter relationship, school, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, teenager, twists and turns, secret, bad dream, robot, woman ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
A Girl and an Astronaut (2023)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: An astronaut's return after a 30-year disappearance rekindles a lost love and sparks interest from a corporation determined to learn why he hasn't aged.
Style: futuristic, captivating, tense, thrilling, romantic drama
Plot: stopped time, space travel, astronaut, life, male female relationship, undercover, puzzle, love and romance, investigation, secret, intrigue, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 7.6
 4K
My Holo Love (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Go Nan Do, the owner, and creator of an IT research company must hide his existence from the world after his involvement as a hacker in a major case ten years ago. Presumed dead, the only people who knew of his existence are his step-sister and his ...
Style: social, dorama, feel good, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: couples, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, single woman, amnesia, love story, couple relations, memory loss, male female relationship, loneliness, technology, love affair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
29%
The Astronaut Wives Club (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the book by Lily Koppel, this 10 episode limited series tells the story of the women who were key players behind some of the biggest events in American history. As America’s astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, Life ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, psychological, period drama
Plot: astronaut, relationship vs career, family relations, nasa, best friend, ambition, couples, parents and children, strong female presence, space program, women, post war ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1950s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Beyond the Horizon (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
TV show
Style: novela, psychological, captivating, thrilling, soap opera ...
Plot: search for father, female protagonist, family problems, family relations, relationship problems, father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, moral dilemma, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, widow
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.3
 4K
Soulmates (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 269 min.
TV show
Story: Fifteen years into the future, science has made a discovery that changes the lives of everyone on the planet – a test that unequivocally tells you who your soulmate is.
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, apocalyptic, anthology ...
Plot: male homosexuality, gay relationship, gay love, homosexuality, homosexual love, bisexual, homosexual, science, true love, making love, gay couple, unrequited love ...
Time: near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 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 ⇓
29%
 7.3
 105K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Lucy in the Sky (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Astronaut Lucy Cola returns to Earth after a transcendent experience during a mission to space – and begins to lose touch with reality in a world that now seems too small.
Style: realistic, captivating, stylized, futuristic, disturbing ...
Plot: astronaut, space travel, female astronaut, nasa, space, husband wife relationship, getting home, women, strong female character, peril, in love, flying ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Noughts + Crosses (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In an alternate history where black “Cross” people rule over white “Noughts”, young couple Sephy and Callum are divided by their colour but united by love.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, psychological, disturbing
Plot: parallel universe, alternate reality, racism, class differences, society, social differences, social relations, alternate universe, african american, family problems, black hero, parallel world ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.9
 14K
Nightflyers (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A crew of space explorers embark on an mission to find a mysterious alien ship.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, psychological, scary, space horror ...
Audience: adult
Plot: trapped in space, outer space, space travel, space, space opera, scientist, survival, deadly creature, monster, danger, research, supernatural ...
Time: future
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.7
 5K
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 ⇓
28%
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 ⇓
28%
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