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Beyond the Stars (1989)
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Beyond the Stars (1989)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: This Sci-Fi Drama centers around the teen-age Eric, son of a computer scientist who worked for the Apollo mission which sent the first human to the moon. Eric, determined to become an astronaut himself one day, befriends Paul Andrews, the first man on the moon. Paul is avoided by other astronauts nowadays, because he was very rude and rebuffing when he returned from space. Only slowly Eric learns, that he discovered something during his excursion on the moon, that he keeps as a secret.
Style: exciting, disturbing, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, futuristic, independent film
Plot: astronaut, secret, outer space, tragedy, father son relationship, waking up, male protagonist, promise, space exploration, mother son relationship, dog, whale, storm, blonde, map, moon, alcoholic, restaurant, book, rain, beer, flowers, mirror, telephone call, disease ...
Time: year 1989
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, suspense and futuristic films with plots about outer space, space, space travel, astronaut, spacecraft, space exploration and opening a door mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Beyond the Stars: The Beyond (2017), Project-M (2014), Ticket to Heaven (1981), Crater (2023), Imitation Girl (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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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 ⇓
91%
Ticket to Heaven (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot: sleep deprivation, religious cult, religion, religions or cults, sect, atheism, hidden treasure, brainwashing, mind control, society, human nature, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: toronto ontario canada, california, usa, san francisco
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62%
 5.3
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Crater (2023)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After the death of his father, a boy growing up on a lunar mining colony takes a trip to explore a legendary crater, along with his four best friends, prior to being permanently relocated to another planet.
Style: mysterious, futuristic, captivating, exciting, dramatic
Audience: teen drama
Plot: space, space exploration, moon, coming of age, galaxy, planet, group of friends, space adventure, boy, gravity, life, exploration ...
Time: near future, future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Imitation Girl (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A mysterious young woman materializes in the middle of the southwestern desert, where each step teaches her about her new world and her new body. As she assumes her new life, she discovers she has a twin with whom she shares more than just an ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: body double, imitation, twins, female protagonist, space, self discovery, secret, introspection, twin sister, desert, outer space, alien ...
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57%
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
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54%
The Fourth Wish (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The poignant struggle of a man to grant his terminally ill son three wishes - and the obstacles cast in his way of achieving this goal.
Style: crying, independent film, juvenile
Plot: photograph, family abandonment, husband wife relationship, separation, bare chested male, young boy, tram, care, queen elizabeth ii, blue collar, sadness, only child ...
Place: south australia, australia, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Trapped in Space (1994)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After an accident during a routine trip to Venus, a spaceship has only enough oxygen left for three people... out of five on board.
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, space horror ...
Plot: asteroid, survival, spacecraft, space travel, astronaut, space, rescue, survivor, space opera, oxygen, disaster, venus the planet ...
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52%
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Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: 18 year-old Peter lives with his parents in a middle-class Toronto suburb and rebels constantly against their imposed middle-class goals and conventions and the materialist values they represent. He constantly mocks and belittles his family with his ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boy, juvenile delinquent, teenager, rebel, probation officer, breaking the law, pregnant girl, boat ride, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, job interview, lie ...
Place: canada
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49%
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First Signal (2021)
Genre: Drama, History, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When Air Force Space Command receives a signal from an alien satellite in Earth orbit an emergency meeting with the President reveals a government conspiracy.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, futuristic
Plot: space and aliens, nasa, space station, air force, space program, conspiracy, space exploration, political intrigue, government conspiracy, space adventure, portal, moon ...
Time: 2020s
Place: usa
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49%
Stacy's Knights (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Everyone has a talent, and dreams do come true. Stacy Lancaster has an incredible knack for Blackjack. Once she joins up with daring Will Bonner the two young gamblers are on a non-stop roll. Soon the casino wants to even the odds. How long can ...
Style: independent film, thinking
Plot: gambling, casino, bare chested male, black man, recruit, tragedy, night, dead man, threat, happy ending, winning, black american ...
Time: year 1983
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46%
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A. I. Tales (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The film is made up of futuristic, high concept stories about artificial intelligence. Whether it's love found in time of over-population or exploration of the unknown and space-travel, "A.I. Tales" has a bit of something for every ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, futuristic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: moral dilemma, outer space, space travel, struggle for survival, multiple storylines, space exploration, artificial intelligence, survival, virtual reality, disaster, science, end of the world
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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
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45%
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Split Image (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An impressionable young man finds himself literally enslaved by a modern-day religious cult. In an effort to bring him back to reality, the boy's parents hire a deprogrammer to kidnap him and return him to his family.
Style: spiritual, retro, independent film, weird
Plot: religion, hidden treasure, occult, atheism, religions or cults, true love, bare chested male, villain as protagonist, photography, blonde, van, photograph ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Stranded (1987)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young woman and her grandmother living in an isolated farmhouse are kidnapped by aliens.
Style: psychotronic, independent film
Plot: alien invasion, alien, ufo, alien disguised as human, disguise, space, siege, hostage situation, woman, spaceship, rural setting, photography ...
Time: year 1987
Place: southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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
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43%
Wedding in White (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of them go out that night to celebrate, and after much drinking has been done, the brother's friend rapes the sister. After the two men have gone ...
Style: independent film, crying
Plot: teenage pregnancy, world war two, dysfunctional family, rape, parent child relationship, daughter, father, redhead girl, older man younger woman romance, priest, staircase, store ...
Time: 1940s, year 1972, post world war two
Place: canada
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42%
The First Men in the Moon (2010)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mark Gatiss's adaptation of HG Wells's science fiction classic. July 1969, and as the world waits with bated breath for the Apollo astronauts to land on the Moon, a young boy meets 90-year-old Julius Bedford. He's a man with an ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, enigmatic, gothic horror
Plot: moon, space travel, alien encounter, partner, alien contact, obsessive quest, danger, escapades, inventions and discoveries, heroes, moon landing, old man ...
Time: 1900s, 60s, year 1969, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Paradox Alice (2012)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In the near future, a team is sent on a dangerous mission to Europa to retrieve and bring water back to a dying Earth. Their operation unexpectedly goes awry, jeopardizing not only the lives of those on board but also on earth, resulting in the ...
Style: suspense, futuristic, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: outer space, space mission, space travel, space exploration, trapped in space, manhunt, space program, cosmonaut, human in outer space, deep space, spacecraft, fate of humanity ...
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High Moon (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the future where the countries of Earth have established colonies to mine the Moon's resources. When a new life form is discovered, chaos erupts as various factions race to uncover and exploit its powerful secrets.
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, serious ...
Plot: space and aliens, imaginary, moon, chaos and mayhem, inventions and discoveries, chaos, space, danger, investigation, oxygen, space wars, outer space
Time: future
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40%
The White King (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: distopia, social problems, life is a bitch, social misfits, family relations, mother son relationship, dysfunctional family, rebel, society, children in wartime, coming of age, youth ...
Time: distant future
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38%
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Grain (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Turkey, Germany, France, Sweden, Qatar
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The global corporations have established cities and agricultural zones in areas where the climate is relatively good. These cities are populated by the elites, while the immigrant masses struggle with hunger and epidemics. For unknown reasons, the ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing ...
Plot: post apocalypse, scientist, struggle for survival, wasteland, vestiges of humanity, humanity, survival, ecological disaster, investigation, farming, problem, life is a bitch ...
Time: near future
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38%
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Heatwave (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A woman attempts to stop a redevelopment plot which she thought was the cover-up for fraud and other criminal activity.
Style: neo noir, retro, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: heat wave, christmas, redheaded woman, injustice, against the odds, fighting the system, rivalry, society, state affairs, rebellion, father daughter relationship, party ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: australia, sydney australia
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37%
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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
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37%
Three Days of Rain (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Six Anton Chekhov short stories set in modern day Cleveland during a three day rain storm.
Style: tense, touching, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: marital discord, desperation, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, false accusation, drug, coworker relationship, restaurant, father son relationship, disability, storm, rain ...
Place: ohio, cleveland ohio
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37%
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Teleios (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A deep space mining vessel has been adrift for two years. It is suspected the crew brutally killed each other, but the reason for the bloodbath is unknown. A rescue crew is sent to find if there are any survivors, what happened and why.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, suspense
Plot: isolation, space station, artificial intelligence, serial killer, murder mystery, sole survivor, outer space, future war, distopia, suspended animation, deep space, chinaman ...
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Missions (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 26 min.
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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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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 ⇓
34%
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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 ⇓
34%
Lies My Father Told Me (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.
Style: independent film
Plot: judaism, boy, youth, renaissance, jewish culture, fishing, nostalgia, working class, tragic event, antique shop, bigger dreams, invention ...
Time: year 1975, 1920s
Place: eastern europe, middle east, montreal, canada
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34%
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