Astrophysicist movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant astrophysicist movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out exciting, suspenseful, captivating, serious, tense and surprise ending films and TV shows about / with astrophysicist, outer space, scientist, death, danger, race against time, space, flashback, murder and alien plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as astrophysicist: The Theory of Everything (2014), The Expanse (2015), Another Earth (2011), Europa Report (2013), Knowing (2009), Asteroid: Final Impact (2015), Twelve Monkeys (1995), Ismael's Ghosts (2017), Wet Hot American Summer (2001), Meteor (1979).

List of astrophysicist movies

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The Theory of Everything (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Style: touching, uplifting, inspirational, compassionate, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens
Plot: disability, genius, love, physicist, cambridge university, mathematics, prodigy, husband wife relationship, supportive spouse, scientist, against the odds, biopic ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 60s, 90s ...
Place: oxford university, england, united kingdom
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 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
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 6.9
 100K
Another Earth (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.
Style: surreal, artsy, psychological, philosophical, independent film ...
Plot: parallel universe, parallel world, tragedy, guilt, grief, outer space, nasa, mysterious planet, space travel, solar system, cosmology, existentialism ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, future, 21st century
Place: usa, mojave desert, boston, new haven connecticut, connecticut ...
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 6.4
 75K
Europa Report (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.
Style: cerebral, suspense, suspenseful, lovecraft, space horror ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: space travel, found footage, outer space, space exploration, spacecraft, astronaut, space, distant planet, alien, moon, spacewalk, survival ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 1972, 21st century
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 6.2
 247K
Knowing (2009)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, futuristic, exciting ...
Plot: end of the world, disaster, apocalypse, supernatural, catastrophe, prophecy, foreknowledge, code, cataclysm, scientist, professor, prediction ...
Time: year 2009, future, september 11 2001, 20th century, year 1959 ...
Place: massachusetts, new york, boston, usa
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Asteroid: Final Impact (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A deadly meteor storm has been labeled a one-time celestial occurrence, but astrophysicist Steve Thomas believes something worse is yet to come. After discovering his asteroid tracking satellite is secretly being used for military surveillance, ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, tense
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, asteroid, deep space, save the world, patriot, astrophysicist, secret, science, race against time, scientist, meteor shower ...
Time: 2010s
Place: canada
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 8.0
 644K
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when ...
Style: psychological, surreal, twist ending, non-linear, atmospheric ...
Plot: time travel, insanity, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, virus, time loop, post apocalypse, paranoia, psychology, end of the world, twists and turns, epidemic ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century, year 1995, distant future ...
Place: philadelphia, maryland, baltimore, usa, pennsylvania ...
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Ismael's Ghosts (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The film tells the tale of a widowed film director who is in the middle of making a film about an atypical diplomat inspired by his brother. While he has started a new life with Sylvia, he still mourns the death of a former lover, Carlotta, who ...
Style: erotic, exciting, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating ...
Plot: sex scene, female nudity, husband wife reunion, beach, emotional breakdown, party, sea, seaside, filmmaking, husband wife relationship, nudity, love triangle ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: tel aviv israel, prague, paris france
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Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who ...
Style: humorous, funny, parody, stylized, harsh ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: summer camp, love triangle, lifeguard, camp, farce, rescue, coming of age, stoner, looking for sex, teenager, satire, summer ...
Time: 80s, year 2001, 2000s, year 1981
Place: maine, italy
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 5.0
 8K
Meteor (1979)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it will hit it will cause a incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use ...
Style: apocalyptic, psychotronic, grindhouse, fast, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, cold war, nasa, apocalypse, 007, asteroid, space station, post apocalypse, space travel, avalanche, translator ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, russia, hong kong, washington d.c., france ...
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Haunted Mansion (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada, Australia, UK, Thailand
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A woman and her son enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.
Style: spooky, captivating, bleak, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: holiday, haunted house, ghost, friend, curse, supernatural horror, single parent, children, single mother, mansion, haunting, psychic power ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new orleans, louisiana
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Finding himself in a new era, and approaching retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, Indy must don his hat and pick up ...
Style: exciting, epic, saga, anamorphic, captivating ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: archaeologist, treasure hunt, indiana jones, time travel, medieval, treasure, college professor, spy, treasure hunter, supernatural, world war two, knife fight ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, year 1939, 1950s, year 1951 ...
Place: alexandria egypt, berlin germany, alps, ancient greece, athens greece ...
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Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Thor goes on a journey unlike anything he’s ever faced — a quest for inner peace. But his retirement is interrupted by a galactic killer known as Gorr the God Butcher, who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat the threat, Thor enlists the ...
Style: saga, entertaining, disturbing, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: superhero, space travel, norse god, costumed hero, warrior, superheroine, heroine, female warrior, alien, heroes, battles, mythology ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: ancient greece
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 5.8
 396K
2012 (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of ...
Style: exciting, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, tsunami, destruction, forces of nature, humanity in peril, cataclysm, human existence, race against time ...
Time: future, year 2009, 2010s, near future, year 2010 ...
Place: las vegas, los angeles, british columbia, mount everest, pasadena california ...
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One Under the Sun (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Astronaut Kathryn Voss, sole survivor of a disastrous space shuttle mission, is a distraught mother desperate to reunite with her terminally ill daughter but becomes a wanted fugitive after discovering she possesses an extraordinary gift.
Plot: outer space, astronaut, fugitive, spaceship, sole survivor, escape, psychiatrist, physician, space mission, interrogation, imagination, tumor ...
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 8.4
 101K
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, time travel, space and aliens, parallel universe, alien planet, alien race, parallel world, save the world, ancient mystery, space opera, space, escapades ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, near future, 21st century
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Before We Vanish (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Narumi is on bad terms with her husband Shinji when one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but seems like a totally different person, and is now gentle and tender. He goes for a walk every day. Meanwhile, Journalist ...
Style: touching, psychological, captivating, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: japanese teenager, murder, personality change, sibling relationship, japanese schoolgirl, siblings, criminal, false identity, murderer, teenage boy, alien invasion, alien ...
Time: year 2017
Place: japan
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 3.7
 2K
Supernova (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 172 min.
Story: A international science conference is held in Australia when Dr. Austin Shepard mysteriously disappears Dr. Shepard's colleague, Christopher Richardson and other people are soon faced with the reality of an impending crisis and an attempt to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, universe, desert, survival, danger, astronomer, heroic mission, save the planet, escapades, natural disaster, violence, military ...
Time: 2000s
Place: australia, africa, taj mahal, tokyo, sydney australia ...
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Children of the Stones (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 173 min.
TV show
Story: Astrophysicist Adam Brake (Gareth Thomas) and his teen son Matthew (Peter Demin) investigate the roots of a mysterious stone circle in the quiet British village of Milbury, where they encounter the sinister Rafael Hendrick (Iain Cuthbertson) and ...
Style: ambiguous ending, psychological thriller, surprise ending, sinister, weird
Audience: kids, horror for children
Plot: folk horror, psychic, psychic power, telekinesis, pagan, folklore, countryside, coming of age, halloween, occult, free will, analysis ...
Place: britain
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Mutant Vampire Zombies from the 'Hood! (2008)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: MUTANT VAMPIRE ZOMBIES FROM THE 'HOOD! follows an unlikely group of inner-city survivors who fight to flee a city now free of gang-bangers, but infested with blood-sucking, sex-starved zombies instead. C. Thomas Howell plays the last man ...
Style: hood
Plot: zombie, black, supernatural being, blaxploitation, flesh eating zombie, mutant, vampire, television, female nudity, planet earth, radiation, love triangle ...
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Atom Nine Adventures (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Story: In a remote forest, Astrophysicist Dr. Adam Gaines and his homemade robotic assistant Jimbot recover a 3.5 billion year old meteorite containing an alien organism that may hold the secrets to the universe. What they don't realize is that a ...
Plot: meteorite, robot, parasite, assistant, astrophysicist, laboratory, alien, superhero, origin of hero
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 7.2
 4K
The Teacher (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The principal of an elementary school calls a special parents meeting after it’s alleged that the seemingly empathetic and kindly-looking teacher Mrs. Drazděchová uses her students to manipulate their parents.
Style: touching, melancholic, captivating, tense, dark comedy ...
Plot: teacher, communism, psychological manipulation, blackmailer, female protagonist, boy, blackmail, communist, nepotism, class differences, abuse of power, parent child relationship ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, year 1984, year 1991
Place: czechoslovakia, eastern europe, central europe
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 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
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 7.2
 132K
Treasure Planet (2002)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space storms. But, soon, Jim realizes Silver is a pirate intent ...
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, futuristic, stylized ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, toddlers, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: steampunk, treasure hunt, treasure, pirate, alien, space travel, outer space, fictional planet, adventurer, androids and robots, treasure map, betrayal ...
Time: future, year 2002, distant future
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 6.1
 112K
Sphere (1998)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The OSSA discovers a spacecraft thought to be at least 300 years old at the bottom of the ocean. Immediately following the discovery, they decide to send a team down to the depths of the ocean to study the space craft.They are the best of best, ...
Style: scary, psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, breathtaking ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: ocean, underwater, alien, paranoia, first contact, psychology, survival, supernatural, space, submarine, space and aliens, ghost ship ...
Time: future, jurassic, 90s, 20th century, 80s
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 7.4
 192K
K-PAX (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Style: psychological, touching, cerebral, sentimental, surprise ending ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: alien, mental institution, patient, planet, extraterrestrial, mysterious character, hypnosis, space and aliens, mental illness, psychiatrist, science, investigation ...
Time: future, year 2001, 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, persia, new york, greenland, newfoundland ...
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Girls Will Be Girls (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The confessional, behind-the-scenes showbiz melodrama goes under the knife — so to speak — in this drag comedy. "Girls Will Be Girls" casts three male performers in the roles of Evie Harris (Jack Plotnick), a has-been starlet of the ...
Style: parody, humorous, feel good, witty, not serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: transvestism, hollywood, lgbt, cabaret, gay, showbiz, longing, actor's life, lifestyle, filmmaking, starlet, transsexual ...
Place: usa, wyoming, arkansas
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Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, humorous, dark fantasy, stylized ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, family outing, boys' night ...
Plot: superhero, legends and myths, warrior, superhuman powers, norse mythology, mythology, alien, wizards and magicians, supernatural, comic book, viking, villain ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place: london, seattle, usa, europe, england
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 6.9
 2K
Paradox (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Paradox is a 2009 British science fiction police drama, starring Tamzin Outhwaite as Detective Inspector Rebecca Flint. Written by Lizzie Mickery and produced by Clerkenwell Films for the BBC, it was filmed and set in Manchester, England. Flint ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, exciting ...
Plot: changing the past or future, save the day, police investigation, foreknowledge, danger, twists and turns, law enforcement, evidence, physicist, police detective, rescue, policewoman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, northern england, europe
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The Big Bang Theory (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: The Big Bang Theory is centered on five characters living in Pasadena, California: roommates Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper; Penny, a waitress and aspiring actress who lives across the hall; and Leonard and Sheldon's equally geeky and ...
Style: sitcom, feel good, humorous, witty, intellectual ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: nerd, scientist, friends, science, genius, geek, sarcasm, group of friends, neighbor, friendship, roommate, intelligence ...
Time: y2k, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: pasadena california, california, hawaii, usa
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