Distant planet movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant distant planet movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out futuristic, serious, captivating, stylized, exciting and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with distant planet, outer space, space travel, space, distopia, danger, space and aliens, escapades, survival and spaceship plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Adventure and Action genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as distant planet: Raised by Wolves (2020), Ellipse (2019), Outcasts (2010), Dark Matter (2015), Europa Report (2013), John Carter (2012), The Martian (2015), Hard to Be a God (2013), Oasis (2017), Voyagers (2021).

List of distant planet movies

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Raised by Wolves (2020)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, apocalyptic, intelligent, visually appealing ...
Plot: space colony, androids, distant planet, robot human relationship, survival, atheism, war, post apocalypse, alien creature, vestiges of humanity, religious cult, parents and children ...
Time: future, distant future, near future
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 2.7
 279
Ellipse (2019)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A man and his dog are stranded on a volatile, oval-shaped planet and are forced to adapt and escape before time destroys them both.
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful
Plot: distant planet, survival, accident, catastrophe, danger, one man army, estrangement, save the day, dog, lone hero, space travel, life turned upside down ...
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 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
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 7.5
 45K
Dark Matter (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: The six-person crew of a derelict spaceship awakens from stasis in the farthest reaches of space. Their memories wiped clean, they have no recollection of who they are or how they got on board. The only clue to their identities is a cargo bay full ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, action adventure, mind blowing ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot: space travel, outer space, memory loss, space opera, space and aliens, space wars, time travel, androids, distant planet, survival, friendship, danger ...
Time: future
Place: space western
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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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 6.6
 285K
John Carter (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and ...
Style: epic, entertaining, exciting, futuristic, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, family outing, teens
Plot: mars, alien, monster, space travel, heroic mission, danger, space opera, mysterious planet, distant planet, imaginary kingdom, steampunk, battles ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, future, 19th century, 1870s ...
Place: virginia, arizona, new york, space western
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 8.0
 916K
The Martian (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Hungary, Jordan
Duration: 144 min.
Story: During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw ...
Style: futuristic, biting, clever, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night
Plot: survival, mars, astronaut, space travel, stranded, nasa, isolation, outer space, science, scientist, space, loneliness ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, 2030s, near future ...
Place: china, london, houston texas, pasadena california, north america ...
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Hard to Be a God (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 177 min.
Story: A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case ...
Style: surreal, serious, black and white, art house, philosophical ...
Plot: distant planet, human nature, murder, moral dilemma, society, horse, renaissance, medieval, fate of humanity, humanity, alien planet, planet ...
Time: medieval times, 2010s, middle ages, year 2013
Place: soviet union
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 8.0
 6K
Oasis (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story: A Scottish chaplain embarks on an epic journey through space. Based on Michel Faber's 'The Book Of Strange New Things'.
Style: captivating, apocalyptic
Plot: alien planet, space travel, priest, space, climate change, hallucination, desert, space shuttle, save the planet, fate of humanity, humanity, space exploration ...
Time: near future, future
Place: london
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 5.5
 26K
Voyagers (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Romania, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: With the human race's future at stake, a group of young men and women embark on an expedition to colonize a distant planet. But when they uncover disturbing secrets about the mission, they become helpless for pleasure, hunger, and power once ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: space travel, spacecraft, alien planet, space exploration, sexual behavior, space program, social commentary, trapped in space, escapades, distant planet, space, space and aliens ...
Time: future, 2020s, near future
Place: europe
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 3.6
 2K
Dune Drifter (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When the trainee pilot and her mortally wounded gunner are shot down, they crash land on a nearby planet. An enemy craft offers the chance of spare parts to fix her ship, but then she spots another survivor - an enemy alien soldier with no intention ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
Plot: distant planet, rescue, struggle for survival, danger, chase, survival, escapades, peril, youth, astronaut, chases and races, left for dead ...
Time: future
Place: europe
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The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, France, Austria, UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visitations to Earth and Earth's self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.
Style: bleak, stylized, serious, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot: astronaut, found footage, space and aliens, prodigy, save the world, space travel, apocalypse, save the planet, spacecraft, dystopian future, survival, imaginary ...
Time: future
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 5.7
 56K
Chaos Walking (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA, Canada, Hong Kong, Luxembourg
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
Style: enigmatic, captivating, psychotronic, unusual plot structure, futuristic ...
Audience: date night, teens, teen fantasy
Plot: post apocalypse, wilderness, distopia, mind reading, fantasy world, distant planet, colonialism, attempted escape, space colony, swamp, farm, farmer ...
Time: 2020s, 23rd century
Place: space western
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Screamers: The Hunting (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of humans arrive on Sirius 6-B to investigate an SOS signal sent out from the planet, which has been supposedly deserted since the destruction of the man-made weapons known as "screamers." Once the squad arrives, they find a group ...
Style: serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense, space horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, rescue, danger, technology gone awry, chaos and mayhem, space travel, apocalypse, distant planet, man versus machine, deadly creature, survival, artificial intelligence ...
Time: future
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Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: Set against the backdrop of a UNSC military academy, a group of highborn cadets are training to be the next generation of soldiers in the UNSC’s ongoing war with insurrectionists in the outer colonial planets. Among these cadets, Thomas Lasky ...
Style: futuristic, stylized, suspenseful, serious, talky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space and aliens, invasion, superhero, evil alien, alien invasion, military, video game, escapades, soldier, battles, heroes, power relations ...
Time: future
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Recon 2020:  The Caprini Massacre (2004)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Soldiers land on Caprini and confront diabolical villains.
Style: serious, stylized, rough, apocalyptic, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space wars, military, space and aliens, tough heroes, heroic mission, deadly creature, escapades, supernatural, rivalry, danger, distant planet, bio weapon ...
Time: future, near future, 21st century
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The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future of the human race. Now, waging incredible battles on fantastic and deadly worlds, this lone, ...
Style: action packed, futuristic, exciting, stylized, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, manly
Plot: alien, space, dystopia, lone hero, outer space, bounty hunter, tough guy, space and aliens, space opera, distant planet, one man army, one against many ...
Time: future, year 2004, near future, 2000s
Place: space western
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 252K
Pitch Black (2000)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is ...
Style: suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, harsh, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, creature, survival, alien, space travel, alien life-form, one man army, outer space, dark hero, tough guy, anti hero, deadly creature ...
Time: future, year 2000, y2k, 2000s
Place: oceania, space western
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 7.2
 23K
Killjoys (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: An action-packed adventure series following a fun-loving, hard living trio of interplanetary bounty hunters (a.k.a. Killjoys) sworn to remain impartial as they chase deadly warrants around the Quad, a system of planets on the brink of revolution.
Style: exciting, captivating, semi serious, tense, dark ...
Audience: adult
Plot: outer space, imaginary, space and aliens, space travel, danger, space opera, bounty hunter, space, space mission, distant planet, spaceship, escapades ...
Time: future
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 7.0
 641K
Prometheus (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
Style: futuristic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien, space travel, survival, androids, outer space, robot, space and aliens, distant planet, expedition, alien encounter, spacecraft, alien life-form ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: scotland
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 4.8
 36K
IO (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.
Style: suspenseful, apocalyptic, bleak, thought provoking, exciting ...
Plot: post apocalypse, extinction, survival, scientist, escape, save the world, distant planet, dystopia, end of the world, disaster, apocalypse, space ...
Time: future
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The Last Days on Mars (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claims all the glory, he disobeys orders to ...
Style: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, space horror ...
Plot: mars, space travel, mysterious planet, survival, zombie, astronaut, outer space, space and aliens, zombie attack, blood, catastrophe, danger ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future, 2040s, 21st century
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Metal Hurlant Chronicles (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Metal Hurlant Chronicles is inspired by the popular comics anthology Métal Hurlant, which in turn inspired the well known fantasy magazine Heavy Metal. Each episode takes place on a different planet - fantastical in its own way - with the common ...
Style: anthology, captivating, exciting, serious, saga ...
Plot: space travel, space and aliens, distant planet, mortal combat, imaginary, rivalry, androids and robots, collision, battles, fight, alternate reality, alternate dimension ...
Time: future
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 7.9
 1.4M
Avatar (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story: In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.
Style: futuristic, breathtaking, exciting, captivating, serious ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot: alien, fantasy world, ecology, culture clash, creature, beautiful scenery, battles, space and aliens, alien life-form, alien planet, space travel, alien encounter ...
Time: future, 2000s, 20th century, year 2009, 22nd century
Place: iran, space western
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 81
Tytania (2008)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The capital of the empire of Euria is attacked by the empire of Titania, a much more powerful enemy that controls a large part of the galaxy. The story follows a soldier who flees the Titania empire and seeks refuge with the rebellion force, that ...
Style: anime, futuristic, stylized, serious, exciting
Plot: rebellion, space wars, survival, betrayal, rivalry, battles, distant planet, danger, revolution, politics, dishonesty, political intrigue ...
Time: future
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Superman: Unbound (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Based on the Geoff Johns/Gary Frank 2008 release "Superman: Brainiac," Superman: Unbound finds the horrific force responsible for the destruction of Krypton (Brainiac) descending upon Earth. Brainiac has crossed the universe, collecting ...
Style: anime, serious, exciting, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: superman, robot, superhero, save the world, good versus evil, superpower, heroes, comic book, justice, artificial intelligence, giant robot, vigilante ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., arizona
Is relevant ?
 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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Banner of the Stars II (2001)
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Style: exciting, captivating, serious, stylized, anime ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: outer space, space travel, space opera, evil empire, heroic mission, distant planet, battles, spacecraft, benign alien, betrayal, good versus evil, heroes ...
Time: future
Is relevant ?
 6.2
 265K
Total Recall (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, India
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, entertaining, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, distopia, virtual reality, memory loss, dystopic future, post apocalypse, technology, on the run, dystopian future, mars, false memory, secret agent ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, near future
Place: seattle, big ben london
Is relevant ?
 7.7
 8K
Duck Dodgers (2003)
Genre: Animation, Short, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story: Duck Dodgers is an American animated television series, based on the 1953 theatrical cartoon short Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, produced by Warner Bros. Animation from 2003 to 2005. The series is a space opera, featuring the fictional Looney ...
Style: humorous, surreal, not serious, witty, parody ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly
Plot: looney tunes, cartoon duck, duck, martian, anthropomorphism, mars, heroes, anti hero, disorder, scientist, self involved, time travel ...
Time: future, 24th century
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