Space battle movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant space battle movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out exciting, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, epic and captivating films and TV shows about / with space battle, space, space travel, spacecraft, battles, alien, distopia, danger, space wars and military plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Adventure genres shot in USA, Japan, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as space battle: Battlespace (2006), Knights of Sidonia (2014), Battlestar Galactica (2003), Battlestar Galactica (2004), Titan A.E. (2000), The Orville (2017), Battle Planet (2008), Cosmic Sin (2021), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Space Sweepers (2021).

List of space battle movies

 2.6
 518
Battlespace (2006)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A futuristic sci-fi adventure begins after the destruction of their Universe. With a militaristic race of modified humans in hot pursuit Colonel Mara Shryyke finds herself stranded on an inhospitable planet and discovers a weapon of mass destruction ...
Plot: space battle, alien planet, space travel, battles, planet, military, distopia, space, memory loss, erased memory, desert, time traveler ...
Time: distant future
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Knights of Sidonia (2014)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: An alien race called Gauna has destroyed Earth. leaving humanity struggling to survive aboard the spaceship Sidonia. Even though it’s been a century since the last encounter with the Gauna, military service is mandatory. For Nagate Tanikaze, whose ...
Style: anime, mecha, exciting, serious, tense ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: space battle, androids and robots, spacecraft, space travel, space and aliens, escapades, heroes, military, rivalry, distopia, friendship, space ...
Time: future
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Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min.
TV show
Story: After a 40-year armistice in a war between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons, the Cylons launch a surprise nuclear attack intended to exterminate the human race. Virtually all of the population of the Twelve Colonies are wiped out.
Style: futuristic, bleak, cerebral, tense, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, space wars, space, space battle, future dystopia, cyborgs, space and aliens, androids and robots, alternate universe, good versus evil, obsessive quest, military ...
Time: future, 70s
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Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.
Style: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, space, space wars, space and aliens, androids and robots, cyborgs, alien planet, extinction, human in outer space, military, heroes, space battle ...
Time: future
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 6.6
 62K
Titan A.E. (2000)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the human race, while an alien species called the Dredge are bent on mankind's destruction.
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, anime, futuristic ...
Audience: preschoolers, kids
Plot: alien, scientist, heroic mission, mission, spacecraft, galaxy, space travel, save the world, young heroes, space battle, space, life risking ...
Time: future
Place: colorado
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 8.0
 91K
The Orville (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Follow the crew of the not-so-functional exploratory ship in the Earth's interstellar fleet, 300 years in the future.
Style: futuristic, feel good, exciting, humorous, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien, space travel, space adventure, space battle, space exploration, space, gay marriage, space and aliens, culture clash, spacecraft, dark humor, robot ...
Time: future, distant future
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 3.8
 932
Battle Planet (2008)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In the not-so-distant future, Captain Jordan Strider, a Special Forces Officer in the New World Alliance, is chosen for a top-secret mission. Sent to a desolate planet, Terra 219, to arrest possible traitors to the Alliance, Strider must survive ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, touching ...
Plot: space wars, space battle, military, evil alien, alien, betrayal, space and aliens, space travel, alien encounter, rivalry, a.i., spacesuit ...
Time: 21st century
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 2.5
 14K
Cosmic Sin (2021)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Bruce Willis and Frank Grillo star in the new epic sci-fi adventure set in the year 2524, four hundred years after humans started colonizing the outer planets. Retired Military General James Ford (Willis) is called back into service after soldiers ...
Style: captivating, tense, futuristic, anamorphic
Plot: future war, alien contact, space wars, space battle, alien, space and aliens, alien encounter, evil alien, alien space craft, battles, showdown, alien creature ...
Time: future
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
Style: futuristic, exciting, scenic, tense, dark ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, adult
Plot: star wars, space opera, robot, female protagonist, rebellion, space travel, space, rebel, strong female lead, jedi, tough girl, good versus evil ...
Time: future
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 6.5
 27K
Space Sweepers (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 136 min.
Story: When the crew of a space junk collector ship called The Victory discovers a humanoid robot named Dorothy that's known to be a weapon of mass destruction, they get involved in a risky business deal which puts their lives at stake.
Style: futuristic, captivating, entertaining
Audience: chick flick
Plot: spacecraft, space travel, space colony, space battle, korean, space pirate, space, space opera, human android relationship, missing child, garbage collector, fate of humanity ...
Time: future, 21st century
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AE: Apocalypse Earth (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A group of refugees from Earth land on an exotic planet, where they must fight ruthless aliens to survive.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Plot: apocalypse, space battle, mysterious planet, space, chaos, survival, alien encounter, deadly creature, escapades, planet, evil alien, distopia ...
Time: future
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 6.6
 245K
Ender's Game (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.
Style: futuristic, exciting, serious, entertaining, intense ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: alien, chosen one, space wars, distopia, space, battles, training, young heroes, prodigy, space and aliens, child prodigy, space battle ...
Time: future
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 5.2
 538
In the Fold (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A bunch of young and impulsive space cadets make their first real flight in space and realize that the attack they suffered wasn't a training mission. They face the Enemy alone and have the chance to save the world, and maybe to prevent the ...
Style: futuristic, surprise ending
Audience: teens
Plot: space battle, cadet, space mission, military, space station, branding, robot, virtual reality, attempted murder, suicide, torture, spacecraft ...
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Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, spacecraft, space battle, space, escapades, heroic mission, space and aliens, save the world, heroes, battles, siege, self sacrifice ...
Time: future, 22nd century
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Battle for Terra (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.
Style: atmospheric, exciting, captivating, futuristic, allegory ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids
Plot: benign alien, invasion, idealism, air battle, mysterious planet, save the planet, space travel, survival, alien, culture clash, space battle, space and aliens ...
Time: future
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 8.5
 158K
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, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: space travel, human in outer space, space, spacecraft, space opera, space station, investigation, conspiracy, alien life-form, space wars, space colony, space exploration ...
Time: future, 24th century, 23rd century
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Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, entertaining, parody, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien, alien invasion, human versus alien, end of the world, space, disaster, military, alien civilization, space battle, independence day, chinawoman, ufo ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., paris france, atlantic ocean, africa ...
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 4.7
 9K
Skylines (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When a virus threatens to turn the now earth-dwelling friendly alien hybrids against humans, Captain Rose Corley must lead a team of elite mercenaries on a mission to the alien world in order to save what's left of humanity.
Style: psychotronic, futuristic, suspenseful, surprise ending
Plot: evil alien, alien invasion, alien, alien encounter, monster, space battle, alien planet, space travel, apocalypse, creature, alien monster, martial arts ...
Time: future
Place: london
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Starship Troopers (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an ...
Style: futuristic, stylized, entertaining, bloody, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: military, alien, monster, alien invasion, creature, soldier, space and aliens, space wars, distopia, space travel, evil alien, fictional war ...
Time: future, 23rd century, jurassic, 22nd century
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, China, Belgium, Germany, United Arab Emirates, USA, Canada
Duration: 136 min.
Story: In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where ...
Style: futuristic, entertaining, exciting, captivating, colourful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids
Plot: alien, alien planet, space travel, government agent, space station, mission, alien race, creature, space, spacecraft, marriage proposal, human alien ...
Time: future, 70s, year 1975, 2020s
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Harlock: Space Pirate (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Space Pirate Captain Harlock and his fearless crew face off against the space invaders who seek to conquer the planet Earth.
Style: anime, futuristic, epic, exciting, enigmatic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, pirate, society, spacecraft, space, space opera, rebelliousness, space battle, rebellion, hopes, battles, idealism ...
Time: future
Place: japan, tokyo
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Muv-Luv Alternative (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: A story of the bonds between those who fight, in a world pushed to its limits. On one of the countless parallel worlds that exist throughout spacetime, humanity has fought a decades long war against the BETA, hostile extraterrestrial invaders, using ...
Style: anime, captivating, tense, exciting, ecchi ...
Plot: space battle, evil alien, alien, fight, battles, struggle for survival, parallel world, parallel universe, humanity, robot, alien technology, fate of humanity ...
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Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young farmer assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil tyrant.
Style: futuristic, humorous, stylized, exciting, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: space opera, good versus evil, space travel, alien, space adventure, space, death, vengeance, robot, mercenary, spacecraft, space battle ...
Time: 80s, future
Place: california
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 6.6
 14K
Andromeda (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Andromeda is a Canadian/American science fiction television series, based on unused material by the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett. It starred Kevin ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, funny ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: space travel, alien, space, military, spacecraft, space battle, artificial intelligence, space wars, androids and robots, heroic mission, rivalry, society ...
Time: future
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Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan ...
Style: exciting, intense, serious, epic, saga ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space, space travel, star trek, space battle, cloning, alien, teleportation, robot, self sacrifice, heroes, heroic mission, rivalry ...
Time: future, 24th century
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 4.0
 7K
Starcrash (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A pair of smugglers manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zartharn. The smugglers are soon ...
Style: futuristic, campy, psychotronic, funny, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space opera, robot, space, space travel, lightsaber, spacecraft, female warrior, space battle, emperor, exploitation, mission, supernatural power ...
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Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars (2017)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Federation trooper Johnny Rico is ordered to work with a group of new recruits on a satellite station on Mars, where giant bugs have decided to target their next attack.
Style: anime, captivating, adult animation, futuristic, talky ...
Plot: alien, military, mars, alien invasion, space, space marine, space battle, soldier, humanity, daring rescue, suspense, fight scenes ...
Time: future
Is relevant ?
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils) embedded on Galactica and Caprica must improvise to destroy the human survivors.
Style: exciting, atmospheric, stylized, intense, talky ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, space travel, space, escapades, battles, good versus evil, space and aliens, man versus machine, space battle, human existence, future dystopia, space wars ...
Time: future
Is relevant ?
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth. This film is adapted from a television series that aired on ABC from ...
Style: suspenseful, futuristic, serious, exciting, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids
Plot: space battle, androids and robots, military, space, survival, save the world, good versus evil, man versus machine, rescue, against the odds, apocalypse, space travel ...
Time: future
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Star Trek Beyond (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.
Style: futuristic, entertaining, exciting, light, intense ...
Plot: star trek, alien, space opera, space travel, alien race, space, good versus evil, alien planet, stranded, space battle, female humanoid alien, self sacrifice ...
Time: future, 23rd century
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