Astronaut movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant astronaut movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, thought provoking, weird and serious films and TV shows about / with astronaut, outer space, space, space travel, spacecraft, mission, spacesuit, space exploration, survival and spaceship 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 astronaut: The Martian (2015), Life (2017), Interstellar (2014), Apollo 18 (2011), First Man (2018), The Cloverfield Paradox (2018), 3022 (2019), Europa Report (2013), Apollo 13 (1995), Mission to Mars (2000).
Best films
New films
997K
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, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
survival, mars, astronaut, stranded, space travel, nasa, isolation, science, outer space, struggle for survival, space, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2015, 2030s, year 2016, near future, future ...
Place:
china, london, houston texas, pasadena california, beijing china ...
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275K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
Style:
scary, suspense, apocalyptic, tense, tragic ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
monster, mars, space, space station, space travel, space exploration, astronaut, survival horror, alien life-form, alien creature, first contact, death ...
Time:
2010s, near future, year 2017, future
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2.5M
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, cerebral, clever, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
space travel, time travel, outer space, nasa, astronaut, father daughter relationship, space, dystopian future, survival, end of the world, robot, space exploration ...
Time:
future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, colorado
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60K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Russia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage ...
Style:
suspense, mockumentary, scary, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
astronaut, alien encounter, found footage, outer space, moon landing, infection, space travel, moon, nasa, heroic mission, danger, space and aliens ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 2010s, year 2011, future ...
Place:
antarctica
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215K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Style:
factual, inspirational, disturbing, exciting, historical drama ...
Audience:
teens, date night, family friendly, adult
Plot:
astronaut, nasa, space exploration, moon, moon landing, space travel, grief, loss of child, apollo program, male camaraderie, space race, rocket ...
Time:
2010s, 20th century, year 1963, year 1965, year 1969 ...
Place:
america, usa, california, mojave desert, florida ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
Style:
suspense, lovecraft, apocalyptic, rough, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
trapped in space, space station, alternate reality, alternate dimension, scientist, alien, astronaut, giant monster, parallel world, parallel universe, multiverse, alternate world ...
Time:
near future, 2000s, 2010s, future, 2020s
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6K
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A group of astronauts living in the haunting emptiness of deep space awakens to find earth has suffered an extinction-level event.
Style:
suspense, visually appealing, suspenseful, futuristic, exciting ...
Plot:
trapped in space, spacecraft, asteroids and comets, astronaut, survival, space station, space shuttle, space program, space travel, disaster, scientist, heroic mission ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.
Style:
cerebral, suspense, suspenseful, philosophical, lovecraft ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
space travel, found footage, astronaut, space exploration, outer space, space, spacecraft, distant planet, alien, survival, spacewalk, moon ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 1972, 1950s, 50s ...
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334K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1971, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from ...
Style:
factual, realistic, inspirational, suspense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, boys' night
Plot:
astronaut, nasa, survival, space travel, moon, disaster, rescue, space program, space exploration, race against time, trapped in space, against the odds ...
Time:
70s, year 1970, 20th century, year 1969, 60s ...
Place:
houston texas, usa, north america, texas, pacific ocean ...
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Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France, Jordan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When contact is lost with the crew of the first Mars expedition, a rescue mission is launched to discover their fate.
Style:
futuristic, serious, atmospheric, sentimental, suspense ...
Plot:
mars, space travel, astronaut, space station, alien, escapades, alien encounter, space, spacecraft, trapped in space, space and aliens, mysterious planet ...
Time:
future, year 2000, y2k, 2020s, 21st century
Is relevant?
45K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, UK, Germany, Poland, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.
Style:
suspense, psychological, visually stunning, psychotronic, exciting ...
Audience:
toddlers, adult
Plot:
survival, astronaut, spaceship, space mission, galaxy, baby, trapped in space, outer space, deep space, experiment, father daughter relationship, taboo ...
Time:
2010s, future, year 2019
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When astronaut Spencer Armacost returns to Earth after a mission that nearly cost him his life, he decides to take a desk job in order to see his beautiful wife, Jillian, more often. Gradually, Jillian notices that Spencer's personality seems ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
woman in danger, outer space, astronaut, alien, husband wife relationship, nasa, alien abduction, space, pregnancy, mission, danger, space and aliens ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, future
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895K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving ...
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, scenic, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, adult
Plot:
isolation, survival, space travel, astronaut, outer space, sole survivor, space station, space, disaster, life & death, survivor, spacecraft ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
persia, seattle, los angeles, houston texas
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Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
This is a sequel to 2001 A Space Odyssey. It is now 2010 and both the Americans and the Russians are racing to get to Jupiter to investigate the black monolith (similar to the one found in Lunar Crater Clavius) which was found by the U.S.S. ...
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, intellectual, stylized, spiritual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
astronaut, space travel, nasa, artificial intelligence, space exploration, paranoia, space opera, contact, space, deep space, spaceship, science ...
Time:
future, year 2010, distant future, year 1984, near future ...
Place:
tower bridge london, ussr, soviet union, paris france, london ...
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27K
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 ...
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, psychological, action adventure, powerful ...
Plot:
astronaut, female astronaut, loneliness, mars, dangerous mission, space colony, separation from family, wilderness, lesbian, spacecraft, father daughter relationship, husband wife sex ...
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 193 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the original Mercury astronauts in the formation of America's space program: Alan Shepherd, the first American in space; Gus Grissom, the benighted astronaut for whom nothing works out as planned; John Glenn, the straight-arrow ...
Style:
epic, inspirational, sincere, factual, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
cold war, astronaut, nasa, u.s. air force, aviation, test pilot, space travel, space exploration, space race, politics, space program, spacecraft ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1953, year 1960 ...
Place:
washington d.c., florida, australia, houston texas, usa ...
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Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Belgium, UK, USA
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:
scary, bleak, suspenseful, space horror, futuristic ...
Plot:
mars, space travel, mysterious planet, astronaut, zombie, space and aliens, outer space, survival, alien invasion, zombie attack, blood, catastrophe ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future, 2040s, 21st century
Is relevant?
9K
Genre: Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After losing contact with Earth, Astronaut Lee Miller becomes stranded in orbit alone aboard the International Space Station. As time passes and life support systems dwindle, Lee battles to maintain his sanity - and simply stay alive. His world is a ...
Style:
futuristic, thought provoking, psychological, mind bending, surreal ...
Plot:
isolation, trapped in space, astronaut, space travel, stranded, space, space and aliens, space station, losing-it hero, loneliness, journal, survival ...
Time:
future, 2030s, 2040s, 2010s, 1860s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of scientists stages a phony Mars landing. Willingly participating in the deception are a trio of well-meaning astronauts, who become liabilities when their space capsule is ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
conspiracy, astronaut, conspiracy theory, nasa, spacecraft, paranoia, mars, whistleblower, investigative reporter, survival, desert, chase ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978, future
Place:
houston texas, texas, arizona, usa
Is relevant?
278K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Brazil
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An astronaut travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. He uncovers secrets which challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.
Style:
futuristic, suspense, exciting, touching, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
space exploration, astronaut, outer space, moon, solar system, obsession, father son relationship, space pirate, spacecraft, zero gravity, secret mission, trapped in space ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, future, near future
Place:
space western
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, mind bending, cerebral, psychedelic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, adult
Plot:
space travel, artificial intelligence, astronaut, outer space, space, moon, computer, scientist, human versus computer, extraterrestrial, deception, spacewalk ...
Time:
future, year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, stone age ...
Place:
persia
Is relevant?
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, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
astronaut, female astronaut, nasa, husband wife relationship, getting home, women, family relations, flying, peril, in love, strong female character, spacecraft ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
san diego california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Col. Vincent Kane is a military psychiatrist who takes charge of an army mental hospital situated in a secluded castle. Among Kane's many eccentric patients is Capt. Billy Cutshaw, a troubled astronaut in the midst of an existential crisis. ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, philosophical, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
astronaut, atheism, mental illness, insanity, therapy, psychotherapy, nervous breakdown, nightmare, psychiatric hospital, castle, religion, insane asylum ...
Time:
year 1980, year 2016, 80s
Place:
vietnam, asia
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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, suspense, disturbing, stylized ...
Plot:
astronaut, space program, space race, nasa, mining, moon, ice, u.s. president, moon landing, space shuttle, moon base, lesbian ...
Time:
year 1969, future, 60s, 80s, 90s ...
Place:
usa, soviet union
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
space travel, astronaut, space colony, space station, post apocalypse, space exploration, nuclear radiation, spaceship, spacecraft, scientist, disaster, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
2020s, 2040s, 21st century
Is relevant?
135K
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Legendary Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear embarks on an intergalactic adventure alongside a group of ambitious recruits and his robot companion Sox.
Style:
3d animation, mecha, futuristic, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
space travel, toy story, astronaut, galaxy, spaceship, spacecraft, robot, cat, time dilation, rocket, villain, time travel ...
Time:
2020s, future
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After NASA picks up a trio of mysterious signals from within our own solar system, astronaut Roger Nelson is dispatched on a multi-year solo mission aboard the Magellan spacecraft to investigate the sources.
Style:
unusual plot structure, exciting, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
alien planet, artificial intelligence, mission, planet, alien contact, suspended animation, nasa, space, astronaut, saturn the planet, chess, scientist ...
Time:
future
Is relevant?
692K
Genre: Adventure, 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, space horror ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
space travel, androids, survival, alien, outer space, space and aliens, distant planet, robot, alien encounter, expedition, creature, alien life-form ...
Time:
future, year 2000, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
scotland, seattle
Is relevant?
26K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
An astronaut returns home from a year long solo mission in space. She tries to reconnect with her husband and son in their everyday life. Her experiences in space and home lead to events that ultimately will change the course of human history.
Style:
futuristic, spooky, stylized, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, androids and robots, astronaut, space and aliens, scientist, family relations, fear, fate of humanity, parents and children, haunted by the past, artificial insemination, space ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A team of astronauts on the first mission to Mars crashes onto the surface, losing contact with Earth. With no other recourse, and help millions of miles away, the crew is forced to make desperate choices in order to stay alive. Will they be able to ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, cyber, hispanic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spaceship crash, space travel, survival, space and aliens, astronaut, heroic mission, alien encounter, rescue, danger, mars, space exploration, rescue team ...
Time:
future
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