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Mister Deathman (1983)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Geoffrey Graves is a secret agent who comes ourt of retirement for a mission in South Africa. Stella Stevens stars as an enemy agent.
Style: grindhouse, eurospy
Plot: blaxploitation, spy, car crash, prospector, scientist, kidnapping, ransom, agent, villainess, gadget, female spy, surveillance ...
Time: 70s
Place: south africa, switzerland, pentagon
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 6.8
 25K
Capricorn One (1977)
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: suspenseful, tense, serious, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot: conspiracy, mars, astronaut, nasa, conspiracy theory, spacecraft, desert, whistleblower, paranoia, investigative reporter, investigation, space ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place: texas, houston texas, usa, arizona
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Battle for the Lost Planet (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: To escape his captors an industrial spy hijacks a space shuttle only to find the controls malfunctioning. Catapulting through outerspace, he sights alien battleships approaching earth. Many years later when the arc of his flight path returns him to ...
Plot: alien invasion, spy, alien, monster, ufo, space opera, distopia, dystopia, spaceship, space travel, post apocalypse, space shuttle ...
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 6.0
 101K
Lockout (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, space station, secret service, hotshot hero, outer space, rescue mission, hostage, lone hero, heroic mission, space, maximum security prison, prison fight ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, new york
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My Favorite Martian (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: News producer, Tim O'Hara gets himself fired for unwillingly compromising his bosses' daughter during a live transmission. A little later, he witnesses the crashing of a small Martian spacecraft, realizing his one-time chance of delivering ...
Style: humorous, hilarious, slapstick comedy, double entendre, fast ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: mars, benign alien, martian, alien, fish out of water, male nudity, space, nasa, space and aliens, alien invasion, hidden camera, disguise ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa
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 5.0
 6K
Moon 44 (1990)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger mining corporations has lost all but one mineral moons and many ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robot, moon, save the world, undercover agent, corruption, escapades, rescue, androids and robots, heroic mission, space battle, cigarette smoking, dystopian future ...
Time: future, 2030s
Place: space western
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 4.8
 4K
Moontrap (1988)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Space Shuttle returns to earth, but some of the equipment brought back on it begins to behave strangely. Scientists are unsure what is happening, and decide to take all necessary precautions.
Style: space horror, cult classic, apocalyptic, independent film, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: moon, nasa, astronaut, space, alien invasion, monster, spaceship, robot, alien, outer space, ufo, space exploration ...
Time: year 1989, 80s, 60s, year 1969
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Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past, Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine.
Style: parody, spoof, absurd, hilarious, funny ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: airplane, disaster, space travel, aviation, airport, flying, air disaster, stewardess, satire, farce, humour, artificial intelligence ...
Time: future, 80s, 20th century, near future
Place: houston texas, texas, moscow russia, tokyo
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2001: A Space Travesty (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Leslie Nielsen once again plays a bumbling detective in the vein of the 'Naked Gun' movies, but this time as Marshall Richard 'Dick' Dix. When odd reports are received through official channels stating that the President of the ...
Style: parody, spoof, humorous, not serious, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: usa president, space and aliens, space travel, daring rescue, save the world, zero gravity, save the day, benign alien, race against time, danger, chases and races, escapades ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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 5.8
 868
Mars et Avril (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in a futuristic environment, "Mars et Avril" tells the story of an elderly musician and his instrument maker who both become obsessed with the same woman. She agrees to be the model for their next musical instrument but then gets lost ...
Style: atmospheric, captivating, psychological, avant garde, independent film ...
Plot: mars, love triangle, friendship, obsession, existentialism, musician's life, fall in love, philosophy, aging, genius, meaning of life, love ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: canada, montreal
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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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 7.0
 443K
Passengers (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Style: futuristic, romantic, scenic, dramatic, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, family friendly
Plot: space travel, outer space, isolation, survival, love story, space program, loneliness, trapped in space, love, space station, malfunction, space ...
Time: future, year 2016, 2010s
Place: space western, los angeles, america
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 6.3
 577
Baikonur (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: “Whatever falls from heaven, you may keep.” So goes the unwritten law of the Kazakh steppes. A law avidly adhered to by the inhabitants of a small village, who collect the space debris that falls downrange from the nearby Baikonur space station. ...
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, offbeat
Plot: astronaut, spacecraft, village life, space and aliens, social relations, space shuttle, love and romance, sex scene, female nudity, cave, rural setting, cosmonaut ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kazakhstan
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 7.1
 218
The Cape (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Cape is an American dramatic TV series, with elements of science fiction, action/adventure, and drama, that was produced for syndication during the 1996–1997 television season. The Cape told the story of select members of the NASA Astronaut ...
Plot: nasa, space, space exploration, exploration, astronaut, training, space shuttle, outer space, cnn reporter
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 5.3
 3K
Hangar 18 (1980)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite rams a unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizona. However the White House denies it's existence because of the near presidential elections. ...
Style: independent film, disturbing, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic ...
Plot: ufo, alien, nasa, extraterrestrial, alien invasion, investigation, conspiracy, chase, astronaut, unusual phenomena, alien contact, dystopian future ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: arizona
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Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The sharks take bite out of the East Coast when the sharknado hits Washington, D.C. and Orlando, Florida.
Style: parody, suspenseful, surreal, bloody, psychotronic ...
Plot: disaster, shark, shark attack, president, space shuttle, nasa, catastrophe, creature feature, amusement park, fish, animal attack, natural disaster ...
Place: washington d.c., florida, orlando florida, north america
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 7.2
 594K
Don't Look Up (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Two low-level astronomers, upon discovering that a meteor will strike the Earth in six months, go on a media tour to try to warn the world but find an unreceptive and unbelieving populace.
Style: apocalyptic, feel good, dark comedy, political, funny ...
Audience: kids, date night, adult
Plot: disaster, end of the world, asteroid, social satire, meteorite, apocalypse, danger, save the world, astronaut, chaos, comet, politics ...
Time: future, 2020s, year 1994, distant future, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, london, america, illinois ...
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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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 6.5
 259K
Ad Astra (2019)
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: exciting, suspense, futuristic, touching, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: space exploration, outer space, astronaut, moon, solar system, obsession, father son relationship, space pirate, space travel, spacecraft, trapped in space, space station ...
Time: 2010s, future, year 2019, near future
Place: space western
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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Family, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, John Read and Reg Hill. First broadcast on ATV ...
Style: spooky, sitcom, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: supermarionation, puppet, spy, alien, invasion, aviation, magic, mars, race against time, terrorism, heroes, good versus evil ...
Time: future
Place: england, europe
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 5.7
 343K
Fantastic Four (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: During a space voyage, four scientists are altered by cosmic rays: Reed Richards gains the ability to stretch his body; Sue Storm can become invisible; Johnny Storm controls fire; and Ben Grimm is turned into a super-strong … thing. Together, ...
Style: exciting, action packed, action adventure, semi serious, epic ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night ...
Plot: superhero, supernatural ability, imaginary, interracial romance, superhuman powers, dna, flying, superpower, good versus evil, vigilante, tough girl, fantasy world ...
Time: year 2005, future, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.9
 4K
UFO (1970)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: In the year 1980 the Earth is threatened by an alien race who kidnap and kill humans and use them for body parts. A highly secret military organization is set up in the hope of defending the Earth from this alien threat. This organization is named ...
Style: apocalyptic, spooky, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Audience: kids
Plot: ufo, alien contact, alien invasion, space, alien, spaceship, battles, evil alien, post apocalypse, extraterrestrial, space opera, aviation ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1980, near future
Place: england, europe
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 7.3
 201K
First Man (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Japan, China
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: family friendly, teens, date night, adult
Plot: astronaut, space travel, nasa, space exploration, moon, moon landing, loss of child, grief, outer space, apollo program, male camaraderie, rocket ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 1963, 20th century, year 1965 ...
Place: usa, california, mojave desert, florida, houston texas
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 5.7
 12K
Futureworld (1976)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, futuristic, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, conspiracy, robot, robot as menace, reporter, journalist, cloning, investigation, man versus machine, society, chaos, technology gone awry ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1976, near future, 80s ...
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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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Future War 1986 (1982)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: An American scientist constructs a laser satellite with hopes of preventing any nuclear conflicts from occurring. However, after a fatal error from both the US and the USSR governments, war breaks out and humanity faces a new bloodshed.
Style: anime
Plot: world war three, nuclear holocaust, post apocalyptic, nuclear war, space shuttle, cold war, world
Time: 80s
Place: germany, washington d.c., soviet union, moscow russia, usa ...
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 6.2
 1K
Lily C.A.T. (1987)
Genre: Animation, Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story: A captain and his crew travel across the universe in a ship that can travel for 20 years while the crew will age only 1 year. Soon the crew realizes that a criminal is onboard who is hoping to escape civilization. The crew must find who the criminal ...
Style: anime, mecha
Plot: space, alien monster, monster, cat, space opera, body horror, spaceship, robot, outer space, doctor, blood, spacecraft ...
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 6.8
 288
Alternative 3 (1977)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 56 min.
Story: Purporting to be an investigation into the UK's contemporary "brain drain", Alternative 3 uncovered a plan to make the Moon and Mars habitable in the event of climate change and a terminal environmental catastrophe on Earth.
Style: mockumentary, fake documentary
Plot: found footage, conspiracy, mars, missing person, outer space, scientist, deception, cover up, global warming, nasa, space colony, hoax ...
Time: year 1977, 70s
Place: soviet union, russia, usa
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Rocket's Red Glare (2000)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A troubled 17-year-old Todd Baker restores a Mercury Redstone rocket as a science project with the help of his ex-astronaut grandfather. When a NASA emergency leaves a space shuttle and its crew in danger, Todd's rocket is the only one ready ...
Plot: science class, teenage boy, single mother, grandfather, loss of father, death of father, teenager, nasa, meteor shower, grandfather grandson relationship, widow, meteorite ...
Place: california
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 5.5
 4K
Impact (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 187 min.
TV show
Story: While the entire world watches the largest meteor shower in 10,000 years, a rogue asteroid, hidden by the meteor field, smashes into the moon in a tremendous explosion of rock and debris. Fragments from the asteroid, and even from the moon itself, ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, apocalyptic ...
Audience: family outing, teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, asteroids and comets, meteor shower, survival, space and aliens, astronaut, moon, save the planet, chaos, danger, space travel ...
Place: new mexico, paris france, australia, washington d.c., berlin germany ...
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