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A list of the 25 greatest films that are somehow (however remotely) related to space and space travel.
Dec 21, 2016 · Passengers: Directed by Morten Tyldum. With Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne. A malfunction in a sleeping pod on a spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet wakes one passenger 90 years early.
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- Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
- Morten Tyldum
- 2016-12-21
But few sci-fi films have embraced the look, feel and experience of space travel with this level of baked-in, world-building cool.
- Ikarie XB-1 (1963) Director: Jindrich Polák. Made in a period when a limitless future was typically imagined for extraterrestrial travel, one in which food would be magically plentiful and no star system would be too distant, Ikarie XB-1 injected some scientific and psychological realism into the space film.
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Director: Stanley Kubrick. A film that showed what was possible in sci-fi cinema, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 continues to be a touchstone for any picture that deals in space exploration.
- Silent Running (1972) Director: Douglas Trumbull. Some time in the future, Earth has become a climate-controlled utopia, free of disease and poverty. But it’s one which apparently has so little use left for nature that its last forests are now kept in geodesic domes orbiting Saturn.
- Star Wars (1977) Director: George Lucas. Although sci-fi cinema generally went in a more mature direction in the 1970s, George Lucas’s empire-building third feature took a refreshingly opposite approach.
1. Dune. 2021 2h 35m PG-13. 8.0 (871K) Rate. 74 Metascore. A noble family becomes embroiled in a war for control over the galaxy's most valuable asset while its heir becomes troubled by visions of a dark future. Director Denis Villeneuve Stars Timothée Chalamet Rebecca Ferguson Zendaya. 2. Annihilation. 2018 1h 55m R. 6.8 (363K) Rate. 79 Metascore.
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