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Nothing on this site is recommended because people liked it. Films are described by what they are (how heavy, how fast, how far from the real world), and you get the ones closest to what you asked for.
Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
24 films tagged space
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2016 · Science fiction
Twelve alien craft arrive without explanation, and a linguist is brought in to work out how to ask them what they want. Most of it is the slow business of translation.
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1979 · Horror
The crew of a commercial towing ship is woken early to investigate a signal from a nearby moon, and brings something back aboard. Long stretches of corridor and waiting.
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1968 · Science fiction
A strange black slab turns up at three points in human history, and a ship heads for Jupiter to find out why. Very little is explained, and long stretches carry no dialogue at all.
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2016 · Drama
Three Black women working as mathematicians at NASA in the early 1960s do the sums that put an astronaut in orbit, in a building that is still segregated. Their fight is mostly a bureaucratic one.
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1995 · Drama
An oxygen tank blows two days into a moon landing, and the mission becomes getting three men home in a crippled ship. Half the film is engineers at desks.
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2014 · Science fiction
With the crops failing on Earth, a former pilot leaves his daughter behind and flies through a wormhole looking for somewhere else to live. Long stretches of orbital mechanics, and a clock that runs at different speeds for different people.
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1990 · Science fiction
A construction worker who keeps dreaming of Mars buys an implanted memory of a holiday there and wakes up with people trying to kill him. Practical effects throughout, and a high body count.
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2009 · Science fiction
A paralysed marine ships out to a moon on the far side of the galaxy, where a lab-grown body lets him walk among the people whose forest sits on what his employers want. Long, and built to be looked at.
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2022 · Science fiction
Jake Sully's family leaves the forest and asks the reef clans for shelter, learning to live on and under the water. It runs well over three hours and is built to be looked at.
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2019 · Action
What is left of the Avengers regroups after losing, and goes looking for a way to undo it. Three hours long, with a huge cast, and it assumes you have seen a good many of the films before it.
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2018 · Action
A warlord crosses the galaxy collecting six stones that would let him do anything he likes with the universe, and every hero on the board tries to stop him. It cuts between half a dozen groups on different planets.
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2021 · Science fiction
A noble family is handed control of a desert planet that supplies the most valuable substance in the universe, which the family it was taken from has no intention of accepting. It is long, slow, and heavy on names and factions.
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2024 · Science fiction
A young duke living among the desert people of a spice planet learns their ways while the family that destroyed his keeps hold of the harvest. Huge and loud and slow all at once, with a lot of sand and prophecy.
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2018 · Drama
The years between Neil Armstrong joining NASA and stepping onto the Moon, at home as much as in the cockpit. Quiet and close in, with the flying shot from inside the capsule.
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2013 · Science fiction
A medical engineer on her first shuttle mission is left drifting when debris tears the craft apart, with limited air and no way to call home. Ninety minutes of one problem after another, mostly in silence.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2014 · Action
A small-time thief picks up a mysterious orb and ends up in an alien prison with a green assassin, a talking raccoon and a tree. Big, loud, colourful, and joking most of the way through.
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2009 · Science fiction
A man three years into a solo contract mining the far side of the Moon, with a talking computer for company, has two weeks left before he goes home. One man, one base, and hardly anyone else in it.
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2012 · Science fiction
Scientists follow a set of matching cave paintings to a distant moon, on a ship paid for by a dying billionaire who wants to meet whoever left them. Big empty landscapes first, then a lot of running.
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2016 · Science fiction
A group of fighters with little in common are sent to steal the plans for the Empire's new weapon. It sits right before the first Star Wars, and the last hour is one long battle on a beach.
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2015 · Science fiction
A scavenger on a desert planet and a stormtrooper who walks off his post end up carrying something the new empire badly wants. Big and fast, and built to feel like the ones from the seventies.
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2007 · Science fiction
The sun is dying, and a crew of eight is sent out with a bomb the size of Manhattan to restart it, on the second ship to try after the first never came back. It all happens inside the ship, and it gets tense as they get closer.
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2015 · Science fiction
An astronaut is left behind on Mars when his crew evacuates and has to work out how to eat and how to tell anyone he is alive. Cheerful for a survival film, and much of it is him talking to a camera.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2017 · Action
Thor loses his hammer, lands on a junk planet run by a showman, and has to fight his way off it to get home. Jokes the whole way through, bright colours, and a synthesiser soundtrack.
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2008 · Animation
Seven hundred years after people left, one small robot is still tidying up the rubbish on Earth, until a sleek probe drops out of the sky. The first forty minutes are almost wordless.
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