Movies that take place in space
53 years ago,
on April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to enter
outer space, completing one orbit in a time of 108 minutes.
12 to the Moon 1960 (after a story by Fred
Gebhardt), USA,
director: David Bradley
2001: A space odyssey 1968 (after a book by Arthur C. Clarke),
USA & UK, director: Stanley Kubrick
2001: A space travesty 2000, Canada & Germany, director: Allan A. Goldstein
Alien 1979, USA & UK, director: Ridley Scott
Alien³ 1992, USA, director: David Fincher
Blade Runner 1982 (after the novel ‘Do androids dream of electric sheep’
by Philip K. Dick), USA, Hong Kong & UK, director:
Ridley Scott
Capricorn One 1977, USA & UK, director & writer: Peter Hyams
Conquest of space 1955 (after a
book by Chesley Bonestell and Willy Ley), USA, director: Byron Haskin
Cosmic princess 1982, UK, directors: Charles
Crichton & Peter Medak
Dead Space 1991, USA, director: Fred
Gallo
Elysium 2013, USA, director & writer:
Neill Blomkamp
Enemy
Mine
1985 (after a story by Barry
Longyear), USA, director: Wolfgang Petersen
Escape from Mars 1999, Canada & USA, director: Neill Fearnley
Fire Maidens of Outer Space 1956, UK, director & co-writer: Cy Roth
First spaceship on Venus [Der
schweigende Stern]
1960 (after the novel ‘Astronauci’ by Stanislaw Lem), East Germany
& Poland, director: Kurt
Maetzig
Gravity 2013, USA & UK, director
& co-writer: Alfonso Cuarón
It! The terror from Beyond Space
1958, USA, director: Edward
L. Cahn
King Dinosaur 1955 (based on an original story by Bert I. Gordon & Al Zimbalist), USA, director: Bert I. Gordon
Lost in space 1998, USA, director: Stephen
Hopkins
Love aka Angels & airwaves love 2011, USA, regizor & scenarist:
William Eubank
Marooned 1969 (after a
novel by Martin Caidin), USA, director: John Sturges
Mission to Mars 2000, USA, director: Brian De Palma
Moon 2009, USA, director & writer:
Duncan Jones
Morons from Outer Space 1985, UK, director: Mike
Hodges
On the Silver Globe
[Na srebrnym globie]
1988 (adapted from a novel by Jerzy Żuławski), Poland, director & writer: Andrzej Żuławski
Pandorum 2012,
Germany & UK, director & co-writer: Christian
Alvart
Planet of the Apes 2001 (after the novel ‘La planète des Singes’ by Pierre
Boulle), USA, director: Tim Burton
Prometheus
2012, USA & UK, director: Ridley
Scott
Solaris 2012 (after a novel by Stanislaw
Lem), USA, director & co-writer: Steven Soderbergh
Space
Battleship Yamato
[ヤマト / Supēsu Batorushippu Yamato]
2010 (based on the ‘Space Battleship
Yamato’ anime TV series by Yoshinobu Nishizaki), Japan, director:
Takashi Yamazaki
Space Chimps 2008 (animation), USA, director & co-writer: Kirk De Micco
Space Milkshake 2012, Canada, director & writer: Armen Evrensel
Space mutiny 1988, South Africa & USA, directors: David Winters & Neal Sundstrom
Space Warriors 2013, USA, director & writer: Sean McNamara
Star Trek Into darkness 2013, USA, director: J.J. Abrams
Stranded 2001, Spain, director: María
Lidón
The astronaut's wife 1999, USA,
director & writer: Rand Ravich
The last days on Mars 2013 (after a short story by Sydney J. Bounds), UK & Ireland, director: Ruairi Robinson
The Phantom Planet 1961, USA, director & writer: William Marshall
Women of the Prehistoric Planet
1966, director & writer: Arthur C. Pierce
Zathura: A space adventure 2005 (after a novel by Chris
Van Allsburg), USA, director: Jon Favreau
