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1. The Expanse (2015–2022)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
The disappearance of rich-girl-turned-political-activist links the lives of Ceres detective, accidental ship captain and U.N. politician. Amidst political tension between Earth, Mars and the Belt, they unravel the greatest conspiracy.
Stars: Steven Strait, Dominique Tipper, Wes Chatham, Shohreh Aghdashloo
Votes: 171,937
2. Aliens (1986)
R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Paul Reiser
Votes: 762,087 | Gross: $85.16M
3. Firefly (2002–2003)
TV-14 | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Five hundred years in the future, a renegade crew aboard a small spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them.
Stars: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin
Votes: 281,430
4. Total Recall (1990)
R | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Rachel Ticotin
Votes: 354,056 | Gross: $119.39M
5. Chaos Walking (2021)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality where all thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, Demián Bichir, David Oyelowo
Votes: 56,053 | Gross: $13.29M
6. Raised by Wolves (2020–2022)
TV-MA | 55 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Androids are tasked with raising human children on a mysterious planet.
Stars: Travis Fimmel, Amanda Collin, Abubakar Salim, Winta McGrath
Votes: 86,404
7. Cowboy Bebop (1998–1999)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The futuristic misadventures and tragedies of an easygoing bounty hunter and his partners.
Stars: Kôichi Yamadera, Unshô Ishizuka, Megumi Hayashibara, Steve Blum
Votes: 138,514
8. Alien³ (1992)
R | 114 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Returning from LV-426, Ellen Ripley crash-lands on the maximum-security prison Fiorina 161, where she discovers that she has unwittingly brought along an unwelcome visitor.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann
Votes: 319,048 | Gross: $55.47M
9. Ad Astra (2019)
PG-13 | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.
Director: James Gray | Stars: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland
Votes: 260,205 | Gross: $50.19M
10. Serenity (2005)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The crew of the ship Serenity try to evade an assassin sent to recapture telepath River.
Director: Joss Whedon | Stars: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alan Tudyk
Votes: 305,495 | Gross: $25.51M
11. The Midnight Sky (2020)
PG-13 | 118 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
This post-apocalyptic tale follows Augustine, a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully and her fellow astronauts from returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
Director: George Clooney | Stars: George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Caoilinn Springall
Votes: 89,340
12. Space: 1999 (1975–1977)
TV-14 | 50 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from Earths orbit and into deep space.
Stars: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Nick Tate, Zienia Merton
Votes: 9,409
13. Lightyear (2022)
PG | 105 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
While spending years attempting to return home, marooned Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear encounters an army of ruthless robots commanded by Zurg who are attempting to steal his fuel source.
Director: Angus MacLane | Stars: Chris Evans, Keke Palmer, Peter Sohn, Taika Waititi
Votes: 123,635 | Gross: $118.31M
14. Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
PG | 85 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the Sun. Can Ted Striker save the day and get the shuttle back on track - again?
Director: Ken Finkleman | Stars: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Raymond Burr
Votes: 56,697 | Gross: $27.15M
15. Titan A.E. (2000)
PG | 94 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A young man learns that he has to find a hidden Earth ship before an enemy alien species does in order to secure the survival of humanity.
Directors: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman | Stars: Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore, Bill Pullman, Jim Breuer
Votes: 63,908 | Gross: $22.75M
16. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)
TV-14 | 115 min | Animation, Action, Crime
A terrorist explosion releases a deadly virus on the masses, and it's up to the bounty-hunting Bebop crew to catch the cold-blooded culprit.
Directors: Shin'ichirô Watanabe, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Tensai Okamura, Hiroyuki Okiura, Yoshiyuki Takei | Stars: Beau Billingslea, Melissa Fahn, Nicholas Guest, Kôichi Yamadera
Votes: 53,054 | Gross: $1.00M
17. Iron Sky (2012)
R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The Nazis set up a secret base on the dark side of the moon in 1945 where they hide out and plan to return to power in 2018.
Director: Timo Vuorensola | Stars: Julia Dietze, Christopher Kirby, Götz Otto, Udo Kier
Votes: 96,516
18. Outland (1981)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
A federal marshal stationed at a mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy. He gets no help from the workers or authorities when he finds himself marked for murder.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Sean Connery, Frances Sternhagen, Peter Boyle, James Sikking
Votes: 32,337 | Gross: $17.37M
19. Breach (IV) (2020)
R | 92 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
On the cusp of fatherhood, a junior mechanic aboard an interstellar ark to New Earth must outwit a malevolent cosmic terror intent on using the spaceship as a weapon.
Director: John Suits | Stars: Cody Kearsley, Bruce Willis, Rachel Nichols, Kassandra Clementi
Votes: 19,952
20. Space: Above and Beyond (1995–1996)
60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Earth is embroiled in a desperate war against alien invaders, and this series focuses on one squadron of Marine pilots involved in it.
Stars: Morgan Weisser, Kristen Cloke, Rodney Rowland, Joel de la Fuente
Votes: 8,662
21. Heavy Metal 2000 (2000)
R | 88 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
After surviving an invasion on her peaceful homeworld, a beautiful avenger must stop a powerful psychopath from gaining immortality and rescue her kidnapped sister.
Directors: Michael Coldewey, Michel Lemire | Stars: Michael Ironside, Julie Strain, Billy Idol, Pier Paquette
Votes: 9,313
22. Earth 2 (1994–1995)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Colonists, crash-landed on an alien planet, begin the long trek to their originally designated landing place, facing alien and human threats.
Stars: Debrah Farentino, Clancy Brown, Sullivan Walker, Jessica Steen
Votes: 5,516
23. Mobile Suit Gundam (1979–1980)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In the war between the Earth Federation and Zeon, a young and inexperienced crew find themselves on a new spaceship. Their best hope of making it through the conflict is the Gundam, a giant humanoid robot, and its gifted teenage pilot.
Stars: Hirotaka Suzuoki, Tôru Furuya, Toshio Furukawa, Kiyonobu Suzuki
Votes: 2,771
24. Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles (1999–2000)
PG | 778 min | Sci-Fi, Animation, Action
The missions of a Mobile Infantry squad as they participate in a war of survival against a ferocious alien insectoid invader.
Stars: Nicholas Guest, Bill Fagerbakke, James Horan, Alexander Polinsky
Votes: 2,273
25. Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009 Video)
Not Rated | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils) embedded on Galactica and Caprica must improvise to destroy the human survivors.
Director: Edward James Olmos | Stars: Edward James Olmos, Dean Stockwell, Michael Trucco, Grace Park
Votes: 21,202
26. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995–1996)
TV-PG | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A squadron of giant robot pilots of a beleaguered Earth colony bring the war to their oppressive home planet.
Stars: Hikaru Midorikawa, Toshihiko Seki, Ryûzô Ishino, Akio Ôtsuka
Votes: 4,879
27. The Martian Chronicles (1980)
360 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
In the 21st century, Earth begins the colonization of Mars. However, things do not go as planned, at first due to the hostile Martian natives and later because of the self-destructive Earthmen.
Stars: Rock Hudson, Gayle Hunnicutt, Bernie Casey, Christopher Connelly
Votes: 2,506
28. Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny (2004–2005)
TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Two years after the war between the Earth Alliance and ZAFT, conflicts between the two nations heat up again. Shin Asuka, the new main character's eyes are full of sorrow as his family was ... See full summary »
Stars: Aaron Phillips, Sam Vincent, Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld, Vanessa Morley
Votes: 1,543
29. Mobile Suit Gundam Seed (2002–2003)
50 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The discovery of an advanced model of combat mecha on their space colony throws a young man and his friends into involvement in an interplanetary war as the crew of a powerful fighting ship.
Stars: Sôichirô Hoshi, Scott McNeil, John Novak, Lee Tockar
Votes: 2,637
30. Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway (2021)
TV-14 | 95 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Hathaway Noa, still haunted by his past actions, joins a terrorist organization called Mufti and adopts the alias "Mufti Nabiyy Erin". Mufti is fighting a terrorist campaign against the Earth Federation government.
Directors: Hidekazu Hara, Kô Matsuo, Shûkô Murase, Mitsuhiro Yoneda, Sankaku | Stars: Kenshô Ono, Reina Ueda, Jun'ichi Suwabe, Sôma Saitô
Votes: 1,914
31. Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (2010–2014)
TV-PG | 436 min | Animation, Action, Drama
A conspiracy around Laplace's Box is potentially going to start another war between the Earth Federation and Neo Zeon. Chosen by fate, Banagher Links gets the key to the box, and must follow his heart to decide what to do with it.
Stars: Troy Baker, Yuri Lowenthal, Keith Silverstein, Brandon Potter
Votes: 1,580
32. Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985–1986)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Eight years after the One Year War, the Earth Federation creates an elite force called the Titans to hunt Zeon remnants. When Titans proves to be no better than Zeon, the Anti Earth Union Group (AEUG) is formed to restore peace in space.
Stars: Nobuo Tobita, Shûichi Ikeda, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Miyuki Matsuoka
Votes: 1,546
33. Mobile Suit Gundam I (1981)
TV-PG | 137 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A teenage boy must fight in an interplanetary war as the only available pilot to a revolutionary new giant battle robot.
Directors: Ryôji Fujiwara, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Eikichi Kojika, Shin'ya Sadamitsu | Stars: Tôru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Shôzô Îzuka, Toshio Furukawa
Votes: 2,231
34. Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs (1987–1988)
Not Rated | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In the distant future, a team of four high-tech Star Sheriffs defends frontier space colony Yuma from outlaws, as well as Outriders, an army of humanoid alien beings called Vapors, led by mysterious Nemesis, who need Yuma's resources.
Stars: Rob Paulsen, Townsend Coleman, Pat Fraley, Pat Musick
Votes: 2,595
35. Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (1988)
124 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Amuro Ray and Char Aznable settle their rivalry once and for all during the Second Neo Zeon War.
Director: Yoshiyuki Tomino | Stars: Tôru Furuya, Shûichi Ikeda, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Maria Kawamura
Votes: 2,036
36. Venus Wars (1989)
Not Rated | 103 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Two thriving colonies, Ishtar and Aphrodia, exist on the planet Venus in the year 2089. War breaks out, and Ishtar invades Aphrodia, sweeping its residents, including motorcycle rider Hiro and his teammates, into the chaos of the conflict.
Director: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko | Stars: Katsuhide Uekusa, Yûko Mizutani, Eriko Hara, Yûko Sasaki
Votes: 1,985
37. Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (1991–1992)
Not Rated | 390 min | Animation, Action, Drama
After the One Year War, Peace was signed between Zeon and the Earth Federation. Three years later, however, some remaining forces of Zeon who never gave up steal the new Federation mobile ... See full summary »
Stars: Ryô Horikawa, Akio Ôtsuka, Rei Sakuma, Dorothy Elias-Fahn
Votes: 1,213
38. Transformations (1988)
R | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Wolfgang is traveling in outer space when a monster, which he sees as a beautiful woman, appears in his spaceship and makes love with him. Then the ship is forced to land on a planet which ... See full summary »
Director: Jay Kamen | Stars: Rex Smith, Lisa Langlois, Patrick Macnee, Christopher Neame
Votes: 538
39. Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (1986–1987)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
Following the decisive battle against the Titans, AEUG's Argama crew (along with a new bunch of kids), has little time to regroup as a new threat looms in the horizon: Haman's Neo Zeon!
Stars: Darren Pleavin, Kazuki Yao, Maya Okamoto, Eriko Hara
Votes: 724
40. Mighty Space Miners (1994 Video)
60 min | Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In the mid-21st century, mankind has begun exploration of space, and one company, Planet Catcher Corporation, has pioneered capturing asteroids and comets to mine the resources within them ... See full summary »
Director: Umanosuke Iida | Stars: Carol Amerson, Jan Angus, Tiffany Grant, Matt Greenfield
Votes: 41
41. The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy (1998 TV Movie)
97 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
In the future, galactic civil war destroys the human space civilization and a new Dark Age begins. On a distant planet, a scavenger looking for his abducted sister teams up with a former general who wishes to rebuild the Galactic Republic.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: John Corbett, Carolyn McCormick, John Pyper-Ferguson, Elisabeth Harnois
Votes: 274
42. Crusher Joe: The Movie (1983)
132 min | Action, Animation, Sci-Fi
Amid a supposedly simple escort mission, Joe and his crew experience a failure during their warp travel. They wake up just to find out that the passengers are missing. To make things worse,... See full summary »
Directors: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Jim Terry | Stars: Hiraku Takemura, Run Sasaki, Noriko Ohara, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Votes: 351
43. Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space (1982)
144 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Amuro Ray and the rest of the White Base crew, now denominated the 13th Autonomous Corps, return to outer space to support the rest of the Earth Federation forces for the decisive battle ... See full summary »
Directors: Osamu Sekita, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Ryôji Fujiwara, Hiromichi Matano, Shin'ya Sadamitsu | Stars: Tôru Furuya, Shûichi Ikeda, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Yô Inoue
Votes: 1,507
44. Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow (1981)
139 min | Animation, Action, Drama
After managing to survive attacks by Zeon's Char Aznable and Garma Zabi, the crew of Federation warship White Base and its mobile suits battle Zeon forces (Ramba Ral, Ma Kube, Tri-Stars, ... See full summary »
Directors: Osamu Sekita, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Ryôji Fujiwara, Hiromichi Matano, Shin'ya Sadamitsu | Stars: Tôru Furuya, Shûichi Ikeda, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Fuyumi Shiraishi
Votes: 1,564
45. Freelancer (2003 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Mystery
You play a freelance pilot who makes a living as a mercenary who gets targeted in a conspiracy for alien artifacts.
Directors: Carole Ruggier, Harry A. Jarvis III | Stars: Ian Ziering, Jennifer Hale, John Rhys-Davies, Michael T. Weiss
Votes: 567
46. Mobile Suit V Gundam (1993–1994)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Uso Ewin gets himself tangled in a battle between the Yellow Jacket and guerrilla resistance League Militaire. Following his heart, Uso pilots the resistance's mobile suit and goes against the Zanscare Empire of space.
Stars: Daisuke Sakaguchi, Yumi Kuroda, Ayako Shiraishi, Yuki Danjin
Votes: 330
47. Terra e... (1980)
113 min | Animation, Action, Drama
A young boy learns he is part of a powerful race of psionic humans who must fight the normal humans determined to keep them from Earth.
Director: Hideo Onchi | Stars: Jun'ichi Inoue, Masaya Oki, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Tarô Shigaki
Votes: 368
48. Toward the Terra (2007)
TV-PG | Animation, Action, Drama
When 14-year-old Jomy begins to question how society is run, he suddenly becomes a target for both the government and the Mu, an outcast race with extra-sensory abilities who have been fighting against the government for generations.
Stars: Mitsuki Saiga, Takehito Koyasu, Jûrôta Kosugi, Yousuha Akimoto
Votes: 301
49. Vanquish (2010 Video Game)
M | Action, Sci-Fi
In the near future, Sam Gideon and a team of soldiers are hired by the president of the United States to recover a space station that's been taken over by a Russian ultra nationalist.
Directors: Shinji Mikami, Olivier Deslandes, Orine Fukushima, Scott Martin Gershin, Michael Hülsmann, Guillermo Reinlein, Alessandro Ricci, Shinobu Shindo, Chris Southall, Mitsuru Toda | Stars: Ken'ichirô Matsuda, Chieko Honda, Teruyuki Tanzawa, Hitoshi Bifu
Votes: 829
50. DC Showcase: Adam Strange (2020)
16 min | Animation, Short, Action
On a mining ice planet, Adam Strange awaits his chance to return to his own world while drinking himself to oblivion. When the miners unleash a deadly force, things take a horrific turn.
Director: Butch Lukic | Stars: Kimberly Brooks, Ray Chase, Roger Cross, Fred Tatasciore
Votes: 1,409