Man of Steel (2013)

Alien (1979)

Summary: The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating an unknown transmission.

Release Date: June 22, 1979

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Ridley Scott

Writers: Dan O'Bannon

, Ronald Shusett

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: R

Production: Brandywine Productions

Distributor: CBS/Fox, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: Alien

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Domestic: $ 81,900,459

International: $ 24,385,063

Interstellar (2014)

Summary: When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.

Release Date: November 07, 2014

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: Christopher Nolan

Writers: Jonathan Nolan

, Christopher Nolan

Runtime: 2 h 49 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., Legendary Entertainment, Government of Alberta, Alberta Media Fund, Atvinnuvega- og nýsköpunarráðuneytið

Distributor: Hotstar, KVH Media Group, Paramount Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 165,000,000

Domestic: $ 188,020,017

International: $ 515,150,820

TerrorVision (1986)

Summary: A family's new satellite TV system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world.

Release Date: February 14, 1986

Genres: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Ted Nicolaou

Writer: Ted Nicolaou

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: R

Production: Empire Pictures, Altar Productions

Distributor: Lifetime Television, Lightning Video, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Shout! Factory, Showtime Networks, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), Vestron Television

Countries: United States, Italy

Language: English

Domestic: $ 320,256

Aliens (1986)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: July 18, 1986

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: James Cameron

Writers: James Cameron

, David Giler

, Walter Hill

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: R

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Brandywine Productions, Pinewood Studios, SLM Production Group

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, CBS/Fox, CBS, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, HBO Max, Tubi TV

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: Alien

Movie budget: $ 18,500,000

Domestic: $ 85,160,248

International: $ 45,900,000

Titan A.E. (2000)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: June 16, 2000

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation

Directors: Don Bluth

, Gary Goldman

Writers: Hans Bauer

, Randall McCormick

, Ben Edlund

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Twentieth Century Fox Animation, David Kirschner Productions, Fox Animation Studios, Blue Sky Studios

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Network

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 75,000,000

Domestic: $ 22,753,426

International: $ 14,001,208

Dark Star (1974)

Summary: In the far reaches of space, a small crew, 20 years into their solitary mission, find things beginning to go hilariously wrong.

Release Date: January 17, 1975

Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi

Director: John Carpenter

Writers: John Carpenter

, Dan O'Bannon

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: G

Production: Jack H. Harris Enterprises, University of Southern California (USC)

Distributor: Jack H. Harris Enterprises, Bryanston Distributing, Atlantic Releasing, Abacus Entertainment, Coast to Coast Family Video, Criterion Channel, Image Entertainment, Showtime Networks, VCI Entertainment, VCI Home Video, Video Communications (VCI)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Summary: When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of the overhauled USS Enterprise in order to intercept it.

Release Date: December 08, 1979

Genres: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Director: Robert Wise

Writers: Gene Roddenberry

, Harold Livingston

, Alan Dean Foster

Runtime: 2 h 23 min

MPAA: G

Production: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Century Associates, Century Associates, Robert Wise Productions, Robert Wise Productions

Distributor: Fathom Events, Paramount Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount+, VideoVisa

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Star Trek

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 82,604,699

International: $ 72,106

Armageddon (1998)

Summary: After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas will impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet.

Release Date: July 01, 1998

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Michael Bay

Writers: Jonathan Hensleigh

, J.J. Abrams

, Tony Gilroy

Runtime: 2 h 31 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Touchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Valhalla Motion Pictures, Digital Image Associates

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Starz, The Criterion Collection, Touchstone Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Walt Disney Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 140,000,000

Domestic: $ 201,578,182

International: $ 352,131,606

Treasure Planet (2002)

Summary: Jim Hawkins is a teenager who finds the map of a great treasure hidden by a space pirate. Together with some friends, he sets off in a large spaceship, shaped like a caravel, on his quest.

Release Date: November 29, 2002

Genres: Adventure, Family, Animation

Directors: Ron Clements

, John Musker

Writers: Robert Louis Stevenson

, Ron Clements

, John Musker

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures

Distributor: Buena Vista Home Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Disney+

Countries: United States, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 140,000,000

Domestic: $ 38,176,783

International: $ 71,864,580

Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)

Summary: Jan is a decent, boring man, living a decent, boring life as a rocket designer. When his adventurous twin brother dies in a breakfast accident, Jan decides to impersonate him, unwittingly becoming a part of a Nazi time travel cons...

Release Date: August 01, 1977

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

Director: Jindrich Polák

Writers: Josef Nesvadba

, Milos Macourek

, Jindrich Polák

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

Production: Filmové studio Barrandov

Country: Czechoslovakia

Language: Czech

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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Summary: After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.

Release Date: May 12, 1968

Genres: Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Writers: Stanley Kubrick

, Arthur C. Clarke

Runtime: 2 h 29 min

MPAA: G

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Stanley Kubrick Productions

Distributor: United Artists Television, United Artists, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), MGM/CBS Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Warner Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 60,481,243

International: $ 5,959,989

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Lightyear (2022)

Summary: 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 the fuel source of his ship.

Release Date: August 03, 2022

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation

Director: Angus MacLane

Writers: Jason Headley

, Angus MacLane

, Matthew Aldrich

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Pixar Animation Studios, Pixar, Walt Disney Pictures, The Walt Disney Company

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 200,000,000

Domestic: $ 118,307,188

International: $ 108,118,232

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Toy Story 3 (2010)

Summary: The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and it's up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren't abandoned and to return home.

Release Date: June 18, 2010

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animation

Director: Lee Unkrich

Writers: John Lasseter

, Andrew Stanton

, Lee Unkrich

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: G

Production: Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios, Disney Character Voices International

Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Toy Story

Movie budget: $ 200,000,000

Domestic: $ 415,004,880

International: $ 652,311,221

2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)

Summary: A joint USA-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn exactly what happened to the "Discovery" and its H.A.L. 9000 computer.

Release Date: December 07, 1984

Genres: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Director: Peter Hyams

Writers: Arthur C. Clarke

, Peter Hyams

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: MGM/UA Home Entertainment, TBS Superstation, MGM Home Entertainment, TNT, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 28,000,000

Domestic: $ 40,400,657

Toy Story (1995)

Summary: A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman action figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's bedroom.

Release Date: November 22, 1995

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animation

Director: John Lasseter

Writers: John Lasseter

, Pete Docter

, Andrew Stanton

Runtime: 1 h 21 min

MPAA: G

Production: Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Walt Disney Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Disney Channel, Image Entertainment, Toon Disney, Walt Disney Home Entertainment, Disney Digital 3-D, ABC Family

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Toy Story

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 223,225,679

International: $ 171,210,907

Production: Beijing Dengfeng International Culture Communications Company, Alibaba Pictures, Base FX, Beijing Guoying Zongheng Film, Beijing Jingxi Culture & Tourism Company, Chao Feng Pictures, China Film Co., Ltd., China Film Group Corporation (CFGC), Emei Film Group, Free Whale Pictures, Mango Entertainment, Shanghai Film Group, Tencent Pictures, United Entertainment Partners, Youku Pictures, Zhejiang Galaxy Artist Management

The Wandering Earth (2019)

Summary: As the sun is dying out, people all around the world build giant planet thrusters to move Earth out of its orbit and sail Earth to a new star system. Yet the 2500-year journey comes with unexpected dangers, and in order to save hu...

Release Date: February 05, 2019

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Frant Gwo

Writers: Gong Geer

, Junce Ye

, Dongxu Yan

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Distributor: Netflix

Country: China

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 48,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,971,413

International: $ 694,021,099

Total Recall (1990)

Summary: 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?

Release Date: June 01, 1990

Genres: Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Writers: Philip K. Dick

, Ronald Shusett

, Dan O'Bannon

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: R

Production: Carolco Pictures, Estudios Churubusco Azteca S.A.

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Artisan Entertainment, Avid Home Entertainment, Carolco Home Video, Image Entertainment, Lions Gate Entertainment, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Live Entertainment, Live Home Video

Countries: United States, Mexico

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 65,000,000

Domestic: $ 119,412,921

International: $ 141,905,000