12 Space Movies Like Interstellar: Missions, Survival & Cosmic Journeys

A scientist searching for extraterrestrial intelligence confronts the tension between evidence, belief and humanity's desire not to be alone.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: First contact · Scientific.

A journey across the solar system becomes an introspective story about fathers, sons and emotional distance.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Slow burn · Emotional.

A stranded astronaut survives through engineering, persistence and a huge collective effort to bring him home.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Survival · Optimistic.

A stripped-back orbital survival story that makes space feel physically immediate and brutally unforgiving.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Survival · Visceral.

A crew carries a last-chance mission towards the Sun in a film that mixes hard decisions with overwhelming cosmic imagery.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Mission · Intense.

A worker nearing the end of a three-year lunar contract begins questioning his assignment and himself.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Isolation · Mystery.

The foundational big-idea space film, patient and mysterious enough to make humanity itself feel like part of the puzzle.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Classic · Philosophical.

A privately funded crew heads towards Jupiter's moon Europa in a grounded found-footage approach to exploration.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Exploration · Found footage.

A group of prisoners travel through deep space on an experimental mission in a strange, adult and deliberately unsettling film.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Adult · Arthouse.

Grounded in the Apollo programme, it turns a famous achievement into a tactile, personal story about risk and grief.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: True story · NASA.

A botanist aboard a space freighter tries to preserve Earth's last forests in a melancholy ecological science-fiction classic.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Classic · Ecological.