Riders to the Stars

Les Aliénés

February 2017 •French

The Midnight Sky

December 2020 •English

A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.

Capricorn One

December 1977 •English

In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

April 1970 •English

The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission lands on the planet of the apes, and uncovers a horrible secret beneath the surface.

Mission to Mars

March 2000 •English

When contact is lost with the crew of the first Mars expedition, a rescue mission is launched to discover their fate.

Solar Crisis

August 1992 •English

A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial Intelligence and a Japanese pilot at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else.

Solaris

November 2002 •English

A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.

Astronaut

July 2019 •English

A lonely widower battles his family, ill health and time to win a competition for a golden ticket to space.

Road to the Stars

November 1957 •Russian

This film consists of three parts. The first dramatizes the life of the founder of Soviet astronautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky; the second describes the development of rocket technology; and the third visualizes the future with enactments of the first manned spaceflight, spacewalk, space station construction and humans on the moon.

The Tree of Life

May 2011 •English

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

Slither

March 2006 •English

A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.

The Angry Red Planet

November 1959 •English

The first manned flight to Mars returns after having been out of communications since it had arrived on Mars. What would it reveal?

Zathura: A Space Adventure

November 2005 •English

After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay inside. Walter and Danny, who anticipate a boring day, are shocked when they begin playing Zathura, a space-themed board game, which they realize has mystical powers when their house is shot into space. With the help of an astronaut, the boys attempt to return home.

Red Planet

November 2000 •English

Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.

Eklo I

Invalid date •Nepali

In the aftermath of a mysterious virus outbreak in 2030, humanity fled Earth. By 2090, the sole surviving human lives in the mountains of Nepal. When two astronauts, having settled in space, return to Earth, they inadvertently encounter this last human survivor. As they delve into the mountain mysteries, they uncover the chilling enigma of the zombies that now roam the land.

I.S.S.

January 2024 •English

Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a conflict breaks out on Earth. U.S. and Russian astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary.

The Astronaut Farmer

February 2007 •English

Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he's an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he's built and wants to take into space. It's his dream. The FBI puts him under surveillance when he tries to buy rocket fuel, and the FAA stalls him when he files a flight plan – but Charles is undeterred.

Robinson Crusoe on Mars

June 1964 •English

Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food and companionship on the lifeless planet.

2010

December 1984 •English

While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.

Deep Impact

May 1998 •English

A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.