Movies about astronomers

Movies about astronomers
List of the best movies about astronomers selected by visitors to our site: Nostalgia for the Light, Clara, Don't Look Up, The Midnight Sky, Another Earth, Brightest Star, When Worlds Collide, Contact, Asteroid, A Brief History of Time.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 7.6
Genredocumentary
CountryFrance, Germany, Chile, Spain

In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrefantastic
CountryCanada, USA
Duration02:00

An astronomer becomes obsessed with searching the cosmos for signs of life beyond Earth which leads to a shocking discovery.

Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
CountryUSA

Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn humankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrefantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama
CountryUSA

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

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

    On the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    A recent college graduate sets out to win back the girl of his dreams.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller
    CountryUSA

    When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the planet.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:30

    Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrefantastic, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:02

    With the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it. When the plan fails, all the world can do is wait. The main impact zone is revealed to be Dallas, Texas. Generally, the plot follows the lives and reactions of several characters: an astronomer, her father, her son, two firefighters from Kansas, two young doctors in Dallas and the heads of the government agency in charge of the situation.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredocumentary, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA

    The story of the extraordinary life of eminent scientist, Steven Hawking. As he goes through school, and despite being diagnosed with ALS, Hawking develops revolutionary theories about time, black holes, and the origin of the universe.

    Markimdb: 1.7
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA

    On December 21, 2012 four strangers on a journey of faith are drawn to an ancient temple in the heart of Mexico. For the Mayans it is the last recorded day. For NASA scientists it is a cataclysmic polar shift. For the rest of us, it is Doomsday.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    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.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life leaves him for a suave Frenchman. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee would do—go to New York and set up home in the abandoned building opposite his ex-girlfriend's apartment, wait until she decides to leave her current lover, and then win her back.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    Based on the play 'Cyrano de Bergerac', large-nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne—while she falls for his personality but another man's looks.

    Markimdb: 3.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
    CountryUSA

    In this modern retelling of H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi horror, civilization is laid to ruin when a super race of aliens invades Earth. In a blink of an eye, massive "walkers" cover the planet, annihilating all in their path. As cities crumble and human flesh is ripped from the bone, one man struggles to find the one weapon that will turn the tide for mankind.

    Markimdb: 3.5
    Genrefantastic, action, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    An underground city is built to save a cross-section of humanity as a comet hurtles toward Earth.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:34

    A look at the evolution of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to understand his ideas.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:55

    Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, short
    CountryFrance
    Duration00:16

    Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious satellite.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantasy, drama
    CountryNetherlands, United Kingdom

    Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back the stone tablets containing the ten commandments. To this end an angel is sent out to affect the personal lives of three humans so an appropriate child may be conceived.

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genrefantastic, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
    Duration02:49

      Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrefantastic, drama, cartoon, anime
      CountryJapan

      It is thirty years after the failure of the Space Colonization Program. Humanity is nearly extinct. A perpetual and deadly Rain falls on the Earth. Men known as "Junkers" plunder goods and artifacts from the ruins of civilization. One such Junker sneaks alone into the most dangerous of all ruins—a "Sarcophagus City." In the center of this dead city, he discovers a pre-War planetarium. And as he enters he is greeted by Hoshino Yumemi, a companion robot. Without a single shred of doubt, she assumes he is the first customer she's had in 30 years. She attempts to show him the stars at once, but the planetarium projector is broken. Unable to make heads or tails of her conversation, he ends up agreeing to try and repair the projector...

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, adventure
      CountryFrance, Spain

      On an observatory set high on a mountain, astronomers make a stunning discovery somewhere out in the galaxy. A flying object in the depths of the cosmos is showing signs of life, emitting an intelligent signal. The UFO has just landed on Earth somewhere in the midst of a rainforest. Margot, the enthusiastic young woman heading up the research team, decides to go to the spot and check out this phenomenon. Meanwhile Edouard, our hero, studies the flora and fauna of the tree tops in the rainforest. He perches on an enormous net that stretches over the still pure, unadulterated forest that spreads out beneath him. He discovers a naked little twelve-year old girl seated on the net. He covers her with a broad banana leaf and asks where she comes from. She quickly replies, in perfect French 'from another world'.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genreadventure, documentary, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      The 1960s was an extraordinary time for the United States. Unburdened by post-war reparations, Americans were preoccupied with other developments like NASA, the game-changing space programme that put Neil Armstrong on the moon. Yet it was astronauts like Eugene Cernan who paved the uneven, perilous path to lunar exploration. A test pilot who lived to court danger, he was recruited along with 14 other men in a secretive process that saw them become the closest of friends and adversaries. In this intensely competitive environment, Cernan was one of only three men who was sent twice to the moon, with his second trip also being NASA’s final lunar mission. As he looks back at what he loved and lost during the eight years in Houston, an incomparably eventful life emerges into view. Director Mark Craig crafts a quietly epic biography that combines the rare insight of the surviving former astronauts with archival footage and otherworldly moonscapes.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountrySweden, Denmark, Germany
      Duration02:05

      While on a trip to Thailand, a successful American businessman tries to radically change his life. Back in New York, his wife and daughter find their relationship with their live-in Filipino maid changing around them. At the same time, in the Philippines, the maid's family struggles to deal with her absence.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, Mexico, United Kingdom
      Duration01:30

      Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone-tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness of space. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrefantastic, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:37

      With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident however, he wakens to find that he is not alone.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:49

      Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Australia
      Duration02:31

      A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:29

        The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration04:31

        We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrethriller, adventure, biography, history
        CountryRussia
        Duration02:25

        March 1965. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space. What both superpowers aim for in this race, is to be the first to have a man walk in outer space. To accomplish that, no price is too high and no risk is too great. Now it’s up to the unlikely duo of a seasoned war veteran and a hot-headed test-pilot to fulfill this mission. Two men in a tiny spaceship, without proper testing, facing the complete unknown… They were supposed to do what no man has done before – and no man imagined what would happen next…

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
        CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Singapore, New Zealand, Canada, USA, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Belgium, China, Thailand
        Duration01:47

        In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures. At the center of Alpha is a mysterious dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada, India
        Duration02:32

        Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
        CountryUSA, China, Brazil
        Duration02:36

        An astronaut travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. He uncovers secrets which challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrecomedy, musical
        CountryUSA

        A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryUSA, Japan
        Duration02:30

        A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration02:04

        Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs".

        Markimdb: 8
        Genredrama, history
        CountryItaly, France
        Duration03:05

        As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.




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