20 best movies like The Astronaut's Wife (1999)

List of the best movies like The Astronaut's Wife (1999): Approaching the Unknown, The Divide, Apollo 18, Marooned, Gravity, 400 Days, A Simple Plan, Coherence, Time Lapse, Mission to Mars.

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Markimdb: 4.8
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:31

Captain William Stanaforth is on a one-way solo mission to take the first steps in colonising Mars. Like all pioneers throughout history, Stanaforth will face insurmountable odds and life and death decisions as he rockets bravely through space.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration02:02

Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:29

    Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies it's authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:14

    After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a Hurricane headed towards the launch site—and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts' capsule.

    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: 4.4
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    4 would be astronauts spend 400 days in a land locked space simulator to test the psychological effects of deep space travel but, when something goes terribly wrong and they are forced to leave the simulation, they discover that everything on earth has changed. Is this real or is the simulation on a higher level than they could have ever imagined?

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, France, USA, Japan
    Duration02:01

    Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain the money while avoiding detection opens a Pandora's box when the fear of getting caught triggers panicked behavior and leads to virulent consequences

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:29

      On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrefantastic, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA, Canada, France
      Duration01:54

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

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryFrance, USA
      Duration01:38

      Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:52

      Ray Liotta stars as a medical examiner who has been acquitted for his wife's murder but many still question his innocence. Obsessed with finding his wife's killer, a possible solution presents itself in an experimental serum designed by a neurobiology Linda Fiorentino which has the ability to transfer memories from one person to another, but not without consequences. Liotta driven to solve the case injects himself with the serum, bringing him closer and closer to finding her killer but bringing him closer to death.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, biography
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:40

      A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.

      Markimdb: 8.5
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:05

        A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada

        Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a 10-year trek to explore a distant planetary system. In order to endure the stress of being confined to their high-tech vessel, the crew passes the time using advanced virtual reality modules that allow them to take on various identities. But as the ship approaches a critical phase of their journey, a deadly flaw is discovered in the virtual system, forcing them to question if someone onboard might be a killer.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:14

        The OSSA discovers a spacecraft thought to be at least 300 years old at the bottom of the ocean. Immediately following the discovery, they decide to send a team down to the depths of the ocean to study the space craft.They are the best of best, smart and logical, and the perfect choice to learn more about the spacecraft.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA, Australia

        After NASA picks up a trio of mysterious signals from within our own solar system, astronaut Roger Nelson is dispatched on a multi-year solo mission aboard the Magellan spacecraft to investigate the sources.

        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: 7.2
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:43

        Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.

        Markimdb: 3
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:35

        As a rogue planet roars through our solar system, it acts as an intergalactic magnet that pulls Earth in its wake. Meteors destroy major cities. Fire and ice storms engulf the land. Casualties are in the millions. And as the situation grows even worse, Steve Lannon is determined to reunite with his wife and teenage daughter. But when they stumble into a secret government installation, they'll uncover a nuclear mission that will either blast our planet back into orbit or guarantee front row seats to the end of the world.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:34

        Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students regains consciousness, he finds himself in a waking nightmare.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:31

        Juliet, a beautiful doctor, has found the perfect New York apartment to start a new life after separating from her husband. It's got spacious rooms, a spectacular view, and a handy, handsome landlord. But there are secrets behind every wall and terror in every room as Juliet gets the unnerving feeling that she is not alone.

        Markimdb: 3.6
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:32

        A playwright who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is at the center of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality.

        Markimdb: 3.7
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryCanada

        The world watches in awe as the Roebling Clipper is launched into space. Using state-of-the-art scalar engines to fly around the Moon and back in just hours, the maiden voyage of the first-ever trans-lunar passenger ship is about to make history. Among those on board: First Lady Simone Mathany, space-exploration entrepreneur Steve Roebling, Dr. Denise Balaban, pilot Fiona Henslaw, and a very lucky lottery winner. But while en route, a massive solar flare sparks a cosmic-ray burst that accelerates Aurora’s engine and blows the ship away from Earth’s orbit. Now out of control, it’s hurtling straight for the sun.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:39

        An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids are not human or humane.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:44

        An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, Mike Roark, working with geologist Amy Barnes, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming Los Angeles.

        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: 6.5
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, short
        CountryUSA
        Duration00:15

        A psychiatrist is compelled by his patient, an obsessive mathematician, to consider the existence of a secret integer between three and four.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:32

        The government cover-up of the causes behind a massive explosion in a futuristic UK metropolis spur photo journalist Jennifer Preston on to search for the truth and in the process blow open a paranormal phenomenon haunting the city.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Australia, China
        Duration02:34

        A husband and wife try to reinvigorate their relationship but their lives are threatened by a "friend" from the husband's past who holds a horrifying secret about him, sending their world into a tailspin.

        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: 4.5
          Genrefantastic, thriller
          CountryUSA, Hungary

          When a deep space fishing vessel is robbed by a gang of pirates, the Captain makes a daring decision to go after a rare and nearly extinct species. His obsession propels them further into space as the crew spins toward mutiny and betrayal.

          Markimdb: 2.8
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:05

          A pharmaceutical company recruits a well-known scientist to help develop a vaccine against a deadly virus.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:38

          A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, adventure
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
          Duration01:38

          On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claims all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. But a routine excavation turns to disaster when the porous ground collapses and he falls into a deep crevice and near certain death. His devastated colleagues attempt to recover his body. However, when another vanishes, they start to suspect that the life-form they have discovered is not without danger.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA

          A man becomes obsessed with facts and events that have been collectively misremembered by thousands of people. Believing the phenomena to be the symptom of something larger, his obsession eventually leads him to question reality itself.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryAustria
          Duration01:48

          Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:30

          Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his enigmatic past.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA, Greece
          Duration01:50

          A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.

          Markimdb: 4.3
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA

          Director: Tim Connery After receiving his future obituary via a cryptic Internet file, Easton Denning is forced to confront his troubled past in order to prevent his predicted demise.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:32

          After deciphering a message found in a satellite, genius cryptographer Alex Jacobs finds himself being stalked by government agents and otherworldly beings.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:35

          Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller
          CountryUSA, Australia
          Duration01:47

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

          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: 6.6
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:03

          An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:10

          Could you trust a jury of your peers with your life? The contestants of a mysterious death game must make harrowing decisions as they strategize for survival in this psychological sci-fi thriller.

          Markimdb: 4.3
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Mexico, Guatemala
          Duration01:59

          Seven years on from the events of Monsters, and the ‘Infected Zones’ have spread worldwide. Humans have been knocked off the top of the food chain, with disparate communities struggling for survival. American soldiers are being sent abroad to protect US interests from the Monsters, but the war is far from being won.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrehorror, fantastic, drama, detective
          CountryUSA

          Sixteen year old Jude discovers each and every one of his fears is true.

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama
          CountryCanada, USA
          Duration01:42

          A couple agree to have their deceased son cloned under the supervision of an enigmatic doctor, but bizarre things start to happen years after his rebirth.

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:28

          A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.




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