Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "space-probe"
- Movies or TV
- Genres
- Keywords
- IMDb Rating
- Instant Watch Options
- In Theaters
- Release Year
1. Star Trek (1966–1969)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In the 23rd Century, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise explore the galaxy and defend the United Federation of Planets.
Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols
Votes: 93,335
2. The Martian (2015)
PG-13 | 144 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive and can survive until a potential rescue.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara
Votes: 929,318 | Gross: $228.43M
3. Life (I) (2017)
R | 104 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars and now threatens all life on Earth.
Director: Daniel Espinosa | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada
Votes: 254,933 | Gross: $30.23M
4. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
PG-13 | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.
Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel
Votes: 433,176 | Gross: $352.39M
5. First Man (2018)
PG-13 | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History
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.
Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler
Votes: 202,839 | Gross: $44.94M
6. Absolutely Anything (2015)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A group of eccentric aliens confers a human being with the power to do absolutely anything, as an experiment.
Director: Terry Jones | Stars: Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Rob Riggle
Votes: 48,669
7. 2010 (1984)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A joint USA-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn exactly what happened to the "Discovery" and its H.A.L. 9000 computer.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban
Votes: 57,473 | Gross: $40.20M
8. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Thriller
A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman
Votes: 139,604 | Gross: $0.09M
9. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
G | 143 min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 96,868 | Gross: $82.26M
10. Monsters (2010)
R | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion, a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.
Director: Gareth Edwards | Stars: Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able, Mario Zuniga Benavides, Annalee Jefferies
Votes: 97,833 | Gross: $0.24M
11. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
PG | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.
Director: Leonard Nimoy | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 91,745 | Gross: $109.71M
12. Europa Report (2013)
PG-13 | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
An international crew of astronauts undertakes a privately funded mission to search for life on Jupiter's fourth largest moon.
Director: Sebastián Cordero | Stars: Sharlto Copley, Michael Nyqvist, Christian Camargo, Embeth Davidtz
Votes: 75,736 | Gross: $0.13M
13. The Black Hole (1979)
PG | 98 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole.
Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms
Votes: 28,116
14. Mac and Me (1988)
PG | 99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
An alien trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a wheelchair-bound boy.
Director: Stewart Raffill | Stars: Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Ward, Tina Caspary, Lauren Stanley
Votes: 14,572 | Gross: $6.42M
15. My Favorite Martian (1999)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
A Martian lands on Earth and makes friends with a reporter.
Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Hurley, Daryl Hannah
Votes: 14,459 | Gross: $36.83M
16. The Andromeda Strain (2008)
44 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A crack team of top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped.
Stars: Benjamin Bratt, Christa Miller, Ricky Schroder, Louis Ferreira
Votes: 14,622
17. Space Chimps (2008)
G | 81 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Three chimps are sent into space to explore the possibility of alien life when an unmanned space shuttle crash lands on an uncharted planet.
Director: Kirk DeMicco | Stars: Andy Samberg, Stanley Tucci, Jeff Daniels, Cheryl Hines
Votes: 12,535 | Gross: $30.11M
18. Good Night Oppy (2022)
PG | 105 min | Documentary
The film follows Opportunity, the Mars Exploration Rover affectionately dubbed Oppy by her creators and scientists at NASA. Oppy was originally expected to live for only 90 days but she ultimately explored Mars for nearly 15 years.
Director: Ryan White | Stars: Angela Bassett, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, David Letterman
Votes: 4,592
19. Woman in the Moon (1929)
Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus, Klaus Pohl, Fritz Rasp
Votes: 3,874
20. Space Amoeba (1970)
G | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A space probe is infiltrated by alien beings and then crashes on a remote Pacific atoll. A group of people discover it to be inhabited by giant mutant monsters, created by the aliens in an attempt to conquer the world.
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Akira Kubo, Atsuko Takahashi, Yukiko Kobayashi, Kenji Sahara
Votes: 1,504
21. The Stranger (1973 TV Movie)
100 min | Sci-Fi
An astronaut finds himself on a planet that's (almost) exactly like Earth.
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Glenn Corbett, Cameron Mitchell, Sharon Acker, Lew Ayres
Votes: 673
22. Lifeform (1996)
R | 90 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
When the Viking space capsule suddenly returns to Earth from its long ago trip to Mars, it brings with it an intelligent visitor that is part "Alien" and part "ET". Encased in armor, it ... See full summary »
Director: Mark H. Baker | Stars: Cotter Smith, Deirdre O'Connell, Robert Wisdom, Ryan Phillippe
Votes: 728
23. Journey to the Edge of the Universe (2008 TV Movie)
91 min | Documentary, Family
A journey through space and time.
Director: Yavar Abbas | Stars: Alec Baldwin, Sean Pertwee, Paul Essiembre
Votes: 4,429
24. Alien Planet (2004 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary, Animation, Adventure
The CGI or computer animated drama/documentary takes place on Darwin IV, a planet 6.5 light years from earth, with 2 suns and 60% of Earth's gravity. Having identified Darwin as a world ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre de Lespinois | Stars: Wayne D. Barlowe, Curtis Clark, James Garvin, Jamie Hanes
Votes: 1,670
25. A Lego Brickumentary (2014)
G | 93 min | Documentary
A look at the global culture and appeal of the LEGO building-block toys.
Directors: Kief Davidson, Daniel Junge | Stars: Jason Bateman, Jamie Berard, Bryan Bonahoom, Corey Burton
Votes: 2,226 | Gross: $0.10M
26. The Alpha Incident (1978)
PG | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A microorganism from Mars, brought to Earth by a space probe, terrorizes passengers in a railroad office.
Director: Bill Rebane | Stars: Ralph Meeker, Stafford Morgan, John F. Goff, Carol Irene Newell
Votes: 1,035
27. Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home (2012)
136 min | Drama
Based on the true story of the Hayabusa asteroid probe, which collected samples from the asteroid Itokawa in the world's first-ever sample return after landing on a solid-surfaced celestial body outside Earth's gravisphere.
Director: Tomoyuki Takimoto | Stars: Ken Watanabe, Yôsuke Eguchi, Yui Natsukawa, Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Votes: 84
28. Roving Mars (2005)
G | 40 min | Documentary, Short
Through the eyes of two state-of-the-art rovers, and with NASA scientists at your side, you'll see Mars in a way no one ever has before-direct from the surface of the amazing red planet.
Director: George Butler | Stars: Paul Newman, Steve Squyres, Rob Manning, Charles Elachi
Votes: 1,127 | Gross: $10.40M
29. Spaced Out Bunny (1980 TV Short)
TV-Y7 | 6 min | Animation, Sci-Fi, Family
Marvin the Martian and Hugo, the abominable snowman, capture the earth creature Bugs Bunny.
Directors: Chuck Jones, Phil Monroe | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 355
30. The Search for Life in Space (2016)
Not Rated | 32 min | Documentary, Short
Journey from the depths of the Pacific Ocean into the far reaches of space on a quest to find something that changes everything...signs of life, somewhere else in the universe. With ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Amezdroz | Stars: Lisa Kaltenegger, Malcolm McDowell, Carl Sagan
Votes: 731
31. Project Kronos (2013)
14 min | Short, Sci-Fi
Project Kronos is a documentary film following a mission to achieve interstellar space travel. As the mission unfolds, the scientists find themselves questioning whether the space agency's ... See full summary »
Director: Hasraf Dulull | Stars: Noeleen Comiskey, Georgina Blackledge, Colin Emerson, Wes Nike
Votes: 138
32. Luna (1965)
51 min | Sci-Fi
Story of the Moon told by scientists. The prospects of the Moon's future exploration by humans with elements of science fiction dramatization by actors in the final part of the film.
Director: Pavel Klushantsev
Votes: 113
33. Voyager: To the Final Frontier (2012 TV Movie)
49 min | Documentary
It's the end of an era. Thirty-five years after leaving Earth, the Voyager spacecraft is about to leave the solar system. This fascinating documentary draws on remarkable footage and images... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Riley | Stars: Dallas Campbell, Michael Minovitch, Gary Flandro, John Casani
Votes: 108
34. Patrick Stewart Narrates 'the Planets' (1993 Video)
50 min | Documentary, Family, Music
Documentary about the other seven planets of our solar system. The film features NASA's footage and illustrations as well as Isao Tomita's cover of Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets. DVD re-release adds Pluto.
Director: Don Barrett | Star: Patrick Stewart
Votes: 9
35. Recon 2023: The Gauda Prime Conspiracy (2009)
101 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Director: Christian Viel | Stars: Andy Bradshaw, Deke Richards, Heidi Hawkins, Valérie Wiseman
Votes: 165
36. Kingdom of Saturn: Cassini's Epic Quest (2017)
52 min | Documentary
Before the joint NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission, humanity only knew what had been learned, decades earlier, with the previous limited, rapid "fly-by" Pioneer and Voyager missions. ... See full summary »
Director: Dave Brody | Star: Perry Norton
Votes: 80
37. Magic User's Club! (1996–1997)
60 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
An alien flying object known only as The Bell enters Earth's orbit. It annihilates those that provoke it, but otherwise just flies around. A Japanese high-schooler, president of the local magic club, decides to put an end to it.
Stars: Hiroko Konishi, Mayumi Izuka, Junko Iwao, Masaya Onosaka
Votes: 253
38. Welcome Home, Hayabusa (2012)
114 min | Drama
Director: Katsuhide Motoki | Stars: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kôsuke Toyohara, Anne Watanabe, Tomokazu Miura
Votes: 28
39. Pluto: The Last Frontier (2015)
52 min | Documentary
Nine years travel. New wonders to discover.
Director: Ruth Chao | Stars: Ross Huguet, Alan Stern, Edward Stone, Jim Green
Votes: 9
40. Hayabusa (2011)
Adventure
Under the guidance of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) the Hayabusa 'Falcon' spaceship shoots for an asteroid in order to correct samples and conduct scientific studies and then ... See full summary »
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Stars: Yûko Takeuchi, Toshiyuki Nishida, Masahiro Takashima, Shirô Sano
Votes: 126
41. Solar Blast (2000 TV Movie)
56 min | Documentary
Scientists investigate the effects of solar phenomena, such as sunspots and coronal mass ejections (CMEs or "solar blasts"), on Earth's climate (both past and present) and man's technology.
Director: Malvina Anderson Martin | Star: Lance Lewman
Votes: 24
42. Direct from Pluto: First Encounter (2015 TV Movie)
Documentary
NASA's New Horizons' epic quest as the spacecraft completes its flyby, capturing first-ever images of Pluto and its moons.
Director: Shelley Ayres | Stars: Dan Riskin, Fran Bagenal, Alice Bowman, Alan Boyle
Votes: 33
43. Today's Life (2000)
13 min | Sci-Fi, Short
A lonely astronaut fights for survival at the edge of the universe. Long-forgotten memories of love and a previous life haunt his tortured soul. Today's Life features over 5,000 frames of ... See full summary »
Director: Noah Kadner | Stars: Will Plunkett, Willard E. Pugh, Cinamon Romers
Votes: 33
44. Inca II: Wiracocha (1993 Video Game)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Anachronistic space combat and p&c adventure. The son of Inca leader El Dorado, runs into a strange asteroid with his spaceship and gets killed. El Dorado must find out what happened and thwart his archenemy's diabolical plan.
Stars: Nicole Favart, Gilbert Lévy, Leslie Palanker, David Pini
Votes: 17
45. To Catch a Comet (2014)
Not Rated | 55 min
On November the 11th, billions of miles from Earth, a spacecraft orbiter and lander will do what no other has dared to attempt: land on the volatile surface of a comet as it flies round the... See full summary »
Director: Rory Griffin | Star: Lauren Chu
Votes: 26
46. Phoenix Mars Mission: Onto the Ice (2009 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary
A behind-the-scenes look at the Phoenix Mars Mission to land a space probe on the north polar plains of the Red Planet, to investigate the chemistry of the Martian soil and to search for conditions conducive to life.
Director: Tom Kleespie | Stars: Peter Thomas, Ray Arvidson, Guy Beutelschies, William Boynton
47. Uptime 15,364 days - The Computers of Voyager (2019 Video)
40 min | Documentary, Short
Software developer Aaron Cummings speaks on the computer hardware of the Voyager 1 and 2 deep-space probes, emphasizing the design choices of reliability, redundancy, and reconfigurability,... See full summary »
Star: Aaron Cummings
48. The Greatest Film on Earth: Volume 2 - Planet Mars (1988 Video)
114 min | Documentary, History
Stars: Peter Thomas, Harold Masursky, Ashley Montagu, Vic Perrin
49. Passport to Pluto & Beyond (2007 TV Movie)
TV-G | 46 min | Documentary
NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.
Director: Geoffrey Haines-Stiles | Stars: Eric Worden, Don Davis, Dan Durda, Mark Garlick
50. Hayabusa: Back to the Earth (2009)
43 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Director: Hiromitsu Kosaka | Star: Saburô Shinoda
Votes: 7