Best Space Adventure

Star Wars, later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, is a 1977 space-fantasy film written and directed by George Lucas. It follows Luke Skywalker as he joins Princess Leia, Han Solo, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and the Rebel Alliance in opposing the Galactic Empire and destroying the Death Star. The fi...

Interstellar is a 2014 science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and Michael Caine. Its story follows astronauts traveling through a wormhole in search of a habitable world as environmental collapse threatens Earth. Physicis...

"Have Space Suit—Will Travel" is a 1958 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, originally published as one of his juvenile novels by Scribner's. The story follows teenager Kip Russell, who wins a spacesuit in a contest and becomes entangled in an interstellar conflict involving alien species a...

Return of the Jedi is a 1983 space-opera film directed by Richard Marquand from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas. The third released film in the Star Wars series concludes the original trilogy through the Rebel assault on the second Death Star, Luke Skywalker's confrontation with Emp...

Guardians of the Galaxy is a 2014 Marvel Studios science-fiction adventure directed by James Gunn. Chris Pratt stars as Peter Quill, a spacefaring thief who joins Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and Groot after a stolen orb draws them into a conflict with the fanatic Ronan. The film introduced Marvel's cosmic...

The Martian is a 2015 science-fiction survival film directed by Ridley Scott and adapted from Andy Weir's novel. Matt Damon plays astronaut Mark Watney, who is mistakenly presumed dead and left on Mars, where he uses botany, engineering, and limited supplies to remain alive while NASA and his crew o...

Apollo 13 is a 1995 historical drama directed by Ron Howard and based on the aborted 1970 NASA lunar mission. Tom Hanks portrays commander Jim Lovell alongside Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton as astronauts whose spacecraft suffers an oxygen-tank explosion, forcing the crew and ground controllers to impr...

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is a 2023 Marvel Cinematic Universe film written and directed by James Gunn. The story follows the Guardians as they attempt to save Rocket, revealing his origin through experiments conducted by the High Evolutionary and his relationships with other captive animals. St...

Gravity is a 2013 space survival film directed by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. Bullock plays medical engineer Ryan Stone, who becomes stranded in orbit with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski after debris destroys their spacecraft during a mission. Known for its long s...

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is a 2016 science fiction war film directed by Gareth Edwards and set immediately before the original Star Wars film. It follows Jyn Erso and a group of Rebel operatives attempting to steal the plans for the Death Star, the weapon whose vulnerability drives the later att...

"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" is a 2017 superhero film written and directed by James Gunn, and the fifteenth entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The sequel continues the adventures of the Guardians as they encounter the celestial being Ego, revealed to be the father of Peter Quill, played by...

"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is a 2015 space opera film directed by J. J. Abrams, the first installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, and the first film in the franchise produced following Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm. Set approximately thirty years after "Return of the Jedi," it introduce...

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is a 2017 American epic space opera film written and directed by Rian Johnson. As the eighth main installment in the Star Wars franchise and the second film in the sequel trilogy, it continues the story of Rey, Finn, and Poe Dameron as they fight alongside the Resistance aga...

Ron Howard's 2018 Han Solo origin story, the second Star Wars anthology film, completed after its original directors were replaced mid-production.

J.J. Abrams's 2019 finale of the nine-episode Skywalker Saga, featuring the return of Emperor Palpatine as the resurrected central antagonist.