Movies Like Ad Astra (2019)

Ad Astra is a 2019 drama, science fiction film from James Gray with a MovieMagicScore of 6.1/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Marooned and The Midnight Sky.

Drama Science Fiction

Marooned

1969

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.

5.9

MagicScore

The Midnight Sky

2020

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

5.7

MagicScore

The Spacewalker

2017

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.

7.0

MagicScore

Space Station 3D

2002

Some 220 miles above Earth lies the International Space Station, a one-of-a-kind outer space laboratory that 16 nations came together to build. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of this extraordinary structure in this spectacular IMAX film. Viewers will blast off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center and the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Russia for this incredible journey -- IMAX's first-ever space film. Tom Cruise narrates.

6.4

MagicScore

Crater

2023

After the death of his father, a boy growing up on a lunar mining colony takes a trip to explore a legendary crater, along with his four best friends, prior to being permanently relocated to another planet.

6.6

MagicScore

The Farthest

2018

The captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity's greatest achievements in exploration: NASA's Voyager mission.

7.8

MagicScore

War of the Planets

1977

A strange signal arrives on the Earth disturbing all communications, while an UFO appears above the Antarctic sea. Captain Alex Hamilton is sent with his spaceship and crew to the space outside the Solar System to find the origin of that signal. They reach an unknown planet where a giant robot enslaved a whole population of humanoids by taking their psychic energies.

3.6

MagicScore

Armageddon

1998

When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.

6.8

MagicScore

Love

2011

After losing contact with Earth, Astronaut Lee Miller becomes stranded in orbit alone aboard the International Space Station. As time passes and life support systems dwindle, Lee battles to maintain his sanity - and simply stay alive. His world is a claustrophobic and lonely existence, until he makes a strange discovery aboard the ship.

5.5

MagicScore

#10

Star Trek: Generations

1994

Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years.

6.5

MagicScore

#11

Mars Express

2023

In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet's capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, corruption, and a missing girl who holds a secret about the robots that threatens to change the face of the universe.

7.5

MagicScore

#12

The Martian

2015

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

7.7

MagicScore

#13

Capricorn One

1977

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.

6.8

MagicScore

#14

Mission to Mars

2000

When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors.

6.0

MagicScore

#15

2010

1984

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.

6.6

MagicScore

#16

Queen of Blood

1966

A spaceship is sent to Mars after an alien distress signal is picked up. They find one survivor, but when a crew member is found drained of blood it's evident they have rescued a bloodsucking monster. Uses footage from Encounter in Space (1963).

5.2

MagicScore

#17

Life

2017

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.

6.4

MagicScore

#18

Robinson Crusoe on Mars

1964

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.

6.3

MagicScore

#19

World Without End

1956

Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Century Earth devastated by atomic war. At first unaware where they are, but finding the atmosphere safe to breathe, they start exploring and find themselves in a divided future where disfigured mutants living like cavemen inhabit the surface, while the normals live comfortably below the surface but are dying as a race from lack of natural water, air and sunlight.

5.8

MagicScore

#20

Red Planet

2000

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

5.7

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Ad Astra?

The top films similar to Ad Astra by MovieMagicScore are Marooned (5.9), The Midnight Sky (5.7), The Spacewalker (7.0). Each shares drama/science fiction themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Ad Astra worth watching?

Ad Astra holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.1/10 from 6,954 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Ad Astra?

Ad Astra (2019) is a drama, science fiction film directed by James Gray, starring Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Liv Tyler.

Where can I find more recommendations like Ad Astra?

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About movies like Ad Astra

This ranked list pairs Ad Astra (2019), a drama and science fiction film from James Gray, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Brad Pitt take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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