American space adventure films

Avatar is a 2009 epic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron. It features an ensemble cast including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver. It is the first in the Avatar film series. It is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon, in order to mine the valuable mineral unobtanium. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the existence of a local tribe of Na'vi, a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The title of the film refers to an "avatar", which is a genetically engineered Na'vi body remotely operated from the brain of a human, and which is used to interact with the Na'vi.

Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan Nolan. It features an ensemble cast led by Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, and Michael Caine. Set in a dystopian future where Earth is suffering from catastrophic blight and famine, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through space in search of a new home for humanity.

1977 film directed by George Lucas

1968 film by Stanley Kubrick

2018 film by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo

2013 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón

2015 film directed by Ridley Scott

Dune is a 2021 American epic space opera film co-produced and directed by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts and Eric Roth. It is the first of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert and the first installment in Legendary Pictures' Dune film series. The cast includes Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem. Set in the distant future, the film follows Paul Atreides as his family, the noble House Atreides, is thrust into a war for the deadly and inhospitable desert planet Arrakis.

Avatar: The Way of Water is a 2022 American epic science fiction film directed by James Cameron and written by Cameron, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. It is the second installment in the Avatar film series and the sequel to Avatar (2009). Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña and Stephen Lang reprise their roles from the first film, with Sigourney Weaver returning in an additional role and Kate Winslet joining the cast. The plot follows Jake Sully, a human-Na'vi hybrid, and his family on the habitable moon Pandora. Hunted by RDA forces, they flee to an oceanic region to seek refuge with the Metkayina clan.

2017 film directed by James Gunn

2012 film directed by Ridley Scott

2019 film directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck

1995 film by Ron Howard

1984 film by David Lynch

2016 film directed by Gareth Edwards

1998 film directed by Michael Bay

Dune: Part Two is a 2024 American epic space opera film co-produced and directed by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts. The sequel to Dune (2021), it is the second of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert and the second installment in Legendary Pictures' Dune film series. It follows Paul Atreides as he unites with the Fremen people of the desert planet Arrakis to wage war against House Harkonnen. Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya, Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem reprise their roles from the first film, with Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken, and Léa Seydoux joining the cast.

1994 film directed by Roland Emmerich

2023 Marvel Studios film by James Gunn

2016 film by Morten Tyldum

1996 film directed by Jonathan Frakes

1990 film directed by Paul Verhoeven

1992 film directed by David Fincher

1979 film directed by Robert Wise

1982 film directed by Nicholas Meyer

2016 American 3D computer-animated family adventure film

2015 film directed by Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski

1986 film directed by Leonard Nimoy

1997 film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

1984 film directed by Leonard Nimoy

2017 film by Ridley Scott

2002 film directed by Stuart Baird

1991 film directed by Nicholas Meyer

Spaceballs is a 1987 American space opera parody film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks. It primarily parodies the original Star Wars trilogy, but also other popular franchises such as Star Trek, Alien, The Wizard of Oz, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes, and Transformers. The film stars Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis and Daphne Zuniga, with the supporting cast including Dick Van Patten, George Wyner, Lorene Yarnell, and the voice of Joan Rivers. In addition to Brooks playing a dual role, the film features Brooks regulars Dom DeLuise and Rudy De Luca in cameo appe

2005 film directed by Jon Favreau

2008 film by Dave Filoni

1989 film directed by William Shatner

1998 film directed by Jonathan Frakes

2018 film directed by Damien Chazelle

1983 film by Philip Kaufman

1999 film by Jay Roach

1994 film directed by David Carson

2024 film directed by Fede Álvarez

2000 film directed by David Twohy

2005 film directed by Joss Whedon

2017 film directed by Daniel Espinosa

2013 film directed by Gavin Hood

2009 film directed by Duncan Jones

2004 film directed by David Twohy

2000 film by Clint Eastwood

2005 film directed by Garth Jennings

1999 science-fiction comedy film directed by Dean Parisot

2002 film by Steven Soderbergh

2000 film directed by Brian DePalma

1956 science fiction movie directed by Fred M. Wilcox

2008 film by Robert C. Cooper

1984 film directed by Peter Hyams

1980 film by Mike Hodges

1977 film by Peter Hyams

2018 film directed by Ava DuVernay