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1. The Maze Runner (2014)
PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow "runners" for a shot at escape.
Director: Wes Ball | Stars: Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Will Poulter, Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Votes: 510,139 | Gross: $102.43M
2. War of the Worlds (2005)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An alien invasion threatens the future of humanity. The catastrophic nightmare is depicted through the eyes of one American family fighting for survival.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto
Votes: 475,404 | Gross: $234.28M
3. 2012 (I) (2009)
PG-13 | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: John Cusack, Thandiwe Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet
Votes: 397,973 | Gross: $166.11M
4. Dark Phoenix (2019)
PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Jean Grey begins to develop incredible powers that corrupt and turn her into a Dark Phoenix, causing the X-Men to have to decide if her life is worth more than all of humanity.
Director: Simon Kinberg | Stars: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult
Votes: 205,121 | Gross: $65.85M
5. Moonfall (2022)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit and sends it hurtling on a collision course toward earth.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Charlie Plummer
Votes: 99,559 | Gross: $19.06M
6. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
R | 83 min | Horror
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain
Votes: 183,747 | Gross: $30.86M
7. Ad Astra (2019)
PG-13 | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.
Director: James Gray | Stars: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland
Votes: 260,573 | Gross: $50.19M
8. Fantastic Four (I) (2005)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A group of astronauts gain superpowers after a cosmic radiation exposure and must use them to oppose the plans of their enemy, Doctor Victor Von Doom.
Director: Tim Story | Stars: Ioan Gruffudd, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans, Jessica Alba
Votes: 343,951 | Gross: $154.70M
9. Knowing (2009)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
M.I.T. professor John Koestler links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe.
Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne, Lara Robinson
Votes: 247,628 | Gross: $79.96M
10. Heroes Reborn (2015–2016)
TV-14 | 46 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A year ago, a terrorist attack in Odessa, Texas left the city decimated. Blamed for the tragic event, those with extraordinary abilities are in hiding or on the run from those with nefarious motives.
Stars: Jack Coleman, Zachary Levi, Robbie Kay, Kiki Sukezane
Votes: 28,992
11. 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: 75,532 | Gross: $0.13M
12. Awake (III) (2021)
TV-MA | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After a devastating global event wiped out all electronics and eliminated people's ability to sleep, a former soldier may have found a solution with her daughter.
Director: Mark Raso | Stars: Gina Rodriguez, Ariana Greenblatt, Lucius Hoyos, Shamier Anderson
Votes: 26,216
13. Red Planet (2000)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Astronauts, and their robotic dog AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Evaluation and Evasion), search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.
Director: Antony Hoffman | Stars: Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore, Benjamin Bratt
Votes: 59,933 | Gross: $18.00M
14. Automata (I) (2014)
R | 109 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Human race is at edge of the end. Robot race is at edge of the beginning.
Director: Gabe Ibáñez | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Dylan McDermott, Melanie Griffith
Votes: 59,405
15. Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In the future, Highlander Connor MacLeod must prevent the destruction of Earth under an anti-ozone shield.
Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen, Michael Ironside
Votes: 48,104 | Gross: $15.56M
16. Solar Crisis (1990)
PG-13 | 112 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts must fly toward the sun to drop a talking bomb at the right time for the flare to be aimed elsewhere.
Directors: Richard C. Sarafian, Arthur Marks | Stars: Tim Matheson, Charlton Heston, Peter Boyle, Annabel Schofield
Votes: 2,076
17. Autopsy (1975)
R | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young pathology doctor interning in a morgue tries to cope with a wave of suicides. A woman she just met kills herself, but she suspects someone close to her might have killed her.
Director: Armando Crispino | Stars: Mimsy Farmer, Barry Primus, Ray Lovelock, Carlo Cataneo
Votes: 1,964
18. Justice League: Doom (2012 Video)
PG-13 | 75 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy
Vandal Savage steals confidential files Batman has compiled on the members of the Justice League, and learns all their weaknesses.
Director: Lauren Montgomery | Stars: Kevin Conroy, Tim Daly, Susan Eisenberg, Nathan Fillion
Votes: 36,923
19. The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Unrated | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Michael Goodliffe
Votes: 6,206
20. 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: 4,538
21. Exploding Sun (2013 TV Movie)
174 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A historic space launch triggers a solar-storm event that could have cataclysmic repercussions for the planet if it isn't stopped in time - and time is running out.
Director: Michael Robison | Stars: David James Elliott, Anthony Lemke, Natalie Brown, Alex Weiner
Votes: 1,441
22. The Anomaly (2014)
Not Rated | 97 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
An ex-soldier named Ryan Reeve is taken captive by the "Anomaly" organization where he learns that he only has 9:47 minutes/seconds to find out why they want him dead.
Director: Noel Clarke | Stars: Noel Clarke, Ian Somerhalder, Brian Cox, Alexis Knapp
Votes: 7,757
23. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
PG-13 | 98 min | Documentary
Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Elon Musk, Lawrence Krauss, Lucianne Walkowicz, Kevin Mitnick
Votes: 13,413 | Gross: $0.59M
24. Approaching the Unknown (2016)
R | 90 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A U.S. astronaut prepares for a mission to Mars.
Director: Mark Elijah Rosenberg | Stars: Mark Strong, Luke Wilson, Sanaa Lathan, Anders Danielsen Lie
Votes: 9,163
25. The Mafu Cage (1978)
R | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Ellen, a successful astronomer, cares for her mentally-ill sister, Cissy, who keeps a variety of primates in the home they inherited from their anthropologist father. When Ellen begins a romance, Cissy's jealousy proves deadly.
Director: Karen Arthur | Stars: Lee Grant, Carol Kane, Will Geer, James Olson
Votes: 710
26. Where Have All the People Gone (1974 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 74 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
After a catastrophic solar flare decimates almost all life, reducing people to powdery substance, a group of survivors treks across the devastated Earth.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Peter Graves, George O'Hanlon Jr., Kathleen Quinlan, Verna Bloom
Votes: 1,501
27. Half-Life (2008)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
As troubling signs of global cataclysms accelerate, a brother and sister react to their father's desertion and the powerful presence of their mother's new boyfriend.
Director: Jennifer Phang | Stars: Sanoe Lake, Julia Nickson, Leonardo Nam, Ben Redgrave
Votes: 522
28. Supernova (2005 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 172 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A scientific possibility becomes a terrifying reality when the most powerful force in the universe threatens to hurtle home.
Director: John Harrison | Stars: Luke Perry, Tia Carrere, Peter Fonda, Clemency Burton-Hill
Votes: 1,863
29. Gog (1954)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A security agent investigates sabotage and murder at a secret underground laboratory, home of two experimental robots.
Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Richard Egan, Constance Dowling, Herbert Marshall, John Wengraf
Votes: 1,622
30. Metal Tornado (2011 TV Movie)
PG | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An American company inadvertently unleashes a magnetic vortex on an unprepared world.
Director: Gordon Yang | Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Nicole de Boer, Greg Evigan, Stephen MacDonald
Votes: 1,672
31. Paradox (2009–2010)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
During a period of high activity on the sun a physicist receives images in his lab that show an event that has yet to happen.
Stars: Tamzin Outhwaite, Emun Elliott, Mark Bonnar, Chiké Okonkwo
Votes: 2,019
32. Solar Attack (2006 TV Movie)
PG | 91 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
When the sun's increasing expulsions of plasma threaten to ignite methane in our atmosphere, international tensions rise while scientists race for a solution to avoid natural disaster.
Director: Paul Ziller | Stars: Mark Dacascos, Joanne Kelly, Kevin Jubinville, Sugith Varughese
Votes: 1,159
33. Solar Flare (2008)
PG-13 | 87 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A young math genius discovers a huge solar storm on the verge of destroying the Earth's power grid and he must alert the world before a powerful businessman stops him.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Michelle Clunie, Tracey Gold, Chris Brochu, Kasan Butcher
Votes: 622 | Gross: $0.00M
34. Collision Course (2012)
90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Kate Parks has spent the past year on tour promoting her book, an in-depth look at the attempted cover-up of her husband's death in a plane crash. Now all she wants is to return home to her... See full summary »
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: David Chokachi, Tia Carrere, Meghan McLeod, Tim Abell
Votes: 614
35. Mutant Vampire Zombies from the 'Hood! (2008)
TV-MA | 90 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
In the wake of a solar flare of unusual properties, a mismatched group of inner-city survivors must put aside their animosity to escape a Los Angeles now free of gang-bangers, but infested instead with blood-sucking zombies.
Director: Thunder Levin | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Tyshawn Bryant, Rachel Montez Minor, Johanna Watts
Votes: 429
36. What Happened on the Moon? - An Investigation Into Apollo (2000 Video)
225 min | Documentary
An in-depth British breakdown of how NASA never had the technology to overcome putting a man on on the moon or anywhere further than low orbit from the Apollo moon missions even today with ... See full summary »
Director: David S. Percy | Stars: Ronnie Stronge, H.J.P. Arnold, Mary Bennett, Ian Crawford
Votes: 88
37. Artifact (2013)
Action, Adventure, Drama
Human's struggle to obtain ancient Artifacts that have been scattered throughout space.
Stars: Cesar D' La Torre, Rich Finley, Ksenia Valenti, Daniel Begus
Votes: 55
38. Beyond Gravity (1989)
TV-14 | 48 min | Comedy, Romance
A man obsessed with the sun exploding and a trouble-making Italian-Kiwi man meet and fall in love in Auckland.
Director: Garth Maxwell | Stars: Robert Pollock, Iain Rea, Lucy Sheehan, Alex Van Dam
Votes: 76
39. Magnetic (2015)
80 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
On December 31st, the Earth will be destroyed. Everything you know will become nothing. Maybe it already has.
Directors: Sophia Cacciola, Michael J. Epstein | Stars: Allix Mortis, Chris Bernardi, Rachel Leah Blumenthal, Sophia Cacciola
Votes: 1,250
40. Exodus (II) (2018)
Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
When three bunker bound survivors of the solar apocalypse are told that there is only one space aboard a space shuttle fleeing Earth, they must all work out who may ascend and who is left behind.
Director: Kiran Dhoot | Stars: Ricardo Freitas, Meena Rayann, Sanee Raval, Jason Grieve
41. Alien Planet Earths (2014 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary
Scientists use different means to locate other "earths" throughout space and tell how they do it and what they have found or haven't found.
Director: Mark Bridge | Star: Mike Rowe
Votes: 30
42. Amasia (2014)
7 min | Short, Sci-Fi
A catastrophic solar flare causes a sudden hyper-global warming that changes the conditions of life on Earth.
Directors: Adrien Bisiou, Fabien Kretschmer, Guillaume Renier, Gaëlle Seguillon | Stars: Benjamin Barbelet, Remy Bay, Marie-Laure Bonnet, Adrien Cappai
43. After the End (2018– )
25 min | Comedy
In a world ravaged by the effects of a solar flare, an aimless drifter attempts to find some food and ends up saddled with a new mission and a ragtag group of merry miscreants.
Stars: Elijah Davis, Brian Viera, Joe Patrick Winters, Ryan Crowley-Hughes
45. Corona Effekten (2021)
Short, Drama
Covid-19 has changed the world, and Sarah finds herself confined to online schooling. As her motivation slowly disappear, the loneliness and plants takes over. As all hope of regaining a normal life disappears, another disaster strikes.
Director: Youssef Agerbo Halabi | Stars: Pernille Svendsen, Frank Averhoff-Nielsen, Susanne Klaris
46. Tears for Fears: No Small Thing (2021 Video)
4 min | Short, Music
Promotional video for the second single of their seventh studio album "The Tipping Point".
Director: Vern Moen | Stars: Roland Orzabal, Curt Smith, Tears for Fears
47. Anna (IV) (2019)
Short, Horror
One year after the death of his wife, a man carries out what seems to be a normal day - that is, until a solar flare opens a portal to the other side.
Directors: David Royal, Kyle Weaver | Stars: Emily K. Buss, Collins Van Gorden
48. The Woman Who Stared at the Sun (2021)
5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Director: Martina Mestrovic | Star: Addison Anderson
49. Days End (2013 Video)
12 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
A disillusioned young man's self-loathing is interrupted by a cataclysmic event with life altering consequences.
Director: Thomas Gaunt | Stars: Andrew Carl, Arque Springfield