Desperate to land a man on the moon before Russia does, NASA hastily preps a would-be spaceman for a mission that would leave him alone in a lunar shelter for a year.
Casts James Caan, Joanna Moore, Robert Duvall, Barbara Baxley, Charles Aidman, Steve Ihnat, Michael Murphy, Ted Knight, Stephen Coit, John Rayner
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Shaft
Wild at Heart
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Straw Dogs
The Thirteenth Floor
The Thing
The Talented Mr. Ripley
American Psycho
Murder Mubarak
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Cabbage Soup
Clear and Present Danger
Dead Man's Folly
Fahrenheit 451
The Saint
Flight of the Navigator
The Russia House
The Quiet Earth
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Shaft
IMDB 6 | Jun , 2000
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.Wild at Heart
IMDB 7 | Aug , 1990
After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune. Lula's mother, Marietta, desperate to keep them apart, hires a hitman to kill Sailor. But he finds a whole new set of troubles when he and Bobby Peru, an old buddy who's also out to get Sailor, try to rob a store. When Sailor lands in jail yet again, the young lovers appear further than ever from the shared life they covet.The Man Who Fell to Earth
IMDB 6.4 | Mar , 1976
Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth, Thomas uses his knowledge of advanced technology to create profitable inventions. While developing a method to transport water, Thomas meets Mary-Lou, a quiet hotel clerk, and begins to fall in love with her. Just as he is ready to leave Earth, Thomas is intercepted by the U.S. government, and his entire plan is threatened.Straw Dogs
IMDB 7.1 | Nov , 1971
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.The Thirteenth Floor
IMDB 7 | Apr , 1999
In Los Angeles, a wealthy man, known as Mr. Fuller, discovers a shocking secret about the world he lives in. Fearing for his life, he leaves a desperate message for a friend of his in the most unexpected place.The Thing
IMDB 8.1 | Jun , 1982
In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing creature wreaks havoc, creates terror... and becomes one of them.The Talented Mr. Ripley
IMDB 7.2 | Dec , 1999
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.American Psycho
IMDB 7.4 | Apr , 2000
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.Murder Mubarak
IMDB 6.6 | Mar , 2024
When a gym trainer is murdered at an elite Delhi club, a wily investigator unravels the sordid secrets of its ultrarich members to find the killer.The Island of Dr. Moreau
IMDB 4.9 | Aug , 1996
A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA—with horrific results.Smilla's Sense of Snow
IMDB 6.3 | Feb , 1997
Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland. Scenes from the film were shot in Copenhagen and western Greenland. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, where director Bille August was nominated for the Golden Bear.Nineteen Eighty-Four
IMDB 6.8 | Nov , 1984
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.The Cabbage Soup
IMDB 6.4 | Dec , 1981
Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.Clear and Present Danger
IMDB 6.6 | Aug , 1994
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.Dead Man's Folly
IMDB 6.1 | Jan , 1986
During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.Fahrenheit 451
IMDB 5.4 | May , 2018
In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.The Saint
IMDB 6.1 | Apr , 1997
Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.Flight of the Navigator
IMDB 6.9 | Jul , 1986
12-year-old David is accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, but when he awakens eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to have him back, but is just as perplexed as he is that he hasn't aged. When a NASA scientist discovers a UFO nearby, David gets the chance to unravel the mystery and recover the life he lost.The Russia House
IMDB 6.1 | Dec , 1990
Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.The Quiet Earth
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 1985
After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.