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Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Political films, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols
The five-year mission seen in The Original Series has finished, and the crew has moved on from the Enterprise. Captain James T. Kirk has been promoted to Admiral, Doctor Leonard McCoy has left Starfleet to become a veterinarian while other members of the crew have been given desk jobs. This has led engineer Montgomery Scott to become an alcoholic through boredom. Spock had returned to the planet Vulcan where he was seeking to control his human half.
Flash Gordon Classic (2014)
, 4minutesThemes Space opera
Actors Eric Johnson, Joe Whyte, Gina K. Bowes, John Newton
Star quarterback Flash Gordon and his girlfriend Dale Arden are kidnapped by scientist Hans Zarkov and forced to join him on an intergalactic voyage to the planet Mongo. There, the trio are quickly captured by the forces of Ming the Merciless. As Ming holds Dale captive, he sends Flash and Zarkov into the Tunnel of Terror, where they must engage in a gladiatorial battle against a giant monster. Flash uses a stone like a football to fend off the monster, but as it has him pinned to the ground with its claw, Princess Aura throws a ray gun, which Flash uses to kill the monster. Ming calmly reprimands his daughter for her actions, but she insists for him to keep Flash alive for her.
Space Is the Place (1974)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Action, Adventure, Musical
Themes Space adventure films, Films about music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films, Space opera
Actors John Bailey
Sun Ra, who has been reported lost since his European tour in June 1969, lands on a new planet in outerspace with his crew "The Arkestra" and decides to settle African Americans on this planet. The medium of transportation he had chosen is music. He travels back in time and returns to the Chicago strip club where he used to play piano with the name "Sonny Ray" in 1943. There he confronts The Overseer (Ray Johnson), a pimp-overlord, and they agree on a duel at cards for the fate of the Black race. Each card drawn is a minor goal to achieve for Ra or The Overseer which will determine the winner of the duel. Then, to present time, Ra disembarks from his spaceship at Oakland and tries to spread his word by meeting with young Blacks at an Oakland youth centre and opening an "employment agency" to recruit people eager to move to the planet. He also agrees with Jimmy Fey (Christopher Brooks), the minion of The Overseer, to arrange radio interviews, a record album, and eventually a concert that will help him dictate his message. At the end, Ra takes Fey's "Black parts" with him to the spaceship, leaving him with his White parts. Fey, now acting white, leaves The Overseer who loses the duel. The planet Earth is destroyed after Ra's spaceship flies into space.
Hardware Wars (1978)
, 13minutesDirected by Ernie Fosselius
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Comedy science fiction films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Paul Frees, Ernie Fosselius
The film begins with the text "Meanwhile — in another part of the galaxy — later that same day". A household steam iron flies through space, fleeing a toaster, which fires toast at it. Two robots named 4-Q-2 (who looks like the Tin Man from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz) and Arty-Deco (a canister vacuum cleaner), escape from the evil Empire. After launching from the ship (a cassette player) in an escape pod (a cassette tape), they land on a desert planet (a watermelon). They are found by young Fluke Starbucker (played by future multi-platinum award-winning music producer Scott Mathews) who finds a video message saved on Arty-Deco. It is a loop of Princess Anne-Droid saying "Help me, Augie Ben Doggie, you're my only hope." Upon meeting Augie "Ben" Doggie (of the venerable Red-Eye Knights), Fluke receives his father's lightsaber (a flashlight). After tricking the Imperial Steam Trooper guards (steam cabinets) to let them into the city, they reach a cantina, which Fluke describes as "too weird". The cantina is a country-and-western bar, where they meet space-renegade Ham Salad and Chewchilla the Wookiee Monster (played by a puppet that resembles Cookie Monster of Sesame Street fame). Meanwhile, the villainous Darph Nader (whose name could be in reference to outspoken consumer advocate Ralph Nader) is interrogating the princess. When she refuses to talk (mainly because she can't understand him; his speech is muffled by his welder's mask), he destroys her peaceful home planet, Basketball (the name speaks for itself).
Planet of Dinosaurs (1977)
, 1h24Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, Space adventure films, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Max Thayer, Louie Lawless, Kevin Murphy, Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett
After a mechanical failure aboard the spaceship Odyssey, Captain Lee Norsythe (Louie Lawless) is forced to crash land on a planet with atmosphere and conditions much like that of Earth, although it is many light-years away. As the ship sinks into the lake that it landed in, communications officer Cindy (Mary Appleseth) realizes that she forgot the radio in the ship and attempts to retrieve it, with the assistance of fellow crew-member Chuck (Chuck Pennington). En route, Cindy is attacked and killed by an unidentified aquatic creature, prompting Chuck to return to shore without the radio.
Directed by Yutaka Izubuchi
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Action, Animation
Themes Space opera
Actors Kikuko Inoue, Takayuki Sugō, Kenichi Suzumura, Hōchū Ōtsuka
, 1h51Directed by Yutaka Izubuchi
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Action, Animation
Themes Space opera
Actors Daisuke Ono, Kenichi Suzumura, Eriko Nakamura, Aya Hisakawa, Hōchū Ōtsuka, Junichi Suwabe
Un nouvel ennemi menace l’humanité, asservissant ou détruisant toutes les planètes se trouvant sur sa route. L’histoire raconte le combat mené par l’équipage du Yamato pour empêcher le vaisseau spatial Gatlantis d’envahir la Terre. Cerné par les flottes du Gatlantis, le Yamato arrive toutefois à s’échapper et atteint une étrange planète…
Power/Rangers (2015)
, 14minutesDirected by Joseph Kahn
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about music and musicians, Space opera
Actors Katee Sackhoff, James Van Der Beek, Will Yun Lee, Bree Olson
The Machine Empire defeats the Power Rangers in battle, destroying the Megazord. It is revealed that Earth's governments then negotiate a truce with the Machine Empire and the Power Rangers are disbanded.
The Shape of Things to Come (1979)
, 1h38Directed by George McCowan
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Space opera, Disaster films
Actors Jack Palance, Carol Lynley, Barry Morse, John Ireland, Nicholas Campbell, Anne-Marie Martin
Sometime in the future, Earth is recovering from "The Robot Wars" that devastated the planet seven years earlier. Most of humanity now lives on the Moon within a domed city called New Washington, but their survival depends on an anti-radiation drug called Raddic-Q2 which is manufactured on the distant planet Delta 3.
Pilot Pirx's Inquest (1979)
, 1h44Directed by Marek Piestrak
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Dans l'espace, Space opera, Robot films
Actors Alexandre Kaïdanovski, Vladimir Ivashov
This movie is about a rocket pilot named Pirx who is hired to go on a mission to evaluate some nonlinears (robots) for use as crewmembers on future space flights. Pirx and his crew, made up of nonlinears and humans, are sent out to launch two satellites into the rings of Saturn. There is a near disaster and the human crew are almost killed. Upon returning to Earth there is an inquest to determine if Pirx was responsible for the "accident." In the end, it is found that one of the robots caused the malfunction in an attempt to kill the human crewmembers and Pirx is cleared of all charges.
Alien 2: On Earth (1980)
, 1h32Directed by Ciro Ippolito
Origin Italie
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Space adventure films, Dans l'espace, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films
Actors Belinda Mayne, Michele Soavi, Ciro Ippolito, Luigi Diberti
As the world awaits the return of a crew of astronauts from a deep space mission, a young woman named Thelma Joyce appears on a television talk show to discuss caves. Soon after her interview begins, Thelma has a horrible psychic vision. After the spacecraft returns to Earth missing its occupants, a girl on a beach discovers a weird, blue, pulsating rock. Her mother soon finds her with her face ripped off.
, 1h56Origin USA
Themes Space adventure films, Films set in the future, Space opera
Actors Gilbert Gottfried, Garrett Wang, Tim Russ, Chase Masterson, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig
Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007)
, 1h41Directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes Space adventure films, Dans l'espace, Space opera
Actors Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Stephanie Jacobsen, Michelle Forbes, Graham Beckel, Jamie Bamber
Le film se concentre sur l'histoire du Battlestar Pegasus, il se passe juste après la promotion de Lee Adama en tant que commandant du Battlestar Pegasus (Une main de fer - saison 2, épisode 17), de fréquents flashbacks montrent les événements vus du Pegasus entre l'attaque des Cylons et le présent, deux flashbacks montrent des événements de la première guerre contre les Cylons (un sur l'amiral Helena Cain, fuyant l'attaque des Cylons sur Tauron alors que sa petite sœur était tuée par les machines, un autre sur la découverte d'un centre de recherche Cylon visant à fabriquer un hybride cylon/humain).
Alien Attack (1980)
, 1h44Directed by Lee H. Katzin, Charles Crichton, Bill Lenny
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Dans l'espace, Space opera
Actors Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Nick Tate, Roy Dotrice, Isla Blair
Des chercheurs installés sur la Lune doivent effectuer une mission vers une planète considérée comme habitable. Cependant, la mort inexpliquée de plusieurs astronautes compromettent fortement leur voyage.
, 1h34Directed by Osamu Tezuka
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Animation
Themes Space adventure films, Films about magic and magicians, Dans l'espace, Vampires in film, Space opera
Actors Mami Koyama, Kōsei Tomita, Tōru Ohira, Masatō Ibu, Iemasa Kayumi, Reiko Mutō
Le jeune Vif Argent est recueilli par la famille royale d'une planète dont la population pacifiste est capable de se transformer en animal ou en végétal. Mais un jour, la planète est attaquée par des pirates qui l'emmènent de force avec la princesse Etoilia.