Movies about astronauts

I love science fiction in all of its forms, and I love movies, and I'm crazy about movies (and books) about astronauts.

In a bulletin I was asked to write a blog about astronauts having problems in space and, though some of them couldn't be classified as science fiction, here you have my recommendations (in no particular order):

This is already a classic and an obvious one, I know. But, how many movies have made you forget to breathe? So, never forget about Gravity.

Maybe the best-known of the whole list. I usually don't like Nolan's movies but this one, OMG, with all the science, and the relativity problems, and the ethics, even the "love is the only thing that transcends time and space" cheesy plot and, everything. This movie is like three hours long and I would never get tired of it.

A man has been working in the moon, in a solar farm, for the last three years. But when his contract is about to end and when he has start to prepare to come back home... something weird happens.

Not only Sam Rockwell is amazing and the script is beyond words, this movie has one of the most lovable robots ever: GERTY. Watch it and then tell you don't love GERTY. You can't.

There were signs of some kind of life in Jupiter's moon Europa. A crew was sent to study them, but they never came back. What we see -as a Big Brother- is the tapes of the ship. What happened to them? They arrived to Europa? What didn't they come back?

The first time I saw the movie I didn't really know if I liked it, but I just keep thinking of it, so I guess I did. Also, the trailer is awful, it spoils the full movie and makes it look like it's a horror movie when it's not. So I'm just showing the poster. The less you know about their journey, the better.

The sun is getting weaker and it's going to implode. So the humans send a crew to explode a nuclear bomb into the sun to reactivate it. The mission seems impossible, but they also don't know if they could ever come back to the Earth.

I know the plot of this movie sounds ridiculous and the worst, but, believe me: this movie is amazing. It's written by Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Devs) and the nuclear bomb and the sun are the less interesting things about it. It's one of my favourite movies.

Lucy was sent to the ISS, and it changed her life. Since the moment she went down to Earth, the only thing she can think about it going back up. But it's not going to be easy (mostly the patriarchy).

Lucy in the sky was released and automatically was devastated by the critic; in my opinion, by an unfair critic that wanted to see something that wasn't going to happen in the movie, so they got angry. Assholes. The movie is good. I don't know if I could say it's great, because at times it feels too slow, but it also takes some awesome technical decisions that make it unique.

It's definetely not science fiction, but who cares when you have a story about astronauts and you keep thinking of the ISS.

NASA receives a radio signal. It's from somewhere in the edge of the solar system, and also sounds like artificial. They need someone to go and check it, so they call an astronaut and they ask him to take the trip alone. And since he is alone on the ship, he will have to take some hard decisions.

Maybe the most indie and with the smallest budget one in the list, but it really knows how to work with the resources it has. It has a great photography, a good script and a good performance. It has eveything I ask for in these films.

There was a crew in Mars, starting to conduct their experiments, when a storm forced them to stop the mission and going back. In the storm, Mark gets hit with a piece of equipment and dies. Except he doesn't. And now that his crew is gone, he has to survive in Mars... when everybody thinks he's dead.

If you don't know this movie by now, what are you doing reading this list instead of watching it. Or read the book, it's equally good. If you read the book you'll find yourself following Mark's journey in a map (not that it happened to me).

The most recent release. A crew of three people to Mars discovers that another one was in the ship when they took off. And know they have to figure out how four people can live in a ship and a mission designed for three.

I saw this movie yesterday and I have mixed feelings about it. The actors are amazing and the photography is breathtaking (the first scence of the launch it the better I've seen), but. But. The plot is inconsistent, it has plot holes, and it lacks the premise of all the previous films: astronauts are very good people. Also, the characters are so cuestionable that they don't use the name NASA in the whole film. So, if you like all of these films and whant to see more astronauts in trouble, watch it. But be aware than I'd rather recommend Sunshine or Moon, or even Magellan, before this one.

Have you seen any is these movies?
Any of them seem interesting?

(Is there another movie about astronauts having problems in space that I missed?)