‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ is a funny take on the space travel and revolves around Arthur Dent and his misadventures. I’m starting with a movie I am not personally a big fan of, yet, it makes a case for being a space film as it involves “interplanetary” travel. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005) ![]() The list includes space exploration movies, space adventure movies, space movies for kids, classic space movies and action space films. You might be able to watch some of these good space movies on Netflix, Hulu or Amazon Prime. With all that said, here is the list of top space movies of all time. This article strictly deals in films that are either about space or the extraterrestrial entities in space (could be planet, moon or spaceship). Many big blockbusters like ‘Star Wars’, Star Trek or more recently, ‘The Guardians of Galaxy’ are also based in space but for this article purposes, I haven’t counted them as space movies for the simple reason that they are not about the space precisely their stories are just based in a fantastical world outside earth. Humans, in general, are thrill-seeking and space gives us the ultimate thrill. There’s something about the mystery of space that draws us in. And nothing is more unknown than the darkness and vastness of space. Nothing fascinates and intrigues audiences more than “the unknown”. ![]() ![]() And within that genre, space movies occupy a prominent place. Space movies are intriguing for many reasons – one of them being the lack of information we have on the subject. Things changed drastically after the ’60s when USSR and the US competed against each other for manned space missions, followed by man’s historic moon landing in 1969. Wells, a legendary English writer and futurist, is the reason for the mass popularity of space-based, movies a trend that began in the ’60s and continues to, till this day.
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