SciFi Movies Throughout the Solar System
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SciFi Movies Throughout the Solar System

Which of these science fiction flicks about one of Earth's sister planets is your favorite?

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1 Total Recall
Ahnold's 1990 flick asks serious questions about the nature of memory in between seriously cool action sequences on Mars. 54 86
2 Event Horizon
This movie perfectly blends elements of scifi and horror to tell the tale of a ship orbiting Neptune that opens a gateway into Hell. 20 68
3 Outland
Sean Connery's High Noon remake set on Jupiter's moon Io posits that the worst monsters in deep space may be human. 13 59
4 20 Million Miles to Earth
Best known for it's reptile-like Venusian Ymir, this movie ends with an alien getting blown up atop the Roman Coliseum. Awesome. 4 58
5 Silent Running
Set upon a botanical ark orbiting Saturn, this movie influenced dozens of ecological scifi flicks from Soylent Green to The Happening. 0 54
6 Sunshine
Danny Boyle's flick about astronauts trying to re-ignite the sun is a thoughtful commentary on the role of sunshine to the human soul. -11 59
7 Journey to the Seventh Planet
This flick about alien mind invaders on Uranus precedes the identically-plotted Solaris by a full decade. -19 47
8 Mysterious Island [Serial]
This 1951 serial finds Captain Nemo battling a squad of Mercurian invaders -- proof that we've always known Mercury is trouble. -24 48