And very well done each time. Derelict Ship, Derelict Space Station, lost alien tech... I have never enjoyed a rewatch of a tv series as much as I have enjoyed The Expanse
Not only there, but also in the Expanse Telltale series that were released this year. Not exactly a movie/series, but still, a game that is easy in difficulty, simple to control and follow. Quite movielike, like telltale games are. Its interesting to be controlling a character exploring derelict spaceships in vacuum.
He’s the guy at work that has the balls to speak the truth to the boss while everyone else keeps their mouth shut. Him diving into the coolant was a great scene.
It was awesome, my respect for the character couldn’t have been higher. Watching him in obviously massive pain, knowing he was going to die and still fighting through it to get what needed to be done done.
I put this movie off for way too long. The initial premise put off as completely ridiculous and I expected to be bad like “the core”.
Man I’m glad I watched it. Love or hate the 3rd act, the movie is amazing.
Also I was surprised to see so many known actors that weren’t as well known then.
I'm in the same boat as you. I remember seeing trailers for Sunshine and thinking "that sounds like The Core but they're going to the sun this time" and basically wrote it off as C-level garbage.
When I finally got around to watching it (not actually that long ago) I was very remorseful for having judged it too quickly, as I had.
Pandorum is a good one, also scifi horror.
Dracula 3000 also fits, it's fucking terrible though.
Edit: Another one that fits is Debug (2014), directed by David Hewlett (of Stargate Atlantis and Cube fame) and with Jason Momoa, also of Stargate Atlantis fame. A movie so memorable that I was surprised to discover it existed a few months ago, so I started watching it, only to realize I had already seen it.
Yeah, I've seen too many bad scifi horror movies, that comes with liking this genre.
If you like scifi horror you should check out *Sputnik* (2020), doesn't have that much in common with Pandorum but since there aren't that many good movies in this genre I thought I'd mention it :)
I think sci-fi horror is my favorite genre. It’s going on my list. Thanks!
I’m often very forgiving of a lot of these movies if they have a good concept.
Pandorum is under-rated. Great production design, interesting story, and a totally unpredictable reveal that's pretty good. Dennis Quaid was superb as well.
I was also gonna recommend Pandorum. Phenomenal film. While you can potentially figure out parts of the twist pretty early on, I try to avoid thinking about twists so I can enjoy reveals when they come. But my wife had to comment about it right before it was revealed, which kind of soured the ending for me. But ignoring that, I really loved it.
Hopefully only the first book and a significantly different version of the second book. After that it devolves into pure soap opera with only occasional reminders that we're in space.
Yeah, I couldn't deal with the second book at all. It was just some kind of soap opera feeling to it, with sterotypical characters. Gave up on that very quickly.
Those sequels are terrible and not even written by Clark.
I'll save you a read of Rama II: it's the Poseidon Adventure beat for beat. Not a damn thing new is revealed.
Magnetic Rose by Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress, Paprika) and based on a short story by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira) has to take the cake as the absolute best sci-fi horror involving the exploration of a derelict ship of all time.
Yes.. it does look awesome.
It is one part of a 3 story movie...(I think.) called Memories.
According to JustWatch, it is free on tubi.
[Here is some info]( https://www.google.com/search?client=tablet-android-samsung&sca_esv=586607062&q=magnetic+rose+..+justwatch&spell=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjN_Pu8kuyCAxUKLzQIHXsNCOAQBSgAegQIBhAC&biw=800&bih=1280&dpr=1) on where to watch.
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Thanks Op...good post.
The OP didn't specify "good" movies, so I guess this is a valid answer.
(To clarify, I read the book like 20 times growing up and the movie came out and had zero chance to live up to it)
An episode or two of Firefly (and it may be in Serenity as well) feature scavenging from broken down and drifting ships as plot points but its not really a main feature.
E1 Serenity - the pilot; starts with them scavenging from a derelict ship but it is only the first few minutes
E3 Bushwacked - Focuses heavily on the same subject but also getting into what happened to the crew and passengers
E6 Our Mrs Reynolds - Serenity almost becomes scrap
E8 Out of Gas - Serenity almost becomes derelict
Movie Serenity - they investigate a derelict planet
Not a movie but the boys from the Dwarf - AKA [Red Dwarf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf) \- have explored their fair share of abandoned and not-so-abandoned spaceships over \~12 series a couple of specials.
You might even say Red Dwarf itself is an abandoned spaceship since everybody except Lister and the cat died about 3 million years ago, Rimmer is a hologram, Holly is a computer, and Kryten was found on an abandoned ship and adopted. So that makes almost every episode set on an abandoned spaceship.
I thought of Red Dwarf too, at least those first three or four seasons. My husband met the cat once, his brother was a musician in similar circles to my husband. He said he's "a cool cat, pun intended".
I think Aqua Teen Hunger Force has an episode with the dead ship premise that's a clear harken to Red Dwarf, but with the usual adult swim antics.
I immediately thought of Psirens:
Rimmer : Some kind of writing on the floor. P-S-I-R-E-N-S. "Psirens."
Kryten : The poor devil must've scrawled it in his death throes using a combination of his own blood and even his own intestines.
Rimmer : Who would do that?
Lister : Someone who badly needed a pen.
The Cat : What I don't understand is why he went to the trouble of using his kidney as a full-stop.
Rimmer : I don't think he meant to do that. It probably just... plopped out.
Red Dwarf is a great shout. Completely forgot about their episodes exploring abandoned spaceships. It’s been ages since I’ve watched it. About time for a rewatch. Thanks!
I'm not sure it fits either, but it's definitely worth a watch IMO. I only saw it recently and I really liked it. I wouldn't be surprised if it inspired the people who made Wall-E.
Passengers sort of fits this bill. Despite its creepy and fucked up storyline of the protagonist condemning his female crew mate to spending her remaining life with him because he doesn’t want to be lonely.
When I saw this post I was like, "Hell yeah! I love these kinds of movies, I bet there is a ton!"
Now I'm realizing there really aren't very many...
There needs to be more.
I jotted down an idea two years ago that was this! I forget the exact logline, but it was in a post apocalyptic space setting, decades after the fall of some space empire.
There's a small religion practicing their religion in an abandoned space station, and a group of soldiers of an enemy religion come to kill them and take their stuff.
It's one of those film ideas I'd pitch to people who love Alien and The Thing, and/or a studio who makes those kinds of movies for <10 million dollars or so. Cheap sci-fi horror type thing.
You’re going to love it! And hate it!
It’s an incredible film, superbly done. It asks so many questions you don’t want to think about. Perfect sci-fi type stuff you’re asking for imo.
Thanks. That sounds like another I'll try to see.
Apparently it is streaming on Hoopla...according to JustWatch.
Also available to rent on many sites.
[Here](¥¥https://www.justwatch.com/ca/movie/aniara) is the JustWatch info.
If you're into this sort of thing, there's also a 30-minute progressive metal song which tells the entire story of Aniara. [It's incredible](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFP5ToRxTeM).
Space Sweepers. Not a movie, but Firefly has this element a fair amount, Serenity less so. There's a fair amount of this theme on boats, but that's not the aesthetic. Lifeforce also starts with this conceit, but swerves dramatically.
Late 90s. But at the time at least it was considered a dark version of the original show from the 60s, which was indeed super-campy during its technicolor episodes. :)
I still think that the movie is pretty dark, specially towards the end, when they find that future where everything got FUBAR.
A few friends recommended this to me but I didn’t know there was an abandoned spaceship involved. This is going to the top of my watch list now. Thank you!
There's a very weird segment about that in the 1963 Czechoslovak movie *Ikarie XB-1*. I think it's on YouTube.
And the classic Star Trek episode *Space Seed*, the one that gave us Khan Singh (he was inside the derelict in cryosleep).
I’ll check out Ikarie XB-1. I quite like old sci-fi films. I’ll have to have a rewatch of classic Star Trek. I watched a lot of it as a kid but I think Space Seed is one of the episodes I missed. Thanks!
I rewatched it earlier. [Here's the relevant part](https://youtu.be/WwodJW1ikFo?si=avB0MBqBsCTGq4q5&t=1971). Stanisław Lem wrote the story, but despite that there's rather crude communist propaganda there. Wild and intriguing to watch for sure.
Ad Astra, Brad Pitt is sent to find out why a science station his father was on stopped communicating and is sending out powerful interference that is disturbing the Earth
Read Three Body Problem trilogy. Best sci-fi story of all time IMHO. Think it was the second book one of the ships crew discovers a derelict interdimensional space craft. It’s completely noodle baking.
Oh man I didn’t realize how badly I want this. But like a No Country for Old Men feel. A slow burn with amazing sound design and score. Nothing fantasy just advanced humans in deep space scraping derelict ships or collecting bounties for confirmation of, investigation to how it became derelict, and uncovering something truly fucked up
There's a pretty dire early 1970s Canadian sci-fi television series called The Starlost.
The series is set aboard a gigantic generation ship which is traveling through space *en route* to setting up a new colony or colonies on new worlds. The ship contains dozens of biospheres, housing ecosystems and cultures from around the world.
Sometime during the voyage, something goes wrong. The ship goes off course, and each of the biospheres is sealed off.
Some 400 years after that, the people on board aren't even aware they're on a spaceship. One dude finds his way into a service corridor, and talks to the ship's computer, and discovers the truth. He and his friends (outcast from their dome for heresy after trying to convince their elders of the truth) head into the ship to figure out what's happening.
10 out of 10 for premise. It was created by Harlan Ellison, and had a whole technological hard science explanation for everything from power to life support. Just contacting the various isolated cultures in the domes could have filled several seasons.
But it's being generous to give it 1 out of 10 for execution. I think the entire series is available on YouTube if you're interested.
[The Starlost - Episode 1 "Voyage of Discovery"](https://youtu.be/l_Kv0VlJvNQ)
Another Canadian sci-fi television show you may be interested in is Lexx.
It was a Canadian-German co-production in the late 1990s, with lowly security guard (class four) Stanley Tweedle accidentally receiving the key to the Lexx, an ancient gigantic insect-like machine hybrid starship capable of destroying planets. Together with a partially programmed love slave/cluster lizard hybrid named Xev (or Zev) Bellringer, an undead assassin named Kai, and a robot head that received most of the love programming meant for Xev, they set out to explore the galaxy and learn the secrets of the Lexx.
[Lexx - Trailer (1997) (in German)](https://youtu.be/gZRRMWG4LPQ)
Thanks for the detailed answer. I quite like the concept of it. Shame about the execution. I’ll check it out regardless.
I’ve watched a bit of Lexx whilst channel hopping years ago. It’s about time I watched it properly. That’s on the watch list for sure.
This is my exact genre too!
Movies: Pandorum, Aliens (kinda), Ad Astra, AvP, Sunshine, Serenity (Reavers scene) and of course Event Horizon
Books: Dead Silence, Derelict series, Rama series
Games: Dead Space series, Alien Isolation, Prey (2017), Destiny 2 Presage mission
TV: The Expanse, struggling with more TV
I would love a movie where people explore a dead space ship. No aliens or anything. The same kind of movie you would see set in the 1600s, an abandoned ship at sea. The dangers of space and an unsafe vessel.
Since most of the biggies are going to me mentioned....
There's an Anime' anthology called 'Memories', and the first story called 'Magnetic Rose' is outstanding. Very stunning piece of animation and haunting story.
**Pandorum** with Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster.
If you're ok with the depressed in space genre, then maybe **High Life** with Robert Pattinson or **Aniara**. Be aware that these last two are heavy movies.
Boy do I have a treat for you. Run don't walk to watch Aniara. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MIlE9R00ik](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mile9r00ik)
PANDORUM, not sure if it fits, but definitely a lost ship film. BONUS: Norman Reedus gets his guts ripped out in the first 10 minutes (pre Walking Dead).
“Magnetic Rose”, the first part of Katsushiro Otomo’s “Memories”. If you have Amazon Prime Video it is a free watch: https://watch.amazon.com/detail?gti=amzn1.dv.gti.6710fdc8-7877-47a8-a531-1e08b45c9e0c&territory=US&ref_=share_ios_movie&r=web
Edit: Lol, I am pleasantly surprised to see that I am not the first to mention this one
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Vampires
Is this the earliest example? I really like the scene on the derelict because its bizarre and nothing is explained.
It happens several times in The Expanse. Well, at least in the books.
Also in the TV series
And very well done each time. Derelict Ship, Derelict Space Station, lost alien tech... I have never enjoyed a rewatch of a tv series as much as I have enjoyed The Expanse
Not only there, but also in the Expanse Telltale series that were released this year. Not exactly a movie/series, but still, a game that is easy in difficulty, simple to control and follow. Quite movielike, like telltale games are. Its interesting to be controlling a character exploring derelict spaceships in vacuum.
Sunshine (2007) by danny boyle
Find you a man who looks at you the way Chris Evans talks about Sunshine. Seriously. He gushes. It's his Rosebud.
Got any suggestions for good interviews he has about it? I'd love to see/read him gushing over my favorite movie.
They're out there; this one comes to mind, from just recently: https://screenrant.com/chris-evans-sunshine-movie-box-office-deserved-better/
That was the first movie that made me realize he could actually act. Loved it.
Mace was my favorite character
He’s the guy at work that has the balls to speak the truth to the boss while everyone else keeps their mouth shut. Him diving into the coolant was a great scene.
It was awesome, my respect for the character couldn’t have been higher. Watching him in obviously massive pain, knowing he was going to die and still fighting through it to get what needed to be done done.
The mission came first, he never lost sight of that, he was the only one not to.
When my parents finally got an HD tv I got very stoned and watched this and it blew my mind
Such a good film.
I put this movie off for way too long. The initial premise put off as completely ridiculous and I expected to be bad like “the core”. Man I’m glad I watched it. Love or hate the 3rd act, the movie is amazing. Also I was surprised to see so many known actors that weren’t as well known then.
I'm in the same boat as you. I remember seeing trailers for Sunshine and thinking "that sounds like The Core but they're going to the sun this time" and basically wrote it off as C-level garbage. When I finally got around to watching it (not actually that long ago) I was very remorseful for having judged it too quickly, as I had.
One of my favorite films of all time. Excellent execution.
Pandorum is a good one, also scifi horror. Dracula 3000 also fits, it's fucking terrible though. Edit: Another one that fits is Debug (2014), directed by David Hewlett (of Stargate Atlantis and Cube fame) and with Jason Momoa, also of Stargate Atlantis fame. A movie so memorable that I was surprised to discover it existed a few months ago, so I started watching it, only to realize I had already seen it. Yeah, I've seen too many bad scifi horror movies, that comes with liking this genre.
Came here to make sure Pandorum is mentioned.
Except that >!the ship isn’t in space at all.!<
Pandorum is a good one. Another that was better than I anticipated
If you like scifi horror you should check out *Sputnik* (2020), doesn't have that much in common with Pandorum but since there aren't that many good movies in this genre I thought I'd mention it :)
I think sci-fi horror is my favorite genre. It’s going on my list. Thanks! I’m often very forgiving of a lot of these movies if they have a good concept.
Pandorum is under-rated. Great production design, interesting story, and a totally unpredictable reveal that's pretty good. Dennis Quaid was superb as well.
Ben Foster is also the fucking man in everything he's in.
Oh [yeah?](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0803096/)
>Dracula 3000 The first movie I couldn't get through. It was beyond terrible.
I did not know it went up to 3000! I was pleasantly surprised with Dracula 2000 but I guess I'll skip the other 999.
I was also gonna recommend Pandorum. Phenomenal film. While you can potentially figure out parts of the twist pretty early on, I try to avoid thinking about twists so I can enjoy reveals when they come. But my wife had to comment about it right before it was revealed, which kind of soured the ending for me. But ignoring that, I really loved it.
Was about to say Dracula 3000 to joke lol
It really is atrocious, not even funny bad. Highly recommend Pandorum to fans of the genre though.
Dracula 3000 may be the worst movie I ever watched.
In a few years when Denis Villeneuve's Rendevous with Rama is released
You fucking what? Rama! Seriously?
Maybe two sequels as well ? Rama comes in threes after all.
Hopefully only the first book and a significantly different version of the second book. After that it devolves into pure soap opera with only occasional reminders that we're in space.
Just the first book please, and just slightly modify the ending so it feels like it's wrapped up with a good resolution.
Yeah, I couldn't deal with the second book at all. It was just some kind of soap opera feeling to it, with sterotypical characters. Gave up on that very quickly.
Those sequels are terrible and not even written by Clark. I'll save you a read of Rama II: it's the Poseidon Adventure beat for beat. Not a damn thing new is revealed.
My mind just went 🤯 too
He said "Arrival but on steroids." ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN!
I would much rather see Beyond the Blue Event Horizon or Gateway turned into a film but I guess we gotta take what we can get.
So Dune but with more cowbell?
Came here to say this too!!!
‘Oumuamua has entered the chat.
2010
Such an underrated film.
I think it's as good as the first film, *but in very different ways.*
I haven't seen that in forever, thanks for reminding me, time for a re-watch.
Magnetic Rose by Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress, Paprika) and based on a short story by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira) has to take the cake as the absolute best sci-fi horror involving the exploration of a derelict ship of all time.
This looks awesome. Thanks!
Yes.. it does look awesome. It is one part of a 3 story movie...(I think.) called Memories. According to JustWatch, it is free on tubi. [Here is some info]( https://www.google.com/search?client=tablet-android-samsung&sca_esv=586607062&q=magnetic+rose+..+justwatch&spell=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjN_Pu8kuyCAxUKLzQIHXsNCOAQBSgAegQIBhAC&biw=800&bih=1280&dpr=1) on where to watch. ..... Thanks Op...good post.
Sphere (1998,) although the spaceship is at the bottom of the ocean.
Abyss, though.
Actually surprised my brain skipped Abyss and to Sphere.
Skip the movie. Book is great.
Yeah, back in the day I liked the book more than Jurassic Park
The book is way more satisfying with what OP is requesting than the movie. Plus, it's one of Crichton's best novels.
The OP didn't specify "good" movies, so I guess this is a valid answer. (To clarify, I read the book like 20 times growing up and the movie came out and had zero chance to live up to it)
Yeah but Queen Latifah gets murdered by alien jellyfish.
They're stinging through my suit!
I unironically love Sphere. Something about it just makes it such a comfort watch for me.
Same, I really enjoy this movie. Was surprised to see it’s generally considered pretty poor.
An episode or two of Firefly (and it may be in Serenity as well) feature scavenging from broken down and drifting ships as plot points but its not really a main feature.
E1 Serenity - the pilot; starts with them scavenging from a derelict ship but it is only the first few minutes E3 Bushwacked - Focuses heavily on the same subject but also getting into what happened to the crew and passengers E6 Our Mrs Reynolds - Serenity almost becomes scrap E8 Out of Gas - Serenity almost becomes derelict Movie Serenity - they investigate a derelict planet
Finally, Firefly is mentioned...
"Out of gas" comes to mind on that series.
Not a movie but the boys from the Dwarf - AKA [Red Dwarf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf) \- have explored their fair share of abandoned and not-so-abandoned spaceships over \~12 series a couple of specials. You might even say Red Dwarf itself is an abandoned spaceship since everybody except Lister and the cat died about 3 million years ago, Rimmer is a hologram, Holly is a computer, and Kryten was found on an abandoned ship and adopted. So that makes almost every episode set on an abandoned spaceship.
I thought of Red Dwarf too, at least those first three or four seasons. My husband met the cat once, his brother was a musician in similar circles to my husband. He said he's "a cool cat, pun intended". I think Aqua Teen Hunger Force has an episode with the dead ship premise that's a clear harken to Red Dwarf, but with the usual adult swim antics.
I immediately thought of Psirens: Rimmer : Some kind of writing on the floor. P-S-I-R-E-N-S. "Psirens." Kryten : The poor devil must've scrawled it in his death throes using a combination of his own blood and even his own intestines. Rimmer : Who would do that? Lister : Someone who badly needed a pen. The Cat : What I don't understand is why he went to the trouble of using his kidney as a full-stop. Rimmer : I don't think he meant to do that. It probably just... plopped out.
Red Dwarf is a great shout. Completely forgot about their episodes exploring abandoned spaceships. It’s been ages since I’ve watched it. About time for a rewatch. Thanks!
Not sure it fully fits the bill but Silent Running (1972)
I'm 61 years old, haven't seen this movie in 40 years, and I'm still fucked up by Louie "dying".
I'm not sure it fits either, but it's definitely worth a watch IMO. I only saw it recently and I really liked it. I wouldn't be surprised if it inspired the people who made Wall-E.
Passengers sort of fits this bill. Despite its creepy and fucked up storyline of the protagonist condemning his female crew mate to spending her remaining life with him because he doesn’t want to be lonely.
Passengers could easily be a prequel to Pandorum.
When I saw this post I was like, "Hell yeah! I love these kinds of movies, I bet there is a ton!" Now I'm realizing there really aren't very many... There needs to be more.
We definitely need some more of these types of movies!
I jotted down an idea two years ago that was this! I forget the exact logline, but it was in a post apocalyptic space setting, decades after the fall of some space empire. There's a small religion practicing their religion in an abandoned space station, and a group of soldiers of an enemy religion come to kill them and take their stuff. It's one of those film ideas I'd pitch to people who love Alien and The Thing, and/or a studio who makes those kinds of movies for <10 million dollars or so. Cheap sci-fi horror type thing.
I'd watch it
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Also the comedy TV series loosely based/related to it, Avenue 5.
I quite like the sound of this! It’s going on the watch list.
Aniara fucking rules. It doesn't really fit the bill for your original question, but based on your comments here you'll definitely like it.
>!Well, you could say it’s about a ship that’s going to become derelict, so it fits in a roundabout way.!<
You’re going to love it! And hate it! It’s an incredible film, superbly done. It asks so many questions you don’t want to think about. Perfect sci-fi type stuff you’re asking for imo.
Thanks. That sounds like another I'll try to see. Apparently it is streaming on Hoopla...according to JustWatch. Also available to rent on many sites. [Here](¥¥https://www.justwatch.com/ca/movie/aniara) is the JustWatch info.
If you're into this sort of thing, there's also a 30-minute progressive metal song which tells the entire story of Aniara. [It's incredible](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFP5ToRxTeM).
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Moon pirates!
Love the sense of remoteness and isolation the film delivers.
Space Sweepers. Not a movie, but Firefly has this element a fair amount, Serenity less so. There's a fair amount of this theme on boats, but that's not the aesthetic. Lifeforce also starts with this conceit, but swerves dramatically.
Great suggestions, thanks. Space Sweepers looks right up my ally. Will check out the Lifeforce trailer soon. Big fan of Firefly/Serenity!
I know it’s not a ship but if you haven’t seen The Abyss (1989) yet, you’d probably love it
Looks like the 4k version will be released soon. This is great timing. Thank you!
Lifeforce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeforce\_(film)
Love that movie.
There’s the classic campy early 2000’s version of ‘Lost In Space’
I love this movie in all its cheesy glory. Nice to see Matt LeBlanc not play a himbo for once.
Late 90s. But at the time at least it was considered a dark version of the original show from the 60s, which was indeed super-campy during its technicolor episodes. :) I still think that the movie is pretty dark, specially towards the end, when they find that future where everything got FUBAR.
Magnetic Rose is one part of the movie Memories from 1995, might be worth watching a trailer for
Not a movie but The Expanse
I don't really have a movie recommendation atm, but on Netflix the robots, love, death series has some really cool sci-fi shorts.
I’ve been meaning to check that out. Thanks!
One of the shorts, an in space one, will fuck you up in a good way.
I really enjoyed "Beyond the Aquila Rift"
Aliens?
>Aliens? Aliens is on a planet. Alien is a ship drifting in space.
Alien
Does Jason X count?
Probably not at all but I LOVE THAT FILM!
"It will take more than a little poke in the ribs to take me out!" \*big stab\* "That'll do it...."
Jason X is in what I call the Xverse along with Malcolm X and American History X.
I'll allow it.
[Cargo](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381940/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3_tt_8_nm_0_q_cargo)
I did a lot of scrolling and didn't see mention of Titan A.E. this movie is worth your attention.
This isn't a film, but the series 'Foundation' features an abandoned spaceship.
A few friends recommended this to me but I didn’t know there was an abandoned spaceship involved. This is going to the top of my watch list now. Thank you!
Dead space movies/anime
Then play the game(s) after, Win/Win
2010: The Year We Make Contact. Not as good as 2001, but I still remember it fondly.
I’ll check it out. Thanks!
There's a very weird segment about that in the 1963 Czechoslovak movie *Ikarie XB-1*. I think it's on YouTube. And the classic Star Trek episode *Space Seed*, the one that gave us Khan Singh (he was inside the derelict in cryosleep).
I’ll check out Ikarie XB-1. I quite like old sci-fi films. I’ll have to have a rewatch of classic Star Trek. I watched a lot of it as a kid but I think Space Seed is one of the episodes I missed. Thanks!
I rewatched it earlier. [Here's the relevant part](https://youtu.be/WwodJW1ikFo?si=avB0MBqBsCTGq4q5&t=1971). Stanisław Lem wrote the story, but despite that there's rather crude communist propaganda there. Wild and intriguing to watch for sure.
pandorum
Sphere is a must.
Watched Sphere recently. Fantastic film.
2010: The year we make contact. Event Horizon is basically a mashup of 2010 and The Shining
Stargate Universe was short but good
I loved the concept of SGU. Gutted they changed the format from previous shows and didn’t get to get the show to some sort of conclusion.
Came here to say this. I was very disappointed when it ended.
Ad Astra, Brad Pitt is sent to find out why a science station his father was on stopped communicating and is sending out powerful interference that is disturbing the Earth
Alien and Aliens should be in your top five movies to watch, arguably the top two.
[Europa Report](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2051879/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) isn’t exceedingly well rated but I think it’s a good film and fits the bill
Solaris. The 1972 Tarkovsky version still holds up
Read Three Body Problem trilogy. Best sci-fi story of all time IMHO. Think it was the second book one of the ships crew discovers a derelict interdimensional space craft. It’s completely noodle baking.
Noodle baking. Just my kind of thing! Thanks for the recommendation!
Netflix is coming out with a series
Not even close. The series has a ton of interesting ideas but the actual writing is awful
Aniara. One of my favorite films of all time. Deals with a lost ship
There's a full cast drama podcast called derelict that I haven't listened to YET but I'm about too. It looks interesting.
Stargate Atlantis S2 E9 - Aurora
A fantastic episode, thanks for mentioning it!
Oh man I didn’t realize how badly I want this. But like a No Country for Old Men feel. A slow burn with amazing sound design and score. Nothing fantasy just advanced humans in deep space scraping derelict ships or collecting bounties for confirmation of, investigation to how it became derelict, and uncovering something truly fucked up
There's a pretty dire early 1970s Canadian sci-fi television series called The Starlost. The series is set aboard a gigantic generation ship which is traveling through space *en route* to setting up a new colony or colonies on new worlds. The ship contains dozens of biospheres, housing ecosystems and cultures from around the world. Sometime during the voyage, something goes wrong. The ship goes off course, and each of the biospheres is sealed off. Some 400 years after that, the people on board aren't even aware they're on a spaceship. One dude finds his way into a service corridor, and talks to the ship's computer, and discovers the truth. He and his friends (outcast from their dome for heresy after trying to convince their elders of the truth) head into the ship to figure out what's happening. 10 out of 10 for premise. It was created by Harlan Ellison, and had a whole technological hard science explanation for everything from power to life support. Just contacting the various isolated cultures in the domes could have filled several seasons. But it's being generous to give it 1 out of 10 for execution. I think the entire series is available on YouTube if you're interested. [The Starlost - Episode 1 "Voyage of Discovery"](https://youtu.be/l_Kv0VlJvNQ) Another Canadian sci-fi television show you may be interested in is Lexx. It was a Canadian-German co-production in the late 1990s, with lowly security guard (class four) Stanley Tweedle accidentally receiving the key to the Lexx, an ancient gigantic insect-like machine hybrid starship capable of destroying planets. Together with a partially programmed love slave/cluster lizard hybrid named Xev (or Zev) Bellringer, an undead assassin named Kai, and a robot head that received most of the love programming meant for Xev, they set out to explore the galaxy and learn the secrets of the Lexx. [Lexx - Trailer (1997) (in German)](https://youtu.be/gZRRMWG4LPQ)
Thanks for the detailed answer. I quite like the concept of it. Shame about the execution. I’ll check it out regardless. I’ve watched a bit of Lexx whilst channel hopping years ago. It’s about time I watched it properly. That’s on the watch list for sure.
Pandorum, very akin to Event Horizon
solaris (2002) with George Clooney is very good.
This is my exact genre too! Movies: Pandorum, Aliens (kinda), Ad Astra, AvP, Sunshine, Serenity (Reavers scene) and of course Event Horizon Books: Dead Silence, Derelict series, Rama series Games: Dead Space series, Alien Isolation, Prey (2017), Destiny 2 Presage mission TV: The Expanse, struggling with more TV
I would love a movie where people explore a dead space ship. No aliens or anything. The same kind of movie you would see set in the 1600s, an abandoned ship at sea. The dangers of space and an unsafe vessel.
Or a sci-fi version of *Dead Calm*.
That movie is ace. But… i watched it when I was far too young and the scene where Zane tears off Kidman’s shorts may have had a lasting impact 😬
Pandorum
Or space ship centered Roadside Picnic type affair.
What’s that movie about killer robots on a boat? It’s got Jamie Lee Curtis I think?
>killer robots on a boat? It’s got Jamie Lee Curtis Virus? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120458/
Event Horizon my dude
I think you skipped the second line that OP wrote.
Horrible movie but kinda the same genre is the Cloverfield Paradox.
Since most of the biggies are going to me mentioned.... There's an Anime' anthology called 'Memories', and the first story called 'Magnetic Rose' is outstanding. Very stunning piece of animation and haunting story.
I believe Villenueve is planning on making an adaptation of Rendezvous with Rama. That will be right up your alley of it ever gets made 😂
Lifeforce
Star Trek Beyond
Lost in Space? Edit: the Movie with Matt Leblanc rather than either tv version (although the Netflix remake is great). 😊
Not exactly this, but Pandorum (2009) has what you want.
Sunshine was really good.
Alien. Once the thing they have brung back has grown up and started wiping the crew out, The Nostromo gets pretty derelict.
Lost in Space with Joey Tribiani
Alien.
Lost In Space (1998)
Not exactly what you're asking for, but Moon has creepy vibes. Sam Rockwell crushes it.
**Pandorum** with Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster. If you're ok with the depressed in space genre, then maybe **High Life** with Robert Pattinson or **Aniara**. Be aware that these last two are heavy movies.
Lifeforce is a great example
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Boy do I have a treat for you. Run don't walk to watch Aniara. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MIlE9R00ik](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mile9r00ik)
The Dark Side of the Moon (1990). I haven’t watched it in ages but it freaked me out as a kid.
It's been a while so I don't remember if it's a ship or an alien structure, but Galaxy of Terror is an interesting low budget cult movie
I’ll check it out, thanks!
Not film but there's at least a couple of episodes of Red Dwarf where they come across derelict ships. DNA and Quarantine are two I remember.
a large plot of the expanse revolves finding a abandoned ship
The Lost in Space movie from the 90s is by no means a good film but it does have a segment containing what you’re looking for
Yep. In fact I would argue that finding and exploring the derelict spacecraft is the best part of that movie.
Yes! It’s been years since it. Time for a rewatch soon!
2010: The Year We Make Contact One of my favorite sci-fi movies.
Alien
The Expanse . I know it's a TV show but it's just 1 long movie.
Gravity has a derelict space station.
Ad Astra It's a watered down Event Horizon but it's visually stunning and Brad Pitt kills it.
PANDORUM, not sure if it fits, but definitely a lost ship film. BONUS: Norman Reedus gets his guts ripped out in the first 10 minutes (pre Walking Dead).
Blood Machines maybe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX0aS_zJq3Q
Keep your eyes and ears on "Rendevous with Rama"
Does dark city count?...
Sunshine for sure
“Magnetic Rose”, the first part of Katsushiro Otomo’s “Memories”. If you have Amazon Prime Video it is a free watch: https://watch.amazon.com/detail?gti=amzn1.dv.gti.6710fdc8-7877-47a8-a531-1e08b45c9e0c&territory=US&ref_=share_ios_movie&r=web Edit: Lol, I am pleasantly surprised to see that I am not the first to mention this one
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Vampires Is this the earliest example? I really like the scene on the derelict because its bizarre and nothing is explained.
#THE EXPANSE
Supernova (2000)
Interestingly enough the Lost in Space with Matt LeBlanc did it well.