Films with theme "Mars in film", sorted by name

Genres Science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Superhero films, Political films, Alternate history films, Space opera

In October 1985, during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and on the eve of nuclear war, a depressed Rorschach, one of several outlawed vigilante superheroes, begins to investigate why all former masked superheroes are either dead or have declined.

Genres Science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Space opera

Lost on Mars was based on what it might have been like if Mars was populated with a civilization and had an atmosphere billions of years ago. Space Command sends a rocket ship to Mars to investigate a signal that Earth received from Mars. Once the crew arrives on the planet they encounter strange things beneath the surface of the planet. Alex Quin an astronaut enters a monument on Mars where he finds a room full of gold and silver, he also finds a strange box; within this box there is a device which he takes back to the ship. A violent storm erupts on his way back and the rocket ship needs to take off immediately before it strikes. The crew tries to launch but it's too late and the storm hits the ship hard making the ship go out of control directing the ship back towards the planet. One of the astronauts notices something very strange on her monitor which shows in the cargo bay there is a very strong energy field being created. The energy is coming from the box that Alex brought aboard. This energy force is what creates a door way back into time, a door way back into Mar's past. Once they travel back into time the three astronauts find a strange new world, a world of barbaric proportions. While on the surface of Mars they are imprisoned tortured and brought forth to the Siperion Empire for their judgment. Their only hope is to figure out how to get back to their ship in hope they can return home.

Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Space opera

Empire of Danger is about a rescue mission sent to Mars to find out what happened to the astronauts from the first mission to Mars. A rocket is launched towards Mars with an experimental spacecraft capable of traveling through time. The astronauts attempt to travel back through time over 300 billion years ago into Mars past in hope of finding out why Space command lost contact with the first mission. As the spacecraft attempts to travel back in time, Earth urgently tries to send a radio transmission to abort their mission. The crew receives the information but it's to late and they travel back into Mars past anyway throwing them ten years off their projected time curve from the first crew. Once on the planet surface they encounter a world with a thriving atmosphere, a world similar to Earth but controlled by the Siperion Empire a ruthless barbarian culture who are at war with an alliance of planets in their home solar system. Mars was taken from the alliance by the Siperion army during the war. The planet is used for mining raw minerals and used as a Top secret base to construct weapons of mass destruction to destroy their enemy's with.

, 2h4
Directed by James Gray
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Dans l'espace, Sur la Lune, Mars in film, Sur la Lune
Actors Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Liv Tyler, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland, Jamie Kennedy

Sur Terre, dans un futur proche, l’ingénieur et astronaute de la NASA Roy McBride s'occupe de la maintenance d'une antenne de 30 km de hauteur. Celle-ci est détruite lors d’une surcharge électrique venue de Neptune, qui cause des ravages également sur Terre.

, 1h50
Directed by Yakov Protazanov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Films based on science fiction novels, Films about extraterrestrial life, Martiens, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilinski, Nikolai Tseretelli, Nikolai Batalov, Vera Orlova, Mikhail Zharov

L'histoire débute en décembre 1921. Un mystérieux message est envoyé aux radios du monde entier, simplement trois mots : « Anta… Odeli… Uta… » que les spécialistes ne peuvent déchiffrer. Dans une station de Moscou, l'ingénieur Los et son collègue et voisin l'ingénieur Spiridonov reçoivent ce message. On apprend ensuite qu'ils élaborent en secret les plans d'un vaisseau spatial.

, 1h17
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Mikhaïl Karioukov
Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Space opera
Actors Ivan Pereverzev, Viktor Dobrovolsky

A Soviet scientific expedition is being prepared as the world's first mission to planet Mars. Their space ship Homeland has been built at a space station, where the expedition awaits the command to start.

, 1h4
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Mikhaïl Karioukov
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Space opera
Actors Ivan Pereverzev, Viktor Dobrovolsky

Dans le futur (1997), après une guerre atomique, la Terre est désormais divisée en deux régions, Hemis Nord et Hemis Sud qui sont encore en conflit. Le programme spatial d'Hemis Sud construit une fusée spatiale gràçe à laquelle le premier voyage vers Mars sera entrepris. Le directeur du projet, le Dr Albert Gordon et ses astronautes Paul Clinton et Craig Matthews voyagent jusqu'à la station spatiale où la fusée Mercury a été construite. Un jour avant le lancement (le 7 novembre 1997), une fusée d'Hemis Nord approche la station spatiale. Son équipage, le Capitaine Torrens et le Dr Martin, demandent par radio l'autorisation de débarquer et de réparer leur fusée, ce qui leur est accordé.

, 1h58
Directed by Peter Hyams
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about writers, Space adventure films, Films about journalists, Films about television, Mars in film, Dystopian films, Space opera
Actors Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston, Hal Holbrook, Karen Black

At an unspecified time, Capricorn One—the first manned mission to Mars—is on the launch pad. NASA authorities such as Dr. James Kelloway (Hal Holbrook) realize, too late, that a faulty life-support system supplied by a lowest-bid NASA contractor will kill the astronauts during the flight. As the manned space program needs a success to continue, they find themselves forced to falsify the landing rather than cancel the mission.

, 1h30
Directed by David Lane
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Films set in the future, Space opera
Actors Francis Matthews, Ed Bishop, Donald Gray

War erupts between Earth and Mars after a manned mission to the Red Planet results in an attack on the city of the Mysterons. The World President is threatened with assassination but ultimately saved from a Mysteron reconstruction of Spectrum's top agent, Captain Scarlet, which is released from Mysteron control and re-enters Earth's service ("The Mysterons"). However, the Mysterons successfully assassinate the Director General of the United Asian Republic ("Winged Assassin").

Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Musical
Themes Space adventure films, Films about music and musicians, Christmas films, Mars in film, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films, Space opera
Actors Steve Burns, Adam Goldberg, Fred Armisen

The film tells the story of the experiences of Major Syrtis during the first Christmas on a newly colonized Mars.

, 1h35
Directed by Luigi Cozzi
Origin Italie
Genres Science fiction, Adventure, Horror, Romance
Themes Space adventure films, Medical-themed films, Mars in film, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about viral outbreaks, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masè, Gisela Hahn, Siegfried Rauch, Carlo Monni

A large ship drifts into New York Harbor, seemingly abandoned. The ship is discovered to be carrying large containers of coffee, hidden inside of which are a series of football-sized green eggs. The crew sent in to explore the ghost ship find the mutilated remains of the former crew gathered in one place, and they soon discover the reason why: when disturbed, the green eggs explode, spraying a viscous liquid over everything. The liquid is toxic to living creatures, and causes the body to immediately explode.

, 1h55
Directed by Tensai Okamura, Shin'ichirō Watanabe, Hiroyuki Okiura
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Animation, Western
Themes Space adventure films, Medical-themed films, Sports films, Films about terrorism, Mars in film, Films set in the future, Martial arts films, Films about viral outbreaks, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Space opera
Actors Kōichi Yamadera, Unshō Ishizuka, Steven Blum, Aoi Tada, Wendee Lee, Megumi Hayashibara

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie is set on Mars in the year 2071, forty-nine years after Earth was mostly abandoned after a catastrophe. Humanity has settled on other planets and moons in the solar system. The film's protagonists are legalized bounty hunters who travel together on the spaceship Bebop. They are Spike Spiegel, a former associate of the Red Dragon crime syndicate; Jet Black, a former police officer and owner of the Bebop; Faye Valentine, a woman who was once a fugitive from bounty hunters; Edward Wong (Ed for short), a girl with genius computer skills; and Ein, an artificial dog with human level intelligence.

Genres Animation
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Marvin Miller, Edmon Ryan

Destination Earth begins with the emperor Ogg (reminiscent of Stalin) sending a bumbling subordinate Martian on a mission to Earth to find a better power source for his royal limousine. The Martian sets off and lands in the United States. He ventures into a nearby city and becomes awestruck when he sees average citizens with "powerful and reliable automobiles" that make their daily lives easier. The Martian then enters a library and researches the "secrets" the remarkable power source. The Martian triumphantly returns to Mars with stolen library books on the oil industry. After reading from them the population of Mars deserts Ogg and sets up their own oil companies. The short ends with the slogan "destination unlimited" written across the screen.

, 1h12
Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Martiens, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Marguerite Chapman, Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz, Virginia Huston, John Litel, Morris Ankrum

Une expédition scientifique américaine composé de 4 scientifiques (3 hommes et une femme) ainsi que d'un journaliste après avoir atterri sur Mars en catastrophe en endommageant leur fusée, découvre que la planète rouge est habitée par une civilisation souterraine extrêmement évolué mais agonisante. Les Martiens sont divisés sur la conduite à tenir vis-à-vis des Terriens, la majorité du conseil dirigeant décide de les aider à réparer leur vaisseau, puis lorsque celui-ci sera prêt de s'en emparer et de s'en servir de modèle pour construite une flotte permettant aux martiens d'envahir la terre. Cependant les Terriens se font des sympathisants parmi les Martiens. Un plan nait qui permettra aux terriens de regagner la Terre en compagnie du chef de l'opposition et de la fille de son bras droit.

, 1h44
Directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Space adventure films, Films about computing, Jeu, Medical-themed films, Mars in film, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Zombie films, Films about video games, Films about viral outbreaks, Space opera, Films based on video games, Films about extraterrestrial life, Disaster films
Actors Karl Urban, Dwayne Johnson, Rosamund Pike, Razaaq Adoti, DeObia Oparei, Ben Daniels

In the year 2046, a research facility on Mars is suddenly attacked by an unknown assailant. Following a distress call sent by Dr. Todd Carmack, a group of marines, led by Asher "Sarge" Mahonin, is sent on a search-and-rescue mission. One of the Marines, John "Reaper" Grimm, accompanies his sister, Dr. Samantha Grimm, to one of the labs within the devastated sector to retrieve data; here he learns that the dig site where their parents were accidentally killed was re-opened and bones of an ancient group of genetically enhanced race were discovered.