Movies like First Men in the Moon (1964)
The best movies like First Men in the Moon (1964) are Rocketship X-M (1950), This Island Earth (1955) and From the Earth to the Moon (1958). If First Men in the Moon hooked you with its adventure and science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedA Trip to the Moon (1902)7.9/10 from 2,108 votes
- NewestWarlords of Atlantis (1978)Released 1978
Rocketship X-M (1950)
Astronauts blast off to explore the moon on Rocketship X-M or "Rocketship eXploration Moon". A spacecraft malfunction and some fuel miscalculations cause them to end up landing on Mars. On Mars, evidence of a once powerful civilization is found. The scientists determine that an atomic war destroyed most of the Martians. Those that survived reverted to a caveman like existence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisThis Island Earth (1955)
Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrom the Earth to the Moon (1958)
Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to power rockets, and to show its potential he plans to send a projectile to the moon. Joining him for the trip are his assistant Ben Sharpe, Barbicane's arch-rival Stuyvesant Nicholl, and Nicholl's daughter Virginia. Nicholl believes that Power X goes against the will of God and sabotages the projectile so that they cannot return to earth, setting up a suspenseful finale as they battle to repair the projectile.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938)
When a deadly Nitron ray strikes Earth, Flash Gordon and his friends travel to Mars to battle Ming the Merciless and his new ally Queen Azura.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. They find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRobinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food and companionship on the lifeless planet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDestination Moon (1950)
A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon. From their base in the Mojave Desert, they construct and successfully launch a spacecraft named "Luna" that contains a cargo of four astronauts. But a critical miscalculation of needed power to escape the moon's gravitational pull may put the astronauts' lives in danger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisJourney to the Seventh Planet (1962)
A space expedition to Uranus is menaced by a giant brain that can make illusions come true.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisDoctor Who: The Daleks (1964)
The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Susan, Barbara, and Ian to the planet Skaro where they meet two indigenous races — the Daleks, malicious mutant creatures encased in armoured travel machines, and the Thals, beautiful humanoids with pacifist principles. They convince the Thals of the need to fight for their own survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisConquest of Space (1955)
A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like this20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhen Worlds Collide (1951)
When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the planet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFive Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDaleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966)
Doctor Who and his companions are hurled into the future and make a horrifying discovery: the Daleks have conquered Earth! The metal fiends have devastated entire continents and turned the survivors into Robomen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisQueen of Outer Space (1958)
An aborted mission strands a crew on Venus where they find the planet inhabited only by women led by their evil Queen Yllana. Yllana had all the men of Venus killed, now that's she met Earth men, she wants them dead, too.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisIt! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisJourney to the Centre of the Earth (1977)
A 19th-century expedition to the Earth's core reveals primordial wonders, prehistoric monsters and a subterranean civilization that may convey the greatest discovery of all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
The Silent Star (1960)
A mysterious magnetic spool found during a construction project is discovered to have originated from Venus. A rocket expedition to Venus is launched to discover the origin of the spool and the race that created it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisMysterious Island (1961)
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' .
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Time Machine (1960)
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
Scientist Doctor Who accidentally activates his new invention, the Tardis, a time machine disguised as a police telephone box. Who, his two granddaughters Barbara and Susan, and Barbara's boyfriend Ian are transported through time and space to the planet Skaro, where a peaceful race of Thals are under threat of nuclear attack from the planet's other inhabitants: the robotic mutant Daleks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisFlight to Mars (1951)
Four scientists and a newsman crash land on Mars and meet martians who act friendly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisWarlords of Atlantis (1978)
Searching for the lost world of Atlantis, Prof. Aitken, his son Charles and Greg Collinson are betrayed by the crew of their expedition's ship, attracted by the fabulous treasures of Atlantis. The diving bell disabled, a deep sea monster attacks the boat. They are all dragged to the bottom of the sea where they meet the inhabitants of the lost continent, an advanced alien race that makes sailors their slaves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisFlash Gordon (1936)
Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMaster of the World (1961)
A mad genius tries to bomb the world into peace.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWorld Without End (1956)
Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th-century Earth devastated by atomic war. At first unaware where they are, but finding the atmosphere safe to breathe, they start exploring and find themselves in a divided future where disfigured mutants living like cavemen inhabit the surface, while the normals live comfortably below the surface but are dying as a race from lack of natural water, air and sunlight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisVisit to a Small Planet (1960)
The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth... Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet to visit the Earth, and lands in the backyard of a famous television journalist who doesn't believe in UFOs and aliens. Wanting to study humans but not able to fully understand them, Kreton makes a mess out of it, generating a lot of comic situations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like First Men in the Moon?
The closest matches to First Men in the Moon are Rocketship X-M (1950), This Island Earth (1955) and From the Earth to the Moon (1958). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after First Men in the Moon?
People who watched First Men in the Moon most often go on to Rocketship X-M (1950), This Island Earth (1955) and From the Earth to the Moon (1958).
What is the highest-rated movie like First Men in the Moon?
A Trip to the Moon (1902), rated 7.9/10 by 2,108 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like First Men in the Moon?
Warlords of Atlantis (1978) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like First Men in the Moon?
Yes: Rocketship X-M (1950), This Island Earth (1955) and From the Earth to the Moon (1958).
How are movies similar to First Men in the Moon chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside First Men in the Moon, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.