Movies like Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
The best movies like Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) are Marooned (1969), Countdown (1967) and World Without End (1956). If Robinson Crusoe on Mars hooked you with its science fiction and adventure, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedPlanet of the Apes (1968)7.7/10 from 4,190 votes
- NewestThe Martian (2015)Released 2015
Marooned (1969)
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a hurricane headed towards the launch site—and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts' capsule.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisCountdown (1967)
Desperate to land a man on the moon before Russia does, NASA hastily preps a would-be spaceman for a mission that would leave him alone in a lunar shelter for a year.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisThe Reluctant Astronaut (1967)
Roy Fleming is a small-town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is as a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When NASA decides to launch a layperson into space to prove the worthiness of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his fears.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFirst Men in the Moon (1964)
The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew comprised of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria, proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisForbidden 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 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 thisRocketship 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 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
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission lands on the planet of the apes, and uncovers a horrible secret beneath the surface.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFantastic 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 thisVoyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisThe Angry Red Planet (1959)
The first manned flight to Mars returns after having been out of communications since it had arrived on Mars. What would it reveal?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies 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 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 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 thisCaptain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)
Survivors of a sinking ship are rescued by Captain Nemo and his submarine crew. They are taken to an underwater city where they may spend the rest of their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
Conquest 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 thisPlanet of the Apes (1968)
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies 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
First Man into Space (1959)
The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisDestination Moonbase-Alpha (1978)
After an atomic explosion blasts the Moon out of Earth orbit, Moonbase Alpha drifts in space, with 300 people on board. When a rescue team from Earth arrives in a faster-than-light space ship, everyone is overjoyed that they can now return to Earth. But Moonbase Commander John Koenig, having undergone an experimental brain soothing process after receiving a concussion in a crash on the Lunar surface, sees not friends from Earth but gruesome monsters which have telepathically caused all others on Alpha to see an illusion of an Earth party. The aliens are desperate for radiation and plan to manipulate the Alphans into detonating nuclear waste on the Lunar surface, reducing the Moon and everyone on it to dust. Koenig must expose this conspiracy to save his people. Compiled from the two part episode The Bringers Of Wonder from the TV series Space: 1999's second series.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983)
Starflight One, a commercial aircraft that can whisk passengers around the globe in a matter of hours, embarks on its maiden voyage. The trip goes horribly awry, however, when the aircraft is forced out of the atmosphere and into outer space. As it is too dangerous to attempt reentry, Captain Cody Briggs, his passengers and his crew brave declining levels of oxygen while NASA scientists scramble to launch a rescue mission in a race against time.
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 thisThunderbird 6 (1968)
The International Rescue team is faced with one of its toughest challenges yet, as the revolutionary lighter-than-air craft Skyship One is hijacked while on her maiden voyage around the world. Against backdrops including the Statue of Liberty and the Sphinx, Lady Penelope, Parker, Alan and Tin-Tin fight the hijackers from on-board, while the rest of the team tries to stop the airship crashing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisTitan A.E. (2000)
A young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the human race, while an alien species called the Drej are bent on mankind's destruction.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Martian (2015)
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & adventure
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Robinson Crusoe on Mars?
The closest matches to Robinson Crusoe on Mars are Marooned (1969), Countdown (1967) and World Without End (1956). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Robinson Crusoe on Mars?
People who watched Robinson Crusoe on Mars most often go on to Marooned (1969), Countdown (1967) and World Without End (1956).
What is the highest-rated movie like Robinson Crusoe on Mars?
Planet of the Apes (1968), rated 7.7/10 by 4,190 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Robinson Crusoe on Mars?
The Martian (2015) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Robinson Crusoe on Mars?
Yes: Marooned (1969), Countdown (1967) and World Without End (1956).
How are movies similar to Robinson Crusoe on Mars chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Robinson Crusoe on Mars, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.