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First Man
Why this pick
Like Ad Astra, it makes space travel intimate and interior, using tactile spacecraft detail and long stretches of isolation to explore a restrained man carrying unresolved grief.
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Solaris
Why this pick
Its deliberate, meditative voyage turns cosmic mystery into an examination of memory, loss and emotional distance—an essential match for Ad Astra’s contemplative, existential side.
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Moon
Why this pick
This spare lunar drama shares Ad Astra’s lonely industrial space atmosphere, measured pacing and focus on one isolated worker confronting profound questions about self and connection.
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The Martian
Why this pick
It offers the same grounded, tactile vision of solitary survival beyond Earth, but replaces Ad Astra’s mournful introspection with practical ingenuity and buoyant resilience.
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High Life
Why this pick
For Ad Astra’s austere deep-space mood and damaged fatherhood, this unsettling, visually spare voyage pushes isolation and human need into far darker, more bodily territory.
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01 / THE STORY
An Army engineer travels through the solar system in pursuit of the reason why his father vanished into space 20 years ago.
Astronaut Roy McBride is consumed by the disappearance of his missing father and must travel to the outer edges of the solar system to uncover deep secrets, that will challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Brad Pitt
Roy McBride
Tommy Lee Jones
Clifford McBride
Donald Sutherland
Thomas Pruitt
Jamie Kennedy
Sergeant Peter Bello
John Ortiz
General Rivas
John Finn
Stroud
LisaGay Hamilton
Adjutent General Amelia Vogel
Kimberly Elise
Lorraine Deavers