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Moon
Why this pick
Its intimate, lonely space-station setting echoes Sunshine’s existential unease, using controlled production design and a steadily deepening crisis rather than constant action.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2007 1h 47m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Keep the feeling.
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Europa Report
Why this pick
A disciplined, science-minded crew journey carries Sunshine’s procedural tension and claustrophobic shipboard atmosphere, with danger accumulating through mission decisions and fractured communication.
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Ad Astra
Why this pick
For Sunshine’s solemn cosmic scale and emotionally pressurized voyage, this offers a measured, visually grand expedition where isolation and duty weigh as heavily as external peril.
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The Last Days on Mars
Why this pick
It shares Sunshine’s confined-team dynamics and escalating survival tension: a remote scientific mission becomes volatile as professional discipline breaks down under an unforgiving environment.
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High Life
Why this pick
Its severe, tactile spacecraft setting and morally frayed crew push the same sense of cosmic isolation as Sunshine into stranger, more unsettling psychological territory.
Finding the atmosphere, tension and little details that made this one stay with you.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 2056, the sun is dying and a crew of eight aboard the spaceship "Icarus II" is on a mission to jump start the sun. However, late into their journey, they lose contact with the Earth and the mission starts going terribly awry.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Michelle Yeoh
Corazon
Cliff Curtis
Searle
Chris Evans
James Mace
Hiroyuki Sanada
Kaneda
Mark Strong
Pinbacker
Cillian Murphy
Robert Capa
Rose Byrne
Cassie
Troy Garity
Harvey