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Silent Running
Why this pick
Its lonely, tactile spacecraft setting, endearing service robots, and melancholy ecological undercurrent echo the earnest, old-fashioned cosmic adventure of The Black Hole.
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MOVIE1979 1h 38m USA
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Dark Star
Why this pick
Another worn-in deep-space mission where isolation and unreliable technology shape the tension, though it tilts The Black Hole's ominous voyage toward deadpan absurdity.
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Saturn 3
Why this pick
A claustrophobic space-station thriller with a looming experimental robot and a dangerous human presence, matching The Black Hole's retro-futurist dread.
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The Last Starfighter
Why this pick
For the same sincere, effects-forward late-1970s/early-1980s science-fiction spirit: a bright, mythic adventure that treats cosmic stakes with complete conviction.
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Enemy Mine
Why this pick
It shares The Black Hole's grand-scale, practical-effects sci-fi sensibility, but turns its hostile alien world into a surprisingly humane survival tale.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The U.S.S. Cygnus is perched precariously at the edge of a black hole - the vast, empty nothingness where space and time end. Anthing that crosses it's border enters a universe of the complete unknown. In this story of genius robots and mad humanoids, audiences take a spectacular descent into nature's ultimate mystery: The Black Hole.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Maximilian Schell
Dr. Hans Reinhardt
Anthony Perkins
Dr. Alex Durant
Robert Forster
Capt. Dan Holland
Joseph Bottoms
Lt. Charles Pizer
Yvette Mimieux
Dr. Kate McCrae
Ernest Borgnine
Harry Booth
Tom McLoughlin
Captain S.T.A.R.
Roddy McDowall
V.I.N.CENT (voice)