Top Space Opera Movies & TV Shows

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Cast

Dane DeHaan

Cara Delevingne

Clive Owen

Rihanna

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

6.7 8.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: France, Germany

Duration: 137 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures. At the center of Alpha is a mysterious dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.

Plot: shapeshifting, space travel, utopia, based on comic, alien, alien planet, energy, alien abduction, ...

Time: future

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

6.6 1.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A surprise visit from Spock's father provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock's living essence.

Plot: spacecraft, friendship, teleportation, genesis, starship, affectation, grave, resurrection, ...

Cast

Alden Ehrenreich

Joonas Suotamo

Woody Harrelson

Emilia Clarke

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

6.6 9.3K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.

Plot: spacecraft, smuggling (contraband), prequel, spin off, space opera

Cast

William Shatner

Leonard Nimoy

DeForest Kelley

James Doohan

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

6.5 2.0K votes

Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: G

Story: When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.

Style: lighthearted

Plot: spacecraft, man vs machine, artificial intelligence (a.i.), self sacrifice, teleportation, san francisco, california, starship, ...

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (2000) TV Show

6.5 74 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 62

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: Buzz Lightyear’s adventures as he patrols the galaxy with his team of Space Rangers, battling evildoers “to infinity and beyond.”

Plot: space, alien, space opera

Cast

Carrie Fisher

Mark Hamill

Daisy Ridley

Adam Driver

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

6.3 10.9K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 142 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.

Plot: space opera

Cast

Patrick Stewart

Jonathan Frakes

Brent Spiner

LeVar Burton

Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

6.3 1.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan political leader, Shinzon, who claims to seek peace with the human-backed United Federation of Planets. Once in enemy territory, the captain and his crew make a startling discovery: Shinzon is human, a slave from the Romulan sister planet of Remus, and has a secret, shocking relationship to Picard himself.

Plot: android, spacecraft, assassination, self sacrifice, teleportation, ambush, senate, starship, ...

Cast

Sofia Boutella

Djimon Hounsou

Ed Skrein

Michiel Huisman

Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023)

6.2 2.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When the ruthless forces of the Motherworld threaten a quiet farming village on a distant moon, a mysterious outsider becomes its best hope for survival.

Plot: rebellion, space war, space, female protagonist, militarism, space opera, family values, authoritarianism, ...

Cast

Matt Lanter

Ashley Eckstein

James Arnold Taylor

David Acord

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

6.2 2.2K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: PG

Story: As the Clone Wars sweep through the galaxy, Anakin Skywalker and his new Padawan learner Ahsoka Tano plunge into a dangerous mission to rescue the kidnapped son of crime lord Jabba the Hutt.

Plot: android, space opera, 3d animation

Cast

Christopher Sean

Josh Brener

Scott Lawrence

Star Wars Resistance (2018) TV Show

6.2 174 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 38

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: Kazuda Xiono, a young pilot for the Resistance, is tasked with a top secret mission to investigate the First Order, a growing threat in the galaxy.

Plot: resistance, space opera, 3d animation

Cast

Kyle MacLachlan

Francesca Annis

Patrick Stewart

Linda Hunt

Dune (1984)

6.2 3.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: witch, empire, galaxy, rebellion, space marine, army, monster, based on novel or book, ...

Time: future

Cast

Sofia Boutella

Djimon Hounsou

Ed Skrein

Michiel Huisman

Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (2024)

6.1 1.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The rebels gear up for battle against the ruthless forces of the Motherworld as unbreakable bonds are forged, heroes emerge — and legends are made.

Plot: space war, sequel, space, female protagonist, space opera, space adventure, action hero, alien spaceship, ...

Cast

William Shatner

Leonard Nimoy

DeForest Kelley

James Doohan

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

5.7 1.3K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A renegade Vulcan with a startling secret hijacks the U.S.S. Enterprise in order to find a mythical planet.

Plot: spacecraft, self sacrifice, teleportation, starship, loss of loved one, uss enterprise-a, hostage, liberation of hostage, ...

Star Wars: Forces of Destiny (2017) TV Show

5.1 72 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 32

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: An animated micro-series starring Rey, Jyn Erso, Princess Leia, Ahsoka Tano, and more. Small moments and everyday decisions shape a larger heroic saga.

Plot: space opera

Cast

Jason Williams

Suzanne Fields

Joseph Hudgins

William Dennis Hunt

Flesh Gordon (1974)

4.8 122 votes

Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: R

Story: Emperor Wang (the Perverted) is leader of the planet Porno and sends his mighty "Sex Ray" towards Earth, turning everyone into sex-mad fiends. Only one man can save the Earth, football player Flesh Gordon. Along with his girlfriend Dale Ardor and Professor Flexi-Jerkoff, they set off towards the source of the Sex Ray, unaware of the perils that face them!

Plot: earth, parody, interior of the earth, based on comic, porn parody, space opera, erotic movie, independent film

Cast

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Aytekin Akkaya

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Hu00fcseyin Peyda

The Man Who Saved the World (1982)

4.8 114 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: Turkey

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Two space cadets crash-land on a desert planet, where an evil wizard seeks the ultimate power to take over the world. Although the movie borrows some background footage from Star Wars, the plot is mostly unrelated.

Plot: cult, b movie, space opera, turksploitation

Cast

Cu00fcneyt Arku0131n

Mehmet Ali Erbil

Deniz Seki

Sinem Kobal

Turks in Space (2006)

2.1 62 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Country: Turkey

Duration: 110 min.

Story: The year is 2055, and the universe is in a state of turmoil, awaiting the formation of a government that can establish universal peace. Until such a time, the Orion Union stands in its stead, an uneasy alliance made up not of planets, but of their individual states, overlorded by unruly gangs, short-sighted tyrants and hissing, domineering queens. In short, chaos reigns.

Plot: space opera

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