A Brief History of Time (1992), Clara (2018), When Worlds Collide (1951), The Arrival (1996), Invaders From Mars (1953), Deep Impact (1998), Addicted to Love (1997), Brightest Star (2013) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Astronomer movies.
Storyline: Unlike the book, this film is really an anecdotal biography of Stephen Hawking. Clips of his lectures, interviews with friends and family and a little physics are thrown together.—Jim Sadur <jsadur@keyflux.com>
Plot Keywords: scientist, astronomer, professor, mother, fascinating, inspiring, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dr. Isaac Bruno, an astronomer and astrophysics professor at Ontario University in Toronto, has been obsessed with needing to discover that there is life in the cosmos besides on Earth. This obsession has been a negative Catch-22 in his life: he has needed this focus to fill a void in his personal life following a tragedy that partly led to the dissolution of his marriage to fellow astronomer Dr. Rebecca Jenkins, while the frustration he has felt in such a discovery not yet having been made has resulted in him acting inappropriately in all aspects of his life. That professional behavior has in turn led to he being indefinitely suspended from the university, which also means no access to university resources or equipment hindering that search. It is bad timing as advances in telescope technology, such as TESS, not only provides much data to the community, but any evidence as to the possibility of life would provide access to that technology. Desperate for help without many resources, he advertises for an unpaid assistant, beyond the provision of room and board. The only application he receives is from Clara, an artist not only with no astrophysics background but little education let alone at a post-secondary level, she who he suspects is more interested in the room and board in being seemingly homeless. Beyond her dog Eeva, her prized possessions are a collection of rocks she carries with her everywhere, obtained most from her world travels, one from and indicative of each continent. Isaac ends up hiring her on her plea of hard work and learning fast. Regardless of what Isaac may or may not find with Clara's help, she, who has a keen sense of observation being an artist, may provide him with something more valuable for his life in a holistic sense.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: astronomer, friend, artist, medical researcher, somber, spirited, spectacular ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: South African pilot Dave Randall serves as courier - transporting a briefcase to American scientist, Dr Hendron. Inside the case are documents which state the star Bellus will collide with Earth, destroying it. A plan is developed to build a spaceship to carry a select few to the planet Zyra, a planet orbiting Bellus.—J. Spurlin
Plot Keywords: astronomer, daughter, pilot, doctor, assistant, wealthy man, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Zane (Charlie Sheen), a young, mild-mannered astronomer discovers an extraterrestrial radio signal. After being fired from his organization for reporting this to his superior, he takes a chance on discovering the truth: that his workplace is not quite what it seems to be and a sinister conspiracy is at work. The aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will stop at nothing to prevent Zane from learning it.
Plot Keywords: astronomer, partner, boss, scientist, girlfriend, neighbor, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: One night, young David McLean sees a spaceship crash into a nearby sandpit. His father goes to investigate, but comes back changed. Where once he was cheerful and affectionate, he's now sullen and snarlingly rude. Others fall into the sandpit and begin acting like him: cold, ill-tempered and conspiratorial. David knows that aliens are taking over the bodies of humans, but he'll soon discover there have been far more of these terrible thefts than he could have imagined. The young doom-monger finds some serious help in a lady doctor and a brilliant astronomer. Soon they meet the aliens: green creatures with insect-like eyes. These beings prove to be slaves to their leader: a large, silent head with ceaselessly shifting eyes and two tentacles on either side, each of which branches off into three smaller tentacles. It's up to the redoubtable earth trio to stop its evil plans.—J. Spurlin
Plot Keywords: young boy, astronomer, doctor, alien, father, police officer, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Journalist Jenny Lerner is assigned to look into the background of Secretary Alan Rittenhouse who abruptly resigned from government citing his wife's ill health. She learns from his secretary that Rittenhouse was having an affair with someone named Ellie but when she confronts him, his strange reaction leads her to reconsider her story. In fact, a comet, discovered the previous year by high school student Leo Biederman and astronomer Dr. Marcus Wolf, is on a collision course with the Earth, an Extinction Level Event. A joint US-Russian team is sent to destroy the comet but should it fail, special measures are to be put in place to secure the future of mankind. As the space mission progresses, many individuals deal with their fears and ponder their future.
Plot Keywords: u.s. president, reporter, astronomer, girlfriend, astronaut, thrilling, spectacular ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life, Linda, leaves him for a suave Frenchman named Anton. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee would do; go to New York and set up home in the abandoned building opposite his ex-girlfriend's apartment, intent on winning her back and waiting until she decides to leave her current lover. What Sam does not count on is being joined several weeks later by ultra hip tomboy Maggie, a photographer and motor-cyclist who is determined to get revenge on Anton, her ex-fiance. Hostile at first, the two of them eventually join forces in an attempt to separate the couple, and ruin Anton's life. However, complications ensue when Sam and Maggie start falling for each other.
Plot Keywords: astronomer, fiancée, chef, ex-girlfriend, mother, professor, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After the heartbreaking end of his first love, a recent college graduate sets out to win back the girl of his dreams only to discover a greater journey awaits him.
Plot Keywords: astronomer, young man, first love, emotional, college, universe, advice ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Post-apocalyptic survivors (Silke, Jorge Casalduero) shelter themselves from zombies and mysterious creatures.
Plot Keywords: survivors, astronomer, leader, lover, son, gory, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1950s California a friendly alien (Eric McCormack) enlists the help of a waitress (Jenni Baird) to capture a monster that escaped from his ship after it crashed.
Plot Keywords: waitress, astronomer, hilarious, california, diner, chase, capture ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A scientist (Rae Dawn Chong) needs help from a military man (Antonio Sabato Jr.) to stop an asteroid from devastating Earth.
Plot Keywords: scientist, astronomer, military officer, thrilling, gripping, gutsy, pentagon ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A large meteor shower unexpectedly bombards planet Earth. Scientists rush to the scene of the first impact and the race is on to find a solution to save humanity.
Plot Keywords: scientist, astronomer, astrophysicist, bleak, disturbing, dark, tense ...
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