Let's All Go To Mars!
by john-hitchcock | created - 10 Dec 2013 | updated - 12 Dec 2013 | PublicAdmit it, you've always wanted to go to Mars. After all, who wouldn't want to go to a barren and probably lifeless planet several hundred miles away from Earth with a very thin and unbreathable atmosphere. So let's go have some fun times on the Martian surface!
What's that? How are we going to get there? What do are we going to do there? Those are good questions. How would you want to get there and what would you want to do when you arrived?
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1. Conquest of Space (1955)
Approved | 81 min | Sci-Fi
An American-led team of International astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Walter Brooke, Eric Fleming, Mickey Shaughnessy, Phil Foster
Votes: 1,787
Join a small crew of explorers in a manned rocket to Mars, only to have your superstitious commander go mad and sabotage the mission. Then you end up having to try and survive a full year before you can launch again.
2. Mission to Mars (2000)
PG | 114 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Tim Robbins, Gary Sinise, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen
Votes: 76,516 | Gross: $60.88M
Go to Mars to investigate a previous mission and discover secrets of humanity.
3. Red Planet (2000)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Astronauts, and their robotic dog AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Evaluation and Evasion), search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.
Director: Antony Hoffman | Stars: Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore, Benjamin Bratt
Votes: 59,942 | Gross: $18.00M
Travel to Mars in a spaceship in search of resources to help save the Earth.
4. Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
Not Rated | 110 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food on the lifeless planet.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, Adam West, The Woolly Monkey
Votes: 7,164
Crash-land on Mars and try to survive with only a monkey as a companion.
5. Ghosts of Mars (2001)
R | 98 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find that the post has become a charnel house.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Pam Grier, Jason Statham
Votes: 57,987 | Gross: $8.43M
Join a police squad and go to Mars in search of a criminal only to deal with something far more terrifying.
6. John Carter (2012)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Transported to Barsoom, a Civil War vet discovers a barren planet seemingly inhabited by 12-foot tall barbarians. Finding himself prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter Woola and a princess in desperate need of a savior.
Director: Andrew Stanton | Stars: Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe, Samantha Morton
Votes: 286,356 | Gross: $73.08M
Teleport to Mars, become a hero, get the girl, and save the day.
7. Escape from Mars (1999 TV Movie)
PG | 100 min | Sci-Fi
In 2015, five astronauts make the first manned trip to Mars. They must battle and overcome inferior computer components, corporate greed and indifference, their own personal problems, as ... See full summary »
Director: Neill Fearnley | Stars: Christine Elise, Peter Outerbridge, Allison Hossack, Michael Shanks
Votes: 651
Fly to Mars in a spaceship and deal with problems on the way. Getting back may be more difficult.
8. Mars Needs Moms (2011)
PG | 88 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A young boy named Milo gains a deeper appreciation for his mom after Martians come to Earth to take her away.
Director: Simon Wells | Stars: Seth Green, Joan Cusack, Dan Fogler, Elisabeth Harnois
Votes: 23,972 | Gross: $21.38M
Sneak on board an alien spaceship and save a bunch of captives from Earth once you arrive.
9. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
Not Rated | 81 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
The Martians kidnap Santa Claus because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents.
Director: Nicholas Webster | Stars: John Call, Leonard Hicks, Vincent Beck, Bill McCutcheon
Votes: 12,660
Join Santa as he goes to Mars and brings joy and happiness to all the Martian children.
10. The Martian Chronicles (1980)
360 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
In the 21st century, Earth begins the colonization of Mars. However, things do not go as planned, at first due to the hostile Martian natives and later because of the self-destructive Earthmen.
Stars: Rock Hudson, Gayle Hunnicutt, Bernie Casey, Christopher Connelly
Votes: 2,513
Explore and colonize Mars while struggling to maintain positive relations with the natives.
11. Total Recall (1990)
R | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Rachel Ticotin
Votes: 354,864 | Gross: $119.39M
Find out you're a secret agent and go to Mars to overthrow the tyrannical corporation that works there... assuming of course these aren't just artificial memories.
12. Mars Attacks the World (1938)
Approved | 68 min | Romance, Sci-Fi
When a deadly Nitron ray strikes Earth, Flash Gordon and his friends travel to Mars to battle Ming the Merciless and his new ally Queen Azura.
Directors: Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon
Votes: 277
Go with your buddies to Mars to fight the evil Queen who rules oppressively.
13. Watchmen (2009)
R | 162 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
In a version of 1985 where superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach on the trail of a conspiracy that will change the course of history.
Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman
Votes: 582,918 | Gross: $107.51M
Get teleported to Mars to have a conversation with your nuclear-powered superhero buddy about human nature.
14. The Angry Red Planet (1959)
Not Rated | 83 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
One of only two survivors from a Martian expedition is so traumatized she doesn't remember the circumstances of the trip.
Director: Ib Melchior | Stars: Gerald Mohr, Nora Hayden, Les Tremayne, Jack Kruschen
Votes: 3,723
Take a spaceship to explore Mars and try to survive against all the dangerous plant life and aliens that everyone knows exist there.
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