10 Best Space Movies Of All Time

10. High Life (2018)

Nothing evokes the disorientation and isolation of outer space quite like Claire Denis' High Life, with its broadly nonlinear, disjointed narrative, juxtaposing life and death in cold darkness and artificial light, beset by a stream of bleak and powerful images.

Robert Pattinson is Monte, a monastic astronaut-cum-criminal drifting through space aboard a cuboid ship, on a doomed mission seeking alternative energy sources from black holes. All the while, the crew are experimented on by the unhinged Dr Dibs (Juliette Binoche) as she attempts to fulfil her ambition of artificial insemination in space.

It is a curious choice to make a space film narrower with the old European widescreen 1.66:1 aspect ratio, as this is an environment that so readily calls for grand landscapes of stars and nothingness; High Life, however, is more concerned with looking inward and backward than onward and upward.

Nonetheless, visually, the film creates a strange status quo of convincing, or at least original, space visuals and, at times, quite home-made set design. But perhaps that's the point.

The anti-Interstellar, High Life is a contemplative, philosophical and unique take on the space movie that, for better or worse, sometimes has a strong feel of von Trier.