As well as tapping into a healthy dos of existential dread, space movies offer us a fleeting glimpse of planets and galaxies far beyond our wildest dreamsall from the safety of our own living rooms.

So, we've tracked down the best of them. The only rule? To make the list, the characters have to have actually travelled through space — although Arrival is a great space-related movie, for instance, it doesn't make the cut because it's based on Earth; Contact, meanwhile, although largely Earth-based, does squeak in due to a bit of wormhole-based travel.