Movies Similar to Fired on Mars

What Doesn't Kill You(2015)

After a rare diagnosis, Lily's attempts to flee from war torn Israel are thwarted when the airport shuts down and her zany cousin forces her to party.

Captain Cosmotic(1998)

4 stupid aliens want to steal the earth' s core. But Captain Cosmotic, the worlds strongest hero, is hard to defeat!!

Capricorn One(1977)

In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.

The Penalty(1986)

After a drunkard crashes his tractor for the upteenth time, the chairman of his collective farm decides to scare some sense into him and announces that he has been sentenced to die.

N or NW(1938)

Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends well, but with the moral that correspondents should get the address right.

The Miss They Missed(1938)

Professor Pierre is assigned to find a missing heiress whose fortune will go to a worthless relative if she isn't found. He uses most of his dialect ability in the search by posing as a Chinaman, an Englishman, a sailor and a Scotchman, but is unable to find her. He meets his sweetheart at a restaurant and, there, discovers she is the heiress he has been searching for. She breaks off their romance when she finds out she is rich.

My Happy End(2007)

All dogs chase their tails. A dog once succeeds in catching his own tail. That changes his life as he finds his best friend in it.

The Box Trap(2025)

The world of a blissfully detached woman in her 20s turns upside down when she's forced to adjust to the ordinary life that exists beyond working at The Box Trap, an off-the-wall lesbian bar, and its rivalry with the gay club across the street, The Cock Catcher.

Piggy(2012)

On a farm in 1933, a piglet is sold to a family in Copenhagen. Piggy is a pig with greater appetite than brain and does not know that the good food he gets will turn him to the main dish of Christmas Eve. When the freedom fighter Monty appears, he explains it to Piggy. Together they plan their great escape.

Modell Lu, der Lebensweg eines Hutes(1939)

Forbidden Planet(1956)

Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. They find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.

This Island Earth(1955)

Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.

Earmark(2024)

Meet Mark. A daydreamer who has lived with hearing loss for his whole life. As his condition deteriorates, Mark must listen to his past and face the present, in order to move forward with his life. Sometimes loss doesn't mean lost. At a routine checkup with his lifelong audiologist, Mark is presented with a hearing aid and with a choice. Between the torment from his childhood - and his stigma around wearing the hearing aid - he lashes out. But he remembers his young self, loving and loved; along with the care his late mother showed him. Through courage, he is able to connect with her; as she guides him through this tumultuous time in his life. He realises he can either continue to shut himself off from the world, or open up and begin to accept himself for who he really is.

The Snowman(1944)

It is winter and a snowman comes alive. On his adventure he will find a calendar that will make him wish to know the spring.

Jasper's Minstrels(1945)

This one features Jasper talking to the Talking Scarecrow. The Scarecrow then tells Jasper in flashback about his show business days. You see many scenes of dancing watermelon men and other minstrel caricatures.

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King(2014)

A documentary filmmaker interviews the now-famous Trevor Slattery from behind bars.

Knights of Sidonia: The Movie(2015)

The year is 3394. The solar system has been long destroyed by a strange alien race called Gauna. Now humans are barely maintaining population in their seed ships - the ones they also used to escape a thousand years ago. After several years of drifting though space, Sidonia, a seed ship with a population of over 500,000 people, is once again threatened by Gauna. Follow Tanikaze Nagate, a mysterious young man from the deep corners of the ship, and his friends as they try to strike back against these gigantic creatures and at the same time learn what they really are for the sake of humanity's survival. -MAL

Piyopiyo Baba(2002)

The witch Yubaba from Spirited Away faces the viewer then laughs exaggeratedly, her mouth wide open. She spins around 180 degrees and a baby bird comes out of her hair, singing. The bird disappears in the hair of the witch who resumes her initial position and leaves with a great burst of laughter.

The Swim Team(2009)

A young woman forms a bond with three elderly shopkeepers when she teaches them how to swim - even though there are no bodies of water to be found.

Brentwood Strangler(2015)

It's the Christmas season and a lonely woman goes on a blind date unbeknownst to her that her date is an active and notorious serial killer, The Brentwood Strangler. Is this love at first sight? Or the worst (and last) date of her life?