#38. The Martian (2015)

Twentieth Century Fox

– Director: Ridley Scott

– Stacker score: 88.4

– Metascore: 80

– IMDb user rating: 8.0

– Runtime: 144 minutes

Based on the best-selling novel by Andy Weir, this similarly successful film opens on Mars and dives right into the action, with a massive storm separating an astronaut (Matt Damon) from his team. Presumed dead and thereby abandoned, the astronaut finds himself alone on a foreign planet, where he must learn how to survive using the sparest of means.