Outland (1981, Dir. Peter Hyams)

High Noon in space — literally. Sean Connery stars as a marshal on a remote mining colony where corruption runs deeper than oxygen levels.
The film’s industrial aesthetic — grimy corridors, humming machines — prefigures Blade Runner and Aliens.
It’s tense, atmospheric, and criminally under-seen. Western ethics meet orbital corporate greed, and the result is pure oxygen-thin tension.

Rating: 5 / 5