Why “No Culture”? Well if Banks’ Culture novels are ever turned into films then they would fill up the list! Or a couple of Lensman stories, or Berseker stories; most of the great scifi novels are yet to be filmed...get on with it!

I challenged myself to a list set on spaceships only. The threat in these movies comes from the cold of space.

Interstellar isn’t missing; it’s not very good. I’ll avoid Nolan’s error by not explaining that.

Best moment to sum this list up? The transit of Mercury sequence in Sunshine.