Mars Express
In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet's capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, political corruption, and a missing girl who holds a secret about the robots that threatens to change the face of the universe. From TMDB
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60 of 143 · most liked firstwatched Mars Express (2023) tonight and folks they're* calling it the most underappreciated animated movie of the last several years. a must-watch if you like sci-fi and/or GITS:SAC *: i'm they boxd.it/b8YrX5
positive · AI labelView post →I can't recommend the 2023 animated film Mars Express strongly enough in this regard. The title is misleading. It's a deep and beautiful meditation on robots, intelligence, slavery, and freedom.
positive · AI labelView post →Close Encounters and Arrival, Contact and Project Hail Mary 😁, Sunshine and Mickey 17, TMP and ST6, The Whale movie and Galaxy Qu'est, The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, Aliens and The Thing, Mars Express and Ghost in the Shell, all of Andor Night with U-wing popcorn bucket.
neutral · AI labelView post →E) Also chat does not ask questions like "What do you mean with french animation style? I have to guess myself, what it understands and what not. So I explain I want it to make it look like in Mars Express. A movie a human artists could have looked up. But nope. Not even close. /4
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve noticed that the French film industry has really delivered for me in recent years—including in animated sci-fi with Mars Express. All that’s missing now is a live-action European sci-fi blockbuster in the style of Moebius, or perhaps a venture into steampunk territory with Jules Verne.
neutral · AI labelView post →Cloudy Mars: Olympus and Tharsis, ESA Mars Express HRSC Massive 220MP image on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2seL8ss Credit: ESA/ @DLR / FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY CC BY 2025-08-02 North is down (sorry!) HR242_0000 ND3+GR3+BL3 Notes: orographic dust cloud over Olympus Mons and a double annular cyclone across Vastitas Borealis near the north polar cap. #Space #Astronomy #Mars #Solarocks #MarsExpress #ESA
neutral · AI labelView post →Dan starts a weekly movie recommendation podcast, but every episode is just Mars Express
neutral · AI labelView post →Mars Express was magnifique! There was no movie poster and little advertisements. Please watch this glorious scifi animation.
positive · AI labelView post →Just watched Mars Express. Beautifully animated sci-fi/cyberpunk film. Definitely worth the watch.
positive · AI labelView post →Have you seen Mars Express (2023)? If not, you're missing out on a genuinely great sci fi film that combines the best of both classic noir and cyberpunk, exploring the seedy, corrupt underbelly of Martian society.
neutral · AI labelView post →I just found out that Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones are making a movie called MARS EXPRESS, based on the true story of some of the people behind ESA's mission of the same name. I feel like some kind of inter-dimensional rift has opened just to deliver a gift to me, personally.
neutral · AI labelView post →Mars Express is that increasingly rare sci-fi movie that lets its tropes, both familiar and unfamiliar, exist in its world without the need to explain them over and over, trusting you to put the pieces together on the go and thereby making you feel that much more involved in the action
positive · AI labelView post →We watched Mars Express and it was nice to see some French science fiction. It was a good animation movie.
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching: Animated French sci-fi murder mystery anyone? #MovieSky #FilmSky #AdultAnimation #MarsExpress #GetHighWatchMovies
neutral · AI labelView post →yesterday i watched Mars Express, a french animated film about solving robot crime in the robot future. incredible movie, but more importantly, i need LEM carnally. i need to peg this warframe looking motherfucker
positive · AI labelView post →51th movie of the year is Mars Express. Not really my taste in animation style (too "realistic" and cold) but a neat movie, really good action sequences, lots of worldbuilding ideas, great acting (Aline Ruby the protagonist got really quick and snarky smiles I like a lot).
neutral · AI labelView post →Do the right thing and put Jérémie Périn (Mars Express) in charge of an Appleseed movie
neutral · AI labelView post →I’d add **Pantheon** to this list for amazing sci-fi adult animation. I loved both Scavenger’s Reign and Common Side Effects. I know that Common Side Effects is getting a second season. I really wish Scavenger's Reign would get another season. That show is amazing. Edit: Also, not a tv show, but the animated French film **Arco** was lovely. Beautiful hand drawn animation, set in the far future, and *not* just another dystopian story. Will also mention another animated French film **Mars…
neutral · AI labelView post →a while back I watched a French animated sci-fi film called Mars Express that released a few years ago, it's fantastic and I highly recommend watching!
positive · AI labelView post →This week on Get Played DLC, we return to the Get Anime’d format to discuss the film Mars Express! Only on patreon.com/getplayed
neutral · AI labelView post →Charli's Moment, Mario Bros, Mars Express and more Ghostface. It's been an interesting week. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
neutral · AI labelView post →Sunshine is really good, Arrival of course, Cloud Atlas is one of my favorite movies of all time, Mars Express, a french animated movie, A Scanner Darkly, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind for a more light-SF and more human and relation-oriented movie
neutral · AI labelView post →If you want to spend 90m watching a phenomenal French animated movie about a cyberpunk dystopia, Mars Express should go on your watch list. It's bleak, but in a way that is utterly captivating.
positive · AI labelView post →Recent images from ESA's Mars Express show something that looks like it came out of a science fiction movie: metallic-colored waves extending across the floor of the Kaiser crater, in the Noachis Terra region of Mars' southern hemisphere.
neutral · AI labelView post →Mars Express is hot as hell. Good cyberpunk shit, and gorgeous as well. letterboxd.com/film/mars-ex...
positive · AI labelView post →Finally watched "Mars Express" and holy moly what a good movie. If you're hankering for cyberpunk flavor in the Ghost In The Shell variety I cannot recommend it enough
positive · AI labelView post →Just for something different, **The Summit of the Gods** https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7014378/ was a really underrated one. Beautiful animation and pure cinematic storytelling. Another French feature, **Mars Express** https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26915336 was really great. Didn't quite stick the landing on the ending IMO but loved everything else. I was also super impressed by the Rise of the TMNT movie. Just such joy in the animation and story from all aspects of the production and it…
neutral · AI labelView post →I've finally watched Mars Express! ✨ A good animated film with an interesting plot and well-paced. Not my favorite in the genre, but I enjoyed it 🙂 Maybe I'll read the prequel novel one day. #MarsExpress #Animation #Cinema #Movies #SciFi #Cyberpunk
positive · AI labelView post →Pour les heureux possesseurs de la sublime BO vinyle du film Mars Express réalisé par @jeremieperin.bsky.social, sachez que j'ai créé sa fiche Discogs : vous pouvez donc désormais l'ajouter à votre collection :)
neutral · AI labelView post →Really enjoyed Mars Express. One of those interesting titles that I would consider a good movie but great #scifi.
positive · AI labelView post →Well France did "Le Voyage Dans la Lune" in1892 (the first ever SF movie) and more recently "Fifth Element" and "Mars Express".
neutral · AI labelView post →"Mars Express" (2023) was so frigging good?! I have no idea how I missed it, it's such a fun movie. If you like Ghost in the Shell or Scavenger's Reign or good like.. Detective movies, go check it out. And I'll be a bit of a snob here, def watch it in the original French. The voice acting is great.
positive · AI labelView post →Howdy! Watched a couple of French animated films this week. Both quite good. Arco is a children's film involving time travel. Mars Express is a cyberpunk film (and fairly violent). I'd recommend both.
positive · AI labelView post →New episode! That's right, we're back. This time around, we cover the excellent animated film, "Mars Express"! We talk about states of exception, robotic labor, teleology, homo sacer, and more! pca.st/jrcd01m8
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyway, the MARS EXPRESS guy mentioning TIME MASTERS, an animated movie that Moebius worked on, has me interested in checking it out and I'm thinking "oh no, am I about to get into French animation and find a new obsession?"
neutral · AI labelView post →Absolutely loved Ugo Bienvenu's Arco!! It takes true imagination, especially now, to dream of a future utopia, let alone a genuinely fresh and unique one like this (shades of Ghibli ofc) It's a movie about love, so sweet and beautiful. Had to get the word out. Watch Mars Express too PLEASE
positive · AI labelView post →Share an ANIMATED movie title that begins with the letter “L” or “M” 🎥 M is for... Mars Express
neutral · AI labelView post →After watching the Cowboy Bebop movie last night, I wasn't expecting the following movie to stand up next to it. But Mars Express was REALLY damn good
positive · AI labelView post →This is great news. Also as I'm on the board of Screen Yorkshire, I've heard about Mackenzie Crook's first feature film Mars Express which is being funded by SY! www.screenglobalproduction.com/news/2026/05...
neutral · AI labelView post →I just watched the movie Mars Express And wow !
positive · AI labelView post →every day of 2026, I'll post an animated film. 1️⃣7️⃣4️⃣ MARS EXPRESS (2023) dir. Jérémie Périn A French sci-fi thriller set on 23rd-century Mars. Here, detectives (one of whom is an android) get mixed up in a conspiracy plot after they search for missing students.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched 'Mars Express', incredible sci-fi animated film that condenses a lot of interesting post-humanist ideas into an exciting hour and twenty minutes. If you liked 'Ghost in the Shell', this one is for you.
positive · AI labelView post →Today I felt like watching Mars Express again www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTPa... #movie #sciencefiction #ai
positive · AI labelView post →“Mars Express” is a FANTASTIC film (with a terrible name) in the vein of “Ghost in the Shell” — wholeheartedly recommended! So many excellent choices in storytelling, editing and animation. Fresh! www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mars_express
positive · AI labelView post →It's been a while since a random "Eh looks neat and I got 90 minutes" movie blew my mind like Mars Express did. Basically a mandatory watch if you like your sci fi weird and existential
positive · AI labelView post →Been watching some really cool movies the last couple of days as a french director movie marathon! 1. Mars Express (Jérémie Périn) You'll like if you're into: detectives, speculative sci-fi, meaningful animation techniques, and being sad. Vibes are pretty similar to Paprika.
positive · AI labelView post →The animated movie Mars Express received an extension of eligibility at the last business meeting, so it's explicitly available for consideration. It's epic, and cool, and different. Exactly the sort of thing that the Hugos should honour. www.youtube.com/watch?v=okQT... 5/18
neutral · AI labelView post →Mars Express is a really cool french sci-fi detective noir thriller film. I really enjoyed it
positive · AI labelView post →Rewatched Mars Express. Really good movie, highly recommend.
positive · AI labelView post →It may only have lasted a couple of days, but I'm glad that Mars Express finally got a cinematic release in the UK. I told my wife that it had a "very French" ending, and she guessed immediately what I meant
neutral · AI labelView post →Now that I know I like the film, I'm going to keep this collector's edition of Mars Express, which I managed to find at a decent price last year 😀 🧵 2/ #MarsExpress #Animation #Cinema #Movies #SciFi #Cyberpunk
positive · AI labelView post →Like Dan Olson, you all need to realize that Mars Express was one of the best movies of these last few years and definitely the best Sci Fi movie of the last decade.
positive · AI labelView post →Ma critique de #MarsExpress est là ! Sachez que je n'ai pas eu le droit au titre "un film de SF français robot pour être vrai", alors voilà c'est cadeau. www.clubic.com/generic-revi...
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Mars Express (2023) dir. Jérémie Périn First viewing, I searched murder mysteries on @letterboxd and this animated French film looked interesting
neutral · AI labelView post →Speaking of cyberpunk genre, I finally got to watch Mars Express, the 2023 french animated feature film. Was a real treat to get to see a fresh and well realised interpretation of the genre, and while the ending was a bit blunt, it was otherwise very well rounded and treats its themes with maturity.
neutral · AI labelView post →📽️ Movie Challenge 2026 - Week 24 Watch a movie where a character turns to others for help. This week I watched: Mars Express (2023) Two Men in Town (1973) Arco (2025)
neutral · AI labelView post →We're going to Mars! 👨🚀👩🚀 Thrilled to be working with Mackenzie Crook, Toby Jones, Big Talk & BBC Film on Crook's directorial debut MARS EXPRESS. The extraordinary true story of Colin and Judith Pillinger and their mission to find life on Mars in the late 1990s 🚀 www.screendaily.com/news/mackenz...
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neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's Entertainment: Mars Express letterboxd.com/blazehedgeho...
neutral · AI labelView post →- Love Death + Robots (there's a short called 'Jibaro' which looks esp. unique) - Ninja Kamui (some very good fighting/action choreography) - Secret Level - Mars Express (movie not tv, but some interesting SF animation)
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