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story identification - A spaceship crew stuck in a damaged spaceship that's losing power


I need help identyfying this movie I once saw late night on TNT, late 90s or early 2000s.


I don't have very clear recollection about it. The movie was very strange. It all took place in a single room of a spaceship or an escape pod that had lost power. A woman and a man, or several men, were stuck in a ship or a spacepod that was somehow damaged or didn't have power.


The movie was entirely made of the dialogs between the woman and the man (or men). They would talk about what was happening outside, how to contact help, about their lives. During their conversation details about the world around them emerge. In this movie people have colonized the solar system but not moved outside it, and there is some sort of a war.


Other things I remember are that it was dark in that room. I think they used only a lightbulb or even direct starlight and sunlight (if they were far away from the sun), because there was no power. Also it was getting colder, becaus the ship's heating system was not functioning, and so it was losing its heat. The people would constantly complain about how cold it's getting. I think that the woman was the captain of the ship. She would sometimes go to the control cabin and try to do something to help their situation, either restore power or contact someone so they can be rescued.


What impressed me about it was how they managed to make it realistic. Because the actors would talk and act like it was all real, it made it somehow feel very realistic to me as well.


That's about it as far as I remember. Hope someone has watched this movie and can tell me what it is.


Update


I want to add a few more details about the movie. While I watched it in the late 90s/early 2000s the movie looked much older. It looked like a vintage B-Movie made in the style of the 70s or 80s. In particular the decor looked more like Alien 1 or Cosmos 1999.



I just watched the firefly episode and it can't be it. It has too much action, and the atmosphere is not dark enough.



Answer



Shot in the dark, as I haven't seen this in what seems like forever, but it sounds like it could be Lifepod.


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