Or what about that ol' chestnut 'Enemy Mine' - Human and alien forced to help one another on a savage alien world...
Not seen that old gem in ages. Shame about Ghosts of Mars though, if that's right. Not seen it yet, but I have a folder on my computer with concept art for the colony which I rather liked.
Alien is beautiful. Period.
Dead Space is an excellent game and has a bunch of 'culty' elements to it already. Plenty of gribblies and other stuff to. Actually, I've been wanting to do a Dead Space-type project, but I am finding there is practically nothing useful that wouldn't require a pile of green stuff among other things. Why are proper astro/cosmonaut-types either very terrible sculpts or non-existent?
The animated film is interesting if not a tad inaccurate with its canon-crock-ups.
The Dead Space
wiki is pretty comprehensive on everything pertaining to the Dead Space universe.
If anyone wants I can send them .rar with all the concept art and renders I have found from the DSU. And I will say right now that there is more material on there than you could find just through google-fu. I had to find the portfolios for some of the artists involved for some of it.
That's part of my two bits anyhoo.