Best movies like Monsters of California
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Plot Summary:
Teenager Dallas Edwards and his derelict friends go on a quest for the meaning behind a series of mysterious, paranormal events in Southern California. The truths they uncover begin to unravel extraordinary secrets.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
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The Crypt Monster (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the '80s, a teenage nerd notices sinister parallels between the story of his favorite comic book and the real life horrors befalling the small town where he lives. He and a few friends seek to investigate.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
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Atom Nine Adventures (2007)
Plot Summary:
In a remote forest, Astrophysicist Dr. Adam Gaines and his homemade robotic assistant Jimbot recover a 3.5 billion year old meteorite containing an alien organism that may hold the secrets to the universe. What they don't realize is that a mysterious terrorist named Gremlo Flugg and his band of "Fluggmen" also seek the ancient contents of the meteorite so they can carry out their sinister plans to take over planet Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
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Night of the Undead (2020)
Plot Summary:
So-hee enjoys her seemingly perfect life as a newlywed with her seemingly perfect husband. For being so perfect, she begins to suspect that her husband isn’t as he seems. Wanting some answers, she hires a private detective agency to trail him around.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
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Alien Avengers II (1997)
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Weird things are happening in the town of Justice, Arizona: three sheriffs have disappeared, and someone is killing the rancher's livestock in a bizarre, ritualistic fashion. Locals believe the incidents were caused by aliens... But a visiting couple, Charlie and Rhonda, knows better – because they're aliens themselves. When no one else will, Charlie and Rhonda volunteer to be the new sheriffs to get to bottom of the crimes. Hiding behind the power of the badge, the two make their own rules, punishing wrong-doers with their own form of "eye-for-an-eye" alien vengeance. Follow this twisted, outer space "Bonnie and Clyde" as they attempt to bring Justice the justice it deserves.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
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Beer Money (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three guys find a space alien in the woods and attempt to sell it to a tabloid TV show, with disastrous results.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
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Attack on Titan (2022)
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As viable water is depleted on Earth, a mission is sent to Saturn's moon Titan to retrieve sustainable H2O reserves from its alien inhabitants. But just as the humans acquire the precious resource, they are attacked by Titan rebels, who don't trust that the Earthlings will leave in peace.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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Homeworld (2008)
Plot Summary:
The year: 3037. Earth is at war with aliens called Mendax. They have remarkable mental abilities and are determined to wipe out all mankind.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Zarkorr! The Invader (1996)
Plot Summary:
An "average" postal worker is informed by a tiny alien hologram which looks like a teenage girl that he is the "choosen one" to destroy a giant reptile to save the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, independent film, bizarre, cult film
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Alien Seed (1989)
Plot Summary:
An alien impregnates an Earth woman so she can deliver an alien "messiah" that will rule the world. A newspaper reporter finds out what's going on and sets out to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, low-budget
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Star Pilot (1966)
Plot Summary:
Aliens from the constellation Hydra crash-land on the island of Sardinia. A prominent scientist, his daughter, several young technicians, and a pair of Oriental spies are taken hostage by the beings so they can use them to repair their spaceship's broken engine. With that done, they take off towards their home planet, taking the earthlings with them. However, the humans attempt to mutiny against their captors, inadvertently sending their tiny spaceship hurtling into the infinite beyond.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Pleasurecraft (1999)
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, independent film, sexploitation film
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The Robinsons: Lost in Space (2004)
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In the year 2082, the Earth was invaded by aliens after it was long determine that existence of extra terrestrials was long thought to be science fiction. Major cities crumbled from the destruction of the beings from beyond the stars. The invasion came to a halt when Earth's own armed forces led by Col. John Robinson fought off the invaders and thus Earth won the battle which came to be known as "Robinson's Raid". 15 years have passed by and John Robinson attends a ceremony for his retirement from his services in defending the Earth from alien threat. This disfunctional family is one of the fewest families chosen to be part of the space program that is heading for a planet called Nova which will become occupied with a new farming colony.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, futuristic
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Lost: Black Earth (2004)
Plot Summary:
Over run by the alien Kryslum Empire, a devastated Earth is victim of their slow terra-forming technologies. With the human race enslaved and on the brink of destruction, four misfits join forces to start the rebellion that will bring upon a new dawn for human survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 48 min
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The Powers of Matthew Star (1982)
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The Powers of Matthew Star is an American sci-fi television series that aired from September 17, 1982 through April 8, 1983, on NBC. It starred Peter Barton as the title character, alien prince Matthew ‘E’Hawke’ Star of the planet Quadris. Also starring were Amy Steel as Pam Elliot, Matthew’s girlfriend at Crestridge High, and Louis Gossett, Jr. as Matthew’s guardian Walt ‘D’hai’ Shepherd. In 2002, The Powers of Matthew Star was ranked #22 on the list of TV Guide's "50 Worst TV Shows of All Time".
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
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Mysterious Planet (1982)
Plot Summary:
A spaceship crash-lands on a planet, and the crew is astonished to find that it holds a beautiful woman who can heal the sick and injured and a race of super-intelligent beings.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic
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The Love War (1970)
Plot Summary:
Two different alien races are at war. Representatives of each race have landed on Earth to battle it out here, but they've taken human form and they can only spot other aliens through the use of special glasses.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic
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Star Raiders: The Adventures of Saber Raine (2017)
Plot Summary:
Saber Raine is hired to guide three elite soldiers on a rescue mission to recover a prince and princess who have been abducted from their home world. The trail leads Saber and his allies to a planet deep within uncharted space that is inhabited by strange mutated creatures.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, campy
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Master of the World (1961)
Plot Summary:
A mad genius tries to bomb the world into peace.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, exciting, offbeat, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, psychotronic
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Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961)
Plot Summary:
A Greek Fisherman brings an Atlantean Princess back to her homeland which is the mythical city of Atlantis. He is enslaved for his trouble. The King is being manipulated by an evil sorcerer who is bent on using a natural resource of Atlantis to take over the world. The Atlanteans, or rather the slaves of Atlantis, are forced to mine a crystalline material which absorbs the suns rays. These crystals can then be used for warmth. The misuse of science has created weapons out of the crystals that can fire a heat ray to destroy whatever it touches.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, classic horror, independent film, exciting, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, crying, cult film
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They Came from Beyond Space (1967)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientists are possessed by an alien force when they investigate a meteor shower in a rural field.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, mysterious, classic horror, independent film, scary, exciting, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Aliens on the Moon: The Truth Exposed (2014)
Plot Summary:
Never-before-aired NASA footage presents evidence that the Moon is being used as a base.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disgusting
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Aliens: Zone-X (2015)
Plot Summary:
Park Ranger Don Morgan is torn from his routine life, when he stumbles upon a UFO visitation in the arid, deserted Park Area where he resides. An inexplicable, bizarre power outage knocks out all electronics and communications, stranding a carload of hikers in the park, and downing a small plane. Searching for hydration in the blistering heat, Don must lead the survivors across an apparently abandoned Military Testing area called "ZONE-X".
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, futuristic
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Assassinaut (2019)
Plot Summary:
Assassinaut is a science-fiction adventure film about a young girl who braves the alien wilderness of a faraway planet to save the President of Earth from a murderous astronaut.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Destination Moonbase-Alpha (1978)
Plot Summary:
After an atomic explosion blasts the Moon out of Earth orbit, Moonbase Alpha drifts in space, with 300 people on board. When a rescue team from Earth arrives in a faster-than-light space ship, everyone is overjoyed that they can now return to Earth. But Moonbase Commander John Koenig, having undergone an experimental brain soothing process after receiving a concussion in a crash on the Lunar surface, sees not friends from Earth but gruesome monsters which have telepathically caused all others on Alpha to see an illusion of an Earth party. The aliens are desperate for radiation and plan to manipulate the Alphans into detonating nuclear waste on the Lunar surface, reducing the Moon and everyone on it to dust. Koenig must expose this conspiracy to save his people. Compiled from the two part episode The Bringers Of Wonder from the TV series Space: 1999's second series.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic
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Alien Apocalypse (2005)
Plot Summary:
An astronaut doctor Ivan Hood and his fellow astronaut Kelly return from their mission in space to find the world has been taken over by aliens. Now Dr. Ivan Hood and Kelly must lead a revolution to free the human slaves from their alien masters.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, exciting, captivating, grindhouse, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993)
Plot Summary:
This made-for-TV film version uses the title and general premise of Jules Verne's novel, but had its heroes carry out the journey in an earth-penetrating machine. A television series was supposed to follow, but was never produced. Cast includes John Neville, F. Murray Abraham and Kim Miyori.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 901
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychotronic, cult film
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War of the Planets (1977)
Plot Summary:
A strange signal arrives on the Earth disturbing all communications, while an UFO appears above the Antarctic sea. Captain Alex Hamilton is sent with his spaceship and crew to the space outside the Solar System to find the origin of that signal. They reach an unknown planet where a giant robot enslaved a whole population of humanoids by taking their psychic energies.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 998
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mysterious, offbeat, bleak, semi serious, ambiguous ending, psychotronic
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Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968)
Plot Summary:
A groups of astronauts crash-land on Venus and find themselves on the wrong side of a group of Venusian women when they kill a monster that is worshipped by them.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, independent film, exciting, serious, psychotronic, campy
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Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
Plot Summary:
Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food on the lifeless planet.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, tense, light, atmospheric, enigmatic
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The Last Starfighter (1984)
Plot Summary:
A video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering The Last Starfighter video game only to find out it was just a test. He was recruited to join the team of best Starfighters to defend their world from the attack.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, cult classic, light, entertaining, semi serious, retro, epic, anamorphic, mindfuck, humorous