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Plot Summary:
A surfer abandoned in the middle of the Australian Outback encounters an alien who time-travels in a ship that looks like a 1950s greasy spoon restaurant and embroils the hero in a chase that involves him sorting out a time paradox so that he can wind back time to prevent the Japanese winning World War II.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Future Schlock (1984)
Plot Summary:
In a future time when middle-class, Stepford-type suburbanites have triumphed over individualists and non-conformists and made them prisoner, two vanquished but not defeated non-conformists carry on the fight as best they can.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, avant garde, psychotronic, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Aditya 369 (1991)
Plot Summary:
Aditya 369 is scientific based movie in which, Ramdas (Tinu Anand) is a great scientist Proffesor doing vigorous experiments to invent a time machine.He becomes successful after some time. His daughter hema (Mohini) and her boy friend Krishna Kumar (Balakrishna) accidentally get into the time machine and visit the past (time of krishnadeva raya's empire).
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: experimental
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Time Adventure: 5 Seconds Til Climax (1986)
Plot Summary:
A young woman who is prone to romantic dreams involving her supervisor time-travels from 1986 to 2001 and becomes involved with a private investigator who is working on a divorce case and is having his own marital difficulties.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, ecchi
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Man in Outer Space (1962)
Plot Summary:
In this routine, allegorical sci-fi drama by Czech director Oldrich Lipsky, a disgruntled worker accidentally finds himself aboard a spaceship (long story), and five hundred years later he comes back with a super-advanced being to a whole new world. He discovers that in his long absence, the world has literally cleaned up well, solved its problems, and is rife with a multitude of technical toys to make life easier. All of these conveniences, however, have not had much effect on the basic foibles that have plagued humanity since cave-dwelling days. Of significance are the names of two of the main characters -- Adam and Eve.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slapstick comedy, campy
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Frankenstein: The College Years (1991)
Plot Summary:
When professor Lippzigger dies, his favorite student Mark inherits the key to his secret laboratory. There he and his friend Jay find the hundreds of years old body of Frankenstein - and revive it. But where to go with him? They take him with them to their dorms. He's dumb as a brick, but makes it into their football team and becomes popular. If there only wasn't Prof. Loman, who wants to become famous with Lipp's inventions.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Moon Man (2022)
Plot Summary:
Working as a maintenance crew member on the moon, Duguyue is left behind after the evacuation mission forgets about him. A meteorite then destroys planet Earth, leaving him as the only man left alive in existence.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: China
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, futuristic, satirical, disturbing
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Emmanuelle Through Time: Emmanuelle's Skin City (2012)
Plot Summary:
Emmanuelle arrives in Las Vegas where she is recruited for a time-travel experiment that sends her to a time and place where all her wishes are granted. Brittany Joy, Russia Hardy, Tim Daly and Harper Issacs star in this erotic fantasy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, parody
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Space Thing (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man is in bed reading Sci-Fi mags, and his wife seduces him. He then falls asleep, and the rest is his dream. He is from an alternate world, and disguises himself as an alien, then boards their ship, to keep them from attacking his planet. The captain is a woman, who has two lesbian encounters with her crew, and whips one of them for trying to have sex with our hero. All of the women are anxious to seduce our hero, as the other two men on the ship are not very exciting. Our hero forces a landing on an asetroid (actually the outskirts of Palmdale, California) and everyone runs around topless and has sex. He then blows up the alien ship in the worst special effects explosion.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, sex comedy, erotic, parody, spoof, cult film
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Dr. Plonk (2007)
Plot Summary:
A scientist & inventor in 1907, Dr Plonk, predicts that the world will end in 101 years, unless something is done about it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: silent, humorous, feel good, captivating, absurd, slapstick, not serious, slapstick comedy, black and white, comic
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Holidays on Mars (2020)
Plot Summary:
We are in 2030, and on vacation we go to Mars! Having made his wife and son Giulio lose his tracks for years, Fabio (Christian De Sica) is about to marry the wealthy Bea on Mars. But what could happen if during an excursion into space, something goes wrong and Giulio suddenly becomes a sprightly old man (Massimo Boldi)? Between hilarious unexpected events and amusing misunderstandings, Fabio will find himself dealing with a seventy-year-old son and a marriage that is in danger of jumping.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining, light
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I Wake Up Yesterday (2012)
Plot Summary:
Czech teacher Peter experiences journey into the past to late 80´s to recover his true love Eliška. At present he´s nothing but relationship´s loser so he tries to find his true love at least at the past. During his journey he passes not just through relationship´s problem but thanks to his radical opinions also encounters problems with communists, even if he knows already from the future that totalitarian regime won´t last forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, psychotronic, teen comedy
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Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust (2007)
Plot Summary:
It's 2007 and the Japanese Ministry of Finance have calculated that the economy will collapse in two years' time. They intend to prevent this by sending home appliance designer Mariko back in time 17 years using a time machine she accidentally invented. However, things don't go as planned and Mariko's daughter, Mayumi, is also sent back to find her mother and save Japan's economy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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Empire of Danger (2004)
Plot Summary:
A newly designed spacecraft capable of going through time is sent to Mars to rescue a crew previously lost on Mars. The ship is sent through the past but to the wrong time, years later than the first crew. Once they land on Mars, the crew finds that it is a place where Bararians rule. The leader of the Barbarians is a female battle warrior named Giza that wants their ship to use as her own chariot through time where she hopes to steal the ancient power of the Masha. With that power, she will gain complete control of the Siperion Empire. - Empire of Danger is the sequel to the movie "Lost on Mars".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, thought provoking, captivating
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Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (2005)
Plot Summary:
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning begins with Captain James B. Pirk of the starship Kickstart shipwrecked on the 21st century Earth with his crew. Originally from the distant future, Pirk and his crew traveled back in time to save the Earth from hostile aliens, but lost their ship and became stranded. Pirk's daily routine consists mainly of stuffing his face at the local fast food restaurant, and he is finding it difficult to convince the ladies he is, in fact, an intergalactic space hero from the future. As the prospects for humanity's conquest of space look increasingly bleaker, Pirk comes up with a questionable plan to save mankind's future.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Finland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, light, futuristic, absurd, exciting, serious, spoof, epic, independent film
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Action Replayy (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young man tries to revive his parents' wilting marriage in a unique manner - travel to the 1970s when their romance was budding and make it bloom. This is more complex than he expects.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: India
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing
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Morons from Outer Space (1985)
Plot Summary:
The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period of their stay at the station, the other three begin playing with the ship’s controls while Bernard is outside playing spaceball. They accidentally disconnect his part of the ship, leaving him stranded while they crash into a large blue planet close by (Earth).
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: cult classic, humorous, spoof, mysterious, offbeat, semi serious, independent film, parody, light, road movie
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Phil the Alien (2004)
Plot Summary:
Phil the Alien crashes to Earth and find himself alone in the wilds of northern Canada. In the process of going home he goes from drunk to christian rock singer to mass murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, stylized, offbeat
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Galaxina (1980)
Plot Summary:
Galaxina is a lifelike, voluptuous android who is assigned to oversee the operations of an intergalactic Space Police cruiser captained by incompetent Cornelius Butt. When a mission requires the ship's crew to be placed in suspended animation for decades, Galaxina finds herself alone for many years, developing emotions and falling in love with the ship's pilot, Thor.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, stylized, not serious, futuristic, psychotronic, spoof, erotic, grindhouse, anamorphic
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A Ticket to Space (2006)
Plot Summary:
Face à l'incompréhension de la population française quant au montant des crédits alloués à la recherche spatiale, le gouvernement lance une vaste opération de communication. En partenariat avec le Centre spatial français, un grand jeu est organisé. "Le ticket pour l'espace", un jeu à gratter, va permettre à deux civils de séjourner dans la station orbitale européenne.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, parody, offbeat, spoof
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Dreamship Surprise: Period 1 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Hundreds of years after humans have settled on Mars, Regulator Rogul and Lord Jens Maul, lead a force of Martians to Earth in order to conquer the planet. Queen Metaphor looks to the gay heroes aboard the spaceship Surprise -- Captain Kork, Mr. Spuck, and first engineer Schrotty.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: parody, exciting, humorous, semi serious, funny, spoof
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Space Cop (2016)
Plot Summary:
Space Cop is the story of a cop from the future of space who travels back in time to the present and is teamed up with a cop from the past who is unfrozen in the present. Together, they must defeat evil aliens with a sinister plan. Out of time and out of place, these two unwitting heroes must work together to save the world from a group of renegade aliens and the re-animated brain of a mad scientist bent on global extinction.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: ironic, spoof, light, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, cult classic, slapstick comedy, parody, corny
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The Man from the Future (2011)
Plot Summary:
Zero (Wagner Moura) is a brilliant scientist, but unfortunate because 20 years ago was publicly humiliated and lost in college Helena (Alinne Moraes) the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions makes him travel in time, more precisely, to the past. After the chance to change his story, Zero returns to this totally changed.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, apocalyptic
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Flashback (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman lawyer travels back in time and crosses paths with other women in history who fought for women's rights.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, thought provoking, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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James vs. His Future Self (2019)
Plot Summary:
When an uptight time-travelling obsessed young scientist is visited by his nihilistic future self, he's told that he needs to give up his dream of becoming the world's first time traveler, or else. But when he won't go along with the plan, it becomes a wicked battle of man versus himself - literally.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Infinite Man (2014)
Plot Summary:
A man's attempts to construct the ultimate romantic weekend backfire when his quest for perfection traps his lover in an infinite loop.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, sexy, mind bending, mindfuck, mind blowing
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Summer Time Machine Blues (2005)
Plot Summary:
A light hearted comedy following a group of friends in a science-fiction club, who spend their summer holidays fooling around at their club house, have a mission to go back into time, using a time machine that appeared out of nowhere, in order to save their summer days from unbearable heat by retrieving the remote control for their air conditioner. But wouldn’t changing the past have an effect on the future? Be prepared for a wild ride regarding time travel with a bunch of whacky characters and theories thrown into the mix.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, light, humorous, captivating, uplifting
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Galaxy Quest (1999)
Plot Summary:
The stars of a 1970s sci-fi show - now scraping a living through re-runs and sci-fi conventions - are beamed aboard an alien spacecraft. Believing the cast's heroic on-screen dramas are historical documents of real-life adventures, the band of aliens turn to the ailing celebrities for help in their quest to overcome the oppressive regime in their solar system.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 173000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, funny, entertaining, futuristic, cult classic, hilarious, humorous, witty, uplifting
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The Spirit of '76 (1990)
Plot Summary:
Future Americans decide to time travel to 1776 to ask the founding fathers for the solutions to their problems. A glitch in the time machine changes their destination to 1976. Still believing themselves to be in 1776, the time travellers attempt to study this "ideal" civilization. 70's jokes, props and stars abound.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, surreal, independent film, spoof, humorous, witty, not serious, parody
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Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
Plot Summary:
A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 184000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, humorous, hilarious, cult classic, absurd, not serious, teen, psychotronic, unusual plot structure
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Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009)
Plot Summary:
Three men walk into a bar; two geeks and a cynic. They are three ordinary blokes who all have dreams and hopes for an exciting and better future.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, entertaining, tricky, witty, exciting, not serious, surreal, mindfuck, apocalyptic