Best movies like Back to the Future Part III
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Plot Summary:
The final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 473000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: light, futuristic, sentimental, not serious, entertaining, saga, humorous, cult classic, exciting, epic
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Plot Summary:
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, spoof, surreal, light, stylized, exciting, semi serious, absurd, parody, offbeat
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Timestalkers (1987)
Plot Summary:
Scott, a history professor, becomes involved with two time travelers from the year 2586 after making a discovery in an old photograph. One of the time travelers is determined to change the course of history, the other to stop him. Scott's fascination with the Old West comes in handy when they all return to 1886.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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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 Believing the cast's heroic on-screen dramas are historical documents of real-life adventures, the band of aliens turn to the ailing celebrities for help in their quest to overcome the oppressive regime in their solar system.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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Lucky Luke (2009)
Plot Summary:
Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: France, Argentina
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, captivating, light, entertaining, funny, exciting, not serious
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Camp Nowhere (1994)
Plot Summary:
Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to summer camp. He hates going to summer camp, and would do anything to get out of it. Talking to his friends, he realizes that they are all facing the same sentence: a boring summer camp. Together with his friends, he hatches a plan to trick all the parents into sending them to a camp of their own design.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, entertaining, teen, feel good, humorous, not serious, funny, epic, inspirational
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Explorers (1985)
Plot Summary:
The visionary dreams of three curious and adventuresome young boys become an exciting reality in Explorers, the action-fantasy from director Joe Dante, who combines keen humor, warmth and fantasy with unexpected twists. In their makeshift laboratory, the boys use an amazing discovery and their ingenuity to build their own spaceship and launch themselves on a fantastic interplanetary journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: light, cult classic, feel good, retro, uplifting, intellectual, epic, stylized, mindfuck, offbeat
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Spaceballs (1987)
Plot Summary:
When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of "The Schwartz." Can he master it in time to save the day?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 203000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, spoof, absurd, feel good, humorous, cult classic, hilarious, futuristic, not serious
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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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Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
Plot Summary:
Lyle Swann is a successful off-road racer who mistakenly gets sent back in time 100 years. When a band of outlaws robs Swann of his motorcycle, he's forced to outfox the gangsters and give in to the seductions of a gorgeous local lady. With only his smarts and a map from an Exxon station, Lyle must try to make it out of the Old West alive and find a way back to modern times.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, fantasy adventure, road movie, exciting, humorous, semi serious, surprise ending, light, romantic
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Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Lou, who has become the "father of the Internet," is shot by an unknown assailant, Jacob and Nick fire up the time machine again to save their friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, absurd, not serious, psychotronic, retro, parody, funny, clever, bad ending, melancholic
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Shanghai Noon (2000)
Plot Summary:
Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard trails Princess Pei Pei when she is kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 134000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: light, funny, entertaining, exciting, feel good, humorous, hilarious, action comedy, action packed, slapstick
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Goin' South (1978)
Plot Summary:
Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: entertaining, stylized, light, humorous, exciting, funny, captivating, cult classic, offbeat, realistic
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The Adam Project (2022)
Plot Summary:
After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 224000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, funny, mysterious, disturbing, motivational, thought provoking, emotional, entertaining, satirical, action adventure
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Honey I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
Plot Summary:
Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his invention, the machine unexpectedly starts working. And when Adam comes right up to the machine, he gets zapped along with his stuffed bunny.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, light, clever, feel good, humorous, slapstick, hilarious, epic, cult classic, not serious
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Plot Summary:
The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 164000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, intense, light, feel good, slapstick, cute, exciting, uplifting, family comedy, hilarious
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Star Trek (2009)
Plot Summary:
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 616000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: futuristic, epic, stylized, exciting, entertaining, intellectual, action packed, visually stunning, intense, suspenseful
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Paul (2011)
Plot Summary:
For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing uncomfortably close, Paul escapes on the first RV that passes by his compound in Area 51. Fortunately, it contains the two earthlings who are most likely to rescue and harbor an alien on the run.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 263000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, entertaining, unusual plot structure, hilarious, road movie, absurd, witty, thought provoking, sentimental
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My Science Project (1985)
Plot Summary:
Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project for Michael's class, and discover a strange glowing orb which absorbs electricity. When the orb begins to blend past, present, and future, its up to Michael and Ellie to stop the orb and save mankind.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, semi serious, fast, psychotronic, light, feel good, eighties, complex, idiotic
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Time Traveller (2010)
Plot Summary:
Akari Yoshiyama is graduating high school soon and is expected to lead new life after she passes the university entrance exam, while her mother is working as a pharmacologist. However, her mother has a car accident and the situation is totally changed. She decides to go to 1972 to fullfil her mother's wish.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, atmospheric, feel good, romantic, offbeat, psychotronic
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The Goonies (1985)
Plot Summary:
A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of Pirate One-Eyed Willie.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 293000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, cult classic, entertaining, intense, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, exciting, inspirational
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Time Bandits (1981)
Plot Summary:
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, surreal, light, mindfuck, colorful, dark fantasy, stylized, semi serious, visual, visually stunning
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Men in Black 3 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K never told him - secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent K (Josh Brolin) to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 382000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: futuristic, entertaining, exciting, action comedy, tricky, humorous, not serious, psychotronic, epic, saga
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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
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Quantum Leap (1989)
Plot Summary:
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, stylized, touching, witty, scary, cliffhanger, retro, bad ending, anthology
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Flight of the Navigator (1986)
Plot Summary:
This 1986 Disney adventure tells the story of 12-year-old David who lives with his family in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. When he awakens from being accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, he finds that eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to have him back, but just as perplexed as he is by the fact that he hasn't aged. When a NASA scientist discovers a UFO nearby, David gets the chance to unravel the mystery and recover the life he lost.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, futuristic, entertaining, exciting, stylized, sweet, touching, serious, uplifting, mind bending
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Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Plot Summary:
Marty and Doc are at it again in this wacky sequel to the 1985 blockbuster as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch attempt to set things straight, Marty finds himself bound for 1955 and face to face with his teenage parents -- again.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 563000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: futuristic, entertaining, clever, light, humorous, funny, teen, saga, cult classic, exciting
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Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Plot Summary:
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 721000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: futuristic, mind bending, exciting, heroic, clever, captivating, suspenseful, intense, entertaining, smart
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Jumanji (1995)
Plot Summary:
When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's been trapped inside the game for 26 years -- into their living room. Alan's only hope for freedom is to finish the game, which proves risky as all three find themselves running from giant rhinoceroses, evil monkeys and other terrifying creatures.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 369000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, offbeat, light, humorous, fairy tale, funny, feel good, epic, atmospheric
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Back to the Future (1985)
Plot Summary:
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 13000000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: feel good, exciting, light, funny, cult classic, teen, futuristic, spectacular, not serious, fast paced
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Interstellar (2014)
Plot Summary:
Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 20000000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: futuristic, mind bending, cerebral, philosophical, thought provoking, clever, atmospheric, breathtaking, serious, epic