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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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Best tv shows and movies like Phil the Alien (2004):
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Dr. Alien (1989)
Plot Summary:
When the mysterious and sexy Ms. Xenobia takes over the biology class at the local college, the dating life of supergeek Wesley Littlejohn takes a serious turn. Littlejohn agrees to be a lab rat for the professor's unusual vitamin research study. Now, thanks to some out-of-this-world supplements, he's been transformed into the campus stud. But Xenobia has ulterior extraterrestrial motives in this sci-fi sex comedy.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, funny, horror comedy, humorous, semi serious, teen sex comedy, art house, gay cinema, campy
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End of Days, Inc. (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of laid-off workers bribed into working one last night discover that processing the last of their "inventory" will lead to cataclysmic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, semi serious, psychotronic, black comedy, dark comedy
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Breakfast of Aliens (1993)
Plot Summary:
Lovable loser Walter Clydepepper eats an alien from outer space in his cereal and becomes a deadly stand up comic.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Return of James Battle (2004)
Plot Summary:
James Bataille is in love. He attempts to stage an elaborate motorcycle stunt to impress the girl, but when it goes sour, he ends up in prison with a 133-year sentence. Bataille escapes from behind bars to make an appointment to fix the car of music biz tycoon, as well as watch the love of his life take part in the town's annual talent show.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Germany, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, humorous, semi serious, exciting, sentimental, light, captivating, offbeat, independent film
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Alien Opponent (2010)
Plot Summary:
The owner of a small-town junkyard offers a cash reward to whomever can kill her uninvited, space-suited alien guest when its spacecraft crash-lands into her barn. Every wacko within 100 miles turns out, and before long, the junkyard is transformed into a war zone of man vs. man vs. machine vs. alien vs. God only knows what.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating, futuristic
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Freezer Burn: The Invasion of Laxdale (2008)
Plot Summary:
Disguised as executives from a Dutch Oil Company, Aliens from outer space buy a local farming company and promise to create jobs for the failing farming town. Their goal is to use crop circles to heat up the temperature of the earth and eventually turn the entire planet into a Club-Med for extra-terrestrials.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, not serious, suspenseful, sex comedy, offbeat, teen comedy, cult film
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Trail of the Screaming Forehead (2007)
Plot Summary:
A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people and taking them over collides with a scientist's experiments to extract foreheadazine and things go horribly horribly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 871
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, scary, creepy, exciting, offbeat, feel good, weird
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Project: ALF (1996)
Plot Summary:
Six years ago, the space alien, ALF, was on his way back to his new home...When the Alien Task Force finally caught him. Now, the story continues to where the series ended. ALF is now protected by the Alien Task Force, but the leader wants to terminate ALF. So two officers decide to save ALF by taking ALF away from him. But the man the officers took ALF to wants to finally reveal ALF to the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, semi serious
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Moon Pilot (1962)
Plot Summary:
An Air Force captain inadvertently volunteers to make the first manned flight around the moon. He immediately falls under the watchful protection of various security agencies, but despite all their precautions, a young woman who may be an enemy spy succeeds in making contact with the captain. The captain eventually discovers that this woman is not an enemy but rather a friend from a very unusual source.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, cult film
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Stepsister from Planet Weird (2000)
Plot Summary:
A teenager's life is disrupted when her mother falls in love with an alien.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, teen
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Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (2011)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of lesbian space aliens on the planet Earth, and the story of the romance between Jane, a shy greeting card store employee, and Zoinx, the woman Jane does not realize is from outer-space. Meanwhile, two government agents, or 'Men In Black,' are closely tracking Jane and the aliens while harboring their own secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, offbeat, not serious, independent film, queer cinema
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Suck (2009)
Plot Summary:
The film follows a petty rock band called the Winners, consisting of vocalist Joey Winner, bassist Jennifer, guitarist Tyler, drummer Sam, and French-Canadian roadie Hugo, along with their sleazy manager Jeff, as they tour across Canada and the USA after Jennifer is turned into a vampire by Queeny. Meanwhile, a vampire hunter who is afraid of the dark named Eddie Van Helsing quickly chases them down.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cynical, parody, horror comedy, suspense, scary, black comedy, gothic, horror musical, offbeat, witty
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Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful alien Amazonian women plan to conquer the world using an army of vegetable monsters. Dim-witted privates Philbrick and Penn bumble into a cave in search of atomic activity but collide instead with fierce carrot-topped tree mutants and their leaders, the 7-foot space sirens Prof. Tanga and Dr. Puna. This lavishly low-budget sci-fi romp has the bodacious aliens planning to overrun Earth with their vege-men army, but first they want the G.I.s to explain the meaning of love.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: retro, suspense, independent film, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, slapstick, parody, psychotronic, campy
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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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2001: A Space Travesty (2000)
Plot Summary:
Leslie Nielsen once again plays a bumbling detective in the vein of the 'Naked Gun' movies, but this time as Marshall Richard 'Dick' Dix. When odd reports are received through official channels stating that the President of the United States is being held captive on a secret international moon base called Vegan and that he has been replaced on Earth by a clone, the US Marshall Service immediately sends their 'best' man, Dix, on the mission. Dix travels to Vegan to rescue the president, but is quickly duped and ends up returning to Earth where he installs the clone-president and removes the real one. The bumbling Dix must then find a way to restore the real president before aliens take over the Earth, and restore in himself a belief in truth, justice and the American way.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, not serious, exciting, light, intellectual, captivating, slapstick, grindhouse
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The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
Plot Summary:
An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: cult classic, satirical, black comedy, independent film, allegory, clever, surreal, funny, mind bending, psychedelic
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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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Spaced Out (2006)
Plot Summary:
The planet earth is in peril of impending doom, and maniacal destructive forces from outer space are closely at hand! Twisted, demented alien terrorists are single-handedly about to reap horrific havoc on earth and threaten life itself. Meanwhile, ace investigative reporter extraordinaire, Al Manac (James Vallo), has been held captive for two years in their space lair.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, exciting, captivating, independent film, offbeat, spoof, parody, campy
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Rock Jocks (2012)
Plot Summary:
Imagine asteroids so large that they can wipe out all life on the planet constantly bombarding the Earth. The only things standing in the way are the Rock Jocks, a top-secret band of government employees, who pilot asteroid-killing satellites. The story takes place during a Rock Jocks night shift. Though they are there to fight off asteroids, they spend most of the night fighting off boredom, themselves, and the occasional meddling government bureaucrat hell-bent on cutting their department’s budget.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, feel good, semi serious, independent film, captivating, light, not serious
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My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
Plot Summary:
Trying to rescue her home planet from destruction, a gorgeous extraterrestrial named Celeste arrives on Earth and begins her scientific research. She woos quirky scientist Dr. Steve Mills, a widower with a young daughter. Before long, Celeste finds herself in love with Steve and her new life on Earth, where she experiences true intimacy for the first time. But when she loses sight of her mission, she begins to question where she belongs.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, humorous, parody, funny, erotic, spoof, offbeat, not serious, psychotronic
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Coneheads (1993)
Plot Summary:
With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don't exactly blend in with the population of Paramus, N.J. But for some reason, everyone believes them when they say they're from France! As the odd "Saturday Night Live" characters settle into middle-class life in this feature-length comedy, a neighbor admires their daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, absurd, not serious, satirical, feel good, skit, cult classic, offbeat
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Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass (2011)
Plot Summary:
John Glass, wakes up in a desolated barn from a long cryogenic slumber, to be informed that not only the planet has been devastated by a third world war, but reduced to little habitability by a subsequent alien invasion. He also learns that in order to reestablish a livable atmosphere for what's left of humanity, he'll have to go on a solitary mission to retrieve important codes dispersed in remote locations. Soon enough, he'll encounter more than he bargained for: aliens, crazy survivors, inadequate equipment, LOTS of walking and a pretty unhealthy dose of bad luck.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic, offbeat, not serious, black comedy, dark comedy, weird
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Evil Alien Conquerors (2003)
Plot Summary:
Inept beings from the planet Kabijj land on Earth and attempt to behead all of its beings and take over the planet.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, funny, entertaining, slapstick
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Illegal Aliens (2007)
Plot Summary:
Three aliens morph into super-hot babes and arrive to protect the earth from the intergalactic forces of evil. Guided by Syntax, their holographic mentor, these Illegal Aliens are willing to use every trick in the book and every sexy outfit in their wardrobe to accomplish their mission! "Illegal Aliens" pokes fun at today's Hollywood and pays tribute to the so-called "Bad Movies" we all love to hate.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, sex comedy, independent film, spoof, exciting, parody
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Spaced Invaders (1990)
Plot Summary:
A crew of Martians overhears a radio broadcast of Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" coming from Earth, and, thinking the Martian fleet is attacking Earth, they land their broken-down ship in a backwater mid-American town. As luck would have it, they land on Halloween and get mistaken for trick-or-treaters. Comedy ensues as the Martians try to get taken seriously.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: cult classic, humorous, dark, grindhouse, independent film, offbeat, semi serious, surprise ending, slapstick comedy, parody
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Can of Worms (1999)
Plot Summary:
A teen is visited by aliens after he broadcasts a message into space.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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The World's End (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 295000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: witty, absurd, humorous, funny, parody, spoof, dark comedy, cult classic, suspense, horror comedy
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The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
Plot Summary:
A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that gives it special powers, including the ability to communicate with humans, has eluded the authorities and seeks the help of a scientist in order to reclaim and repair his ship and get back home.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: cute, humorous, mysterious, freeze frame, offbeat, feel good, semi serious, hilarious, fairy tale, light
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What Planet Are You From? (2000)
Plot Summary:
A highly-evolved planet, whose denizens feel no emotion and reproduce by cloning, plans to take over Earth from the inside by sending an operative, fashioned with a humming, mechanical penis, to impregnate an earthling and stay until the birth. The alien, Harold Anderson, goes to Phoenix as a banker and sets to work finding a mate. His approaches to women are inept, and the humming phallus doesn't help, but on the advice of a banking colleague, he cruises an AA meeting, meets Susan, and somehow convinces her to marry. The clock starts to tick: will she conceive, have a baby, and lose Harold (and the child) to his planet before he discovers emotion and starts to care?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, satirical, erotic, parody, offbeat, witty, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy