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Plot Summary:
A taxi driver gets more than he bargained for when he picks up two teen runaways. Not only does the pair possess supernatural powers, but they're also trying desperately to escape people who have made them their targets.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, atmospheric, semi serious, fast, futuristic, action adventure, sweet, epic, saga
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Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
Plot Summary:
Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Jason, a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony escape to witch mountain, while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: epic, gothic, spiritual, saga, exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, scary, fairy tale
Similar in 89%
The Sender (1998)
Plot Summary:
A psychic father and daughter band together with an "angel" in an attempt to save Earth from an extraterrestrial Armageddon. This suspenseful thriller ties together strange occurrences from 1965 in the Bermuda Triangle (where an American fighter pilot supposedly encountered a spaceship) and government hush-up conspiracies.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, fast, psychotronic
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Return from Witch Mountain (1978)
Plot Summary:
In this sequal to "Escape From Witch Mountain," Tia and Tony leave their safe refuge on witch mountain for a trip to Los Angeles. Tony is kidnapped by the evil Dr. Gannon and his spinster partner Letha and brainwashed into helping Gannon and Letha commit various crimes. It's up to Tia and a gang of truant kids to rescue Tony and prevent a major disaster.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, gothic, epic, saga, cult classic, feel good, semi serious, psychotronic, exciting, light
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Ben 10: Race Against Time (2007)
Plot Summary:
"Ben 10: Race Against Time" has Ben back in his hometown of Bellwood. Even though he's back in school and leaving his hero adventures behind him, it seems that Ben will be facing his greatest challenge yet.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, exciting, captivating, scenic, action adventure, independent film, fast, surprise ending, psychotronic
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Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Plot Summary:
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: futuristic, saga, exciting, epic, anamorphic, sentimental, action adventure, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Jumper (2008)
Plot Summary:
David Rice is a man who knows no boundaries, a Jumper, born with the uncanny ability to teleport instantly to anywhere on Earth. When he discovers others like himself, David is thrust into a dangerous and bloodthirsty war while being hunted by a sinister and determined group of zealots who have sworn to destroy all Jumpers. Now, David’s extraordinary gift may be his only hope for survival!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 320000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, entertaining, teen, serious, intense, romantic, clever, intellectual, captivating
Similar in 81%
I Am Number Four (2011)
Plot Summary:
A teenage fugitive with an incredible secret races to stay one step ahead of the mysterious forces seeking destroy him in this sci-fi action thriller. With three dead and one on the run, the race to find the elusive Number Four begins. Outwardly normal teen John Smith never gets too comfortable in the same identity, and along with his guardian, Henri, he is constantly moving from town to town. With each passing day, John gains a stronger grasp on his extraordinary new powers, and his bond to the beings that share his fantastic fate grows stronger.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 244000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: exciting, teen, romantic, touching, suspenseful, serious, emotional, scenic, apocalyptic, action adventure
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War of the Worlds (2005)
Plot Summary:
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop of his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 469000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, tense, futuristic, bleak, entertaining, scary, serious, apocalyptic
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Aliens in the Attic (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of kids must protect their vacation home from invading aliens.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, semi serious, teen, funny, light, captivating, futuristic, psychotronic, computer animated
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The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl (2005)
Plot Summary:
Everyone always knew that Max had a wild imagination, but no one believed that his wildest creations -- a boy raised by watchful great white sharks and a girl with the force of a volcano -- were real. Now, these two pint-sized action masters will show Max that even an ordinary kid has what it takes to be extraordinary.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, feel good, entertaining, enigmatic, absurd, teen, touching, humorous, semi serious, surprise ending
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The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
Plot Summary:
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, exciting, scary, semi serious, visual, visually stunning, mystical, captivating, spooky, psychological
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Plot Summary:
On a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 130000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, breathtaking, teen, psychotronic, atmospheric, feel good, ironic, mockbuster, cult classic, action adventure
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The Ewok Adventure (1984)
Plot Summary:
The Towani family civilian shuttlecraft crashes on the forest moon of Endor. The four Towani's are separated. Jermitt and Catarine, the mother and father are captured by the giant Gorax, and Mace and Cindel, the son and daughter, are missing when they are captured. The next day, the Ewok Deej is looking for his two sons when they find Cindel all alone in the shuttle (Mace and Cindel were looking for the transmitter to send a distress call), when Mace appears with his emergency blaster. Eventually, the four-year old Cindel is able to convince the teenage Mace that the Ewoks are nice. Then, the Ewoks and the Towani's go on an adventure to find the elder Towanis.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, exciting, captivating, saga, light, sincere, feel good, entertaining, epic
Similar in 88%
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
Similar in 76%
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Plot Summary:
As Rebel leaders map their strategy for an all-out attack on the Emperor's newer, bigger Death Star. Han Solo remains frozen in the cavernous desert fortress of Jabba the Hutt, the most loathsome outlaw in the universe, who is also keeping Princess Leia as a slave girl. Now a master of the Force, Luke Skywalker rescues his friends, but he cannot become a true Jedi Knight until he wages his own crucial battle against Darth Vader, who has sworn to win Luke over to the dark side of the Force.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: futuristic, saga, cult classic, entertaining, action adventure, suspenseful, visual, action packed, visually stunning, exciting
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ten years after the invasion of Naboo, the galaxy is on the brink of civil war. Under the leadership of a renegade Jedi named Count Dooku, thousands of solar systems threaten to break away from the Galactic Republic. When an assassination attempt is made on Senator Padmé Amidala, the former Queen of Naboo, twenty-year-old Jedi apprentice Anakin Skywalker is assigned to protect her. In the course of his mission, Anakin discovers his love for Padmé as well as his own darker side. Soon, Anakin, Padmé, and Obi-Wan Kenobi are drawn into the heart of the Separatist movement and the beginning of the Clone Wars.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 746000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: saga, futuristic, epic, exciting, light, scenic, intense, serious, suspenseful, entertaining
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Men in Black (1997)
Plot Summary:
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent Kay and new recruit Agent Jay find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 601000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, humorous, not serious, funny, action comedy, parody, epic, action packed, saga
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Independence Day (1996)
Plot Summary:
On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated counterattack that fails. On July 4, a plan is devised to gain access to the interior of the alien mothership in space, in order to plant a nuclear missile.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 598000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, entertaining, tense, futuristic, apocalyptic, suspenseful, semi serious, feel good, action packed
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
Plot Summary:
Accident prone teenager, Percy discovers he's actually a demi-God, the son of Poseidon, and he is needed when Zeus' lightning is stolen. Percy must master his new found skills in order to prevent a war between the Gods that could devastate the entire world.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 198000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, epic, entertaining, humorous, semi serious, teen, fairy tale, psychotronic, mystical, mystic
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Transformers (2007)
Plot Summary:
Young teenager, Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 667000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: action packed, entertaining, saga, action adventure, mecha, exciting, breathtaking, anamorphic, cult classic, sentimental
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 424000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, action packed, surreal, semi serious, saga, action adventure, psychotronic, breathtaking, captivating
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Ender's Game (2013)
Plot Summary:
Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 251000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: futuristic, serious, exciting, entertaining, intense, suspenseful, teen, inspirational, intellectual, apocalyptic
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Plot Summary:
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard -- with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths -- and about the villain who's to blame.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 837000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, touching, scenic, teen, saga, mystic, visually appealing, fantasy adventure
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Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)
Plot Summary:
After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay inside. Walter and Danny, who anticipate a boring day, are shocked when they begin playing Zathura, a space-themed board game, which they realize has mystical powers when their house is shot into space. With the help of an astronaut, the boys attempt to return home.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, intense, semi serious, epic, captivating, futuristic, mystical, funny, atmospheric, mysterious
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Plot Summary:
The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han Solo, Chewbacca, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are thrown into various stages of capture, betrayal and despair.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 14000000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: futuristic, saga, dark, visually stunning, epic, atmospheric, action packed, visual, action adventure, retro
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Plot Summary:
After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 213000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, breathtaking, captivating, cerebral, atmospheric, visually appealing, visual, futuristic, light, sentimental
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sean Anderson partners with his mom's boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, feel good, absurd, semi serious, stylized, suspenseful, teen, psychotronic, sweet
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The 5th Wave (2016)
Plot Summary:
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, futuristic, absurd, serious, teen, suspense, romantic, freeze frame
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The Fifth Element (1997)
Plot Summary:
In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 497000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: France, UK
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: futuristic, visually stunning, breathtaking, exciting, cult classic, colorful, entertaining, visual, cyber, surreal
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Plot Summary:
Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for revenge against the Jedi.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 843000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: futuristic, saga, intense, serious, stylized, entertaining, action packed, cult classic, epic fantasy, exciting