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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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Evil Aliens (2005)
Plot Summary:
The sensationalist reporter Michelle Fox presents the TV show Weird World, with phony matters about UFOS and aliens. When she hears about Cat, a young woman that claims that have been abducted with her boyfriend and become pregnant by aliens, she convinces her chief to travel with a team to the remote Welsh island of Scalled to interview Cat. She invites the cameraman Ricky Anderson with his sound technician partner; the nerd expert in "ufology" and "ley lines" Gavin Gorman; the actress Candy Vixen and an obscure gay actor to prepare the matter. They get a van and wait for the low tide to reach the island, and when they find evidences that aliens are really landed in the location, the ambitious Michelle decides to film her way to fame and wealth.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, humorous, semi serious, horror comedy, feel good, tense, entertaining, funny, saga, offbeat
Similar in 79%
Aliens in the Family (1996)
Plot Summary:
Aliens in the Family is an American sci-fi/fantasy sitcom that aired on ABC, conceived as part of its TGIF lineup From the Creators of Dinosaurs and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Everything Happens to Me (1980)
Plot Summary:
Following the events of The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid, Sheriff Hall and H-725 (using the official identity of Charlie Warren) still get no rest from the military: because the little alien has not yet grasped the meaning of keeping a low profile, they are constantly on the move, and H-725’s father has had to pick them out of a tight spot too many times already.Hall and Charlie eventually arrive at the city of Munroe, where petty crime, from vandalism to armed robberies, is running rampant, more so because the town currently has no sheriff. Charlie pushes Hall into staying in this place, and somewhat reluctantly Hall takes up the job in this chaotic place, with the help of the local radio jock and City Mayor Howard (Ferruccio Amendola). Soon the riff-raff in town learns not to underestimate the new sheriff as he metes out hard-hitting advice to stay out of trouble.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, slapstick
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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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Monster High (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two high school goofs steal an explosive device from another world that has been hidden on earth, and an alien named Mr. Armageddon is sent to retrieve it from them.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 722
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: spoof, scary, exciting, humorous, semi serious, splatter, psychotronic, independent film, parody, campy
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The History of Future Folk (2012)
Plot Summary:
An alien intending to claim Earth for his people before their homeworld is destroyed by a comet decides not to eliminate humanity when he hears their music. Instead, he lives among them until another alien is sent to find and kill him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, tense, light, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, offbeat, independent film
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The Creature Wasn't Nice (1981)
Plot Summary:
A farce satirizing extraterrestrial horror movies such as Alien.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Musical, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, psychotronic, erotic, spoof, independent film, exciting, offbeat, humorous, not serious, horror comedy
Similar in 75%
The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space (1995)
Plot Summary:
The forces of evil are attempting to recapture a human-inhabited Earth-like planet that has been liberated by rebels. The son of one of the rebel leaders, an electronic genius, searches the galaxy for a hero and finds Captain Zoom, star of a 1950s TV series. He is transported to the planet as its savior, which role he must play despite himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, spoof, parody, campy
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Alien Tracker (2003)
Plot Summary:
In a galaxy far away, alien criminals organize a spectacular prison break. Pursued by their home planet's authorities, their leader Zin decides there's only one place to go: through a wormhole that allows instantaneous travel to Earth. Cole is the Alien Tracker who's in hot pursuit of the escaped convicts.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating
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Supersonic Man (1979)
Plot Summary:
A masked superhero (Michael Coby) with a private-eye disguise thwarts a madman's (Cameron Mitchell) death-ray plot.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, weird, campy
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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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Alien Dawn (2012)
Plot Summary:
2012. The dawn of destruction. As giant alien machines enslave and feed off humanity, the few remaining survivors band together to form a armed militia that will be the last stand against total extinction (IMDB.com).
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 943
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, independent film
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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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G.O.R.A. (2004)
Plot Summary:
A slick young Turk kidnapped by extraterrestrials shows his great « humanitarian spirit » by outwitting the evil commander-in-chief of the planet of G.O.R.A.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Turkey
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, stylized, not serious, cult classic, offbeat
Similar in 77%
Cybermutt (2003)
Plot Summary:
When Rex, a good-natured Golden Retriever, is given bionic super powers by an eccentric scientist, he becomes the target of an evil genius determined to possess the new technology at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious
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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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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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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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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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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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Death Kappa (2010)
Plot Summary:
When military experiments go haywire and trigger an atomic bomb, the consequences are of epic proportions. A monster arrives in the midst of the nuclear fallout, and Japan's defenses are helpless against it. Mankind's only savior is an irradiated water goblin from Japanese folklore called the "Death Kappa". The two rival monsters must go head-to-head in the ultimate battle between good and evil!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, exciting, retro, surreal, offbeat, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic
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P.U.N.K.S. (1999)
Plot Summary:
A group of misfit teens evade a corrupt scientist when they steal and attempt to return a suit that delivers supernatural strength to its wearer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: semi serious, exciting, humorous, stylized, independent film
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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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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
Similar in 81%
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Plot Summary:
'We come in peace' is not what those green men from Mars mean when they invade our planet, armed with irresistible weapons and a cruel sense of humor. This star studded cast must play victim to the alien’s fun and games in this comedy homage to science fiction films of the '50s and '60s.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 240000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: parody, dark comedy, absurd, humorous, spoof, futuristic, funny, black comedy, stylized, melancholic