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Plot Summary:
Samual Curtis's first mission in this bizarre science fiction musical comedy requires him to take a cat to a saloon on an asteroid. There, he meets his former dance partner (the Blueberry Pirate) and collects his payment: a device capable of producing a Real Live Girl. Including music by alternative rock group The Billy Nayer Show, this film began life as a live show with a loyal following.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Musical, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surreal, black and white, atmospheric, lyrical, cult classic, talky, humorous, semi serious, independent film, art house
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The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
Plot Summary:
In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000. Contestants flock in from around the globe. Representing America is Chester Kent, a theatre producer who thinks he's an American despite being Canadian; representing Serbia is his brother, Gavrilo the Great, who is succumbing to madness over the death of his son; and representing Canada is their father, a pathetic drunkard. As the competition builds toward its climax, these estranged characters are brought together to express their deep feelings of pain and ultimately give in to treachery.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, breathtaking, black and white, lyrical, visual, light, talky, humorous, black comedy
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Sergeant Dead Head (1965)
Plot Summary:
An astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit, it is discovered that the chimp has the brains of the astronaut, and the astronaut has the brains of the chimp. Complications ensue.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, absurd, psychotronic
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Meet the Hollowheads (1989)
Plot Summary:
The Hollowheads are a strange, futuristic family that live in a Jetsons type world complete with many cool gadgets. Henry is hoping for a promotion at the slime factory in which he works and decides to bring his boss home for dinner and to meet the family. The horny, pervert, rude boss does not know what he is up against when he begins with his advances towards Mrs. Hollowhead and his abundance of rudeness.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, atmospheric, psychedelic, surreal, independent film, offbeat, spoof, dark comedy, futuristic
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Way... Way Out (1966)
Plot Summary:
A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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The Wizard of Speed and Time (1988)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood filmmaker (Mike Jittlov) makes a short for an evil film studio. Unbeknownest to him, the producer has placed a bet of $25,000 that he won't come up with anything with a use. Luckily, our film creator gets the help of his friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal, cult classic, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Forbidden Zone (1980)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine. When Frenchy slips through the door, King Fausto falls in love with her. The jealous Queen Doris takes Frenchy prisoner, and it is up to the Hercules family and friend Squeezit Henderson to rescue her.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, cult classic, grindhouse, black and white, sexy, psychotronic, humorous, stylized, mind bending, mindfuck
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Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005)
Plot Summary:
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, humorous, stylized, semi serious, sketch comedy, cult classic, mind blowing, psychological, mind bending
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Head (1968)
Plot Summary:
The Monkees are tossed about in a psychedelic, surrealist, plotless, circular bit of fun fluff.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, surreal, cult classic, grindhouse, offbeat, humorous, psychological, parody, funny, mind bending
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True Stories (1986)
Plot Summary:
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: cult classic, surreal, postmodern, parody, offbeat, feel good, humorous, witty, not serious, absurd
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)
Plot Summary:
The mad and evil scientist, Dr. Clayton Forrester, has created an evil little scheme that is bound to give him world global domination but first things first. He plans to torment Mike Nelson and the robots by sending them a real stinker of a film to watch called, "This Island Earth." He is convinced that this movie will drive them insane. Will this be the ultimate cheese that breaks the boys' spirits?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, talky, light, absurd, melancholic, surreal, not serious, cult classic, spoof
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Superstarlet A.D. (2000)
Plot Summary:
The world has ended. All that is left behind are individual beauty cults, groups of girls seeking safety and identity in numbers. Basing their bond on hair color and giving themselves strangely evocative gang names, the blond Phayrays (King Kong), the brunette Satanas (Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!), and the wicked, redheaded Tempests (as in Storm, the stripper) are constantly battling the brutish cavemen roaming the afterworld ruins and looking for potential dye job converts. Only one group tries to incorporate all follicle factions. They are the Superstarlets.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, semi serious, apocalyptic, offbeat, independent film, avant garde, humorous, psychedelic
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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
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Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
Plot Summary:
In this musical comedy, Valerie is dealing with her philandering fiancé, Ted, when she finds that a trio of aliens have crashed their spaceship into her swimming pool. Once the furry beings are shaved at her girlfriend's salon, the women discover three handsome men underneath. After absorbing the native culture via television, the spacemen are ready to hit the dating scene in 1980s Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, funny, cult classic, romantic comedy, humorous, spoof, erotic, sex comedy, thinking, surprise ending
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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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Human Highway (1982)
Plot Summary:
Human Highway is a 1982 comedy film starring and co-directed by Neil Young under his pseudonym Bernard Shakey. Dean Stockwell co-directed the film and acted along with Russ Tamblyn, Dennis Hopper, and the band Devo. Included is a collaborative performance of "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" by Devo and Young with Booji Boy singing lead vocals and Young playing lead guitar.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, dark comedy, cult classic, exciting, offbeat, humorous, surreal, not serious, independent film, psychotronic
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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978)
Plot Summary:
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is a 1978 comedy film directed by John De Bello and starring David Miller. The film is a spoof of B-movies. Made on a budget of less than USD $100,000, the story involves tomatoes becoming sentient by unknown means and revolting against humanity.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: parody, absurd, scary, humorous, spoof, surreal, black comedy, cult classic, light, not serious
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Dr. Caligari (1989)
Plot Summary:
Mrs. Van Houten has shown signs of losing touch with reality, and her husband discusses possible treatment with Dr. Caligari, who says Mrs. Van Houten has a disease of the libido.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, mind bending, psychedelic, experimental, surreal, disturbing, controversial, psychotronic, horror comedy, cult classic
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The Reluctant Astronaut (1967)
Plot Summary:
Don Knotts is Roy Fleming, a small town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When NASA decides to launch a lay person into space to prove the worthiness of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his fears.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, sitcom, semi serious, slapstick, psychotronic, exciting, clever, sweet, entertaining
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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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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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Dark Star (1974)
Plot Summary:
A low-budget, sci-fi satire that focuses on a group of scientists whose mission is to destroy unstable planets. 20 years into their mission, they have battle their alien mascot, that resembles a beach ball, as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: futuristic, parody, grindhouse, philosophical, surreal, spoof, minimal cast, humorous, deep, space horror
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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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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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The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
Plot Summary:
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' (which lasted two minutes and twenty eight seconds, including the signing of the peace treaty) is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, apocalyptic, psychedelic, surreal, psychotronic, mind bending, cult classic, twisted, offbeat, humorous
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Kin-dza-dza! (1986)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place on the desert planet "Pluke" in the "Kin-dza-dza" galaxy, where two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other ("Uncle Vova", a gruff construction foreman from Moscow, and "The Fiddler", a student from Georgia) are stranded due to an accidental encounter with an alien teleportation device. The movie describes their long quest to find a way back home.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: surreal, philosophical, humorous, offbeat, enigmatic, cult classic, psychedelic, apocalyptic, parody, mind bending
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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
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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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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Plot Summary:
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.".
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 206000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: light, parody, cult classic, funny, philosophical, clever, humorous, witty, stylized, intellectual