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Plot Summary:
Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are not very smart, make their way with shady dealings, smuggling and spaceship wrecking.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: experimental, independent film, bizarre
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Crimes of the Future (1970)
Plot Summary:
Crimes of the Future is set in a future where sexually mature women appear to have been obliterated by a plague produced by the use of cosmetics. It details the wanderings of Adrian Tripod director of the dermatological clinic the House of Skin. Tripod seems at a loss following the disappearance of his mentor Antoine Rouge.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: surreal, tech noir, homoerotic, independent film, weird
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Toomorrow (1970)
Plot Summary:
A group of students pay their way through school by forming a pop band called Toomorrow. Sonic vibrations from a special instrument called a ‘tonaliser’ cause an extraterrestrial to abduct the group, and have them entertain the Alphoid population.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: offbeat, independent film
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Zvyozdniy vors (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the year of 2221 Professor Chasharskiy leads an expedition to another planets through tunnel in Earth on the Scarab spaceship which is a modified winter service vehicle.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: parody, absurd, exciting, thought provoking, captivating
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Terminal City Ricochet (1990)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Terminal City, a decaying world where the citizens wallow amidst a mind-boggling profusion of discarded consumer goods; a ruthless world where television is exploited to its fullest to sell yet more needless junk to eager consumers; a bewildering land where the unreal is real and the real, unreal. Alex Stevens is hurled into this bedlam where he finds himself pitted against the maniacal Ross Gilmore, Mayor of Terminal City, and the evil Bruce Coddle, agent of Gilmore's Social Peace Enforcement Unit.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: political, underground film, independent film, black comedy, cult film
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Plan 10 from Outer Space (1995)
Plot Summary:
A woman accidentally discovers the Plaque of Kolob which leads her to discover an insidous alien plot for world domination documented by a disreputable early Mormon prophet. 'Plan 10 from Outer Space' is an eccentric comedy involving a bizarre relationship between Mormons, bees and extra terrestrials. Shot on an obviously miniscule budget with a largely unknown cast, save for b-grade queen Karen Black, this is the perfect example of an inventive and original script outshining technical shortcomings.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: parody, independent film, campy
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The Falls (1980)
Plot Summary:
The exploration of the effects of an unexpected catastrophe, known as VUE (violent unknown event) through the bios of 92 survivors.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 195 min
Plot tags: experimental, art house, mockumentary, offbeat, humorous, captivating, surreal, stylized, not serious, independent film
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2069: A Sex Odyssey (1974)
Plot Summary:
Five sexy females from the planet Venus are sent to Earth to bring back sperm samples to their planet, which is dying out because there are no men left on it. After the land they find that it's not all that difficult persuading Earthmen to help them in their quest.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, spoof, parody, hot
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Sleeping Dogs (1997)
Plot Summary:
A master jewel thief in 21st century Los Angeles targets the illegal emerald smuggling operations of a highly-connected crime syndicate. During what he believes to be a routine heist, cat burglar Harry Maxwell discovers that his target, notorious criminal Sanchez Boon is also the target of a police raid. In attempting to evade both the law and Boon's well-armed men, Harry meets Pandora Grimes, one of dozens of young women Boon kidnapped to work in his factory. When Boon sets a group of social deviants free and hijacks a space transport ship and its crew, only Harry and Pandora's cunning can save the hundreds of innocent people aboard.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Man in Outer Space (1962)
Plot Summary:
In this routine, allegorical sci-fi drama by Czech director Oldrich Lipsky, a disgruntled worker accidentally finds himself aboard a spaceship (long story), and five hundred years later he comes back with a super-advanced being to a whole new world. He discovers that in his long absence, the world has literally cleaned up well, solved its problems, and is rife with a multitude of technical toys to make life easier. All of these conveniences, however, have not had much effect on the basic foibles that have plagued humanity since cave-dwelling days. Of significance are the names of two of the main characters -- Adam and Eve.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slapstick comedy, campy
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Abdulladzhan, or Dedicated to Steven Spielberg (1991)
Plot Summary:
Considering that Musakov’s Abdulladzhan (1991) was dedicated to Steven Spielberg, we might suggest that these four boys embody nothing more complicated than a conflict of youthful innocence with some ominous threat—the basic workings of E.T. (1982) or War of the Worlds (2005), say. That threat, however, is best understood not through vague nationalism or warmed-over socialism, but through the other reference-point of Abdulladzhan—Tarkovskii’s Stalker (1980). Musakov leaves his boys in a simplified radiance so bright and so overexposed that it no longer looks like the skies of sunny Tashkent, but a disturbing, borderless luminosity to match the flat tonal range of Stalker’s “Zone.” Our Uzbek boys are nowhere in particular; this is a broader domain than anything international.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union, Uzbekistan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Max Headroom - 20 Minutes into the Future (1985)
Plot Summary:
The film introduces Edison Carter (Matt Frewer), a television reporter trying to expose corruption and greed. In the movie, reporter Carter discovers that his employer, Network 23, has created a new form of subliminal advertising (termed "blip-verts") that can be fatal to certain viewers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: cyber, apocalyptic, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, tech noir, postmodern
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Teenagers from Uranus: Sloppy Seconds (2006)
Plot Summary:
A bizarre mix of sketch comedy, music videos, skating, graffiti, and mayhem. As Earth faces an attack from outer space, their TV transmissions are taken over with an onslaught of visual destruction and outrageous humor.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: parody, sketch comedy
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Some Time Later (2018)
Plot Summary:
Planet Earth, 9177. The remains of humankind live in a post-apocalyptic environment divided into only two social classes: the ruling king and the oligarchs who inhabit the Representative Building and the poor of the world who hardly survive in the slums built around it. (Sequel to “Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing,” 1989.).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, semi serious, futuristic, social, crying, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, slapstick, bizarre
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Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1992)
Plot Summary:
Baldwin’s “pseudo-pseudo-documentary” presents a factual chronicle of US intervention in Latin America in the form of the ultimate far-right conspiracy theory, combining covert action, environmental catastrophe, space aliens, cattle mutilations, killer bees, religious prophecy, doomsday diatribes, and just about every other crackpot theory broadcast through the dentures of the modern paranoiac.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: experimental, independent film, bizarre, cult film
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Martians Go Home (1989)
Plot Summary:
Song writer Mark Devereaux accidentally calls millions of green Martians to invade Earth. No they aren't dangerous, just wise-cracking, intrusive, pain in neck, annoyances. No one can escape their distracting influence. It's up to Mark to figure out how they got here, and most importantly, how to get rid of them before they drive everyone crazy!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Voyage to the End of the Universe (1963)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2163 the starship Ikarie XB-1 (Ikarus XB-1) is sent to the mysterious "White Planet" orbiting the star Alpha Centauri. Travelling at near-light speed, the journey takes around 28 months for the astronauts, although the effects of relativity mean that 15 years will have elapsed on Earth by the time they reach their destination. During the flight the 40-strong multinational crew must adjust to life in space, as well as dealing with various hazards they encounter, including a derelict 20th century spaceship armed with nuclear weapons, a deadly radioactive "dark star" and the mental breakdown of one of the crew, who threatens to destroy the spacecraft.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: futuristic, neo noir, mysterious, cult classic, black and white, psychotronic, tension, suspense, weird, bizarre
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Dandy Dust (1998)
Plot Summary:
A candy colored lesbian, cyberpunk extravaganza. It takes the viewer to another dimension. The character Dandy Dust has to go to various planets to boost his/her sex drive and defeat a depraved villain. There are twins who throw flowers, a groin drill sequence like in Tetsuo the Iron Man, a spider vagina humanoid, a nude woman with stilt-like high heel shoes, explicit strange sex that involves strange abstract objects and depraved outer space perversion.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Austria
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, controversial, experimental, independent film, art house, queer cinema, weird, bizarre
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Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes (1986)
Plot Summary:
In the 21st century, prisoners aboard penitentiary space ships explore unknown worlds. Scope, one of the prisoners is sent on a planet though to be lifeless, until he found "Humans" on it.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mysterious, apocalyptic, bizarre, cult film
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Unbelievable!!!!! (2020)
Plot Summary:
The crazy exploits of four off-beat astronauts who travel to the Moon on a rescue mission to determine the fate of two Space Agency comrades who have not been heard from in several days.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, futuristic, satirical, semi serious
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The American Astronaut (2001)
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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Starship Invasions (1977)
Plot Summary:
Captain Rameses and his Legion of the Winged Serpent brigade are out to claim Earth for their dying race. Out to save Earth is an alien guard patrol located in the Bermuda Triangle, the League of Races. LOR leaders warn Rameses that he's breaking galactic treaty rules. The alien villain responds by launching an invasion which telepathically drives Earthlings to suicide. The LOR implore UFO expert Professor Duncan to help them. Eventually, the two alien forces battle. Will the Earth be saved?.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 953
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, cult classic, apocalyptic, bizarre, cult film
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Car Cemetery (1983)
Plot Summary:
The plot is set in a post apocalyptic Junkyard where people take refuge from authority and are able to practice their fantasies and fetishes without being stopped by the police. These people are led by Emanou who is a sort of Messiah, who promises music rather than salvation.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, allegory, avant garde, art house
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The Monitors (1969)
Plot Summary:
Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, independent film, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic
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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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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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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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Sleeper (1973)
Plot Summary:
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: futuristic, surreal, slapstick, funny, cult classic, clever, humorous, witty, romantic comedy, psychotronic
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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 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