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Plot Summary:
Coming from outer space, Prince Flick asks the Trapalhões to help him free his planet from the domain of evil Zuco and free Princess Myrna, who has been taken prisoner. He offers a reward, the four friends accept the mission and embark in a spaceship driven by a hairy monster called Bonzo. Once on the planet, they they defeat Zuco, but they fail to save Princess Myrna's life. Her place on the throne is then taken by Loya, the girlfriend Didi met on that planet. Back on Earth, os Trapalhões think their adventure was but a dream, but they are convinced otherwise when they find their reward.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
Plot Summary:
Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family on the Wookiee planet - in time for Life Day, their most important day of the year!.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, grindhouse, cult classic, hilarious, psychotronic, saga, family saga, banned, banned film, bizarre
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Princess Xuxa and The Bunglers (1989)
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The diabolical Ratam (Paul Reis) takes over the planet Antar, after the death of the emperor, and orders that all children be enslaved. Always kept within the palace, Princess Xeron (Xuxa) believes that the people of her kingdom are happy. Meanwhile, outside, the princes Mussaim (Mussum) Dedeon (Dede Santana) and Zacaling (Zacarias) join the Nameless Knight (Renato Aragão), so that together they can defeat Ratam.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 753
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 112 min
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The Acrobat Bunglers (1981)
Plot Summary:
Humble officials, friends Didi, Dedé, Mussum and Zacarias become the great attraction of the circus Bartolo, thanks to its incredible ability to make the public laugh. But success has a price: the opposition of the magician Assis Satan and the greed of the Baron, the owner of the circus. Together, the four friends will have to fight them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 769
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (1983)
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This is an extremely rare example of science fiction, Hong Kong style, but, fittingly, it's unlike any sci-fi flick you've ever seen. Alien abductions, suicide pacts, superstardom, and the reality of science fiction itself is spotlighted in this bright, crazy, truly out of this world epic -- one of the more unusual movies in the Hong Kong cinema of the early 1980s. And if you know 80's Hong Kong cinema at all, you know that's really saying something!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: detective, spoof, parody
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Spaced Out (1979)
Plot Summary:
Low-budget aliens (three nice-looking women and a gay computer voice-over) crash-land in England and abduct four earthlings.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: spoof, sex comedy, parody, independent film, weird
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War Between the Planets (1966)
Plot Summary:
Scientists try to prevent a collision between Earth and a planet that is heading for it.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic
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Star Pilot (1966)
Plot Summary:
Aliens from the constellation Hydra crash-land on the island of Sardinia. A prominent scientist, his daughter, several young technicians, and a pair of Oriental spies are taken hostage by the beings so they can use them to repair their spaceship's broken engine. With that done, they take off towards their home planet, taking the earthlings with them. However, the humans attempt to mutiny against their captors, inadvertently sending their tiny spaceship hurtling into the infinite beyond.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Over run by the alien Kryslum Empire, a devastated Earth is victim of their slow terra-forming technologies. With the human race enslaved and on the brink of destruction, four misfits join forces to start the rebellion that will bring upon a new dawn for human survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 48 min
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To Boldly Flee (2012)
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After discovering a mysterious entity that is located near the planet and attempting to spread the word, The Nostalgia Critic is placed under house arrest by the government in order to maintain their secret. Quickly, he calls upon his fellow reviewers Linkara, Lindsay, Spoony, Cinema Snob, Film Brain, 8-Bit Mickey, MarzGurl, JewWario, C.R., Todd in the Shadows, JesuOtaku, Luke Mochrie, Phelous, Lupa, Sad Panda, Oancitizen and Angry Joe for help, and together, they convert the Critic's house into an intergalactic cruiser and blast off into space to see what's up for themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 209 min
Plot tags: parody, unusual plot structure, light, humorous, captivating, contemplative
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Star Odyssey (1979)
Plot Summary:
Earth is attacked by an intergalactic villain and his army of robotic androids.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 742
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Battle of the Stars (1978)
Plot Summary:
A spaceship investigates an out-of-control planet and discovers a computer that controls an underground civilization.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cyber
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Space Thing (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man is in bed reading Sci-Fi mags, and his wife seduces him. He then falls asleep, and the rest is his dream. He is from an alternate world, and disguises himself as an alien, then boards their ship, to keep them from attacking his planet. The captain is a woman, who has two lesbian encounters with her crew, and whips one of them for trying to have sex with our hero. All of the women are anxious to seduce our hero, as the other two men on the ship are not very exciting. Our hero forces a landing on an asetroid (actually the outskirts of Palmdale, California) and everyone runs around topless and has sex. He then blows up the alien ship in the worst special effects explosion.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, sex comedy, erotic, parody, spoof, cult film
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The War of the Robots (1978)
Plot Summary:
An alien civilization, which facing eminent extinction, kidnaps two famous genetic scientists from Earth. A troop of soldiers is dispatched to combat the humanoid robots and rescue the victims.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: classic horror
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Star Raiders: The Adventures of Saber Raine (2017)
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Saber Raine is hired to guide three elite soldiers on a rescue mission to recover a prince and princess who have been abducted from their home world. The trail leads Saber and his allies to a planet deep within uncharted space that is inhabited by strange mutated creatures.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, campy
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The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space (1995)
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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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Mission Mars (1968)
Plot Summary:
Three American astronauts who land on Mars discover the body of a frozen Russian cosmonaut and a mysterious talking orb.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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The War in Space (1977)
Plot Summary:
Earth is attacked by alien spacecraft from Venus. But a Japanese scientist has constructed a space craft, the Gohten, with which he may save humanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: weird, cult film
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Destination Moonbase-Alpha (1978)
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After an atomic explosion blasts the Moon out of Earth orbit, Moonbase Alpha drifts in space, with 300 people on board. When a rescue team from Earth arrives in a faster-than-light space ship, everyone is overjoyed that they can now return to Earth. But Moonbase Commander John Koenig, having undergone an experimental brain soothing process after receiving a concussion in a crash on the Lunar surface, sees not friends from Earth but gruesome monsters which have telepathically caused all others on Alpha to see an illusion of an Earth party. The aliens are desperate for radiation and plan to manipulate the Alphans into detonating nuclear waste on the Lunar surface, reducing the Moon and everyone on it to dust. Koenig must expose this conspiracy to save his people. Compiled from the two part episode The Bringers Of Wonder from the TV series Space: 1999's second series.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic
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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
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War of the Planets (1977)
Plot Summary:
A strange signal arrives on the Earth disturbing all communications, while an UFO appears above the Antarctic sea. Captain Alex Hamilton is sent with his spaceship and crew to the space outside the Solar System to find the origin of that signal. They reach an unknown planet where a giant robot enslaved a whole population of humanoids by taking their psychic energies.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 998
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mysterious, offbeat, bleak, semi serious, ambiguous ending, psychotronic
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Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968)
Plot Summary:
A groups of astronauts crash-land on Venus and find themselves on the wrong side of a group of Venusian women when they kill a monster that is worshipped by them.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, independent film, exciting, serious, psychotronic, campy
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Flesh Gordon (1974)
Plot Summary:
Emperor Wang (the Perverted) is leader of the planet Porno and sends his mighty "Sex Ray" towards Earth, turning everyone into sex-mad fiends. Only one man can save the Earth, football player Flesh Gordon. Along with his girlfriend Dale Ardor and Professor Flexi-Jerkoff, they set off towards the source of the Sex Ray, unaware of the perils that face them!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, erotic, independent film, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, not serious, psychotronic, sex comedy
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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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Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack (1979)
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Running low on fuel, the Battlestar Galactica receives the help of the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus which is taking the offensive with the Cylons.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
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Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)
Plot Summary:
In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella. The leader ship Vega stays orbiting and sends the astronauts Kern and Sherman with the robot John to the surface of Venus, but they have problems with communication with Dr. Marsha Evans in Vega. The Sirius lands in Venus and Commander Brendan Lockhart, Andre Ferneau and Hans Walter explore the planet and are attacked by prehistoric animals. They use a vehicle to seek Kern and Sherman while collecting samples from the planet. Meanwhile John helps the two cosmonauts to survive in the hostile land.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union, USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, retro, suspense, independent film, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful, cult film
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Galaxy Quest (1999)
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The stars of a 1970s sci-fi show - now scraping a living through re-runs and sci-fi conventions - are beamed aboard an alien spacecraft. Believing the cast's heroic on-screen dramas are historical documents of real-life adventures, the band of aliens turn to the ailing celebrities for help in their quest to overcome the oppressive regime in their solar system.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 173000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, funny, entertaining, futuristic, cult classic, hilarious, humorous, witty, uplifting
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Spaceballs (1987)
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When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of "The Schwartz." Can he master it in time to save the day?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 203000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, spoof, absurd, feel good, humorous, cult classic, hilarious, futuristic, not serious
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Wing Commander (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Hollywood version of the popular video game series "Wing Commander". Unlike other video games to feature film transitions, series creator Chris Roberts was heavily involved in the film's creation. This is the story of Christopher Blair and Todd "Maniac" Marshall as they arrive at the Tiger Claw and are soon forced to stop a Kilrathi fleet heading towards Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, uplifting, action adventure, disgusting, fast, futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, serious, humorous
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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