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Plot Summary:
Three cynical and emotionally detached aliens arrive on earth on New Year's eve with the mission of exploring and studying human behaviour but inevitably get pulled into a hillarious, nonsensical plot which makes them realize just how wonderful earth life can be with all its quirks, drama and humour.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surreal
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Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)
Plot Summary:
Aliens land in the mythical town of "Speelburgh, U.S.A" searching for the source of rock & roll. What they find is a gang of teenagers, led by Dee Dee (the inimitable Pia Zadora) and Frankie, along with Frankie's posse/rock band, the Pack. The leader of the aliens takes a shine to Dee Dee and all sorts of trouble breaks out.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: horror musical, absurd, freeze frame, spoof, parody, independent film, urban fantasy
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Annie B. (2004)
Plot Summary:
Annie who comes from a poor family is the epitome of an active and lively teenager. Fernando is the owner of an ad agency. The story begins when Annie halts Fernando's wedding thinking it was Fernando who got her sister pregnant. It just so happened that Fernando and Annie's sister's BF share the same name. The two meet again when Annie auditions for a TV commercial. Despite their rocky start, the two get to know each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Philippines
Duration:
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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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Night of the Undead (2020)
Plot Summary:
So-hee enjoys her seemingly perfect life as a newlywed with her seemingly perfect husband. For being so perfect, she begins to suspect that her husband isn’t as he seems. Wanting some answers, she hires a private detective agency to trail him around.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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We Are Not Alone (2022)
Plot Summary:
Six weeks after the Gu'un aliens have invaded and completely conquered Earth, hapless Stewart becomes the Gu'uns' official human liaison who ends up saddled with alien Greggs for a housemate. Stewart must help the Gu'uns deliver their message to the masses and win favour with humankind, while also aiding the human resistance and managing his enduring crush on Elodie.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Alien Avengers II (1997)
Plot Summary:
Weird things are happening in the town of Justice, Arizona: three sheriffs have disappeared, and someone is killing the rancher's livestock in a bizarre, ritualistic fashion. Locals believe the incidents were caused by aliens... But a visiting couple, Charlie and Rhonda, knows better – because they're aliens themselves. When no one else will, Charlie and Rhonda volunteer to be the new sheriffs to get to bottom of the crimes. Hiding behind the power of the badge, the two make their own rules, punishing wrong-doers with their own form of "eye-for-an-eye" alien vengeance. Follow this twisted, outer space "Bonnie and Clyde" as they attempt to bring Justice the justice it deserves.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Really Weird Tales (1987)
Plot Summary:
The movie consists of three odd and strange tales that each teach a different lesson.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anthology, spoof, surprise ending, twist ending, psychotronic, sketch comedy, parody
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Very Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind (1978)
Plot Summary:
Three nerdy students who have the hots for their sexy astronomy teacher hit upon the idea of pretending to be outer-space aliens, in the hopes of tricking her into going to bed with them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, mysterious, independent film
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Big Meat Eater (1982)
Plot Summary:
After killing the crooked mayor a homicidal janitor named Abdullah goes to work for a butcher who has invented a new language for the town's planned futuristic theme park. In the butcher shop is a septic tank where scraps of meat are dumped which has produced "balonium" a radioactive fuel source sought after by space aliens. The aliens revive the mayor, who's body is hanging in the meat locker of the butcher shop, in an attempt to gain access to the balonium.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: horror musical, slasher, surreal, scary, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, independent film
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Beer Money (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three guys find a space alien in the woods and attempt to sell it to a tabloid TV show, with disastrous results.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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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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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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The Planters (2019)
Plot Summary:
Awkward telemarketer Martha Plant is down and out — sucking at her job and grieving her recently deceased parents. When she finds unlikely friendship in Sadie Mayflower, a bubbly vagrant with multiple personalities, Martha discovers having three friends in one may be more than she bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: surreal, weird
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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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Alien Addiction (2018)
Plot Summary:
Riko lives with his auntie in a rural town of New Zealand. He's habitually idle most days, hanging with his mates and causing trouble, until one day while out in the woods he stumbles across a UFO. Riko discovers two aliens, he befriends them, shows them around town and helps them find an exotic commodity they so desperately desire. Meanwhile, a celebrity paranormal blogger named Peter Macintosh is also hot on the tail of the Aliens and now Riko who knows their best kept secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, surreal, independent film, anamorphic
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Invasion of the Space Preachers (1990)
Plot Summary:
A pair of dweebs are trying to vacation in the woods when they discover a crashed spaceship. They help the injured alien, who turns into a beautiful woman the next morning. Then with the help of their hillbilly friends the three take on the space preacher.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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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Out There (1995)
Plot Summary:
A Pulitzer Prize winning photographer is fired from his job for not being sensationalistic enough. After he purchases an old camera at a yard sale, he discovers some undeveloped film in it, including photos of an apparent alien abduction. When he goes public with the photos, he garners the attention of his former boss, the government and a woman who thinks her father was the abductee.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 507
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Men in White (1998)
Plot Summary:
National Lampoon's Men in White is a straight-to-television satirical parody of contemporary science fiction movies, mainly spoofing Men in Black and Independence Day. It debuted in 1998 on the Fox Family Channel.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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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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Space Milkshake (2012)
Plot Summary:
Four low-ranking astronauts are stuck together on an orbital Sanitation Station after they bring a mysterious device aboard their ship and all life on Earth disappears. Little do they know they are about to come under attack by a mutating rubber duck named Gary, who wants to open a portal to his evil dimension and take over the Universe.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, surreal
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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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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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Absolutely Anything (2015)
Plot Summary:
Eccentric aliens give a man the power to do anything he wants to determine if Earth is worth saving.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, light, melancholic, surreal, absurd, slapstick, hilarious, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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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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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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Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973)
Plot Summary:
Shurik Timofeev builds a working model of a time machine. By accident, Ivan Bunsha, an apartment complex manager, and George Miloslavsky, a petty burglar, are transferred to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible goes into the year 1973.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, feel good, funny, surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, witty, semi serious, offbeat