Best movies like War Between the Planets
Last updated March 2024
Looking for movies related to War Between the Planets? Provide your familiarity to lead others to movies and tv shows you've previously watched that might also engage them. Assist in expanding the group of people raising videos between each other. We value your participation!
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
Best tv shows and movies like War Between the Planets (1966):
Similar in 78%
Mutiny in Outer Space (1965)
Plot Summary:
An expedition to the lunar ice caves contracts a deadly moon-fungus. Stopping en route they contaminate a space station with the fungus, which soon begins to take over the entire place.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: space horror, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
Similar in 76%
The Green Slime (1968)
Plot Summary:
A giant asteroid is heading toward Earth so some astronauts disembark from a nearby space station to blow it up. The mission is successful, and they return to the station unknowingly bringing back a gooey green substance that mutates into one-eyed tentacled monsters that feed off electricity. Soon the station is crawling with them, and people are being zapped left and right!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Japan, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, retro, suspense, medical horror, cult horror, scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
Gila! (2012)
Plot Summary:
A giant lizard terrorizes a rural mid west community with a group of heroic young people led by Chase Winstead attempting to destroy the creature.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, unusual plot structure, scary, bleak, christmas horror
Similar in 79%
Star Worms II: Attack of the Pleasure Pods (1985)
Plot Summary:
Jessup, forced to hide his true identity, is imprisoned on a deadly and desolate planet, the Star Prison. banished to mine rabid rivers for the elusive Fire Gems, Jessup and his men must battle bands of derelict prisoners and fight the fatal fangs of the Star Worms in order to supply the Lords of the Evil Empire with the sacred source of their hedonistic hallucinogenic opiates.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
Similar in 77%
Godzilla (1977)
Plot Summary:
The film is a re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of Godzilla featuring 80 minutes of footage from the original Gojira (1954) and the US version Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) plus 25 minutes of WWII newsreel footage and clips from other monster 1950's movies. The re-edited film was then colorized via a process called Spectorama 70 consisting of applying various colored gels to the black and white footage. The film also features a new music score composed by musician Vince Tempera (under the pseudonym Magnetic System).
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA, Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
Similar in 75%
Kraa! The Sea Monster (1998)
Plot Summary:
Lord Doom, evil master of Proyas, the Dark Planet, sends Kraa the Sea Monster to Earth as part of his plan to dominate the galaxy. To keep the meddling hands of the Planet Patrol out of his scheme, he incapacitates their nearby space station. Fortunately, the alien agent Mogyar is on hand to land on Earth to stop the giant sea-beast. Accidentally landing in New Jersey rather than Italy (where scientists could have helped Mogyar build a weapon to stop Kraa), Mogyar must overcome his stereotypical Italian accent and strange appearance in order to ally with nearby humans to save the day.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, cult film
Similar in 81%
Battle Star Wars (2020)
Plot Summary:
When the leader of the evil Coalition threatens to destroy a Rebel planet for its resources, his daughter will have no choice but to join the Rebel side and fight for what is right.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, mockbuster
Similar in 90%
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
Similar in 82%
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
Similar in 77%
Moon Zero Two (1969)
Plot Summary:
The colonisation of space began in 1986 and now, fifty years on, the moon is frontier territory. The prospectors, the drillers, the exploiters and the exploited all surviving in this alien environment. The prospects for lucrative rewards exist but the premium paid for potential gain is often the ultimate sacrifice- life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, exciting, tense, serious, futuristic, psychotronic
Similar in 81%
Space Probe Taurus (1965)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2000 the spaceship Hope One sets off to find new galaxies for colonization. However, an encounter with an alien being and a swarm of meteorites sends the ship streaking off course into a sea of monsters on an uncharted world. Written by Jeremy Lunt.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic
Similar in 87%
Plaguers (2008)
Plot Summary:
When an alien contagion is released aboard a spaceship transforming its victims into demonic flesh-eaters, the crew must either destroy the infected or join them.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: space horror, suspense, psychotronic
Similar in 75%
Transformations (1988)
Plot Summary:
Wolfgang is traveling in outer space when a monster, which he sees as a beautiful woman, appears in his spaceship and makes love with him. Then the ship is forced to land on a planet which is a penal colony. Here he meets Miranda who falls in love with him. A group of prisoners uses him and his spaceship to fly away from the planet. But the monster which is by now inside Wolfgang arouses and only Miranda's love can save him.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, mysterious, independent film
Similar in 75%
Gorath (1962)
Plot Summary:
In 1980, a giant planetoid named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Even though it is smaller than Earth, its mass is huge enough to crush the Earth and destroy it. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after all the orbiting ships are drawn into the planetoid. A later mission is sent to observe and the crew barely leaves before suffering the same fate. However Astronaut Tatsuo Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. The Earth's scientists then come up with a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move Earth out of Gorath's path before it is too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 859
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, psychotronic, disaster movie
Similar in 75%
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
Similar in 82%
The X from Outer Space (1967)
Plot Summary:
The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with unusual spores. Taking one of the specimens back to earth, it soon develops and grows into a giant chicken-lizard-alien monster that tramples Japan.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, retro, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast
Similar in 85%
Battle of the Worlds (1961)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Fred Steele (Umberto Orsini) and Eve Barnett (Maya Brent) work together at an astronomical station on a bucolic island. The station's scientists learn they must deal with a rogue planet -- "The Outsider" -- that has entered the solar system. which must be controlled by an alien intelligence… Professor Benson's(Claude Rains) expedition discovers a race of humanoid creatures dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 958
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, apocalyptic, suspense
Similar in 79%
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
Similar in 87%
The Terrornauts (1967)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientists are kidnapped and taken to an outer space outpost in order to save Earth from destruction.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 82%
The Killings at Outpost Zeta (1980)
Plot Summary:
A team of men and women investigate the mysterious deaths of two previous expeditions to a strategically important but barren world.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: space horror, independent film, weird, cult film
Similar in 76%
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
Similar in 85%
Star Quest: The Odyssey (2009)
Plot Summary:
At the end of mankind's greatest battle, empires will crumble, alliances will form, enemies will rise and heroes will fall. World's will end, and a new journey will begin.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, futuristic, humorous, suspenseful
Similar in 86%
The Stranger (1973)
Plot Summary:
TV series pilot (series never launched). After a freak mishap, an astronaut finds himself on an almost precise copy of Earth (right down to the Plymouth cars). However, this planet has three moons, and is run by an Orwellian government called The Perfect Order, who seek out and crush all dissidents either by outright assassination or by having them treated at "Ward E." Hunted and alone, the story traces the astronaut's efforts to evade capture and return home.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic
Similar in 75%
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
Similar in 85%
The Giant Monster Gamera (1965)
Plot Summary:
A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it's up to the scientists, assisted by a young boy with a strange sympathic link to the monster, to put a stop to Gamera's rampage.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, suspense, grindhouse, classic horror, natural horror, psychotronic, cult film
Similar in 82%
Varan the Unbelievable (1962)
Plot Summary:
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, classic horror, natural horror, psychotronic, independent film, vintage, cult film
Similar in 86%
The Advent of Mebiar (2017)
Plot Summary:
Fritz (Nick Huber), Snark (Jacob Lyngle), and Bubbles (Griffin Strycharske) are thrown into a mysterious cryptozoological cult event and must stop the rising of an ancient, monstrous being.
IMDB Rating:
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
Similar in 80%
The Phantom Planet (1961)
Plot Summary:
After an invisible asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet's exotic atmosphere.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, offbeat, humorous, futuristic, semi serious, psychotronic, vintage
Similar in 77%
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
Similar in 80%
Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
Plot Summary:
In the 6th Godzilla movie, mysterious aliens from the Planet X ask earth's people to help them save their world from the dreaded Ghidorah (aka "Monster Zero") by letting them "borrow" Godzilla and Rodan. Monster mayhem ensues on Planet X, but it's soon discovered that the aliens have other intentions for the monsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, daikaiju, suspense, classic horror, natural horror, exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film