Movies like The Cat from Outer Space

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The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
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The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that gives it special powers, including the ability to communicate with humans, has eluded the authorities and seeks the help of a scientist in order to reclaim and repair his ship and get back home.
Style: cute, humorous, mysterious, freeze frame, offbeat, feel good, semi serious, hilarious, fairy tale, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: cat, talking cat, alien, ufo, benign alien, dog, human alien relationship, space, space and aliens, telekinesis, friendly alien, mind power, psychokinesis, hacker, kingdom, brain, astronomy, psychic power, animal, families, gambling, military, spacecraft, kidnapping, soldier ...
Time: year 1978, 80s
Place: australia
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Most similar movies to The Cat from Outer Space

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, feel good and funny films with plots about disorder, space and aliens, alien, benign alien, misfit, fish out of water and space mostly in Comedy, Family and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The Cat from Outer Space: Flubber (1997), *batteries not included (1987), The Million Dollar Duck (1971), My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988), Can of Worms (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Flubber (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president. He has missed his ...
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, slapstick, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, teens, family outing
Plot: inventor, college, experiment gone awry, robot, technology, father son relationship, university, goofy hero, inventions and discoveries, nothing goes right, fall in love, disorder ...
Time: 90s
Place: san francisco
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100%
*batteries not included (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his new skyscraper. When tiny mechanical aliens land for a recharge, they decide to stay and help out.
Style: feel good, entertaining, touching, light, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot: ufo, apartment building, alien, alien robot, benign alien, space and aliens, eviction, robot, alien invasion, friendship, elderly couple, alien encounter ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Million Dollar Duck (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.
Style: melancholic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: duck, stereotypes, treasure hunt, multiple storylines, good versus evil, professor, justice, magic, fish out of water, experiment gone awry, odd couple, partner ...
Time: year 1971
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, parody, funny ...
Audience: family outing, kids, date night
Plot: alien, fish out of water, space and aliens, female alien, benign alien, alien disguised as human, transformation, friendship, porn actress, scientist, sexual humor, eccentricity ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Can of Worms (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teen is visited by aliens after he broadcasts a message into space.
Style: semi serious, exciting, offbeat, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: space and aliens, youth, friendly alien, space opera, benign alien, cooking and food, halloween, alien, haunted, buddies, preteen, extraterrestrial ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Good Boy! (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An intergalactic dog pilot from Sirius (the dog star), visits Earth to verify the rumors that dogs have failed to take over the planet.
Style: entertaining, sentimental, thought provoking, tense, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: dog, talking dog, space and aliens, benign alien, pets, human animal relationship, mentor, friendship, animal, space travel, coming of age, mission ...
Time: year 2003
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 24K
Explorers (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The visionary dreams of three curious and adventuresome young boys become an exciting reality in Explorers, the action-fantasy from director Joe Dante, who combines keen humor, warmth and fantasy with unexpected twists. In their makeshift ...
Style: light, cult classic, feel good, mindfuck, epic ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: space travel, friendship, space, childhood, bullying, coming of age, ufo, adolescence, fantasy world, children, outer space, teenager ...
Time: future, 80s, year 1985
Place: maryland, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Zenon: The Zequel (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Zenon Kar is 15 and lives on a space station which the military has taken over and is dismantling. She receives a mysterious signal and must convince everyone that it's from aliens who have come to help them.
Style: feel good, humorous, not serious, teen
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens
Plot: benign alien, space and aliens, escapades, mischievous children, alien encounter, fish out of water, disorder, female protagonist, feminist, occupation, teenager, alien ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Return from Witch Mountain (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In this sequal to "Escape From Witch Mountain," Tia and Tony leave their safe refuge on witch mountain for a trip to Los Angeles. Tony is kidnapped by the evil Dr. Gannon and his spinster partner Letha and brainwashed into helping Gannon ...
Style: humorous, saga, epic, gothic, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: alien, boy, kidnapping, mad scientist, witch, supernatural, greed, gang, ufo, intergalactic, siblings, psychic ...
Time: year 1978
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
My Favorite Martian (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: News producer, Tim O'Hara gets himself fired for unwillingly compromising his bosses' daughter during a live transmission. A little later, he witnesses the crashing of a small Martian spacecraft, realizing his one-time chance of delivering ...
Style: humorous, hilarious, slapstick comedy, double entendre, fast ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: mars, benign alien, martian, alien, fish out of water, male nudity, space, nasa, space and aliens, alien invasion, hidden camera, disguise ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Meet Dave (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. While trying to save their planet, the aliens encounter a new problem, as their ship becomes smitten with an Earth woman.
Style: humorous, funny, semi serious, slapstick, parody ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family friendly, teens
Plot: alien, space, friendship, benign alien, alien invasion, captain, humanity, stupidity, robot, alien encounter, disorder, crew ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Short Circuit (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, light, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, teen drama
Plot: robot, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, military, animal lover, lightning, childhood, cyborgs, struck by lightning, androids, technology, machine ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, future
Place: usa, oregon, astoria oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mom and Dad Save the World (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Emperor Spengo sees Marge Nelson and using a giant magnet, kidnaps her and her husband Dick, hoping to make Marge his before blowing up the Earth. The Emperor and other inhabitants of his planet are somewhat less than bright, and Dick begins ...
Style: humorous, funny, grindhouse, sexy, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot: alien, friendly alien, alien abduction, evil alien, kidnapping, space, distopia, apocalypse, superhero, insanity, buddies, epidemic ...
Time: year 1992
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mork & Mindy (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Mork & Mindy is an American science fiction sitcom broadcast from 1978 until 1982 on ABC. The series starred Robin Williams as Mork, an alien who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a small, one-man egg-shaped spaceship. Pam Dawber co-starred ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, slapstick, hilarious, game show ...
Audience: family outing, date night, teens
Plot: odd couple, benign alien, intergalactic, team, alien disguised as human, magic, super powers, deja vu, friendly alien, weirdo, farce, fish out of water ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Martians, upset that their children have become obsessed with TV shows from Earth which extol the virtues of Santa Claus, start an expedition to Earth to kidnap the one and only Santa. While on Earth, they kidnap two lively children that lead the ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, christmas horror, psychotronic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, martian, alien invasion, robot, mars, kidnapping, santa claus, children, alien encounter, space travel, spaceship, brother sister relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Absent Minded Professor (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Hailed as one of Walt Disney's most hilarious comedies, The Absent-Minded Professor contains two essential elements for laughter - Fred MacMurray and Flubber, his gravity-defying formula for flying rubber!
Style: funny, humorous, black and white, psychotronic, comedy drama ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: college, basketball, inventor, dog, car, professor, flying car, science and technology, winter, new year, education, college life ...
Time: year 1961, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., usa, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.
Style: funny, intense, light, feel good, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot: youth, childhood, inventor, shrinking, parents and children, neighbor, survival, rescue, mother daughter relationship, genetically altered, kids and family, stop motion ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Flight of the Navigator (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This 1986 Disney adventure tells the story of 12-year-old David who lives with his family in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. When he awakens from being accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, he finds that eight years have passed. His family is ...
Style: feel good, futuristic, entertaining, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen drama, preschool
Plot: time travel, ufo, nasa, benign alien, space and aliens, space travel, outer space, flying saucer, robot, alien, getting home, young heroes ...
Time: year 1978, year 1986, 80s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: florida, miami, miami beach, japan, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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ALF (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage.
Style: humorous, sitcom, cliffhanger, hilarious, game show ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: benign alien, alien, extraterrestrial, suburbs, family relations, space and aliens, fish out of water, space, muppets, buddies, magic, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 80s, future, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.4
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Moon Pilot (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An Air Force captain inadvertently volunteers to make the first manned flight around the moon. He immediately falls under the watchful protection of various security agencies, but despite all their precautions, a young woman who may be an enemy spy ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Audience: family outing
Plot: space exploration, ufo, monkey, female alien, alien, spacesuit, space, astronomy, moon landing, moon, space wars, space travel ...
Time: 60s
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Barefoot Executive (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the great Disney tradition of wild family fun, a young Kurt Russell stars as Steven Post - an ambitious mailroom clerk at a second-rate TV network. With his eye on the boardroom, and getting nowhere with the studio's top dog, he makes a ...
Style: clever, humorous, hilarious, cynical, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: monkey, animal, satire, business, disorder, friends, power relations, workplace situations, media satire, workplace intrigue, workplace romance, friendship ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 4.3
 17K
Marmaduke (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When Phil and Debbie Winslow relocate from their native Kansas to the sunny climes of Orange County, their big-hearted, havoc-wreaking Great Dane gets a taste of the dog's life, California-style.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: dog, pets, great dane, talking animal, talking dog, husky dog, dalmatian, pitbull, animal life, german shepherd, talking cat, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 3.7
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Monster Mutt (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A pair of kids trying to save their beloved pooch from a mad scientist working for a sinister villain whose experiment has transformed their dog into a crazy-eyed muppet monstrosity.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: experiment gone awry, pets, getting home, escapades, siblings relations, disorder, friendship, evil corporation, pet dog, supernatural, dog, danger ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Snowball Express (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When John Baxter inherits a ski resort in the Rocky Mountains, he quits his job in New York and moves the family west to run it. Only to find that the place is a wreck. But together they decide to try to fix it up and run it. But Martin Ridgeway, ...
Style: family comedy, slapstick, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: mountain, skiing, snow, rocky mountains, ski resort, winter, loan, hotel, family relations, starting over, against the odds, resort ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: usa, colorado, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.4
 3K
Project: ALF (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Six years ago, the space alien, ALF, was on his way back to his new home...When the Alien Task Force finally caught him. Now, the story continues to where the series ended. ALF is now protected by the Alien Task Force, but the leader wants to ...
Style: humorous, exciting, semi serious
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: benign alien, alien encounter, rescue, chase, space and aliens, chases and races, misfit, on the run, alien life-form, alien, buddies, friendly alien ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 3.4
 14K
Mac and Me (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A Mysterious Alien Creature (MAC) escaping from nefarious NASA agents, is befriended by a young boy in a wheelchair. Together, they try to find MAC's family from whom he has been separated.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, cult classic, mockbuster ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: nasa, alien, extraterrestrial, youth, coca cola, mcdonald's restaurant, benign alien, alien invasion, friendship, happy ending, family relations, single parent ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Muppets from Space (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Gonzo's breakfast cereal tells him that he's the descendant of aliens from another planet, his attempts at extraterrestrial communication get him kidnapped by a secret government agency, prompting the Muppets to spring into action. ...
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, feel good, not serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, adult, preschool
Plot: muppets, space travel, benign alien, space, friendship, unlikely friendships, secrets, mad scientist, puppet, heroic mission, rescue, fish out of water ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.4
 58K
Coneheads (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don't exactly blend in with the population of Paramus, N.J. But for some reason, everyone believes them when they say they're from ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, absurd, not serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, adult
Plot: fish out of water, alien, space, humanity, satire, benign alien, space and aliens, parents and children, family life, dysfunctional family, transformation, childhood ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, future, year 1993
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric shock and his brain turns to a ...
Style: semi serious, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: computer, hacking, friendship, geek, gangster, hacker, college student, science and technology, cognitive science, computer hacker, robot, cybersecurity ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Stepsister from Planet Weird (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A teenager's life is disrupted when her mother falls in love with an alien.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, teen
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: alien, parents and children, fish out of water, teenage life, misfit, youth, family relations, remarry, life turned upside down, high school life, female alien, halloween ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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