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The Watch (2012)
 5.7
 133K
The Watch (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice but to save their neighborhood - and the world - from total extermination.
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, not serious, light, hilarious, surprise ending, surreal, stylized, visually appealing ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien, alien invasion, father daughter relationship, invasion, friendship, space and aliens, creature, farce, profanity, disguise, save the world, lifestyle, disorder, silly humor, super weapon, goofy hero, american football, partner, alien encounter, buddies, living with parents, suburban life, satire, evil alien, battles ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century, contemporary
Place: ohio, usa
Keyword: vulgarity, partners, attack, visit, challenge, buddy movie

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, funny, cult classic and entertaining films with plots about disorder, buddies, silly humor, stoner, satire, alien and space and aliens mostly in Comedy, Sci-Fi and Action genres. Some movies like The Watch: Attack the Block (2011), The World's End (2013), Save Yourselves! (2020), Hot Tub Time Machine (2010), Pixels (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Attack the Block (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A teen gang in a grim South London housing estate must team up with the other residents to protect their neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.
Style: horror comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, unusual plot structure, bleak ...
Audience: teens, date night, family friendly, manly, boys' night
Plot: gang, alien invasion, creature, alien, space and aliens, deadly creature, chase, children, teenage life, danger, violence, gangster ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: london, england, somalia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 297K
The World's End (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
Style: witty, absurd, humorous, funny, parody ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, robot, beer, end of the world, alcoholic, fight scenes, violence, small town, british, satire, obsessive quest ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 1990, 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Save Yourselves! (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young Brooklyn couple head upstate to disconnect from their phones and reconnect with themselves. Cut off from their devices, they miss the news that the planet is under attack.
Style: light, satirical, absurd, parody, humorous ...
Plot: alien invasion, woods, extraterrestrial, demolished city, creature, couples, rescue, apocalypse, hi-tech, family holiday, sarcasm, escapades ...
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.
Style: feel good, funny, hilarious, humorous, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: time travel, party, time machine, friendship, profanity, changing the past or future, casual sex, ski resort, stoner, weed, nudity, stupidity ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, year 2010, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: usa, chernobyl
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.6
 158K
Pixels (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids, girls' night
Plot: video game, alien, geek, alien invasion, humanity in peril, chase, transformation, video arcade, escapades, danger, alien attack, imaginary ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 80s, future, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa, washington d.c., india, taj mahal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 628K
Superbad (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: High school best buddies are facing separation anxiety as they prepare to go off to college. While attempting to score alcohol for a party with help from a fake ID-toting friend, the guys' evening takes a turn into chaotic territory.
Style: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, hilarious, teen, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: high school, teenager, nerd, coming of age, adolescence, youth, party, teenage life, dumb, friendship, loss of virginity, bromance ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, near future, y2k, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Suburban Commando (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shep Ramsey is an interstellar hero, righting wrongs, etc. His ship is damaged after a fight with an interstellar nasty and he must hide out on Earth until it can recharge. He leaves his power suit at home, but still finds himself unable to allow ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, light, intense, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, boys' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot: benign alien, alien, space and aliens, fish out of water, space travel, heroes, good versus evil, mixed martial arts, rescue, save the world, bounty hunter, superhero ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 39K
Critters (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.
Style: scary, humorous, cult classic, horror comedy, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, creature, alien invasion, alien monster, small town, intergalactic, creature feature, little creatures, evil alien, space and aliens, space, chaos ...
Time: 80s
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 6.6
 433K
This Is the End (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: While attending a party at James Franco's house, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and many other celebrities are faced with the apocalypse.
Style: funny, parody, dark comedy, entertaining, not serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: apocalypse, creature, end of the world, celebrity, post apocalypse, trapped, stoner, friends, disorder, chaos and mayhem, party, actor ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.9
 265K
Paul (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing ...
Style: funny, entertaining, unusual plot structure, hilarious, road movie ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night
Plot: alien, road trip, benign alien, ufo, friendship, first contact, space and aliens, alien invasion, alien encounter, space travel, buddies, chase ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 1940s, 80s, future ...
Place: nevada, arizona, usa, austin texas, wyoming ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 404K
22 Jump Street (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the ...
Style: parody, buddy comedy, funny, hilarious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: college, undercover cop, police, high school, buddy cop, dimwit, youth, undercover, buddy, friendship, police investigation, campus ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.4
 242K
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: '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 ...
Style: parody, spoof, dark comedy, humorous, absurd ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: mars, ufo, alien invasion, alien, space and aliens, evil alien, disaster, save the world, dark humor, outer space, flying saucer, invasion ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, future, year 1996
Place: washington d.c., usa, las vegas, kentucky, kansas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.4
 140K
Accepted (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.
Style: feel good, funny, entertaining, humorous, teen sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teen drama
Plot: college, teenager, college life, high school, youth, student, education, party, coming of age, slacker, campus, college student ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa, yale university, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him into a macabre universe.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, surreal, mindfuck, captivating ...
Audience: date night, family friendly
Plot: black american, social satire, labor union, capitalism, satire, absurdism, absurd humor, labor strike, slave labor, protest, slavery, surrealism ...
Time: 90s, 2010s
Place: oakland california, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
John Dies at the End (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A new drug promises out-of-body experiences, but users are coming back changed forever, and an otherworldly invasion of Earth is underway.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, absurd, offbeat, not serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: invasion, dark humor, end of the world, dog, fictional reality, monster, out of body experience, buddies, anti hero, psychic power, save the world, portal ...
Time: year 2012
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Evil Alien Conquerors (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Inept beings from the planet Kabijj land on Earth and attempt to behead all of its beings and take over the planet
Style: not serious, humorous, funny, entertaining, slapstick
Audience: teens
Plot: alien, space and aliens, escapades, rivalry, danger, race against time, disorder, evil alien, sword, invasion, satire, space ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 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 ⇓
36%
 7.4
 177K
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: parody, spoof, funny, laugh out loud, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: alien, mistaken identity, actor, space, time travel, space exploration, space opera, alien invasion, monster, space travel, benign alien, spaceship ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Dude, Where's My Car? (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jesse and Chester, two bumbling stoners, wake up one morning from a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car. They encounter a variety of people while looking for it, including their angry girlfriends, an angry street gang, ...
Style: not serious, parody, hilarious, funny, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: stoner, alien, idiot, friendship, teenager, stupidity, obsessive quest, cannabis, dumb, buddies, memory loss, ostrich ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s, 2000s, y2k
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.3
 214K
The Internship (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.
Style: funny, motivational, light, inspirational, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot: workplace, starting over, new job, career, computers and web, rivalry, boss and employee, fish out of water, middle aged, lifestyle change, underdog, staff ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.9
 653K
Ted (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: John Bennett, a man whose childhood wish of bringing his teddy bear to life came true, now must decide between keeping the relationship with the bear or his girlfriend, Lori.
Style: funny, humorous, buddy comedy, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: marijuana, bear, friendship, silly humor, toys, teddy bear, stoner, sarcasm, buddy, party, homosexual, friends ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 80s, year 1985, 21st century
Place: boston, peru, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.3
 232K
Ted 2 (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.
Style: funny, humorous, hilarious, not serious, action comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, kids, teens, adult
Plot: silly humor, teddy bear, lawyer, marijuana, buddy, profanity, adoption, foul language, buddies, anthropomorphism, friends, odd couple ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 ⇓
34%
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 6.5
 290K
Zoolander (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany, USA, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Clear the runway for Derek Zoolander, VH1's three-time male model of the year. His face falls when hippie-chic "he's so hot right now" Hansel scooters in to steal this year's award. The evil fashion guru Mugatu seizes the ...
Style: funny, humorous, parody, light, stylized ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: conspiracy, fashion model, male model, brainwashing, satire, fashion, assassination, dumb, stoner, fame, president, comedy of errors ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, malaysia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.1
 205K
Spaceballs (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: parody, spoof, funny, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space travel, space and aliens, space opera, alien, satire, space, farce, wilhelm scream, star wars, outer space, human in outer space, princess ...
Time: future, 80s
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
What Planet Are You From? (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A highly-evolved planet, whose denizens feel no emotion and reproduce by cloning, plans to take over Earth from the inside by sending an operative, fashioned with a humming, mechanical penis, to impregnate an earthling and stay until the birth. The ...
Style: humorous, satirical, light, laugh out loud, parody ...
Plot: alien, cloning, pregnancy, culture clash, fish out of water, humanity, benign alien, satire, misfit, leadership, couples, disorder ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 90s
Place: phoenix arizona, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.3
 609K
Men in Black (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent Kay and new recruit Agent Jay find ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, humorous, not serious, funny ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: alien, ufo, government agency, space and aliens, buddy cop, alien encounter, creature, buddy, save the world, intergalactic, invasion, flying saucer ...
Time: jurassic, year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, new jersey, persia, usa, north america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Pineapple Express (2008)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Russia, North Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.
Style: humorous, funny, hilarious, offbeat, action comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot: stoner, marijuana, friendship, weed, drug, buddies, buddy, cannabis, chase, drug trip, witnessing a crime, immature ...
Time: year 2008, 1930s, year 1937, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Night of the Creeps (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that ...
Style: horror comedy, slasher, grindhouse, scary, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, zombie, college, undead, parasite, supernatural, macabre, teenager, survival, violence, gory, fraternity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 50s, year 1986, year 1959 ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: 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.
Style: cult classic, black comedy, satirical, independent film, allegory ...
Plot: alien, alien invasion, extraterrestrial, blaxploitation, drug abuse, urban, black, friendly alien, mind power, invasion, ufo, drug ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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