Movies like Dark Star

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Dark Star (1974)
 6.2
 27K
Dark Star (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: 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.
Style: parody, futuristic, grindhouse, philosophical, surreal, spoof, minimal cast, humorous, deep, space horror ...
Plot: space travel, alien, deep space, space, space opera, artificial intelligence, satire, philosophy, space exploration, alien invasion, moon, imagination, dystopia, distopia, outer space, spaceship, astronaut, surfing, monster, underground, planet, cryogenics, machine, aviation, cyborgs ...
Time: future, 22nd century
Place: malibu california
Keyword: reboot, a.i., doctors, challenge, flat

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Most similar movies to Dark Star

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, psychotronic, cult classic and weird films with plots about danger, space and aliens, alien, space, outer space, space travel and escapades mostly in Sci-Fi, Comedy and Adventure genres. Some movies like Dark Star: Spaceballs (1987), Save Yourselves! (2020), Galaxina (1980), Mars Attacks! (1996), Galaxy Quest (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 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 ⇓
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%
 3.6
 3K
Galaxina (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: parody, humorous, stylized, not serious, futuristic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cryogenics, space opera, female robot, motorcycle, spacecraft, robot, space, alternate reality, alien invasion, alien, transformation, technology ...
Time: future, year 2016, year 1980
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 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 ⇓
48%
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 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 ⇓
47%
 5.9
 28K
The Black Hole (1979)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The explorer craft U.S.S. Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the magnificent U.S.S. Cygnus, hovering near a black hole. The ship is controlled ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, outer space, mad scientist, space, robot, space opera, black hole, alien, astronaut, spacecraft, artificial intelligence, danger ...
Time: future, year 1979, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.6
 31K
Silent Running (1972)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet's ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed so that the spacecraft can be reused for ...
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, philosophical, cult classic, visually stunning ...
Plot: space travel, robot, dystopia, distopia, environmental, space opera, loneliness, spaceship, post apocalypse, space and aliens, androids, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 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."
Style: light, cult classic, funny, philosophical, stylized ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: space travel, alien, outer space, space and aliens, robot, fantasy world, end of the world, benign alien, sarcasm, space, spacecraft, buddies ...
Time: future, year 2005, 2000s
Place: madagascar, himalaya
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past, Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine.
Style: parody, spoof, absurd, hilarious, funny ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: airplane, disaster, space travel, aviation, airport, flying, air disaster, stewardess, satire, farce, humour, artificial intelligence ...
Time: future, 80s, 20th century, near future
Place: houston texas, texas, moscow russia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 8.5
 943K
Alien (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs ...
Style: scary, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, minimal cast ...
Audience: kids, manly, adult
Plot: alien, monster, space travel, outer space, space and aliens, evil alien, space, heroine, female protagonist, survival horror, spaceship, alien monster ...
Time: future, 22nd century, 20th century, year 1979, distant future
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Creature Wasn't Nice (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A farce satirizing extraterrestrial horror movies such as Alien.
Style: parody, psychotronic, erotic, spoof, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space, alien, evil alien, alien invasion, extraterrestrial, satire, dystopia, space travel, ufo, monster, creature, planet ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.8
 5K
Flesh Gordon (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: spoof, erotic, independent film, cult classic, not serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: space and aliens, sex, good versus evil, porn parody, space travel, emperor, american football, superhero, female alien, mad scientist, exploitation, looking for sex ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
Style: humorous, spoof, surreal, stylized, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien, alien invasion, superhero, chase, mad scientist, rescue, interdimensional travel, scientist, time travel, space, experiment gone awry, danger ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1938
Place: new jersey, asia, usa, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Aliens, who look like clowns, arrive on Earth to capture and harvest people in order to use them as sustenance.
Style: parody, humorous, horror comedy, suspenseful, funny ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: clown, ufo, monster, alien invasion, alien, killer clown, evil clown, extraterrestrial, evil alien, heroic mission, survival, dark humor ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, year 2016, 20th century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.2
 266K
Sunshine (2007)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, philosophical, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: space travel, outer space, end of the world, sun, earth, self sacrifice, spaceship, expedition, astronaut, heroic mission, space, danger ...
Time: future, year 2007, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
2001: A Space Travesty (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Leslie Nielsen once again plays a bumbling detective in the vein of the 'Naked Gun' movies, but this time as Marshall Richard 'Dick' Dix. When odd reports are received through official channels stating that the President of the ...
Style: parody, spoof, humorous, not serious, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: usa president, space and aliens, space travel, daring rescue, save the world, zero gravity, save the day, benign alien, race against time, danger, chases and races, escapades ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The American Astronaut (2001)
Genre: Musical, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: surreal, black and white, lyrical, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Plot: astronaut, space travel, planet, space and aliens, fish out of water, disorder, music, outer space, surrealism, dystopian future, space, delivery ...
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
A Ticket to Space (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Face à l'incompréhension de la population française quant au montant des crédits alloués à la recherche spatiale, le gouvernement lance une vaste opération de communication. En partenariat avec le Centre spatial français, un grand jeu ...
Style: not serious, humorous, parody, offbeat, spoof
Plot: space and aliens, spacecraft, hacker, space travel, danger, disorder, escapades, benign alien, rivalry, lottery, satire, monster ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 7.1
 45K
Sleeper (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
Style: futuristic, surreal, slapstick, funny, cult classic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: robot, distopia, time travel, dystopia, cloning, cryogenics, surrealism, dystopian future, satire, resistance movement, imagination, revolution ...
Time: future, 70s, year 1973, 22nd century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Ice Pirates (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The time is the distant future, where by far the most precious commodity in the galaxy is water. The last surviving water planet was somehow removed to the unreachable centre of the galaxy at the end of the galactic trade wars. The galaxy is ruled ...
Style: futuristic, parody, humorous, fantasy adventure, grindhouse ...
Audience: family friendly, boys' night, family outing, teens
Plot: space travel, pirate, space, castration, robot, time dilation, treasure hunt, desert, apocalypse, ice, distopia, sword fight ...
Time: future
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 ⇓
38%
 8.4
 37K
Red Dwarf (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
Style: sitcom, stylized, witty, not serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: space travel, spaceship, space, friendship, slacker, isolation, adventurer, space and aliens, robot, androids and robots, escapades, captain ...
Time: future, distant future, 80s, 20th century, 2010s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Trail of the Screaming Forehead (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people and taking them over collides with a scientist's experiments to extract foreheadazine and things go horribly horribly wrong.
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, stylized, humorous, creepy ...
Plot: space and aliens, mad scientist, supernatural, save the planet, alien encounter, escapades, danger, heroes, rivalry, disorder, killer, creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: This is a sequel to 2001 A Space Odyssey. It is now 2010 and both the Americans and the Russians are racing to get to Jupiter to investigate the black monolith (similar to the one found in Lunar Crater Clavius) which was found by the U.S.S. ...
Style: futuristic, intellectual, philosophical, stylized, spiritual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space travel, astronaut, space and aliens, artificial intelligence, distopia, space opera, nasa, alien, space exploration, space, extraterrestrial, deep space ...
Time: future, distant future, year 1984, year 2010, near future ...
Place: ussr, soviet union, tower bridge london, london, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.0
 641K
Prometheus (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
Style: futuristic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien, space travel, survival, androids, outer space, robot, space and aliens, distant planet, expedition, alien encounter, spacecraft, alien life-form ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Space Truckers (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo turns out to be multitude of unstoppable and deadly killer ...
Style: humorous, futuristic, captivating, exciting, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, androids and robots, space and aliens, killer robot, space, rescue, space pirate, stranded, outer space, danger, rebellion, nothing goes right ...
Time: future, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young farmer assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil tyrant.
Style: futuristic, humorous, independent film, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: good versus evil, space opera, space travel, spaceship, alien, space battle, female warrior, vengeance, cowboy, planet, robot, space ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Voyage to the End of the Universe (1963)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: futuristic, neo noir, mysterious, cult classic, black and white ...
Plot: space, space opera, european, utopia, planet, spacesuit, machine, monster, giant monster, surrealism, alien, spacecraft ...
Time: future, year 1963, 22nd century
Place: czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.2
 58K
Apollo 18 (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage ...
Style: suspense, mockumentary, scary, serious, tense ...
Plot: astronaut, outer space, found footage, space travel, alien encounter, nasa, infection, moon landing, alien, stranded, heroic mission, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2011, future, 2010s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.2
 4K
Dollman (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Brick Bardo is a traveller from outer space who is forced to land on Earth. Though regular sized on his home planet, he is doll-sized here on Earth, as are the enemy forces who have landed as well. While Brick enlists the help of an impoverished ...
Style: terrifying, grindhouse, retro, dark, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: toys, alien, heroes, gang, killer doll, exploitation, killer toy, alien cop, two worlds meeting, alien invasion, nemesis, guts ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: usa, new york, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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