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This Merry Planet (1973)
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Original name: Эта веселая планета
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
surreal
Plot:
alien, dancing, new year's eve party, space, outer space, dance
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out parody, humorous, offbeat and cult film films with plots about alien, space, spacecraft, satire, space and aliens, disorder and alien encounter mostly in Comedy, Sci-Fi and Musical genres. Some movies like This Merry Planet: Toomorrow (1970), Out There (1995), Office Invasion (2022), Alien Addiction (2018), The American Astronaut (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union, Uzbekistan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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. ...
Style:
parody
Plot:
alien, surrealism, ufo, space, satire
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
offbeat
Plot:
rock and roll, spacecraft, cult, performance, alien, student, musician, space, band
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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 ...
Plot:
ufo, space, supernatural being, camping, alien, conspiracy, alien abduction, accordion, camera
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72%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: South Africa
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Three friends come together to defend their valuable mining company from…aliens?! What could possibly go wrong?
Plot:
alien, space, corporate greed, alien invasion, decapitation, exploding body
Place:
africa
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72%
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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, ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
alien, human alien relationship, alien contact, alien encounter, ufo, escapades, alien creature, lifestyle, humour, alien race, alien space craft, space ...
Place:
new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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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, lyrical, atmospheric, talky, semi serious ...
Plot:
astronaut, space, space travel, planet, future dystopia, fish out of water, space and aliens, disorder, music, fantasy world, surrealism, delivery ...
Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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 ...
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martian, alien, mars, songwriter, space, switchblade, pantyhose, female stockinged legs
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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. ...
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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...
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A woman accidentally discovers the Plaque of Kolob which leads her to discover an insidous alien plot for world domination documented by a disreputable early Mormon prophet. 'Plan 10 from Outer Space' is an eccentric comedy involving a ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Turkey
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Three guys find a space alien in the woods and attempt to sell it to a tabloid TV show, with disastrous results.
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
Story:
Baldwin’s “pseudo-pseudo-documentary” presents a factual chronicle of US intervention in Latin America in the form of the ultimate far-right conspiracy theory, combining covert action, environmental catastrophe, space aliens, cattle ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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 ...
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Ryan Richmond is an eccentric teenager living with his mother, father, sister and brother in the Holiday Inn they own in Sunnyvale, Arizona, the prune capital of the world. Is it any wonder that he wants to go to Saudi Arabaia for college and leave ...
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min.
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
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Story:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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