Movies like Explorers
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Explorers (1985)
25K
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 laboratory, the boys use an amazing discovery and their ingenuity to build their own spaceship and launch themselves on a fantastic interplanetary journey.
Style:
light, cult classic, feel good, retro, epic, stylized, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, uplifting ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, ufo, space travel, friendship, space, bullying, coming of age, children, fantasy world, adolescence, teenager, youth, space exploration, friendly alien, smart kid, laboratory, best friend, boy, extraterrestrial, computer cracker, love, summer, inventor, courage, astronomy ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1985
Place:
maryland, washington d.c., canada
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Most similar movies to Explorers
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, entertaining and light films with plots about family, youth, slug, escapades, storytelling, childhood and danger mostly in Adventure, Family and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Explorers: Flight of the Navigator (1986), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), Stand by Me (1986), The Goonies (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
futuristic, feel good, entertaining, exciting, stylized ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids, teen drama, preschool
Plot:
time travel, ufo, flying saucer, benign alien, space and aliens, nasa, outer space, space travel, robot, alien, alien abduction, childhood ...
Time:
year 1986, year 1978, 90s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
florida, miami, miami beach, tokyo, japan ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, sad, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
alien, friendship, childhood, children, coming of age, ufo, friendly alien, space and aliens, chase, boy, child protagonist, bicycle ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1982, 90s, future
Place:
california, usa, persia, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay inside. Walter and Danny, who anticipate a boring day, are shocked when they begin playing Zathura, ...
Style:
exciting, intense, semi serious, epic, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
robot, space travel, brother brother relationship, board game, game, child, sibling rivalry, childhood, human in outer space, alien, outer space, alternate world ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
482K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.
Style:
sentimental, cult classic, atmospheric, emotional, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot:
childhood, friendship, coming of age, stephen king, teenager, boy, children, youth, summer, friends, courage, on the road ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1986, year 1959 ...
Place:
oregon, usa, normandy
Similarity:
100%
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324K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, intense, retro ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, date night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, childhood, treasure map, pirate, treasure, friendship, pirate ship, small town, children, teenage girl, mischievous children, child ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
oregon, astoria oregon, usa
Similarity:
75%
17K
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Andie Bergstrom, an astronaut eagerly awaiting her first trip to space, runs a summer camp for teenagers with her NASA-employed husband, Zach. One night during an engine test, Andie and four teenage campers are accidentally shot into space. ...
Style:
entertaining, melancholic, semi serious, inspirational, action adventure ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, boys' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
nasa, space shuttle, space travel, trapped in space, astronaut, summer camp, space program, teenage girl, childhood, photographic memory, space opera, coming of age ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 60s, future
Place:
alabama, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After a construction project begins digging in their neighborhood, best friends Tuck, Munch and Alex inexplicably begin to receive strange, encoded messages on their cell phones. Convinced something bigger is going on, they go to their parents and ...
Style:
exciting, sentimental, suspenseful, stylized, enigmatic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
ufo, alien, friendship, buddies, children, found footage, youth, benign alien, friends, investigation, child, friendly alien ...
Time:
2010s, future, 80s
Place:
usa, las vegas
Similarity:
100%
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:
sexy, humorous, grindhouse, funny, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, teens, family outing
Plot:
friendly alien, evil alien, alien abduction, space, kidnapping, alien planet, insanity, superhero, apocalypse, epidemic, abduction, buddies ...
Time:
year 1992, 80s
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Shy seventh-grader Spencer Griffith's life changes when the meteor falls into local junkyard and he finds a Cybersuit - the wise and strong robot from another galaxy. Spencer puts Cybersuit on and becomes a different kind of guy
Style:
entertaining, humorous, cult classic, semi serious, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
androids and robots, space and aliens, superhero, robot, brutality, fantasy world, alien, escapades, good versus evil, youth, revenge, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
future, 80s
Similarity:
100%
46K
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:
funny, humorous, semi serious, slapstick, parody ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, family friendly, teens
Plot:
alien, stupidity, space, benign alien, friendship, alien invasion, humanity, robot, alien encounter, disorder, crew, escapades ...
Time:
20th century, year 2008, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project for Michael's class, and discover a strange glowing orb which absorbs electricity. When the orb begins to blend past, present, and future, its up to Michael and Ellie to ...
Style:
semi serious, offbeat, humorous, fast, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
time travel, dinosaur, school, science, mutant, teenager, extraterrestrial, high school, coming of age, technology gone awry, student, hippie ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1985
Place:
vietnam, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering The Last Starfighter video game only to find out it was just a test. He was recruited to join the team of best Starfighters to defend their world from the ...
Style:
exciting, light, entertaining, semi serious, cult classic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
alien, alien contact, space opera, space battle, teenager, battles, outer space, computer game, space and aliens, heroic mission, destiny, good versus evil ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 90s, future
Place:
california
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 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, sweet, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
ufo, eviction, apartment building, alien robot, benign alien, alien invasion, elderly couple, space and aliens, robot, arsonist, friendship, alien encounter ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, hawaii
Similarity:
50%
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:
exciting, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, feel good
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
space and aliens, friendly alien, youth, space opera, benign alien, cooking and food, alien, halloween, haunted, extraterrestrial, buddies, alien planet ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 251 min.
Story:
Based on a children's series by the same name. Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared during a government experiment. Their travels take them around the universe to ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, spiritual, psychotronic
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
guardian angel, youth, space and aliens, time travel, supernatural, heroic mission, parallel world, daring rescue, young heroes, danger, escapades, space travel ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Marty and Doc are at it again in this wacky sequel to the 1985 blockbuster as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch ...
Style:
futuristic, entertaining, clever, light, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, alternate reality, changing the past or future, inventor, time, sent to the past, alternate timeline, travel, time paradox, time loop, mad scientist ...
Time:
future, year 2015, 1950s, 20th century, 2010s ...
Place:
california, los angeles, north america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young boy must restore order when a group of bullies steal the magical book that acts as a portal between Earth and the imaginary world of Fantasia.
Style:
feel good, offbeat, cult classic, mysterious, fantasy adventure ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot:
magic, bullying, book, dragon, good versus evil, imaginary kingdom, youth, sword and sorcery, kids and family, childhood, sorcery, heroes ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Similarity:
100%
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 ...
Style:
cute, mysterious, humorous, freeze frame, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
cat, talking cat, alien, dog, benign alien, human alien relationship, space, friendly alien, telekinesis, space and aliens, mind power, psychokinesis ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, 80s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
100%
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409K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's been trapped inside the game for 26 years -- into their living room. Alan's only hope for ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, offbeat, light, cult classic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
jungle, fantasy world, childhood, magic, board game, time travel, getting home, children, parallel world, danger, friendship, supernatural ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, 90s, year 1969, 1860s ...
Place:
new hampshire, usa, north america, canada
Similarity:
16%
Genre: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even his name has a hidden meaning -- it's ...
Style:
colorful, epic, serious, touching, mindfuck ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, child, robot, artificial intelligence, computer, memory loss, gate, cyborgs, family relations, youth, amnesia, transhumanism ...
Time:
year 1985
Place:
north carolina, south carolina, washington d.c., virginia, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young boy is scared of the monster under his bed. He asks his 6th grade brother to swap rooms for the night as a bet that the monster really exists. Soon the brother becomes friends with the monster and discovers a whole new world of fun and games ...
Style:
melancholic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, epic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, monster, friendship, halloween, coming of age, young heroes, child as adult, father son relationship, mischievous children, fish out of water, curses spells and rituals, wish come true ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his ...
Style:
feel good, exciting, funny, light, cult classic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, mad scientist, time, time loop, destiny, teenager, scientist, changing the past or future, inventor, fish out of water, high school ...
Time:
future, 80s, 1950s, year 1985, 20th century ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, north america
Similarity:
14%
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, humorous, sentimental, cult classic, mockbuster ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, teen drama
Plot:
nasa, alien, extraterrestrial, coca cola, youth, benign alien, back from the dead, telepathy, space probe, alien invasion, friendship, happy ending ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Zenon Kar, a 13-year-old girl who lives on a space station in the year 2049, gets into some trouble and is banished to Earth. With help from some Earth friends she must find her way back.
Style:
teen, futuristic, not serious, humorous, whimsical ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
teenager, disorder, friends, misfit, escapades, blonde girl, female protagonist, teenage girl, teenage protagonist, child protagonist, occupation, adolescence ...
Time:
2040s, 90s, future, 21st century
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his ...
Style:
clever, funny, feel good, humorous, slapstick ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, toddlers, family outing ...
Plot:
baby, teenage girl, shrinking, inventor, businessman, nothing goes right, fish out of water, inventions and discoveries, childhood, giant, stuffed toy rabbit, electrocution ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada
Similarity:
25%
3K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Bingo, the runaway circus dog, is off the leash and saving Chuckie's life! Bingo and the boy become the best of friends in this canine comedy featuring doggy disguises and skateboarding, pinball and prison. Chuckie and his parents (Cindy ...
Style:
humorous, touching, not serious, spoof, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
dog, friendship, on the road, american football, rescue, escapades, youth, pets, kidnapping, boy dog relationship, dysfunctional family, trial ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. When Sara takes Beethoven to spend summer vacation with wacky Uncle Freddie in an old mining town, the mischievous canine "digs up" the missing clue to a legendary hidden fortune of Rita and Moe ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
dog, animal, youth, saint bernard dog, family relations, friendship, family life, partner, best friend, friends, escapades, odd couple ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults alike set out to get their hands on it.
Style:
not serious, feel good, humorous, light, freeze frame ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
wish come true, mischievous children, youth, alien, imaginary, family life, adolescence vs adulthood, disorder, heroes, nothing goes right, hopes, young heroes ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
B-Dawg, Mudbud, Budderball, and all the rest of the Buddies are back, but this time, they're setting their sights even higher -- as in, the moon! With the help of their new pals Spudnick (voiced by Jason Earles) and Gravity, these pooches are ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, futuristic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, preschool
Plot:
dog, moon, rescue, family life, space travel, space and aliens, survival, partner, friendship, disorder, escapades, danger ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
russia
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The Towani family civilian shuttlecraft crashes on the forest moon of Endor. The four Towani's are separated. Jermitt and Catarine, the mother and father are captured by the giant Gorax, and Mace and Cindel, the son and daughter, are missing ...
Style:
saga, humorous, semi serious, exciting, cute ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
rescue, star wars, space and aliens, magic, friendship, battles, bravery, good versus evil, space exploration, save the world, parent child relationship, young heroes ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
24%
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