Movies like Flight of the Navigator
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Flight of the Navigator (1986)
55K
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 overjoyed to have him back, but just as perplexed as he is by the fact that he hasn't aged. When a NASA scientist discovers a UFO nearby, David gets the chance to unravel the mystery and recover the life he lost.
Style:
futuristic, feel good, entertaining, exciting, stylized, sweet, touching, serious, epic, slasher ...
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, getting home, first contact, artificial intelligence, time dilation, boy, dog, time, alien invasion, hospital, alien creature, young boy, spaceship, presumed dead ...
Time:
year 1986, year 1978, 90s, 20th century, 80s, future, 70s
Place:
florida, miami, miami beach, japan, texas, tokyo
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Most similar movies to Flight of the Navigator
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, clever and light films with plots about first contact, dialogue, alien, childhood, technology, storytelling and mentor mostly in Sci-Fi, Adventure and Comedy genres. Some movies like Flight of the Navigator: Explorers (1985), Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), Short Circuit (1986), Mac and Me (1988), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 ...
Style:
cult classic, light, feel good, retro, epic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, ufo, space travel, friendship, space, bullying, coming of age, children, fantasy world, adolescence, teenager, youth ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1985
Place:
maryland, washington d.c., canada
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%
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, sentimental, light, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, teen drama
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, military, androids and robots, animal lover, struck by lightning, lightning, childhood, talking robot, malfunction, cyborgs, androids ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, future
Place:
oregon, usa, astoria oregon, montana
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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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:
80%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other inhabitable planet in the galaxy. But when a stowaway sabotages the mission, the Robinsons find ...
Style:
exciting, surreal, stylized, saga, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
time travel, space travel, space and aliens, outer space, robot, alien, space exploration, spaceship, save the world, time machine, space, spacecraft ...
Time:
future, year 1998
Place:
space western
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. ...
Style:
light, saga, futuristic, sentimental, not serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, mad scientist, changing the past or future, old west, sent to the past, time, time loop, inventor, alternate timeline, time paradox, duel ...
Time:
19th century, 1950s, future, 90s, 80s ...
Place:
space western, los angeles, north america, california
Similarity:
100%
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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:
60%
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:
100%
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%
225K
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, cult classic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
space opera, space and aliens, space travel, space battle, wilhelm scream, satire, alien, farce, star wars, outer space, stupidity, rescue ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
space western
Similarity:
100%
289K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—did just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. But a trip to see Granny Wendy in London, where the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps ...
Style:
fairy tale, sweet, inspirational, stylized, feel good ...
Audience:
family friendly, pre-teens, kids, family outing, adult ...
Plot:
childhood, pirate, magic, kidnapping, children, fairy, father son relationship, peter pan, good versus evil, rescue, destiny, fantasy world ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
fictional island, california, new york, san francisco, los angeles ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
"Ben 10: Race Against Time" has Ben back in his hometown of Bellwood. Even though he's back in school and leaving his hero adventures behind him, it seems that Ben will be facing his greatest challenge yet.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, exciting, scenic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
ben 10, race against time, heroic mission, young heroes, superhuman powers, save the world, androids and robots, rivalry, master villain, good versus evil, danger, escapades ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
50%
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: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and ...
Style:
futuristic, entertaining, exciting, saga, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, alien, alien invasion, ufo, hi-tech, time machine, changing the past or future, benign alien, alternate timeline, mind control, space travel, extraterrestrial ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, future, jurassic, 20th century ...
Place:
bronx new york city, new york, usa, florida, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
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%
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257K
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, dark comedy, absurd, humorous, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
ufo, mars, alien invasion, flying saucer, alien, space and aliens, evil alien, dark humor, disaster, catastrophe, alien abduction, outer space ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, future, year 1996
Place:
washington d.c., usa, kentucky, kansas, taj mahal ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
cult classic, spoof, humorous, surreal, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien, alien invasion, chase, scientist, evil scientist, musician, interdimensional travel, desert, rescue, mad scientist, electrocution, laboratory ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1938, future
Place:
usa, hong kong, asia, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
658K
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, funny, saga ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
alien, buddy, government agency, ufo, buddy cop, space and aliens, flying saucer, alien encounter, intergalactic, invasion, creature, woman with a gun ...
Time:
jurassic, year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, new jersey, persia, usa, north america ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 152 min.
TV show
Story:
An Earth Man and his alien friend escape an exploding Earth, and set forth on an odd adventure across the universe with a known fugitive. Based on the book by Douglas Adams, the dialog follows the book closely. This was originally a 6-part series ...
Style:
humorous, offbeat, talky, futuristic, stylized ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
benign alien, space travel, ufo, spacecraft, mysterious planet, satire, imaginary, fantasy world, time travel, alien, outer space, robot ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
100%
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, slapstick comedy, surprise ending, hilarious, fast ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
mars, benign alien, martian, fish out of water, disguise, nasa, space, space and aliens, profanity, alien invasion, alien, hidden camera ...
Time:
90s, future
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Style:
captivating, cerebral, breathtaking, atmospheric, mysterious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, adult ...
Plot:
ufo, alien, first contact, alien abduction, technology, alien contact, space and aliens, contact, flying saucer, extraterrestrial, chase, airplane ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1977, near future, future
Place:
wyoming, indiana, india, ohio, north america ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The Lost Saucer is an ABC network television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. It first aired September 6, 1975.
Style:
light hearted, retro, slapstick comedy, whimsical
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
time travel, spaceship, travel, alien, children, androids, social commentary, rescue mission, artificial intelligence, space, crash landing, spacecraft ...
Time:
future
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:
67%
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:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys, and soon their parents and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world – and find a task ahead of them that is far more important than any of them ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, serious, spiritual, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
time travel, children, young heroes, toys, mentor, supernatural ability, psychic, parent child relationship, female protagonist, heroic mission, danger, imaginary ...
Time:
future, year 2007
Place:
seattle, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the 14th century a village seeking escape from the Black Death are guided by a boy's vision to tunnel into an abandoned mine and emerge into 20th century New Zealand.
Style:
emotional, harsh, exciting, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
medieval, time travel, tunnel, boy, heroic mission, danger, supernatural ability, follow your dream, young heroes, rescue, fish out of water, rivalry ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, future, 14th century, 20th century ...
Place:
england, europe, new zealand
Similarity:
75%
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