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My Science Project (1985)
 5.9
 6K
My Science Project (1985)
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 stop the orb and save mankind.
Style: offbeat, humorous, semi serious, fast, psychotronic, light, feel good, eighties, complex, idiotic ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: time travel, dinosaur, teenager, school, high school, coming of age, technology gone awry, mutant, science, time loop, time machine, teenage sex, inventor, giant monster, prehistoric animal, extraterrestrial, child, science and technology, kaiju, blaster, reptiles, high school student, auto mechanic, opposites attract, science teacher ...
Time: future, year 1985, 80s
Place: vietnam, california
Keyword: new yorker

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Most similar movies to My Science Project

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, psychotronic and exciting films with plots about escapades, heroes, imaginary, danger, time travel, disorder and save the world mostly in Sci-Fi, Adventure and Action genres. Some movies like My Science Project: Back to the Future (1985), The Day Time Ended (1979), Back to the Future Part II (1989), The Last Starfighter (1984), Spaced Invaders (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Back to the Future (1985)
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, light, funny, cult classic ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, mad scientist, time loop, teenager, destiny, inventor, scientist, changing the past or future, time, fish out of water, high school ...
Time: future, 80s, 1950s, year 1985, year 1955 ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Day Time Ended (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A small family relocates to the Sonoran Desert, to be closer to the grandparents of the family. Though there are news reports of a spectacular triple supernova, and the young granddaughter has seen a glowing alien construction behind the barn, the ...
Style: retro, claymation, independent film, semi serious, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, stop motion, tyrannosaurus rex, pyramid, kaiju, ufo, monster, dinosaur, giant monster, alien, time loop, invasion ...
Time: year 1979, prehistory, 70s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
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, inventor, changing the past or future, time loop, sent to the past, teenager, travel, alternate timeline, time, mad scientist ...
Time: future, year 2015, 20th century, 1950s, 2010s ...
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Last Starfighter (1984)
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, entertaining, light, semi serious, mindfuck ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: alien contact, alien, space travel, space opera, space, teenager, outer space, battles, space and aliens, heroic mission, childhood, good versus evil ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 90s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Spaced Invaders (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A crew of Martians overhears a radio broadcast of Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" coming from Earth, and, thinking the Martian fleet is attacking Earth, they land their broken-down ship in a backwater mid-American town. As luck ...
Style: cult classic, humorous, grindhouse, dark, independent film ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: halloween, alien invasion, space, martian, monster, mars, evil alien, small town, misunderstanding, ufo, visitor, post apocalyptic ...
Time: 20th century
Place: usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 24K
Explorers (1985)
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: light, cult classic, feel good, mindfuck, epic ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: space travel, friendship, space, childhood, bullying, coming of age, ufo, adolescence, fantasy world, children, outer space, teenager ...
Time: future, 80s, year 1985
Place: maryland, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Philadelphia Experiment II (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: It is several years after the events of the first movie, and David Herdeg (the survivor of the Philadelphia Experiment from the first film) and Allison (the woman from 1984 he fell in love with) have married and have a child. David awakes, in agony, ...
Style: independent film, dark, mind bending, offbeat, futuristic ...
Plot: time travel, world war two, experiment, alternate history, time paradox, u.s. navy, nazi, nazi occultism, mission, alien, alternate universe, race against time ...
Time: 1940s, future, 80s, year 1984, year 1943 ...
Place: philadelphia, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
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, futuristic, sentimental, not serious, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, mad scientist, changing the past or future, time, sent to the past, old west, time loop, inventor, parallel universe, time paradox, science ...
Time: 19th century, year 1955, 90s, 1950s, future ...
Place: space western, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Fugitives of the Federation for their daring rescue of Spock from the doomed Genesis Planet, Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew begin their journey home to face justice for their actions. But as they near Earth, they find it at the mercy of ...
Style: saga, futuristic, action adventure, humorous, clever ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: time travel, space travel, star trek, space opera, spacecraft, environmental, space, marine biologist, falling from height, planet earth, bus, punk music ...
Time: future, year 1986, 80s, 23rd century
Place: san francisco, bay area, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, travelling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with pretty ...
Style: arthurian, semi serious, feel good, humorous, psychotronic
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: time travel, king arthur, astronaut, nasa, medieval, fish out of water, arthurian legend, jousting, camelot, yankee, astronomy, space adventure ...
Time: middle ages, year 1979, 6th century, medieval times
Place: england, cornwall, usa, europe, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Lyle Swann is a successful off-road racer who mistakenly gets sent back in time 100 years. When a band of outlaws robs Swann of his motorcycle, he's forced to outfox the gangsters and give in to the seductions of a gorgeous local lady. With ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, fantasy adventure, road movie, semi serious ...
Plot: time travel, motorcycle, time loop, desert, biker, cowboy, shootout, experiment, revenge, planet, fall in love, in love ...
Time: 19th century, year 1982
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
100 Million BC (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A scientist from the failed Philadelphia Experiment leads a team of Navy SEALs back in time to the Cretaceous Period to rescue the first team he sent back during the 1940s. Things go wildly awry though, when on his return he accidentally brings a ...
Style: semi serious, mockbuster, tense, exciting, natural horror ...
Plot: dinosaur, time travel, tyrannosaurus rex, lost world, time portal, experiment gone awry, heroes, chaos and mayhem, imaginary, fish out of water, creature feature, creature ...
Time: future, 1940s, prehistory, year 1950, year 1949 ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 2.4
 5K
Theodore Rex (1995)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In an alternate futuristic society, a tough female police detective is paired with a talking dinosaur to find the killer of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals leading them to a mad scientist bent on creating a new Armageddon.
Style: detective, humorous, entertaining, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: dinosaur, tyrannosaurus rex, murder, buddy cop, mad scientist, murder investigation, imaginary, clumsiness, surrealism, female police officer, telepathy, conspiracy ...
Time: future, prehistoric times, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union, USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella. The leader ship ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, retro, independent film, serious ...
Plot: dinosaur, space and aliens, space opera, space exploration, kaiju, monster, venus the planet, pterodactyl, outer space, astronaut, reptiles, space ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, future, 2000s, 2020s
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Journey to the Center of Time (1967)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Scientists must prove their time travel experiments can produce results, so their funding won't be cut off. They push their equipment, and travel 5000 years into the future, where they encounter aliens who are looking for a planet to colonize.
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, independent film, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, dinosaur, time loop, apocalypse, epidemic, time machine, disorder, experiment gone awry, heroic mission, inventions and discoveries, space travel, alien encounter ...
Time: year 1967, future, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Radioactive Dreams (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in an bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, 19 years old, they leave their shelter to find a world full of mutants, freaks and ...
Style: parody, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: nuclear holocaust, post apocalypse, mutant, apocalypse, chaos, dystopian future, dark humor, danger, wasteland, survivor, distopia, cannon ...
Time: year 1985, future, 1940s, middle ages, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Ben 10: Race Against Time (2007)
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: semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting, scenic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: race against time, heroic mission, young heroes, ben 10, rescue, escapades, good versus evil, master villain, superhuman powers, save the world, danger, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.8
 65K
Innerspace (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract ...
Style: futuristic, entertaining, humorous, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: mad scientist, rescue, experiment gone awry, experiment, disorder, race against time, danger, goofy hero, submarine, shrinking, science, destiny ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Triassic Attack (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A Native American owner of a kitschy roadside museum accidentally brings to life three dinosaur fossils. Now really annoyed, the giant dinos wreak havoc on the small town and the local university.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: dinosaur, fossil, survival, small town, chaos and mayhem, heroic mission, save the day, escapades, deadly creature, danger, giant monster, monster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter ...
Style: psychotronic, saga, uplifting, cult classic, futuristic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space adventure, space opera, time travel, astronaut, alien invasion, space, space travel, superhero, intergalactic, cosmic horror, distopia, women ...
Time: year 1979, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 4.6
 344
Death Kappa (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When military experiments go haywire and trigger an atomic bomb, the consequences are of epic proportions. A monster arrives in the midst of the nuclear fallout, and Japan's defenses are helpless against it. Mankind's only savior is an ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting, surreal ...
Plot: kaiju, good versus evil, save the day, experiment gone awry, mad scientist, danger, rivalry, chaos, supernatural, deadly creature, escapades, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Scientist Doctor Who accidentally activates his new invention, the Tardis, a time machine disguised as a police telephone box. Doctor Who, his two grand-daughters, and Barbara's boyfriend Ian are transported through time and space to the planet ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, futuristic, stylized ...
Plot: time travel, space travel, time machine, changing the past or future, robot, good versus evil, distopia, space opera, evil alien, teleportation, imaginary, heroes ...
Time: future, 60s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Aliens kidnap two children and take them to another planet for the purpose of getting knowledge from their brains, but Gamera follows and tries to rescue them.
Style: daikaiju, psychotronic, classic horror, cult classic, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kaiju, monster, gamera, giant monster, deadly creature, mutant, evil alien, alien, turtle, reptiles, killer animal, dinosaur ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 4.4
 23K
Zoom (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Jack Shepard is an out-of-shape auto shop owner, far removed from the man who once protected the world's freedom. Reluctantly called back into action by the government, Jack is tasked with turning a ragtag group of kids with special powers into ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, feel good, semi serious, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: superhero, teenage superhero, high school, fight scenes, save the world, good versus evil, invisible man, comic book, space travel, friendship, superhero team, female hero ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Dinosaur Valley Girls (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Haunted by recurring dreams of Hea-Thor, a gorgeous cavegirl,and a menacing Allosaurus, action-movie star Tony Markham soon finds himself transported, by means of a magic Icon, back through time to Dinosaur Valley. Now trapped in world of dangerous ...
Style: independent film, sexy, not serious, humorous, sex comedy
Plot: dinosaur, prehistoric animal, kaiju, sword and sorcery, sorcery, nudity, prehistoric man, caveman, sexual content, silly humor, artists and showbiz, escapades ...
Time: stone age, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The United Nations assembles the ultimate weapon to defeat Godzilla, while scientists discover a fresh pteranodon egg on a remote Japanese island.
Style: daikaiju, sad, semi serious, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: godzilla, giant monster, kaiju, androids and robots, dinosaur, robot, creature feature, cyborgs, evil twin, killer animal, siblings, beast ...
Time: jurassic, 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 4.7
 2K
P.U.N.K.S. (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A group of misfit teens evade a corrupt scientist when they steal and attempt to return a suit that delivers supernatural strength to its wearer.
Style: semi serious, exciting, humorous, stylized, independent film
Audience: teens, family outing, kids
Plot: superpower, mad scientist, prodigy, escapades, teenage life, school, imaginary, disorder, youth, teenager, batman, imaginary friend ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest city on record and a clue to ...
Style: stylized, futuristic, light, bleak, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, space opera, space battle, save the world, parallel universe, alien, space wars, space, chaos, battles, imaginary, society ...
Time: future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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