Movies like Short Circuit
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Short Circuit (1986)
70K
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 animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, sentimental, light, humorous, touching, funny, semi serious, grindhouse, exciting ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, teen drama
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, military, androids and robots, struck by lightning, animal lover, lightning, childhood, malfunction, talking robot, cyborgs, androids, technology, machine, inventor, chase, cat, life, kitten, raccoon, male female relationship, parachute, ex boyfriend, van, pacifist ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, future
Place:
oregon, usa, astoria oregon, montana, united states of america
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Most similar movies to Short Circuit
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, semi serious and entertaining films with plots about family, disorder, runaway, childhood, chase, slug and dialogue mostly in Comedy, Family and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Short Circuit: *batteries not included (1987), Flight of the Navigator (1986), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Uncle Buck (1989), The Cat from Outer Space (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, 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: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Robot Johnny Five comes to the city and gets manipulated by criminals who want him for their own purposes.
Style:
humorous, grindhouse, family comedy, exciting, fast ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, boys' night
Plot:
robot, artificial intelligence, cyborgs, skyscraper, robbery, androids, androids and robots, talking robot, street vendor, hitman, boat, police ...
Time:
80s, near future
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
67%
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:
67%
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120K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
As an idle, good-natured bachelor, Uncle Buck is the last person you would think of to watch the kids. However, during a family crisis, he is suddenly left in charge of his nephew and nieces. Unaccustomed to suburban life, fun-loving Uncle Buck soon ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, light, touching ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, happy ending, family values, child care, when the parents are away, parents and children, babysitter, fish out of water, respect, mischievous children, siblings relations, babysitting ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, illinois, minnesota, wisconsin, usa ...
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%
921
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A courageous boy battles a gang of bumbling thieves to rescue a dog carrying a fortune in stolen diamonds.
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
dog, caper, rescue, escapades, crime gone awry, rivalry, disorder, danger, odd couple, nothing goes right, stash, animal ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Billionaire heir Richie Rich has it all, including Reggie Jackson as a batting coach and Claudia Schiffer as a personal trainer -- but no playmates. What's more, scoundrel Laurence Van Dough is scheming to take over the family empire. Uh-oh! ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, slapstick, epic ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, teens ...
Plot:
childhood, wealth, friendship, children, rich and poor, youth, money, when the parents are away, adolescence, superhero, billionaire, realism ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Eric and Marsha break off their long-term relationship, journalist Eric is able to weather it pretty well. He still has his long time canine companion Gabe, and his boss, Ms Andrews, wants to send him to London to open an office. But first Ms ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, humorous, touching, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
pets, disorder, fall in love, obsessive quest, wooing, nothing goes right, escapades, parents and children, talking dog, dog, animal, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
12K
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Some say that to be the leader of a country is one of the loneliest jobs in the world. But being the child of a world leader can be doubly so. Constantly surrounded by security officers, restricted in movements and having almost every waking moment ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching, weeping ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
bodyguard, white house, childhood, president, friendship, usa president, shopping mall, boxing, fish out of water, mischievous children, secret service, kidnapping ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Seven-year-old Danny Parker is a good kid who loves his parents. But they have to go out on business dinners all the time, leaving him stuck with a sitter. It's not so bad when it's his favorite babysitter, Janelle but he also gets stuck ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
family relations, when the parents are away, mischievous children, nanny, parents and children, disorder, youth, save the day, little boy, friendship, rivalry, babysitter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
46K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Powerful businessman Russ Duritz is self-absorbed and immersed in his work. But by the magic of the moon, he meets Rusty, a chubby, charming 8-year-old version of himself who can't believe he could turn out so badly -- with no life and no dog. ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, sweet, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
time travel, indifference, redemption, changing the past or future, childhood, youth, happy ending, imaginary, unfulfillment, cynic, father son estrangement, supernatural ...
Time:
year 2000, 2000s, 60s, 20th century, year 1968 ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
62K
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don't exactly blend in with the population of Paramus, N.J. But for some reason, everyone believes them when they say they're from ...
Style:
funny, humorous, absurd, light, not serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, adult
Plot:
fish out of water, satire, alien, outer space, humanity, benign alien, family life, parents and children, space and aliens, interspecies romance, transformation, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1993, future
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
1.3M
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
WALL·E is the last robot left on an Earth that has been overrun with garbage and all humans have fled to outer space. For 700 years he has continued to try and clean up the mess, but has developed some rather interesting human-like qualities. When ...
Style:
futuristic, touching, feel good, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot:
loneliness, robot, space travel, outer space, post apocalypse, technology, love, artificial intelligence, ecology, dystopia, happy ending, ecological disaster ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 2008, 2000s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Hailed as one of Walt Disney's most hilarious comedies, The Absent-Minded Professor contains two essential elements for laughter - Fred MacMurray and Flubber, his gravity-defying formula for flying rubber!
Style:
black and white, funny, humorous, psychotronic, comedy drama ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
college, basketball, inventor, cheerleading, car, dog, football team, flying car, professor, science and technology, new year, winter ...
Time:
year 1961, 20th century, 60s, 1950s, 50s ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa, pentagon
Similarity:
100%
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:
hypochondriac, mad scientist, lone hero, dystopic future, rescue, experiment gone awry, experiment, disorder, race against time, goofy hero, danger, destiny ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century, future
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Family, Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Dr. Jonas Carson, a scientist, invents Chip, an android teenager. Dr. Carson sends Chip to school with his daughter Becky to see whether an android could interact with others. But his former employer decides to try and make a profit by stealing the ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
transhumanism, robot, artificial intelligence, love affair, science and technology, new world, androids, family relations, high school, power relations, social relations, disorder ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, arizona
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Chip, the android boy is back. This time, he is off to college, suffering from a computer virus and in love with Roberta, another android. Will there be a happy ending?
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, sentimental
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
campus, transhumanism, robot, love affair, new world, computer virus, college, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, youth, imaginary, misfit ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, arizona
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In the final film of the series, Chip and his "father" attend a robotics convention. Here, Dr. Carson is kidnapped and replaced by an android. Can Chip and his newfound friends save Dr. Carson from a dangerous competitor?
Style:
exciting, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
cyborgs, robot, kidnapping, killer robot, androids, father son relationship, transhumanism, creator, inventor, mad scientist, androids and robots, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
arizona, usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends.
Style:
light, funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
babies and infants, baby, fatherhood, custody, fish out of water, buddies, children, police, drug dealer, friendship, parents and children, life turned upside down ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.
Style:
funny, cute, intense, light, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
youth, inventor, shrinking, childhood, dog, mother daughter relationship, teen angst, scientist, teenage girl, neighbor, ant, rescue ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, turkey
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Heartbeeps stars Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters as domestic robots who fall in love and run off together.
Style:
psychotronic, surreal, retro, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
pre-teens
Plot:
robot, androids and robots, servant, factory, fish out of water, love, escape, nature, machine, women, cognitive science, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, year 1981, 80s
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 15-year-old college wiz kid. Supposedly hard at work on a lab project with a mysterious deadline, they still find time to use their genius to discover new ways to have fun.
Style:
cult classic, funny, entertaining, independent film, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
computer cracker, college, genius, campus, nerd, high school, geek, technology, hacking, mentor, computer, coming of age ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
california
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young man invents a robot dog that has super strength, x-ray vision and can detect crimes being committed. A greedy businessman tries to steal the boy's invention from him.
Style:
independent film, semi serious, exciting, humorous
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
dog, robot, robot dog, families, strength, invention, partner, animal life, hitman, disorder, criminal heroes, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric shock and his brain turns to a ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, clever, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
computer, hacking, friendship, gangster, computer genius, hacker, police raid, college student, cognitive science, computer hacker, science and technology, cybersecurity ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 80s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Identical 9-year-olds from very different backgrounds: orphaned Amanda and wealthy Alyssa meet at summer camp and decide to switch places -- and play matchmaker between Alyssa's dad, Roger, and the kind social worker who cares for Amanda.
Style:
sweet, feel good, funny, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teens ...
Plot:
twins, mischievous children, children, summer camp, adoption, single father, orphan, single parent, tomboy, parents and children, childhood, wedding ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, london
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, not serious, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, date night, family friendly, toddlers ...
Plot:
mischievous children, children, prank, problem child, when the parents are away, happy ending, nothing goes right, childhood, kids and family, neighbor, boy, troublemaker ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century, future, 80s
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.
Style:
talky, humorous, exciting, light, intense ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
soldier, toys, toy comes to life, childhood, satire, small town, children, boy, heroes, suburbs, objects come to life, danger ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
columbus ohio, ohio, north america, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A delightful dramatic comedy, a buddy picture, and, for good measure, a heist film. Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. His grown ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, feel good, futuristic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
robot, artificial intelligence, friendship, androids and robots, robbery, technology, burglary, unlikely criminals, memory loss, family relations, nursing, disorder ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2012, near future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Small Wonder is an American science fiction sitcom that aired in first-run syndication from September 7, 1985 to May 20, 1989. The show chronicles the family of a robotics engineer who, after he secretly creates a robot modeled after a real human ...
Style:
sitcom, game show, semi serious, offbeat, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
robot, childhood love, artificial intelligence, family relations, female android, little boy, little girl, superhuman powers, transhumanism, robin hood, inventor, androids ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Similarity:
23%
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