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The Cabbage Soup (1981)
11K
Original name: La Soupe aux choux
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
2 buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.
Style:
spoof, humorous, semi serious, parody, eighties, cult film
Plot:
unfaithful wife, outer space, infidelity, drunkenness, failed suicide, food, ufo, old man, flying saucer, back from the dead, mayor, remote village, benign alien, alcoholic, farmer, undead, widower, tradition versus modernity, village people, drinking, rural setting, meal, chef, restaurant, vegetable ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
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Most similar movies to The Cabbage Soup
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, offbeat and parody films with plots about disorder, alien, space and aliens, alien encounter, danger, ufo and outer space mostly in Comedy, Sci-Fi and Family genres. Some movies like The Cabbage Soup: Coneheads (1993), La Belle verte (1996), *batteries not included (1987), Earth Girls Are Easy (1988), Hibernatus (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The bungling inspector Cruchot (Funès) finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that ...
Style:
slapstick, exciting, not serious, humorous, fun
Plot:
gendarme, alien, evil alien, police, gendarmerie, beach, bicycle, imitation, car chase, oil, sun, transformation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
saint tropez, cote d'azur, french riviera, france, riviera ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
As part of an intergalactic coalition, a well-meaning space alien volunteers to bring a message of self-actualization and harmony with nature to the one planet rejected by all her peers as incorrigible: Earth.
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, esoteric, light, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
utopia, society, spirituality, nature, ecology, human nature, space and aliens, benign alien, peaceful mission, environmental issue, consciousness, environmental ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
100%
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%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In this musical comedy, Valerie is dealing with her philandering fiancé, Ted, when she finds that a trio of aliens have crashed their spaceship into her swimming pool. Once the furry beings are shaved at her girlfriend's salon, the women ...
Style:
sexy, independent film, funny, spoof, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
disco, space and aliens, interspecies sex, alien, dancing, alien contact, interspecies romance, beauty salon, spacecraft, benign alien, alien invasion, swimming ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the 1960s. His descendants take care of him: to spare him the cultural ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, ironic, light ...
Plot:
time travel, fish out of water, abbey, hibernation, disorder, misfit, family life, culture clash, society, pretense, grandfather granddaughter relationship, grandfather ...
Time:
60s, 1900s, 70s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
france, greenland, europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Each week, Pierre and his friends organize what is called as "un dîner de cons". Everyone brings the dumbest guy he could find as a guest. Pierre thinks his champ -François Pignon- will steal the show.
Style:
humorous, funny, feel good, hilarious, light ...
Plot:
farce, misfit, food, class differences, stupidity, telephone call, husband wife relationship, social satire, mistaken identity, screwball, dinner, mistress ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The planet earth is in peril of impending doom, and maniacal destructive forces from outer space are closely at hand! Twisted, demented alien terrorists are single-handedly about to reap horrific havoc on earth and threaten life itself. Meanwhile, ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting, independent film ...
Plot:
reporter, journalism, media, chaos and mayhem, captivity, abduction, disorder, save the planet, save the world, danger, imaginary, heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Face à l'incompréhension de la population française quant au montant des crédits alloués à la recherche spatiale, le gouvernement lance une vaste opération de communication. En partenariat avec le Centre spatial français, un grand jeu ...
Style:
parody, not serious, humorous, offbeat, spoof
Plot:
space and aliens, spacecraft, hacker, space travel, danger, disorder, satire, lottery, benign alien, rivalry, escapades, monster ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, fairy tale, realistic ...
Plot:
unhappy marriage, lawyer, couple relations, husband wife relationship, notoriety, countryside, divorce, farmer, village life, goat, alcoholic, trial ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 80s
Place:
europe, france, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Trying to rescue her home planet from destruction, a gorgeous extraterrestrial named Celeste arrives on Earth and begins her scientific research. She woos quirky scientist Dr. Steve Mills, a widower with a young daughter. Before long, Celeste finds ...
Style:
feel good, parody, humorous, light, funny ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, date night, teens
Plot:
alien, fish out of water, female alien, space and aliens, benign alien, alien disguised as human, transformation, stepmother, porn actress, sexual humor, friendship, fall in love ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Beautiful alien Amazonian women plan to conquer the world using an army of vegetable monsters. Dim-witted privates Philbrick and Penn bumble into a cave in search of atomic activity but collide instead with fierce carrot-topped tree mutants and ...
Style:
retro, suspense, independent film, slapstick, semi serious ...
Plot:
alien, amazon, 666, killer animal, ufo, occult, creature feature, soldier, outer space, spacecraft, battles, disorder ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming ...
Style:
funny, anthology, not serious, realistic, cynical ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
restaurant, food industry, social satire, circus, food, gastronomy, father son conflict, undercover, restaurant owner, father son relationship, cooking and food, cooking ...
Time:
year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film is set in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river in 1918. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives alone with his recollections of World War I trenches. Their daily life consists of ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Plot:
french countryside, swamp, interwar period, football, best friend, countryside, friendship, small town life, small town, lifestyle, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Three aliens morph into super-hot babes and arrive to protect the earth from the intergalactic forces of evil. Guided by Syntax, their holographic mentor, these Illegal Aliens are willing to use every trick in the book and every sexy outfit in their ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, sex comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space and aliens, save the world, benign alien, time travel, alien encounter, disorder, master villain, deadly creature, imaginary, heroes, danger, androids and robots ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people and taking them over collides with a scientist's experiments to extract foreheadazine and things go horribly horribly wrong.
Style:
humorous, stylized, semi serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
space and aliens, mad scientist, supernatural, save the planet, escapades, rivalry, danger, alien encounter, disorder, heroes, ufo, insanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland
Similarity:
22%
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:
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An art dealer wants to buy a Modigliani, which is tattooed on the back of an old soldier.
Style:
realistic, not serious, humorous, spoof, parody
Plot:
art dealer, castle, tattoo, veteran, retired, recovery, satire, silly humor, quibbling, disorder, dealer, farce ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Inept beings from the planet Kabijj land on Earth and attempt to behead all of its beings and take over the planet
Style:
not serious, humorous, entertaining, funny, slapstick
Audience:
teens
Plot:
space and aliens, danger, race against time, escapades, rivalry, disorder, evil alien, space, satire, invasion, sword, silly humor ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Leslie Nielsen once again plays a bumbling detective in the vein of the 'Naked Gun' movies, but this time as Marshall Richard 'Dick' Dix. When odd reports are received through official channels stating that the President of the ...
Style:
parody, spoof, humorous, not serious, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
space and aliens, usa president, zero gravity, daring rescue, save the world, danger, save the day, chases and races, benign alien, escapades, race against time, alien encounter ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
On his 50th birthday, a man who's been watching his weight, health and temper all his life suffers a heart attack. He's been doing everything he was told he should do and it still didn't help. He decides to turn the page and let loose.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, starting over, life turned upside down, disorder, midlife crisis, friends, hopes, food, infidelity, heart attack, holiday, health situation ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
20%
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, dark, grindhouse, independent film ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
halloween, alien invasion, space, monster, martian, mars, evil alien, small town, visitor, post apocalyptic, friendly alien, buddies ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
illinois, usa
Similarity:
20%
393
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Raph and Max only kill bad guys, and only after their boss Sam, a high-powered attorney, has cashed a nice paycheck for getting her sleazy clients off the hook. When Sam sends our heroes on a routine hit, they find themselves caught up in a ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, tense, captivating, spoof ...
Plot:
hitman, laboratory, danger, alien encounter, parents and children, disorder, rivalry, good versus evil, couple relations, dark humor, zombie, tentacle ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Phil the Alien crashes to Earth and find himself alone in the wilds of northern Canada. In the process of going home he goes from drunk to christian rock singer to mass murder.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, stylized, offbeat
Plot:
small town, benign alien, secret agent, alcohol abuse, space and aliens, getting home, misfit, silly humor, brothel, drunkenness, shape shifting alien, supernatural power ...
Place:
canada, ontario canada
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.
Style:
apocalyptic, independent film, semi serious, offbeat, humorous ...
Plot:
alien, satire, alien invasion, invasion, ufo, dystopia, rebellion, propaganda, disorder, danger, mad scientist, state affairs ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His ...
Style:
funny, slapstick, realistic, not serious, humorous ...
Plot:
basement, factory, small town, ecology, factory owner, silly humor, ambition, couple relations, disorder, quibbling, couples, family problems ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
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:
atmospheric, mysterious, surreal, melancholic, mystical ...
Plot:
alien, innocence, childhood, friendship, boy, village, coming of age, symbolism, respect, misunderstanding, extraterrestrial, magic realism ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An Air Force captain inadvertently volunteers to make the first manned flight around the moon. He immediately falls under the watchful protection of various security agencies, but despite all their precautions, a young woman who may be an enemy spy ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
alien, space exploration, monkey, ufo, astronomy, moon landing, space, female alien, spacesuit, moon, spy, space race ...
Time:
60s
Place:
russia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Five sexy females from the planet Venus are sent to Earth to bring back sperm samples to their planet, which is dying out because there are no men left on it. After the land they find that it's not all that difficult persuading Earthmen to help ...
Style:
sex comedy, spoof, erotic, parody, hot
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex spoof, erotica, sex scene, alien, female alien, spaceship, sauna, sexual humor, flying saucer, female nudity, lesbian, exploitation ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When the mysterious and sexy Ms. Xenobia takes over the biology class at the local college, the dating life of supergeek Wesley Littlejohn takes a serious turn. Littlejohn agrees to be a lab rat for the professor's unusual vitamin research ...
Style:
sex comedy, grindhouse, raunchy comedy, horror comedy, funny ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
female alien, alien disguised as human, evil alien, alien, laboratory, benign alien, teenager, biology teacher, nerd, best friend, high school, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Similarity:
19%
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