Movies like SpaceCamp
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SpaceCamp (1986)
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. Together, the group -- which includes Kathryn, a pilot-in-training, and Tish, a ditz with a perfect memory -- must work together to operate the spacecraft and return home.
Style:
entertaining, melancholic, semi serious, inspirational, uplifting, action adventure, exciting, suspenseful, intense, light ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, boys' night, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
nasa, space shuttle, space travel, trapped in space, astronaut, summer camp, space program, teenage girl, childhood, photographic memory, coming of age, space opera, lone hero, culture clash, life philosophy, storytelling, rescue, race against time, outer space, teenager, robot, kids and family, space exploration, space and aliens, happy ending ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 60s, future, 1960s
Place:
alabama, california
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Most similar movies to SpaceCamp
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, exciting, semi serious and psychotronic films with plots about heroes, danger, escapades, family, space and aliens, space and dialogue mostly in Sci-Fi, Adventure and Family genres. Some movies like SpaceCamp: Explorers (1985), Star Kid (1997), Zoom (2006), The Last Starfighter (1984), Lost in Space (1998). 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: 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%
24K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 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, teen, entertaining, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot:
superhero, teenage superhero, invisible man, high school, female hero, superhero team, fight scenes, good versus evil, comic book, friendship, space travel, alien encounter ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s
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:
100%
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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%
112K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
After crash-landing on an alien planet, the Robinson family fights against all odds to survive and escape. But they're surrounded by hidden dangers.
Style:
sincere, tense, exciting, futuristic, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
outer space, space exploration, alien planet, spacecraft, robot, survival, alien creature, hopes, danger, space, youth, space adventure ...
Time:
future, near future, 2040s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, War
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Unassuming catering salesmen Jim Ferguson falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life of dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth after his photo recon mission is shot down. Before he can work out what ...
Style:
dieselpunk, cult classic, semi serious, humorous, fast ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
time travel, world war one, steampunk, great war, military officer, aerial combat, superhero, fish out of water, danger, heroes, rescue, twin brother ...
Time:
80s, year 1917, 1910s
Place:
new york, usa, london, tower bridge london, belgium
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:
50%
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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:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of ...
Style:
tense, clever, suspense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nasa, astronaut, space travel, old age, space shuttle, space opera, satellite, space exploration, outer space, self sacrifice, human in outer space, one last job ...
Time:
20th century, year 1958, year 2000, 1950s, future ...
Place:
space western, california
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: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The son of a retired astronaut competes to win a seat on the next space shuttle.
Style:
captivating, lighthearted, inspirational, educational
Audience:
kids
Plot:
children, competition, space shuttle, coming of age, teamwork, young heroes, nasa, saving a life, scientist hero, astronaut, female scientist, outer space ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to earth only to find their rockets wont fire. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, exciting, futuristic, melancholic ...
Plot:
space travel, nasa, astronaut, space, rescue, survival, spacewalk, space opera, space exploration, rescue mission, stranded, escapades ...
Time:
20th century, year 1969, 60s, 1930s, future ...
Place:
usa, antarctica
Similarity:
32%
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:
31%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.
Style:
exciting, humorous, entertaining, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
virtual reality, video game, child spy, mad scientist, secret agent, brutality, mission, rescue, technology, escapades, save the world, kidnapping ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 80s
Similarity:
30%
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:
29%
11K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Fred Z. Randall is geeky and obnoxious spacecraft designer, who gets the chance to make his dream come true and travel to Mars as a member of the first manned flight there.
Style:
humorous, inspirational, entertaining, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
mars, nasa, chimpanzee, stupidity, farce, astronaut, clumsiness, fish out of water, space shuttle, adaptation, heroic mission, danger ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
29%
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%
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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:
28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three women makes an emergency landing on a planet plagued with a fatal disease, but are captured by dictator Overdog. Adventurer Wolff goes there to rescue them and meets Niki, the only Earthling left from a medical expedition. Combining their ...
Style:
intense, semi serious, suspenseful, stylized, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, family outing, teens
Plot:
space opera, space travel, survival, dystopian future, space and aliens, post apocalypse, danger, maze, daring rescue, rescue, heroic mission, woman in danger ...
Time:
year 1983, future, 80s
Place:
space western
Similarity:
28%
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:
28%
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union, USA
Duration: 74 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:
space and aliens, dinosaur, space opera, space exploration, kaiju, monster, asteroid, venus the planet, outer space, astronaut, pterodactyl, giant monster ...
Time:
prehistoric times, future, prehistory, 2000s, 2020s ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
28%
135K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Carmen and Juni think their parents are boring. Little do they know that in their day, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez were the top secret agents from their respective countries. They gave up that life to raise their children. Now, the disappearances of ...
Style:
intense, teen, light, action adventure, spoof ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
young heroes, spy, children, heroic mission, child spy, violence, chase, secret agent, spy spoof, fight scenes, mentor, kidnapping ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
texas, chile, north america
Similarity:
28%
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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:
14%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Don Knotts is Roy Fleming, a small town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is ...
Style:
semi serious, offbeat, humorous, sitcom, slapstick ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
nasa, space travel, astronaut, space exploration, space, underdog, spacesuit, spaceship, outer space, amusement park, world war one, friendship ...
Time:
year 1967, 80s, 60s, future
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food on the lifeless planet.
Style:
exciting, apocalyptic, serious, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night, family outing, kids
Plot:
mars, stranded, monkey, desert, survival, planet, human alien relationship, astronaut, alien, space, monster, distopia ...
Time:
future, 80s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A strange signal arrives on the Earth disturbing all communications, while an UFO appears above the Antarctic sea. Captain Alex Hamilton is sent with his spaceship and crew to the space outside the Solar System to find the origin of that signal. ...
Style:
mysterious, bleak, offbeat, semi serious, ambiguous ending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
spacewalk, outer space, alien, alien invasion, space opera, star wars, giant monster, kaiju, new year's eve, dystopia, satellite, spacecraft ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A groups of astronauts crash-land on Venus and find themselves on the wrong side of a group of Venusian women when they kill a monster that is worshipped by them.
Style:
psychedelic, independent film, exciting, serious, psychotronic
Plot:
space opera, dinosaur, matriarchy, kaiju, spacesuit, venus the planet, lava, sword and sorcery, sorcery, occult, monster, exploitation ...
Time:
stone age, future, 1930s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy business as Level 2 OSS agents. Their new mission is to save the world from a mad scientist living on a volcanic island populated by an imaginative ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, parody, spoof, surreal ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, family friendly, teens ...
Plot:
fantasy world, children, child spy, mad scientist, secret agent, heroes, rivalry, monster, spy spoof, telepathy, villain, animal ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002
Similarity:
26%
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:
26%
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