Movies like Star Kid
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Star Kid (1997)
3K
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, stylized, semi serious, epic, independent film, offbeat, light, sexy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
space and aliens, androids and robots, superhero, robot, brutality, fantasy world, alien, escapades, good versus evil, youth, revenge, alien invasion, dysfunctional family, comic book, artificial intelligence, child hero, teacher student relationship, avenger, villain, space opera, super soldier, visitor, buddies, space, superpower ...
Time:
future, 80s
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Most similar movies to Star Kid
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, exciting and entertaining films with plots about heroes, escapades, family, imaginary, danger, good versus evil and rivalry mostly in Sci-Fi, Adventure and Family genres. Some movies like Star Kid: The Last Starfighter (1984), Flight of the Navigator (1986), Earth to Echo (2014), Explorers (1985), SpaceCamp (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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%
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: 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%
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%
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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. ...
Style:
entertaining, melancholic, semi serious, inspirational, action adventure ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, boys' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
nasa, space shuttle, space travel, trapped in space, astronaut, summer camp, space program, teenage girl, childhood, photographic memory, space opera, coming of age ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 60s, future
Place:
alabama, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, New Zealand, Mexico, Malaysia, Chile, Indonesia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A team of teenagers with attitude are recruited to save Angel Grove from the evil witch, Rita Repulsa, and later, Lord Zedd, Emperor of all he sees, and their horde of monsters.
Style:
super sentai, semi serious, humorous, saga, retro ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, toddlers
Plot:
power rangers, teenager, martial arts, young heroes, superhero, teenage superhero, evil alien, good versus evil, superhero team, heroic mission, danger, youth ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
2K
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Robo is an amazing story of friendship between a boy and a robot. Where a whole new world opens up for both of them. The boy learns to be strong and courageous, and the robot, initially devoid of feelings, begins to empathize and experience real ...
Style:
futuristic, computer animated, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
parents, robot, artificial intelligence, children, superhuman powers, longing, mission, technology, hi-tech, superhero, escapades, lie ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Gerry Anderson & Christopher Burr's Terrahawks, simply referred to as Terrahawks, was a 1980s British science fiction television series produced by Anderson Burr Pictures and created by the production team of Gerry Anderson and Christopher ...
Style:
sitcom, offbeat, futuristic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing
Plot:
aviation, space opera, puppet, robot, supermarionation, distopia, martian, good versus evil, chaos, space travel, space wars, heroic mission ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
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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:
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:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Straight from the pages of a pulp comic from a past era, the Rocketeer recreates 1930s Hollywood, complete with gangsters, Nazi spies, and the growth of the Age of Aviation. Young pilot Cliff Secord stumbles on a top secret rocket-pack and with the ...
Style:
dieselpunk, exciting, entertaining, melancholic, light ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, teens
Plot:
superhero, treasure hunt, good versus evil, aviation, comic book, biplane, betrayal, adaptation, steampunk, world war two, villain, gangster ...
Time:
1930s, year 1991, future, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Japan, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.
Style:
parody, semi serious, humorous, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
dinosaur, monster, plumber, computer game, transformation, brothers, fantasy world, true love, rescue, heroes, good versus evil, heroic mission ...
Time:
90s, future, 80s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
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:
46%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
Ben tenison is back in this all new Comedy Central, Movie, Based on the current Alien Force story. Alien swarm picks up with Ben 10 as a full fledged plumber but he's about to leave the ranks to do what he believes is right.
Style:
exciting, serious, captivating, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience:
pre-teens, kids
Plot:
good versus evil, ben 10, space and aliens, heroes, heroic mission, young heroes, save the world, youth, danger, rivalry, imaginary, master villain ...
Similarity:
46%
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:
46%
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:
45%
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:
45%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Everyone always knew that Max had a wild imagination, but no one believed that his wildest creations -- a boy raised by watchful great white sharks and a girl with the force of a volcano -- were real. Now, these two pint-sized action masters will ...
Style:
surreal, feel good, entertaining, absurd, enigmatic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
fantasy becomes reality, shark, fantasy world, child protagonist, imaginary kingdom, heroes, imaginary friend, imaginary, superhero, coming of age, escapades, young heroes ...
Time:
2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
44%
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:
cult classic, futuristic, independent film, humorous, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
space battle, space opera, spaceship, mercenary, space travel, female warrior, mad scientist, vengeance, tyrant, psychic, space station, spacecraft ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, future
Place:
space western, california
Similarity:
44%
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:
44%
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:
44%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In this sequal to "Escape From Witch Mountain," Tia and Tony leave their safe refuge on witch mountain for a trip to Los Angeles. Tony is kidnapped by the evil Dr. Gannon and his spinster partner Letha and brainwashed into helping Gannon ...
Style:
saga, humorous, epic, gothic, cult classic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
kidnapping, boy, gang, mad scientist, spaceship, child abuse, brother sister relationship, greed, witch, supernatural, alien, psionic power ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
43%
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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:
43%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Fantastic Four is an unreleased low-budget feature film completed in 1994. Created to secure copyright to the property, the producers never intended it for release although the director, actors, and other participants were not informed of this ...
Style:
saga, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, fast ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, boys' night
Plot:
superhero, comic book, flying, experiment gone awry, blind girl, multiverse, villain, pyrokinesis, superheroine, mutation, transformation, good versus evil ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Power up with six incredible teens who out-maneuver and defeat evil everywhere as the Mighty Morphin Power Ranger, But this time the Power Rangers may have met their match, when they face off with the most sinister monster the galaxy has ever seen.
Style:
futuristic, stylized, cult classic, absurd, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
power rangers, female warrior, childhood, ninja, martial arts, good versus evil, kaiju, vengeance, violence, zombie, villain, teamwork ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995, prehistory, prehistoric times
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Emperor Spengo sees Marge Nelson and using a giant magnet, kidnaps her and her husband Dick, hoping to make Marge his before blowing up the Earth. The Emperor and other inhabitants of his planet are somewhat less than bright, and Dick begins ...
Style:
sexy, humorous, grindhouse, funny, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, teens, family outing
Plot:
friendly alien, evil alien, alien abduction, space, kidnapping, alien planet, insanity, superhero, apocalypse, epidemic, abduction, buddies ...
Time:
year 1992, 80s
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
43%
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:
42%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
John Brown is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion planned by an evil mastermind. He is taken to a laboratory, where Brenda, a leading robotics surgeon, replaces his damaged limbs with state-of-the-art ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, feel good, detective, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
good versus evil, rescue, robot, superhuman powers, escapades, police detective, fighting crime, imaginary, master villain, goofy hero, secret identity, danger ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
pittsburgh
Similarity:
42%
307K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
For centuries, a small but powerful force of warriors called the Green Lantern Corps has sworn to keep intergalactic order. Each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the ...
Style:
entertaining, stylized, suspenseful, exciting, saga ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
superhero, superhuman powers, alien, super powers, alien invasion, superpower, fantasy world, good versus evil, transformation, humanoid, alien planet, vigilante ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, year 1993, year 1991, 90s ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
42%
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