Movies like Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
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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 a mysterious alien presence whose signals are slowly destroying the planet. In a desperate attempt to answer the call of the probe, Kirk and his crew race back to the late twentieth century. However they soon find the world they once knew to be more alien than anything they've encountered in the far reaches of the galaxy!
Style:
futuristic, saga, thought provoking, exciting, clever, humorous, epic, funny, light, mind bending ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
time travel, space travel, star trek, spacecraft, space, alien, environmental, marine biologist, helicopter, planet earth, beer, bus, factory, pizza, antique shop, punk music, superhero, time, space opera, culture clash, time traveler, save the world, teleportation, space exploration, evil alien ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1986, 23rd century
Place:
san francisco, usa, california, united states of america
Most similar movies to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out cult film, futuristic, exciting and psychotronic films with plots about alien, space, heroic mission, space and aliens, time travel, chase and heroes mostly in Sci-Fi, Adventure and Action genres. Some movies like Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: Star Trek (1966), Star Trek (2009), Galaxy Quest (1999), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), My Science Project (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk with First Officer Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. With a determined crew, the ...
Style:
exciting, futuristic, intellectual, epic, political ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
star trek, space travel, heroic mission, space and aliens, space, spacecraft, benign alien, friendship, alien planet, alien species, space exploration, scientist ...
Time:
23rd century, future
Place:
arizona
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100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm ...
Style:
futuristic, epic, stylized, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
star trek, alien, time travel, space travel, spacecraft, space, space opera, heroic mission, space and aliens, space wars, teamwork, heroes ...
Time:
future, 23rd century, 24th century
Place:
san francisco, iowa
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100%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis planet to recover Spock's body.
Style:
saga, futuristic, epic, psychotronic, intense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
space, star trek, space travel, space and aliens, alien, planet, murder, sacrifice, warp speed, teleportation, prisoner, fire ...
Time:
future, year 1984, 23rd century
Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Capt. Kirk and his crew must deal with Mr. Spock's half brother who kidnaps three diplomats and hijacks the Enterprise in his obsessive search for God.
Style:
futuristic, exciting, saga, humorous, bad ending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
space travel, star trek, space opera, space, alien, god, teleportation, space exploration, hostage, desert, planet, space adventure ...
Time:
future, 23rd century
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The stars of a 1970s sci-fi show - now scraping a living through re-runs and sci-fi conventions - are beamed aboard an alien spacecraft. Believing the cast's heroic on-screen dramas are historical documents of real-life adventures, the band of ...
Style:
parody, funny, feel good, futuristic, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
alien, space, monster, time travel, actor, mistaken identity, benign alien, alien invasion, satire, sexy woman, shapeshifting, desert ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Admiral James T. Kirk is feeling old; the prospect of accompanying his old ship the Enterprise on a two week cadet cruise is not making him feel any younger. But the training cruise becomes a life or death struggle when Khan escapes from years of ...
Style:
futuristic, saga, epic, exciting, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
alien, revenge, space, self sacrifice, midlife crisis, star trek, planet, death, brainwashing, villain, space station, funeral ...
Time:
future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
On the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor and imprisoned. The Enterprise crew must help them escape to thwart a conspiracy aimed at sabotaging the last best hope for peace.
Style:
futuristic, exciting, saga, epic, intense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
space, star trek, space travel, alien, conspiracy, spacecraft, space opera, assassination, political conspiracy, politics, teleportation, space adventure ...
Time:
future, 23rd century
Place:
san francisco
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43%

Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it.
Style:
epic, futuristic, exciting, talky, saga ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
alien, space, star trek, space opera, space travel, artificial intelligence, space exploration, planet, doctors, space adventure, space station, spacewalk ...
Time:
23rd century, future
Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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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 ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, semi serious, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
time travel, dinosaur, teenager, school, high school, coming of age, technology gone awry, science, mutant, mentor, lone hero, chase ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
california, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, thought provoking, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick
Plot:
space, time travel, space travel, father daughter relationship, nasa, astronaut, distopia, survival, scientist, space station, end of the world, apocalypse ...
Time:
future, near future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been dead for ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, epic, saga, dramatic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
star trek, time travel, space, alien, teleportation, space and aliens, androids, time, death, space opera, sacrifice, space adventure ...
Time:
future, 23rd century, 24th century
Place:
idaho
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from ...
Style:
futuristic, epic, exciting, cerebral, saga ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
time travel, space travel, space, cyborgs, star trek, first contact, alien, robot, sent to the past, apocalypse, experimental technology, technology ...
Time:
future, 24th century, 21st century
Place:
montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When an alien race and factions within Starfleet attempt to take over a planet that has "regenerative" properties, it falls upon Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise to defend the planet's people as well as the very ideals ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, epic, saga, visually appealing ...
Plot:
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Time:
future, 24th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Medieval crusaders from the 13th century are captured by aliens. However, this can not stop them to conquer the Holy Land.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, psychotronic, offbeat
Plot:
space and aliens, medieval, alien, ancient, space travel, spacecraft, evil alien, space marine, crusade, rescue, rivalry, changing the past or future ...
Time:
middle ages, 14th century
Place:
jerusalem, holy land
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

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:
funny, humorous, futuristic, light, road movie ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
alien, distopia, evil alien, kidnapping, space, catastrophe, alone in the world, adaptation, computer game, lone hero, mars, brutality ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan ...
Style:
exciting, intense, serious, epic, saga ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
space, space travel, star trek, space battle, cloning, alien, teleportation, robot, self sacrifice, heroes, heroic mission, rivalry ...
Time:
future, 24th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and ...
Style:
futuristic, entertaining, exciting, humorous, tricky ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, alien, technology, ufo, secret agents, alien invasion, time traveler, hi-tech, changing the past or future, superhero, time machine, alternate timeline ...
Time:
future, jurassic, 20th century, 60s, year 1969 ...
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, florida, coney island brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
Style:
exciting, futuristic, entertaining, epic, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
space travel, archaeology, alien, military, slavery, space opera, teleportation, ancient egypt, pyramid, evil alien, creature, portal ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
egypt, colorado, africa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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, light, humorous, clever ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, date night, adult
Plot:
time travel, time machine, changing the past or future, alternate reality, teenager, sent to the past, inventor, travel, time loop, alternate timeline, time, scientist ...
Time:
future, 50s, year 2015, 2010s, 80s ...
Place:
california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.
Style:
futuristic, entertaining, exciting, light, intense ...
Plot:
star trek, alien, space opera, space travel, alien race, space, good versus evil, alien planet, stranded, space battle, female humanoid alien, self sacrifice ...
Time:
future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent Kay and new recruit Agent Jay find ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, humorous, funny, not serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, teens
Plot:
alien, government agency, secret agents, partners, ufo, space and aliens, superhero, invasion, alien encounter, undercover, save the world, creature ...
Time:
jurassic, 20th century, 90s
Place:
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27%

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, surreal, stylized, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien, time travel, superhero, chase, alien invasion, mad scientist, rescue, interdimensional travel, scientist, space, cult, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
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Place:
new jersey, asia, usa, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 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, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing
Plot:
alien, space, alien contact, battles, space travel, teenager, space opera, space and aliens, heroic mission, childhood, geek, human in outer space ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, future
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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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, stylized, exciting, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
space opera, good versus evil, space travel, alien, space adventure, space, death, vengeance, robot, mercenary, spacecraft, space battle ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to ...
Style:
futuristic, semi serious, exciting, epic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, teens
Plot:
spacecraft, star trek, space travel, space, space and aliens, space wars, mission, self sacrifice, heroic mission, team, alien, teamwork ...
Time:
future, 23rd century
Place:
san francisco, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, 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 ...
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exciting, surreal, stylized, surprise ending, entertaining ...
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27%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
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entertaining, clever, suspenseful, exciting, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, space travel, changing the past or future, space wars, good versus evil, space and aliens, alien, space, parallel universe, heroic mission, save the world, escapades ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 2000s, 1930s, year 1939 ...
Place:
egypt, russia, atlantic ocean, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power ...
Style:
parody, funny, humorous, feel good, absurd ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
space travel, space, space and aliens, alien, space opera, satire, farce, star wars, cult, human in outer space, woman in danger, princess ...
Time:
future, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser.
Style:
futuristic, exciting, humorous, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
superhero, heroes, space opera, space travel, space, monster, escapades, alien, good versus evil, intergalactic, teamwork, creature ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 2014, year 1988, 2010s
Place:
usa, missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%

Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The explorer craft U.S.S. Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the magnificent U.S.S. Cygnus, hovering near a black hole. The ship is controlled ...
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futuristic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
future, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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