Movies like Earthbound

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Earthbound (2012)
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Earthbound (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: At eleven years old Joe Norman is told by his dying father that he is an alien hiding on earth. Joe believes him. He grows up to be a die-hard fan-boy working in a comic shop. When he falls for down-to-earth Maria, a fellow sci-fi fan, he is inspired to lead a more normal social existence. Until intergalactic bounty hunters track Joe down at his new office and the couple soon learn the dangerous truth about who Joe really is.
Style: exciting, humorous, suspenseful, psychotronic, offbeat
Plot: alien, orphan, space and aliens, space travel, alien encounter, chase, chases and races, on the run, benign alien, delusion, psychiatrist, mental illness, extraterrestrial, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, strange behavior, time travel, visitor, comic book, loneliness, hospital, pills, death of father, little boy, medication ...
Place: ireland
Keyword: visit, irish, flat

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Most similar movies to Earthbound

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, offbeat and exciting films with plots about space and aliens, alien encounter, alien, disorder, danger, heroes and escapades mostly in Sci-Fi, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Earthbound: Project: ALF (1996), The Creature Wasn't Nice (1981), Long Story Short (2021), Alien Opponent (2010), Illegal Aliens (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Project: ALF (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Six years ago, the space alien, ALF, was on his way back to his new home...When the Alien Task Force finally caught him. Now, the story continues to where the series ended. ALF is now protected by the Alien Task Force, but the leader wants to ...
Style: humorous, exciting, semi serious
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: benign alien, alien encounter, rescue, chase, space and aliens, chases and races, misfit, on the run, alien life-form, alien, buddies, friendly alien ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Creature Wasn't Nice (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A farce satirizing extraterrestrial horror movies such as Alien.
Style: parody, psychotronic, erotic, spoof, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space, alien, evil alien, alien invasion, extraterrestrial, satire, dystopia, space travel, ufo, monster, creature, planet ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Long Story Short (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Teddy wakes up the morning after his wedding to discover that he's jumped forward a year in his life to his first anniversary. Trapped in an endless cycle of time jumps, transported another year ahead every few minutes, he is faced with a race ...
Style: entertaining, light, humorous, captivating, anamorphic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: time travel, time, time loop, time traveler, husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, time jump, couple relations, relationships, couples, love and romance, male female relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 4.4
 528
Alien Opponent (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The owner of a small-town junkyard offers a cash reward to whomever can kill her uninvited, space-suited alien guest when its spacecraft crash-lands into her barn. Every wacko within 100 miles turns out, and before long, the junkyard is transformed ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Plot: gory, small town, alien encounter, heroes, space and aliens, space travel, battle zone, danger, showdown, human versus robot, fight, robot ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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 2.7
 993
Illegal Aliens (2007)
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, alien encounter, time travel, disorder, androids and robots, heroes, danger, imaginary, deadly creature, misfit ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 5.4
 525
Moon Pilot (1962)
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: space exploration, ufo, monkey, female alien, alien, spacesuit, space, astronomy, moon landing, moon, space wars, space travel ...
Time: 60s
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 5.3
 602
Starcrossed (1985)
Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An alien woman is running from a deadly enemy and tries to hide on Earth where she meets a young mechanic, who helps her to get back home and to fight for the freedom of her people.
Style: sexy, semi serious, exciting, offbeat, suspenseful ...
Plot: alien disguised as human, new world, disguise, erotica, auto mechanic, alien encounter, fish out of water, love affair, disorder, fugitives, space and aliens, misfit ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: The adventures of lesbian space aliens on the planet Earth, and the story of the romance between Jane, a shy greeting card store employee, and Zoinx, the woman Jane does not realize is from outer-space. Meanwhile, two government agents, or 'Men ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, offbeat ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love and romance, silly humor, alien, gays and lesbians, escapades, gender, lgbtq, love, lesbian relationship, alien disguised as human, couple relations, lesbian romance ...
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Proof (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Story: Tim Butler witnesses a UFO crash and his account of the incident divides the community. When an author and UFO expert is called in to investigate, the expert's findings have a profound impact on Tim, his family, and the small Florida town.
Style: psychotronic, humorous, suspenseful, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: alien, ufo, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, alien contact, alien race, obsessive quest, spacecraft, heroes, extraterrestrial, human versus alien, creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Trail of the Screaming Forehead (2007)
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: semi serious, suspenseful, stylized, humorous, creepy ...
Plot: space and aliens, mad scientist, supernatural, save the planet, alien encounter, escapades, danger, heroes, rivalry, disorder, killer, creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Miracle of P. Tinto (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Wafer factory-owner P. Tinto and his wife Olivia want a child of their own more than anything else in the world. Years of trying, however, have left them with nothing but a pair of extraterrestrial midgets living in the spare bedroom. When they ...
Style: manga, semi serious, surreal, offbeat, humorous ...
Plot: time travel, surrealism, orphan, satire, extraterrestrial, family relations, family life, alien encounter, eccentric family, dwarf, factory, adoption
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Supersonic Man (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A masked superhero (Michael Coby) with a private-eye disguise thwarts a madman's (Cameron Mitchell) death-ray plot.
Style: parody, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, suspenseful ...
Plot: alien, ufo, exploitation, monster, private detective, deja vu, superhero spoof, supernatural, escapades, danger, supernatural ability, save the world ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
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, funny, cult classic, romantic comedy, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: alien, spacecraft, disco, dancing, space and aliens, interspecies sex, alien contact, alien invasion, benign alien, space, interspecies romance, dance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Kamen Rider Fourze: Everyone, Space is Here! (2012)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 66 min.
Story: The Earth is threatened by the mysterious Space Ironmen brothers, and the Kamen Rider Club goes to the space to avoid them to be awakened. However, an agent of the Alicia Federation, Inga Blink, tries to stop them. Kamen Rider Forze and Meteor ...
Style: suspense, humorous, exciting, tense, captivating ...
Plot: kamen rider, superhero, superpower, heisei era, protector, space and aliens, good versus evil, evil alien, morphing, death, rescue, alien technology ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Star Quest: The Odyssey (2009)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: At the end of mankind's greatest battle, empires will crumble, alliances will form, enemies will rise and heroes will fall. World's will end, and a new journey will begin.
Style: psychotronic, futuristic, exciting, humorous, suspenseful
Plot: space opera, space wars, time travel, space travel, star trek, teamwork, alternate reality, commander, space station, space mission, spacecraft, intergalactic ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 4.6
 90
Spaced Out (2006)
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, exciting, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: reporter, media, journalism, chaos and mayhem, captivity, abduction, disorder, save the planet, danger, heroes, space and aliens, benign alien ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.4
 322
Doorways (1993)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Doorways is a proposed science fiction series from writer George R. R. Martin. A pilot was shot in May 1992, starring George Newbern, Anne Le Guernec, Robert Knepper, Kurtwood Smith, Max Grodenchik and Carrie-Anne Moss,[1] but was not picked up, and ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Plot: parallel world, time travel, parallel universe, hospital, special agent, space and aliens, chases and races, benign alien, mysterious character, chase, fbi, fbi agent ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 4.8
 1K
Can of Worms (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teen is visited by aliens after he broadcasts a message into space.
Style: semi serious, exciting, offbeat, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: space and aliens, youth, friendly alien, space opera, benign alien, cooking and food, halloween, alien, haunted, buddies, preteen, extraterrestrial ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Evil Alien Conquerors (2003)
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, funny, entertaining, slapstick
Audience: teens
Plot: alien, space and aliens, escapades, rivalry, danger, race against time, disorder, evil alien, sword, invasion, satire, space ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962)
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, 666, killer animal, ufo, creature feature, occult, soldier, outer space, silly humor, disorder, spacecraft, battles ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Man Who Wasn't There (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A minor diplomatic functionary stumbles upon a formula for invisibility.
Style: slapstick, suspenseful, offbeat, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: invisible man, invisibility, nudity, spy, invisible, peeping tom, female nudity, sex scene, wedding dress, public nudity, experiment gone awry, life turned upside down ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.7
 330
The Monitors (1969)
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, dystopia, ufo, propaganda, rebellion, disorder, state affairs, mad scientist, rescue ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Morons from Outer Space (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period of their stay at the station, the other three begin playing with ...
Style: cult classic, humorous, spoof, mysterious, semi serious ...
Plot: alien, space, ufo, invasion, british army, partner, deadly creature, space and aliens, journalism, save the world, rescue, benign alien ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: england, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Don't Ask Don't Tell (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Hilarious re-dubbed sci-fi spoof features "fabulous" aliens "turning" the military gay with their space beam! "A Zany Comedy!" says The New York Times.
Style: parody, humorous, not serious, offbeat, spoof
Plot: silly humor, cons and scams, lgbt, disorder, alien encounter, small town, space and aliens, gays and lesbians, mad scientist, gender, gay interest, gay
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.3
 45K
A.R.O.G (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Turkey
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Commander Logar fools Arif and sends him 1.000.000 years back in the time. He must civilize people from past to reach today.
Style: parody, not serious, humorous, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: time travel, heroes, daring rescue, save the day, fish out of water, rivalry, misfit, escapades, vengeance, imaginary, master villain, danger ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Alien: Reign of Man (2017)
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Stranded on a distant planet, a team must fight aliens and activate a machine meant to restore Earth to a time before its downfall.
Style: bleak, tense, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: space, fight, cosmonaut, planet, alien contact, astronaut, alien creature, extraterrestrial, alien planet, human in outer space, alien encounter, space and aliens ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.
Style: cult classic, black comedy, satirical, independent film, allegory ...
Plot: alien, alien invasion, extraterrestrial, blaxploitation, drug abuse, urban, black, friendly alien, mind power, invasion, ufo, drug ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Martians, upset that their children have become obsessed with TV shows from Earth which extol the virtues of Santa Claus, start an expedition to Earth to kidnap the one and only Santa. While on Earth, they kidnap two lively children that lead the ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, christmas horror, psychotronic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, martian, alien invasion, robot, mars, kidnapping, santa claus, children, alien encounter, space travel, spaceship, brother sister relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Man from the Future (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Zero (Wagner Moura) is a brilliant scientist, but unfortunate because 20 years ago was publicly humiliated and lost in college Helena (Alinne Moraes) the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions makes him travel ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, apocalyptic, feel good
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, existence paradox, scientist, disorder, inventions and discoveries, destiny, hopes, love and romance, sent to the past, time warp, time, butterfly effect ...
Time: 2010s, 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Aliens in the Attic (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A group of kids must protect their vacation home from invading aliens.
Style: entertaining, semi serious, humorous, teen, funny ...
Audience: teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: alien, supernatural, teenager, buddies, space and aliens, friends, young heroes, youth, alien encounter, group of friends, teenage life, mind control ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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