Movies like Message from Space
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Message from Space (1978)
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Original name: 宇宙からのメッセージ
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In this Star Wars take-off, the peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother (played a comic actor in drag) rather than the Emperor. King Kaiba sends out eight Liabe holy seeds, each to be received by a chosen one to defend the Gavanas. Each recipient, ranging from hardened General Garuda to Gavana Prince Hans to young Terrans Meia, Kido, and Aaron all have different reactions to being chosen.
Style:
exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, weird, offbeat
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space, distopia, star wars, creature, exploitation, space adventure, heroes, robot, invasion, warrior, throne, firefly, space battle, samurai, time travel, military, space and aliens, battles, soldier, androids and robots, graphic violence, rescue, escapades, rivalry, society ...
Time:
70s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out futuristic, exciting, cult film and psychotronic films with plots about danger, space, battles, spacecraft, escapades, heroes and space and aliens mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Adventure genres. Some movies like Message from Space: Starcrash (1978), Battlestar Galactica (1978), Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), Time Slip (1979), Space Raiders (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A pair of smugglers manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zartharn. The smugglers are soon ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth. This film is adapted from a television series that aired on ABC from ...
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suspenseful, futuristic, serious, exciting, psychotronic ...
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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.
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teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
space opera, good versus evil, space travel, alien, space adventure, space, death, vengeance, robot, mercenary, spacecraft, space battle ...
Time:
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Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.
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serious, suspenseful, rough, offbeat
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Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter ...
Style:
psychotronic, futuristic, exciting, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest city on record and a clue to ...
Style:
light, stylized, futuristic, bleak, serious ...
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teens, boys' night
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Time:
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59%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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56%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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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:
bleak, semi serious, psychotronic, ambiguous ending, offbeat
Audience:
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Plot:
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53%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyrant, Ming the Merciless, to save Earth.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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49%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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Story:
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Place:
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41%
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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