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The X from Outer Space (1967)
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Original name: 宇宙大怪獣ギララ
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with unusual spores. Taking one of the specimens back to earth, it soon develops and grows into a giant chicken-lizard-alien monster that tramples Japan.
Style:
daikaiju, retro, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast ...
Plot:
kaiju, giant monster, monster, ufo, mars, alien invasion, spacesuit, love triangle, nuclear power plant, plumber, food poisoning, dinosaur, alien, spaceship, moon base, rescue, chase, alien monster, survival, airplane, mutant, heroes, supernatural, spacecraft, space and aliens ...
Time:
60s
Place:
japan
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Most similar movies to The X from Outer Space
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, natural horror and daikaiju films with plots about danger, supernatural, escapades, heroes, monster, deadly creature and giant monster mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Adventure genres. Some movies like The X from Outer Space: Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967), Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion (1996), War of the Monsters (1966), Gappa the Triphibian Monsters (1967), Rebirth of Mothra (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Earthquakes in central Korea turn out to be the work of Yongary, a prehistoric gasoline-eating reptile that soon goes on a rampage through Seoul.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, scary, classic horror ...
Plot:
giant monster, kaiju, chaos, mutant, monster, friendship, danger, deadly creature, on the run, heroes, forces of nature, reptile ...
Time:
prehistory
Place:
korea, asia, seoul
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A strange meteor lands in Japan unleashing hundreds of insect-like "legion" creatures which find their way into Tokyo. When the military fails to control the situation, Gamera shows up to deal with the ever-evolving space adversary.
Style:
daikaiju, natural horror, hilarious, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
kaiju, giant monster, gamera, monster, godzilla, creature feature, reptiles, dinosaur, underground, killer animal, giant animal, giant insect ...
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After a treacherous expedition to retrieve a giant opal, disaster strikes as the opal reveals itself to be an egg which spawns Barugon, demon dog from Hell! Armed with a deadly tongue and cold beams, Barugon wreaks havoc on Japan. Gamera comes to ...
Style:
daikaiju, suspense, natural horror, grindhouse, classic horror ...
Plot:
kaiju, giant monster, monster, gamera, mutant, prehistoric creature, dinosaur, killer animal, reptiles, mothra, dam, quicksand ...
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the ...
Style:
psychotronic, grindhouse, daikaiju, retro, classic horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
giant monster, kaiju, dinosaur, island, deadly creature, creature feature, ship, earthquake, tropical island, photographer, killer animal, creature ...
Time:
prehistory
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A new Mothra takes to the air and must battle Death Ghidora to save humanity.
Style:
daikaiju, exciting, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
giant monster, kaiju, mothra, monster, good versus evil, prehistoric creature, youth, alien invasion, giant creature, reptiles, dinosaur, giant animal ...
Time:
90s, 60s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A Native American owner of a kitschy roadside museum accidentally brings to life three dinosaur fossils. Now really annoyed, the giant dinos wreak havoc on the small town and the local university.
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, scary, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
dinosaur, survival, deadly creature, chaos and mayhem, escapades, heroic mission, save the day, small town, danger, giant monster, monster, chaos ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Project Viper is a 2002 movie starring Patrick Muldoon, Theresa Russell, Curtis Armstrong, Tamara Davies. The movie was directed by Jim Wynorski under the pseudonym "Jay Andrews." When a terrifying, bioengineered lifeform is stolen from ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, fast
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
experiment gone awry, supernatural, government agency, deadly creature, save the world, survival, chaos, race against time, danger, heroic mission, special agent, chase ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A hibernating species of giant carnivorous bird is awakened on a Japanese island shortly after the Japanese military encounters an unidentified mass moving beneath the water off-shore.
Style:
daikaiju, natural horror, semi serious, suspenseful, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, boys' night
Plot:
kaiju, giant bird, giant monster, space and aliens, gamera, godzilla, monster, creature feature, plutonium, killer animal, dinosaur, underground ...
Time:
prehistory
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves ...
Style:
daikaiju, political thriller, natural horror, cult classic, serious ...
Plot:
kaiju, monster, godzilla, giant monster, disaster, giant animal, island, monster terrorizes city, dinosaur, mutant, scientist, undead ...
Time:
jurassic, year 1985, 80s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
51%
702
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Alien seeds hitch a ride to earth in a space shuttle crew and begin to grow. When their numbers reach the Threshold amount they will be an unstoppable swarm.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
heroic mission, save the world, supernatural, race against time, danger, dangerous animal, chaos, space travel, alien encounter, disaster, monster, evil alien ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's action-adventure classic, four plane crash survivors encounter danger in a world that time forgot.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, mockbuster ...
Plot:
lost world, giant ape, parallel world, save the world, obsessive quest, adventurer, danger, supernatural, giant monster, kaiju, creature, monkey ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Godzilla saves Tokyo from a flying saucer that transforms into the beast Orga.
Style:
exciting, stylized, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids
Plot:
godzilla, kaiju, monster, giant monster, skyscraper, transformation, technology, fight scenes, redemption, danger, island, deadly creature ...
Time:
2000s, jurassic, future, 80s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Russia, Armenia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A dormant volcano deep with the Turkish forest holds within it a deadly secret. Perfectly preserved, a nest of pterodactyl eggs are ready to hatch...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, perverse, suspense, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dangerous animal, pterodactyl, experiment gone awry, dinosaur, deadly creature, expedition, paleontologist, creature feature, heroic mission, save the day, save the world, race against time ...
Time:
prehistoric times, jurassic
Place:
armenia, turkey
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Mothra's twin nymphs and children from the city find a lost city, as well as a giant monster that is attracted to environmental calamities.
Style:
daikaiju, serious, suspenseful, stylized, offbeat ...
Plot:
kaiju, giant monster, mothra, monster, sea monster, giant animal, reptiles, alien invasion, youth, dragon, prehistoric creature, dinosaur ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Aliens kidnap two children and take them to another planet for the purpose of getting knowledge from their brains, but Gamera follows and tries to rescue them.
Style:
psychotronic, suspense, natural horror, cult classic, classic horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kaiju, gamera, monster, giant monster, deadly creature, mutant, evil alien, boy, brother sister relationship, outer space, monster versus monster, alien ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alien Siege is a 2005 Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie about an alien race that comes to Earth seeking a cure to a deadly virus, for which the antidote is human blood.
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, exciting, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
evil alien, deadly creature, heroic mission, rescue, save the world, danger, space and aliens, alien invasion, space, violent content, heroes, chaos ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Cancer-terminal tycoon Peter Murdoch's secret Wexel Hall Pharmaceuticals lab has developed a blood orchid extract cure. To examine why it works optimally in snakes, they also bread a super-anaconda strain. But the original pair escapes, leaving ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, saga ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
snake, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, giant snake, monster, reptile, danger, plague, heroic mission, killer animal, creature, human versus animal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Toru Aizawa, a 11 year old boy suddenly finds a tiny egg on a red mysterious stone. the egg hatches and comes out an abnormal little turtle (Toto) which not only grows rapidly, but also flies in the air and even blows fireballs. At the meantime, a ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, entertaining, scenic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
giant monster, kaiju, giant bird, gamera, turtle, save the day, dangerous animal, legends and myths, supernatural, danger, rivalry, escapades ...
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A team of scientists working on a remote dig site find the buried body of an enormous monster, perfectly preserved even after 200 million years. As soon as the beast is uncovered, however, an alien spacecraft suddenly appears above them and brings ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
giant monster, dinosaur, alien invasion, ancient mystery, evil alien, kaiju, satellite, reincarnation, chaos, escapades, deadly creature, space and aliens ...
Time:
prehistory
Place:
asia
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A giant creature attacks Japan during the World Fair and it's up to Gamera to stop it. But the monster injects Gamera with its offspring and a research team must take a craft into Gamera's body to eliminate the parasite.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, daikaiju ...
Plot:
monster, kaiju, giant monster, gamera, turtle, mutant, save the world, heroic mission, battles, chaos, good versus evil, superhero ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the 6th Godzilla movie, mysterious aliens from the Planet X ask earth's people to help them save their world from the dreaded Ghidorah (aka "Monster Zero") by letting them "borrow" Godzilla and Rodan. Monster mayhem ...
Style:
grindhouse, daikaiju, natural horror, classic horror, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kaiju, giant monster, godzilla, alien invasion, monster, ufo, alien, impossible love, crossover, evil alien, creature, giant animal ...
Time:
jurassic, 60s, prehistoric times
Place:
japan, tokyo, usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A group of aliens from another planet head for Earth with the intentions of conquering it. Their first ship is destroyed in transit by the giant flying turtle Gamera. A second ship makes it to Earth and captures two Boy Scouts and holds them captive ...
Style:
daikaiju, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, natural horror ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
kaiju, giant monster, gamera, monster, turtle, deadly creature, prehistoric creature, reptiles, dinosaur, killer animal, boy scout, alien ...
Time:
prehistory
Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
To save the world, Mothra goes back in time in an attempt to defeat a younger King Ghidorah.
Style:
daikaiju, exciting, offbeat, serious, psychotronic
Plot:
giant monster, kaiju, time travel, monster, mothra, creature, space and aliens, dinosaur, reptiles, bird attack, prehistoric creature, youth ...
Time:
prehistory, 90s
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
This final installment of the recent Gamera trilogy begins with schoolgirl Ayana discovering a large egg in a cave that, according to legend, houses demons. The egg hatches into a small monster, which Ayana decides to raise and quickly develops a ...
Style:
daikaiju, natural horror, cult classic, compassionate, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
kaiju, giant bird, gamera, monster, giant monster, godzilla, superhero, creature feature, giant animal, superhuman powers, exploitation, prehistoric creature ...
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Japan, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A giant asteroid is heading toward Earth so some astronauts disembark from a nearby space station to blow it up. The mission is successful, and they return to the station unknowingly bringing back a gooey green substance that mutates into one-eyed ...
Style:
grindhouse, retro, psychotronic, cult horror, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
sexy girls, space, alien, giant monster, monster, spacesuit, creature, darkness, killer animal, fantasy world, space adventure, asteroid ...
Time:
60s, 1930s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Forty-two years after her first visit in Tokyo, Mothra returns to warn mankind that they must return Mechagodzilla, along with Godzilla's bones, to the sea, for the dead must not be disturbed. If not, dire consequences will follow. However, ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
godzilla, kaiju, giant monster, save the world, deadly creature, danger, survival, chaos, heroes, battles, good versus evil, escapades ...
Time:
jurassic, 2000s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's 2 A.M. in St. Louis when a routine scientific experiment goes terribly wrong and an explosion shakes the city. A scientific team investigates, clashing with an intergalactic, voltage-devouring creature that vaporizes them.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
creature, disaster, scientist, danger, experiment gone awry, chaos, deadly creature, survival, escapades, heroic mission, bomber, apocalypse ...
Time:
future
Place:
missouri, washington d.c., st. louis missouri
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A journalist named Lee Custler (William Katt) is out jogging when a flying object passes behind him and crashes. Sheriff Joel Armstrong (Collin Brock) picks him up and they go to check it out. They find an abandoned caravan close to where the object ...
Style:
mockbuster, semi serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
alien, imaginary, danger, supernatural, rivalry, escapades, deadly creature, space and aliens, chaos, heroes, chases and races, alien encounter ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, Australia, China, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Evil Space Aliens called the Xilians unleashes all the Earth's monsters to lay waste to most of the world's major cities, including Tokyo, New York, Sydney, Shanghai and Paris. It is up to Godzilla and the Earth Defense Force to vanquish ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, psychotronic, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
godzilla, kaiju, evil alien, chaos, danger, battles, survival, demolished city, dangerous animal, deadly creature, chaos and mayhem, chases and races ...
Time:
jurassic, 60s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1964 ...
Place:
new york, japan, tokyo, usa, vancouver ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On a hot summer afternoon in the sleepy town of Blackwater Louisiana, a meteor streaks across the sky and crashes through the roof of the local Natural History Museum. The meteor is actually a spaceship containing an alien life form which animates ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, natural horror, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
museum, supernatural, alien encounter, race against time, rescue, escapades, survival, dangerous animal, danger, heroic mission, monster, creature ...
Time:
prehistoric times, prehistory, 21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
34%
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