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The Reluctant Astronaut (1967)
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The Reluctant Astronaut (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Don Knotts is Roy Fleming, a small town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When NASA decides to launch a lay person into space to prove the worthiness of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his fears.
Style: offbeat, humorous, sitcom, semi serious, slapstick, psychotronic, exciting, clever, sweet, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: nasa, space travel, astronaut, space exploration, space, underdog, spacesuit, spaceship, outer space, amusement park, ghost, world war one, heroes, friendship, space and aliens, space wars, save the world, self discovery, rivalry, danger, down on your luck, small town, nothing goes right, mistaken identity, disorder ...
Time: year 1967, future, 80s, 60s, 1960s
Place: san francisco
Keyword: americana, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, offbeat and feel good films with plots about disorder, heroes, danger, escapades, space and aliens, outer space and rivalry mostly in Comedy, Sci-Fi and Family genres. Some movies like The Reluctant Astronaut: RocketMan (1997), Moon Pilot (1962), Can of Worms (1999), SpaceCamp (1986), The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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RocketMan (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fred Z. Randall is geeky and obnoxious spacecraft designer, who gets the chance to make his dream come true and travel to Mars as a member of the first manned flight there.
Style: humorous, entertaining, inspirational, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing
Plot: mars, nasa, farce, space travel, space, adaptation, heroic mission, escapades, danger, comedy of errors, goofy hero, race against time ...
Time: 90s
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95%
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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
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77%
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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 ⇓
53%
 5.7
 16K
SpaceCamp (1986)
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: intense, melancholic, entertaining, semi serious, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, boys' night, pre-teens
Plot: space shuttle, space travel, nasa, astronaut, space, space program, survival, trapped in space, childhood, space opera, coming of age, life philosophy ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 60s
Place: alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The fate of the planet in the hands of Larry, Moe and Curly Joe? That's exactly the situation the trio finds themselves in when they befriend a wacky scientist and must defend his secret invention from a pair of malevolent Martians. Sight gags, ...
Style: slapstick, humorous, psychotronic, black and white, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, three stooges, space, alien invasion, disorder, spacecraft, heroes, evil alien, fugitives, espionage, goofy hero, danger ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Spaced Invaders (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A crew of Martians overhears a radio broadcast of Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" coming from Earth, and, thinking the Martian fleet is attacking Earth, they land their broken-down ship in a backwater mid-American town. As luck ...
Style: cult classic, humorous, grindhouse, dark, independent film ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: halloween, alien invasion, space, martian, monster, mars, evil alien, small town, misunderstanding, ufo, visitor, post apocalyptic ...
Time: 20th century
Place: usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 ⇓
48%
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Remote (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When Randy (Chris Carrara), is forced to stash his remote control toys in a model home, he stumbles across the hideout of three prison escapees. With the use of his remote control toys, Randy manages to apprehend the three fugitives.
Style: semi serious, humorous
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: youth, when the parents are away, prodigy, family relations, fugitive, disorder, inventions and discoveries, cons and scams, teenage life, isolation, friendship, heist ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, travelling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with pretty ...
Style: arthurian, semi serious, feel good, humorous, psychotronic
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: time travel, king arthur, astronaut, nasa, medieval, fish out of water, arthurian legend, jousting, camelot, yankee, astronomy, space adventure ...
Time: middle ages, year 1979, 6th century, medieval times
Place: england, cornwall, usa, europe, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Luther Heggs aspires to being a reporter for his small town newspaper. He gets his big break when the editor asks him to spend the night at the Simmons mansion that, 20 years before, was the site of a now famous murder-suicide. Luther's account ...
Style: hilarious, funny, scary, spooky, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: haunted house, courtroom, murder mystery, ghost, small town, murder, haunted, court, reporter, courtroom drama, halloween, lawyer ...
Time: year 1966, 20th century, 60s
Place: kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Son of Flubber (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Medfield's lovable but hopelessly absent-minded professor -- Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray) -- bounces back in this classic Disney film with hilarious new mishaps when he experiments with the amazing by-products of his startling anti-gravity ...
Style: melancholic, intense, not serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: mad scientist, american football, college, inventor, experiment gone awry, family life, inventions and discoveries, goofy hero, disorder, fish out of water, child as adult, nothing goes right ...
Time: 60s, year 1963
Place: pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young man invents a robot dog that has super strength, x-ray vision and can detect crimes being committed. A greedy businessman tries to steal the boy's invention from him.
Style: independent film, semi serious, exciting, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: dog, robot, families, invention, strength, hitman, disorder, animal life, pets, heroes, imaginary, criminal's revenge ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 3.7
 337
Monster Mutt (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A pair of kids trying to save their beloved pooch from a mad scientist working for a sinister villain whose experiment has transformed their dog into a crazy-eyed muppet monstrosity.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: experiment gone awry, pets, getting home, escapades, siblings relations, disorder, friendship, evil corporation, pet dog, supernatural, dog, danger ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
A Ticket to Space (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Face à l'incompréhension de la population française quant au montant des crédits alloués à la recherche spatiale, le gouvernement lance une vaste opération de communication. En partenariat avec le Centre spatial français, un grand jeu ...
Style: not serious, humorous, parody, offbeat, spoof
Plot: space and aliens, spacecraft, hacker, space travel, danger, disorder, escapades, benign alien, rivalry, lottery, satire, monster ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Muppets from Space (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Gonzo's breakfast cereal tells him that he's the descendant of aliens from another planet, his attempts at extraterrestrial communication get him kidnapped by a secret government agency, prompting the Muppets to spring into action. ...
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, feel good, not serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, adult, preschool
Plot: muppets, space travel, benign alien, space, friendship, unlikely friendships, secrets, mad scientist, puppet, heroic mission, rescue, fish out of water ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
My Favorite Martian (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: My Favorite Martian is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963, to May 1, 1966, for 107 episodes. The show starred Ray Walston as Uncle Martin and Bill Bixby as Tim O'Hara. John L. Greene created the central ...
Style: sitcom, retro, semi serious, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: mars, spaceship, alien, martian, time travel, intergalactic, invasion, alien disguised as human, friendly alien, friendship, fish out of water, reporter ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy duo gets involved in an army supply theft case -- and, of course, gets in lots of comic trouble along ...
Style: funny, humorous, slapstick, family comedy, spoof ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: humour, partner, orphan, goofy hero, heroes, rivalry, gang, going straight, bank, heist, family life, disorder ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 3.6
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Cybermutt (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Rex, a good-natured Golden Retriever, is given bionic super powers by an eccentric scientist, he becomes the target of an evil genius determined to possess the new technology at any cost.
Style: semi serious, humorous
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: disorder, family life, heroic mission, rivalry, escapades, pets, superhuman powers, experiment gone awry, mistaken identity, single parent, imaginary, save the day ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Dog Gone (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A courageous boy battles a gang of bumbling thieves to rescue a dog carrying a fortune in stolen diamonds.
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot: dog, caper, rescue, escapades, crime gone awry, rivalry, disorder, danger, odd couple, nothing goes right, heist, stash ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Mac and Me (1988)
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, sentimental, humorous, cult classic, mockbuster ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: nasa, alien, extraterrestrial, youth, coca cola, mcdonald's restaurant, benign alien, alien invasion, friendship, happy ending, family relations, single parent ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 ⇓
35%
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 ⇓
34%
Fred 3: Camp Fred (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Schools out and Fred Figglehorn's dream of water slides, horseback riding and monkey butlers during the summer turns into a nightmare of gruel and poisonous berries when his mom signs him up to an unsanitary camp.
Style: humorous, not serious, feel good, entertaining, freeze frame ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: summer camp, friendship, teenage life, misfit, goofy hero, rivalry, disorder, contests and competitions, society, escapades, underdog, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Lenny The Wonder Dog (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After being implanted with a microchip that gives him special powers, a dog engages a young boy in conversation and adventure. Befriended by a local police officer, the dog, the boy and his friend go on a quest to save the world by undoing the ...
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: dog, mad scientist, on the run, small town, laboratory, pets, family relations, friendship, save the world, danger, rivalry, friends ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Explorers (1985)
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: light, cult classic, feel good, mindfuck, epic ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: space travel, friendship, space, childhood, bullying, coming of age, ufo, adolescence, fantasy world, children, outer space, teenager ...
Time: future, 80s, year 1985
Place: maryland, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
No Deposit, No Return (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two rich children devise a way to escape their grandfather and visit their mother. Unfortunately for two hapless safe crackers, they become part of the plan.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, slapstick ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, adult
Plot: safecracker, youth, coming of age, family relations, friendship, airport, kidnapping, chase, silly humor, partner, friends, disorder ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 ⇓
33%
Space Buddies (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: B-Dawg, Mudbud, Budderball, and all the rest of the Buddies are back, but this time, they're setting their sights even higher -- as in, the moon! With the help of their new pals Spudnick (voiced by Jason Earles) and Gravity, these pooches are ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating, tense ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, family friendly, preschool
Plot: dog, moon, rescue, partner, space travel, family life, survival, space and aliens, best friend, disorder, danger, buddies ...
Time: 2000s
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Baby Geniuses (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Scientist hold talking, super-intelligent babies captive, but things take a turn for the worse when a mix-up occurs between a baby genius and its twin.
Style: humorous, entertaining, intense, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, teens
Plot: twins, baby, genius, mistaken identity, mad scientist, babies and infants, mischievous children, children, imaginary, prank, scientist, hypnosis ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 ⇓
31%
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