Movies like Space Raiders

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Space Raiders (1983)
 4.5
 2K
Space Raiders (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew of space pirates.
Style: futuristic, independent film, exciting, stylized, semi serious, cult film
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: pirate, space pirate, evil alien, star wars, space opera, spacecraft, apocalypse, space and aliens, space wars, imaginary, alien, space, monster, exploitation, space adventure, space travel, child kidnapping, kidnapping, battles, androids and robots, escapades, rivalry, danger, child in peril, robot ...
Time: future, year 1983

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Most similar movies to Space Raiders

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, futuristic, suspenseful and serious films with plots about space and aliens, outer space, space travel, escapades, space opera, space and danger mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Adventure genres. Some movies like Space Raiders: Wing Commander (1999), Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), The Ice Pirates (1984), Battlestar Galactica (1978), Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 4.3
 17K
Wing Commander (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Hollywood version of the popular video game series "Wing Commander". Unlike other video games to feature film transitions, series creator Chris Roberts was heavily involved in the film's creation. This is the story of Christopher ...
Style: exciting, uplifting, disgusting, action adventure, fast ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space opera, space wars, space and aliens, space, spacecraft, space travel, heroic mission, outer space, save the world, danger, video game, alien encounter ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1998
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100%
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
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, independent film, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: good versus evil, space opera, space travel, spaceship, alien, space battle, female warrior, vengeance, cowboy, planet, robot, space ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Ice Pirates (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The time is the distant future, where by far the most precious commodity in the galaxy is water. The last surviving water planet was somehow removed to the unreachable centre of the galaxy at the end of the galactic trade wars. The galaxy is ruled ...
Style: futuristic, parody, humorous, fantasy adventure, grindhouse ...
Audience: family friendly, boys' night, family outing, teens
Plot: space travel, pirate, space, castration, robot, time dilation, treasure hunt, desert, apocalypse, ice, distopia, sword fight ...
Time: future
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
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 ...
Style: suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids
Plot: space battle, androids and robots, military, space, space opera, survival, save the world, battlestar galactica, man versus machine, rescue, danger, good versus evil ...
Time: future, year 1978
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three women makes an emergency landing on a planet plagued with a fatal disease, but are captured by dictator Overdog. Adventurer Wolff goes there to rescue them and meets Niki, the only Earthling left from a medical expedition. Combining their ...
Style: grindhouse, intense, semi serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, family outing, teens
Plot: space opera, space travel, survival, dystopian future, monster, post apocalypse, space and aliens, danger, maze, daring rescue, rescue, woman in danger ...
Time: year 1983
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
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, saga, uplifting, cult classic, futuristic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space adventure, space opera, time travel, astronaut, alien invasion, space, space travel, superhero, intergalactic, cosmic horror, distopia, women ...
Time: year 1979, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Susan Ivanova discovers a derelict spaceship in hyperspace. They tow it back to Babylon 5, then strange things start happening. People are being telepathically taken over by aliens from another (third)space.
Style: exciting, futuristic, christian film, intellectual, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space and aliens, space opera, space, space travel, space program, parallel universe, military, alien, intergalactic, dystopia, star wars, future war ...
Time: future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Last Starfighter (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 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, entertaining, light, semi serious, mindfuck ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: alien contact, alien, space travel, space opera, space, teenager, outer space, battles, space and aliens, heroic mission, childhood, good versus evil ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 90s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, spacecraft, outer space, space battle, self sacrifice, escapades, heroic mission, space and aliens, danger, save the world, heroes, siege ...
Time: future, 2010s, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A seeker named Dogen rescues Dhyana after her father is murdered by the evil Jared-Syn. To avenge her father's death, Dogen must find Jared-Syn's hideout in the mysterious "Lost City", but the only person who knows where it is an ...
Style: futuristic, fantasy adventure, apocalyptic, independent film, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, space, post apocalypse, monster, post apocalyptic, desert, star wars, truck, distopia, space adventure, giant monster, planet ...
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
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, action adventure, epic ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: space travel, outer space, star trek, spacecraft, space and aliens, space wars, self sacrifice, heroic mission, space opera, space, characters in danger, mission ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, 23rd century
Place: san francisco, seattle, bay area, london, space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.6
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Precious Find (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The year is 2049. 200 years after the great Californian goldrush. The new generation of gold diggers are just as full of gold fever as their ancestors.
Style: exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot: space travel, moon, misfit, danger, partner, space and aliens, rivalry, chases and races, disorder, alien encounter, gambling, heroic mission ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for revenge against the Jedi.
Style: futuristic, saga, intense, serious, stylized ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens, adult, preschool
Plot: alien, star wars, sword fight, jedi, space wars, good versus evil, space, apprentice, space travel, creature, outer space, master apprentice relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2016, future
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers (2002)
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: stylized, futuristic, light, bleak, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, space opera, space battle, save the world, parallel universe, alien, space wars, space, chaos, battles, imaginary, society ...
Time: future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.0
 8K
Starcrash (1978)
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 ...
Style: futuristic, psychotronic, grindhouse, funny, retro ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space opera, robot, space, space travel, female warrior, lightsaber, spacecraft, space battle, emperor, exploitation, father son reunion, supernatural power ...
Time: year 1978
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The first Cylon war has been raging for 10 years and a young Ensign William Adama joins the fleet. He's disappointed not to be assigned to a fighter but to a freighter, and his co-pilot isn't too keen on having a rookie flying his aircraft ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, light, entertaining, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space opera, space wars, androids and robots, space, space travel, cyborgs, escapades, battlestar galactica, betrayal, heroic mission, battles, military ...
Time: future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Allies of the Shadows seek revenge against humanity. This movie sets up the series, "Crusade," the sequel to "Babylon 5."
Style: intellectual, serious, exciting, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, space opera, space, space station, military, apocalypse, benign alien, intergalactic, space program, star wars, future war, space adventure ...
Time: future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search of the missing soldier in order ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, futuristic
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, space and aliens, outer space, stargate, space opera, egyptian mythology, escapades, danger, confined, heroes, imaginary, space ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 3.1
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Atlantis Down (2010)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 2025 - The Shuttle Program has been privatized and the shuttle Atlantis relegated to glorified taxi between space stations. Its crew is on a routine mission, conducting experiments - little do they know - they are the experiment. Written by Max ...
Style: tense, exciting, serious, futuristic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: outer space, space travel, space station, alien encounter, rivalry, spacecraft, space shuttle, friendship, space wars, mind game, evil alien, space and aliens ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The war against the Bugs continues! A Federation Starship crash-lands on the distant Alien planet OM-1, stranding beloved leader Sky Marshal Anoke and several others, including comely but tough pilot Lola Beck. It's up to Colonel/General Johnny ...
Style: futuristic, absurd, exciting, semi serious, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, space wars, space, space travel, space and aliens, evil alien, marauder, soldier, space marine, battles, supernatural, survival ...
Time: 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 2.1
 7K
Space Mutiny (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A pilot is the only hope to stop the mutiny of a spacecraft by its security crew, who plot to sell the crew of the ship into slavery.
Style: psychotronic, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space and aliens, space opera, space, space travel, star wars, spacecraft, monster, woman with a gun, exploitation, afrikaans, battles, lieutenant ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
War of the Planets (1977)
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: mysterious, offbeat, bleak, semi serious, ambiguous ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: spacewalk, outer space, alien, alien invasion, space opera, kaiju, giant monster, star wars, new year's eve, dystopia, satellite, spacecraft ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The year is 2306… 12 years ago, Captain Kirk was swept away by the Nexus. One year later, Commander Scott was reported missing along with the USS Jenolen. The remaining USS Enterprise crew have split. Captain Spock and Doctor McCoy are on ...
Style: psychotronic, exciting, intellectual, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: star trek, space travel, space opera, space wars, good versus evil, commander, surrealism, alien species, space and aliens, spacecraft, benign alien, heroic mission ...
Time: future, 24th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
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, saga, exciting, epic, action adventure ...
Plot: star trek, space opera, space, robot, space travel, utopia, teleportation, space adventure, alien invasion, intergalactic, consciousness, space exploration ...
Time: future, year 1998, 24th century
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.6
 253K
Ender's Game (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.
Style: futuristic, serious, exciting, entertaining, intense ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: alien, chosen one, invasion, space wars, training, battles, space travel, young heroes, space and aliens, genius, prodigy, child prodigy ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2013, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.9
 28K
The Black Hole (1979)
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 ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, outer space, mad scientist, space, robot, space opera, black hole, alien, astronaut, spacecraft, artificial intelligence, danger ...
Time: future, year 1979, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A group of Soul Hunters come to Babylon 5 demanding the return of something that was stolen from them.
Style: futuristic, stylized, intellectual, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space opera, space travel, space, space program, supernatural, military, benign alien, star wars, intergalactic, dystopia, outer space, space station ...
Time: future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
AE: Apocalypse Earth (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A group of refugees from Earth land on an exotic planet, where they must fight ruthless aliens to survive.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, mockbuster ...
Plot: apocalypse, space battle, alien encounter, mysterious planet, chaos, survival, danger, deadly creature, imaginary, escapades, planet, evil alien ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 3.6
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Space Marines (1996)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Space pirates, led by diabolical Colonel Fraser, take over a cargo ship carrying anti-matter explosive and an important official. Space marines, led by Captain Gray, must stop their evil plans.
Style: futuristic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space wars, heroic mission, terrorism, daring rescue, danger, space and aliens, save the day, save the world, heroes, master villain, hostage, space marine ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.9
 619K
Star Trek (2009)
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, family friendly, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: space travel, star trek, space opera, outer space, alien, spacecraft, time travel, heroic mission, teamwork, space and aliens, alternate universe, space wars ...
Time: future, year 2009, 24th century, 23rd century, 2000s
Place: san francisco, iowa, bay area, space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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