Movies and TV shows like Aliens in the Family

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Aliens in the Family (1996)
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Aliens in the Family (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Aliens in the Family is an American sci-fi/fantasy sitcom that aired on ABC, conceived as part of its TGIF lineup From the Creators of Dinosaurs and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Style: sitcom, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience: kids
Plot: blended family, friendly alien, alien, buddies, interspecies romance, abduction, heroes, kidnapping, space and aliens, nanny, space travel, family relations, parents and children, family life, store, babies and infants, danger, suburbs, single parent, evil alien, suburban life, alien encounter, disorder, benign alien, magic ...
Time: 90s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, sitcom, feel good and semi serious films and TV series with plots about family relations, family life, parents and children, disorder, alien, space and aliens and benign alien mostly in Comedy, Sci-Fi and Family genres. Some movies like Aliens in the Family: ALF (1986), Marvin Marvin (2012), The Neighbors (2012), My Favorite Martian (1963), The Parent 'Hood (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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ALF (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage.
Style: humorous, sitcom, cliffhanger, hilarious, game show ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: benign alien, alien, extraterrestrial, suburbs, family relations, space and aliens, fish out of water, space, muppets, buddies, magic, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 80s, future, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
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100%
Marvin Marvin (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Marvin Marvin is an American science fiction slapstick comedy television series that aired from November 24, 2012 to April 27, 2013. The series was set to premiere on Nickelodeon in 2013, but was pushed forward to November 24, 2012. It stars Lucas ...
Style: not serious, humorous, sitcom, feel good, teen comedy
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: alien, fish out of water, hidden identity, alien encounter, lifestyle, siblings relations, teenage life, family life, social relations, friends, teenager, high school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Neighbors (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: When the Weavers move to a gated community in New Jersey, they discover that the entire neighborhood is comprised of aliens from the planet Zabvron. But as the Weavers and the aliens face the struggles of everyday life together, they discover that ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: fish out of water, benign alien, space and aliens, family relations, parents and children, couples, family life, eccentric family, social relations, disorder, suburban life, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
My Favorite Martian (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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 ⇓
28%
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The Parent 'Hood (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Parent 'Hood is an American sitcom that aired on The WB airing from January 18, 1995 to July 25, 1999. The series starred Robert Townsend and Suzzanne Douglas. Originally to have been titled Father Knows Nothing, the series was one of the ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: black, black sitcom, family relations, child, family problems, buddies, babies and infants, lifestyle, youth, society, mischievous children, young heroes ...
Time: 90s
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26%
 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 ⇓
25%
 6.5
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Dave's World (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Dave's World is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1993 to 1997. The series is based on the writing of Miami Herald columnist Dave Barry.
Style: sitcom, witty, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: suburbs, newspaper columnist, friends, suburban life, family life, couple relations, buddies, family relations, couples, media, journalism, parents and children
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: miami, usa
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25%
 4.8
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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 ⇓
25%
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The Munsters Today (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Munsters Today is an American sitcom that aired in syndication from 1988 to 1991. The series served as a sequel to the 1960s sitcom The Munsters.
Style: spooky, sitcom, not serious, offbeat, humorous
Audience: horror for children
Plot: satire, halloween, family relations, eccentric family, disorder, parents and children, suburbs, suburban life, fish out of water, experiment gone awry, supernatural ability, imaginary ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 58K
Coneheads (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don't exactly blend in with the population of Paramus, N.J. But for some reason, everyone believes them when they say they're from ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, absurd, not serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, adult
Plot: fish out of water, alien, space, humanity, satire, benign alien, space and aliens, parents and children, family life, dysfunctional family, transformation, childhood ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, future, year 1993
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
3rd Rock from the Sun (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 3rd Rock from the Sun is an American sitcom that aired from 1996 to 2001 on NBC. The show is about four extraterrestrials who are on an expedition to Earth, which they consider to be a very insignificant planet. The extraterrestrials pose as a human ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, witty, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, date night, family outing
Plot: alien, space and aliens, fish out of water, disguise, friendship, hidden identity, goofy hero, family secret, eccentric family, family life, disorder, misfit ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Girl from Mars (1991)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young girl who has telekinetic powers also claims to be a visitor from Mars. The girl's father and a scientist who has befriended her try to discern exactly who she is and what is happening.
Style: semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Plot: mars, female alien, space and aliens, martian, eccentric family, space wars, family life, teenage life, alien encounter, space travel, parents and children, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
They Came from Outer Space (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: They Came from Outer Space is an American science fiction comedy series that aired in syndication from October 1990 to March 1991. The series was created by Tom McLoughlin.
Style: offbeat, humorous, slapstick, slapstick comedy, sitcom
Plot: fish out of water, disorder, chase, chases and races, space and aliens, misfit, alien encounter, teaching the ways of the world, teenage life, special agent, dating, teenager ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 3.8
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Baby Bob (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Baby Bob is an American sitcom that aired on CBS as a midseason replacement in March 2002. The Baby Bob character had previously been on television since February 2000, appearing in commercials for FreeInternet.com. While actual infants played Bob, ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, feel good
Plot: family relations, family life, baby, parents and children, parenthood, child as adult, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, in laws, family secret, father son relationship, mother-in-law ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.0
 5K
Small Wonder (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Small Wonder is an American science fiction sitcom that aired in first-run syndication from September 7, 1985 to May 20, 1989. The show chronicles the family of a robotics engineer who, after he secretly creates a robot modeled after a real human ...
Style: sitcom, game show, humorous, offbeat, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: robot, childhood love, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, super powers, family relations, robin hood, transhumanism, inventor, androids, pretense, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Happy Family (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Happy Family is an NBC sitcom that debuted in fall of 2003.
Style: sitcom, humorous, captivating, feel good, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: family relations, parents and children, leaving home, family life, suburbs, family problems, dentist, grownups, dysfunctional family, college dropout, children, dysfunctional character
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
In the Motherhood (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Rosemary, Jane and Emily try to juggle motherhood, work, friendships and love lives in an overly complicated modern world.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: motherhood, parenthood, family life, friendship, family relations, love and romance, single parent, best friend, parents and children, humour, strong female presence, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Sons & Daughters (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Family is always unpredictable, so why write a family comedy when you can live dangerously and improvise instead? Like real families, you never know what will happen when you give characters total freedom. Adult siblings Cameron, Sharon and Jenna ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sitcom, light ...
Plot: family relations, marriage, family life, family problems, blended family, siblings relations, suburban life, love and romance, single parent, suburbs, couples, large family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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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 ⇓
21%
Are We There Yet? (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Are We There Yet? opens where the popular film of the same name left off, with Nick and Suzanne newly married. After six months, their family is beginning to show growing pains, from the complexities of life as newlyweds to weathering the storm of ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, realistic, not serious ...
Plot: black family, blended family, parents and children, family relations, couple relations, ex athlete, family life, newlyweds, black cast, african american, black, american culture ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Ladies Man (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Ladies Man is a television sitcom series starring Alfred Molina as husband, father, son, ex-husband and son-in-law who lives with a number of women under one roof. The show was first broadcast on September 20, 1999, and lasted for two seasons on CBS ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, not serious, humorous
Plot: blended family, family relations, family life, youth, battle of the sexes, teenage life, parents and children, single parent, family problems, dysfunctional family, couples
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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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 ⇓
21%
 7.2
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Mork & Mindy (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Mork & Mindy is an American science fiction sitcom broadcast from 1978 until 1982 on ABC. The series starred Robin Williams as Mork, an alien who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a small, one-man egg-shaped spaceship. Pam Dawber co-starred ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, slapstick, hilarious, game show ...
Audience: family outing, date night, teens
Plot: odd couple, benign alien, intergalactic, team, alien disguised as human, magic, super powers, deja vu, friendly alien, weirdo, farce, fish out of water ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 5.8
 2K
All of Us (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: All of Us is an American sitcom that premiered on the now-defunct UPN network in the United States on September 16, 2003, where it aired for its first three seasons. On October 1, 2006, the show moved to The CW, a new network formed by the merger of ...
Style: sitcom, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, divorce, reporter, family life, couple relations, buddies, parents and children, black, african american, black sitcom, american culture, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Gimme a Break! (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Gimme a Break! is an American sitcom which aired on NBC for six seasons, October 29, 1981, until May 12, 1987. The series stars Nell Carter as the housekeeper for a widowed police chief and his three daughters.
Style: sitcom, realistic, humorous, semi serious, melancholic ...
Plot: african american, single father, youth, family problems, parents and children, best friend, family relations, death in the family, family life, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, family business ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Surviving Suburbia (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Surviving Suburbia is an American sitcom starring Bob Saget and Cynthia Stevenson that aired on American Broadcasting Company from April 6 to August 7, 2009. The series originally aired at 9:30 PM Eastern/8:30 PM Central following Dancing with the ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, light, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, family life, parents and children, eccentric family, suburbs, lifestyle, society, neighbor, friends, friendship, love, everyday life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 10, 1990, to May 20, 1996. The show stars Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart teenager from West Philadelphia who ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, witty, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: family relations, african american, youth, teenager, black, culture clash, fish out of water, hip hop, misfit, eccentric family, siblings relations, verbal byplay ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Married to the Kellys (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: New York writer Tom grew up an only child and is a loner by nature. He's a man who takes pride in refusing to learn the names of his neighbors. But his life is destined for change when he marries Susan, a gregarious social butterfly from the ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, feel good, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: eccentric family, family life, couples, fish out of water, family relations, couple relations, suburbs, parents and children, relocation, friendship, misfit, indoor
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Gabby Duran & The Unsittables (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Gabby Duran, who constantly feels like she’s living in the shadows of her mother and younger sister, finally finds her moment to shine when she inadvertently lands an out-of-this-world job to babysit an unruly group of very important ...
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, captivating, sitcom ...
Plot: benign alien, alien, hidden identity, secret identity, new job, mother daughter relationship, family relations, alien race, alien contact, secret, working undercover, alien creature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 152 min.
TV show
Story: An Earth Man and his alien friend escape an exploding Earth, and set forth on an odd adventure across the universe with a known fugitive. Based on the book by Douglas Adams, the dialog follows the book closely. This was originally a 6-part series ...
Style: humorous, offbeat, light, talky, futuristic ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: benign alien, space travel, ufo, imaginary, mysterious planet, alien, space, satire, time travel, fantasy world, spacecraft, outer space ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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