Movies like Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 1979
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
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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 recruit for the Earth Defense Directorate, where his closest colleagues are Dr. Huer (Tim O'Connor), squadron leader Col. Wilma Deering (former model Erin Gray, looking oh-so-foxy), the wisecracking robot Twiki (voiced by cartoon legend Mel Blanc), and a portable computer-brain named Dr. Theopolis, who's carried by Twiki like oversized bling-bling.
Style:
saga, psychotronic, uplifting, cult classic, futuristic, exciting, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
space adventure, space opera, time travel, astronaut, alien invasion, spacecraft, space, superhero, robot, distopia, women, star wars, master criminal, future war, shakespeare, intergalactic, dystopia, post apocalyptic, cosmic horror, outer space, space wars, androids, space pirate, demolished city, evil queen ...
Time:
year 1979, future, 80s, 20th century, year 1987
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Most similar movies to Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, futuristic, serious and suspenseful films with plots about heroes, heroic mission, danger, escapades, space, outer space and space travel mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Adventure genres. Some movies like Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Flash Gordon (1980), Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), Battlestar Galactica (1978), Battlestar Galactica (1978), Space Raiders (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Netherlands, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. The series ran for two seasons between 1979–1981, and the feature-length pilot episode for the series was released as a ...
Style:
saga, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, boys' night
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids
Plot:
space battle, androids and robots, military, battlestar galactica, space, space opera, survival, save the world, man versus machine, danger, rescue, good versus evil ...
Time:
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Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When the 12 Colonies of Man are wiped out by a cybernetic race called the Cylons, Commander Adama and the crew of the battlestar Galactica lead a ragtag fleet of human survivors in search of a "mythical planet" called Earth.
Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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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, semi serious, stylized
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the decommissioned Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis planet to recover Spock's body.
Style:
futuristic, action adventure, anamorphic, epic, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it.
Style:
futuristic, saga, epic, exciting, talky ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night, family outing, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
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Story:
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TV show
Story:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
100%
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, atmospheric, exciting, stylized, entertaining ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Flash Gordon is an American science fiction television series that debuted on Sci Fi in the United States on August 10, 2007 and continued airing new episodes through February 8, 2008. It has also appeared on the United Kingdom Sci Fi Channel and ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, futuristic, tense, serious, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
future, 23rd century
Similarity:
26%
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, entertaining, tense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
space western
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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24%
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