Movies like The Glitterball

If you like "The Glitterball" you are looking for retro, offbeat and grindhouse movies about / with boy, alien, extraterrestrial, coming of age, spacecraft, children and criminal themes of Adventure, Family and Sci-Fi genre shot in UK.
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The Glitterball (1977)
 6.2
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The Glitterball (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 56 min.
Story: Two teenage boys try to help a tiny spherical alien get back to its mothership, while the army and a devious petty crook pursue the creature for its wonderful powers.
Style: retro, offbeat, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
Audience: kids
Plot: boy, alien, extraterrestrial, coming of age, spacecraft, children, criminal, best friend, child protagonist, child, treehouse, government agent, spaceship, friendly alien, little boy, grocery store, sphere, best friends

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Most similar movies to The Glitterball

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychotronic, entertaining, epic and exciting films with plots about alien, spaceship, boy, spacecraft, youth, friendly alien and outer space mostly in Sci-Fi, Family and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Glitterball: Aquila (1997), The Boy from Andromeda (1991), Kokey (1997), Earth to Echo (2014), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 332
Aquila (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Aquila is a British children's television show which aired on the BBC from 1997 to 1998. An episode was aired once a week, and was based on the story of two boys, Tom Baxter and Geoff Reynolds, who find a spacecraft when digging in a field. It ...
Audience: kids
Plot: children, cave, spacecraft, skeleton, best friend, child protagonist, invisibility, friendship between boys, british, boy, family relations, archeological dig ...
Place: wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Boy from Andromeda (1991)
Genre: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
TV show
Story: On a holiday to Mt Tarawera, teenager Jenny finds an odd shard of metal. In this third episode of the kids sci-fi series she meets its owner: 'Drom' — a survivor of an alien mission to deactivate a planet-annihilating space gun (aka ...
Plot: alien, volcano, child, monster, spacecraft, robot, extraterrestrial, children, computer, outer space, boy, spaceship
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.5
 44
Kokey (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 96 min.
Story: On their way home, Bong and Anna discover Kokey, an extraterrestrial whose space ship explodes upon landing on earth. Without the knowledge of their parents, the children keep Kokey at home. The three soon become the best of friends with Kokey ...
Plot: alien, buddies, friendly alien, extraterrestrial, spaceship, earth, homesickness, boy, girl
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.7
 20K
Earth to Echo (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a construction project begins digging in their neighborhood, best friends Tuck, Munch and Alex inexplicably begin to receive strange, encoded messages on their cell phones. Convinced something bigger is going on, they go to their parents and ...
Style: exciting, stylized, sentimental, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: ufo, alien, friendship, found footage, children, youth, childhood, benign alien, investigation, friends, space, child ...
Time: 2010s, future
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, sad, inspirational, sweet ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: alien, friendship, childhood, children, coming of age, ufo, extraterrestrial, space and aliens, friendly alien, boy, chase, child protagonist ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, future, year 1982, 90s
Place: california, usa, persia, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.4
 24K
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 ⇓
32%
Return from Witch Mountain (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In this sequal to "Escape From Witch Mountain," Tia and Tony leave their safe refuge on witch mountain for a trip to Los Angeles. Tony is kidnapped by the evil Dr. Gannon and his spinster partner Letha and brainwashed into helping Gannon ...
Style: humorous, saga, epic, gothic, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: alien, boy, kidnapping, mad scientist, witch, supernatural, greed, gang, ufo, intergalactic, siblings, psychic ...
Time: year 1978
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 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: daikaiju, psychotronic, classic horror, cult classic, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kaiju, monster, gamera, giant monster, deadly creature, mutant, evil alien, alien, turtle, reptiles, killer animal, dinosaur ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid (1979)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young humanoid alien who gets stranded on earth hooks up with a grizzled old sheriff in a western town and tries to help him solve a tough case, but the sheriff doesn't want any help from a "kid."
Plot: alien, extraterrestrial technology, friendship between men, best friend, police officer, town, extraterrestrial, spaceship, talking horse, boy, interrogation, air force ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Ultraman Cosmos 1: The First Contact (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In space, Ultraman Cosmos is battling with Baltan to stop him from invading Earth. A young boy named Musashi (Kounosuke Tokai) who is a 5th grader has a lot of dreams, such as becoming an astronaut to sail the sea of stars, and to meet Ultraman. ...
Plot: kaiju, ultraman, alien invasion, boy, little boy, spacecraft, alien, superhero, heisei era, ufo, giant monster, robot ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star (1986)
Genre: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Three aliens from the planet Taros land on Earth and are befriended by a Wyoming rancher's son.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: alien, invasion, ufo, alien invasion, spaceship, female alien, grandfather grandson relationship, creature, senator, desert, ranch, runaway ...
Place: wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Victor and the Secret of Crocodile Mansion (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Victor is both thrilled and mystified when his family moves into his grand-uncles somber mansion filled with African masks, taxidermy crocodile mounts - and a dark secret: Four decades ago, his grand-cousin Cecilia, at the same age as he is now, ...
Style: fairy tale, atmospheric, entertaining, educational, detective ...
Audience: kids
Plot: boy, crocodile, child, children, child protagonist, family relations, disbelieving adult, brother sister relationship, alternate reality, magic, fantasy world, mansion ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Mission Stardust (1967)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, West Germany, Spain, Monaco
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A team of astronauts is sent to the moon to rescue an alien who is seeking help to save her dying race. They are attacked by a force of bandit robots and discover that enemy spies are out to kill the alien.
Style: psychotronic, eurospy
Plot: space opera, leukemia, astronaut, invasion, cyborgs, space adventure, friendly alien, robot, spaceship, human alien, moon landing, extraterrestrial ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Pig's Breakfast (1999)
Genre: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Pig's Breakfast is an Australian children's television series that was broadcast in 1999. The story involves two aliens, Meeba and Grob, who have crashed at a television studio on Earth in a galactic school bus. A producer at the station ...
Audience: kids
Plot: spaceship, child protagonist, alien, crash landing, alien contact, girl, children, mistaken identity, boy, brother sister relationship, school bus, tv station
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 1.7
 1K
Nukie (1987)
Genre: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: South Africa, UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two alien brothers crash their ship in the U.S. They get separated, and one searches the country for the other one.
Style: independent film, spooky
Plot: alien, friendly alien, little creatures, ufo, stupid kid, exploitation, monster, buddies, asperger's syndrome, twins, telepathy, missionary ...
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.3
 595
Star Pilot (1966)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Aliens from the constellation Hydra crash-land on the island of Sardinia. A prominent scientist, his daughter, several young technicians, and a pair of Oriental spies are taken hostage by the beings so they can use them to repair their ...
Style: psychotronic
Plot: space opera, spacesuit, alien invasion, ufo, invasion, spacecraft, actress, post-apocalyptic future, kidnapping, mutiny, trapped in space, spaceship ...
Place: sardinia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Space Warriors (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The son of a retired astronaut competes to win a seat on the next space shuttle.
Style: captivating
Plot: children, competition, nasa, space shuttle, coming of age, astronaut, female scientist, saving a life, scientist hero, teamwork, fraud, young heroes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Flight of the Navigator (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This 1986 Disney adventure tells the story of 12-year-old David who lives with his family in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. When he awakens from being accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, he finds that eight years have passed. His family is ...
Style: feel good, futuristic, entertaining, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen drama, preschool
Plot: time travel, ufo, nasa, benign alien, space and aliens, space travel, outer space, flying saucer, robot, alien, getting home, young heroes ...
Time: year 1978, year 1986, 80s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: florida, miami, miami beach, japan, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Destination Moonbase-Alpha (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After an atomic explosion blasts the Moon out of Earth orbit, Moonbase Alpha drifts in space, with 300 people on board. When a rescue team from Earth arrives in a faster-than-light space ship, everyone is overjoyed that they can now return to Earth. ...
Style: futuristic, psychotronic
Plot: space opera, space travel, moon, space, moon base, madness, spaceship, alien, nuclear waste, alien space craft, insanity, earth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Race to Witch Mountain (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A taxi driver gets more than he bargained for when he picks up two teen runaways. Not only does the pair possess supernatural powers, but they're also trying desperately to escape people who have made them their targets.
Style: exciting, entertaining, atmospheric, semi serious, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: alien, ufo, benign alien, spacecraft, children, teleportation, desert, supernatural ability, super powers, young heroes, space, witch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, nevada, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
23%
Aliens Ate My Homework (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a tiny intergalactic starship crashes into the bedroom of middle-schooler Rod Allbright, he is enlisted by the extraterrestrial Galactic Patrol, a group of out-of-this-world lawmen, and must race to save the world from Total Planetary Disaster ...
Style: funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: alien, friendly alien, alien encounter, teenager, alien contact, escapades, alien creature, alien technology, fate of humanity, alien invasion, spacecraft, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.3
 3K
Star Kid (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Shy seventh-grader Spencer Griffith's life changes when the meteor falls into local junkyard and he finds a Cybersuit - the wise and strong robot from another galaxy. Spencer puts Cybersuit on and becomes a different kind of guy
Style: humorous, entertaining, semi serious, stylized, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: superhero, androids and robots, space and aliens, robot, fantasy world, brutality, alien, escapades, good versus evil, youth, revenge, dysfunctional family ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Mysterious Planet (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A spaceship crash-lands on a planet, and the crew is astonished to find that it holds a beautiful woman who can heal the sick and injured and a race of super-intelligent beings.
Style: retro, psychotronic
Plot: kaiju, dinosaur, erotica, outer space, tyrannosaurus rex, crash landing, sinking ship, egg, pterodactyl, alien species, healing, planet ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.2
 75K
Lost in Space (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other inhabitable planet in the galaxy. But when a stowaway sabotages the mission, the Robinsons find ...
Style: surreal, exciting, stylized, entertaining, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: time travel, space travel, robot, alien, space and aliens, outer space, space exploration, spaceship, save the world, space, deep space, spacecraft ...
Time: future, year 1998
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. ...
Style: epic, saga, gothic, spiritual, serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: orphan, alien, telekinesis, witch, magic, psionic power, mansion, boy, space, adoption, chase, supernatural ...
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.9
 298
Robby (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Shipwrecked on a tropical island, a young boy befriends an abandoned native youth, forcing him to reevaluate societal prejudice about race, religion and nudity.
Style: independent film
Plot: boy, coming of age, beach, tropical island, children, childhood, youth, skinny dipping, nudity, turtle, blond boy, stranded on an island ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.0
 1K
F.R.E.D.I. (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An intelligent, lovable robot known as "F.R.E.D.I." is stolen from a secret research facility by the project's lead scientist. The robot is found by a 15 year old teenager, James. Soon the two begin to communicate and create a bond in ...
Style: entertaining, tense, funny, light, captivating
Plot: robot, artificial intelligence, friendly alien, teenager, arch villain, good versus evil, children, villain, childhood, teenage life, buddies, youth
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 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 ⇓
20%
Escape to Witch Mountain (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The tale of two orphan twins with special powers who go looking for their origins. The two are hindered by an avaricious tycoon who only wants to exploit their abilities.
Style: psychotronic
Audience: kids
Plot: fraternal twins, alien, twins, witch, friendly alien, alien invasion, super powers, orphan, superpower, sibling relationship, young boy, brother sister relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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