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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
Style:
humorous, surreal, light, stylized, exciting, semi serious, absurd, parody, funny, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien, time travel, superhero, chase, alien invasion, mad scientist, rescue, scientist, interdimensional travel, cult, space, experiment gone awry, torture, laboratory, u.s. president, good versus evil, electrocution, possession, humanoid alien, eccentricity, escaped mental patient, evil scientist, space wars, space and aliens, music band ...
Time:
80s, 1930s, year 1938, future
Place:
new jersey, usa, asia, hong kong
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out cult film, humorous, light and weird films with plots about dialogue, mentor, catastrophe, storytelling, transformation, alien and first contact mostly in Sci-Fi, Comedy and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension: Barbarella (1968), Jabberwocky (1977), My Science Project (1985), Flight of the Navigator (1986), Six-String Samurai (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
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Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
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Duration: 105 min.
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A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
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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 ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
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