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ALF (1986)
 7.4
 39K
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, game show, hilarious, feel good, not serious, light, funny, offbeat ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: benign alien, alien, extraterrestrial, suburbs, family relations, space and aliens, fish out of water, space, love, magic, alien invasion, youth, dysfunctional family, radical, weirdo, puppet, muppets, buddies, drug, friendly alien, family affairs, parents and children, planet, male protagonist, insult ...
Time: 80s, future, 20th century, 90s, 1990s
Place: usa
Keyword: oldies

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Most similar movies to ALF

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, sitcom, feel good and not serious films and TV series with plots about family relations, family life, parents and children, disorder, youth, fish out of water and friendship mostly in Comedy, Family and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like ALF: 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996), My Favorite Martian (1963), The Munsters Today (1987), Mork & Mindy (1978), Small Wonder (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
 7.2
 13K
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 ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show is an American syndicated science fiction sitcom based on the 1989 film, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. It expands upon the original film's concept of a shrinking experiment gone wrong to include a myriad of ...
Style: children's program, sitcom, not serious, offbeat, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: inventor, family relations, weirdo, nerd, scientist, silly humor, child in peril, disorder, experiment gone awry, cloning, parents and children, youth ...
Place: colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, semi serious, humorous, feel good, offbeat
Audience: kids
Plot: blended family, friendly alien, buddies, alien, interspecies romance, suburbs, store, family life, parents and children, space travel, suburban life, alien encounter ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.4
 14K
Mac and Me (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A Mysterious Alien Creature (MAC) escaping from nefarious NASA agents, is befriended by a young boy in a wheelchair. Together, they try to find MAC's family from whom he has been separated.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, cult classic, mockbuster ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: nasa, alien, extraterrestrial, youth, coca cola, mcdonald's restaurant, benign alien, alien invasion, friendship, happy ending, family relations, single parent ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Dinosaurs (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Dinosaurs follows the life of a family of dinosaurs, living in a modern world. They have TV's, fridges, microwaves, and every modern convenience.
Style: sitcom, humorous, entertaining, light, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, adult
Plot: dinosaur, puppet, eccentric family, mischievous children, workplace situations, everyday life, parents and children, boss and employee, society, disorder, stupidity, anthropomorphism ...
Time: 90s, prehistory, 20th century, prehistoric times
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
 5.4
 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 ⇓
100%
Malcolm in the Middle (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.
Style: sitcom, humorous, witty, realistic, funny ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: youth, siblings relations, prodigy, eccentric family, social satire, teenage life, suburban life, sibling relationship, dysfunctional family, suburbs, teenager, family life ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Home Improvement (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Home Improvement is an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen, that aired from September 17, 1991 to May 25, 1999. The show was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra and David McFadzean. In the 1990s, it was one of the most watched ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, funny, game show, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family friendly
Plot: husband wife relationship, handyman, friendship, comedian, young heroes, exodus, family affairs, drug, friendship between men, parents, teenage girl, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: michigan, detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Mr. Belvedere (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Mr. Belvedere is an American sitcom that originally aired on ABC from March 15, 1985, until July 8, 1990. The series is based on the Lynn Aloysius Belvedere character created by Gwen Davenport for her 1947 novel Belvedere, which was later adapted ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: family relations, power relations, disorder, friends, suburbs, siblings relations, suburban life, fish out of water, workplace situations, friendship, culture clash, family life ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 ⇓
36%
Silver Spoons (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Silver Spoons is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 25, 1982 to May 11, 1986 and in first-run syndication from September 15, 1986 to March 4, 1987. The series was produced by Embassy Television for the first four seasons, until ...
Style: sitcom, game show, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: youth, rich and poor, pop culture, coming of age, dating, man child, rich, society, family relations, power relations, siblings relations, family life ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that gives it special powers, including the ability to communicate with humans, has eluded the authorities and seeks the help of a scientist in order to ...
Style: cute, humorous, mysterious, freeze frame, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: cat, talking cat, alien, ufo, benign alien, dog, human alien relationship, space, space and aliens, friendly alien, telekinesis, mind power ...
Time: year 1978
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.8
 1K
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 ⇓
35%
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The Muppets (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: The Muppets return to primetime with a contemporary, documentary-style show. For the first time ever, a series will explore the Muppets’ personal lives and relationships, both at home and at work, as well as romances, breakups, achievements, ...
Style: sitcom, mockumentary, humorous, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, adult
Plot: muppets, puppet, eccentric family, lifestyle, family relations, family life, kids and family, relationships, humour, satire, sesame street, weirdo ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 8.6
 132K
Mr. Bean (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Mr Bean turns simple everyday tasks into chaotic situations and will leave you in stitches as he creates havoc wherever he goes.
Style: humorous, not serious, sitcom, feel good, light ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: weirdo, stupidity, goofy hero, misfit, nothing goes right, fish out of water, love, storytelling, lonely, humour, new year's eve, sketch ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place: london, britain, europe, england, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Cousin Skeeter (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Cousin Skeeter is an American children's television show, which ran on Nickelodeon from 1998 to 2001. It starred Robert Ri'chard as Bobby, a young boy whose life changed when his strange cousin Skeeter came to live with his family. With ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, humorous, family comedy
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: black, urban, carnival, partner, studying, friends, family relations, disorder, friendship, buddies, nothing goes right, youth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Cory in the House (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Cory in the House is an American television sitcom, which aired on the Disney Channel from January 12, 2007 to September 13, 2008 and was a spin-off from the Disney show That's So Raven. The show focuses on Cory Baxter, who moved from San ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, feel good, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: teenager, family relations, family life, u.s. president, lifestyle, teenage life, coming of age, parents and children, president, white house, chef, father son relationship ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.6
 30K
Family Matters (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A long-running dramedy centering on the Winslow family, a middle-class African American family living in Chicago, and their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. A spin-off of Perfect Strangers.
Style: sitcom, humorous, hilarious, scenic, game show ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: black, black sitcom, urban, african american, inventor, propaganda, black american, black history, white supremacy, weirdo, american culture, families ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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My Two Dads (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: My Two Dads is an American sitcom that starred Staci Keanan, Paul Reiser and Greg Evigan. It aired on NBC from 1987 to 1990 and was produced by Michael Jacobs Productions in association with Tri-Star Television and distributed by TeleVentures.
Style: sitcom, not serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: odd couple, girl, team, single father, family relations, child care, partner, friends, lifestyle, buddies, youth, coming of age ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer, Jr. The series is about a poor backwoods family transplanted to ...
Style: sitcom, retro, hilarious, realistic, not serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: hillbilly, fish out of water, rags to riches, humour, villain, secretary, family relations, nouveau riche, rich, oldtimer, urban, culture clash ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 20th century
Place: beverly hills, california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Jeff Foxworthy Show (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Air conditioning repair man Jeff finds himself a fish out of water living in Indiana with his Southern ways and humor. Eventually he takes his family back to Georgia and reconnects with his eccentric relations.
Style: sitcom, not serious, realistic, humorous
Audience: family outing
Plot: family relations, disorder, youth, eccentric family, family life, parents and children, actor playing himself, television flop
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.8
 63K
Full House (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Full House is an American sitcom television series. Set in San Francisco, the show chronicles widowed father Danny Tanner, who, after the death of his wife Pam, enlists his best friend Joey Gladstone and his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis to help ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, boys' night, family friendly
Plot: father daughter relationship, single father, friends, friendship, single parent, family life, eccentric family, parents and children, siblings relations, death of mother, sister sister relationship, uncle niece relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place: san francisco, usa, bay area, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.9
 195
Working Class (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Working Class is an American television sitcom created by Jill Cargerman, which premiered on CMT on January 28, 2011. The network ordered twelve episodes for the comedy, which is the first scripted series for the network. On April 11, 2011, CMT ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: working class, parents and children, rich and poor, suburbs, single parent, society, family relations, social differences, fish out of water, single mother, power relations, suburban life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Harry and the Hendersons (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Harry and the Hendersons is an American sitcom based on the film of the same name, produced by Amblin Entertainment for Universal Television. The series aired in syndication from January 13, 1991 to June 18, 1993, with 72 half-hour episodes ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, touching, sweet ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: creature, sasquatch, family relations, bigfoot, fish out of water, friends, parents and children, pets, disorder, family life, animal, myth ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.7
 43K
Drake & Josh (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Drake & Josh is an American television sitcom created by Dan Schneider for Nickelodeon. The series follows the lives of two teenage boys with opposing personalities, Drake Parker and Josh Nichols, who become stepbrothers. Both actors had played ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly
Plot: teenage life, siblings relations, dating, family relations, lifestyle, teenager, step siblings, unlikely partners, prank, adolescence vs adulthood, deal, manipulation ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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