Movies like The American Astronaut

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The American Astronaut (2001)
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The American Astronaut (2001)
Genre: Musical, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Samual Curtis's first mission in this bizarre science fiction musical comedy requires him to take a cat to a saloon on an asteroid. There, he meets his former dance partner (the Blueberry Pirate) and collects his payment: a device capable of producing a Real Live Girl. Including music by alternative rock group The Billy Nayer Show, this film began life as a live show with a loyal following.
Style: surreal, black and white, atmospheric, lyrical, cult classic, talky, humorous, semi serious, independent film, art house ...
Plot: astronaut, space travel, planet, space and aliens, disorder, fish out of water, music, outer space, surrealism, dystopian future, space, girl, space station, delivery, steampunk, bounty hunter, lone wolves, dance, ufo, dream, human relationship, travel, thief, cat, asteroid ...
Time: contemporary
Place: space western, san francisco
Keyword: avant-garde, american, remote

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Most similar movies to The American Astronaut

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, offbeat, psychotronic and independent film films with plots about disorder, space and aliens, danger, satire, outer space, alien and spaceship mostly in Comedy, Sci-Fi and Musical genres. Some movies like The American Astronaut: Kin-dza-dza! (1986), Dark Star (1974), The Bed Sitting Room (1969), Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978), The Creature Wasn't Nice (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Kin-dza-dza! (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The story takes place on the desert planet "Pluke" in the "Kin-dza-dza" galaxy, where two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other ("Uncle Vova", a gruff construction foreman from Moscow, and "The ...
Style: surreal, philosophical, offbeat, humorous, enigmatic ...
Plot: desert, surrealism, alien, totalitarianism, satire, distopia, absurdism, time travel, society, post apocalyptic, racism, capitalism ...
Time: future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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100%
 6.2
 27K
Dark Star (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A low-budget, sci-fi satire that focuses on a group of scientists whose mission is to destroy unstable planets. 20 years into their mission, they have battle their alien mascot, that resembles a beach ball, as well as a "sensitive" and ...
Style: parody, futuristic, grindhouse, philosophical, surreal ...
Plot: space travel, alien, deep space, space, space opera, artificial intelligence, satire, philosophy, space exploration, alien invasion, imagination, moon ...
Time: future, 22nd century
Place: malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' (which lasted two minutes and twenty eight seconds, including the signing of the peace treaty) is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and ...
Style: dark comedy, apocalyptic, psychedelic, surreal, psychotronic ...
Plot: dystopia, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, nuclear holocaust, distopia, satire, apocalypse, epidemic, surrealism, post nuclear, doomsday, nuclear threat ...
Time: year 1969, future
Place: cornwall, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is a 1978 comedy film directed by John De Bello and starring David Miller. The film is a spoof of B-movies. Made on a budget of less than USD $100,000, the story involves tomatoes becoming sentient by unknown means and ...
Style: parody, spoof, absurd, scary, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: monster, space and aliens, disaster, insanity, rescue, survival, espionage, vegetable, chaos, danger, supernatural, deadly creature ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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 ⇓
33%
The Creature Wasn't Nice (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A farce satirizing extraterrestrial horror movies such as Alien.
Style: parody, psychotronic, erotic, spoof, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space, alien, evil alien, alien invasion, extraterrestrial, satire, dystopia, space travel, ufo, monster, creature, planet ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Superstarlet A.D. (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: The world has ended. All that is left behind are individual beauty cults, groups of girls seeking safety and identity in numbers. Basing their bond on hair color and giving themselves strangely evocative gang names, the blond Phayrays (King Kong), ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, futuristic, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: surrealism, burlesque, dystopian future, society, gang, escapades, danger, apocalypse, chaos, post apocalypse, satire, lesbian ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this musical comedy, Valerie is dealing with her philandering fiancé, Ted, when she finds that a trio of aliens have crashed their spaceship into her swimming pool. Once the furry beings are shaved at her girlfriend's salon, the women ...
Style: sexy, funny, cult classic, romantic comedy, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: alien, spacecraft, disco, dancing, space and aliens, interspecies sex, alien contact, alien invasion, benign alien, space, interspecies romance, dance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 3.6
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Galaxina (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Galaxina is a lifelike, voluptuous android who is assigned to oversee the operations of an intergalactic Space Police cruiser captained by incompetent Cornelius Butt. When a mission requires the ship's crew to be placed in suspended animation ...
Style: parody, humorous, stylized, not serious, futuristic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cryogenics, space opera, female robot, motorcycle, spacecraft, robot, space, alternate reality, alien invasion, alien, transformation, technology ...
Time: future, year 2016, year 1980
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
A Ticket to Space (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Face à l'incompréhension de la population française quant au montant des crédits alloués à la recherche spatiale, le gouvernement lance une vaste opération de communication. En partenariat avec le Centre spatial français, un grand jeu ...
Style: not serious, humorous, parody, offbeat, spoof
Plot: space and aliens, spacecraft, hacker, space travel, danger, disorder, escapades, benign alien, rivalry, lottery, satire, monster ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
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, spoof, surreal, stylized, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien, alien invasion, superhero, chase, mad scientist, rescue, interdimensional travel, scientist, time travel, space, experiment gone awry, danger ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1938
Place: new jersey, asia, usa, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.2
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Dr. Caligari (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Mrs. Van Houten has shown signs of losing touch with reality, and her husband discusses possible treatment with Dr. Caligari, who says Mrs. Van Houten has a disease of the libido.
Style: independent film, mind bending, psychedelic, experimental, surreal ...
Plot: surrealism, body horror, hardcore, trippy, nightmare, mad doctor, supernatural being, nymphomaniac, cannibal, psychiatrist, electrocution, transvestite ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.4
 242K
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: 'We come in peace' is not what those green men from Mars mean when they invade our planet, armed with irresistible weapons and a cruel sense of humor. This star studded cast must play victim to the alien’s fun and games in this comedy ...
Style: parody, spoof, dark comedy, humorous, absurd ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: mars, ufo, alien invasion, alien, space and aliens, evil alien, disaster, save the world, dark humor, outer space, flying saucer, invasion ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, future, year 1996
Place: washington d.c., usa, las vegas, kentucky, kansas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Wizard of Speed and Time (1988)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Hollywood filmmaker (Mike Jittlov) makes a short for an evil film studio. Unbeknownest to him, the producer has placed a bet of $25,000 that he won't come up with anything with a use. Luckily, our film creator gets the help of his friends.
Style: surreal, cult classic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: filmmaking, biopic, disorder, friends, human spirit, artists and showbiz, underdog, stop motion, pop music, movie studio, autobiography, hollywood ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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True Stories (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
Style: cult classic, surreal, postmodern, not serious, parody ...
Plot: cheerleader, rock and roll, surrealism, human relationship, tribe, teen angst, breaking the fourth wall, silly humor, couples, family relations, disorder, fashion ...
Time: 80s
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Morons from Outer Space (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period of their stay at the station, the other three begin playing with ...
Style: cult classic, humorous, spoof, mysterious, semi serious ...
Plot: alien, space, ufo, invasion, british army, partner, deadly creature, space and aliens, journalism, save the world, rescue, benign alien ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: england, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.4
 7K
Head (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The Monkees are tossed about in a psychedelic, surrealist, plotless, circular bit of fun fluff.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, cult classic, grindhouse, offbeat ...
Audience: date night
Plot: rock and roll, surrealism, anti war, desert, vietnam war, television, trippy, hippie, marijuana, music, counterculture, lsd ...
Time: 60s
Place: asia, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min.
Story: An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, humorous, stylized, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: surrealism, absurd humor, ufo, imaginary, daydreamer, contact, goofy hero, absurdism, alien, creature, stupidity, trippy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Style: light, cult classic, funny, philosophical, stylized ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: space travel, alien, outer space, space and aliens, robot, fantasy world, end of the world, benign alien, sarcasm, space, spacecraft, buddies ...
Time: future, year 2005, 2000s
Place: madagascar, himalaya
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Trying to rescue her home planet from destruction, a gorgeous extraterrestrial named Celeste arrives on Earth and begins her scientific research. She woos quirky scientist Dr. Steve Mills, a widower with a young daughter. Before long, Celeste finds ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, parody, funny ...
Audience: family outing, kids, date night
Plot: alien, fish out of water, space and aliens, female alien, benign alien, alien disguised as human, transformation, friendship, porn actress, scientist, sexual humor, eccentricity ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Way... Way Out (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.
Style: laugh out loud, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: kids
Plot: spacesuit, cold war, astronaut, couples, cosmonaut, space station, spacecraft, space and aliens, battle of the sexes, confined, pregnancy, outer space ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, year 1989
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.
Style: cult classic, black comedy, satirical, independent film, allegory ...
Plot: alien, alien invasion, extraterrestrial, blaxploitation, drug abuse, urban, black, friendly alien, mind power, invasion, ufo, drug ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Forbidden Zone (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine. When Frenchy slips through the door, King Fausto falls in love with her. The jealous Queen Doris takes Frenchy prisoner, and ...
Style: psychedelic, cult classic, grindhouse, black and white, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: surrealism, female nudity, bare breasts, dysfunctional family, transgender, camp, dancing, satire, martial arts, sex, mental disorder, time travel ...
Time: year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place: california, usa, venice california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Sergeant Dead Head (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit, it is discovered that the chimp has the brains of the astronaut, and the astronaut has the brains of the chimp. Complications ensue.
Style: independent film, exciting, semi serious, offbeat, humorous ...
Plot: space, spacesuit, chimpanzee, astronaut, wedding, escape, danger, space and aliens, disorder, wedding ring, female singer, electric shock ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Meet the Hollowheads (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The Hollowheads are a strange, futuristic family that live in a Jetsons type world complete with many cool gadgets. Henry is hoping for a promotion at the slime factory in which he works and decides to bring his boss home for dinner and to meet the ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, atmospheric, psychedelic, surreal ...
Plot: eccentric family, dark humor, nothing goes right, disorder, society, workplace situations, suburbs, social satire, husband wife relationship, family dinner, absurdism, boss ...
Time: future, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Reluctant Astronaut (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Don Knotts is Roy Fleming, a small town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is ...
Style: semi serious, sitcom, offbeat, humorous, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: nasa, space travel, astronaut, space exploration, space, underdog, spacesuit, spaceship, outer space, amusement park, world war one, space wars ...
Time: year 1967
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Human Highway (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Human Highway is a 1982 comedy film starring and co-directed by Neil Young under his pseudonym Bernard Shakey. Dean Stockwell co-directed the film and acted along with Russ Tamblyn, Dennis Hopper, and the band Devo. Included is a collaborative ...
Style: dark comedy, cult classic, apocalyptic, independent film, surreal ...
Plot: post apocalypse, rock, apocalypse, distopia, epidemic, pop music, punk rock, punk, acid, surrealism, post-apocalyptic future, friends ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Beautiful alien Amazonian women plan to conquer the world using an army of vegetable monsters. Dim-witted privates Philbrick and Penn bumble into a cave in search of atomic activity but collide instead with fierce carrot-topped tree mutants and ...
Style: retro, suspense, independent film, slapstick, semi serious ...
Plot: alien, 666, killer animal, ufo, creature feature, occult, soldier, outer space, silly humor, disorder, spacecraft, battles ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000. Contestants flock in from around the globe. Representing America is Chester Kent, a theatre producer who ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, breathtaking, black and white, visual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: beer, music, surrealism, dysfunctional family, contest, great depression, baroness, couple relations, tragic hero, rivalry, family problems, jazz ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 2003, year 1933
Place: canada, winnipeg, sarajevo, new york, belgrade serbia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: The mad and evil scientist, Dr. Clayton Forrester, has created an evil little scheme that is bound to give him world global domination but first things first. He plans to torment Mike Nelson and the robots by sending them a real stinker of a film to ...
Style: funny, humorous, talky, light, absurd ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: mad scientist, robot, space and aliens, space travel, satire, stupidity, outer space, teleportation, irreverent, scientist, time, imaginary ...
Place: minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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