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Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986)
4K
Original name: Biggles
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, War
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Unassuming catering salesmen Jim Ferguson falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life of dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth after his photo recon mission is shot down. Before he can work out what has happened, Jim is zapped back to the 1980s......
Style:
dieselpunk, cult classic, humorous, semi serious, fast, surprise ending, psychotronic, dutch angle, independent film, cult film
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
time travel, world war one, steampunk, great war, aerial combat, military officer, superhero, heroes, rescue, danger, fish out of water, twin brother, misfit, escapades, imaginary, good versus evil, military life, disorder, daring rescue, heroic mission, sniper, spy, swat team, airplane, combat ...
Time:
80s, year 1917, 1910s
Place:
new york, usa, london, belgium, tower bridge london, american
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Most similar movies to Biggles: Adventures in Time
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, psychotronic, entertaining and cult classic films with plots about heroes, danger, escapades, fight, rescue, good versus evil and chase mostly in Adventure, Sci-Fi and Action genres. Some movies like Biggles: Adventures in Time: SpaceCamp (1986), Super Mario Bros. (1993), The Rocketeer (1991), The Time Machine (1978), Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
17K
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:
entertaining, melancholic, semi serious, inspirational, action adventure ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, boys' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
nasa, space shuttle, space travel, trapped in space, astronaut, summer camp, space program, teenage girl, childhood, photographic memory, space opera, coming of age ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 60s, future
Place:
alabama, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Japan, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.
Style:
parody, semi serious, humorous, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
dinosaur, monster, plumber, computer game, transformation, brothers, fantasy world, true love, rescue, heroes, good versus evil, heroic mission ...
Time:
90s, future, 80s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Straight from the pages of a pulp comic from a past era, the Rocketeer recreates 1930s Hollywood, complete with gangsters, Nazi spies, and the growth of the Age of Aviation. Young pilot Cliff Secord stumbles on a top secret rocket-pack and with the ...
Style:
dieselpunk, exciting, entertaining, melancholic, light ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, teens
Plot:
superhero, treasure hunt, good versus evil, aviation, comic book, biplane, betrayal, adaptation, steampunk, world war two, villain, gangster ...
Time:
1930s, year 1991, future, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Zenon Kar, a 13-year-old girl who lives on a space station in the year 2049, gets into some trouble and is banished to Earth. With help from some Earth friends she must find her way back.
Style:
teen, futuristic, not serious, humorous, whimsical ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
teenager, disorder, friends, misfit, escapades, blonde girl, female protagonist, teenage girl, teenage protagonist, child protagonist, occupation, adolescence ...
Time:
2040s, 90s, future, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, offbeat, psychotronic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
time machine, time traveler, salem witch trial, cave, aftermath, social commentary, cannibal, dystopian future, chaos, mutant, disorder, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
future, 20th century, distant future
Place:
salem massachusetts
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Mark Singer returns as Dar, the warrior who can talk to the beasts. Dar is forced to travel to earth to stop his evil brother from stealing an atomic bomb, and turning their native land from a desert into... well... a desert! Written by Jim Palin
Style:
fantasy adventure, psychotronic, cult classic, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot:
time travel, sword and sorcery, barbarian, beast, sword, time portal, monster, villain, sword fight, warrior, gunfight, bird attack ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, new york, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, travelling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with pretty ...
Style:
arthurian, semi serious, feel good, humorous, psychotronic
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
time travel, king arthur, astronaut, nasa, medieval, fish out of water, arthurian legend, space adventure, jousting, camelot, yankee, astronomy ...
Time:
middle ages, year 1979, 6th century, medieval times
Place:
england, cornwall, connecticut, usa, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, disturbing, humorous, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, doctor who, changing the past or future, rescue, good versus evil, heroic mission, danger, escapades, save the world, alien encounter, androids and robots, space and aliens ...
Time:
90s, future, year 1999, 20th century, year 2000
Place:
usa, san francisco, north america, california
Similarity:
100%
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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 ...
Style:
saga, psychotronic, uplifting, cult classic, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
space adventure, space opera, time travel, astronaut, alien invasion, spacecraft, space, superhero, cosmic horror, intergalactic, master criminal, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
year 1979, future, year 1987, 80s, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Fantastic Four is an unreleased low-budget feature film completed in 1994. Created to secure copyright to the property, the producers never intended it for release although the director, actors, and other participants were not informed of this ...
Style:
saga, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, fast ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, boys' night
Plot:
superhero, comic book, flying, experiment gone awry, blind girl, multiverse, villain, pyrokinesis, superheroine, mutation, transformation, good versus evil ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Finding himself in a new era, and approaching retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, Indy must don his hat and pick up ...
Style:
saga, exciting, epic, anamorphic, tense ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
archaeologist, treasure hunt, indiana jones, time travel, relic hunter, college professor, treasure, treasure hunter, world war two, supernatural, knife fight, artifact ...
Time:
year 1969, year 1939, 20th century, year 1951, 1940s ...
Place:
greece, alps, new york, athens greece, germany ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Predominantly set during World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, ...
Style:
heroic, exciting, saga, psychotronic, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, boys' night, chick flick, teens ...
Plot:
superhero, superhuman powers, heroism, mad scientist, heroes, heroic mission, soldier, courage, world war two, super soldier, danger, nazi ...
Time:
year 2011, future, 20th century, year 1942, 2010s ...
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, new jersey, london ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Japan, China
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japan, where they train to perfect the art of becoming one. The turtles also assist a small village in an uprising.
Style:
light hearted, cult classic, grindhouse, funny, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
ninja, superhero, martial arts, vigilante, time machine, time travel, ninja turtle, comic book, female warrior, samurai, childhood, villain ...
Time:
90s, year 2016, 17th century, year 1993, 1900s ...
Place:
japan, new york, astoria oregon, asia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Slipstream is a 1989 post-apocalyptic science fiction adventure film. The plot has an emphasis on aviation and contains many common science-fiction themes, such as taking place in a dystopian future in which the landscape of the Earth itself has ...
Style:
apocalyptic, serious, stylized, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
aviator, adventurer, apocalypse, female warrior, chase, on the run, betrayal, bounty hunter, rescue, partner, danger, rivalry ...
Time:
year 1989, future
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
While operating behind enemy lines, Sgt. Mike Ransom learns of a Russian presence in North Vietnam. Ordered to obtain proof of this discovery, Ransom returns to enemy territory but is captured and subjected to a variety of tortures. Eventually he ...
Style:
macaroni combat, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film
Plot:
vietnam war, one man army, mission, thirst, ak 47, behind enemy lines, torture, warrior, hand to hand combat, brawl, dying words, village ...
Place:
vietnam, manila philippines
Similarity:
22%
732K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, psychotronic, exciting, epic ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
superhero, strong female character, superheroine, world war one, strong female lead, fight scenes, female warrior, mythology, good versus evil, tough girl, supernatural power, super powers ...
Time:
1910s, year 1918, year 2017, future, 2010s ...
Place:
london, ancient greece, belgium, big ben london, fictional island ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
During the alien invasion of 2022, one man flees through a wormhole to 1992, where attempt after attempt is made to catch and kill him.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, changing the past or future, time loop, time machine, terminator, soldier, danger, imaginary, heroic mission, escapades, rescue, alien invasion ...
Time:
future, year 1993, 90s, 20th century, year 1992 ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa, seattle
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.
Style:
political thriller, suspense, motion capture, surprise ending, psychotronic
Plot:
superhero, villain, soldier, forest, politics, prison, drone, warship, sidekick, assassination attempt, multiverse, avenger ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
japan, mexico, north america, baltimore, washington d.c. ...
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Airwolf is capable of supersonic speeds, invisible to radar and armed with ultra state-of-the-art hardware. Airwolf is the most awesome aerial weapon ever developed. When the helicopter is stolen by Libyan mercenaries, Michael Archangel, Project ...
Style:
cult classic, serious, suspenseful, dark comedy, independent film ...
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night
Plot:
helicopter, spy, battles, police, aviation, co pilot, military, flying, against the odds, super weapon, chases and races, lone wolves ...
Time:
80s
Place:
middle east, libya, california, paris france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last cannister of the ooze that created the Turtles, which Shredder wants to create an army of new mutants.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, semi serious, light, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
martial arts, superhero, ninja, ninja turtle, vigilante, anthropomorphic animal, comic book, mentor, talking animal, good versus evil, fight, antidote ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
21%
69K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, period piece, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
time travel, knight, time machine, archaeology, medieval, changing the past or future, danger, siege, twists and turns, parallel universe, time, sword and shield ...
Time:
medieval times, future, year 2003, middle ages, 14th century ...
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
Style:
exciting, suspense, tense, intense, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, espionage, spy, war, nazi germany, military, soldier, nazi soldier, commando mission, runaway, insubordination, rescue ...
Time:
1940s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
london, germany, poland, europe, england ...
Similarity:
21%
69K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Australia, India, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits as he meets new friend James Hook and the warrior Tiger Lily. They must band together to save ...
Style:
fairy tale, visually appealing, stylized, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, chick flick, adult
Plot:
magic, childhood, fantasy world, pirate, pirate ship, good versus evil, young heroes, mischievous children, child hero, heroes, youth, treasure hunt ...
Time:
1940s, future, year 2015, 1930s, 18th century
Place:
fictional island, vietnam, london
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Morocco
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman ...
Style:
visually stunning, epic, philosophical, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, chick flick, kids, boys' night ...
Plot:
superhero, batman, superhuman powers, revenge, justice, vigilante, heroes, violence, good versus evil, superman, death, super powers ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2015, year 2014, year 1981 ...
Place:
usa, washington d.c., kansas, africa, tijuana mexico ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his ...
Style:
feel good, exciting, funny, light, cult classic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, mad scientist, time, time loop, destiny, teenager, scientist, changing the past or future, inventor, fish out of water, high school ...
Time:
future, 80s, 1950s, year 1985, 20th century ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, north america
Similarity:
100%
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:
entertaining, humorous, cult classic, semi serious, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
androids and robots, space and aliens, superhero, robot, brutality, fantasy world, alien, escapades, good versus evil, youth, revenge, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
future, 80s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Power up with six incredible teens who out-maneuver and defeat evil everywhere as the Mighty Morphin Power Ranger, But this time the Power Rangers may have met their match, when they face off with the most sinister monster the galaxy has ever seen.
Style:
futuristic, stylized, cult classic, absurd, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
power rangers, female warrior, childhood, ninja, martial arts, good versus evil, kaiju, vengeance, violence, zombie, villain, teamwork ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995, prehistory, prehistoric times
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part of a childrens' crusade, on their way to rescue Jeruzalem. During the trip Dolf finds out the ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, epic, serious, stylized
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
time travel, youth, young heroes, heroes, heroic mission, young lovers, danger, rivalry, rescue, escapades, crusader, teenager ...
Time:
13th century, middle ages, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
jerusalem, middle east, holy land
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, UK, New Zealand, Hungary, Peru, China
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Plot unknown.
Style:
tense, captivating, exciting, entertaining, action adventure ...
Plot:
transformers, giant robot, transforming robot, aircraft, technology, universe, car, truck, cheetah, robot, superhero, holiday ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, peru, south america, north america
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general ...
Style:
retro, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, mind blowing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, mountain, nazi, two man army, winter, military, espionage, machine gun, fortress, castle, secret mission, army ranger ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
germany, alps, bavaria, europe, austria
Similarity:
19%
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