Satellite dish movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant satellite dish movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out independent film, serious, suspense, humorous, psychotronic and semi serious films and TV shows about / with satellite dish, death, danger, flashback, explosion, gun, father son relationship, murder, satellite and father daughter relationship plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as satellite dish: The Arrival (1996), Stay Tuned (1992), TerrorVision (1986), Color Out of Space (2019), The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010), The Quiet Earth (1985), Good Bye Lenin! (2003), The Dish (2000), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Revolt (2017).

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 6.2
 38K
The Arrival (1996)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, serious, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, conspiracy, evil alien, extraterrestrial, space and aliens, investigation, disguise, alien, space, supernatural, ufo, black hole ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, future
Place: mexico, latin america, central america
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 6.3
 14K
Stay Tuned (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Salesman Roy Knable spends all his free time watching television, to the exasperation of his wife, Helen. One day, TV salesman Spike convinces Roy to buy a satellite dish offering 666 channels. The new addition to Roy's home entertainment ...
Style: humorous, spoof, satirical, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: kids, chick flick
Plot: satire, television, obsession, remote control, survival, couple relations, cheerleader, crumbling marriage, media satire, hostage, sword fight, love ...
Time: 80s, year 1992, 90s
Place: seattle
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 5.5
 8K
TerrorVision (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A family's new satellite TV system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world.
Style: horror comedy, cult horror, psychotronic, scary, slasher ...
Plot: creature feature, television, exploitation, body horror, alien invasion, satellite, alien, punk, creature, alien disguised as human, alien on earth, friendly alien ...
Time: 80s
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Color Out of Space (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Malaysia, Portugal
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land ...
Style: suspense, lovecraft, suspenseful, surreal, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mutation, farm, cosmic horror, husband wife relationship, alien invasion, farmhouse, meteorite, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, infected, self mutilation, mind control ...
Time: future
Place: new england, arizona, massachusetts
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Balthazar Blake is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath. Balthazar can't do it alone, so he recruits Dave Stutler, a seemingly average guy who demonstrates hidden potential, as ...
Style: fairy tale, visually appealing, exciting, entertaining, dark fantasy ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: magic, witch, good versus evil, magical, witchcraft, sorcerer, wizards and magicians, apprentice, supernatural ability, magician, fantasy world, training ...
Time: year 2010, middle ages, 2010s, 2000s, year 2000 ...
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, usa, india, manhattan new york city ...
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The Quiet Earth (1985)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
Style: philosophical, mind bending, mindfuck, surreal, apocalyptic ...
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, alone, male nudity, dystopia, end of the world, post apocalyptic, disaster, distopia, vestiges of humanity, love triangle, cyberpunk ...
Time: year 1985, future
Place: new zealand
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 7.7
 152K
Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story: An affectionate and refreshing East/West-Germany comedy about a boy who’s mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell and when she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happen (since she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, witty, touching, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: berlin wall, coma, politics, capitalism, idealism, communism, society, cold war, culture clash, childhood, amnesia, communist ...
Time: year 2003, year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: east germany, germany, german democratic republic, berlin germany, east berlin ...
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 7.2
 17K
The Dish (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The true story of how the Parkes Radio Telescope was used to relay the live television of man's first steps on the moon, during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
Style: touching, humorous, feel good, suspense, factual ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: nasa, moon landing, moon, space travel, humanity, friendship, social relations, human spirit, ambition, hopes, underdog, space ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 2000, year 1969
Place: australia, new south wales
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, psychedelic, mind bending, cerebral ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, adult
Plot: space travel, astronaut, outer space, space, artificial intelligence, moon, scientist, computer, trippy, space opera, human versus computer, space station ...
Time: future, year 2001, 20th century, stone age, year 1968 ...
Place: persia
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Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories.
Style: fairy tale, philosophical, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: genie, djinn, mythology, desire, storytelling, magic, lonely, self discovery, wizards and magicians, changing lives, female protagonist, problem ...
Time: 16th century, 17th century, 2020s, future, 1800s
Place: istanbul turkey, ottoman empire, turkey, london
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 5.3
 10K
Revolt (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The story of humankind's last stand against a cataclysmic alien invasion. Set in the war-ravaged African countryside, a U.S. soldier and a French foreign aid worker team up to survive the alien onslaught. Their bond will be tested as they ...
Style: absurd, suspenseful, perverse, surprise ending, road movie ...
Plot: alien invasion, murder, desert, female warrior, terminator, survival, resistance, robot, amnesia, post apocalyptic, chaos, distopia ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: africa, kenya
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 5.6
 1K
The Chairman (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An American scientist is sent to Red China to steal the formula for a newly developed agricultural enzyme. What he is not told by his bosses is that a micro-sized bomb has been planted in his brain so that should the mission ever look likely to ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, undercover, countdown, race against time, politics, computer, spy mission, top secret, soldier, military ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: china, russia, asia, usa, hong kong ...
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 7.7
 279K
Wind River (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, neo western, neo noir, surprise ending ...
Plot: investigation, murder, snow, rape, winter, fbi, murder investigation, native american reservation, violence, fbi agent, native american, forest ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: wyoming, usa
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Heaven's a Drag (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Simon and Mark live together in London. When Mark dies of AIDS, Simon gets on with his life rather quickly, too quickly to suit the ghost of Mark, who reappears to disrupt Simon's cruising and then moves back into their flat to prompt Simon to ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, sexual, touching ...
Plot: gay, aids, ghost, hiv, lgbtq, lgbt, homosexual, gay bashing, male nudity, lesbian, gay slur, cross dressing ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, england, london
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 6.9
 4K
Tambourine (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Mohammad is sent to an apartment situated in uptown Tehran to install their satellite dishes, while having satellite TV is illegal in Iran. He arrives there with a girl named Shirin who seems to be his girlfriend and is in need of some money to ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sincere, islamic ...
Plot: rich and poor, culture clash, friendship, couples, family relations, disorder, society, nothing goes right, parents and children, farce, satellite, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east, tehran iran
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Operation Rogue (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia, a terrorist organization has stolen materials to create a dangerous chemical bomb. It is up to Captain Max Randall and his team of Marines to stop them. But when Randall's team kill the terrorist ...
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, military, soldier, jungle, danger, confined, female warrior, violent content, heroes, rescue, kidnapping, bomb ...
Time: 21st century
Place: southeast asia, asia, the philippines, manila philippines
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 5.8
 256K
Battleship (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of ...
Style: exciting, serious, entertaining, futuristic, action packed ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: alien invasion, alien, military, u.s. navy, ufo, battleship, navy, ship, evil alien, invasion, sea battle, battles ...
Time: year 2012, future, 2010s, year 2006, year 2005 ...
Place: hawaii, london, pacific ocean, tokyo, new york ...
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 7.2
 102K
Videodrome (1983)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, disturbing, psychological, cerebral ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, body horror, hallucination, surrealism, television, mind control, virtual reality, insanity, suicide, brainwashing, dystopia, mind game ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: pittsburgh, toronto ontario canada, usa, malaysia, canada ...
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 7.2
 144K
They Live (1988)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No ...
Style: exciting, allegory, political, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: conspiracy, alien, alien invasion, distopia, dystopia, mind control, ufo, anti conformity, invasion, evil alien, monster, uncover truth ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: los angeles
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 4.1
 384
Snowman's Pass (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Still struggling to accept her fiancé's death in a rock climbing accident, mountain guide Diana Pennington gratefully accepts industrialist Curt Seaver's offer to find the body using a new satellite imagery technology his company has ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, cliffhanger, enigmatic
Plot: mountain, rock climbing, mountain climbing, missing person, woman in danger, danger, dishonesty, twists and turns, climbing, woman in jeopardy, pistol, marriage proposal ...
Place: vancouver
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 5.0
 8K
Meteor (1979)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it will hit it will cause a incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use ...
Style: apocalyptic, psychotronic, grindhouse, fast, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, cold war, nasa, apocalypse, 007, asteroid, space station, post apocalypse, space travel, avalanche, translator ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, russia, hong kong, washington d.c., france ...
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Turtles Can Fly (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France, Iraq
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Turtles can fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iran border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
Style: sincere, bleak, emotional, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: childhood, orphan, children in wartime, blind character, refugee, children, coming of age, camp, child, muslim, anti war, survival ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: kurdistan, iraq, middle east, iran, afghanistan ...
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 5.6
 278K
Hulk (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers massive radiation exposure in his laboratory that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry.
Style: serious, exciting, intense, action packed, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: superhero, experiment gone awry, genetics, superhuman powers, chase, transformation, mutant, mad scientist, military, scientist, repressed memory, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 70s, 80s, 60s ...
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, central america, south america ...
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Hansel & Gretel (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Hansel and Gretel is a 2002 film adaptation of the Brothers Grimm children's story. It stars Jacob Smith and Taylor Momsen as the eponymous characters. It includes the Sandman, played by Howie Mandel and Sinbad as a raven.
Style: fairy tale, semi serious, atmospheric, humorous, whimsical
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: witch, adventurer, forest, good versus evil, young heroes, escapades, danger, siblings relations, troll, evil stepmother, legends and myths, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 2002
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 7.2
 269K
GoldenEye (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: James Bond must unmask the mysterious head of the Janus Syndicate and prevent the leader from utilizing the GoldenEye weapons system to inflict devastating revenge on Britain.
Style: exciting, intense, serious, saga, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, girls' night, manly, boys' night
Plot: james bond, espionage, spy, satellite, woman with a gun, agent, mission, bond girl, romancing partners, terrorism, 007, organized crime ...
Time: year 1995, 90s, 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: london, paris france, europe, cuba, britain ...
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Four Christmases (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Brad and Kate have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bust -- big time. Stuck at the city airport after all departing flights are canceled, the couple is ...
Style: humorous, funny, feel good, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: christmas, holiday, dysfunctional family, family relations, couple relations, in-laws, family bonds, brothers, marriage, family drama, love, christmas season ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa
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Far from Home (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Charlie Cox should have stopped for gas in California. While he's on a cross-country trip with his teenage daughter, Joleen, his car hits empty in a creepy town in Nevada. With nary a drop of fuel to be found, Charlie and Joleen stop for the ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, scary, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, watching sex, stalking, murder, trailer park, psychopath, parents and children, family in danger, youth, father daughter relationship, teenager, stalker ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: nevada, usa
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 6.9
 28K
Calendar Girls (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, inspirational, realistic ...
Plot: charity, small town, female nudity, women, leukemia, female empowerment, elderly, life philosophy, model, human spirit, friendship, family drama ...
Time: 90s, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, britain, northern england, los angeles ...
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Aliens in the Attic (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A group of kids must protect their vacation home from invading aliens.
Style: entertaining, semi serious, humorous, teen, funny ...
Audience: teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: alien, supernatural, teenager, buddies, space and aliens, friends, young heroes, youth, alien encounter, group of friends, teenage life, mind control ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
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 6.8
 10K
101 Reykjavík (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Denmark, France, Norway, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl is interested in him, but he stands back from commitment. His mother's Spanish ...
Style: atmospheric, dark comedy, black comedy, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lesbian, porn, lgbt, nude, love triangle, character study, family problems, love affair, eccentric family, life turned upside down, infidelity, female nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: reykjavik iceland, iceland, europe
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