20 best movies like The Brother from Another Planet (1984)

List of the best movies like The Brother from Another Planet (1984): Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Pixels, Antibirth, Sleeper, Real Men, A Timeless Christmas, Project X, Robot & Frank, How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Ghostbusters.

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Markimdb: 5.9
Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, crime
CountryUSA, Hong Kong, China, Canada, Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom
Duration02:29

After supervillain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrefantastic, action, comedy
CountryUSA, China, Canada
Duration02:02

Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy, detective
CountryCanada, USA
Duration02:16

In a desolate community full of drug-addled Marines and rumors of kidnapping, a wild-eyed stoner named Lou wakes up after a crazy night of partying with symptoms of a strange illness and recurring visions. As she struggles to get a grip on reality, the stories of conspiracy spread.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantastic, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:24

Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.

Markimdb: 6
Genrefantastic, action, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

Jim Belushi plays a super-competent secret agent on the trail of Russian thugs. John Ritter plays a milquetoast dad who gets mixed up in the caper. The story follows their adventures over the course of a week, in which Ritter develops some guts and Belushi gets in touch with his sensitive side.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA

Charles Whitley travels from 1903 to 2020 where he meets Megan Turner, a tour guide at his historic mansion, and experiences a 21st Century Christmas.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious 'Project X'. Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there is more to the secret project than he is being told.

Markimdb: 7
Genrefantastic, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

A delightful dramatic comedy, a buddy picture, and, for good measure, a heist film. Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. His grown children are concerned about their father’s well-being and buy him a caretaker robot. Initially resistant to the idea, Frank soon appreciates the benefits of robotic support – like nutritious meals and a clean house – and eventually begins to treat his robot like a true companion. With his robot’s assistance, Frank’s passion for his old, unlawful profession is reignited, for better or worse.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, music
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:16

Croydon, 1977. A trio of punk teenagers goes to a party to meet girls, but they find that girls there are very different from what they expected.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy
CountryUSA, Australia
Duration01:52

    Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    Based on the hit web series of the same name, the science fiction/adventure/comedy, Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie, follows a disgruntled gamer who must overcome his fear of the worst video game of all time in order to save his fans. Hilarity ensues as a simple road trip becomes an extravagant pursuit of the unexpected.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:44

    For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing uncomfortably close, Paul escapes on the first RV that passes by his compound in Area 51. Fortunately, it contains the two earthlings who are most likely to rescue and harbor an alien on the run.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:26

    Smith, a typical young college student who likes partying and engaging in acts of random sex and debauchery, has been having some interesting dreams revolving around two gorgeous women -- and is shocked when he meets the dream girls in real life. Lorelei looks just like his fantasy brunette, while a mysterious red-haired girl being chased by assassins draws him into an international conspiracy. Or is it all just a drug-induced hallucination?

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:03

      The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life – so he decides to make his world a better place... by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as he thinks.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:46

      Stranded at a summer camp when aliens attack the planet, four teens with nothing in common embark on a perilous mission to save the world.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. While trying to save their planet, the aliens encounter a new problem, as their ship becomes smitten with an Earth woman.

      Markimdb: 3.7
      Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      Follows 20-year-old Drea, who reluctantly takes a job babysitting for a professor of a college she hopes to attend. Struggling to entertain the professor's children Trissy and Jake, along with her own little brother Phillip , Drea takes them on a hike, unaware that mysterious alien critters have crash-landed and started devouring every living thing they encounter.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
      CountryUSA

      "Aliens Stole My Boyfriend" - Two cute alien chicks crash land their space buggy in the parking lot of the motor court looking for Earth boyfriends. "Coma Girl" - A macabre maintenance man falls in love with a comatose patient at the convalescent home where he works much to the dismay of her faithful husband. "Brain Robbers In Love" - A powerful older woman steals the body of a young woman using a top-secret brain-swapping devise stolen from a government vault. "The Problem With Clones" - A skip-tracer must search through a family of clones to find the sister who murdered her look alike. "Four-Eyes" - A paraplegic hit man is encouraged to pursue his gruesome talent by a man who wants to murder his ex-wife. "Life After Men" - In the near future, males are virtually extinct from disease and are tracked down my man hunters working for the new government.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
      CountryRussia, USA
      Duration02:00

      A chronicle of Russia's transition from communism to capitalism.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:26

        70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:58

          In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace - until the alien apocalypse arrived. Now three teenagers-one human, one vampire, and one zombie-have to team up to figure out how to get rid of the visitors.

          Markimdb: 4.7
          Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
          CountryUSA

          When a tiny intergalactic starship crashes into the bedroom of middle-schooler Rod Allbright, he is enlisted by the extraterrestrial Galactic Patrol, a group of out-of-this-world lawmen, and must race to save the world from Total Planetary Disaster with his cousin Elspeth.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy
          CountryCanada, USA, Spain, South Korea
          Duration01:58

          A woman discovers that severe catastrophic events are somehow connected to the mental breakdown from which she's suffering.

          Markimdb: 4.5
          Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:51

          A giant alien mosquito-type insect is drawn to earth from the CO2 pollution in search of blood. Del, a government agent, loses loved ones to the creature and is on a personal vendetta while the Dr. Kempler is captivated by it and attempts to help the creature cleanse the earth.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:30

          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 overjoyed to have him back, but just as perplexed as he is by the fact that he hasn't aged. When a NASA scientist discovers a UFO nearby, David gets the chance to unravel the mystery and recover the life he lost.

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genrefantastic, action, comedy
          CountryUSA

          Space Cop is the story of a cop from the future of space who travels back in time to the present and is teamed up with a cop from the past who is unfrozen in the present. Together, they must defeat evil aliens with a sinister plan. Out of time and out of place, these two unwitting heroes must work together to save the world from a group of renegade aliens and the re-animated brain of a mad scientist bent on global extinction.

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, drama
          CountryLithuania, USA

          In the near future, the sun has become so toxic people can no longer leave their houses in daytime, and normal life is conducted mostly inside the virtual realm. Against this dystopian backdrop, a dying man seeks to ensure the future well-being of his family, while coping with what it means to be human in this new reality.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrefantastic, comedy, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:34

          Struggling actor John Person agrees to drive a blue suitcase from Los Angeles to the small town of Baker, Calif., and hand it over to a mysterious cowboy in return for having his credit card debt of $27,000 paid off. Upon his arrival, John can't find the cowboy but receives an ominously head-shaped package he's supposed to hang onto. While waiting, John gets close to Ruthie, whose psychotic boyfriend, Randy, keeps threatening to kill him.

          Markimdb: 3
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
          CountryUSA, Bulgaria, Canada

          What starts off as a typical day on the streets of Seattle soon becomes a terrifying bloodbath, when a great white shark devours an alien space probe…and ROBOSHARK is born. The U.S. military comes after it with guns blazing, but it’s the power of social media that puts an ambitious newscaster and her tech-savvy daughter ahead of everyone else in the race to stop the destruction.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:49

          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."

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
          CountryUSA

          After status-obsessed teen Sara has sex for the first time, she wakes up the next day nine months pregnant-with an alien.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:46

          In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his new skyscraper. When tiny mechanical aliens land for a recharge, they decide to stay and help out.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:20

          When a giant alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages across the city of Los Angeles, it is up to one clever exterminator and his security guard sidekick to kill the creature before the entire city is destroyed.

          Markimdb: 3.8
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy
          CountryUSA

          Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water again, you can’t even get across the sand! BLOOD BEACH meets SPRING BREAKERS in an ace monster mash-up of smart nostalgia and up-to-the-minute visual effects. After an all-night graduation beach party, a group of hung-over students wake up under blazing sun to find their numbers somewhat depleted. An enormous alien creature has burrowed down deep and anyone foolish enough to make contact with the sand finds themselves at the mercy of a sea of flesh-eating tentacles. Will they ever be able to escape its carnivorous clutches?

          Markimdb: 4.9
          Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:35

          A comedic drama about a group of people (and several robots) living on a space station in a 1970’s-version of the future. When a new Assistant Captain arrives, she inadvertently ignites tensions among the crew, prompting them to confront their darkest secrets. Barely contained lust, jealousy, and anger all bubble to the surface, becoming just as dangerous as the asteroid that’s heading right for them.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:00

          A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, TORCH SONG TRILOGY chronicles a New Yorker's search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him.

          Markimdb: 5
          Genrefantastic, comedy, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:34

          News producer, Tim O'Hara gets himself fired for unwillingly compromising his bosses' daughter during a live transmission. A little later, he witnesses the crashing of a small Martian spacecraft, realizing his one-time chance of delivering a story that will rock the earth. Since Tim took the original but scaled-down spaceship with him, the Martian follows him to retrieve it.

          Markimdb: 4.6
          Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, crime
          CountryUSA

          Amanda, an employee at an upscale clothing store, is leading a relatively lonely and unremarkable life. All this changes when an alien that's been held a secret military installation excapes by taking over the body of one of the base employees. Amanda finds the fugitive alien and decides to help it hide from the government agents chasing it, a seemingly easy task, as the alien must change host bodies every few days. Will she be able to help her new companion make a clean getaway?

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:34

          When Jack, an assistant District Attorney, takes Lee, a shoplifter caught in the act, home with him for Christmas, the unexpected happens and love blossoms.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
          Duration01:40

          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 discover three handsome men underneath. After absorbing the native culture via television, the spacemen are ready to hit the dating scene in 1980s Los Angeles.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, melodrama
          CountryFrance, United Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:06

          In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genrefantastic, comedy, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:00

          Skeptical journalist Ozzie Graham investigates a support group for alien abductees to write about the members' supposed encounters. The more he digs into their oddball claims, the more he realizes there is truth in their stories and possibly even signs that point to his own alien abduction.

          Markimdb: 4.1
          Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Japan, France
          Duration01:44

          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.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:44

          Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, comedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:46

          Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
          CountryUSA, China
          Duration01:52

          The Men in Black have always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe. In this new adventure, they tackle their biggest, most global threat to date: a mole in the Men in Black organization.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrecomedy, melodrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:37

          Isabelle's life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectual friends of both sexes she meets there. Her grandmother remains less than impressed and decides to hire a good old-fashioned Jewish matchmaker to help Isabelle's love-life along. Enter pickle-maker Sam who immediately takes to Isabelle. She however is irritated by the whole business, at least to start with.

          Markimdb: 4
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy
          CountryUSA

          In the near future, the President of the United States hires a team of mercenaries to retrieve an alien bio-weapon from a top secret research facility orbiting the Earth. The plan is working until the cargo escapes.




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