20 best movies like The Cat from Outer Space (1978)

List of the best movies like The Cat from Outer Space (1978): Good Boy!, Explorers, Flight of the Navigator, My Favorite Martian, Race to Witch Mountain, Meet Dave, A Knight in Camelot, Zathura: A Space Adventure, Coneheads, Shorts.

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Markimdb: 5.1
Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, drama, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

An intergalactic dog pilot from Sirius (the dog star), visits Earth to verify the rumors that dogs have failed to take over the planet.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, adventure, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

The visionary dreams of three curious and adventuresome young boys become an exciting reality in Explorers, the action-fantasy from director Joe Dante, who combines keen humor, warmth and fantasy with unexpected twists. In their makeshift laboratory, the boys use an amazing discovery and their ingenuity to build their own spaceship and launch themselves on a fantastic interplanetary journey.

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
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: 5.7
Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, adventure, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

    A taxi driver gets more than he bargained for when he picks up two teen runaways. Not only does the pair possess supernatural powers, but they're also trying desperately to escape people who have made them their targets.

    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: 4.7
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court." Here, a computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her laptop, which she uses to amaze the court.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay inside. Walter and Danny, who anticipate a boring day, are shocked when they begin playing Zathura, a space-themed board game, which they realize has mystical powers when their house is shot into space. With the help of an astronaut, the boys attempt to return home.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrefantastic, comedy, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    The Coneheads were a sketch on the Saturday Night Live television show of the late '70s which were expanded to feature-length proportions with this film. The story concerns Beldar (Dan Aykroyd) and Prymaat (Jane Curtin), who leave the planet Remulak to prepare for an invasion of Planet Earth. But due to a malfunction, they find themselves plunged into the Hudson River and forced to take up residence in Paramus, New Jersey where Beldar gets work as an appliance salesman and makes a deal for a phony social security card. Before long, all thoughts of invading Earth are left behind as Beldar and Prymaat quickly adapt to suburban life — except for their coneheads and metallic-sounding voices, they become a typical middle-class suburban family. The Coneheads have a child, Connie (Michelle Burke) and Beldar becomes a New York cab driver and starts up his own driving school.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, family
    CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
    Duration01:29

    A young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults alike set out to get their hands on it.

    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: 4.7
    Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet. But then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...

    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: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    When the pets accidentally get separated from their vacationing owners, Chance, Shadow, and Sassy navigate the mean streets of San Francisco, trying to find their home across the Golden Gate Bridge. But the road is blocked by a series of hazards, both man and beast.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrefantastic, adventure, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

      After a construction project begins digging in their neighborhood, best friends Tuck, Munch and Alex inexplicably begin to receive strange, encoded messages on their cell phones. Convinced something bigger is going on, they go to their parents and the authorities. When everyone around them refuses to take the messages seriously, the three embark on a secret adventure to crack the code and follow it to its source. But taking matters into their own hands gets the trio in way over their heads when they discover a mysterious being from another world who desperately needs their help. The epic, suspenseful and exciting journey that follows will change all of their lives forever.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:29

      The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks face the risk of being exposed to the normal-sized world.

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

      A lab accident gives a hound named Shoeshine some serious superpowers -- a secret that the dog eventually shares with the young boy who becomes his owner and friend.

      Markimdb: 2.6
      Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      Seven disgusting kids but nevertheless of interesting personality are being made of the green mud coming out of garbage can. Once alive their master gives them rules to obey although they think that life is funnier without following stupid regulations like no television or no candy. Naturally this will cause some conflicts.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genreaction, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:25

      A lonely cat living in a mall pet shop has a sour outlook on life until, in the midst of the holiday rush, she’s swept up into a robbery and a friendship with a human girl.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      A young boy is scared of the monster under his bed. He asks his 6th grade brother to swap rooms for the night as a bet that the monster really exists. Soon the brother becomes friends with the monster and discovers a whole new world of fun and games under his bed where pulling pranks on kids and other monsters is the main attraction.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrefantastic, comedy, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      Fred Z. Randall is geeky and obnoxious spacecraft designer, who gets the chance to make his dream come true and travel to Mars as a member of the first manned flight there.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      Paulie, an intelligent parrot who actually talks, relates the story of his struggle to a Russian immigrant who works as a janitor at the research institute where he is housed and neglected. Paulie's story begins many years earlier when he is given as a gift to a little girl who stutters. Eventually, he teaches the girl to speak correctly but is taken away by her father because he believes the girl cannot distinguish fantasy from reality because she believes the bird can talk. Paulie goes through a series of adventures with a pawn shop owner, an aging widow, a Mexican-American troubadour and a would be thief before being taken to the institute where he now lives

      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
      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: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, family
      CountryUSA, France, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
      Duration01:40

      A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.

      Markimdb: 3.3
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA

      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.

      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: 3.3
      Genrefantastic, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:32

      Hot Bot is the hilarious journey of two sexually repressed and unpopular teenage geeks who accidentally discover a life-like super-model sex bot (Bardot).

      Markimdb: 3.5
      Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, family, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since become defunct. A retired spy Marissa (Jessica Alba) is thrown back into the action along with her stepchildren when a maniacal Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven) attempts to take over the world. In order to save the world, Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook) must team up with their hated stepmother. Carmen and Juni have since also grown up and will provide gadgets to them.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrecomedy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA

      Bingo, the runaway circus dog, is off the leash and saving Chuckie's life! Bingo and the boy become the best of friends in this canine comedy featuring doggy disguises and skateboarding, pinball and prison. Chuckie and his parents (Cindy Williams and David Rasche) are moving house, a thousand miles away, but Bingo won't be allowed to join them. Chuckie and Bingo's determination to be reunited is t

      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
      Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:22

      Conrad and Sally Walden are home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside, and there is nothing to do. Until The Cat in the Hat walks in the front door. He introduces them to their imagination, and at first it's all fun and games, until things get out of hand, and The Cat must go, go, go, before their parents get back.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama, adventure, family
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration01:20

      The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA

      The Galactic Patrol is back - but they've lost Deputy Rod Allbright's body. It's been stolen by B'KR, the most fiendish villain in the galaxy, which leaves Rod's mind sharing one body with his annoying cousin Elspeth. Stranded on a mysterious alien planet, our young heroes embark on a mission to find the only being who can stop B'KR once and for all, the legendary time-strider himself; Art Allbright - who also happens to be Rod's dad. The Galactic Patrol's high-flying adventures continue in this thrilling second film based on the global best-selling book series from acclaimed author Bruce Coville and Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing. This rip-roaring sequel draws the crew of the Good Ship Ferkel into a web of alien plots that will test their courage to the utmost -- and ultimately bring them face-to-face with one of the galaxy's most guarded secrets.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrefantasy, musical, adventure, family
      CountryUSA

      Dorothy Gale, a shy kindergarten teacher is swept away to the magic land of Oz where she embarks on a quest to return home

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, melodrama, adventure, family
      CountryUSA

      When three high-school friends invent a time-machine, they decide to use it to go back in time and prevent other youngsters from making humiliating mistakes.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      Mary Beth is a marine biologist that gets annoyed when a dog called Zeus stows aboard her research boat. Nevertheless she is intrigued when the intrusive canine makes best-friends with her captive dolphin, Roxanne. She falls in love with Zeus's owner, Terry, a musician who rides a bike.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrecomedy, drama, family, sport
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:21

      When the five puppies stumble upon the Five Power Rings of Inspiron (alien artifacts abandoned on Earth 16 years ago), they all develop super powers, and are enlisted in Captain Canine's battle against the evil Darkon alien Commander Drex. Captain Canine is commander of space ship Megasis and is from the planet Inspiron. He is the mortal enemy of the Commander Drex. In charge of protecting Princess Jorala and the Five Power Rings from Drex, Megasis places the rings in hiding on the planet Earth, and takes the form of a German Shepherd, intending to stay on earth in very deep cover. Adopted by aspiring young comic book artist Ian Shaeffer, and renamed Captain Canine, he spends 16 happy years on Earth, as Ian recounts the stories of his space adventures. But when the five Buddies discover the Power Rings and instantly develop superpowers, Captain Canine has to train them very quickly indeed - for Commander Drex is headed back to earth, and this time he's determined to succeed.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrecomedy, adventure, family, sport
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration01:39

      When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genreaction, comedy, drama, adventure, family, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:47

      Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through 200 miles of rough jungle terrain. High jinks prevail when Capt. Sam Cahill promises the Montagnard villagers of Dak Nhe that he'll replace their prized elephant in time for an important ritual. But for Capt. T.C. Doyle, the mission becomes a jumbo-sized headache!

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrefantasy, comedy, musical, adventure, family, music
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration02:01

      Elmo loves his fuzzy, blue blanket, and would never let anything happen to it. However, a tug-of-war with his friend Zoe sends his blanket to a faraway land, and Elmo in hot pursuit. Facing life without his cherished blanket, Elmo musters all of his determination and courage and heads off on an action-packed rescue mission that plunges him into Grouchland-a place full of grouchy creatures, stinky garbage and the villainous Huxley. Along the way, Elmo learns an important lesson about sharing, realizing that he was selfish with his friend and responsible for what happened.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:32

      A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.

      Markimdb: 3.7
      Genrefantasy, comedy, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:21

      The Flintstones are at it again. The Flintstones and the Rubbles head for Rock Vegas with Fred hoping to court the lovely Wilma. Nothing will stand in the way of love, except for the conniving Chip Rockefeller who is the playboy born in Baysville but who has made it in the cutthroat town of Rock Vegas. Will Fred win Wilma's love?

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, family, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's spent his life on a Kentucky farm amidst the sorely mistaken notion that he's a debonair thoroughbred. Once he faces the fact that his stark stripes mark him as different, he decides he'll race anyway. And with help from the young girl who raised him, he just might end up in the winner's circle.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:34

      An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.

      Markimdb: 3.8
      Genrefantastic, comedy, family
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany

      An 11-year-old boy's amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, before it helps him to fulfill his ambition of becoming an astronaut.

      Markimdb: 3.8
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure, family
      CountryGermany, USA
      Duration01:30

      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 fact. It was produced by low-budget specialist Roger Corman and Bernd Eichinger (who also produced another Fantastic Four movie in 2005).

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:25

      After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.

      Markimdb: 2.7
      Genrecomedy, family, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      Jack Cooper (Matt LeBlanc) could be a world-class baseball pitcher if he didn't keep buckling under the pressure. He tries to keep his spirits up after he's traded to a minor league team but loses all hope when he discovers that Ed, one of his teammates, is a chimp. Ed used to be the team mascot, but was promoted to third base when the owners realized he had a talent for baseball. As Jack struggles to get used to his new surroundings, Ed helps him regain his confidence on and off the field.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genreaction, comedy, adventure, family, western
      CountryUSA, Germany, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
      Duration02:00

      A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.




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