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Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | lonelinessdancefriendship |
Locations: | outer spacewheelchairhelicopter |
Characters: | police shootoutsingle motheralienbrother sister relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | alien contactinterspecies friendshiphandicapped boydrinking strawskittlesmcdonald's restaurantcoca colastrandedcartoon on tvextraterrestrialjobflyingsingle parentproduct placementsuburb β¦birthday partyacronym in titleexploding cardisguisecaliforniafalling from heightgunfightshotgunshootoutchasedancingcharacter name in title (See All) |
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister, Gertie, and the children decid β¦e to keep its existence a secret. Soon, however, E.T. falls ill, resulting in government intervention and a dire situation for both Elliott and the alien. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | lonelinessdancefriendship |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | single motheralienbrother sister relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | alien contactinterspecies friendshipstrandedcartoon on tvextraterrestrialflyingproduct placementsuburbacronym in titledisguisecaliforniachasecharacter name in title |
Jupiter Jones was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning other people's houses and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine Wise, a genetically engineered ex- β¦military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along - her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | single motheralienfamily relationships |
Story: | alien contactjobflyingsingle parentproduct placementexploding cardisguisefalling from heightgunfightshootoutchasecharacter name in title |
This is the story of a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth Hughes who makes friends with an innocent alien giant robot that came from outer space. Meanwhile, a paranoid U.S. Government agent named Kent Mansley arrives in town, determined to destroy the giant at all costs. It's up to Hogarth to protect h β¦im by keeping him at Dean McCoppin's place in the junkyard. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | single motheralien |
Story: | alien contactflyingsingle parentfalling from heightchasecharacter name in title |
Superman does a lot in his newest adventure. Archvillain Lex Luthor, determined to make the world safe for nuclear arms merchants, creates a new being to challenge the Man of Steel: the radiation-charged Nuclear Man. The two super-powered foes clash in an explosive screen extranvaganza that sees Sup β¦erman save the Statue of Liberty, repulse a volcanic eruption of Mount Etna, rebuild the demolished Great Wall of China and perform many more spetactular feats. (Read More)
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | police shootout |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | flyingsingle parentproduct placementexploding cardisguiseshotgunshootoutcharacter name in title |
While Andy is away at summer camp Woody has been toynapped by Al McWiggin, a greedy collector and proprietor of "Al's Toy Barn"! In this all-out rescue mission, Buzz and his friends Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog, Rex and Hamm springs into action to rescue Woody from winding up as a museum piece. They β¦must find a way to save him before he gets sold in Japan forever and they'll never see him again! (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | single mother |
Story: | flyingsuburbfalling from heightgunfightshootoutchase |
Dr. Helen Benson is summoned to a military facility with several other scientists when an alien spacecraft of sorts arrives in New York City. Aboard is a human-like alien and a giant robot of immense size and power. The alien identifies himself as Klaatu and says he has come to save the Earth. The U β¦S military and political authorities see him as a threat however and decide to use so-called intensive interrogation techniques on him but Dr. Benson decides to facilitate his escape. When she learns exactly what he means when he says he is there to save the Earth, she tries to convince him to change his intentions. (Read More)
Locations: | outer spacewheelchairhelicopter |
Characters: | alien |
Story: | alien contactmcdonald's restaurantextraterrestrialsingle parentproduct placementchase |
Picking up where "Superman: The Movie" left off, three criminals, General Zod ('Terence Stamp' (qv)), Ursa, ('Sarah Douglas (I)' (qv)), and Non ('Jack O'Halloran (I)' (qv)) from the planet Krypton are released from the Phantom Zone by a nuclear explosion in space. They descend upon Earth where they β¦could finally rule. Superman, meanwhile, is in love with Lois Lane ('Margot Kidder' (qv)), who finds out who he really is. Lex Luthor ('Gene Hackman' (qv)) escapes from prison and is determined to destroy Superman by joining forces with the three criminals. (Read More)
Locations: | outer spacehelicopter |
Characters: | police shootoutalien |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | coca colaflyingproduct placementexploding carfalling from heightcharacter name in title |
A spaceship shaped like a human lands face first on Liberty Island. Its crew (of tiny, intelligent, and unemotional beings) is looking for an orb sent from its planet to extract the oceans' salt, which will ruin Earth. The orb is in the possession of Josh, the fifth-grade son of a single mom whose c β¦ar strikes the ambulatory alien spaceship and cripples its power supply. The crew has 48 hours to recover the orb, throw it in the Atlantic, and leave Earth. Over the course of two days, the ship's crew experiences chaos and emotion in New York. Do Earth's giants - Josh and his mom - have anything to teach these brainy aliens? Meanwhile, mutiny is afoot and the cops are closing in. (Read More)
Themes: | dance |
Locations: | helicopter |
Characters: | police shootoutsingle motheralien |
Story: | product placementgunfightshootoutdancingcharacter name in title |
LAPD lieutenant Mike Harrigan ('Danny Glover' (qv)) and his cocky detective partner Jerry Lambert ('Bill Paxton' (qv)) soon realize that what seemed a bloody feud between voodoo high priest King Willie's ('Calvin Lockhart' (qv)) Jamaican gangs and Ramon Vega's ('Corey Rand' (qv)) Colombian drug gang β¦ is actually the work of a scary third party. Peter Keyes's ('Gary Busey' (qv)) federal team shields the crime scene even for the LAPD, but after forensics proves it must be an alien, who keeps making victims, the chase brings them all together. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Locations: | helicopter |
Characters: | police shootoutalien |
Story: | exploding carcaliforniafalling from heightgunfightshootoutchasecharacter name in title |
Based off of a one time T.V. show, two Los Angeles S.W.A.T. officers Jim Street and Brian Gamble were sent in to foil an extremely violent bank robbery. Although they thwarted the robbery, they shot a hostage in the process. Street was suspended from S.W.A.T. while Gamble was fired altogether. After β¦ 6 months, a veteran S.W.A.T. officer, Daniel Harrelson or "Hondo", is told to assemble a S.W.A.T. team for his division. He chooses other S.W.A.T. officers as well as 3 rookies. However, after they pass the S.W.A.T. training, they receive a message that a French crime boss, known as Alex Montell is trying to escape from prison. This will not be easy to prevent, especially after Montell promises $100 Million to his rescuers. (Read More)
Locations: | helicopter |
Characters: | police shootoutsingle mother |
Story: | product placementbirthday partyacronym in titleexploding carcaliforniagunfightshotgunshootoutchase |
After Nick is murdered by his own partner, he joins the Rest in Peace Department to protect the world from the undeads. While working with his new partner, many undeads are seen gathering in Boston. Soon he realizes that someone close to him is behind all a plot to bring on the apocalypse.
Characters: | police shootout |
Story: | acronym in titleexploding cardisguisefalling from heightgunfightshotgunshootoutchase |
Just before the destruction of the planet Krypton, scientist Jor-El sends his infant son Kal-El on a spaceship to Earth. Raised by kindly farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent, young Clark discovers the source of his superhuman powers and moves to Metropolis to fight evil. As Superman, he battles the vil β¦lainous Lex Luthor, while, as novice reporter Clark Kent, he attempts to woo co-worker Lois Lane (Read More)
Locations: | outer spacehelicopter |
Characters: | alien |
Story: | alien contactflyingproduct placementdisguisecaliforniafalling from heightshootoutcharacter name in title |
When a small town is invaded by aliens from outer space who are capturing and killing the townspeople, no one takes them seriously. Why? The aliens all look like circus clowns, use weapons that look clown like, and all have painted on smiles. Only a few of the young people in the town realize the da β¦nger and of course no one believes them. Armed with an ice cream truck they try and rescue their friends. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | alien |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | alien contactdrinking strawextraterrestrial |
After the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons that leveled Chicago, humanity thinks that all alien robots are a threat. So Harold Attinger, a CIA agent, establishes a unit whose sole purpose is to hunt down all of them. But it turns out that they are aided by another alien robot who is searc β¦hing for Optimus Prime. Cade Yeager, a "robotics expert", buys an old truck and upon examining it, he thinks it's a Transformer. When he powers it up, he discovers it's Optimus Prime. Later, men from the unit show up looking for Optimus. He helps Yeager and his daughter Tessa escape but are pursued by the hunter. They escape and Yeager learns from technology he took from the men that a technology magnate and defense contractor named Joshua Joyce is part of what's going on, so they go to find out what's going on. (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | outer spacehelicopter |
Characters: | alien |
Story: | extraterrestrialsingle parentproduct placementexploding cardisguisefalling from heightgunfightshotgunshootout |
Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIBs untarnished mission statement: protecting the earth from the scum of the universe. It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an int β¦ergalactic disaster of epic proportions. And now it's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay-who not only has absolutely no memory of his time spent with the Men In Black, but is also the only living person left with the expertise to save the galaxy-to reunite with the MIB before the earth submits to ultimate destruction. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | alien |
Story: | alien contactextraterrestrialflyingproduct placementdisguise |
Four waves of increasingly deadly attacks have left most of Earth in ruin. Against a backdrop of fear and distrust, Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother. As she prepares for the inevitable and lethal fifth wave, Cassie teams up with a young man who may become her fina β¦l hope - if she can only trust him. (Read More)
Themes: | lonelinessfriendship |
Locations: | helicopter |
Characters: | alienbrother sister relationship |
Story: | alien contactsingle parentexploding cardisguisegunfightshotgunshootoutchase |
Jenny Hayden never did get over the death of her husband. So when an alien life form decides to model "himself" on the husband, Jenny is understandably confused if not terrified. The alien, or Starman, as he is called, has a deadline to meet, and kidnaps Jenny in order to meet it.
Subgenre: | cult film |
Locations: | outer spacehelicopter |
Characters: | alien |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | alien contactproduct placementshotgunchase |
On the planet Eternia, Skeletor and his dark army overthrow the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull expecting to acquire her power. He-Man, his old friend Duncan "Man-at-Arms" and his daughter Teela are attacked by Skeletor's soldiers and they defeat them. They also rescue their prisoner, the inventor and β¦ locksmith Gwildor. He explains that he was lured by Evil-Lyn that used his invention Cosmic Key to open the gates and seize the Castle Grayskull. He-Man and his friends retrieve the prototype of the Cosmic Key trying to release the Sorcereress but they are defeated by Skeletor and his army and Gwildor uses his key to open and portal for them to flee. They come to Earth but lose the key. Meanwhile Julie Winston, who grieves the loss of her parents in a plane crash, and her boyfriend Kevin Corrigan find and activate the key, believing it is a foreign musical instrument. On Eternia, Evil-Lyn locates the Cosmic Key and Skeletor sends her with a group of mercenaries and soldiers to vanquish He-man and his friends and bring the key back. Will they succeed? (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | alien |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | product placementexploding cardisguisefalling from heightgunfightshotgunshootoutchase |
A team of special force ops, led by a tough but fair soldier, Major "Dutch" Schaefer, are ordered to assist CIA man, Colonel Al Dillon, on a rescue mission for potential survivors of a Helicopter downed over remote South American jungle. Not long after they land, Dutch and his team discover that the β¦y have been sent in under false pretenses. This deception turns out to be the least of their worries though, when they find themselves being methodically hunted by something not of this world. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Locations: | outer spacehelicopter |
Characters: | alien |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | extraterrestrialexploding carfalling from heightgunfightshootoutchasecharacter name in title |
Two sci-fi geeks take a pilgrimage to America's UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever. For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by 'Seth Rogen' (qv)) has been hanging out at a top-secret militar β¦y base. When he discovers he's been taken prisoner, the space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town - a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy ('Simon Pegg' (qv)) and Clive Gollings ('Nick Frost (I)' (qv)). Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes. (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | helicopter |
Characters: | alien |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | alien contactproduct placementexploding cardisguiseshootoutchasedancingcharacter name in title |
The second "Highlander" movie, again with Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery. It's the year 2024 and all the ozone above Earth has gone. To protect people from dying, MacLeod helped in the construction of a giant "shield", several years ago. But, since there isn't left anyone Immortal after MacLeo β¦d's victory in the previous film, he has stopped being an Immortal himself. Now he is just an old man, until one day some other Immortals arrive on our planet. You see, the Immortals come from another planet... (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | alien |
Story: | extraterrestrialflyingexploding carfalling from heightgunfightshootoutchase |
Xander "XXX" Cage is a thrill seeker who until now has been deemed untouchable by the law. NSA Agent Gibbons forces XXX to cooperate with the government to infiltrate an underground Russian crime ring, and avoid going to prison. Gibbons sends XXX to enter this world of crime undetected where others β¦have failed, using his natural athletic prowess and a whole lot of attitude. Xander must combat an organization led by a clever, ruthless and nihilistic Yorgi whose first target is the city of Prague. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Locations: | helicopter |
Characters: | police shootout |
Story: | product placementexploding cardisguisecaliforniafalling from heightgunfightshotgunshootoutchasedancingcharacter name in title |
Ray Ferrier (Cruise) is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. When his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son Robbie and young daughter Rachel for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm suddenly touches down. What follows is the extraordinary battle β¦for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it in this contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells seminal classic sci-fi thriller. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Locations: | outer spacehelicopter |
Characters: | alienbrother sister relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | alien contactcartoon on tvextraterrestrialshotgun |
Danny and Walter are two brothers who barely get along even while driving their parents to distraction as their older sister tries to ignore them. Despite their squabbling, the brothers manage cooperate enough to play an old mechanical board game named Zathura. However, after their first move, they β¦find that the game has apparently flung them, their sister and their entire house into outer space. Furthermore, the brothers surmise the only way to return home is to finish the game. However with almost every move, new dangers arise as the siblings find themselves learning to cooperate in ways they never expected as they realize what they mean to each other. (Read More)
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | alienbrother sister relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | strandedcartoon on tvsingle parent |
A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Locations: | outer spacehelicopter |
Characters: | alienbrother sister relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | alien contactextraterrestrialshotgun |
When his brother is killed in a robbery, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge's intentions of driving off the native humanoid "Na'vi" in order to mine for the precious mate β¦rial scattered throughout their rich woodland. In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake gathers intel for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch, while simultaneously attempting to infiltrate the Na'vi people with the use of an "avatar" identity. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the beautiful alien Neytiri, the restless Colonel moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand - and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora. (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | outer spacewheelchairhelicopter |
Characters: | alien |
Story: | alien contactextraterrestrialflyingfalling from heightgunfightshootoutchase |
High school outcasts stumble upon an old alien ship, where they acquire superpowers and are dubbed the Power Rangers. Learning that an old enemy of the previous generation has returned to exact vegenance, the group must harness their powers and use them to work together and save the world.
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | single motheralienbrother sister relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | extraterrestrialsingle parentproduct placementexploding carfalling from heightshotgunchase |
A soldier from Earth crash-lands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexp β¦ected way. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | alien |
Story: | strandedextraterrestrialgunfightshotgunshootoutchase |
This theatrical movie based on the television series (which was also based on a popular multiform robot toyline) did not go over very well at the box office. The movie takes place in 2005, twenty years after the television series, and chronicles the efforts of the heroic Autobots to defend their hom β¦eworld Cybertron from the evil Decepticons. Both factions are seething with anger, and that hatred has blinded them to a hideous menace headed their way. That hideous menace is the colossal planet known as Unicron, who has been ready to consume anything that stands in its way. The only thing that can stop Unicron is the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, which is possessed by the Autobots and which the Decepticons, through Unicron's orders, plan to take away from them. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | outer spacehelicopter |
Characters: | alien |
Story: | alien contactflyingdisguisegunfightshootoutchase |
Two decades after the freak alien invasion that nearly destroyed mankind a new threat emerges. This Alien mothership is more than twice the size as the last one and once again, the world's armies must band together to save the world. Do they have enough firepower or will this battle change and will β¦aliens take over? (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | outer spacehelicopter |
Characters: | alienfamily relationships |
Story: | alien contactflyingexploding carfalling from heightgunfightshootoutchase |
On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, pilot β¦ed by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles and Washington, as well as Paris, London, Houston and Moscow. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. July 4th is their Independence Day... (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Locations: | outer spacehelicopter |
Characters: | alienfamily relationships |
Story: | alien contactextraterrestrialflyingproduct placementexploding car |
Austin Powers is a 60's spy who is cryonically frozen and released in the 1990's. The world is a very different place for Powers. Unfortunately for Austin, everyone is no longer sex-mad. Although he may be in a different decade, his mission is still the same. He has teamed up with Vanessa Kensington β¦ to stop the evil Dr. Evil, who was also frozen in the past. Dr. Evil stole a nuclear weapon and is demanding a payment of (when he realises its the 90's) 100 billion dollars. Can Austin Powers stop this madman? or will he caught up with Evil's henchman, with names like Alotta Fagina and Random Task? Only time will tell! (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | lonelinessdance |
Locations: | outer space |
Story: | cartoon on tvsingle parentproduct placementdisguiseshootoutcharacter name in title |
Everything seems to be going great for the Fantastic Four. Reed and Sue are finally getting married, and things couldn't seem better. However, when the mysterious Silver Surfer crashes things, they learn that they will have to deal with an old foe, and the powerful planet eating Galactus.
Locations: | outer spacehelicopter |
Characters: | alienbrother sister relationship |
Story: | flyingfalling from heightchasedancingcharacter name in title |
John J. Rambo is a former United States Special Forces soldier who fought in Vietnam and won the Congressional Medal of Honor, but his time in Vietnam still haunts him. As he came to Hope, Washington to visit a friend, he was guided out of town by the Sheriff William Teasel who insults Rambo, but wh β¦at Teasel does not know that his insult angered Rambo to the point where Rambo became violent and was arrested. As he was at the county jail being cleaned, he escapes and goes on a rampage through the forest to try to escape from the sheriffs who want to kill him. Then, as Rambo's commanding officer, Colonel Samuel Trautman tries to save both the Sheriff's department and Rambo before the situation gets out of hand. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Locations: | helicopter |
Characters: | police shootout |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | exploding cardisguisefalling from heightgunfightshotgunshootoutchase |
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
Locations: | outer spacehelicopter |
Characters: | alien |
Story: | alien contactflyingproduct placementexploding carfalling from heightgunfightshootoutchase |
An alien (Klaatu) with his mighty robot (Gort) land their spacecraft on Cold War-era Earth just after the end of World War II. They bring an important message to the planet that Klaatu wishes to tell to representatives of all nations. However, communication turns out to be difficult, so, after learn β¦ing something about the natives, Klaatu decides on an alternative approach. (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | single motheralien |
Story: | alien contactextraterrestrialchase |
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 Imagination", "Submit to Authority". Even scarier is that he is able t β¦o see that some usually normal-looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Locations: | helicopter |
Characters: | alien |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | extraterrestrialfalling from heightgunfightshotgunshootoutchase |
Zane ('Charlie Sheen' (qv)), a young, mild-mannered astronomer discovers an extraterrestrial radio signal. After being fired from his organization for reporting this to his superior, he takes a chance on discovering the truth: that his workplace is not quite what it seems to be and a sinister conspi β¦racy is at work. The aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will stop at nothing to prevent Zane from learning it. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | alien |
Story: | extraterrestrialsuburbdisguisechase |
Sam Brenner, Will Cooper, Ludlow Lamonsoff, and Eddie "The Fire Blaster" Plant all played classic arcade video games as teenagers. But now they have to use their skills to try to save the world from aliens. The aliens watched video feeds that they thought was a declaration of war. So they send down β¦the classic arcade games to destroy earth. They also get help from a military specialist. They have three lives and if all three get used then earth will be destroyed, and every time they lose a live the aliens take someone's life. Who will win, us or the aliens? It's an all-out battle to save our planet and everyone on it. (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | helicopter |
Characters: | single motheralien |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | alien contactsingle parentproduct placementexploding carchasedancing |
Eccentric actor Daniel Hillard is an amusing and caring father. But after a disastrous birthday party for his son, Daniel's wife Miranda draws the line and files a divorce. He can see his three children only once a week which doesn't sit well with him. Daniel also holds a job at a TV studio as a shi β¦pping clerk under the recommendation of his liason. But when Miranda puts out an ad for a housekeeper, Daniel takes it upon himself to make a disguise as a Scottish lady named Mrs Doubtfire. And Daniel must also deal with Miranda's new boyfriend Stu Dunemyer. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Characters: | single motherfamily relationships |
Story: | jobbirthday partydisguisecharacter name in title |
A retired special agent named John Matrix led an elite unit and has left the armed forces to live in a secluded mountain home with his daughter Jenny. But now he is forced out of retirement when his daughter is kidnapped by a band of thugs intent on revenge! Unbeknownst to Matrix, the members of his β¦ former unit are being killed one by one. Even though Matrix' friend General Franklin Kirby gives Matrix armed guards, attackers manage to kidnap Matrix and Jenny. Matrix learns that Bennett, a former member of his Matrix' unit who was presumed dead has kidnapped him to try to force Matrix to do a political assassination for a man called Arius (who calls himself El Presidente), a warlord formerly bested by Matrix who wishes to lead a military coup in his home country. Since Arius will have Jenny killed if Matrix refuses, Matrix reluctantly accepts the demand. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Locations: | helicopter |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | single parentexploding carcaliforniafalling from heightgunfightshotgunshootoutchase |
After stopping off at Starbase Yorktown, a remote outpost on the fringes of Federation space, the USS Enterprise, halfway into their five-year mission, is destroyed by an unstoppable wave of unknown aliens. With the crew stranded on an unknown planet and with no apparent means of rescue, they find t β¦hemselves fighting against a ruthless enemy with a well-earned hatred of the Federation and everything it stands for. Only a rebellious alien warrior can help them reunite and leave the planet to stop this deadly menace from beginning a possible galactic war. (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | alien |
Story: | strandedbirthday partydisguisefalling from heightgunfightshootoutchase |
A little boy named Andy loves to be in his room, playing with his toys, especially his doll named "Woody". But, what do the toys do when Andy is not with them, they come to life. Woody believes that he has life (as a toy) good. However, he must worry about Andy's family moving, and what Woody does n β¦ot know is about Andy's birthday party. Woody does not realize that Andy's mother gave him an action figure known as Buzz Lightyear, who does not believe that he is a toy, and quickly becomes Andy's new favorite toy. Woody, who is now consumed with jealousy, tries to get rid of Buzz. Then, both Woody and Buzz are now lost. They must find a way to get back to Andy before he moves without them, but they will have to pass through a ruthless toy killer, Sid Phillips. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | friendship |
Characters: | single motherfamily relationships |
Story: | flyingproduct placementsuburbbirthday party |
It is a normal day for everyone, until the President of the United States announces Martians have been spotted circling Earth. The Martians land and a meeting is arranged, but not everything goes to plan, and the Martians seem to have other plans for Earth. Are they just misunderstood beings or do t β¦hey really want to destroy all of humanity? (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | alien |
Story: | alien contactextraterrestrialdisguisefalling from height |
Kevin McCallister is back. But this time he's in New York City with enough cash and credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his very own playground. But Kevin won't be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are bound for New Yo β¦rk too, plotting a huge holiday heist! Kevin's ready to welcome them with more battery of booby traps the bumbling bandits will never forget! (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | friendship |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | coca colacartoon on tvflyingproduct placementfalling from heightchase |
Marvel's "Iron Man 3" pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his met β¦tle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man? (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | wheelchairhelicopter |
Story: | flyingproduct placementdisguisecaliforniafalling from heightgunfightshotgunshootoutchasecharacter name in title |
Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star develo β¦ping her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
Themes: | dancefriendship |
Locations: | outer spacehelicopter |
Characters: | police shootout |
Story: | product placementdisguisecaliforniafalling from heightgunfightshotgunshootoutchasedancing |
An extremely wealthy man, dying from cancer, undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man. But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origin and the organization that will kill to protect its cause.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | wheelchair |
Characters: | single mother |
Story: | single parentproduct placementexploding cargunfightshotgunshootoutchase |