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1	A Clockwork Orange (1971) more movies like this directed by Stanley Kubrick featuring Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Adrienne Corri, Warren Clarke, Aubrey Morris Stanley Kubrick dissects the nature of violence in this darkly ironic, near-future satire, adapted from Anthony Burgess' novel, complete with "Nadsat" slang. Classical music-loving proto-punk Alex (Malcolm McDowell) and his "Droogs" spend their nights getting high at the Korova Milkbar before embarking on "a little of the old ultraviolence," such ... see all copies from £5.22! new only from £7.54!
2	The Empire Strikes Back (1980) more movies like this directed by Irvin Kershner featuring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Frank Oz, Alec Guinness, Kenny Baker The second entry in George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy finds Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the green-as-grass hero from the first film, now a seasoned space warrior. Luke's Star Wars cohorts Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) are likewise more experienced in the ways and means of battling the insidious Empire, as represented ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £8.66!
3	Howard the Duck (1986) more movies like this directed by Willard Huyck featuring Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins, Ed Gale, Chip Zien In this sci-fi comedy from executive producer George Lucas, Howard the Duck is an extra-terrestrial fowl who is accidentally beamed to earth by physicist Dr. Jenning (Jeffrey Jones) and his assistant Phil (Tim Robbins). The two go looking for Howard and find him in the home of Beverly Switzer (Lea Thompson), who was rescued by the interstellar ... see all copies from £13.34! new only from £18.53!
4	Starship Troopers (1997) more movies like this directed by Paul Verhoeven featuring Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Clancy Brown, Michael Ironside Director Paul Verhoeven (Showgirls, Total Recall) reunited many from his 1987 Robocop team for this $100-million science fiction adventure, adapted from Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 novel, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (October-November, 1959). After graduation, Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) volunteers for the ... see all copies from £2.16! new only from £3.09!
5	Short Circuit (1986) more movies like this directed by John Badham featuring Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, G.W. Bailey, Tim Blaney Struck by lightning, an endearing little robot known only as "Number 5" escapes from an experimental electronics firm. Technician Steve Guttenberg and his indecipherable East Indian assistant Fisher Stevens set out to locate Number 5 before the military can go through with its plans to destroy the robot. Number 5 takes refuge with loopy Ally ... see all copies from £2.32! new only from £3.46!
6	Independence Day (1996) more movies like this directed by Roland Emmerich featuring Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch A group of intrepid humans attempts to save the Earth from vicious extraterrestrials in this extremely popular science-fiction adventure. Borrowing liberally from War of the Worlds, Aliens, and every sci-fi invasion film inbetween, director Roland Emmerich and producer and co-writer Dean Devlin present a visually slick, fast-paced adventure filled ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £2.88!
7	The Last Starfighter (1984) more movies like this directed by Nick Castle, Jr. featuring Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Dan O'Herlihy, Catherine Stewart, Barbara Bosson Trailer-park teenager Lance Guest regularly escapes from his humdrum existence by playing the video game Starfighter . His expertise at this recreational endeavor attracts the attention of affable stranger Robert Preston. Before he knows what's happening, Guest is whisked by Preston into the outer reaches of the galaxy! It turns out that the ... see all copies from £2.32! new only from £7.25!
8	The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! (1984) more movies like this directed by W.D. Richter featuring Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd Despite mixed reviews and a disastrous initial release that dumped the film into theaters for a week in the midst of the 1984 Summer Olympics, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eight Dimension went on to become one of the major cult films of the 1980s, developing a rabid following after its release on videotape. Drifting between satire ... see all copies from £2.32! new only from £7.07!
9	Men in Black (1997) more movies like this directed by Barry Sonnenfeld featuring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rip Torn For his fifth effort as a feature-film director, one-time cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld brought his cartoonish visual style and darkly humorous sensibilities to this adaptation of, appropriately enough, a tongue-in-cheek sci-fi comic book. Will Smith stars as James Darrel Edwards, a New York City cop with an athletic physique and a flippant, ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £4.06!
10	Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) more movies like this directed by Stephen Chiodo featuring Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Vernon, Royal Dano, John Allen Nelson This low-budget cult classic horror spoof has one of the great movie titles of all time. Mike (Grant Cramer) and his sweetheart, Debbie (Suzanne Snyder), are smooching on lover's lane when they see what appears to be a meteorite crashing over the horizon. They loosen their liplock long enough to investigate and find a curious circus tent. There ... see all copies from £2.43! new only from £6.38!
11 view cover	Idiocracy (2006) more movies like this directed by Mike Judge featuring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews Mike Judge wrote and directed this offbeat sci-fi comedy which gives a new meaning to the expression "people are getting dumber all the time." In 2005, Pvt. Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson) is a soldier chosen to take part in a secret military scientific experiment in which he will be put into induced hibernation for one year, along with a woman named ... see all copies from £4.77! new only from £4.99!
12 view cover	Galaxy Quest (1999) more movies like this directed by Dean Parisot featuring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Enrico Colantoni A team of intrepid adventurers travels through the outer reaches of the galaxy, each week finding excitement and adventure on Galaxy Quest ! Or at least that's the way it was in the mid-1970s, when brave if reckless Captain Peter Quincy Taggart, lovely Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and inscrutable alien Dr. Lazarus were the leaders of an interstellar ... see all copies from £2.11! new only from £4.95!
13 view cover	Swamp Thing (1982) more movies like this directed by Wes Craven featuring Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise, David Hess, Nicholas Worth Director Wes Craven, who went on to fame as the force behind blockbuster horror films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street, departed from his favorite genre to film this unique cult classic -- a spoof on the mad scientist movies of the 1950s. Adrienne Barbeau stars as Alice Cable, a government agent sent to replace a man who has disappeared while ... see all copies from £2.88! new only from £4.06!
14 view cover	Spaceballs (1987) more movies like this directed by Mel Brooks featuring Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga A space bum helps rescue a princess from an evil overlord with the help of a benevolent elder in this Star Wars send-up written and directed by Mel Brooks. Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his half-man, half-dog co-pilot, Barf the Mawg (John Candy), are content to scour the galaxy living the easy life. But they reluctantly come to the rescue when ... see all copies from £2.32! new only from £5.37!
15 view cover	Mars Attacks! (1996) more movies like this directed by Tim Burton featuring Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Jim Brown This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The storyline affectionately harkens back to the deadpan sincerity of such '50s and '60s science-fiction films as The Day the Earth Stood Still and War ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £3.48!
16 view cover	Lilo & Stitch (2002) more movies like this directed by Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois featuring Daveigh Chase, Chris Sanders, Tia Carrere, David Ogden Stiers, Kevin McDonald, Ving Rhames A lonely little girl makes a very unusual friend -- a ukulele-playing alien who likes to toss around small automobiles -- in this antic animated comedy from Walt Disney Studios. Lilo (voice of Daveigh Chase) is a young Hawaiian girl being raised by her teenaged sister Nani (voice of Tia Carrere) after the unexpected death of their parents in an ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £4.06!
17 view cover	Ghostbusters (1984) more movies like this directed by Ivan Reitman featuring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson star as a quartet of Manhattan-based "paranormal investigators". When their government grants run out, the former three go into business as The Ghostbusters, later hiring Hudson on. Armed with electronic paraphernalia, the team is spectacularly successful, ridding The Big Apple of dozens of ... see all copies from £2.32! new only from £3.54!
18 view cover	batteries not included (1987) more movies like this directed by Matthew Robbins featuring Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae, Elizabeth Peña, Michael Carmine Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy are among the impoverished residents of a slum tenement threatened with demolition by evil land developers. Only a miracle can save Cronyn, Tandy, and their friends -- and that miracle manifests itself in the form of a "family" of extraterrestrial flying saucers, who need the electricity provided by the tenement to ... see all copies* from £2.32! new only from £4.18!
19 view cover	Men in Black II (2002) more movies like this directed by Barry Sonnenfeld featuring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Rip Torn, Lara Flynn Boyle, Rosario Dawson, Tony Shalhoub, Johnny Knoxville Otherworldly villains are on the loose again, and it's up to Earth's interstellar police force to bring them to justice in this sequel to the sci-fi comedy blockbuster Men in Black. Agent Jay (Will Smith) has become a high-ranking member of the Men in Black, the secret government task force designed to deal with unruly visitors from other worlds, ... see all copies from £2.32! new only from £2.32!
20 view cover	Brazil (1985) more movies like this directed by Terry Gilliam featuring Jonathan Pryce, Michael Palin, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond Brazil constitutes Terry Gilliam's enormously ambitious follow-up to his 1981 Time Bandits. It also represents the second installment in a trilogy of Gilliam films on imagination versus reality, that began with Bandits and ended in 1989 with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. To create this wild, visually audacious satire, Gilliam combines ... see all copies from £4.35! new only from £7.25!
21 view cover	Bicentennial Man (1999) more movies like this directed by Chris Columbus featuring Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Wendy Crewson, Embeth Davidtz, Oliver Platt If a robot spends enough time around humans, can he learn to become one of them? The Martin family purchases a domestic android as a servant and names him Andrew (Robin Williams). Andrew comes to know the man of the house as Sir (Sam Neill), his wife as Ma'am Wendy Crewson, and their daughter as Portia (Embeth Davidtz); before long, the Martins ... see all copies from £2.32! new only from £7.25!
22 view cover	They Live (1988) more movies like this directed by John Carpenter featuring Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George "Buck" Flower, Peter Jason John Carpenter wrote and directed this science fiction thriller about a group of aliens who try to take over the world by disguising themselves as Young Republicans. Wrestler Roddy Piper stars as John Nada, a drifted who makes his way into an immense encampment for the homeless. There he stumbles upon a conspiracy concerning aliens who have ... see all copies from £3.61! new only from £7.35!
23 view cover	Multiplicity (1996) more movies like this directed by Harold Ramis featuring Michael Keaton, Andie MacDowell, Harris Yulin, Richard Masur, Eugene Levy In this zany comedy, Michael Keaton is Doug Kinney, a man with too many tasks and not enough time to complete them. When he feels too much pressure, his temper explodes with disastrous results. So when researcher Dr. Owen Leeds (Harris Yulin) offers him a somewhat unusual remedy for his problem, he gives it a try. Soon, a fully grown clone of Doug ... see all copies from £2.32! new only from £3.47!
24 view cover	Small Soldiers (1998) more movies like this directed by Joe Dante featuring Kirsten Dunst, Gregory Smith, Jay Mohr, Phil Hartman, Kevin Dunn Joe Dante directed this satirical action-comedy about talking tech toys accidentally juiced-up with military microchips. After the defense industry firm Globotech takes over a small toy company, Heartland Play Systems' CEO Gil Mars (Denis Leary) gives the green light to develop a new line of action figures, requesting an upgrade to more realistic ... see all copies from £1.16! new only from £5.67!
25 view cover	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) more movies like this directed by Garth Jennings featuring Martin Freeman, Mos Def, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel, Warwick Davis Douglas Adams' oft-adapted tale of an normal guy making his way through the universe (it's already been presented as a novel, a radio serial, a television series, and a comic book) finally makes its way to the big screen in this endearingly goofy sci-fi comedy. Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) is a very ordinary man who is having a truly unusual day - ... see all copies from £2.88! new only from £4.09!

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