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Movies that feel like Kin-dza-dza! (1986)

If you loved Kin-dza-dza!, the closest films we have are The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Paul (2011) and Back to the Future Part II (1989). All three share Kin-dza-dza!'s witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Philo, Starz Amazon Channel and Starz and others, checked against today's data.

Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.

7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Georgiy Daneliyawittyplayfulcerebralepicbleakawe

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If Kin-dza-dza! hit the spot, these will too

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 · dir. Garth Jennings
🍅 60%6.7adventure · comedy · science fiction

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Missing the bleakness of Kin-dza-dza!

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."

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Paul
2011 · dir. Greg Mottola
🍅 70%6.9adventure · comedy · science fiction

Cerebral where it counts, epic underneath

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 2010s show

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.

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Back to the Future Part II
1989 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
🍅 63%7.8adventure · comedy · science fiction

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Marty and Doc are at it again as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch attempt to set things straight, Marty finds himself bound for 1955 and face to face with his teenage parents -- again.

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Back to the Future
1985 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
🍅 93%8.5adventure · comedy · science fiction

Both trade on play more than on being science fiction

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.

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Back to the Future Part III
1990 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
🍅 79%7.5adventure · comedy · science fiction

Adventure built on ideas, twice over

The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.

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Men in Black
1997 · dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
🍅 91%7.3action · adventure · comedy

Awestruck comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans action where Kin-dza-dza! does not

After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.

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Mickey 17
2025 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
🍅 77%6.7science fiction · comedy · adventure

Epic science fiction in both cases

The difference: A 2020s film, from a different era of filmmaking

Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.

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Free Guy
2021 · dir. Shawn Levy
🍅 80%7.1comedy · adventure · science fiction

Both trade on wit more than on being adventure

A bank teller discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, and decides to become the hero of his own story. Now, in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way before it's too late.

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The Adam Project
2022 · dir. Shawn Levy
🍅 68%6.7adventure · science fiction · comedy

Playful comedy in both cases

After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.

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Dark Star
1974 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 74%6.1comedy · science fiction

Awestruck science fiction in both cases

A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.

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Brazil
1985 · dir. Terry Gilliam
🍅 98%7.8comedy · science fiction

Adventure built on bleakness, twice over

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

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The Bed Sitting Room
1969 · dir. Richard Lester
🍅 64%6.1comedy · science fiction

Both keep circling back to life after the end

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.

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