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Movies that feel like (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 (2004)

If you loved (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1, the closest films we have are Manitou's Shoe (2001), Dark Star (1974) and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005). All three share (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1'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 HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

Hundreds of years after humans have settled on Mars, Regulator Rogul and Lord Jens Maul lead a force of Martians to Earth in order to conquer the planet. Queen Metaphor looks to the gay heroes aboard the Dreamship Surprise – Captain Kork, Mr. Spuck, and first engineer Schrotty – for help.

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Manitou's Shoe
2001 · dir. Michael Herbig
6.7western · comedy · adventure

Michael Herbig directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Not nearly as cerebral

Abahachi, Chief of the Apache Indians, and his blood brother Ranger maintain peace and justice in the Wild West. One day, Abahachi needs to take up a credit from the Shoshone Indians to finance his tribe's new saloon. Unfortunately Santa Maria, who sold the saloon, betrays Abahachi, takes the money and leaves. Soon, the Shoshones are on the warpath to get their money back, and Abahachi is forced to organize it quickly.

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

Common ground in both: the future and space travel

The difference: Without the same scale

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

One thread runs through both: space travel

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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Kin-dza-dza!
1986 · dir. Georgiy Daneliya
7.8comedy · science fiction · adventure

The same mix in both: wit, then play

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.

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The Wandering Earth II
2023 · dir. Frant Gwo
🍅 83%6.7science fiction · action · adventure

Cerebral where it counts, epic underneath

The difference: Played as action first

Humans built huge engines on the surface of the earth to find a new home. But the road to the universe is perilous. In order to save earth, young people once again have to step forward to start a race against time for life and death.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: space adventure

The difference: 21 years apart, and the 2020s show

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

Both lean on awe more than on comedy

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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The Marvels
2023 · dir. Nia DaCosta
🍅 63%5.5science fiction · adventure · action

The same preoccupation in both: space adventure

When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, Carol's powers become entangled with that of Jersey City super-fan Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, and Carol's estranged niece, now S.A.B.E.R. astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau. Together, this unlikely trio must team up and learn to work in concert to save the universe.

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Barbarella
1968 · dir. Roger Vadim
🍅 64%5.9science fiction · adventure · comedy

Witty science fiction, and it commits to that

In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.

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Save the Green Planet!
2003 · dir. Jang Joon-hwan
🍅 89%7.1comedy · science fiction · crime

Adventure built on play, twice over

A young man believes that his country's leaders are actually toxic reptilian aliens sent down to launch a takeover of his beloved Earth. So he decides to abduct them and force the truth out on camera in his basement that doubles as a film studio and torture chamber.

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Sexmission
1984 · dir. Juliusz Machulski
7.5science fiction · adventure · comedy

Common ground: the future

Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, World War III breaks out and life has been wiped off the surface of Earth. When they wake up, it turns out that not only 50 years have passed but also that they are the only living specimens of the male sex in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.

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Planet of the Apes
2001 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 42%5.7thriller · science fiction · action

Two things both keep coming back to: space marine and time travel

After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes dominate the human race. Desperate to find a way home, Leo must evade the invincible gorilla army led by Ruthless General Thade.

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