Movies like Cavegirl

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   Back to the Future

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   1985 · 116 min · Adventure · Comedy · Science Fiction

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   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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   • shared time travel movie style
   • shared theme: time travel
   • a closely matched era

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   Peggy Sue Got Married

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   1986 · 103 min · Comedy · Drama · Fantasy

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   At her 25th high school reunion, Peggy Sue faints and awakens in 1960—back in her senior year, before her marriage and all her regrets. Given a second chance to relive her youth, she must decide whether to change the choices that shaped her life or embrace the past that made her who she is.

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   • shared time travel movie style
   • shared theme: time travel
   • a closely matched era

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   Army of Darkness

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   1992 · 81 min · Comedy · Fantasy · Horror

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   Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.

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   • shared time travel movie style
   • shared theme: time travel

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   Mystery Train

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   1989 · 106 min · Comedy

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   In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a young Japanese couple traveling in search of the roots of rock; an Italian woman in mourning who stumbles upon a fleeing charlatan girl; and a comical trio of accidental thieves looking for a place to hide.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   The Visitors

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   1993 · 107 min · Comedy · Fantasy

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   After a wizard's spell goes awry, 12th-century Gallic knight Godefroy de Papincourt, Count of Montmirail finds himself transported to 1993, along with his dimwitted servant, Jacquouille la Fripouille. Startled and perplexed by modern technology, the duo run amok, destroying cars and causing chaos until they meet Beatrice de Montmirail, an aristocratic descendant of the nobleman, who may be able to help them get back to 1123.

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   • shared time travel movie style
   • substantial genre overlap

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   The Monster Squad

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   1987 · 82 min · Action · Comedy · Fantasy

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   Count Dracula returns to the world of humans accompanied by Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman. The uglies are in search of a powerful amulet that will grant them the ability to rule the world. A group of horror-loving heroes are the only ones daring to stand in their way.

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   • strong recommendation signals

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   The Lair of the White Worm

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   1988 · 93 min · Comedy · Horror

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   When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.

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   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Galaxy Quest

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   1999 · 102 min · Adventure · Comedy · Science Fiction

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   For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector — Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Doctor Lazarus — set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space... until their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director, and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.

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   • shared time travel movie style
   • shared theme: time travel

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   Held Up

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   1999 · 89 min · Comedy

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   What should have been a romantic getaway turns into one hilarious debacle after another when Michael's woman dumps him in the desert where he gets carjacked by a teenager and he is taken hostage in a stickup at the local Sip and Zip.

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    Sphere

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    1998 · 134 min · Mystery · Science Fiction · Thriller

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    A spacecraft is discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists and experts is assembled and taken to the ocean floor to investigate. However, the ship is not as it seems and when a giant perfect sphere is discovered in the cargo bay, things begin to fall apart.

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    • shared time travel movie style
    • shared theme: time travel

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