Movies like Splashback
If Splashback's mix of nasa, inventor and dark comedy stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Splashback's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 · Directed by Stanley Kubrick · 95 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: dark comedy, satire, black and white
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.
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A Grand Day Out
1990 · Directed by Nick Park · 24 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: inventor, moon landing, short film
Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese.
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The Absent-Minded Professor
1961 · Directed by Robert Stevenson · 96 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: inventor, black and white
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface.
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Back to the Future
1985 · Directed by Robert Zemeckis · 116 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: inventor, invention
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.
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Get Out
2017 · Directed by Jordan Peele · 104 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: dark comedy, satire
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial…
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988 · Directed by Terry Gilliam · 126 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: satire
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
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Animal House
1978 · Directed by John Landis · 109 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: 1960s
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
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Sleeper
1973 · Directed by Woody Allen · 87 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: satire
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
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Mars Attacks!
1996 · Directed by Tim Burton · 106 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: dark comedy
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S.