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Dutch (1991)
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Dutch (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: To get to know his girlfriend's son, a man volunteers to pick him up from a prep school....only to learn that her son's not the nicest kid.
Style: light, road movie, funny, entertaining, feel good, light hearted, humorous, realistic, semi serious, exciting ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family outing, teens
Plot: road trip, prank, mischievous children, holiday, culture clash, foe turned friend, thanksgiving, working class, unlikely friendships, reluctant partners, partner, nothing goes right, obsessive quest, social differences, parents and children, boarding school, childhood, christmas, youth, snow, new year, female nudity, coming of age, homeless shelter, bus trip ...
Time: 20th century, year 1991, 90s, 80s
Place: chicago, georgia, usa, london, australia
Keyword: partners, oldies, gangsters, buddy movie

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about family relations, disorder, youth, parents and children, nothing goes right, father son relationship and road trip mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like Dutch: Uncle Buck (1989), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Curly Sue (1991), Baby's Day Out (1994), Dennis the Menace (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Uncle Buck (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As an idle, good-natured bachelor, Uncle Buck is the last person you would think of to watch the kids. However, during a family crisis, he is suddenly left in charge of his nephew and nieces. Unaccustomed to suburban life, fun-loving Uncle Buck soon ...
Style: feel good, funny, light, entertaining, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: childhood, unlikely friendships, teenager, child care, parents and children, when the parents are away, babysitter, happy ending, fish out of water, respect, uncle nephew relationship, mischievous children ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, wisconsin, minnesota, usa
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100%
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion.
Style: feel good, road movie, light, funny, humorous ...
Audience: date night, kids
Plot: road trip, thanksgiving, travel, on the road, buddy, snow, holiday, train, airplane, airport, railway, traveling salesman ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: chicago, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, illinois, new york ...
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100%
 5.9
 23K
Curly Sue (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the classic homeless folks with hearts of gold. Their scams are aimed not at turning a profit, but at getting enough to eat. When they scam the rich and beautiful Grey Ellison into believing she ...
Style: touching, feel good, sweet, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: homeless, orphan, cons and scams, little girl, homelessness, single father, urban, girl, kindness, homeless shelter, childhood, destiny ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 55K
Baby's Day Out (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Baby Bink couldn't ask for more; he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, he lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, slapstick, not serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: babies and infants, mischievous children, chase, escapades, danger, stupidity, prank, young heroes, kidnapping, lost child, rescue, farce ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Dennis the Menace (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, not serious, sweet ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, date night, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: mischievous children, children, prank, problem child, when the parents are away, childhood, kids and family, happy ending, neighbor, boy, nothing goes right, troublemaker ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 76K
Beethoven (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The Newton family live in their comfortable home, but there seems to something missing. This "hole" is filled by a small puppy, who walks into their home and their lives. Beethoven, as he is named, grows into a giant of a dog... a St ...
Style: feel good, sweet, funny, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: dog, puppy, children, pets, animal actor, animal, childhood, bullying, family relations, human animal relationship, saint bernard dog, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family on a quest to Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.
Style: funny, road movie, humorous, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: road trip, on the road, vacation, youth, cross country, plan gone awry, small town, dog, couple relations, family holiday, relatives, summer ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: chicago, colorado, arizona, illinois, usa ...
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100%
 7.3
 22K
Nobody's Fool (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- ...
Style: feel good, touching, humorous, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot: small town, father son relationship, redemption, thanksgiving, justice, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, aging, elderly, retirement, family reunited ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: new york, new york state, usa, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Breakfast Club (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
Style: teen, talky, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, teenage angst, youth, adolescence, high school life, teen angst, teenage girl, adolescence vs adulthood, brat pack ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 6K
The Toy (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. Needing money and unwilling to quit his job, Francois agrees to this ridiculous assignment. ...
Style: humorous, exciting, realistic, light, satirical ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: social differences, mischievous children, screwball, youth, society, parents and children, disorder, friendship, escapades, family relations, child, misfit ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 43K
Black Sheep (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When dignified Albert Donnelly runs for Governor, his team moves to keep his slow-witted and klutzy younger brother, Mike, out of the eye of the media. To baby-sit Mike, the campaign assigns sarcastic Steve, who gets the experience of a lifetime ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, political, clever ...
Audience: kids
Plot: political satire, politics, road trip, sarcasm, political campaign, corruption, friends, partner, parents and children, political conspiracy, dumb, political candidate ...
Time: 90s
Place: washington d.c., usa
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100%
A Merry Friggin' Christmas (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hits the road with his dad in an attempt to make the 8-hour round trip before sunrise.
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, entertaining, christmas classics ...
Plot: christmas, family relations, nothing goes right, eccentric family, family gatherings, on the road, parents and children, disorder, escapades, race against time, road trip, christmas season ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but ...
Style: humorous, feel good, funny, christmas special, hilarious ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly
Plot: christmas, holiday, parents and children, winter, christmas season, dysfunctional family, vacation, snow, family gatherings, xmas, culture clash, creativity ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Open Road (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Minor leaguer Carlton Garret takes an unexpected road trip to track down his estranged father, legendary baseball player Kyle Garret when Carlton’s mother becomes sick. Once reunited, Carlton struggles to deal with the series of misadventures ...
Style: road movie, semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: father son relationship, baseball, road trip, family relations, fiancee, father son reunion, parents and children, on the road, estranged son, dysfunctional family, nothing goes right, estrangement ...
Time: year 2009
Place: columbus ohio, usa, houston texas, ohio
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21%
 7.7
 649K
Home Alone (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, chick flick ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, mischievous children, home alone, youth, children, home invasion, kids and family, child protagonist, winter, child, when the parents are away ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 2016, 80s
Place: chicago, illinois, usa, france, paris france ...
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50%
Chilly Christmas (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Eleven-year-old Bobby Cole and his dog Chilly are best friends, living happily in their Southern California beach house. But when Bobby's father Patrick (C. Thomas Howell), a single parent and police detective, accepts a job in New York City, ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, dog, youth, pets, family relations, disorder, parents and children, father son relationship, holiday, save the day, best friend, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.6
 28K
Mr. Mom (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jack and Caroline are a couple making a decent living When Jack suddenly loses his job. They agree that he should stay at home and look after the house while Caroline works. It's just that he's never done it before, and really doesn't ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, sentimental, realistic, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, chick flick
Plot: parenthood, advertising, fish out of water, switching roles, self discovery, parents and children, family life, fired from the job, relationship vs career, misfit, unfulfillment, rise and fall ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1983
Place: detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.7
 16K
With Honors (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, inspirational, road movie ...
Audience: kids
Plot: college, homeless, friendship, youth, college student, father son relationship, law school, justice, happy ending, graduation, self discovery, college life ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, usa, boston, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Josh and S.A.M. (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in Florida. Meanwhile Josh tells Sam that he is a "S.A.M." that is going to be sent to ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: coming of age, road trip, youth, journey, cross country, on the road, family relations, family life, sibling relationship, disorder, nothing goes right, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, texas, florida, africa, usa
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19%
 7.5
 5K
Gueros (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Set amidst the 1999 student strikes in Mexico City, this coming-of-age tale finds two brothers venturing through the city in a sentimental search for an aging legendary musician. Shot in black-and-white, Güeros brims with youthful exuberance.
Style: road movie, humorous, captivating, light, black and white ...
Plot: coming of age, brother brother relationship, on the road, friendship, family relations, disorder, escapades, youth, migrant, phd, latina, boy ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: mexico, mexico city
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19%
 5.8
 40K
The Guilt Trip (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.
Style: light, road movie, touching, humorous, hilarious ...
Plot: road trip, salesman, overprotective mother, travel, family relations, single parent, parents and children, parent child relationship, protective parent, drinking, on the road, mother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, middle east, las vegas
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19%
 6.7
 9K
Fandango (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
Style: road movie, touching, sentimental, humorous, emotional ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night
Plot: on the road, coming of age, friendship, road trip, culture clash, male bonding, travel, adolescence, student life, adolescence vs adulthood, young lovers, obsessive quest ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1985
Place: texas, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Great Outdoors (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by Connie's obnoxious brother-in-law, Roman ...
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, cult classic, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: camp, family vacation, bear, wilderness, holiday, teenage girl, nothing goes right, family relations, youth, disorder, parents and children, friendship ...
Time: 80s
Place: minnesota, chicago, usa, wisconsin
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19%
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The Santa Clause (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Scott Calvin is an ordinary man, who accidentally causes Santa Claus to fall from his roof on Christmas Eve and is knocked unconscious. When he and his young son finish Santa's trip and deliveries, they go to the North Pole, where Scott learns ...
Style: feel good, touching, christmas classics, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, adult
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, childhood, christmas season, father son relationship, toys, divorce, child custody, thanksgiving, xmas, snow ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
All Is Bright (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Two French Canadian ne’er-do-wells travel to New York City with a scheme to a get rich quick selling Christmas trees.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, dark ...
Plot: christmas, fish out of water, nothing goes right, reluctant partners, going straight, partner, misfit, disorder, cons and scams, odd couple, dishonesty, hopes ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.3
 327
American Chai (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The film deals with an Indian American student who wanted to pursue his love of music over the more 'typical' academic endeavors of Indian Americans (e.g., medicine, engineering, law, and business).
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot: college, culture clash, follow your dream, lifestyle, teenage life, parents and children, youth, society, friendship, misfit, hopes, nothing goes right ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.4
 13K
Mixed Nuts (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The events focus around a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.
Style: slapstick, christmas classics, funny, humorous, christmas comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: christmas, holiday, farce, new year, xmas, suicide, christmas season, night, lgbtq, christmas spirit, bike, bankruptcy ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: venice, seattle, europe, italy, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.0
 652
First Dog (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A foster boy is befriended by a lost dog who turns out to belong to the President of the United States. The boy decides to run away from the foster home to return the canine to the White House -- "Because it's the right thing to do!"
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, feel good, light ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: dog, president, boy, boarding school, on the road, youth, couples, child, society, usa president, animal, childhood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.5
 357K
Due Date (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Peter Highman must scramble across the US in five days to be present for the birth of his first child. He gets off to a bad start when his wallet and luggage are stolen, and put on the 'no-fly' list. Peter embarks on a terrifying journey ...
Style: road movie, funny, buddy comedy, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: road trip, weed, hitchhiker, getting home, buddy, stupidity, marijuana, screwball, odd couple, bonding, bromance, unlikely friendships ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, dallas texas, birmingham alabama, los angeles, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Go-Getter (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When his mother dies, a teenager takes a road-trip in a stolen car to find his long-lost brother. Along the way he discovers a profound connection with the car-owner and with himself as well.
Style: road movie, melancholic, ironic, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: road trip, coming of age, self discovery, teenage life, parents and children, introspection, love and romance, human nature, lifestyle, obsessive quest, friendship, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2007
Place: oregon, new orleans, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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