Movies like Moving 1988

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Moving (1988)
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Moving (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.
Style: funny, entertaining, humorous, slapstick, black comedy, feel good, witty, semi serious, sitcom, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kung fu, truck, moving, dysfunctional family, love affair, road trip, classic car, black, gangster, on the road, family relations, unemployment, identical twins, friends, misfit, parents and children, family life, society, nothing goes right, disorder, fish out of water, comedy of errors, cons and scams, revenge, con artists ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey, idaho, usa, new orleans
Keyword: gangsters

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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 disorder, family relations, misfit, society, fish out of water, nothing goes right and parents and children mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Moving: The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989), The Toy (1982), Bustin' Loose (1981), Lost in America (1985), Critical Condition (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Africa, Botswana, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a couple of soldiers trying to capture each other and a pilot ...
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, entertaining, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: culture clash, adventurer, farce, rescue, goofy hero, danger, nothing goes right, disorder, fish out of water, friendship, beautiful scenery, desert ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: africa, south africa, persia
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The Toy (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers ...
Style: funny, feel good, satirical, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: friendship, youth, family problems, social differences, rich and poor, spoiled brat, toys, fish out of water, life philosophy, twists and turns, millionaire, slavery ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 20th century
Place: usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Bustin' Loose (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation he is given a second chance, all he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country. What could possibly go wrong?
Style: humorous, black comedy, hood, road movie, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teacher, school, road trip, friendship, on the road, orphan, bus, satire, urban, black, gangster, adoption ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Lost in America (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling ...
Style: road movie, humorous, witty, talky, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: road trip, on the road, self discovery, motor home, fired from the job, marriage, couples, fish out of water, nothing goes right, cross country trip, married couple, promotion ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1985
Place: las vegas, arizona, nevada, new york, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Critical Condition (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Eddie is a con artist. But this time he's framed and comes before a judge. By claiming insanity, he hopes to get off the hook. He manages end up in a hospital for a mental examination. That night, a storm breaks out over New York, and the ...
Style: humorous, intense, semi serious, light, entertaining ...
Plot: doctor, mistaken identity, hospital, african american, fish out of water, doctors and patients, hidden identity, nothing goes right, mental institution, disorder, gangster, medicine ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Johnson Family Vacation (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: AAA can't help the roadside emergency that is the JOHNSON FAMILY VACATION. Even the on-board navigation system has a meltdown on Nate Johnson and his family's cross-country trek to their annual family reunion/grudge match. Reluctantly ...
Style: funny, humorous, sexy, road movie, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: interracial romance, road trip, teenager, hip hop, family relations, on the road, eccentric family, nothing goes right, family life, mischievous children, parents and children, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, missouri, los angeles
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68%
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The Cookout (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Todd Anderson signs a $30 million deal with his hometown team, the New Jersey Nets, he knows that his life is set for a big change. To keep things real, he decides to throw a barbeque at his place -- just like the ones his family used to have. ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, funny, entertaining ...
Plot: basketball, rise to the top, ambition, family gatherings, social differences, chaos and mayhem, neighbor, contract, fame, parents and children, sport team, black ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Opportunity Knocks (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter ...
Style: entertaining, funny, light, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: cons and scams, con artists, love, friendship, chase, comedy of errors, disorder, house, mistaken identity, meme, con men, heist ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman are very rich but not happy Dave is a hard working business man, his wife is only interested in yoga, aerobics and other meditation classes, and he sleeps with the house maid. Their teenage son is ...
Style: funny, entertaining, laugh out loud, clever, not serious ...
Plot: homeless, dog, dysfunctional family, satire, hobo, thanksgiving, wealth, suicide attempt, homelessness, summer, drowning, hidden treasure ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, beverly hills, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the ...
Style: parody, witty, humorous, entertaining, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hollywood, farce, racism, filmmaking, blaxploitation, black, prejudice, dark humor, storytelling, movie business, black history, misfit ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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The Hustle (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, light, entertaining ...
Plot: gangster, partner, chases and races, crime gone awry, silly humor, friends, cons and scams, dishonesty, society, friendship, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Manna from Heaven (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later you find out it was a just a loan and it's due immediately. Once upon a time, many years ago, a neighborhood in ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: family relations, friends, parents and children, family life, religions or cults, nothing goes right, love and romance, single parent, unlikely couple, buddies, cons and scams, eccentric family ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Which Way Is Up? (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Richard Pryor plays three roles - a beleaguered, sex-starved farm worker named Leroy Jones; the farm worker's randy old father Rufus; and the hypocritical town preacher Rev. Lenox Thomas - and Pryor has never been so outrageously funny. The ...
Style: black comedy, not serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot: labor union, blaxploitation, african american, clergy, black, church, adultery, labor leader, migrant worker, domestic abuse, partner, manipulation ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Killer Bud (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After losing another job, two idiots embark on an adventure of mythic proportion: to acquire "Feed Bags," the discontinued entire-meal-in-a-bag, to impress their two equally dim-witted dates. When the only convenience store in town that ...
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Plot: best friend, nothing goes right, buddies, partner, disorder, friends, misfit, society, social misfits, drug dealing, unemployment, heist ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Walk Like a Man (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: As a baby, Bobo gets separated from his family during a camping trip. After being raised by wild dogs for twenty years, Bobo is discovered by animal researcher Penny, who brings him back to his family and attempts to teach Bobo how to readjust to ...
Style: light, funny, sentimental, humorous, slapstick ...
Plot: fish out of water, farce, stupidity, self discovery, misfit, getting home, family life, feral child, inheritance, wolf, lost child, cat ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: alaska
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63%
Kissing Cousins (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A "relatively" romantic comedy about a professional heartbreaker (and cynical bachelor) who teams up with his attractive cousin from the UK in order to fool his friends into believing he is capable of a relationship. Hijinks and laughs ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cousin cousin relationship, disorder, unlikely couple, fall in love, cons and scams, family relations, looking for love, friendship, society, incest, comedy of errors, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Madhouse (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The luxurious villa of Mark and Jessie Bannister, a yuppie couple, is overrun by loads of uninvited guests who turn the house up side down.
Style: humorous, melancholic, semi serious, realistic, black comedy ...
Plot: uninvited guest, family gatherings, couples, eccentricity, pregnancy, family life, down on your luck, lifestyle, disorder, family problems, siblings relations, childhood ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Nora's Hair Salon II (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The hilarious cast of Nora's Hair Salon is back in this outrageous, bust-a-gut comedy! Featuring familiar faces and fresh new names, Nora's Hair Salon 2: A Cut Above will have you cutting up all over again! As co-owner of Nora's Hair ...
Style: talky, realistic, witty, humorous, clever ...
Plot: beauty salon, family relations, friends, society, friendship, workplace, estrangement, city life, workplace situations, hairdresser, hair, black ...
Time: 21st century
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63%
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Well, We Were Lucky with the Weather – Again (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Almost 30 years has passed and Gösta and Gun are retired. This summer they're going on a trip to their son's wedding in Gösta's new RV.
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, entertaining, light ...
Plot: wedding, on the road, family relations, nothing goes right, summer vacation, disorder, family life, road trip, friendship, poor, couples, house
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Taking Care of Business (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.
Style: humorous, light, inspirational, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: prison, mistaken identity, baseball, cons and scams, unlikely friendships, fish out of water, disorder, dishonesty, misfit, nothing goes right, prison life, vengeance ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: chicago, los angeles, california, malibu california
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62%
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Irish Jam (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest with a tempting grand prize -- the deed to their local pub. But what could happen when a duplicitous ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, feel good, light, black comedy ...
Plot: friendship, culture clash, cons and scams, contests and competitions, rise to the top, on the run, disorder, village, love triangle, dishonesty, fall in love, ambition ...
Place: ireland, europe, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Stoogemania (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Howard F. Howard idolizes The Three Stooges. His friends and familiy are worried, and consider having him committed.
Style: independent film, slapstick, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: obsession, mental institution, partner, love and romance, buddies, psychopath, couples, friends, friendship, parents and children, unemployment, love affair ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Pooch and the Pauper (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The bulldog Liberty (who's thoughts we're able to hear) is the "First Dog of the USA", i.e. the president's dog. As such he has a lot of representative duties, but also many privileges which made him snobby and condescending ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, realistic
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: dog, bulldog, switching roles, comedy of errors, mistaken identity, fish out of water, disorder, family relations, misfit, odd couple, pets, getting home ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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The Super (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Joe Pesci stars as Louie Kritski, a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge gives him another option, which he accepts -- he must live in his rat-infested hell ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, entertaining, clever ...
Plot: culture clash, fish out of water, stupidity, justice, misfit, self discovery, parents and children, african american, racial slur, court, hip hop, con men ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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 ⇓
62%
Sunkist Family (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Joon-Ho (Park Hee-Soon) and Yoo-Mi (Jin Kyung) have been married for 20 years and they are still madly love in with each other. The couple have three children: first son Chul-Won (Jang Sung-Bum), first daughter Kyung-Joo (Yoon Bo-Ra) and youngest ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, humorous, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot: family life, parents and children, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, love affair, father son relationship, satire, male female relationship, family problems, family relations, lifestyle, father daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Kids Are Back (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Catherine and Yann, happily married for many years, should have spent the year travelling abroad. But since he sold his business, Yann has been too busy with his bonsai trees and keeps postponing the big trip. Things go from bad to worse when their ...
Style: satirical, semi serious, entertaining, funny, humorous ...
Plot: marital problem, family life, family problems, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, marital crisis, marriage crisis, family relations, family in crisis, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Arthur (Dudley Moore), that irrepressible drunk, tries to sober up -- and get a job -- in this sequel to the 1981 smash hit. Meanwhile, the father of the girl Arthur stood up at the altar in the first film is conniving to trick the hapless boozer ...
Style: slapstick, humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: adoption, alcoholic, vengeance, love affair, revenge, christmas, riches to rags, ghost, alcoholism, butler, baby, billionaire ...
Time: 80s, year 1988
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Mobsters and Mormons (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mafia family from New Jersey is placed in the witness relocation program to an all-Mormon community in Utah.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: friendship, culture clash, hidden identity, fish out of water, gangster, misfit, society, teenage life, starting over, buddies, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: utah, nebraska, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
You and Your Stupid Mate (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Phillip (Phillips) and Geoffrey (Sampson) are two Aussie larrikins, whose lives centre around running the un-official "Sons and Surf" website...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, save the day, partner, lifestyle, nothing goes right, escapades, misfit, odd couple, unemployment, cons and scams, party, friendship ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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