Movies like National Lampoon's Vacation

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National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
 7.3
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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, hilarious, laugh out loud, cult classic, inspirational, entertaining ...
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, couples, disorder, travel, female nudity, dysfunctional family, journey, car, amusement park, dark humor, gross out humor, teenager, stoner, wanderlust ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: chicago, colorado, arizona, illinois, usa, los angeles, kansas ...
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Most similar movies to National Lampoon's Vacation

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, realistic and funny films with plots about disorder, nothing goes right, road trip, family relations, on the road, father son relationship and silly humor mostly in Comedy, Adventure and Drama genres. Some movies like National Lampoon's Vacation: Spies Like Us (1985), Vegas Vacation (1997), Rat Race (2001), We're the Millers (2013), Tommy Boy (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
100%
National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The Griswalds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and thus pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe, but they just don't know how to be be good tourists. Besides, they have trouble taking holidays ...
Style: humorous, road movie, parody, light, not serious ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: travel, vacation, dysfunctional family, on the road, road trip, family relations, nothing goes right, family problems, tourist, american abroad, american tourist, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: europe, germany, paris france, london, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 53K
Spies Like Us (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.
Style: humorous, parody, funny, light, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, kgb, chase, mistaken identity, race against time, buddy, farce, secret service, nuclear war, nuclear threat ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: afghanistan, soviet union, middle east, asia, pakistan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 53K
Vegas Vacation (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls—Las Vegas.
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, light, slapstick ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gambling, dysfunctional family, obsession, family relations, farce, road trip, nothing goes right, teenage life, parents and children, desert, vacation, chase ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, chicago, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Rat Race (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers -- a group that will bet on anything -- by pitting six ordinary people against each other in a wild dash for ...
Style: funny, road movie, humorous, hilarious, light ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, date night
Plot: treasure hunt, road trip, on the road, chase, bet, mother daughter reunion, escapades, casino, gambling, rivalry, chases and races, race ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa, new mexico, cuba, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
We're the Millers (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A veteran pot dealer creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico.
Style: road movie, humorous, hilarious, not serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, family outing, adult
Plot: road trip, on the road, journey, nothing goes right, parenthood, pretense, adolescence, robbery, marijuana, drug smuggling, homeless teenager, drug dealing ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: mexico, usa, arizona, tucson arizona, new mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 96K
Tommy Boy (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Party animal Tommy Callahan is a few cans short of a six-pack. But when the family business starts tanking, it's up to Tommy and number-cruncher Richard Hayden to save the day.
Style: funny, humorous, slapstick, road movie, absurd ...
Audience: teens, kids, manly
Plot: road trip, dumb, father son relationship, buddy, entrepreneurship, twists and turns, adaptation, family relations, screwball, stupidity, goofy hero, buddies ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, chicago, wisconsin, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 18K
Summer Rental (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in a feud with a local yachtsman, and has to race him to ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, funny, intense ...
Audience: date night, family outing, kids
Plot: sailing, summer vacation, underdog, screwball, rivalry, on the road, friendship, nothing goes right, love and romance, disorder, couples, air traffic controller ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 121K
Vacation (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, a grown up Rusty Griswold takes his wife and their two sons on a cross-country road trip to the coolest theme park in America, Walley World. Needless ...
Style: funny, humorous, hilarious, realistic, not serious ...
Audience: teens, family outing, girls' night
Plot: road trip, dysfunctional family, vacation, family vacation, amusement park, highway travel, father son relationship, on the road, brother brother relationship, grand canyon, brother sister relationship, family relations ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, arizona, san francisco, memphis
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.8
 123K
Wild Hogs (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Restless and ready for adventure, four suburban bikers leave the safety of their subdivision and head out on the open road. But complications ensue when they cross paths with an intimidating band of New Mexico bikers known as the Del Fuegos.
Style: road movie, funny, humorous, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot: road trip, motorcycle, midlife crisis, motorcycle gang, biker gang, on the road, biker, small town, self discovery, happy ending, chase, friendship ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place: new mexico, california, ohio, usa, cincinnati ohio ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Odd Couple II (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 30 years after the first film, Oscar and Felix embark on a road trip together, to attend the wedding of Oscar's son to Felix's daughter.
Style: road movie, slapstick, humorous, not serious, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, marriage, road trip, on the road, couples, old age, divorce, senior citizen, feeling, aging, wedding, odd couple ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 63K
RV (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Climbing aboard their mammoth recreational vehicle for a cross-country road trip to the Colorado Rockies, the McNeive family – led by dysfunctional patriarch, Bob – prepares for the adventure of a lifetime. But spending two weeks together in one ...
Style: funny, feel good, road movie, entertaining, slapstick ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: road trip, camping, family vacation, workaholic, motor home, father daughter relationship, vacation, on the road, happy ending, family values, parents and children, siblings relations ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: colorado, usa, nevada, utah, pasadena california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.2
 25K
Funny Farm (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Chevy Chase stars as Andy Farmer, a sportswriter who moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth (Madolyn Smith) to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, ...
Style: hilarious, slapstick comedy, humorous, slapstick, laugh out loud ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: small town, fish out of water, writers, christmas, husband wife relationship, aspiring writer, farce, chase, breakup, media, suburbs, coming of age ...
Time: 80s
Place: vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.2
 126K
Caddyshack (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist ...
Style: funny, slapstick, light, intense, not serious ...
Audience: teens, family outing, adult
Plot: golf, country club, female nudity, public nudity, nudity, teenage girl, nude girl, rivalry, boobs, lust, swimming pool, peeping tom ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: usa, nebraska
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 61K
Joe Dirt (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blasting Van Halen in his jacked-up economy car, the ...
Style: funny, feel good, hilarious, humorous, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: janitor, white trash, road trip, adaptation, family relations, parent child relationship, obsessive quest, on the road, crossdresser, blonde, oil rig, highway travel ...
Time: year 2001, year 1982, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, austin texas, idaho, louisiana, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.8
 23K
Captain Ron (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When mild-mannered Martin Harvey finds out that he has inherited a vintage yacht, he decides to take his family on a Caribbean vacation to retrieve the vessel. Upon arriving on a small island and realizing that the ship is in rough shape, Martin and ...
Style: funny, humorous, hilarious, cult classic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: sailing, boat, childhood, sea, female nudity, child hero, underdog, outlaw, seafaring, smoking, sea voyage, sea adventure ...
Time: 90s
Place: caribbean, fictional island, chicago, puerto rico, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 14K
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 ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family outing
Plot: road trip, prank, mischievous children, holiday, culture clash, foe turned friend, thanksgiving, working class, unlikely friendships, reluctant partners, partner, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Nothing But Trouble (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: While attempting to seduce gorgeous lawyer Diane Lightson, wealthy gadabout Chris Thorne agrees to drive her to Atlantic City, N.J. But, when some reckless driving draws the attention of a deeply critical cop, they and the flamboyant ...
Style: humorous, dark comedy, melancholic, disturbing, not serious ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: chase, small town, dysfunctional family, justice, on the run, hip hop, eccentric family, disorder, buddies, nothing goes right, danger, goofy hero ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: new jersey, usa, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 36K
Interstate 60 (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
Style: road movie, surreal, witty, enigmatic, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: road trip, self discovery, on the road, alternate reality, life philosophy, dream girl, choice, self fulfillment, wish come true, surrealism, twists and turns, highway ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets shot and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe ...
Style: funny, humorous, black comedy, hilarious, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids
Plot: dark humor, beach, summer, murder, farce, insurance, comedy of errors, heat wave, organized crime, employer employee relationship, mob boss, nothing goes right ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Legend of the Lost Goddess (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A private detective journeys to Africa to find a legenday white gorilla. The gorilla turns out to be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
Style: erotic, sexy, independent film, sex comedy, not serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: nude bathing, lesbian, sexploitation, private detective, private investigator, bar fight, bare breasts, bisexual girl, sex scene, breaking the fourth wall, promiscuous woman, public nudity ...
Time: 60s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Seems Like Old Times (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Writer Nick Gardenia is kidnapped from his California cliffhouse and forced to rob a bank. Now a fugitive, he seeks help from his ex, Glenda. She is a public defender remarried to a prosecutor, and we get a houseful of hijinks.
Style: humorous, sweet, entertaining, melancholic, feel good ...
Plot: bank robbery, farce, love triangle, dog, couple relations, dishonesty, bank teller, nothing goes right, on the run, love and romance, unlikely criminals, love affair ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 70s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 107K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A high school slacker pretends to be sick to skip school and have an exciting day off alongside his girlfriend and his best buddy through Chicago, while trying to outwit his obsessive school principal and his unconformited sister along the way.
Style: feel good, entertaining, funny, light, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, teacher, teenage girl, friendship, teen angst, school, teenage angst, teenage boy, skipping school, rebel ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.5
 61K
Fanboys (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In 1999, Star Wars fanatics take a cross-country trip to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch so their dying friend can see a screening of The Phantom Menace before its release.
Style: funny, humorous, road movie, exciting, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night
Plot: road trip, on the road, fan, friendship, fandom, last wish, stoner, rivalry, buddy, obsessive quest, escapades, youth ...
Time: 90s, year 2009, 2000s, 20th century, y2k ...
Place: iowa, usa, texas, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.0
 125K
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A teenage girls deals with her parents forgetting her birthday and a crush on her high school's heartthrob.
Style: feel good, touching, sweet, teen, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: high school, teenager, coming of age, teenage life, high school life, youth, self discovery, teenage girl, teenage love, first love, female nudity, teen romance ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place: illinois, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 4.2
 2K
Wieners (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A road trip comedy about three friends who travel across the country in a Wiener Wagon to beat up a popular daytime talk show therapist.
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, exciting, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, on the road, partner, female nudity, obsessive quest, goofy hero, odd couple, disorder, misfit partners, cross country, prank, erotica ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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