Movies like Volunteers

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Volunteers (1985)
 5.5
 10K
Volunteers (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Lawrence is a rich kid with a bad accent and a large debt. After his father refuses to help him out, Lawrence escapes his angry debtors by jumping on a Peace Corp flight to Southeast Asia, where he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler.
Style: humorous, cult classic, feel good, realistic, semi serious, parody, hilarious, funny, light, romantic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, chick flick
Plot: brainwashing, culture clash, gambling, chase, tiger, american abroad, jungle, gangster, cold war, rescue, village, fall in love, island, cia, wealth, communism, in love, communist, debt, volunteer, teen angst, naivete, bookies, on the run, drug lord ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 80s, 1960s
Place: thailand, asia, yale university, southeast asia, new york
Keyword: gangsters, oldies, partners, doctors, jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, not serious and feel good films with plots about disorder, escapades, buddies, nothing goes right, silly humor, danger and fish out of water mostly in Comedy, Adventure and Action genres. Some movies like Volunteers: Spies Like Us (1985), Wagons East (1994), Nothing But Trouble (1991), Dudes (1987), Safari (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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95%
 4.8
 6K
Wagons East (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: After the 1860s Wild West, a group of misfit settlers - including ex-doctor Phil Taylor, prostitute Belle, and homosexual bookseller Julian - decide they cannot live in their current situation in the west. They hire a grizzled alcoholic wagon master ...
Style: humorous, satirical, not serious, funny, mockbuster ...
Plot: old west, satire, on the road, starting over, gang, horse, unlikely partners, tough heroes, danger, escapades, culture clash, wild west ...
Time: year 1994, 1800s, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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 ⇓
84%
 5.6
 2K
Dudes (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two punks from the big city, traveling across the country in a Volkswagen bug, embrace the western ethos when they must take revenge against a group of rednecks for killing their friend in this lighthearted road movie. Along the way, they enlist the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, surreal, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk, punk rock, road trip, obsessive quest, on the road, partner, mentally unstable, misfit, buddies, injustice, fish out of water, love triangle ...
Time: 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place: california, seattle, new york, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Safari (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Richard Dacier owns a tour agency specialized on organizing safaris for European tourists eager to confront the African wild life. Actually, he took the job after his father and never went into the savanna by himself. As he owes big money to some ...
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, captivating, light
Audience: family outing
Plot: wilderness, tour guide, disorder, escapades, culture clash, fish out of water, on the road, nothing goes right, goofy hero, danger, desert, african tribe ...
Time: 21st century
Place: johannesburg south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Having satisfied their urge for White Castle, Harold and Kumar jump on a plane to catch up with Harold's love interest, who's headed for the Netherlands. But the pair must change their plans when Kumar is accused of being a terrorist. Rob ...
Style: funny, humorous, sex comedy, teen, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: marijuana, weed, road trip, stoner, buddy, drug, college, nudity, terrorism, race issues, stereotypes, interracial relations ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, alabama, florida, cuba, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
1½ Knights - In Search of the Ravishing Princess Herzelinde (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The story of Lanze who is in love with the princess. One day the princess is kidnapped by the Dark Knight and Lanze starts his journey to rescue her. But he is not alone because Erdal, a turk, joins him on his journey.
Style: humorous, absurd, ironic, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: knight, kidnapping, escapades, rescue, disorder, danger, heroes, mission, medieval, woman in danger, coward, monkey ...
Time: year 2008
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 4.6
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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 ⇓
77%
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 6.3
 210K
Knight and Day (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately ...
Style: romantic, exciting, entertaining, action comedy, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, boys' night, date night ...
Plot: spy, secret agent, chase, cia, espionage, couples, on the run, chases and races, undercover, secret service, assassin, gunfight ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: boston, austria, spain, kansas, andalusia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Strange Wilderness (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: With the ratings dropping for a wilderness-themed TV show, two animal fans go to the Andes in search of Bigfoot.
Style: funny, humorous, hilarious, feel good, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bigfoot, road trip, stupidity, stoner, farce, friendship, obsessive quest, gross out humor, disorder, rivalry, nothing goes right, race against time ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ecuador, latin america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
George of the Jungle 2 (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: George and Ursula now have a son, George Junior, so Ursula's mother arrives to try and take them back to "civilization".
Style: humorous, feel good, not serious, spoof
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: jungle, treasure hunt, fish out of water, friendship, gambling, escapades, buddies, nothing goes right, mischievous children, disorder, imaginary kingdom, goofy hero ...
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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 ⇓
76%
 3.6
 11K
Delta Farce (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three bumbling Army reservists are hustled onto a plane headed for combat in Iraq -- but the fact that the plane drops them in Mexico doesn't stop them from "liberating" what they believe to be the Middle East.
Style: humorous, satirical, funny, entertaining, action comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: comedy of errors, soldier, friendship, danger, gang, escapades, misfit, nothing goes right, battles, army, farce, military ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Lost in Thailand (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lost in Thailand is the story of two rival business managers, Xu (Xu Zheng) and Bo (Huang Bo), who are fighting over a revolutionary new in-house technology for control of their company. If Xu wins, his future will be secured. The critical task is ...
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, touching, melancholic
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: escapades, comedy of errors, fish out of water, disorder, culture clash, on the road, nothing goes right, slice of life, travel, silly humor, rivalry, hung over ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: china, thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.1
 205K
Spaceballs (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power ...
Style: parody, spoof, funny, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space travel, space and aliens, space opera, alien, satire, space, farce, wilhelm scream, star wars, outer space, human in outer space, princess ...
Time: future, 80s
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: As a swingin' fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy, baby! But can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil after the bald villain freezes himself and unthaws in the ...
Style: parody, spoof, humorous, entertaining, hilarious ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot: time travel, spy, spy spoof, espionage, dumb, 007, satire, culture clash, secret service, stupidity, good versus evil, james bond spoof ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1997, 60s, year 1967
Place: las vegas, usa, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Corvette Summer (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream Corvette, is stolen, he begins searching for it. His search leads him to Las Vegas, where Vanessa, a teenaged prostitute wannabe, helps ...
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, laugh out loud, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: first sexual experience, car, fall in love, high school, prostitute, automobile, classic car, speed, cat and mouse, driver, racing, bike ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 1950s
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 5.7
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Almost Heroes (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two hapless explorers lead an ill-fated 1804 expedition through the Pacific Northwest in a hopeless, doomed effort to reach the Pacific Ocean before Lewis and Clark.
Style: humorous, funny, not serious, exciting, hilarious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: culture clash, wilderness, fight, bravery, cons and scams, fish out of water, partner, friendship, race against time, adventurer, escapades, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Bachelor Party Vegas (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A planned evening of debauchery in Las Vegas to celebrate their best friend's wedding goes horribly -- but hilariously -- wrong for five average guys.
Style: humorous, not serious, sex comedy, feel good, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bachelor party, erotica, nothing goes right, buddies, escapades, friendship between men, travel, group of friends, gambling, nudity, party, wedding preparations and rituals ...
Place: las vegas, chicago, usa, nevada
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74%
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Flashback (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escorted to trial by uptight 20-something FBI agent John Buckner. While the two seem to be polar ...
Style: entertaining, emotional, light, witty, humorous ...
Plot: lsd, friendship, train, chase, on the road, fbi, hippie, unlikely friendships, prison, criminal heroes, partner, mistaken identity ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 90s
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 5.6
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Search Party (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two oafs must rescue their stranded pal in Mexico.
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, funny, feel good ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: buddies, nothing goes right, silly humor, escapades, friends, disorder, farce, twentysomething life, sexual content, male pubic hair, woman with a gun, group sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Farce of the Penguins (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In this spoof of "March of the Penguins," nature footage of penguins near the South Pole gets a soundtrack of human voices. Carl and Jimmy, best friends, walk 70 miles to the mating grounds where the female penguins wait. The huddled ...
Style: parody, feel good, humorous, not serious, mockumentary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: penguins, farce, looking for love, obsessive quest, nothing goes right, goofy hero, danger, disorder, fish out of water, escapades, buddies, rescue ...
Time: 2000s
Place: antarctic, antarctica, south pole
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Terrible Jungle (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story: French Guyana, not so long ago. Eliott, a young and naive anthropology researcher, goes on an expedition to study the Otopis, a mysterious tribe from the Amazon rainforest. It is also an opportunity for him to get away from the grip of his ...
Style: funny, humorous, absurd, idiotic
Plot: jungle, tribe, unlikely friendships, danger, stupidity, silly humor, goofy hero, adventurer, culture clash, save the day, farce, village ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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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 ⇓
73%
 6.5
 6K
Friendship! (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young man from East Germany travels to San Francisco to search for his father, who fled 12 years ago. Together with his best friend, he starts the journey from New York with no money and the only word they ever learned in english-lessons: ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, melancholic, touching
Plot: friendship, obsessive quest, social relations, disorder, friends, fish out of water, culture clash, on the road, road trip, friendship between men, monkey, boy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 80s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, germany, german democratic republic, east germany, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new King Rudolph of Ruritania fear for his life, and switch him with a look-a-like London ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, exciting, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: kidnapping, literary, satire, prison escape, fictional country, prison, sword fight, heir to the throne, kingdom, fictitious country, body swapping, partner ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
The Adventures of Philibert, Captain Virgin (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Czech Republic
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Philibert, a robust lad and eldest son of an artichoke farmer, stands out from the other boys in the village. Idealistic and ingenuous, he foresees for himself a glorious future in artichokes and is saving his virginity for an as-yet-unknown woman ...
Style: parody, sentimental, realistic, feel good, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: daring rescue, fish out of water, master villain, heroic mission, goofy hero, obsessive quest, disorder, swashbuckler, heroes, vengeance, village life, rivalry ...
Time: 16th century, medieval times
Place: france, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 5.2
 1K
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 ⇓
73%
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her ...
Style: feel good, exciting, light, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, date night, family outing, adult
Plot: treasure hunt, jungle, unlikely couple, opposites attract, escapades, adventurer, travel, chase, stranded, map, treasure, gem ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: south america, colombia, new york, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 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 ⇓
72%
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