Movies like The Big Year

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The Big Year (2011)
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The Big Year (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than coming out on top of the competition
Style: feel good, humorous, light, scenic, semi serious, hilarious, thought provoking, inspirational, uplifting, art house ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids
Plot: obsession, bird, competition, friendship, father son relationship, eccentricity, camp, family drama, marital problem, rivalry, midlife crisis, storm, husband wife relationship, love, wildlife, moving, biology, contest, tournament, camping, honeymoon, camping trip, brotherhood, wanderlust, newlyweds ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: alaska, usa, china, california, san francisco, new jersey
Keyword: woodpecker, doctors, dreams

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Most similar movies to The Big Year

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, light, feel good and realistic films with plots about friendship, friends, disorder, rivalry, buddies, on the road and silly humor mostly in Comedy, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Big Year: A Walk in the Woods (2015), A Birder's Guide to Everything (2013), The Great Outdoors (1988), The Internship (2013), City Slickers (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Walk in the Woods (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.
Style: scenic, light, road movie, humorous, melancholic ...
Plot: hiking, camping, elderly, friendship, camping trip, road trip, solitude, writers, friends, escapades, midlife crisis, storytelling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: appalachia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
A Birder's Guide to Everything (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: David Portnoy, a 15-year-old birding fanatic, thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime. So, on the eve of his father's remarriage, he escapes on an epic road trip with his best friends to solidify their place in birding history.
Style: touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, friendship, obsessive quest, coming of age, teenage boy, road trip, friends, escapades, sexual content, friendship between boys, bird, wildlife ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, new england
⇓ 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 ⇓
67%
 6.3
 214K
The Internship (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.
Style: funny, motivational, light, inspirational, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot: workplace, starting over, new job, career, computers and web, rivalry, boss and employee, fish out of water, middle aged, lifestyle change, underdog, staff ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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City Slickers (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: New York meets the west in this comedy starring Billy Crystal. Three New York business men decide to take a 'Wild West' vacation that turns out to not be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining, light ...
Audience: kids
Plot: fish out of water, friendship, midlife crisis, vacation, buddies, mentor, childhood, buddy, radio, treasure hunt, bittersweet, rain ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, colorado, spain, new york, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 17K
Are You Here (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When Steve Dallas, a womanizing local weatherman, hears that his off-the-grid best friend Ben Baker has lost his estranged father, the two return to Ben's childhood home. Once there, they discover Ben has inherited the family fortune, and the ...
Style: light, funny, intense, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, existentialism, eccentricity, family drama, mental illness, family relations, homecoming, road trip, childhood friend, womanizer, relationships, friends ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: usa, virginia, maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.
Style: feel good, inspirational, motivational, surreal, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids, family outing
Plot: self discovery, travel, daydreamer, life changing experience, journey, loneliness, adventurer, photographer, obsessive quest, lifestyle change, disorder, dream ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: iceland, greenland, usa, new york, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 19K
Sandy Wexler (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: When a hapless but dedicated talent manager signs his first client who actually has talent, his career finally starts to take off.
Style: sincere, entertaining, uplifting, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: woman, couple relations, fall in love, male female relationship, love and romance, love, love affair, rivalry, ambition, youth, society, hopes ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Movie in collections
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Pretty Bird (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: disorder, friendship, partner, unemployment, buddies, dark humor, desire for fame, friends, aviation, unfulfillment, nasa, obsessive quest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.4
 94K
Be Kind Rewind (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.
Style: surreal, light, funny, stylized, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: jazz, video store, filmmaking, eccentricity, friendship, creativity, nothing goes right, art, sabotage, buddy, workplace, african american ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Women Who Flirt (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Zhang Hui is told by long-time best friend Xiao Gong that he has a new girlfriend, she is determined to learn new tricks to gain him back. Based on the novel written by Luo Fuman, "Everyone Loves Tender Women".
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, romantic comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love triangle, rivalry, disorder, friendship, fall in love, seduction, self-help, couples, uninhibited rivalry, friends, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.8
 24K
Sgt. Bilko (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The army is known for churning out lean mean fighting machines intent on protecting our great nation. Martin is the inexplicable the incorrigible the invicible sgt. Ernie bilko leader of a ragtag group of the sorriest soldiers ever to enlist in the ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, hilarious, captivating ...
Plot: gambling, revenge, camp, soldier, u.s. army, grudge, anti hero, feud, african american, irreverence, disorder, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, greenland, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Out-of-Towners (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy follows the adventures of a couple, Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for a job interview.
Style: light, humorous, feel good, realistic, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: job seeking, happy ending, family problems, disorder, midlife crisis, renewed love, fish out of water, travel, justice, fish, hotel, marriage ...
Time: 70s, year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa, ohio, manhattan new york city, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Luck (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Shane Bradley, who is fixated on ideas of luck and destiny, tries to win the girl of his dreams. After their relationship falters, Shane begins to think he might be unlucky and turns to gambling as an outlet for his obsession.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, touching ...
Plot: hopes, hockey, obsession, unfulfillment, ambition, small town, gambling debt, fall in love, ice hockey, wooing, rivalry, love ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.6
 5K
Camp Takota (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: With her personal and professional life in shambles, Elise ends up having to take a job as a counselor at her old summer camp. There, she reunites with two estranged friends who attended camp and never left. When the future of the camp is put in ...
Style: humorous, light, sincere, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: summer camp, save the day, friendship, youth, instructor, lesbian, fired from the job, rivalry, childhood friend, friends, camp, adulthood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Book of Caleb (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A comfortable underachiever and serial prankster, in the midst of their quarter life crisis, reunite against childhood enemies in a contemporary suburban epic.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prank, best friend, friends, misfit, love and romance, social misfits, friendship, true love, uninhibited rivalry, society, rivalry, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Duct Tape Forever (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When an evil land baron's limo falls into a sinkhole outside Possum Lodge, lodge leader Red Green is ordered to pay the baron $10,000 or lose his beloved lodge forever. Red considers various money-making schemes concocted by his buddies, but ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Plot: rivalry, contests and competitions, friendship, on the road, ambition, nothing goes right, farce, partner, save the day, journey, debt, contest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.1
 2K
Buddymoon (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When David is left by his fiancé just days before the wedding, his relentlessly upbeat best man, Flula, insists that the pair go on David's previously planned honeymoon: a seven-day backpacking trip through the breathtaking mountains of ...
Style: funny, feel good, semi serious, light, satirical ...
Plot: hiking, travel, friendship, nature, breakup, wildlife, escapades, road trip, friends, humour, satire, camping trip ...
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Movie in collections
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 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 ⇓
31%
Authors Anonymous (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a dysfunctional group of unpublished writers accept Hannah into their fold, the last thing they expect is her overnight success. Can these lovable misfits achieve their artistic dreams and avoid killing one another in the process?
Style: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, not serious ...
Plot: writers, rivalry, overnight success, follow your dream, writer's life, ambition, misfit, couples, friendship, real life, social misfits, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.3
 2K
Gamers (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Gamers is a comedy about the lives of four slacker friends (and one obsessive interloper) living at home, -"with my parents... it's just temporary... 'til they die"- working in the real world but playing in a fantasy world. ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, mockumentary
Plot: friendship, rivalry, obsessive quest, friends, obsession, farce, curses spells and rituals, dark humor, racism, lsd, role playing, gamer ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Happy Birthday, Harris Malden (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Harris Malden wears his insecurity on his face in a curious disguise for everyone to see. No one in the neighborhood, not even his best friend Paul or his brother Melvin, has the heart to tell him how ridiculous he looks with the thick black line ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: birthday, friendship, family relations, friends, society, lifestyle, physical appearance, misfit, party, love, couples, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.2
 10K
Win It All (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A gambling addict faces a conflict when entrusted with keeping a bunch of money that isn't his.
Style: feel good, light, humorous, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: gambling, addiction, gambling addiction, escapades, friendship, adaptation, rivalry, ambition, obsession, hopes, happy ending, danger ...
Time: year 2017
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Bagboy (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A teenager enters the competitive world of grocery store bagging.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: rise to the top, rivalry, ambition, youth, family relations, teenage life, competition, fired from the job, friendship, escapades, teenager, supermarket ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Adventures of Serial Buddies (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Gregory is a devout Catholic who wants to kill evil people in order to grant them safe passage to heaven, Gary is an assembly worker at a trophy shop who wants to kill potential trophy winners, Graham is Gary's intern who will do anything to ...
Style: humorous, not serious, feel good, captivating, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: on the road, silly humor, disorder, misfit partners, escapades, friends, buddies, journey, sorority, fraternity, catholic, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Midnight Madness (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A genius grad student organizes an all-night treasure hunt in which five rival teams composed of colorful oddballs furiously match wits with one another while trying to locate and decipher various cryptic clues planted ingeniously around Los Angeles.
Style: cult classic, entertaining, sex comedy, realistic, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: competition, college, sorority, school, teenager, contest, beer, chase, night, student athlete, escape room, tournament ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 4.7
 2K
Noobz (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Four friends hit the road to LA to compete in the Cyberbowl Video Game Championship, but will they be able to compete with the worst hangovers of their lives?
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, light, gaming ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: on the road, contests and competitions, computers and web, buddies, obsessive quest, rivalry, misfit partners, friends, stoner, toilet humor, road trip, tournament ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The F**k-It List (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After a prank blows up a studious high school senior's life, he shares a list of certain things he wishes he'd done differently — and maybe still can.
Style: semi serious, light, feel good, sentimental, humorous
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, desire, wish come true, teenage girl, teenager, youth, party, happy ending, magic, distopia, high school ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When happy family man Joe Dirt finds himself transported to the recent past, he begins an epic journey to get back to his loved ones in the present.
Style: not serious, light, feel good, road movie, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: white trash, obsessive quest, goofy hero, friendship, haunted by the past, lone hero, misfit, parent child relationship, time travel, buddies, on the road, life lesson ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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House Broken (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: In order to enjoy his retirement, a father takes drastic measures to get his twentysomething, slacker sons to move out and fend for themselves.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, family relations, silly humor, coming of age, friendship, disorder, father son relationship, cheerleader, profanity, sexual content, elderly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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