Movies like Big Top Pee-wee

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Big Top Pee-wee (1988)
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Big Top Pee-wee (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front yard. Pee-wee, along with an outlandish cast of animals and circus performers, puts on the best show ever.
Style: humorous, light, feel good, slapstick, surreal, captivating, entertaining, mysterious, offbeat, not serious ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: circus, small town, farm, misfit, workplace, fall in love, magical, love affair, pig, traveling circus, weirdo, carnival, amusement park, love triangle, acrobat, relationship problems, animal lover, heroes, friendship, friends, love and romance, escapades, bankruptcy, imaginary, adult as child ...
Place: california
Keyword: gangsters, dreams

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Most similar movies to Big Top Pee-wee

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, light and entertaining films with plots about disorder, friendship, friends, love and romance, silly humor, misfit and love mostly in Comedy, Romance and Adventure genres. Some movies like Big Top Pee-wee: Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), The Pee Wee Herman Show (1981), Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986), Tug (2010), Honey I Blew Up the Kid (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The eccentric and childish Pee-wee Herman embarks on a big adventure when his beloved bicycle is stolen. Armed with information from a fortune-teller and a relentless obsession with his prized possession, Pee-wee encounters a host of odd characters ...
Style: road movie, funny, surreal, humorous, hilarious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: bicycle, road trip, man child, cycling, on the road, surrealism, nightmare, great ending, bike, children, childhood, chase ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: austin texas, texas, california, usa, san antonio texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Subversive humor and childlike wonder based on both Reubens' original stage show, "The Pee-wee Herman Show," and the Emmy-winning Saturday morning TV show, "Pee-wee's Playhouse."
Style: humorous, feel good, slapstick, independent film, not serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: disorder, friends, music, artists and showbiz, goofy hero, theater, silly humor, surrealism, dancing, dance, satire, show tunes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
The Pee Wee Herman Show (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
Story: An adult-oriented version of what would eventually become an award-winning children's classic. This version of the show features Pee-wee's playhouse and many of the characters of the later series, but with adult and sexual overtones and ...
Style: slapstick, feel good, offbeat, humorous, not serious ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: love, comedy club, genie, adult humor, hypnosis, friends, disorder, wish come true, generosity, friendship, artists and showbiz, misfit ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Pee-wee's Playhouse is an American children's television program starring Paul Reubens as the childlike Pee-wee Herman. The show was developed from Reubens' popular stage show and the one-off TV special The Pee-wee Herman Show, ...
Style: humorous, absurd, mysterious, surreal, not serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: weirdo, magical, djinn, sketch, friendship, dance, surrealism, silly humor, disorder, friends, imaginary, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Tug (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A small town guy tries to decide between staying with his current girlfriend or going back to his psycho ex.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: love triangle, small town, couples, friends, rivalry, choice, love, ex girlfriend, dishonesty, friendship, disorder, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Honey I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his ...
Style: funny, light, clever, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, toddlers, family outing ...
Plot: baby, inventor, inventions and discoveries, fish out of water, childhood, giant, family relations, toys, animal, redemption, runaway, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, las vegas, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Beethoven's 5th (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. When Sara takes Beethoven to spend summer vacation with wacky Uncle Freddie in an old mining town, the mischievous canine "digs up" the missing clue to a legendary hidden fortune of Rita and Moe ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: dog, animal, youth, saint bernard dog, family relations, friendship, family life, partner, best friend, friends, chase, escapades ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 4.8
 15K
Love Wrecked (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: On a Caribbean cruise, Jenny (Bynes) is marooned on a beach with her rock and roll idol. Deliriously in love with the idea of time alone with him, she manages to hide the fact that they're a stone's throw away from their resort.
Style: humorous, light, feel good, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, date night, chick flick
Plot: resort, beach, teenage love, lifeguard, best friends in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, shipwreck, stranded, love triangle, marooned, teenage girl, lie ...
Time: year 2005
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Lovemakers (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hungary, USA, UK, Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Small time Hungarian matchmakers get the job to make a Hollywood star fall in love with a Russian businessman's spoiled brat sister. They get one million dollars if they succeed, but if they fail, they will have to pay with their lives.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, offbeat ...
Plot: fall in love, disorder, comedy of errors, silly humor, dishonesty, cons and scams, mistaken identity, couples, rivalry, friendship, love and romance, high maintenance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Man On Her Mind (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Nellie is a seemingly prim young woman who is conducting a clandestine affair with Jack, a super-suave, fast-talking lawyer. It doesn't matter that the pair seems mismatched because Jack doesn't really exist; he is a figment of Nellie’s ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, entertaining, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, love affair, love and romance, fall in love, imaginary, couple relations, singleness, boy
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 5.4
 17K
King Ralph (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: As the only relative to take over the Royal throne, a down on his luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.
Style: feel good, funny, light, satirical, humorous ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: fish out of water, culture clash, heir, princess, american abroad, king, goofy hero, rise to the top, head of state, love at first sight, love and romance, misfit ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: england, europe, usa, buckingham palace, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Lenny The Wonder Dog (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After being implanted with a microchip that gives him special powers, a dog engages a young boy in conversation and adventure. Befriended by a local police officer, the dog, the boy and his friend go on a quest to save the world by undoing the ...
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: dog, mad scientist, on the run, small town, laboratory, pets, family relations, friendship, save the world, danger, rivalry, friends ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
FRED: The Movie (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Fred Figglehorn has a crush on Judy, the girl next door. Fred's stalker, Kevin, lives across the street and thwarts each attempt Fred makes to see her. When Fred finally succeeds in making it to Judy's, he finds out she has moved so he ...
Style: humorous, not serious, captivating, light, freeze frame ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: in love, obsessive quest, teenage life, rivalry, prank, escapades, disorder, love and romance, unfulfilled love, youth, misfit, silly humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 5.7
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New in Town (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Lucy Hill is an ambitious up-and-coming executive living in Miami. She loves her shoes, she loves her cars and she loves climbing the corporate ladder. When she is offered a temporary assignment – in the middle of nowhere – to restructure a ...
Style: feel good, humorous, sweet, light, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: small town, fish out of water, fall in love, opposites attract, love and romance, moral dilemma, winter, factory worker, creativity, social relations, life philosophy, prejudice ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: minnesota, miami, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 5.9
 69
Bored Silly (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: What starts out as a boring day for Bobby, Johnnie and Chuck quickly escalates into a riotous backyard adventure. A swarming beehive, a lawn mower with a mind of its own, a mysterious junkman and the neighborhood bully are just some of the hilarious ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, mischievous children, friendship, young heroes, buddies, disorder, teenage life, small town, summer vacation, partner, heroes, coming of age ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 6.6
 47K
Roxanne (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", large nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne while she falls for his personality but another man's looks.
Style: humorous, feel good, funny, romantic comedy, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, family outing, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: unrequited love, fall in love, love triangle, love story, small town, rivalry, physical appearance, wooing, dishonesty, hidden identity, happy ending, public nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: seattle, washington d.c., usa, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 5.0
 3K
Bingo (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bingo, the runaway circus dog, is off the leash and saving Chuckie's life! Bingo and the boy become the best of friends in this canine comedy featuring doggy disguises and skateboarding, pinball and prison. Chuckie and his parents (Cindy ...
Style: humorous, touching, not serious, spoof, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog, friendship, on the road, rescue, american football, escapades, youth, pets, kidnapping, childhood, coming of age, animal protagonist ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 7.1
 310K
Elf (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he ...
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, christmas special, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas spirit, father son relationship, santa claus, north pole, christmas season, corporate world, adoption, snow, winter, elf ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, usa, south pole, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Dudley Do-Right (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Based on the 60's-era cartoon of the same name. Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a plot to buy all the property in town, then start a ...
Style: humorous, satirical, intense, light, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens
Plot: gold rush, stereotypes, village life, cons and scams, goofy hero, escapades, mountie, u.s. canadian border, gold, destiny, bomb squad, batman ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: seattle, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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A Perfect Plan (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Successful woman in love tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending in divorce, by dashing to the alter with a random stranger before marrying her boyfriend.
Style: feel good, light, romantic, funny, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: couple relations, escapades, love and romance, love affair, travel, love, fake marriage, unlikely couple, fall in love, disorder, nothing goes right, obsessive quest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kenya, africa, moscow russia, france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua named Chloe who, while on vacation in Mexico with her owner Viv's niece, Rachel, gets lost and must rely on her friends to help her get back home before she is caught by a dognapper who wants to ransom her.
Style: humorous, entertaining, melancholic, light, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: dog, pets, rescue, animal life, chihuahua, friendship, lifestyle, police dog, animal, childhood, talking dog, getting home ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: beverly hills, california, mexico, usa, mexico city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 4.1
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Life's an Itch (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A married man reaches the point where he questions everything: career, creativity and even his marriage. Hilarious complications and temptations arise when his wife invites her open-minded (and very sexy) yoga instructor to stay in the guest house ...
Style: humorous, funny, romantic, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: husband wife relationship, love triangle, couples, love and romance, romantic relationship, love story, crumbling marriage, love, yoga, love affair, relationships, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Trial and Error (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An actor poses as a lawyer to help his sick friend, and problems develop.
Style: humorous, talky, melancholic, light, not serious ...
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, legal, small town, fish out of water, goofy hero, nothing goes right, legal action, comedy of errors, mistaken identity, cons and scams, law ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: nevada, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Norway, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: By helping Doctor Proctor getting recognition for his amazing invention in a world quite different from ours, two lonely children gets help to stand on their own two feet.
Style: humorous, not serious, captivating, entertaining, light
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: rivalry, friendship, inventions and discoveries, mad scientist, imaginary, youth, good versus evil, disorder, family relations, adult child friendship, identical twins, invention ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.8
 807
Black Coffee (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Robert picked the wrong time to meet his soul mate! After being fired from his own father's company, he feels like his luck has run out - until Morgan enters into his life.
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, captivating, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, black, couples, couple relations, unemployment, friendship, family relations, african american, black american, amor, black romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The daughter of a circus owner fights to save her father from a takeover spearheaded by the man she loves.
Style: retro, semi serious, humorous, stylized, feel good ...
Plot: circus, carnival, elephant, gambling, bride and groom, fighting the system, opposites attract, espionage, fall in love, follow your dream, lifestyle, ambition ...
Time: 60s, 90s
Place: iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Rockin' Meera (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An upcoming hip-hop band from San Francisco makes the journey into the depths of modern Hindustan. They clash with a feisty Prince for the prized catch: Meera, a bold dusky beauty. The comic adventure unfolds in the jaws of a raging tiger, raining ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, exciting, feel good, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: hip hop, couples, friends, music band, forbidden love, couple relations, society, love and romance, fall in love, friendship, artists and showbiz, unlikely couple ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, san francisco, usa, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.0
 101K
Bedtime Stories (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fantastical stories he makes up for entertainment inexplicably turn into reality. Can a ...
Style: feel good, fairy tale, funny, romantic, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: miraculous event, wish come true, life turned upside down, imaginary, imaginary kingdom, imagination, children, escapades, nothing goes right, storytelling, uncle nephew relationship, magic ...
Time: year 2008, 70s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1974 ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
George of the Jungle (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Baby George got into a plane crash in a jungle, stayed alive and was adopted by a wise ape. Ursula Stanhope, US noble woman is saved from death on safari by grown-up George, and he takes her to jungle to live with him. He slowly learns a rules of ...
Style: slapstick comedy, humorous, parody, slapstick, spoof ...
Audience: family outing, teens, family friendly, kids, chick flick ...
Plot: jungle, fish out of water, childhood, tarzan, rescue, gorilla, goofy hero, elephant, heiress, friendship, monkey, happy ending ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: san francisco, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Sharp as Marbles (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Albert isn't the brightest bulb on the block. But that's okay, he's got his best friends, George and Ernie to help him out. Only problem, they're just as dumb as he is.
Style: humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, misfit, youth, buddies, friendship, nothing goes right, odd couple, goofy hero, silly humor, fish out of water, escapades, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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