Movies like Bringing Down the House

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Bringing Down the House (2003)
 5.6
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Bringing Down the House (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Straight-laced lawyer, Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) meets and falls in love with online chat friend "Lawyer-Girl", Charlene Morton (Queen Latifah), only to discover she's a convicted bank robber. Charlene escapes from jail and comes looking for Peter to help clear her name.
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, melancholic, feel good, semi serious, romantic comedy, happy, raunchy, realistic ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: lawyer, friendship, divorce, workaholic, odd couple, farce, interracial romance, looking for love, comedy of errors, couple relations, prison, family relations, couples, single parent, law firm, single father, father son relationship, wrongful conviction, justice, redemption, motivation, racism, black cast, racist, jury ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century, contemporary
Place: los angeles, california, new jersey
Keyword: partners, gold digger, gangsters

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Most similar movies to Bringing Down the House

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and semi serious films with plots about couples, disorder, friendship, love and romance, friends, family relations and black mostly in Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Bringing Down the House: B*A*P*S (1997), Beauty Shop (2005), Couples Retreat (2009), For Richer or Poorer (1997), Breakin' All the Rules (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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B*A*P*S (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Can two clueless Georgia homegirls with big hearts -- and even bigger hair -- find happiness, fame and thrills in the swank hills of Beverly? Anything is possible when you are B.A.P.'s. They revive Blakemore's interest for life, and he ...
Style: black comedy, cult classic, rom com, realistic, not serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: black, hip hop, irreverence, black cast, urban, women, friendship, female bonding, millionaire, restaurant, guilt, nephew ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, beverly hills, usa, california, georgia
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100%
 5.6
 19K
Beauty Shop (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: You thought you'd heard it all in the barbershop, but you haven't heard anything yet - the women get their own chance to shampoo, shine, and speak their minds in Beauty Shop.
Style: humorous, melancholic, realistic, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: beauty salon, women, small business, hairdresser, vengeance, adaptation, single parent, workplace situations, black, ambition, urban, culture clash ...
Time: year 2005
Place: usa, africa, georgia, chicago, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 114K
Couples Retreat (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Four couples, all friends, descend on a tropical island resort. Though one husband and wife are there to work on their marriage, the others just want to enjoy some fun in the sun. They soon find, however, that paradise comes at a price: ...
Style: funny, tropical, sexy, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: resort, couple relations, friendship, couples therapy, marriage, island, couples, divorce, marital problem, crumbling marriage, friends, screwball ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: tahiti, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
For Richer or Poorer (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Brad Sexton and his wife, Caroline, are wealthy New Yorkers with both marital and financial problems. The latter issue becomes a pressing matter when they discover that their accountant has embezzled millions and pinned the blame on them. Forced to ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, detective, fun ...
Plot: amish, fish out of water, embezzlement, lawyer, wealth, farce, marital reconciliation, marital discord, small town, true love, divorce, emancipation ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: pennsylvania, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Breakin' All the Rules (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Inspired by his fiancée (who dumped him), a man publishes a break-up handbook for men, becoming a bestselling author in the process.
Style: romantic comedy, romantic, entertaining, melancholic, talky ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: black, love triangle, breakup, looking for love, comedy of errors, friendship, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty, battle of the sexes, hip hop, dating ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 ⇓
50%
 6.5
 74K
Bowfinger (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dream movie. Rallying a ragtag team that includes a starry-eyed ingenue, a has-been diva and a film studio ...
Style: parody, funny, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: filmmaking, hollywood, movie business, satire, dog, actor, cameraman, audition, desire for fame, african american, deception, actress ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.2
 2K
The Kid & I (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Aaron Roman (Gores) is a teenager with cerebral palsy who dreams of starring in a big-time action movie. When his father (Mantegna) grants Aaron his wish for his 18th birthday, he experiences the reality a bit hard to manage.
Style: realistic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, funny ...
Plot: hollywood, friendship, partner, nothing goes right, disability, artists and showbiz, youth, odd couple, good versus evil, buddies, teenage life, wish come true ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 4.7
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3 Strikes (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Brian Hooks plays a character who is just released from jail. And the state adopts a "3 strikes" rule for felons that involves serious penalties. Hooks has 2 strikes, and wants to change his life for the better. When a friend picks him up, ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, intense, light, not serious ...
Plot: hip hop, redemption, justice, going straight, starting over, comedy of errors, urban, partner, law enforcement, on the run, nothing goes right, heist ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 3.8
 3K
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 ⇓
49%
Hollywood Palms (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Set entirely in the Hollywood Palms apartment building and its yard, this movie shows how people there live and interact with each other.
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, biting, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: dark humor, betrayal, introspection, lifestyle, buddies, human nature, friendship, showbiz, hollywood, murder, partner, thirtysomething life ...
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 ⇓
49%
 5.3
 390
Raising Flagg (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A comedy centered on a handyman (Arkin) and his lifelong competition with his neighbor (Pendleton.)
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: parents and children, single parent, couple relations, betrayal, family relations, couples, friendship, eccentric family, family life, contests and competitions, small town, human nature ...
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
My Baby's Daddy (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A trio of young men are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant around the same time.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fatherhood, baby born, pregnancy, friendship, lifestyle, parents and children, family life, eccentric family, youth, love and romance, buddies, custody ...
Time: year 2004
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 4.4
 560
The Foursome (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Four old friends reconnect at their 20-year college reunion.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, light, feel good ...
Plot: golf, friendship, best friend, friends, lifestyle, buddies, couple relations, thirtysomething life, betrayal, old friend, reunited friends, old friends reunited ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 ⇓
48%
Moms' Night Out (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Yearning for an evening without their kids, some friends plan a night out. But to do this, their husbands need to watch the kids. What can go wrong?
Style: humorous, melancholic, sweet, funny, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly
Plot: christian, parenthood, pastor, parents and children, family relations, best friend, couples, nothing goes right, comedy of errors, parent child relationship, disorder, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: This wacky prequel to the 1994 blockbuster goes back to the lame-brained Harry and Lloyd's days as classmates at a Rhode Island high school, where the unprincipled principal puts the pair in remedial courses as part of a scheme to fleece the ...
Style: funny, not serious, slapstick, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, buddies, best friend, social misfits, goofy hero, partner, disorder, cheerleader, misfit, high school, buddy, dumb ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, year 2003, 20th century, year 1969
Place: rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Caffeine (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A fanciful battle of the sexes ensues when the relationships of the staff and patrons of a quirky London café are unexpectedly turned upside down by sudden revelations of terribly embarrassing secrets having to do with their sexual misadventures.
Style: talky, semi serious, feel good, humorous, funny ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: drug abuse, friendship, battle of the sexes, workplace situations, looking for love, love and romance, lifestyle, twentysomething life, couple relations, disorder, couples, family relations ...
Place: europe, london, england
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48%
Divorce American Style (1967)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
Style: retro, funny, romantic comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: divorce, battle of the sexes, marriage, couples, prostitute, suburban life, satire, divorced woman, comedy of manners, passionate kiss, hypnotist, divorce lawyer ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.1
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Next Friday (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ice Cube returns as Craig Jones, a streetwise man from South Central Los Angeles who has a knack for getting into trouble. This time out, Craig is still trying to outsmart neighborhood bully Debo (Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr.); after Craig gets ...
Style: funny, humorous, hood, feel good, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: weed, hip hop, black, urban, stoner, ghetto, marijuana, dishonesty, friendship, family relations, society, lifestyle ...
Time: 90s, y2k, year 2000
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Keeping Up with the Steins (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: All hilarity breaks loose in this heartwarming coming-of-age comedy when three generations of Fiedlers collide in a crazy family reunion. As they prepare for the biggest Bar Mitzvah on the block, they begin to see that they're much more alike ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, witty, realistic ...
Plot: rabbi, social differences, eccentric family, lifestyle, couples, family gatherings, family life, estrangement, parents and children, youth, coming of age, judaism ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: california, usa, new mexico, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 ⇓
47%
A Woman as a Friend (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Francis and Claudia are good friends . He is a lawyer, she is veterinary doctor. Among them there are no secrets , until John arrives. Claudia decides to marry him. Francis realizes that friendship between man and women is more complicated.
Style: feel good, not serious, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: looking for love, friendship, singleness, couple relations, love and romance, couples, friends, romantic relationship, male female relationship, love triangle, romantic friendship, relationship problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Should've Put a Ring On It (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Robin Givens, Miguel Nunez, and Bobby Valentino star in this faith-based romantic drama about Thea Johnson, terribly desperate to be married to her longtime boyfriend Jamar. When he takes too long to propose, she decides to propose to him instead. ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, sexy, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: best friend, twentysomething life, couples, family relations, friends, looking for love, love and romance, lifestyle, parents and children, party, black, r&b
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 ⇓
47%
Let Them Chirp Awhile (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The basic storyline of the film follows Bobby and Scott, two young men in their late twenties who are struggling to make careers out of their artistic dreams but their competitiveness with each other gets in the way.
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: lifestyle, looking for love, couples, performer's life, couple relations, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, twentysomething life, down on your luck, urban, male female relationship, dog ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.9
 7K
Houseguest (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In hot water with the mob over an unpaid debt, a con man poses as a family friend in an affluent Pennsylvania suburb.
Style: humorous, black comedy, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: friendship, stupidity, dysfunctional family, mistaken identity, teenage girl, dentist, redemption, boy, reckless driving, impersonation, debt, lawyer ...
Time: 90s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.5
 21K
Head of State (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, the Democratic party unexpectedly picks a Washington, D.C. alderman, Mays Gilliam (Rock) as his replacement .
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, light, absurd ...
Plot: politics, president, usa president, farce, presidential election, stereotypes, black, hip hop, state affairs, ambition, republican, head of state ...
Time: year 2003
Place: usa, washington d.c., chicago, nashville tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.1
 64K
The Jerk (1979)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson runs off on a hilarious misadventure in this comedy classic that takes him from rags to riches and back to rags again. The slaphappy jerk strikes ...
Style: funny, slapstick, hilarious, laugh out loud, clever ...
Audience: adult
Plot: irreverent, farce, dog, rags to riches, stupidity, coming of age, sniper, butler, fish out of water, leaving home, family reunited, road trip ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa, los angeles, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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