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Family Disaster (2025)
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Original name: Desastre en familia
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
During a road trip meant to bring them closer, the Meza family experiences an unexpected twist when they mysteriously swap bodies. As they adapt to each other’s lives, they gain new perspectives on their relationships in this lighthearted story about connection and understanding.
Style:
family comedy, humorous, sitcom, situational comedy, lighthearted, emotional
Audience:
family friendly, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
empathy, body swap, body swapping, road trip, family drama, switching roles, fish out of water, heartwarming, personal growth, self discovery, parenting, coming of age, teenage angst, generation gap, high school life, waking up, everyday life, introspection, identity crisis, misunderstanding, slice of life, workplace humor, school life
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, situational comedy, sitcom and lighthearted films with plots about slice of life, personal growth, fish out of water, self discovery, friendship, coming of age and family drama mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like Family Disaster: If I Were You (2023), Baby & Baby (2025), Paranthu Po (2025), The Great Mom Swap (1995), Hawa Bodol (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A married couple wakes up in each other's bodies, discovering surprising thrusts about their partner as they struggle to return to normalcy.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When two girls think the other has it better, they swap places to see who's right!
Style:
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Audience:
family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A French expatriate and an auto driver go on a three-day journey.
Style:
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Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
road trip, self discovery, comedy of errors, empathy, culture clash, personal growth, travel, slice of life, urban, everyday life, identity, intimate ...
Place:
kannada
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Shakir, who lives in Kayseri, has a great legacy from his uncle who died in Istanbul. His uncle sends a telegram to Kayseri and dies before seeing Shakir, but a relative who does not want to share the legacy begins to make plans to eliminate him.
Style:
humorous, sitcom, situational comedy, lighthearted, slapstick ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time and all his energy to this noble task and neglects his wife Silvia, which of course annoys her ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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757
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Pierre is the highly successful CEO of a large family-owned company. Before signing the deal of the century, he has to settle one last formality: obtain the signature of his cousin Adrien who owns 50% of his firm. This sweet, idealistic dreamer, who ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Teenager struggles with his family roots and his own identity.
Style:
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Plot:
identity, coming of age, teenager, identity crisis, self discovery, adolescence, family drama, youth, self acceptance, parent child relationship, personal growth, small town ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, captivating, light, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico, Chile
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: France
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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