Movies like Homo Erectus

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Homo Erectus (2007)
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Homo Erectus (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Ishbo is a caveman living in the prehistoric age who thinks there's more to life than hunting and gathering. He tries to better the lives of those in his tribe by inventing things like spoons and the toothbrush, which leave everyone, including his parents, unimpressed. He also has a thing for cavewoman Fardart, but she only has eyes for his brother Thudnik. Can Ishbo prove his worth when a rival clan attacks?
Style: humorous, sentimental, not serious, light, captivating
Audience: date night
Plot: unrequited love, rivalry, nothing goes right, goofy hero, social misfits, misfit, society, unfulfilled love, disorder, underdog, inventor, evolution, father son relationship, tribe, porn actress, prehistoric animal, girl, cave woman, profanity, sexual content, siblings relations, unfulfillment, nudity, caveman, cave ...
Time: stone age, prehistory, prehistoric times

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, captivating and light films with plots about disorder, society, rivalry, friends, misfit, nothing goes right and silly humor mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Homo Erectus: Caveman (1981), Doublegangers (2014), Premium (2006), Punk's Not Dead (2011), Venus & Vegas (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Caveman (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In this comedy, Atouk becomes leader of the misfit cavemen. Disgraced and cast out of his tribe for lusting after Lana, the mate of tribe's head muscle man, Atouk stumbles along gathering other misfits and learning a bit about the world outside ...
Style: spoof, cult classic, funny, prehistoric, parody ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: caveman, dinosaur, stop motion, kaiju, the beatles, prehistoric man, friendship, consumerism, prehistoric creature, archaeology, giant creature, prehistoric animal ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, stone age, year 1981
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95%
Doublegangers (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story: A comedy centered around three people who each have a lookalike of a lookalike, all with the same name.
Style: humorous, not serious, entertaining, light, captivating ...
Plot: buddies, escapades, friends, nothing goes right, mistaken identity, lookalikes, society, rivalry, comedy of errors, disorder, music, goofy hero ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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92%
 5.7
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Premium (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Reginald "Cool" Coolidge is a struggling actor, fed up with taking stereotypical African American roles and waiting for his big break in a legitimate production. Until this time comes, he works at his mother's boyfriend's gas ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, wedding, couples, follow your dream, race against time, ambition, showbiz, nothing goes right, filmmaking, black, hip hop, blaxploitation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Punk's Not Dead (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A group of crotchety codgers attempt to revive the punk-rock band they all played in 17 years earlier in "Punk Is Not Dead".
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, contemplative, tense ...
Plot: punk, music band, counterculture, dark humor, friends, society, disorder, rivalry, club, punk rock, rock, punk band ...
Time: 21st century
Place: macedonia, europe, serbia, bosnia
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Venus & Vegas (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When three Vegas buddies attempt the score of a lifetime, they have to walk a fine line between their girlfriends who want their heads, and the mobsters who want them dead.
Style: not serious, humorous, captivating, light, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, buddies, couple relations, nothing goes right, rivalry, danger, nudity, profanity, friends, disorder, chases and races, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, nevada, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Recep Ivedik (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man finds the wallet of a rich man and takes a rigorous trip in an old car to return it, finding an old love and a new life of luxury awaiting.
Style: humorous, feel good, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hotel, lovers reunited, wooing, goofy hero, misfit, sexual content, silly humor, nothing goes right, fish out of water, couples, turk, love and romance ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey, constantinople
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Skid Marks (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Budget cuts force two rival ambulance companies and their misfit medics to go head-to-head to save their patients, their jobs and their beer money, all in the name of emergency medicine.
Style: humorous, realistic, not serious, light, independent film ...
Plot: ambition, rivalry, friends, disorder, contests and competitions, goofy hero, doctors and patients, silly humor, underdog, business competition, medical, stoner ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Recep Ivedik 5 (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 114 min.
Story: During his visit of condolence to Ismet's funeral, Recep Ivedik feels sorry about Ismet's remaining family members due to his latest unfinished job contract which would cause hard financial situation for the family. Therefore, Recep ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, not serious, light, feel good ...
Plot: goofy hero, misfit, disorder, sport competition, society, social misfits, fish out of water, silly humor, farce, nothing goes right, football, olympics ...
Time: 2010s
Place: balkan, europe, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Never on Tuesday (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Matt and Eddie are two young men from the mid-west travelling to California to see the sights - primarily semi-clad women on beaches. They hop into their car and head off through the desert...
Style: sexy, independent film, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: desert, best friend, nudity, road trip, car, car crash, summer, campfire story, surrealism, partner, youth, nothing goes right ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, ohio
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63%
 4.3
 254
Worst Friends (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: WORST FRIENDS is the story of two childhood friends who are forced to re-think their friendship as adults. When Jake (Richard Tanne) is injured in a car accident, the only person willing to take care of him is his childhood friend Sam (Noah Barrow). ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, car accident, love and romance, friends, unfulfillment, disability, suburban life, rivalry, society, suburbs, childhood friend, buddies ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey
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62%
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 2K
HairBrained (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A 14 year old genius gets rejected by Harvard and ends up at a much lower ranked school where he makes friends with a mature student.
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, youth, coming of age, odd couple, friends, college life, prodigy, disorder, fish out of water, silly humor, misfit, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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
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61%
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Total Chaos (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Total Siyapaa is an upcoming Hindi romantic comedy film directed by Eshvar Niwas and written by Neeraj Pandey.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: meet the parents, family relations, culture clash, eccentric family, parents and children, disorder, society, couple relations, couples, nothing goes right, love and romance, interfaith relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Meeting Spencer (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After a series of Hollywood flops, famed director Harris Chappell (Jeffrey Tambor) returns to New York to relaunch his Broadway career. But Chappell's triumphant comeback begins to spiral out of control into a wild night of comic misadventure ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: artists and showbiz, comedy of errors, disorder, nothing goes right, goofy hero, theatre director, broadway, comeback, friendship, society, profanity, screwball ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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59%
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The FP (2011)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Two rival gangs fight for control of Frazier Park -- a deadly arena in competitive dance-fight video game "Beat-Beat Revolution."
Style: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, retro ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: contests and competitions, rivalry, hip hop, fight for supremacy, post apocalypse, society, friendship, badass, distopia, vengeance, uninhibited rivalry, urban ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Republic of Two (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An honest examination of the funny, sexy, turbulent and beautiful high-stakes game of heterosexual cohabitation. Tim wants to be a doctor. Caroline doesn't quite know what she wants. They both know their love is real, but can that love endure a ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: couple relations, twentysomething life, love interest, neighbor, city life, relocation, temptation, love, rivalry, friendship, nudity, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Killer Bud (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After losing another job, two idiots embark on an adventure of mythic proportion: to acquire "Feed Bags," the discontinued entire-meal-in-a-bag, to impress their two equally dim-witted dates. When the only convenience store in town that ...
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Plot: best friend, nothing goes right, buddies, partner, disorder, friends, misfit, society, social misfits, drug dealing, unemployment, heist ...
Place: usa
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51%
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 1K
Cowboys (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Six men, one woman (and her brother) come together with one goal - to make the play. It would be probably another common story that this theater group is composed of anti-heroes who float lost in time and space, in a town where it seems that the sun ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, funny ...
Plot: theater, showbiz, stage play, cowboy, small town, homecoming, culture clash, society, rivalry, rules and policies, small town life, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: croatia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Clapper (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: 15 minutes of fame destroys the life of a man who works as a clapper in television.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, humorous, sincere ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: friendship, love and romance, youth, rivalry, adaptation, society, destiny, ambition, unfulfillment, disorder, couples, redemption ...
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49%
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Recep Ivedik 2 (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When his grandmother takes ill, foolish brute Recep tries to satisfy her wishes by getting a job and attempting to find a suitable wife.
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot: goofy hero, love and romance, disorder, workplace, social misfits, unemployment, misfit, fish out of water, life is a bitch, nothing goes right, boss and employee, job seeking ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
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49%
Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Taj Mahal Badalandabad leaves Coolidge College behind for the halls of Camford University in England, where he looks to continue his education, and teach an uptight student how to make the most out of her academic career.
Style: humorous, teen, funny, sex comedy, slapstick ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, misfit, youth, looking for sex, high school, party, dumb, stupidity, friendship, lifestyle, culture clash, society ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
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48%
Valley of the Sun (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Andy Taggert, played by Johnny Whitworth, set out for Hollywood to pursue acting, but years later finds himself as Vick Velour and working in adult films. Disillusioned and trapped, Andy walks off the set and lands himself in a mental hospital. His ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, independent film ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa
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47%
A Madea Christmas (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on rural town when she's coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas.
Style: christmas special, sincere, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, family relations, madea, parents and children, family life, black, xmas, christmas season, friendship, society, nothing goes right ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: alabama, georgia, usa
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46%
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Numb (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink, but nothing works. The Golf Channel, lesbian exercise classes and a ...
Style: psychological, humorous, realistic, captivating, semi serious ...
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44%
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Reality Show (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The Warwick family are unknowingly being filmed for a new reality show. Problem is, they're boring. So the producer must add conflict and drama to their lives. Their lives begin to unravel with shocking consequences.
Style: captivating, satirical, erotic
Plot: found footage, husband wife relationship, family relations, selfishness, family life, family problems, marital problem, satire, relationship problems, selfish man, egoism, crumbling marriage ...
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42%
Last Day of Summer (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: humorous, contemplative, realistic, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: kidnapping, obnoxious boss, vengeful fired employee, social misfits, mentally unstable, restaurant, friends, misfit, friendship, introspection, disorder, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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41%
Fred 3: Camp Fred (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Schools out and Fred Figglehorn's dream of water slides, horseback riding and monkey butlers during the summer turns into a nightmare of gruel and poisonous berries when his mom signs him up to an unsanitary camp.
Style: humorous, not serious, feel good, entertaining, freeze frame ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens
Plot: summer camp, friendship, teenage life, misfit, goofy hero, rivalry, disorder, contests and competitions, society, escapades, underdog, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Chosen One (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Paul is an ordinary man who is at the end of his rope. He hates his job, his beautiful wife has left him, and his mother and gay, Buddhist-monk brother constantly remind him of his shortcomings. Although Paul doesn't know it yet, his life is ...
Style: humorous, not serious, captivating, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: chosen one, self discovery, brother brother relationship, suicide attempt, family relations, society, oracle, life turned upside down, farce, destiny, deadend life, vegetarian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, south america, colombia, los angeles, santa monica california
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40%
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Deliha (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A woman desperately seeking for a man to love. When he finally arrives, she overlooks him.
Style: realistic, humorous, feel good, not serious, slapstick
Plot: goofy hero, nothing goes right, comedy of errors, looking for love, love and romance, photo studio, best friend, misfit, farce, society, silly humor, social misfits ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, indiana, turkey
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40%
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The Test (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 86 min.
Story: On the final test of a public tender for federal judge in Rio de Janeiro, the four finalists lawyers come from bizarre way: the gaucho Rogério Carlos (Fábio Porchat) comes surrounded woman dressed transvestites, the São Paulo Rezende (Rodrigo ...
Style: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro
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39%
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