Movies like Ishtar

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Ishtar (1987)
 4.7
 12K
Ishtar (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime
Style: humorous, light, talky, feel good, not serious, cult classic, entertaining, realistic, witty, parody ...
Plot: politics, fish out of water, camel, friendship, friendship between men, nightclub singer, nothing goes right, partner, disorder, state affairs, misfit partners, satire, farce, singer, desert, on the road, spy, espionage, chase, fictional country, stupidity, female nudity, bomb squad, hotel, cia ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: morocco, sahara, middle east, austin texas, africa, new york, texas ...
Keyword: partners, marketplace, crawling, gangsters

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Most similar movies to Ishtar

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, not serious and entertaining films with plots about disorder, partner, silly humor, buddies, fish out of water, chase and chases and races mostly in Comedy, Action and Adventure genres. Some movies like Ishtar: American Dreamz (2006), The In-Laws (2003), Spies Like Us (1985), Flashback (1990), Delta Farce (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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American Dreamz (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The new season of "American Dreamz," the wildly popular television singing contest, has captured the country's attention, as the competition looks to be between a young Midwestern gal (Moore) and a showtunes-loving young man from ...
Style: humorous, feel good, parody, light, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: satire, desire for fame, contests and competitions, disorder, rising to stardom, fish out of water, showbiz, media, artists and showbiz, music, state affairs, head of state ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: iraq, usa, ohio, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 18K
The In-Laws (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Right before his daughter's wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his new in-laws are international smugglers.
Style: melancholic, entertaining, realistic, humorous, exciting ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: wedding, spy, espionage, secret agent, eccentric family, fish out of water, secret identity, partner, couples, chaos, dentist, disorder ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, prague, france, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 53K
Spies Like Us (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.
Style: humorous, parody, funny, light, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, kgb, chase, mistaken identity, race against time, buddy, farce, secret service, nuclear war, nuclear threat ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: afghanistan, soviet union, middle east, asia, pakistan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.2
 6K
Flashback (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escorted to trial by uptight 20-something FBI agent John Buckner. While the two seem to be polar ...
Style: entertaining, emotional, light, witty, humorous ...
Plot: lsd, friendship, train, chase, on the road, fbi, hippie, unlikely friendships, prison, criminal heroes, partner, mistaken identity ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 90s
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Movie in collections
 3.6
 11K
Delta Farce (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three bumbling Army reservists are hustled onto a plane headed for combat in Iraq -- but the fact that the plane drops them in Mexico doesn't stop them from "liberating" what they believe to be the Middle East.
Style: humorous, satirical, funny, entertaining, action comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: comedy of errors, soldier, friendship, danger, gang, escapades, misfit, nothing goes right, battles, army, farce, military ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.3
 210K
Knight and Day (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately ...
Style: romantic, exciting, entertaining, action comedy, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, boys' night, date night ...
Plot: spy, secret agent, chase, cia, espionage, couples, on the run, chases and races, undercover, secret service, assassin, gunfight ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: boston, austria, spain, kansas, andalusia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Welcome to Woop Woop (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a strange town whose inhabitants are an oddball collection of misfits.
Style: humorous, entertaining, talky, not serious, realistic ...
Plot: kidnapping, american abroad, desert, opposites attract, nothing goes right, farce, goofy hero, friends, on the road, fish out of water, adolescence vs adulthood, australian outback ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: australia, new york, sydney australia, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.3
 10K
The In-Laws (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures ...
Style: funny, exciting, witty, humorous, laugh out loud ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: spy, screwball, armored car robbery, dentist, chase, car chase, political intrigue, buddy, in-laws, silly humor, odd couple, chases and races ...
Time: year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place: latin america, washington d.c., new york, new jersey, central america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Movie in collections
 5.7
 4K
Tapeheads (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story of Ivan and Josh, two dim witted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company. They soon learn the in's and out's of the business in LA and with some ...
Style: humorous, satirical, light, semi serious, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music, blackmail, disorder, music band, ambition, showbiz, artists and showbiz, buddies, media, partner, rock and roll, punk ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.5
 353K
The Interview (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapoport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to ...
Style: funny, absurd, political, humorous, action comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: dictator, male nudity, assassination attempt, cia, farce, journalism, propaganda, alternate history, undercover, assassination plot, profanity, satire ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: north korea, america, korea, usa, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.2
 29K
A Mighty Wind (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In "A Mighty Wind", director Christopher Guest reunites the team from "Best In Show" and "Waiting for Guffman" to tell tell the story of 60's-era folk musicians, who inspired by the death of their former manager, ...
Style: mockumentary, humorous, funny, talky, stylized ...
Plot: music, satire, musician, folk singer, singer, love and romance, music band, showbiz, musician's life, buddies, lifestyle, lovers reunited ...
Time: 2000s, 60s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.0
 8K
Rhinestone (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After a big-time country singer brags that she can turn anybody in to a country-singin' star, she's out to prove she can live up to her talk when she recruits a cab-driver as a country singer. He's scheduled to sing at a big-time NYC ...
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, semi serious, inspirational ...
Plot: fish out of water, music business, happy ending, against the odds, odd couple, teaching the ways of the world, nightclub, musician's life, artists and showbiz, love and romance, taxi, music ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.5
 94K
Midnight Run (1988)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: An accountant embezzles $15 million of mob money, jumps bail and is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia.
Style: road movie, funny, talky, humorous, witty ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: road trip, on the road, buddy, organized crime, hitman, gangster, chase, bounty hunter, train, car chase, race against time, police surveillance ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: las vegas, usa, new york, arizona, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.5
 123K
Rat Race (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers -- a group that will bet on anything -- by pitting six ordinary people against each other in a wild dash for ...
Style: funny, road movie, humorous, hilarious, light ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, date night
Plot: treasure hunt, road trip, on the road, chase, bet, mother daughter reunion, escapades, casino, gambling, rivalry, chases and races, race ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa, new mexico, cuba, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: The story of the rise and fall of the Pre-Fab Four.
Style: parody, mockumentary, spoof, humorous, light ...
Plot: rock and roll, the beatles, music, satire, rock, found footage, monty python, stupidity, music business, musician's life, rising to stardom, music band ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1978
Place: england, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Jay and Silent Bob Get Irish: The Swearing o' The Green! (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: You may see one show, but you haven't senn them all! Following on from the amazingly successful JAY AND SILENT BOB TEA BAGGING IN THE UK, Fast-talking, foul mouthed Jay and his "hetero life partner' Silent Bob return with their second ...
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, talky, realistic ...
Plot: artists and showbiz, buddies, partner, filmmaking, friendship, friends, odd couple, misfit partners, stoner, stand up comedy, profanity, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.0
 258K
Spy (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent diabolical global disaster.
Style: funny, parody, humorous, action comedy, spoof ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, adult
Plot: spy, espionage, undercover agent, female spy, cia agent, cia, assassin, undercover, female protagonist, female killer, female agent, secret service ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, paris france, rome italy, bulgaria, budapest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.6
 50K
Bad Company (2002)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When a Harvard-educated CIA agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother.
Style: humorous, intense, suspenseful, action comedy, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, terrorism, spy, cia, culture clash, kidnapping, hidden camera, assassin, secret service, twin brother, betrayal, partner ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: usa, langley virginia, new york, los angeles, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Movie in collections
 5.4
 8K
Still Smokin (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Cheech & Chong are invited to a celebrity party in Amsterdam. When they get there, however, it turns out that the guy who invited them has taken off with all the money. They are actually expecting Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton, so our ...
Style: not serious, realistic, witty, humorous, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: weed, stoner, drug, anti hero, mistaken identity, nothing goes right, misfit, goofy hero, disorder, fish out of water, drug abuse, partner ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: amsterdam, europe, netherlands, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.8
 123K
Wild Hogs (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Restless and ready for adventure, four suburban bikers leave the safety of their subdivision and head out on the open road. But complications ensue when they cross paths with an intimidating band of New Mexico bikers known as the Del Fuegos.
Style: road movie, funny, humorous, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot: road trip, motorcycle, midlife crisis, motorcycle gang, biker gang, on the road, biker, small town, self discovery, happy ending, chase, friendship ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place: new mexico, california, ohio, usa, cincinnati ohio ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.9
 38K
Bananas (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
Style: slapstick, humorous, political, funny, talky ...
Plot: revolution, dictatorship, satire, dictator, politics, rebellion, political satire, loser, fish out of water, political activism, misfit, rise to the top ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.4
 53K
I Spy (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When the Switchblade, the most sophisticated prototype stealth fighter created yet, is stolen from the U.S. government, one of the United States' top spies, Alex Scott, is called to action. What he doesn't expect is to get teamed up with a ...
Style: spoof, entertaining, humorous, exciting, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: espionage, spy, buddy, malice, secret agent, boxing, secret service, secrets, cia, betrayal, kidnapping, redemption ...
Time: year 2002, 2010s
Place: budapest, monte carlo, central europe, las vegas, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.1
 5K
Fay Grim (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Many years after her notorious husband, Henry Fool, fled after killing a neighbor, Fay Grim receives a visit from CIA agent Fulbright, who tells her that Henry is dead, but that some of his journals have been unearthed in France. She sets forth on a ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, dark comedy ...
Plot: missing person, espionage, intrigue, undercover, dishonesty, rivalry, woman in danger, chases and races, politics, spy, investigation, pursuit ...
Time: year 2006, year 1989, 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, france, istanbul turkey, nicaragua ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 4.5
 1K
S*P*Y*S (1974)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two CIA bunglers (Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould) botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination.
Style: parody, not serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: spy, espionage, murder, cold war, on the run, conspiracy, silly humor, secret agent, partner, chase, undercover, chases and races ...
Time: 70s
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.2
 65K
Dick Tracy (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
Style: stylized, visually stunning, visual, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, boys' night
Plot: gangster, organized crime, good versus evil, superhero, police detective, comic book, storytelling, corruption, mafia, fighting crime, villain, femme fatale ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Secret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties, and brings peace to the Middle East.
Style: parody, spoof, humorous, light, suspense ...
Plot: spy, espionage, farce, secret agent, undercover agent, secret service, female spy, state affairs, dance, embassy, villain, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 2006, 2000s, 50s ...
Place: france, africa, usa, middle east, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin are ...
Style: stylized, witty, humorous, action comedy, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: spy, cold war, secret service, reluctant partners, cia, culture clash, espionage, chase, secret agent, cia agent, mission, race against time ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, year 2015, 2010s, 1900s ...
Place: italy, germany, london, east germany, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.5
 228K
Get Smart (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When the identities of secret agents from Control are compromised, the Chief promotes hapless but eager analyst Maxwell Smart and teams him with stylish, capable Agent 99, the only spy whose cover remains intact. Can they work together to thwart the ...
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, spoof, action comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, kids, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: spy, espionage, secret service, spy spoof, unlikely partners, goofy hero, chases and races, save the day, treason, danger, betrayal, traitor ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, chechnya, moscow russia, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.9
 18K
Canadian Bacon (1995)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Canadian Bacon is the only fictitious film from Director Michael Moore. This comedy is about an American president who decides to go to war to bring the public’s opinion of him up during election time. Canadian Bacon is actor John Candy’s last ...
Style: humorous, political, satirical, light, talky ...
Audience: kids
Plot: president, political satire, conspiracy, politics, cold war, culture clash, farce, political conspiracy, satire, dishonesty, world politics, head of state ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, canada, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Despite being well into adulthood, brothers Doug and Steve Butabi still live at home and work in the flower shop owned by their dad. They exist only to hit on women at discos, though they're routinely unsuccessful until a chance run-in with ...
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, cult classic, feel good ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: nightclub, dumb, buddies, brother brother relationship, misfit, father son relationship, marriage, love and romance, disorder, clubbing, stoner, friends ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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