Movies like It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
50K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Style:
road movie, humorous, funny, hilarious, feel good, captivating, absurd, technicolor, psychotronic, retro ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
treasure hunt, on the road, race, car chase, treasure, road trip, competition, chase, greed, money, twists and turns, disorder, speculation, car, reckless driving, pursuit, group of strangers, three stooges, escapades, nothing goes right, partner, dishonesty, car race, buried treasure, driving ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, 20th century, year 1916, 70s, 1960s
Place:
california, usa
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Most similar movies to It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, road movie and exciting films with plots about chase, car chase, chases and races, disorder, mentor, partner and storytelling mostly in Action, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Rat Race (2001), The Cannonball Run (1981), The Great Race (1965), Cannonball Run II (1984), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
130K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
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, fast, parody ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, date night
Plot:
treasure hunt, casino, escapades, on the road, road trip, mother daughter reunion, dumb, rivalry, chase, bet, chases and races, gambling ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, new mexico, cuba, nevada, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A cross-country road race is based on an actual event, the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, organized by Brock Yates to protest the 55 mph speed limit then in effect in the U.S. The Cannonball was named for Erwin G. ...
Style:
cult classic, road movie, humorous, light, hilarious ...
Plot:
chase, car race, on the road, car chase, racing, road trip, rivalry, race, escapades, car, auto racing, classic car ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
usa, arizona, california, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sport, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. ...
Style:
epic, slapstick, road movie, funny, spoof ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
swashbuckler, royalty, car, racing, sword fight, auto racing, mechanic, on the road, race, steampunk, cowboy, duel ...
Time:
1900s, turn of the century, victorian era, edwardian era, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, paris france, alaska, siberia, america ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The original characters from the first Cannonball Run movie compete in an illegal race across the country once more in various cars and trucks.
Style:
road movie, spoof, humorous, cult classic, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
car, car chase, race, chase, racing, car race, auto racing, speed, classic car, road trip, on the road, gangster ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, usa, connecticut, las vegas
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
Style:
road movie, humorous, action thriller, captivating, light ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
friendship, heist, chase, on the road, treasure hunt, buddies, car chase, friendship between men, robbery, bank robbery, preacher, hidden money ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1974, year 1972
Place:
montana, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two childhood friends, a New York hairstylist and a wanna-be musician, get mixed-up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go all wrong when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, not serious, funny, anamorphic ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, teens, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, chase, kangaroo, goofy hero, nothing goes right, desert, escapades, cons and scams, disorder, organized crime, australian outback, fish out of water ...
Time:
year 2003, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
australia, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, oceania ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, Yugoslavia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Jackie Chan stars as Asian Hawk, an Indiana Jones-style adventurer looking to make a fortune in exotic antiquities. After Hawk discovers a mysterious sword in Africa, a band of Satan-worshipping monks kidnap his ex-girlfriend Lorelei, demanding the ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, stylized, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, master warrior, wuxia, chase, treasure hunt, treasure, human sacrifice, mind control, redemption, adventurer, danger ...
Time:
80s
Place:
europe, africa, hong kong, china, spain ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Action
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Alan gets a map to some war treasure which the Japanese army left behind on a small Pacific island at the end of World War II. But some gangsters try to steal the map from him and so he hides on Charlie's boat which just leaves the harbor. He ...
Style:
exciting, slapstick, realistic, not serious, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
adventurer, treasure hunt, humour, fistfight, island, treasure, partner, disorder, friends, reluctant partners, danger, buddies ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. Other people (who were around when she died) also learn about it. Thus several people arrive in Leningrad trying to find ...
Style:
detective, road movie
Plot:
automobile, lion, italian abroad, summer, spy, con man, inheritance, death of mother, smoking, car chase, buried treasure, cigar ...
Place:
rome italy, soviet union, st. petersburg russia, russia, italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A rich girl steals her dad's Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married. However, her angry parents, a jealous suitor, and a bunch of reward seekers are determined to stop her.
Style:
realistic, witty, semi serious, humorous, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, teens
Plot:
car chase, police chase, young lovers, camp, car, carsploitation, couples, disorder, eccentric family, odd couple, criminal heroes, on the road ...
Time:
70s
Place:
las vegas, usa, north america, new jersey
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Kowalski works for a car delivery service. He takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to take from Colorado to San Francisco, California. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours.
Style:
road movie, grindhouse, independent film, cult classic, exciting ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
car chase, car, driver, hitchhiker, on the road, road trip, radio station, on the run, chase, driving, reckless driving, rattlesnake ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
san francisco, california, colorado, utah, denver colorado ...
Similarity:
31%
33K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Before being extradited to Africa to stand trial, a notorious Belgian criminal is entrusted to the Marseilles police department for less than 24 hours. But the wily crook convinces bumbling policeman Emilien he's a lowly Belgian embassy ...
Style:
feel good, realistic, not serious, humorous, hilarious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night
Plot:
taxi, car chase, chase, taxi driver, goofy hero, partner, mistaken identity, disorder, prisoners exchange, friends, danger, master criminal ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
marseille, france, europe, monaco, provence
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years, now an old flame has recognised him and the bad guys are back for revenge.
Style:
road movie, suspense, exciting, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
chase, false identity, tiger, corruption, justice, on the run, motorcycle, happy ending, woman in jeopardy, shootout, argument, framed for murder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
usa, atlantic city new jersey, new york, detroit, wisconsin ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada, USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An illegal race that takes place over the United States and nothing will stop this bunch of racers except for the occasional cop or a damsel in distress. Jackie Chan's car is not in this one, but many new cars make up for that. Who will win? ...
Style:
humorous, road movie, independent film, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
car chase, racing, auto racing, race, classic car, chase, car race, carsploitation, car, on the road, valet, highway ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
los angeles, missouri, california, santa monica california, iowa ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two lovers, Mary and Larry, in their Dodge Charger are chased by the police after robbing a grocery store.
Style:
road movie, grindhouse, exciting, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car chase, chase, robbery, mechanic, carsploitation, on the run, car, reckless driving, manhunt, blonde, mind game, tragedy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california, southern california
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Clint Eastwood plays a bounty hunter who helps out the wife of a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by neo-Nazi types.
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, talky, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
on the road, kidnapping, bail bondsman, bounty hunter, car chase, on the run, baby, tough guy, money, shootout, machine gun, disguise ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
sacramento california, usa, california, las vegas, reno nevada
Similarity:
30%
103K
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, cult classic, talky, witty ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
road trip, on the road, bounty hunter, chase, race against time, hitman, train, buddy cop, odd couple, partner, chases and races, mafia ...
Time:
80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place:
las vegas, usa, new york, manhattan new york city, chicago ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The Charismatic black nationalist leader Rev Deke O'Malley is trying to sell the people of Harlem a dream. Invest $100 in his company and live in Africa. But cops Gravedigger and Coffin know all about Deke and his fraudulent schemes that take ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, investigation, police investigation, odd couple, master criminal, partners against crime, dishonesty, law enforcement, buddies, tough law enforcer, partner, racial slur ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, harlem, usa, africa
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.
Style:
humorous, laugh out loud, cult classic, funny, action comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
stoner, marijuana, friendship, stupidity, weed, drug, buddies, cannabis, escape, stoned, buddy, immature ...
Time:
year 2008, year 1937, 2000s, 1930s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, who's wife has just left him. The ultimate NZ roadtrip adventure.
Style:
road movie, cult classic, semi serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
car chase, racing, on the road, road trip, partner, nudity, adventurer, obsessive quest, escapades, chase, chases and races, heist ...
Time:
future, year 1980, 80s, 20th century
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The Driver specializes in driving getaway cars for robberies. His exceptional talent has prevented him from being caught yet. After another successful flight from the police a self-assured detective makes it his primary goal to catch the Driver. He ...
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, tense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
car chase, car, existentialism, carsploitation, police detective, driver, heist, gambling, witness, one last job, on the run, law enforcement ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
30%
147K
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage ...
Style:
funny, humorous, road movie, entertaining, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, date night
Plot:
twins, road trip, buddy, contract killer, killer, male virgin, fish out of water, partner, family relations, on the road, brothers, buddies ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
usa, los angeles, arizona, austin texas, houston texas ...
Similarity:
30%
104K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Party animal Tommy Callahan is a few cans short of a six-pack. But when the family business starts tanking, it's up to Tommy and number-cruncher Richard Hayden to save the day.
Style:
road movie, humorous, slapstick, cult classic, clever ...
Audience:
teens, manly, kids
Plot:
road trip, father son relationship, dumb, stupidity, nothing goes right, odd couple, death of father, skinny dipping, twists and turns, on the road, entrepreneurship, immaturity ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, wisconsin, chicago, ohio, seattle
Similarity:
30%
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48K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver has hot tips for a green and inept cop set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies committed by a quartet of female Brazilian bank robbers.
Style:
hilarious, realistic, semi serious, not serious, funny ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
taxi driver, car chase, bank robbery, taxi, partners against crime, law enforcement, buddy cop, working undercover, disorder, odd couple, buddies, goofy hero ...
Time:
20th century, year 2004, 21st century
Place:
new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
30%
12K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A police officer who's transfered in the police of Marseille gets assigned to take down a group of Italian robbers who drive the powerfull Ferrari's with the older niece of Daniel, a terrible driver who gets the legendary white taxi.
Style:
humorous, funny, exciting, light, entertaining ...
Plot:
taxi, car chase, race, driver, car, police investigation, racing, unlikely partners, goofy hero, partners against crime, heist, gang ...
Place:
france, marseille, paris france, algeria, north africa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
NYPD detectives Christopher Danson (Johnson) and P.K. Highsmith (Jackson) are the baddest and most beloved cops in New York City. They don't get tattoos, other men get tattoos of them. Two desks over and one back, sit detectives Allen Gamble ...
Style:
funny, humorous, buddy comedy, absurd, parody ...
Audience:
teens, manly, kids, boys' night
Plot:
police, stupidity, buddy, car chase, dumb, misfit partners, partners against crime, buddy cop, sarcasm, hotshot, chase, farce ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, las vegas, new jersey, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When diabolical genius, Dr. Evil travels back in time to steal superspy Austin Powers's ‘mojo’, Austin must return to the swingin' '60s himself – with the help of American agent, Felicity Shagwell – to stop the dastardly plan. ...
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, teen sex comedy, satirical ...
Audience:
kids, teens, date night, adult
Plot:
spy, time travel, reluctant partners, cloning, james bond spoof, time machine, spy spoof, female spy, secret agent, sexual joke, satire, save the world ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 60s, 20th century, year 1969 ...
Place:
seattle, big ben london, washington d.c., london
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. A "Lethal Weapon" style cop team tries to find and stop the fiends before they can dope the nation by distributing their wares via the ...
Style:
parody, spoof, humorous, exciting, witty ...
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
buddies, partners against crime, buddy, cocaine, law enforcement, satire, buddy cop, dying repeatedly, mad scientist, gunfight, police investigation, chase ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, ireland
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Cousins, Bo and Luke Duke, with the help of their eye-catching cousin, Daisy and moonshine-running Uncle Jesse, try and save the family farm from being destroyed by Hazzard County's corrupt commissioner, Boss Hogg. Their efforts constantly find ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, entertaining, hilarious, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
friends, car chase, misfit, chases and races, redneck, buddies, racing, disorder, heroes, countryside, incompetent police, woman in short shorts ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s
Place:
atlanta georgia, georgia
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plot.
Style:
humorous, parody, absurd, not serious, exciting ...
Plot:
spy, satire, sarcasm, stupidity, farce, virus, love, espionage, culture clash, male pubic hair, secret service, secret agent ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, south africa, northern england, santiago chile ...
Similarity:
29%
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