Movies like The Nutty Professor 1963
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The Nutty Professor (1963)
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Jerry Lewis directed, co-wrote and starred in this riotously funny movie that set a new standard for screen comedy and inspired the hit remake. Lewis plays a timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher who discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.
Style:
funny, feel good, humorous, sexy, absurd, parody, light, romantic, thought provoking, clever ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, date night
Plot:
college, farce, transformation, love, chemistry, coming of age, mad scientist, professor, potion, laboratory, catastrophe, monster, children, desert island, relationships, teacher, beautiful scenery, age difference, suspense, bullying, lone hero, black cast, fantasy world, destiny, brutality ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
san francisco
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, funny, light and feel good films with plots about dialogue, catastrophe, vengeance, mentor, storytelling, runaway and destiny mostly in Comedy, Romance and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The Nutty Professor: Weird Science (1985), The Ladies Man (1961), Multiplicity (1996), Bubble Boy (2001), Love Potion No. 9 (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Eddie Murphy stars as shy Dr. Sherman Klump, a kind, brilliant, 'calorifically challenged' genetic professor. When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, Sherman grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and ...
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funny, parody, humorous, touching, sexy ...
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teens, kids, date night, family outing, girls' night ...
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split personality, overweight, alter ego, experiment gone awry, campus, sarcasm, farce, love, african american, nothing goes right, goofy hero, double life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, ...
Style:
feel good, light, funny, sexy, campy ...
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teens, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
dream girl, high school, nerd, teenager, coming of age, friendship, geek, childhood, wish come true, cheerleading, bullying, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
80s, future, 20th century
Place:
california, chicago illinois, usa
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that reverses aging. But Sherman's thin and obnoxious alter ego, Buddy Love, wants out...and a big piece ...
Style:
humorous, funny, absurd, not serious, parody ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, date night, adult
Plot:
physical appearance, stupidity, genetics, fountain of youth, mad scientist, eccentric family, disorder, goofy hero, nothing goes right, supernatural ability, buddies, love and romance ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, year 2000
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females?
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funny, humorous, absurd, melancholic, talky ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
farce, unlikely friendships, coming of age, nothing goes right, workplace, love and romance, battle of the sexes, down on your luck, college life, college, singleness, absurd humor ...
Time:
60s, 50s
Place:
egypt, england, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Construction worker Doug Kinney finds that the pressures of his working life, combined with his duties to his wife Laura and daughter Jennifer leaves him with little time for himself. However, he is approached by geneticist Dr. Owen Leeds, who ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, absurd, light, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cloning, farce, experiment gone awry, mistaken identity, disorder, twins, family life, family relations, self discovery, switching roles, nothing goes right, misfit ...
Time:
year 1996
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Jimmy is young man who was born without an immune system and has lived his life within a plastic bubble in his bedroom... who pines for the sweet caresses of girl-next-door Chloe. But when Chloe decides to marry her high school boyfriend, Jimmy -- ...
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teens, date night
Plot:
stereotypes, happy ending, transformation, illness, teenage life, obsessive quest, youth, goofy hero, self discovery, love and romance, teenager, satire ...
Place:
las vegas
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29%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Unlucky in love, chemist Paul Matthews visits gypsy Madame Rosa for help. Quickly realizing he is a hopeless nerd, she gifts him with Love Potion No. 8, which makes anyone who wears it irresistible to the opposite sex for four hours. Paul and animal ...
Style:
light, romantic, feel good, sweet, humorous ...
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chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
love potion, wish come true, love, love and romance, fall in love, love story, experiment gone awry, scientist, misfit, looking for love, happy ending, magic ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story follows the misadventures of a New York City beautician who is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.
Style:
humorous, not serious, feel good, sexy, parody ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, family outing, kids, date night ...
Plot:
opposites attract, nanny, dictatorship, female protagonist, culture clash, fish out of water, couples, society, single parent, love and romance, women, couple relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Soul Man is a comedy film made in 1986 about a man who undergoes racial transformation with pills to qualify for an African-American-only scholarship at Harvard Law School. It stars C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross, James Earl Jones, ...
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humorous, feel good, campy, visually appealing, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
racism, college, teenager, mentor, high school, culture clash, happy ending, farce, adaptation, brutality, catastrophe, chase ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, massachusetts, los angeles, usa, hawaii ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A man suspects his girlfriend of being unfaithful. So he sends her a letter, but than finds out that he was wrong. He has 24 hours to stop the package, prevent a disaster, and fall in love. The only problem is the delivery man will not stop until ...
Style:
romantic, humorous, feel good, sexy, talky ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
college, on the road, cheerleading, partners, youth, infidelity, looking for love, nothing goes right, goofy hero, buddies, unlikely couple, love ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Vivica A. Fox sizzles as a woman scorned who plans to get her man back by any means necessary. In this comedy about players and those who "get played." As corporate overachiever and all-around fly chick Shanté Smith, Fox thinks she's ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, humorous, sexy, satirical ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick
Plot:
battle of the sexes, mentor, ambition, mind game, looking for love, cheating, lifestyle, couple relations, buddies, contests and competitions, guru, advice ...
Place:
new jersey, usa, san francisco
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27%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe, who is infatuated with a neighbor he's never met, that if they don't have stable romances within a month, they must jump off the ...
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Time:
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Place:
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27%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Medfield's lovable but hopelessly absent-minded professor -- Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray) -- bounces back in this classic Disney film with hilarious new mishaps when he experiments with the amazing by-products of his startling anti-gravity ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, intense, melancholic, not serious ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
disney, mad scientist, american football, college, experiment gone awry, family life, inventions and discoveries, goofy hero, disorder, fish out of water, child as adult, fall in love ...
Time:
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Place:
pentagon, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Three young boys pool their money and pay V, a kindhearted prostitute, to strip for them. Afterward, she drives them home to the suburbs -- but then her car breaks down. It's just as well, though, because a mobster named Waltzer is after her, ...
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Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When he finds out his longtime girlfriend is pregnant, a commitment-phobe realizes he might have to change his lifestyle for better or much, much worse.
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light, touching, humorous, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
pregnancy, marriage, women, self discovery, parent child relationship, couple relations, love, babies and infants, farce, parenthood, baby, mentor ...
Time:
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Place:
san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she ...
Style:
feel good, witty, humorous, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
love story, destiny, love, irish, love and romance, politics, small town, fall in love, culture clash, small town life, dog, twists and turns ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ireland, boston, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A drunken playboy stands to lose a wealthy inheritance when he falls for a woman, his family doesn't like.
Style:
funny, melancholic, entertaining, romantic, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
inheritance, man child, mentor, life philosophy, happy ending, relationships, domineering mother, twists and turns, fall in love, disorder, overbearing parent, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 15-year-old college wiz kid. Supposedly hard at work on a lab project with a mysterious deadline, they still find time to use their genius to discover new ways to have fun.
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feel good, funny, entertaining, humorous, sweet ...
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teens, kids, family outing
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computer cracker, college, nerd, teenager, genius, high school, technology, mentor, computer, geek, coming of age, computer hacker ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself.
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feel good, romantic, touching, sweet, humorous ...
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date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, kids
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opposites attract, bunker, cold war, fish out of water, happy ending, father son relationship, bomb shelter, nuclear war, love story, fall in love, paranoia, scientist ...
Time:
60s, future, 90s, 20th century, year 1962 ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Two couples go to a mutual friends wedding, and end up swapping partners.
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feel good, touching, humorous, sexy, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Aspiring architect Tom Thompson is told by mysterious Ruth Abernathy that his best friend, "Bill," has taken his own life. Except that Tom has never met Bill and neither have his incredulous friends. So when Tom foolishly agrees to give ...
Style:
melancholic, romantic, humorous, semi serious, sexy ...
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date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
mistaken identity, friendship, loneliness, youth, love triangle, adolescence vs adulthood, nothing goes right, self discovery, comedy of errors, dark humor, high school, funeral ...
Time:
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Place:
new jersey, california, new york, usa
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26%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two pairs of best friends - Montel & Clyde and Brandy & Adina meet at the party, where Clyde makes Adina think he is very rich and gets her into bed the same evening. When Adina finds out that she's been fooled, she becomes ...
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Place:
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26%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Christopher is an ambitious college freshman, striving to become a writer. Through a computer fault he's assigned the same room as Alex, a real party freak and... a girl! He's annoyed and tries to get a different room as soon as possible, ...
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teens, date night
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Time:
80s
Place:
new york, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A young gallerist is in love with two sisters at the same time. In order to solve the problem he decides to invent his own twin-brother.
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Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
miami
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26%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A student gets his senses enhanced by an experimental drug. But abuse is not an option.
Style:
parody, humorous, entertaining, funny, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
rivalry, college, ambition, mentor, culture clash, stereotypes, creativity, goofy hero, nothing goes right, experiment gone awry, drugs, youth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his ...
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Time:
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Place:
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26%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The simple story of two young Michigan high school students, Jessica, Class President, Local Smart Girl, and object of Marlon's affections attempt to get into a small Pennsylvania college. Jessica fights off her parent's expectation of ...
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Place:
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26%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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