Movies like Planes, Trains and Automobiles
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
179K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion.
Style:
feel good, road movie, funny, light, hilarious, touching, humorous, laugh out loud, buddy comedy, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, date night, teens
Plot:
thanksgiving, road trip, holiday, train, travel, airplane, on the road, airport, husband wife relationship, railway, buddy, truck, widower, motel, traveling salesman, burglary, credit card, comedy of errors, insult, comedy duo, taxi driver, driving, family man, thanksgiving dinner, automobile ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
chicago, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city, illinois, new york, missouri, columbus ohio ...
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Most similar movies to Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, feel good and funny films with plots about mentor, dialogue, storytelling, runaway, culture clash, destiny and catastrophe mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Planes, Trains and Automobiles: National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Uncle Buck (1989), Due Date (2010), Midnight Run (1988), Curly Sue (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family on a quest to Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.
Style:
funny, road movie, humorous, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, kids, adult
Plot:
road trip, vacation, small town, amusement park, on the road, dysfunctional family, female nudity, desert, swimming pool, skinny dipping, cross country, youth ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, colorado, arizona, illinois, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
120K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
As an idle, good-natured bachelor, Uncle Buck is the last person you would think of to watch the kids. However, during a family crisis, he is suddenly left in charge of his nephew and nieces. Unaccustomed to suburban life, fun-loving Uncle Buck soon ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, light, touching ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, happy ending, family values, child care, when the parents are away, parents and children, babysitter, fish out of water, respect, mischievous children, siblings relations, babysitting ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, illinois, minnesota, wisconsin, usa ...
Similarity:
83%
370K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Peter Highman must scramble across the US in five days to be present for the birth of his first child. He gets off to a bad start when his wallet and luggage are stolen, and put on the 'no-fly' list. Peter embarks on a terrifying journey ...
Style:
hilarious, road movie, funny, humorous, buddy comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
road trip, stupidity, weed, getting home, hitchhiker, odd couple, bonding, marijuana, trip, buddies, screwball, nothing goes right ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
dallas texas, usa, birmingham alabama, louisiana, texas ...
Similarity:
78%
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:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, funny, christmas special, slapstick ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly
Plot:
christmas, holiday, winter, christmas season, parents and children, vacation, dysfunctional family, rottweiler, christmas eve, family gatherings, squirrel, creativity ...
Time:
80s, year 2016, 20th century
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa
Similarity:
88%
25K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the classic homeless folks with hearts of gold. Their scams are aimed not at turning a profit, but at getting enough to eat. When they scam the rich and beautiful Grey Ellison into believing she ...
Style:
humorous, touching, feel good, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
homeless, orphan, destiny, daughter, cons and scams, little girl, homelessness, kindness, homeless shelter, urban, single father, rags to riches ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 20th century, 80s
Place:
chicago, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the ...
Style:
emotional, touching, humorous, realistic, funny ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family life, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, brother sister relationship, pregnancy, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, single mother, little girl, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
missouri, st. louis missouri
Similarity:
100%
15K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
To get to know his girlfriend's son, a man volunteers to pick him up from a prep school....only to learn that her son's not the nicest kid.
Style:
road movie, funny, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, family outing, teens
Plot:
road trip, mischievous children, prank, holiday, culture clash, nothing goes right, foe turned friend, working class, unlikely friendships, reluctant partners, partner, thanksgiving ...
Time:
year 1991, 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
chicago, georgia, usa, australia, london
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in a feud with a local yachtsman, and has to race him to ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, funny, intense ...
Audience:
date night, kids, family outing
Plot:
sailing, summer vacation, underdog, rivalry, screwball, teenage girl, beach, air traffic controller, summer, friendship, on the road, nothing goes right ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
florida, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent ...
Style:
funny, feel good, hilarious, light, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, date night, girls' night
Plot:
thanksgiving, senior citizen, snow, old age, chess, feud, wedding, ice fishing, love triangle, winter, christmas, friendship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1978, 1930s
Place:
minnesota, usa, california
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to her. After ...
Style:
funny, humorous, laugh out loud, absurd, road movie ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, family friendly, teens
Plot:
road trip, dumb, dimwit, stupidity, buddies, toilet humor, parakeet, odd couple, friendship, bromance, misfit, travel ...
Time:
20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place:
utah, rhode island, colorado, usa, north america ...
Similarity:
80%
31K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jack and Caroline are a couple making a decent living When Jack suddenly loses his job. They agree that he should stay at home and look after the house while Caroline works. It's just that he's never done it before, and really doesn't ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, sentimental, realistic, cult classic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
parenthood, fired from the job, fish out of water, advertising, self discovery, switching roles, family life, parents and children, relationship vs career, misfit, unfulfillment, rise and fall ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983, 90s
Place:
detroit, north america
Similarity:
100%
531K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Viktor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d'etat exploded in his homeland, leaving it in shambles, and now he's stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he's holding a passport that nobody recognizes. ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, family friendly
Plot:
airport, stranded, loneliness, culture clash, nothing goes right, happy ending, destiny, fish out of water, aviation, passenger, life philosophy, fictional country ...
Time:
year 2004, 1900s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, america, canada, romania ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set in 1965, four Los Angeles school friends -- Woody, Dave, Spider and Wendell -- go on a series of misadventures when they head to Tijuana, Mexico, for a night of cruisin', causing trouble, and to lose their virginity.
Style:
teen sex comedy, sex comedy, sexy, funny, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, older woman younger man relationship, loss of virginity, brother brother relationship, jail, friendship, car chase, premarital sex, car accident, prostitute ...
Time:
80s, year 1965, year 1983, 60s, 20th century
Place:
california, tijuana mexico, usa, latin america, los angeles ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A teenage girls deals with her parents forgetting her birthday and a crush on her high school's heartthrob.
Style:
feel good, touching, teen, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, family friendly ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, teenage life, high school life, youth, teenage love, teenage girl, self discovery, female nudity, wedding, first love ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
illinois, chicago, usa, california, seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy follows the adventures of a couple, Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for a job interview.
Style:
humorous, feel good, realistic, light, lighthearted ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
nothing goes right, renewed love, job seeking, happy ending, family problems, disorder, midlife crisis, fish out of water, justice, fish, hotel, marriage ...
Time:
70s, year 1999, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, boston, ohio, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, ...
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, hilarious, cute ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
holiday, christmas, children, hotel, home alone, winter, childhood, vacation, child, airport, young heroes, christmas time ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1992
Place:
new york, florida, manhattan new york city, miami, chicago ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Style:
funny, cult classic, black comedy, dark comedy, laugh out loud ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prostitute, stock market, revenge, fish out of water, rags to riches, social satire, manipulation, wrongful arrest, beggar, wager, poverty, christmas ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
pennsylvania, philadelphia, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city, arizona ...
Similarity:
80%
737K
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ...
Style:
funny, light, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, home alone, mischievous children, child, children, youth, home invasion, child protagonist, kids and family, childhood, when the parents are away ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1990, year 2016, 80s
Place:
chicago, illinois, north america, usa, france ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
Style:
cult classic, teen, talky, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, date night ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, teenage angst, youth, adolescence, high school life, teenage girl, detention, teen angst, high school student ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, year 1985
Place:
chicago, illinois, seattle
Similarity:
100%
580K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
Style:
road movie, inspirational, sincere, uplifting, touching ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
autism, road trip, redemption, disability, mentally challenged, brother brother relationship, siblings relations, runaway, self discovery, mathematics, psychiatry, life changing ...
Time:
20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place:
las vegas, california, ohio, cincinnati ohio, columbus ohio ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Motivational Speaker Jack Corcoran is determined to get his career off the ground, but the biggest gigs he can get are the ones nobody wants. Then one day, he receives a telegram that his circus clown father has passed away, and has left a ...
Style:
light, touching, funny, feel good, road movie ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
nothing goes right, inheritance, friendship, rescue, on the road, elephant, animal, goofy hero, fish out of water, hitchhiker, philosophy, writers ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.
Style:
road movie, touching, humorous, hilarious, melancholic ...
Plot:
road trip, salesman, overprotective mother, highway, travel, family relations, single parent, parents and children, parent child relationship, protective parent, drinking, mother ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, middle east, las vegas, new jersey, san francisco
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
During their travels from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally Will debate whether or not sex ruins a perfect relationship between a man and a woman. Eleven years later, and they're still no closer to finding the answer.
Style:
feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
male female friendship, friendship, fall in love, autumn, love and romance, love, love story, unlikely couple, initially antagonists, best friends in love, friends, life philosophy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989, 70s, year 1987 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, chicago, seattle, usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
Style:
road movie, cult classic, atmospheric, realistic, witty ...
Plot:
u.s. navy, road trip, sailor, male bonding, beer, buddy, profanity, fighting the system, society, on the road, travel, taxi ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
new york, boston, maine, washington d.c., philadelphia ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by Connie's obnoxious brother-in-law, Roman ...
Style:
funny, feel good, humorous, slapstick, cult classic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot:
camp, family vacation, bear, summer vacation, wilderness, teenage girl, brother brother relationship, holiday, father daughter relationship, rivalry, father son relationship, nothing goes right ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago, minnesota, usa, wisconsin, canada ...
Similarity:
15%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hits the road with his dad in an attempt to make the 8-hour round trip before sunrise.
Style:
humorous, not serious, realistic, entertaining, hilarious ...
Plot:
christmas, nothing goes right, holiday, family gatherings, eccentric family, disorder, parents and children, escapades, on the road, race against time, road trip, xmas ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Gib, a beer-guzzling slob, and Alison, an uptight Ivy-Leaguer, are an unlikely duo stuck together on a cross-country trip during Christmas break. At first they get on each other's nerves but, as time passes, they find their divergent natures ...
Style:
road movie, feel good, sex comedy, sweet, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
road trip, coming of age, college, couples, on the road, youth, fall in love, best friends in love, cross country, student life, blonde, high school ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
california, usa, new england
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Two French Canadian ne’er-do-wells travel to New York City with a scheme to a get rich quick selling Christmas trees.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot:
christmas, nothing goes right, criminal heroes, going straight, fish out of water, reluctant partners, partner, cons and scams, disorder, misfit, odd couple, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, north america, canada
Similarity:
29%
92K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This is a story about Mike, a guy who left his girl in New York when he came to LA to be a star. It's been six months since his girlfriend left him and he's not doing so good. So, his pal and some other friends try and get him back in the ...
Style:
entertaining, funny, cult classic, sexy, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship between men, casino, womanizer, aspiring actor, sex, comedian, dancing, friendship, depression, breakup, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, relationships ...
Time:
20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, las vegas, new york, wisconsin ...
Similarity:
28%
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