Movies like The Producers 2005
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The Producers (2005)
47K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.
Style:
humorous, parody, light, lyrical, not serious, feel good, slapstick comedy, funny, witty, cult classic ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick
Plot:
broadway, sex maniac, showbiz, theater, farce, audition, eccentricity, accountant, dancing, cons and scams, mentor, transvestism, con artists, betrayal, satire, cross dressing, dance, world war two, nazi, swedish, scheme, playwright, persuasion, holocaust, blonde ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1959, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, middle east, france, poland, rio de janeiro, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city ...
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Most similar movies to The Producers
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and funny films with plots about dialogue, storytelling, catastrophe, runaway, mentor, adaptation and culture clash mostly in Comedy, Crime and Musical genres. Some movies like The Producers: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Chicago (2002), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Camp (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Broadway producer, Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming little old ladies to invest in a production many times over what it will actually cost, and then put on a sure-fire flop, so nobody will ask for their ...
Style:
cult classic, funny, humorous, hilarious, dark comedy ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
satire, broadway, theater, accountant, playwright, showbiz, nazi, great ending, farce, filmmaking, theatrical producer, secretary ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, new york state ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker ...
Style:
parody, cult classic, sexy, homoerotic, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
lgbtq, mad scientist, gay interest, transvestite, gay, gender, homosexual, castle, rock and roll, wedding, surrealism, dance ...
Time:
20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place:
transylvania, ohio
Similarity:
100%
255K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
Style:
sexy, witty, stylized, visually stunning, period piece ...
Audience:
kids, date night, girls' night
Plot:
broadway, femme fatale, desire for fame, lovers, jail, prison, musician, lawyer, jazz, satire, execution, brutality ...
Time:
1920s, 1900s, 2000s, 20th century, year 2002 ...
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Set in 1920's New York City, this movie tells the story of idealistic young playwright David Shayne. Producer Julian Marx finally finds funding for the project from gangster Nick Valenti. The catch is that Nick's girl friend Olive Neal ...
Style:
light, humorous, funny, witty, talky ...
Plot:
mafia, gangster, satire, backstage, writers, theater, murder, playwright, actor, rehearsal, actress, showbiz ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1994
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business.
Style:
funny, stylized, humorous, witty, technicolor ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
business, broadway, satire, advertising, greed, marketing, economics, workplace, ambition, workplace romance, book, dance ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted
Style:
funny, retro, hilarious, black and white, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids
Plot:
cheerleader, teenager, broadway, love, small town, dancing, theater, dating, turtle, secretary, singer, songwriter ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place:
ohio, usa, washington d.c., new york, columbus ohio
Similarity:
19%
6K
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Misfits in their lives back home, a group of young people live it up at musical-theater camp. While the sports counselor is completely ignored, the kids' spend all their time in rehearsal for a grueling schedule that involves a new show every ...
Style:
teen, talky, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
gay, coming of age, summer camp, dancing, lgbt, love and romance, teenage love, artists and showbiz, rock, gay teenager, glbt, friendship ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein.
Style:
touching, witty, light, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot:
divorce, marriage, broadway, dancing, biopic, women, showgirl, gambling debt, mother daughter relationship, gambler, theatrical producer, showbiz ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 20th century, 1900s, 1930s ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, baltimore, chicago ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A travelling theater group has so much action going on behind-the-scenes it almost ruins the performances.
Style:
funny, humorous, feel good, witty, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
actor's life, nothing goes right, theater, theatre play, love and romance, disorder, showbiz, workplace situations, eternal love, actor, backstage, farce ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place:
iowa, new york, miami, cleveland ohio, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A diamond advocate is attempting to steal a collection of diamonds, yet troubles arise when he realizes that he is not the only one after the diamonds.
Style:
funny, dark comedy, black comedy, raunchy comedy, dramatic ...
Plot:
heist, femme fatale, zoophilia, satire, manipulation, plan gone wrong, eternal love, psychotic, outlaw, swindle, diamond, female thief ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
europe, britain, tower bridge london, london, england ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a ...
Style:
humorous, funny, sexy, laugh out loud, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
dark humor, comedy of errors, murder, obnoxious boss, boss, dentist, friends, revenge, boss and employee, sexual harassment, sarcasm, stupidity ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
18%
68K
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her mother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, satirical, light, parody ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
rock and roll, gang, forbidden love, youth, satire, music, couples, juvenile delinquency, teenage love, biker, juvenile delinquent, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 1954, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
maryland, baltimore, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When the incompetent Officer Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.
Style:
parody, funny, spoof, humorous, slapstick ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, family outing, date night
Plot:
satire, deadpan, stupidity, assassin, mind control, investigation, sarcasm, police, gunfight, assassination plot, terrorist, creativity ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, beirut lebanon, england
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, light, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, nothing goes right, farce, father son relationship, mafia, casino, satire, american football, femme fatale, assassination, voice over narration, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, year 1938, year 1967, year 1933
Place:
las vegas, sicily, italy, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
18%
190K
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. As punishment, they are forced to escort a pair of socialites to the Hamptons, where they're going to be used as bait for a kidnapper. But when the girls realize ...
Style:
humorous, hilarious, funny, parody, satirical ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
cross dressing, dumb, fbi, working undercover, fish out of water, undercover, goofy hero, satire, gender bending, nothing goes right, buddy cop, gender disguise ...
Time:
year 2004, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
18%
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:
18%
10K
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A chauffeur kidnaps his rich boss's dog to hold it for ransom, but when she accidentally gets the dog back, she thinks that it's the chauffeur who's been kidnapped.
Style:
slapstick comedy, funny, humorous, intense, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
chauffeur, dog, abduction, comedy of errors, mortician, vengeance, nothing goes right, farce, corpse, pet dog, african american, stupidity ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, new jersey
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers is a black comedy about two losers in their twenties, Calvin Menhoffer (Will Friedle) and Leonard Smallwood (Chris Owen), who are out to get the good life without working for it. The two young men try to rob two ...
Style:
humorous, absurd, intense, funny, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
buddies, erotica, women, stupidity, adaptation, brutality, murder, dishonesty, friends, partner, nothing goes right, criminal heroes ...
Time:
2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
beverly hills, usa
Similarity:
18%
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77K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dream movie. Rallying a ragtag team that includes a starry-eyed ingenue, a has-been diva and a film studio ...
Style:
parody, funny, humorous, witty, spoof ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night
Plot:
filmmaking, hollywood, satire, movie business, dog, actor, cameraman, deception, african american, actress, audition, desire for fame ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, north america
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
An out-of-work singer, Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews), meets a just-fired, flamboyant gay man in a diner in 1920's Paris. He convinces her to pretend to be a man who is a female impersonator in order to get a job. The act is a hit in a local ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
cross dressing, transvestism, gender bending, gender disguise, impresario, comedy of errors, female protagonist, lgbt, theater, singer, jazz, nightclub ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new york
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all his belongings, Clark meets Carmine "Jimmy the Toucan" Sabatini, an "importer" bearing a startling ...
Style:
parody, funny, witty, humorous, black comedy ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
mafia, gangster, fish out of water, zoo, endangered species, food, college, affection, godfather, taxi driver, mobster, corruption ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
vermont, new york, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
18%
114K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's right-wing moralistic parents.
Style:
sexy, humorous, funny, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
lgbtq, gay parent, gender, gay, wedding, glbt, cross dressing, gay couple, senator, drag queen, gay father, farce ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
florida, miami, usa, miami beach, los angeles ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcome their differences to solve an important case with help from street informant Huggy ...
Style:
parody, humorous, entertaining, hilarious, not serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
cocaine, undercover, car chase, drug, police investigation, police detective, satire, organized crime, gangster, drug lord, justice, partner ...
Time:
20th century, year 2004, 70s, 2000s
Place:
california, usa, san francisco, north america, chicago
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers working the city's dinner theater circuit ... as drag queens. Now, it's not enough that they ...
Style:
humorous, funny, feel good, laugh out loud, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
cross dressing, drag queen, gender bending, best friend, audition, gay, overnight success, hidden identity, performer's life, lifestyle, mistaken identity, wrong place wrong time ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, los angeles, san francisco
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the ...
Style:
parody, spoof, satirical, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
filmmaking, satire, mime, showbiz, hollywood, creativity, actor's life, comeback, alcohol abuse, disorder, artists and showbiz, goofy hero ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s ...
Place:
usa, california, new york, los angeles, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000 first.
Style:
clever, feel good, funny, humorous, surprise ending ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
con artists, rivalry, bet, competition, con men, casino, caper, cons and scams, twists and turns, farce, high society, deception ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 1950s, 50s
Place:
french riviera, france, south of france, arizona, riviera ...
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This time, there's no wedding. No bachelor party. What could go wrong, right? But when the Wolfpack hits the road, all bets are off.
Style:
funny, hilarious, buddy comedy, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
buddy, road trip, group of friends, drinking alcohol, dark humor, friendship, friendship between men, drug, party, dentist, disorder, friends ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, los angeles, seattle, nevada, usa ...
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.
Style:
funny, humorous, talky, melancholic, light ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
ancient rome, chase, broadway, slavery, culture clash, fighting the system, love triangle, farce, ancient, husband wife relationship, transformation, justice ...
Time:
1st century, year 1966, 70s, 60s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a ...
Style:
funny, witty, feel good, humorous, laugh out loud ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
prison, wrongful conviction, injustice, convict, cell mate, lawyer, marijuana, profanity, on the road, prison escape, partner, comedy of errors ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, north america, arizona
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he is to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.. this adds to Frank's ...
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, humorous, hilarious ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
farce, sexual humor, absurd humor, stupidity, undercover, terrorism, law enforcement, satire, sexy woman, gangster, race against time, save the day ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1988, 70s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
17%
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