Movies like The Big Bus
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The Big Bus (1976)
4K
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear powered bus is making it's maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. Will the down on his luck driver, with a reputation for eating his passengers, be able to complete the journey?
Style:
road movie, parody, spoof, absurd, funny, surreal, intense, humorous, not serious, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bus, disaster, sabotage, priest, veterinarian, road trip, nuclear power, bowling, singer, nymphomaniac, rescue, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, old woman, panic, nuclear, chase, nothing goes right, daring rescue, save the day, misfit, save the world, danger, disorder, race against time ...
Time:
70s, year 1976
Place:
new york, usa, colorado, tokyo
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Most similar movies to The Big Bus
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out parody, humorous, not serious and spoof films with plots about chase, farce, disorder, vengeance, catastrophe, silly humor and adaptation mostly in Comedy, Action and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Big Bus: Airplane! (1980), Hot Shots! (1991), Spy Hard (1996), The Cannonball Run (1981), Cannonball Run II (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
285K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Alcoholic pilot, Ted Striker has developed a fear of flying due to wartime trauma, but nevertheless boards a passenger jet in an attempt to woo back his stewardess girlfriend. Food poisoning decimates the passengers and crew, leaving it up to ...
Style:
parody, spoof, absurd, slapstick, funny ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids
Plot:
airplane, airport, satire, pilot, food poisoning, absurd humor, aviation, stewardess, passenger, disaster, flight attendant, deadpan ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980, 70s
Place:
los angeles, chicago
Similarity:
100%
124K
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Recruited to join a top-secret mission for the Air Force, a renegade pilot finds himself coping with an incompetent admiral and a carefully selected squadron of flyers who are either inept or half-blind.
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, humorous, hilarious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, date night, family outing
Plot:
satire, stupidity, goofy hero, airplane, aviation, air force, secret mission, heroic mission, save the day, disorder, military base, danger ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1971, 70s, year 1975 ...
Place:
iraq, mediterranean sea, california
Similarity:
100%
43K
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The evil Gen. Rancor has his sights set on world domination, and only one man can stop him: Dick Steele, also known as Agent WD-40. Rancor needs to obtain a computer circuit for the missile that he is planning to fire, so Steele teams up with ...
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, slapstick, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
james bond spoof, spy spoof, farce, secret agent, satire, kgb, spying, goofy hero, heroic mission, disorder, assassination, criminal's revenge ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
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%
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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%
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:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, France, Monaco, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Rowan plays the eponymous lead character in a spoof spy thriller. During the course of the story we follow our hero as he attempts to single-handedly save the country from falling into the hands of a despot.
Style:
parody, hilarious, humorous, clever, funny ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night
Plot:
agent, spy, goofy hero, secret service, comedy of errors, british, secret agent, farce, espionage, spy spoof, sarcasm, stupidity ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
england, europe, cornwall, france, london
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past, Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine.
Style:
parody, spoof, absurd, hilarious, funny ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
airplane, space travel, disaster, aviation, airport, flying, aeroplane, stewardess, satire, renewed love, absurd humor, joke ...
Time:
future, 80s, 20th century, near future
Place:
houston texas, tokyo, moscow russia, texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team who... who went in to rescue hostages left behind ...
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, humorous, slapstick ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
satire, gulf war, kickboxer, rescue, hostage, military life, heroic mission, danger, daring rescue, secret agent, behind enemy lines, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
iraq, middle east, southeast asia, berlin germany, virginia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The KAOS organisation has developed a bomb that can dissolve all clothing. Maxwell Smart is brought in to foil this evil plot.
Style:
parody, spoof, humorous, satirical, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
spy, secret agent, save the day, race against time, escapades, government agency, disorder, heroic mission, danger, chases and races, save the world, goofy hero ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980, 70s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in the old PT-73 selling homebrew, ice cream, and swimsuit calendars. He's brought out of retirement when his old nemesis turned the second best ...
Style:
humorous, melancholic, realistic, semi serious, action comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
military, u.s. navy, island, terrorism, exotic island, save the day, law enforcement, farce, military life, race against time, nothing goes right, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
pentagon, cuba
Similarity:
100%
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: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is a 1978 comedy film directed by John De Bello and starring David Miller. The film is a spoof of B-movies. Made on a budget of less than USD $100,000, the story involves tomatoes becoming sentient by unknown means and ...
Style:
parody, scary, black comedy, independent film, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mad scientist, satire, monster, space and aliens, disaster, disguise, helicopter crash, food, insanity, espionage, rescue, survival ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Similarity:
100%
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, realistic, not serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
spy, murder, cold war, on the run, espionage, secret agent, partner, silly humor, conspiracy, misfit partners, chase, buddies ...
Time:
70s
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
36%
50K
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ex-special operative MacGruber (Forte) is called back into action to take down his archenemy, Dieter Von Cunth (Kilmer), who's in possession of a nuclear warhead and bent on destroying Washington, DC.
Style:
parody, funny, humorous, satirical, spoof ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
undercover, dumb, satire, sarcasm, hotshot hero, danger, escapades, chases and races, uninhibited rivalry, stoner, secret agent, gross out humor ...
Time:
year 2010, 80s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., virginia, usa, las vegas, colorado ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Chronicles the adventures of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as he rides a "wheelchair of death" to stop the world from being taking over by polio-carrying werewolves during WWII. A deadly menace that are led by Werewolf Hitler, Mussolini and ...
Style:
parody, humorous, not serious, exciting, spoof ...
Plot:
u.s. president, good versus evil, silly humor, escapades, disability, danger, heroes, vengeance, head of state, state affairs, disorder, white house ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A remote monastery in China has trained a talking gorilla, King Kung Fu, in the ancient art of kung fu. Having mastered his fighting skills, King Kung Fu is sent to America to demonstrate the power of Chinese martial arts to the West. As he is ...
Style:
spoof, independent film, fast, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
amusement park, gorilla, monkey, exploitation, carnival, martial arts, ape, disorder, righting the wronged, animal life, on the road, legends and myths ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, kansas
Similarity:
32%
136
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Steven Byzinsky is convinced he's a blaxploitation superhero. Like Shaft, Dolemite and Black Belt Jones before him, he's keeping' the streets safe for the brother and trying to stay one step ahead of The Man. There's only one ...
Style:
not serious, parody, humorous, absurd, captivating ...
Plot:
gangster, master villain, rivalry, undercover, dishonesty, chases and races, heroes, save the day, superhero, escapades, society, interracial relations ...
Time:
70s
Place:
california, new york, los angeles
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
International disaster looms as the USS Sub Standard has to race to get a nuclear weapon ahead of the Russian forces.
Style:
parody, spoof, slapstick, exciting, not serious ...
Plot:
u.s. navy, submarine, disaster, cold war, absurd humor, cold war era, underwater, ocean, silly humor, disorder, danger, nothing goes right ...
Time:
80s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
31%
170K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In the third installment of the Scary Movie franchise, news anchorwoman Cindy Campbell has to investigate mysterious crop circles and killing video tapes, and help the President stop an alien invasion in the process.
Style:
parody, spoof, humorous, funny, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
satire, alien invasion, stupidity, absurd humor, humour, halloween, stoner, paranormal activity, silly humor, disorder, heroic mission, journalism ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An Afro-American organization, the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., is in permanent fight against a white organization "The Man" defending the values of the black people in North America. When the Afro-American candidate Gen. Warren Boutwell ...
Style:
parody, funny, feel good, stylized, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
blaxploitation, satire, sexy girl, spy, racism, dumb, secret agent, heroic mission, black, hidden identity, fighting the system, double life ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002, 70s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The world's most shagadelic spy continues his fight against Dr. Evil. This time, the diabolical doctor and his clone, Mini-Me, team up with a new foe -- '70s kingpin Goldmember. While pursuing the team of villains to stop them from world ...
Style:
parody, humorous, spoof, funny, satirical ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
time travel, spy spoof, spy, undercover, father son relationship, james bond spoof, female assassin, satire, dumb, disorder, master villain, good versus evil ...
Time:
70s, year 2002, 60s, 20th century, year 1975 ...
Place:
japan, belgium, tokyo
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Charlie Murphy takes the lead for this comedy concerning two best friends sent hurtling through a politically-incorrect television landscape thanks to a magical remote control that redefines the concept of interactive entertainment. Now, with each ...
Style:
parody, not serious, humorous, light, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
satire, misfit, parallel world, escapades, disorder, friends, buddies, imaginary, silly humor, television, friendship, fish out of water ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
138K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, humorous, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
alien invasion, closeted homosexual, satire, sex toy, alien, save the world, danger, ghost, silly humor, post apocalyptic, halloween, stoner ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, wyoming
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Cabbie-turned-chauffeur Jimmy Tong learns there is really only one rule when you work for playboy millionaire Clark Devlin : Never touch Devlin's prized tuxedo. But when Devlin is temporarily put out of commission in an explosive accident, ...
Style:
humorous, action comedy, satirical, not serious, exciting ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, secret agent, spy, mad scientist, reluctant partners, secret service, nothing goes right, kung fu, mistaken identity, espionage, sniper, spy spoof ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, hong kong
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Michael Corben, along with the rest of his high-school French class, sets out for a trip to France when he is mistaken for an agent of the same name. He is beseiged by both the good guys and the bad guys. British Intelligence outfits him with a ...
Style:
parody, spoof, sex comedy, funny, action comedy ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, boys' night
Plot:
spy spoof, espionage, agent, poisoned drink, female spy, kidnapper, sexual attraction, french teacher, high school, driving, hitman, mobster ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Haru, an orphaned American who washes ashore in Japan and is mistaken for the great White Ninja of legend. Raised among the finest Ninjas, Haru grows strong and big - very big. With the grace of all Three Stooges rolled into one body, Haru is an ...
Style:
parody, humorous, funny, absurd, light ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, toddlers
Plot:
martial arts, ninja, fish out of water, amateur detective, dumb, satire, hotel, disguise, legend, obesity, fistfight, hand to hand combat ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place:
japan, beverly hills, usa, california, los angeles ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who ...
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, road movie, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
orangutan, road trip, revenge, farce, one against many, boxing, on the road, motel, motorcycle, monkey, beer, singer ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, 70s, 80s
Place:
california, colorado, new mexico, los angeles, san francisco
Similarity:
30%
273K
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:
parody, funny, action comedy, humorous, black comedy ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
spy, female spy, undercover agent, espionage, assassin, female agent, female protagonist, female killer, cia, spy spoof, cia agent, disguise ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, paris france, italy, budapest, usa ...
Similarity:
30%
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