Movies like Step Brothers
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Step Brothers (2008)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Brennan Huff and Dale Doback might be grown men. But that doesn't stop them from living at home and turning into jealous, competitive stepbrothers when their single parents marry. Brennan's constant competition with Dale strains his mom's marriage to Dale's dad, leaving everyone to wonder whether they'll ever see eye to eye.
Style:
humorous, melancholic, talky, stylized, not serious, funny, feel good, ridiculous, entertaining, parody ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
slacker, dysfunctional family, friendship, friends, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, friendship between men, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, man child, adulthood, goofy hero, living with parents, sibling rivalry, parents and children, family life, divorce, buddy, farce, stupidity, nude, siblings relations, christmas, male nudity, nerd ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to Step Brothers
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out absurd, funny, humorous and not serious films with plots about brutality, mentor, catastrophe, dialogue, storytelling, pornography and farce mostly in Comedy, Sport and Music genres. Some movies like Step Brothers: Old School (2003), The Campaign (2012), 21 & Over (2013), Hot Rod (2007), Freddy Got Fingered (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
It's the 1970s, and San Diego super-sexist anchorman Ron Burgundy is the top dog in local TV, but that's all about to change when ambitious reporter Veronica Corningstone arrives as a new employee at his station.
Style:
parody, funny, humorous, absurd, not serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
journalism, workplace, sexism, farce, ambition, stupidity, rivalry, friendship, new job, nervous breakdown, battle of the sexes, lifestyle ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, san diego california
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100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Three friends attempt to recapture their glory days by opening up a fraternity near their alma mater.
Style:
funny, humorous, sex comedy, talky, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
college, party, friendship, beer, fraternity, youth, caught cheating, teenager, high school, disorder, college life, college student ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, california, los angeles, canada, usa ...
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100%
133K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.
Style:
parody, funny, ridiculous, humorous, political ...
Plot:
congressman, politics, farce, satire, election campaign, election, mentor, political corruption, twists and turns, sarcasm, stereotypes, campaigning ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Lifelong friends and national idols Ricky Bobby and Cal Naughton Jr. have earned their NASCAR stripes with their uncanny knack of finishing races in the first and second slots, respectively, and slinging catchphrases like "Shake and bake!" ...
Style:
funny, humorous, exciting, feel good, parody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
car race, sport, farce, sport competition, stupidity, car, french, betrayal, satire, lifestyle, uninhibited rivalry, teamwork ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Brilliant student Jeff Chang has the most important interview of his life tomorrow. But today is still his birthday, what starts off as a casual celebration with friends evolves into a night of debauchery that risks to derail his life plan.
Style:
humorous, not serious, ridiculous, funny, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
college, youth, friends, college life, college student, high school, buddies, nothing goes right, plan gone awry, adolescence vs adulthood, party, university ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
For Rod Kimball, performing stunts is a way of life, even though he is rather accident-prone. Poor Rod cannot even get any respect from his stepfather, Frank, who beats him up in weekly sparring matches. When Frank falls ill, Rod devises his most ...
Style:
funny, feel good, witty, melancholic, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, friendship, motorcycle, misfit, ambition, fund raising, obsessive quest, young man, team, goofy hero, contests and competitions, parents and children ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
washington state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An unemployed cartoonist moves back in with his parents and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he begins to spread rumors that his father is sexually abusing Freddy.
Style:
funny, humorous, controversial, surreal, parody ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
satire, surrealism, slacker, stupidity, insanity, goofy hero, parents and children, unsuccessful, dull life, bad taste humour, dysfunctional family, leaving home ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
Style:
funny, humorous, feel good, witty, talky ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
small town, high school, teenager, friendship, election, adolescence, youth, high school life, bullying, american football, teenage life, eccentric family ...
Time:
2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
idaho, usa, utah, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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216K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.
Style:
funny, humorous, not serious, parody, absurd ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
silly humor, vulgarity, lawyer, marijuana, teddy bear, adoption, foul language, buddies, talking animals, anthropomorphism, friends, odd couple ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Rising executive Tim Wagner works for a boss who hosts a monthly dinner in which the guest who brings the biggest buffoon gets a career-boost. Tim plans on not attending until he meets Barry, a man who builds dioramas using stuffed mice. ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, absurd, talky, entertaining ...
Plot:
farce, misfit, stupidity, friendship, happy ending, dumb, corporate world, nothing goes right, comedy of errors, goofy hero, loser, employer employee relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Noah, is not your typical entertain-the-kids-no-matter-how-boring-it-is kind of sitter. He's reluctant to take a sitting gig; he'd rather, well, be doing anything else, especially if it involves slacking. When Noah is watching the ...
Style:
humorous, absurd, harsh, not serious, funny ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
nanny, brother sister relationship, babysitting, youth, slacker, subway, twists and turns, comedy of errors, father son relationship, disorder, nothing goes right, adopted son ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ 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:
humorous, absurd, funny, road movie, ridiculous ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
road trip, buddies, dumb, dimwit, stupidity, parakeet, friendship, odd couple, misfit, toilet humor, illiteracy, buddy ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
utah, rhode island, colorado, canada, new jersey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The film is composed of multiple comedy shorts presented through an overarching segment titled "The Pitch", in which Charlie Wessler, a mad screenwriter, is attempting to pitch a script to film executive Griffin Schraeder. After revealing ...
Style:
parody, funny, not serious, absurd, ridiculous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
dark humor, irreverence, youth, teenage life, gross out humor, stupidity, society, toilet humor, escapades, buddies, dishonesty, satire ...
Time:
year 1959, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
With the 70s behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.
Style:
parody, funny, humorous, absurd, satirical ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
journalism, father son relationship, reporter, workplace, dog, media satire, journalist, friendship, jealousy, rivalry, media, tv show ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, year 1979, year 1980 ...
Place:
new york, usa, california, manhattan new york city, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Even though he's 35, Alex acts more like he's 13, spending his days as the world's oldest video game tester and his evenings developing the next big Xbox game. But he gets kicked out of his apartment and is forced to move in with his ...
Style:
funny, humorous, not serious, psychedelic, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
weed, stoners, marijuana, slacker, stupidity, roommate, workplace, geek, teenager, drugs, older woman younger man relationship, party ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Singer Dewey Cox overcomes adversity to become a musical legend.
Style:
funny, humorous, parody, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
music, rock, farce, hip hop, stupidity, drug abuse, rock and roll, success, team, lifestyle, ambition, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s, 60s, 90s ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Style:
funny, humorous, buddy comedy, entertaining, ridiculous ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
friendship, vacation, friends, old friends reunited, family life, childhood, foul language, teenager, kids and family, reunited friends, silly humor, group of friends ...
Time:
2010s, year 1978, 70s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
123K
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story of a mild-mannered radio executive (Ferrell) who strives to become the best stepdad ever to his wife's two children, but complications ensue when their freewheeling, freeloading real father arrives, forcing stepdad to compete for the ...
Style:
funny, ridiculous, entertaining, sweet, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
father, children, uninhibited rivalry, christmas, kids and family, parents, step parent, divorce, dumb, culture clash, parenthood, rivalry ...
Place:
louisiana, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Movie in collections
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
Style:
funny, parody, absurd, satirical, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
satire, dictator, dark humor, un, culture clash, farce, death, prejudice, society, head of state, megalomaniac, fictional country ...
Time:
70s, year 1973, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, asia, israel, middle east ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of young boys on the cusp of becoming teenagers embark on an epic quest to fix their broken drone before their parents get home.
Style:
absurd, funny, light, sex comedy, not serious ...
Plot:
grownups, best friend, child, sexual humor, first kiss, adult humor, school, child protagonist, mischievous children, absurd humor, youth, friend ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An inept taekwondo instructor struggles with marital troubles and an unhealthy obsession with fellow taekwondo enthusiast Chuck "The Truck" Williams.
Style:
funny, humorous, harsh, stylized, tragicomedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
martial arts, obsession, disorder, ambition, life is a bitch, buddies, breaking point, dark humor, contests and competitions, goofy hero, crumbling relationship, friendship ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.
Style:
funny, light, humorous, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
insurance, friendship, justice, dysfunctional family, happy ending, greed, adultery, adaptation, life philosophy, road trip, friends, goofy hero ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iowa, usa, california, las vegas, new jersey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While Ron Burgundy's rivalry with Veronica Corningstone escalates quickly, a group of unprofessional thieves better known as 'The Alarm Clock' try to make the truth known, whatever that may mean...
Style:
funny, parody, absurd, humorous, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
journalism, farce, ego clash, nothing goes right, ambition, rivalry, workplace, battle of the sexes, buddies, workplace situations, media satire, satire ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Two assistant managers of a corporate grocery store vie for a coveted promotion.
Style:
humorous, light, satirical, stylized, semi serious ...
Plot:
rivalry, promotion, sarcasm, justice, greed, supermarket, ambition, workplace, boss and employee, corporate world, husband wife relationship, dancing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, canada, illinois, usa, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Doug Harris is a loveable but socially awkward groom-to-be with a problem: he has no best man. With less than two weeks to go until he marries the girl of his dreams, Doug is referred to Jimmy Callahan, owner and CEO of Best Man, Inc., a company ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, humorous, not serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot:
wedding, friendship, best man, friends, buddies, love and romance, nothing goes right, marriage, dishonesty, disorder, creativity, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Despite being well into adulthood, brothers Doug and Steve Butabi still live at home and work in the flower shop owned by their dad. They exist only to hit on women at discos, though they're routinely unsuccessful until a chance run-in with ...
Style:
humorous, funny, entertaining, harsh, parody ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
nightclub, buddies, brother brother relationship, misfit, dumb, father son relationship, marriage, love and romance, disorder, friends, clubbing, catastrophe ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
usa, new york, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.
Style:
funny, humorous, feel good, buddy comedy, light ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
sisters, sister sister relationship, party, women, sister, loneliness, adaptation, stereotypes, depression, irreverent, relationships, female friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, orlando florida, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
During a trip to Germany to scatter their grandfather's ashes, German-American brothers Todd and Jan discover Beerfest, the secret Olympics of downing stout, and want to enter the contest to defend their family's beer-guzzling honor. Their ...
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, not serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
beer, competition, german, sport, college, ambition, championship, disorder, underdog, rivalry, buddies, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, colorado, munich germany, europe, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Who is Don Ready? Salesman? Lover? Song Stylist? Semi-professional dolphin trainer? Ready is all of the above - except for a dolphin trainer. When he’s asked to help save an ailing local car dealership from bankruptcy, Ready and his ragtag crew ...
Style:
humorous, stylized, not serious, feel good, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
salesman, workplace, farce, hotshot hero, business, stupidity, dumb, blind ambition, disorder, rise to the top, rivalry, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.
Style:
funny, humorous, stylized, not serious, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
on the road, road trip, prank, funeral, goofy hero, grandparent and grandchild, disorder, elderly, irresponsible, vandalism, cross country, socially awkward ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, nebraska, usa, tennessee, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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