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Summer Rental (1985)
20K
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 regain his pride and family's respect.
Style:
feel good, humorous, funny, light, road movie, intense, scenic, colorful, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, kids
Plot:
sailing, summer vacation, underdog, rivalry, screwball, beach, teenage girl, air traffic controller, friendship, summer, on the road, love and romance, couples, nothing goes right, disorder, couple relations, boat, travel, restaurant, vacation, boy, neighbor, sailboat, mother daughter relationship, girl ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
florida, california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, realistic and funny films with plots about disorder, family relations, runaway, catastrophe, mentor, brutality and farce mostly in Comedy, Adventure and Romance genres. Some movies like Summer Rental: The Great Outdoors (1988), National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Captain Ron (1992), Uncle Buck (1989), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
100%
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%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When mild-mannered Martin Harvey finds out that he has inherited a vintage yacht, he decides to take his family on a Caribbean vacation to retrieve the vessel. Upon arriving on a small island and realizing that the ship is in rough shape, Martin and ...
Style:
funny, humorous, hilarious, cult classic, lighthearted ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
sailing, boat, sea, female nudity, childhood, bare breasts, naked woman, skinny dipping, smoking, seafaring, underdog, outlaw ...
Time:
90s
Place:
caribbean, fictional island, puerto rico, chicago, cuba
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 ...
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100%
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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 ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teens
Plot:
thanksgiving, road trip, holiday, train, travel, airplane, on the road, airport, husband wife relationship, railway, buddy, traveling salesman ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
chicago, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, illinois, new york ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Young Danny is following his rich girlfriend's family to the Caribbean. But suddenly he simply must make a chemistry test and cannot go with them. After they have left, he gets a leave from his professor and takes a plane to find them. But he ...
Style:
feel good, road movie, entertaining, humorous, hilarious ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
high school, chase, young couple, boat, rescue, nothing goes right, friendship, disorder, youth, teenager, coming of age, airport ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
caribbean, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, slapstick ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, summer vacation, eviction, youth, teenager, artist, greed, drawing, sabotage, land developer, obsession ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place:
usa, new england, new york, massachusetts
Similarity:
100%
75K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Heiress, Joanna Stayton hires carpenter, Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht -- and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get ...
Style:
feel good, light, entertaining, sentimental, funny ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family outing ...
Plot:
rich woman poor man, memory loss, amnesia, love and romance, single father, father son relationship, family life, destiny, carpenter, pretend relationship, personality change, revenge ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
oregon
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias, Bob follows Marvin to his family's country house. Dr. Marvin ...
Style:
witty, light, not serious, psychological, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
mental illness, vacation, mental patient, mother daughter relationship, therapist, phobia, elevator, psychiatrist, yuppie, therapy, obsession, sarcasm ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new hampshire, usa
Similarity:
100%
131K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, a grown up Rusty Griswold takes his wife and their two sons on a cross-country road trip to the coolest theme park in America, Walley World. Needless ...
Style:
funny, hilarious, humorous, teen, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
road trip, family vacation, dysfunctional family, vacation, amusement park, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, highway travel, brother sister relationship, teenage boy, grand canyon, nothing goes right ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, memphis, arizona, san francisco, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.
Style:
humorous, light, realistic, semi serious, funny ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
mistaken identity, prison, baseball, cons and scams, dalmatian, female nudity, swimming pool, stolen identity, lone hero, fish out of water, disorder, dishonesty ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
california, malibu california, chicago, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Chevy Chase stars as Andy Farmer, a sportswriter who moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth (Madolyn Smith) to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, ...
Style:
hilarious, rom com, humorous, slapstick, social ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
small town, fish out of water, writers, husband wife relationship, aspiring writer, farce, christmas, chase, breakup, divorce, fishing, plagiarism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
vermont, new york, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two Americans (Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna), stranded in the mideastern country of Fawzia, help an Arab leader (Peter Ustinov) build a football team so it can play and hopefully beat Notre Dame. Director J. Lee Thompson's ...
Plot:
cheerleading, american football, fictional country, college football, minefield, student athlete, airplane crash, harem, belly dancing, cold war, fall in love, father son relationship ...
Time:
60s
Place:
middle east, soviet union, indiana, ussr
Similarity:
100%
85K
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the U.S. Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.
Style:
cult classic, humorous, intense, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
friendship, basic training, boot camp, cold war, soldier, u.s. army, slacker, satire, military, rescue mission, dumped by girlfriend, u.s. military ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
milan italy, czechoslovakia, italy, kentucky, west germany ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Fred P. Chaney receives as inheritance after the death of his mother a speaking horse that also has good knowledge about the stock-market. With the help of this horse Fred gains a lot at the stock-market of Chicago.
Style:
humorous, not serious, feel good, offbeat, allegory ...
Plot:
horse race, horse riding, jockey, stepfather stepson relationship, inheritance, racehorse, satire, partner, disorder, family relations, animal life, unlikely partners ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A group of guys takes their ice cream truck to the beach and meet some girls
Style:
sex comedy, sexy, teen sex comedy, independent film, black comedy ...
Plot:
woman in a bikini, summer, striptease, teensploitation, voice over narration, nudity, driving, sexuality, hedonism, clumsiness, sadness, van ...
Time:
year 1986
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exasperated millionaire father Charles to wish he never had her, is visited by fairy godmother Stella. In an effort to save Jessie, Stella casts a spell ...
Style:
entertaining, melancholic, sweet, romantic, light ...
Audience:
kids, date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
friendship, fairy godmother, maid, wish come true, parents and children, alternate reality, amnesia, employment agency, absent mother, credit card, switching roles, fish out of water ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
beverly hills, malibu california, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A nerd gains the friendship of two of his frat brothers when his dad offers them his condo for the week in Palm Springs, and also offers the fraternity a hot tub and jacuzzi if they can help his son find a girl. They meet two guys from a rival ...
Style:
sex comedy, erotic, raunchy comedy, funny, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
college, vacation, friendship, prank, sex, college student, loss of virginity, rivalry, party, lust, blonde, voyeur ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
palm springs california, usa, california, iowa
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Teenager Les Anderson thinks his life can't get any worse after he flunks his driver's exam, but he's wrong. Even though he didn't receive his license, Les refuses to break his date with the cool Mercedes Lane, and he decides to ...
Style:
funny, road movie, light, humorous, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
teenager, high school, childhood, nothing goes right, underage drinking, love and romance, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, high school life, friendship, teenage love ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls—Las Vegas.
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, light, slapstick ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gambling, casino, dysfunctional family, obsession, desert, family relations, farce, road trip, nothing goes right, teenage life, parents and children, vacation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
las vegas, chicago, usa, nevada
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Three families end up in the same rented house. Throughout the summer, they become friends and rediscover how to enjoy life.
Style:
funny, light, humorous, feel good, not serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
family holiday, family vacation, beach, road trip, island, family relations, father son relationship, vacation, parents and children, friendship, old friend, travel ...
Place:
southern italy, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Plastic surgeon Michel Saint-Josse is on his way to Spain where he hopes to spend a stress-free holiday in a luxury hotel with his teenage daughter Vanessa. When his car breaks down near a camping, Michel accepts the offer of help from an extrovert ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot:
camp, beach, nothing goes right, friendship, camping, family relations, disorder, buddies, resort, fish out of water, snobbism, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Four couples, all friends, descend on a tropical island resort. Though one husband and wife are there to work on their marriage, the others just want to enjoy some fun in the sun. They soon find, however, that paradise comes at a price: ...
Style:
funny, sexy, humorous, romantic comedy, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
resort, couple relations, marriage, couples, couples therapy, friends, divorce, disorder, island, friendship, marital problem, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
tahiti, chicago, hawaii
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, talky, funny, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
road trip, satire, on the road, motor home, self discovery, quitting a job, cross country trip, married couple, fired from the job, marriage, couples, fish out of water ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1985
Place:
las vegas, arizona, nevada, new york, los angeles ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Almost 30 years has passed and Gösta and Gun are retired. This summer they're going on a trip to their son's wedding in Gösta's new RV.
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Plot:
wedding, road trip, on the road, family relations, nothing goes right, summer vacation, disorder, family life, friendship, heartwarming, nostalgia, slice of life ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
It's prom night and the kids of Hoover High will be having a night they will never forget. Popular girl Shelley ditches her prom and ends up spending the night with unpopular Dan; Popular guy Kevin goes out with nerdy Angela because he heard ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
prom, teenage love, youth, teenage life, school, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, love and romance, family relations, couples, family life, parents and children ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
17%
309K
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, entertaining, buddy comedy, hilarious ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, teens
Plot:
vacation, foul language, friendship, old friends reunited, kids and family, friends, reunited friends, breast feeding, family life, childhood, group of friends, buddy ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, year 1978, 2000s, 70s ...
Place:
boston, usa, hawaii, new jersey
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A coming of age romantic comedy centered around the lives of twin brothers Luke and Corey Frankenstein in the pivotal months following college graduation. Orphaned at the age of five, the brothers inherited their family brewery and were left in the ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Plot:
beer, coming of age, family business, family relations, twins, youth, love and romance, rivalry, friendship, couples, drinking alcohol, food ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A girl fed up with her quirky, dysfunctional family runs away from home, causing all of them to spend time with each other.
Style:
independent film, cult classic, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
divorce, family relations, dating, coming of age, on the road, teenage girl, lake, stepfather, runaway, bee, dysfunctional family, family drama ...
Time:
90s, year 1992
Place:
usa, hawaii
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
One man's quiet suburban life takes a sickening lurch for the worse when a young couple move into the deserted house next door. From the word go it is obvious these are not the quiet professional types who *should* be living in such a nice ...
Style:
surreal, funny, cult classic, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
neighbor, suburbs, satire, swamp, suburban life, dark humor, drinking, sex with neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, house fire, coming of age, crazy neighbor ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
california, canada
Similarity:
17%
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