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Trading Places (1983)
181K
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, light, laugh out loud, christmas classics, hilarious, dramatic, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prostitute, stock market, revenge, fish out of water, rags to riches, manipulation, social satire, wrongful arrest, beggar, wager, poverty, christmas, switching roles, investor, trading, scam, broker, millionaire, experiment, class differences, christmas party, new year's eve, rich and poor, wealth, businessman ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
pennsylvania, philadelphia, manhattan new york city, arizona, bronx new york city, usa, new york ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, feel good and funny films with plots about dialogue, mentor, catastrophe, storytelling, runaway, disorder and farce mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Trading Places: Coming to America (1988), Brewster's Millions (1985), Police Academy (1984), Uncle Buck (1989), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Prince Akeem, heir to the throne of Zamunda, leaves the tropical paradise kingdom in search of his queen. What better place than Queens, New York, to find his bride? Joined by his loyal servant and friend, Semmi, Akeem attempts to blend in as an ...
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, witty ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
fish out of water, african american, heir to the throne, love, comedy of errors, royalty, wedding, fall in love, hidden identity, prince, fictional country, destiny ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
africa, new york, america, usa, new york state ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, light, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
baseball, rags to riches, baseball player, millionaire, farce, hotel, inheritance, lawyer, childhood, photographer, black, heir ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, usa, california
Similarity:
94%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the ...
Style:
funny, humorous, hilarious, slapstick, parody ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
police academy, police, farce, officers and cadets, chase, dumb, cadet, misfit, recruit, justice, bully, police officer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, 1950s
Place:
usa, israel, los angeles
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:
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Place:
chicago, illinois, minnesota, wisconsin, usa ...
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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 ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers ...
Style:
funny, feel good, satirical, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
friendship, youth, mentor, fish out of water, family problems, rich and poor, social differences, millionaire, toys, spoiled brat, life philosophy, twists and turns ...
Time:
80s, year 1982, 20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A rich businessman makes a bet he can survive on the streets of a rough Los Angeles neighborhood for 30 days completely penniless. During his stay he discovers another side of life and falls in love with with a homeless woman.
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, melancholic, semi serious ...
Plot:
homeless, wealth, goofy hero, satire, poverty, homelessness, businessman, rags to riches, self discovery, survival, switching roles, social differences ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
Place:
arizona, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.
Style:
sexy, teen sex comedy, sex comedy, raunchy comedy, cult classic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
medical, prostitution, college professor, pimp, prostitute, sex worker, blonde, bare breasts, voyeur, nude, voyeurism, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
chicago, detroit, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.
Style:
parody, humorous, funny, spoof, absurd ...
Plot:
satire, sex scene, female nudity, culture clash, peeping tom, masturbation, adaptation, storytelling, unlikely friendships, disorder, family relations, journalism ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1957, 1950s, 50s ...
Place:
kansas, arizona, new york, manhattan new york city, texas ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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: 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%
135K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
Style:
funny, humorous, slapstick comedy, sexy, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
college, party, revenge, beer, female nudity, marijuana, rivalry, cheerleader, drinking, sorority, fraternity, youth ...
Time:
year 1962, year 1978, 20th century, 60s, 80s ...
Place:
pennsylvania
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a ...
Style:
feel good, light, realistic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, manly, date night, chick flick ...
Plot:
office, rich and poor, aunt nephew relationship, workplace, businessman, passionate kiss, mistaken identity, love triangle, workplace romance, office worker, job promotion, corporation ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century, future
Place:
new york, kansas, usa, florida, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This outrageously funny look at one man's final moments of bachelorhood stars Tom Hanks as Rick, reluctant recipient of a bachelor bash given by a group of friends who view partying as their full-time religion. Rick's worried fiancée, ...
Style:
sexy, sex comedy, humorous, funny, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
wedding, party, bachelor party, group of friends, hotel room, fiance fiancee relationship, sex, farce, police raid, lust, prostitute, nude ...
Time:
80s, year 1984
Place:
los angeles, israel
Similarity:
100%
920K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When three friends finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathroom. But they can't seem to locate their best friend, Doug – who's supposed to be tying the knot. ...
Style:
funny, humorous, cult classic, absurd, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
buddies, party, bachelor party, buddy, comedy of errors, nothing goes right, friendship between men, hung over, friends, memory loss, road trip, stupidity ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa, iran, america, north america ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbour ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, talky, intense ...
Plot:
pimp, friendship, prostitution, sex club, elevator, thanksgiving, christmas, extortion, fiance fiancee relationship, anger, neighbor, argument ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
50%
18K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.
Style:
funny, humorous, witty, talky, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
brother brother relationship, car salesman, car, public nudity, satire, stripper, father daughter relationship, no bra, farce, topless woman, heart attack, murder ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, year 1980, future
Place:
arizona, california
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
At Adams College, the jocks rule the school from their house on high, the Alpha Beta fraternity. So when a group of socially-challenged misfits try to go Greek, they're instantly rejected by every house on campus. Deciding to start their own ...
Style:
humorous, funny, sex comedy, teen, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
nerd, sex, sorority, cheerleader, prank, female pubic hair, teenage girl, bullying, female nudity, college freshman, high school, youth ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
usa, arizona, tucson arizona
Similarity:
100%
242K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When Scott learns that his longtime cyber-buddy from Berlin is a gorgeous young woman, he and his friends embark on a trip across Europe.
Style:
funny, teen sex comedy, hilarious, road movie, sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, boys' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
sexual humor, travel, youth, vacation, culture clash, nudity, nothing goes right, marijuana, obsessive quest, comedy of errors, party, stereotypes ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
europe, paris france, italy, germany, london ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The Hangover crew heads to Thailand for Stu's wedding. After the disaster of a bachelor party in Las Vegas last year, Stu is playing it safe with a mellow pre-wedding brunch. However, nothing goes as planned and Bangkok is the perfect setting ...
Style:
funny, humorous, sex comedy, realistic, bad ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot:
wedding, party, strip club, road trip, sex, hung over, friendship, disappearance, weed, bachelor party, memory loss, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, asia, thailand, usa, bangkok thailand ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm. While ...
Style:
entertaining, feel good, witty, clever, retro ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
gender disguise, wall street, sexism, workplace, comedy of errors, hidden identity, business, strong female lead, women, farce, racism, fake identity ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
new york, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
33K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Arthur is the most quotable drunk millionaire that is likely to ever steal your heart. Dudley Moore portrays Arthur, a thirty year old child who will inherit 750 million dollars if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of ...
Style:
funny, clever, romantic comedy, slapstick, hilarious ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
love, true love, butler, addiction, culture clash, screwball, servant, fall in love, bittersweet, drunk, grief, death ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
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68K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson runs off on a hilarious misadventure in this comedy classic that takes him from rags to riches and back to rags again. The slaphappy jerk strikes ...
Style:
funny, slapstick, hilarious, laugh out loud, clever ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
stupidity, rags to riches, dog, irreverent, farce, coming of age, sniper, fish out of water, leaving home, butler, family reunited, voice over narration ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, los angeles, southern usa, st. louis missouri
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
Style:
humorous, talky, melancholic, light, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
singleness, slutty attitude, breakup, adaptation, starting over, couple relations, love and romance, looking for love, illicit affair, dating, slut, affair ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey
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, 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:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without ...
Style:
humorous, parody, funny, entertaining, talky ...
Plot:
culture clash, immigrant, mistaken identity, deportation, weed, farce, adaptation, lone hero, twists and turns, fish out of water, dishonesty, misfit ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mexico, los angeles, latin america, tijuana mexico, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two broke buddies feel lucky when they come upon a truckload of cellular phones and begin selling them out of the back of their van. Trouble arises though, when the phones develop faults. The two friends then not only have to deal with unsatisfied ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, hood, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, gangster, ghetto, justice, dishonesty, disorder, stoner, unlikely criminals, odd couple, nothing goes right, buddies, misfit ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
los angeles, north america, south central los angeles, hawaii, new orleans
Similarity:
100%
533K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
Style:
intellectual, realistic, tense, inspirational, intelligent ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly, girls' night, date night, teen drama ...
Plot:
finance, wall street, business, stock market, financial crisis, money, greed, banking, economic crisis, bank, loan, analysis ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, year 2015, future, year 2016 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, las vegas, california
Similarity:
100%
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