Movies like Trading Places
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Trading Places (1983)
157K
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, feel good, light, humorous, thought provoking, parody, sweet, melancholic, suspenseful, dramatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prostitute, stock market, fish out of water, switching roles, manipulation, beggar, social satire, wrongful arrest, wager, millionaire, class differences, investor, rags to riches, christmas, poverty, broker, revenge, rich and poor, experiment, riches to rags, scam, christmas party, business, bet, satire ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, philadelphia, usa, manhattan new york city, new york, united states of america
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, funny and realistic films with plots about mentor, chase, catastrophe, dialogue, brutality, culture clash and runaway mostly in Comedy, Romance and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Trading Places: Coming to America (1988), Brewster's Millions (1985), The Toy (1982), The Jerk (1979), Life Stinks (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, light ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
fish out of water, comedy of errors, heir to the throne, prince, wedding, fall in love, african american, royalty, winter, looking for love, hidden identity, culture clash ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, africa, usa, america, madison square garden manhattan new york city ...
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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, millionaire, lawyer, hotel, childhood, inheritance, photographer, culture clash, destiny, police investigation, fight scenes, money ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey, new york, california, manhattan new york city, usa ...
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85%
14K
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:
humorous, funny, sentimental, feel good, satirical ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
friendship, youth, children, childhood, rich and poor, social differences, family problems, spoiled brat, fish out of water, life philosophy, twists and turns, millionaire ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, clever, humorous, absurd, reflective ...
Plot:
irreverent, farce, dog, rags to riches, stupidity, sniper, leaving home, fish out of water, butler, coming of age, family reunited, gangsters ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, los angeles, southern usa, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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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, greed, wealth, goofy hero, rags to riches, survival, self discovery, switching roles, social differences, wager, poverty, homelessness ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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:
humorous, funny, talky, light, intense ...
Plot:
pimp, friendship, prostitution, sex club, morgue, cons and scams, nightlife, misfit, elevator, undercover, neighbor, extortion ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ 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:
loneliness, singleness, breakup, adaptation, starting over, love and romance, couple relations, looking for love, slutty attitude, writers, unlikely friendships, revenge ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey, usa
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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, absurd, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing
Plot:
camp, family vacation, raccoon, bear, wilderness, holiday, family relations, nothing goes right, disorder, parents and children, friendship, youth ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada, california, usa, chicago illinois, wisconsin
⇓ 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, talky, light ...
Plot:
martial arts, culture clash, female nudity, adaptation, kung fu, unlikely friendships, disorder, family relations, sex scene, peeping tom, masturbation, journalism ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, year 1957, 50s
Place:
kansas, milan italy, italy, new york state, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
sex comedy, teen sex comedy, sexy, campy, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
prostitution, college professor, pimp, prostitute, medical, teenager, blonde, voyeur, female nudity, nude, nude girl, voyeurism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago illinois, detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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:
funny, humorous, feel good, sentimental, light ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
christmas, holiday, farce, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family gatherings, culture clash, creativity, eccentric family, nothing goes right, neighbor, down on your luck ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
funny, surreal, humorous, sexy, visually appealing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
neighbor, suburbs, satire, dark humor, farce, new neighbor, swamp, suspense, chase, house fire, disaster, nude ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
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, feel good, parody, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
culture clash, immigrants, deportation, mistaken identity, adaptation, farce, twists and turns, fish out of water, disorder, false accusation, comedy of errors, interracial relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mexico, los angeles, latin america, california, tijuana mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Trying to rescue her home planet from destruction, a gorgeous extraterrestrial named Celeste arrives on Earth and begins her scientific research. She woos quirky scientist Dr. Steve Mills, a widower with a young daughter. Before long, Celeste finds ...
Style:
feel good, light, parody, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, date night
Plot:
alien, fish out of water, space and aliens, benign alien, friendship, alien disguised as human, eccentricity, transformation, mentor, culture clash, supernatural romance, misfit ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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:
humorous, feel good, light, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, manly, date night
Plot:
office, business, rich and poor, workplace, farce, mistaken identity, love triangle, yuppie, ambition, rise to the top, fish out of water, office worker ...
Time:
80s, future, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, kansas, usa, florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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, light, funny, touching ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
road trip, thanksgiving, travel, holiday, train, buddy, snow, airplane, on the road, railway, husband wife relationship, airport ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, illinois, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
124K
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:
humorous, funny, sex comedy, light, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
college, beer, party, female nudity, marijuana, youth, teenager, revenge, lust, cheerleader, slacker, sex ...
Time:
year 1962, 70s, 80s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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:
funny, light, witty, not serious, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
mental illness, psychiatrist, family vacation, farce, vacation, obsession, yuppie, psychology, sarcasm, therapy, psychiatry, disorder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new hampshire, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, talky, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car, rivalry, stripper, brother brother relationship, car salesman, father daughter relationship, farce, fight, scam, heart attack, voyeur, female nudity ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, future, 80s
Place:
california, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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:
sex comedy, sexy, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
wedding, party, bachelor party, group of friends, sex, nude, fiance fiancee relationship, hotel room, farce, male stripper, prostitute, lust ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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:
feel good, light, entertaining, witty, clever ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
gender disguise, wall street, workplace, comedy of errors, sexism, women, farce, racism, hidden identity, strong female lead, fake identity, christmas ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ...
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Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
police, police academy, chase, officers and cadets, dumb, farce, recruit, justice, rookie, instructor, cadet, mentor ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
israel, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the ...
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Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
hollywood, farce, racism, filmmaking, blaxploitation, prejudice, dark humor, movie business, actor's life, society, misfit, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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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.
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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 ⇓
23%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A Florida con man uses the passing of the long time Congressman from his district who he just happens to share a name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists. But soon he learns the nature of ...
Style:
political, realistic, humorous, clever, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
politics, greed, political corruption, cancer, redemption, lobbyist, dishonesty, rise to the top, human spirit, bribery, fighting the system, switching roles ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
washington d.c., latin america, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Ice Cube returns as Craig Jones, a streetwise man from South Central Los Angeles who has a knack for getting into trouble. This time out, Craig is still trying to outsmart neighborhood bully Debo (Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr.); after Craig gets ...
Style:
funny, humorous, feel good, light, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
weed, hip hop, marijuana, dishonesty, friendship, family relations, society, lifestyle, cons and scams, siblings relations, disorder, drugs ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Eddie is a con artist. But this time he's framed and comes before a judge. By claiming insanity, he hopes to get off the hook. He manages end up in a hospital for a mental examination. That night, a storm breaks out over New York, and the ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, India
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When his uptight CEO sister threatens to shut down his branch, the branch manager throws an epic Christmas party in order to land a big client and save the day, but the party gets way out of hand.
Style:
funny, entertaining, humorous, feel good, ridiculous ...
Plot:
christmas, christmas party, wild party, stupidity, party, workplace, holiday, debauchery, cocaine, ceo, office, farce ...
Time:
future
Place:
chicago illinois, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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, inspirational, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
624K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
John Bennett, a man whose childhood wish of bringing his teddy bear to life came true, now must decide between keeping the relationship with the bear or his girlfriend, Lori.
Style:
funny, humorous, buddy comedy, buddy movie, ridiculous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, marijuana, teddy bear, silly humor, party, bear, sarcasm, toys, friends, drugs, young woman, talking animals ...
Time:
2010s, 80s, year 2012, year 1985, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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