Movies like Trapped in Paradise

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Trapped in Paradise (1994)
 5.9
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Trapped in Paradise (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The Firpo Brothers can get away with anything. They just can't get away!
Style: entertaining, humorous, light, funny, absurd, hilarious, christmas classics, feel good, anamorphic, offbeat ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: christmas, small town, snow, redemption, holiday, bank robbery, nothing goes right, partner, disorder, chases and races, crime gone awry, dishonesty, winter, bank, heist, brothers, new year, caper, new year's eve, atmosphere, christmas season, cold weather, christmas spirit, xmas, hostage ...
Time: 90s, future
Place: new york, pennsylvania, usa
Keyword: partners, doctors

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Most similar movies to Trapped in Paradise

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, realistic and entertaining films with plots about disorder, christmas, nothing goes right, christmas movie, holiday, snow and dishonesty mostly in Comedy, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Trapped in Paradise: Amos & Andrew (1993), Welcome to Collinwood (2002), Surviving Christmas (2004), Stealing Christmas (2003), Screwed (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Amos & Andrew (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Andrew Sterling (Samuel L. Jackson), a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver (Dabney Coleman) realizes ...
Style: clever, funny, light, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: island, bad cop, mistaken identity, police investigation, brutality, racism, interracial relations, buddies, nothing goes right, criminal heroes, social differences, resort ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Welcome to Collinwood (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.
Style: humorous, entertaining, absurd, hilarious, cult classic ...
Plot: heist, prison, greed, robbery, safecracker, caper, cons and scams, criminal heroes, dishonesty, crime gone awry, released from prison, disguise ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: ohio, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Surviving Christmas (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Drew Latham is an executive leading an empty, shallow life with only wealth on his side. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, he revisit his old childhood home in the hope of reliving some old holiday memories – but he finds that the house in ...
Style: humorous, feel good, funny, christmas classics, hilarious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, dysfunctional family, christmas season, loneliness, suburbs, family relations, farce, new year, xmas, eccentric family, looking for love ...
Time: year 2004
Place: illinois, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Stealing Christmas (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Tony Danza stars as a thief named Jack Clayton. When Jack is about to be caught at the mall, he dresses up as Santa Claus and hops on the bus to Evergreen. He is mistaken for the new Santa at Sarah Gibson's tree store. He is very reluctant at ...
Style: touching, feel good, humorous, witty, christmas classics ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: christmas, small town, redemption, disorder, dishonesty, fall in love, cons and scams, bank, heist, family life, criminal, false identity ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Screwed (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A chauffeur kidnaps his rich boss's dog to hold it for ransom, but when she accidentally gets the dog back, she thinks that it's the chauffeur who's been kidnapped.
Style: funny, humorous, intense, feel good, witty ...
Plot: mistaken identity, crime gone awry, fish out of water, comedy of errors, friendship, nothing goes right, partner, hostage, cons and scams, disorder, goofy hero, misfit ...
Time: 90s
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.8
 22K
Quick Change (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio to do is make their getaway out ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, absurd, cult classic ...
Plot: heist, bank robbery, robbery, buddies, friendship, partner, friends, disorder, cons and scams, runaway, love and romance, bank robber ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.9
 7K
Scorched (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three bank tellers. One goal: knock the place over. The ultimate inside jobs, plotted by three people with nothing to lose.
Style: funny, melancholic, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot: heist, bank robber, robbery, small town, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, friends, crime gone awry, nothing goes right, employee, partner, criminal heroes ...
Time: year 2003
Place: nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets shot and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe ...
Style: funny, humorous, black comedy, hilarious, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids
Plot: dark humor, beach, summer, murder, farce, insurance, comedy of errors, heat wave, organized crime, employer employee relationship, mob boss, nothing goes right ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Every Christmas Has a Story (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A TV personality has an on-air snafu and admits she hates Christmas. Following the debacle, she is invited to the Most Christmas-y town in America to try and repair her image. Forced to work with her ex-boyfriend Jack, the show’s producer, the ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, feel good, romantic, funny ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, small town, winter, stereotypes, artists and showbiz, transformation, holiday, love and romance, fall in love, happy ending, christmas romance, snow ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Four Christmases (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Brad and Kate have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bust -- big time. Stuck at the city airport after all departing flights are canceled, the couple is ...
Style: humorous, funny, feel good, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: christmas, holiday, dysfunctional family, family relations, couple relations, in-laws, family bonds, brothers, marriage, family drama, love, christmas season ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Unaccompanied Minors (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Five disparate kids snowed in at the airport on Christmas Eve learn some lessons about friendship when they launch a bid to get back to their families and outsmart a disgruntled airport official who wants to keep them grounded.
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: christmas, when the parents are away, children, disorder, fish out of water, stupidity, multiple storylines, christmas eve, snow, xmas, holiday, winter ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s
Place: pennsylvania, iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, ...
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, hilarious, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: holiday, christmas, children, hotel, home alone, childhood, vacation, child, young heroes, mischievous children, snow, trap ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1992
Place: new york, florida, manhattan new york city, chicago, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two hoplessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the l9th century. They gain the enmity of the most famous bank Robber in the world and the affection of a crusading newspaperwoman.
Style: offbeat, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, bank robbery, prison escape, robbery, caper, female journalist, safecracker, odd couple, nothing goes right, dishonesty, misfit partners, crime gone awry ...
Time: victorian era, year 1976, 19th century, 1890s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Six years have elapsed since Guantanamo Bay, leaving Harold and Kumar estranged from one another with very different families, friends and lives. But when Kumar arrives on Harold's doorstep during the holiday season with a mysterious package in ...
Style: funny, humorous, parody, not serious, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: holiday, christmas, stoner, buddy, road trip, weed, marijuana, new year, stupidity, unlikely friendships, xmas, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, kolkata, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
We're No Angels (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two escaped cons only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.
Style: humorous, feel good, clever, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: mistaken identity, prison, clergy, small town, religion, fake priest, priest, monk, fish out of water, buddies, on the run, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Elf (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he ...
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, christmas special, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas spirit, father son relationship, santa claus, north pole, christmas season, corporate world, adoption, snow, winter, elf ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, usa, south pole, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.3
 149K
Raising Arizona (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The Coen Brothers tell the story of a absurd yet likable family with an unproductive couple as the focal point. The couple has gotten themselves into some trouble while kidnapping a baby and give Hollywood one of the most memorable chase scenes to ...
Style: witty, humorous, funny, dark comedy, surreal ...
Audience: kids, toddlers, family outing
Plot: kidnapping, screwball, baby, robbery, adoption, american football, parenthood, missing child, policewoman, crime gone awry, redemption, blackmail ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: arizona, usa, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Finding Santa (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Christmas is a busy, busy time for the residents of Green River, particularly for Grace Long, the third generation of her family to steward the New England town’s signature Christmas Eve parade. This year’s audience for the parade promises to be ...
Style: entertaining, funny, romantic, sweet, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, santa claus, true love, christmas season, christmas romance, family business, writers, winter, family tradition, love, christmas spirit ...
Place: connecticut, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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A Christmas in Vermont (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Riley Thomas is sent by her profit-obsessed boss to shut down one of the company’s holdings, a small outerwear company in Vermont, for missing profit targets. Riley finds that the company is the lifeblood of a town and, instead of closing down the ...
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, romantic, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, male female relationship, happy ending, businessman, corporation, small town, love interest, small business, opposites attract, creativity, love story ...
Time: 2010s
Place: vermont, new england, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Welcome to Christmas (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Resort developer Madison Lane is tasked with finding a location for a new ski resort. Her boss tells her to take a trip to Christmas, Colorado, to consider the location. On her way into town, Madison has a minor fender-bender with the town’s ...
Style: entertaining, romantic, light, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, small town, single father, small town sheriff, christmas romance, opposites attract, moral dilemma, christmas spirit, fall in love, chance meeting, unlikely couple ...
Place: denver colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
King's Ransom (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Hoping to foil his own gold-digging wife's plan, a loathsome businessman arranges his own kidnapping, only to realize that there are plenty of other people interested in his wealth as well.
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot: kidnapping, dishonesty, nothing goes right, breakup, disorder, couples, couple relations, crumbling marriage, unlikely criminals, love and romance, crime gone awry, cons and scams ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Christmas Spirit (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Charlotte Hart, a distinguished journalist, is spending time with her family over the holidays when a real estate developer approaches their small town with quite an offer. Skeptical and looking for the real scoop, Charlotte drives to see the real ...
Style: entertaining, romantic, feel good, light, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, christmas spirit, out of body experience, small town, winter, land developer, hopes, accident, adaptation, christmas eve, journalism, transformation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Bank Robber (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After robbing a bank, the robber hides out from the police in a seedy hotel where he is forced to bribe various tennants for protection as well as their silence which becomes more difficult as greed takes over and the people demand more exuberant ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, entertaining, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: hotel, disorder, nothing goes right, dishonesty, heist, bank robber, blackmail, money, friendship, police, motel, bank robbery ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Marry Me at Christmas (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Organizing a Christmas wedding is a true treat for bridal boutique owner Madeline Krug. She loves the challenge of finding the perfect dress for the bride and orchestrating an exquisite event. What Madeline didn’t expect was to be swept off her ...
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, romantic, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, celebrity, christmas romance, wedding, wedding planning, brother sister relationship, movie star, winter, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fame, wedding preparations and rituals, actor ...
Place: northern california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When a New England Christmas decorating competition searches for the town with the most Christmas spirit, the Mayors of East and West Riverton go all out to get their towns to the top of the holiday heap.
Style: entertaining, romantic, feel good, light, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, small town, mayor, christmas eve, contests and competitions, social relations, male female relationship, perseverance, unlikely couple, opposites attract, holiday, stubbornness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
All I Want for Christmas (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two New York City children who launch a hilarious scheme to get what they most want this holiday season.
Style: semi serious, feel good, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, date night, girls' night, family outing
Plot: christmas, family relations, dysfunctional family, divorced parents, holiday, xmas, santa claus, couples, young heroes, eccentric family, disorder, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: It’s Christmastime and the far-flung members of the Rodriguez family are converging at their parents’ home in Chicago to celebrate the season and rejoice in their youngest brother’s safe return from combat overseas.
Style: touching, humorous, feel good, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: christmas, winter, family problems, family gatherings, homecoming, parents and children, siblings relations, family in crisis, couple relations, couples, holiday, christmas dinner ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
12 Men of Christmas (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A high-powered New York publicist finds herself in Montana promoting a charity calendar after being betrayed by her boss and fiancé. Unfortunately, matters of the heart are just as complicated in the wilds as they are in the big city.
Style: entertaining, captivating, sincere, disturbing, light ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: tourism, christmas, holiday, christmas romance, male female relationship, rescue mission, rocky mountains, adaptation, lifestyle, nothing goes right, love affair, new job ...
Time: 21st century
Place: montana, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Wise Guys (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
Style: buddy comedy, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gambling, hitman, gangster, buddies, frame up, criminal heroes, dishonesty, goofy hero, siblings relations, cons and scams, heist ...
Time: 80s
Place: atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Stark Raving Mad (2002)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: bank robbery, nightclub, clubbing, cons and scams, disorder, nothing goes right, rivalry, buddies, vengeance, partner, heist, friends ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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