Movies like National Lampoon's Vacation
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National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
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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:
road movie, funny, humorous, realistic, feel good, tense, parody, light, inspirational, clever ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
road trip, youth, cross country, plan gone awry, small town, on the road, dog, couple relations, family holiday, relatives, couples, disorder, travel, summer, farce, female nudity, dysfunctional family, journey, car, vacation, amusement park, dark humor, gross out humor, teenager, desert ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
colorado, chicago illinois, california, usa, arizona, kansas, st. louis missouri
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Most similar movies to National Lampoon's Vacation
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, funny, feel good and realistic films with plots about storytelling, runaway, dialogue, catastrophe, brutality, culture clash and mentor mostly in Comedy, Adventure and Drama genres. Some movies like National Lampoon's Vacation: Rat Race (2001), Spies Like Us (1985), Vegas Vacation (1997), Tommy Boy (1995), The Great Outdoors (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers -- a group that will bet on anything -- by pitting six ordinary people against each other in a wild dash for ...
Style:
funny, ridiculous, road movie, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
treasure hunt, road trip, casino, chase, bet, on the road, mother daughter reunion, escapades, partners, gambling, rivalry, race ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa, new mexico, nevada, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Griswalds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and thus pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe, but they just don't know how to be be good tourists. Besides, they have trouble taking holidays ...
Style:
humorous, road movie, parody, light, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
travel, dysfunctional family, on the road, family relations, nothing goes right, family problems, vacation, tourist, american abroad, american tourist, disorder, parents and children ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
europe, germany, paris france, london, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.
Style:
humorous, funny, light, parody, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
cold war, spy, race against time, kgb, espionage, buddies, farce, chase, mistaken identity, secret agents, secret service, nuclear war ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, russia, pakistan, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gambling, dysfunctional family, obsession, farce, family relations, casino, nothing goes right, parents and children, teenage life, christmas, desert, chase ...
Time:
90s
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Party animal Tommy Callahan is a few cans short of a six-pack. But when the family business starts tanking, it's up to Tommy and number-cruncher Richard Hayden to save the day.
Style:
funny, humorous, road movie, absurd, light ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
road trip, father son relationship, dumb, twists and turns, adaptation, sarcasm, stupidity, screwball, goofy hero, family relations, buddies, self discovery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, wisconsin, ohio
⇓ 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, 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%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
While attempting to seduce gorgeous lawyer Diane Lightson, wealthy gadabout Chris Thorne agrees to drive her to Atlantic City, N.J. But, when some reckless driving draws the attention of a deeply critical cop, they and the flamboyant ...
Style:
humorous, disturbing, melancholic, not serious, campy ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
chase, dark humor, small town, dysfunctional family, justice, on the run, hip hop, eccentric family, disorder, buddies, goofy hero, nothing goes right ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
new jersey, usa, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, funny, intense ...
Audience:
date night, kids, family outing
Plot:
sailing, underdog, summer vacation, screwball, rivalry, on the road, friendship, nothing goes right, love and romance, couples, disorder, couple relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
30 years after the first film, Oscar and Felix embark on a road trip together, to attend the wedding of Oscar's son to Felix's daughter.
Style:
road movie, feel good, humorous, visually appealing, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
friendship, road trip, marriage, couples, farce, divorce, destiny, fight scenes, catastrophe, fantasy world, culture clash, first contact ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Restless and ready for adventure, four suburban bikers leave the safety of their subdivision and head out on the open road. But complications ensue when they cross paths with an intimidating band of New Mexico bikers known as the Del Fuegos.
Style:
road movie, funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
road trip, motorcycle, midlife crisis, motorcycle gang, on the road, biker gang, biker, small town, self discovery, happy ending, chase, friendship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, california, usa, pacific ocean, cincinnati ohio
⇓ 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:
humorous, feel good, social, unusual plot structure, light ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
small town, fish out of water, farce, writers, christmas, husband wife relationship, aspiring writer, chase, snake, first contact, vengeance, holiday ...
Time:
80s
Place:
vermont, new york, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, humorous, not serious, realistic, road movie ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
road trip, family vacation, dysfunctional family, vacation, amusement park, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, grand canyon, brother sister relationship, family relations, on the road, family bonds ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois, san francisco, arizona, memphis
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63%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Climbing aboard their mammoth recreational vehicle for a cross-country road trip to the Colorado Rockies, the McNeive family – led by dysfunctional patriarch, Bob – prepares for the adventure of a lifetime. But spending two weeks together in one ...
Style:
funny, road movie, feel good, absurd, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
road trip, family vacation, motor home, workaholic, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, family relations, chase, runaway, family values, happy ending, camping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colorado, hawaii, usa, pasadena california, utah ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist ...
Style:
funny, light, intense, not serious, parody ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
golf, sport, country club, female nudity, nude girl, teenager, rivalry, husband wife relationship, lust, teenage girl, peeping tom, pregnant teenager ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
usa, nebraska, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
To get to know his girlfriend's son, a man volunteers to pick him up from a prep school....only to learn that her son's not the nicest kid.
Style:
light, road movie, entertaining, funny, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens, family outing
Plot:
road trip, prank, thanksgiving, mischievous children, holiday, culture clash, foe turned friend, working class, unlikely friendships, reluctant partners, partners, nothing goes right ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
london, usa, australia, chicago illinois
⇓ 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, stylized, visually appealing, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
boat, sailing, childhood, female nudity, sea, runaway, dumb, gangsters, adaptation, beautiful scenery, life philosophy, weapons ...
Time:
90s
Place:
puerto rico, caribbean, cuba, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blasting Van Halen in his jacked-up economy car, the ...
Style:
funny, feel good, humorous, light, absurd ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
janitor, white trash, adaptation, family relations, parent child relationship, obsessive quest, on the road, blonde, oil rig, misfit, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Place:
california, los angeles, austin texas, idaho, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
Style:
road movie, surreal, witty, enigmatic, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
road trip, dream girl, self discovery, life philosophy, alternate reality, choice, wish come true, self fulfillment, on the road, hopes, alternate dimension, twists and turns ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Vacation related movies
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Writer Nick Gardenia is kidnapped from his California cliffhouse and forced to rob a bank. Now a fugitive, he seeks help from his ex, Glenda. She is a public defender remarried to a prosecutor, and we get a houseful of hijinks.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, sweet, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
bank robbery, farce, love triangle, dog, dishonesty, couple relations, bank teller, disorder, love and romance, on the run, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A veteran pot dealer creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico.
Style:
road movie, humorous, ridiculous, entertaining, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, family outing
Plot:
road trip, on the road, journey, nothing goes right, parenthood, adolescence, marijuana, pretense, stripper, robbery, drug dealing, smuggling ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, usa, tucson arizona, new mexico, denver colorado
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100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
AAA can't help the roadside emergency that is the JOHNSON FAMILY VACATION. Even the on-board navigation system has a meltdown on Nate Johnson and his family's cross-country trek to their annual family reunion/grudge match. Reluctantly ...
Style:
funny, humorous, sexy, road movie, intense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
interracial romance, teenager, road trip, family relations, on the road, eccentric family, nothing goes right, family life, mischievous children, parents and children, siblings relations, hip hop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Adopted as a child, new father Mel Colpin (Ben Stiller) decides he cannot name his son until he knows his birth parents, and determines to make a cross-country quest to find them. Accompanied by his wife, Nancy (Patricia Arquette), and an inept yet ...
Style:
humorous, road movie, witty, funny, light ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, road trip, mistaken identity, farce, adoption, twists and turns, plot twist, family relations, visceral, crime gone awry, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new mexico, new york, michigan, california, san diego california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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
Plot:
childhood, teenager, parents and children, when the parents are away, happy ending, unlikely friendships, fish out of water, respect, uncle nephew relationship, mischievous children, child care, siblings relations ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
wisconsin, california, chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A private detective journeys to Africa to find a legenday white gorilla. The gorilla turns out to be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sex comedy, campy, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
jungle, nude bathing, lesbian, bisexuality, private detective, sexploitation, private investigator, bar fight, bisexual girl, sex scene, promiscuous woman, breaking the fourth wall ...
Time:
60s
Place:
africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Former getaway driver Charlie Bronson jeopardizes his Witness Protection Plan identity in order to help his girlfriend get to Los Angeles. The feds and Charlie's former gang chase them on the road.
Style:
road movie, humorous, intense, funny, surreal ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
car chase, beautiful scenery, runaway, twists and turns, love, witness protection, gang war, love and romance, nothing goes right, chase, organized crime, life & death ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, new jersey, los angeles
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37%
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, witty, humorous, talky, funny ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
road trip, self discovery, fired from the job, on the road, marriage, couples, fish out of water, americana, nothing goes right, promotion, disorder, down on your luck ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
las vegas, new york, los angeles, california, arizona
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34%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 1999, Star Wars fanatics take a cross-country trip to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch so their dying friend can see a screening of The Phantom Menace before its release.
Style:
funny, humorous, road movie, exciting, light ...
Audience:
teens, date night, boys' night
Plot:
road trip, friendship, fan, last wish, buddy, rivalry, on the road, obsessive quest, escapades, nerd, youth, theft ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
usa, texas, san francisco, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When Chef Carl Casper suddenly quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to compromise his creative integrity for its controlling owner, he is left to figure out what's next. Finding himself in Miami, he teams up with ...
Style:
road movie, feel good, touching, inspirational, light ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
food, cooking, chef, cooking and food, road trip, father son relationship, parent child relationship, happy ending, restaurant owner, starting over, business, divorce ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, florida, new orleans, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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