Movies like Vacation
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Vacation (2015)
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 to say, things don't go quite as planned.
Style:
funny, hilarious, humorous, teen, realistic, not serious, feel good, road movie, romantic, slasher ...
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, cross country trip, 14 year old boy, family relations, betrayal, childhood, family bonds, parents and children, family problems, couples, disorder, outdoor sex, adult humor, marital problem ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
san francisco, arizona, memphis, chicago, usa, united states of america
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Most similar movies to Vacation
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out funny, humorous, feel good and realistic films with plots about disorder, runaway, mentor, storytelling, catastrophe, chase and dialogue mostly in Comedy, Adventure and Family genres. Some movies like Vacation: We're the Millers (2013), The Hangover Part II (2011), RV (2006), The Detour (2016), Rat Race (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
hilarious, road movie, humorous, laugh out loud, not serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, family outing, adult
Plot:
road trip, on the road, nothing goes right, parenthood, journey, smuggling, camping, marijuana, adolescence, homeless teenager, drug dealing, pretense ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, usa, colorado, arizona, north america ...
Similarity:
92%
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%
67K
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, entertaining, feel good, slapstick ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
road trip, family vacation, camping, vacation, workaholic, motor home, father daughter relationship, on the road, happy ending, parents and children, siblings relations, father son relationship ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
colorado, usa, utah, nevada, pasadena california ...
Similarity:
75%
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:
73%
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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, 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:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A what-in-the-living-hell-is-wrong-with-this-family comedy created by comic super-couple Jason Jones & Samantha Bee and inspired by their own experiences with family trips. Unfiltered dad Nate hits the road with wife Robin and kids Delilah ...
Style:
sitcom, exciting, captivating, road movie, funny ...
Plot:
family vacation, marriage, family relations, twists and turns, runaway, escapades, dishonesty, investigation, danger, woman urinating, apocalypse, travel ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
83%
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:
sexy, funny, humorous, black comedy, road movie ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
interracial romance, teenager, road trip, nothing goes right, hip hop, family relations, on the road, eccentric family, family life, mischievous children, parents and children, black ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, missouri, los angeles
Similarity:
80%
130K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
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, road movie, humorous, fast, parody ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, date night
Plot:
treasure hunt, casino, escapades, on the road, road trip, mother daughter reunion, dumb, rivalry, chase, bet, chases and races, gambling ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, new mexico, cuba, nevada, usa ...
Similarity:
73%
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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:
parody, sexy, humorous, road movie, satirical ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
vacation, dysfunctional family, travel, on the road, road trip, american abroad, tourist, american tourist, family relations, nothing goes right, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
germany, paris france, europe, london, england ...
Similarity:
100%
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.
Style:
light, humorous, melancholic, sentimental, entertaining ...
Plot:
insurance, happy ending, friendship, convention, justice, greed, life philosophy, adaptation, dysfunctional family, adultery, road trip, friends ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
iowa, usa, minnesota, wisconsin, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
370K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Peter Highman must scramble across the US in five days to be present for the birth of his first child. He gets off to a bad start when his wallet and luggage are stolen, and put on the 'no-fly' list. Peter embarks on a terrifying journey ...
Style:
hilarious, road movie, funny, humorous, buddy comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
road trip, stupidity, weed, getting home, hitchhiker, odd couple, bonding, marijuana, trip, buddies, screwball, nothing goes right ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
dallas texas, usa, birmingham alabama, louisiana, texas ...
Similarity:
75%
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%
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:
63%
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: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
With the ratings dropping for a wilderness-themed TV show, two animal fans go to the Andes in search of Bigfoot.
Style:
funny, humorous, hilarious, feel good, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bigfoot, stupidity, dumb, road trip, stoner, farce, friendship, gross out humor, obsessive quest, disorder, nothing goes right, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ecuador, latin america, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When a straight-laced couple that has fun with a rowdy couple on vacation in Mexico return to the States, they discover that the crazy couple they met in Mexico followed them back home and decide to play tricks on them.
Style:
funny, satirical, humorous, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
wedding, vacation, husband and wife, friend, friendship, chaos, travel, satire, love and romance, family relations, couples, male female relationship ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
100%
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, summer vacation, underdog, rivalry, screwball, teenage girl, beach, air traffic controller, summer, friendship, on the road, nothing goes right ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
florida, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A hard-working small business owner and his two associates travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But what began as a routine business trip goes off the rails in every imaginable – and unimaginable – way, including ...
Style:
humorous, funny, sexual, entertaining, not serious ...
Plot:
business trip, nothing goes right, bullying, twists and turns, company, midlife crisis, disorder, on the road, entrepreneur, gay bar, american abroad, businessman ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
europe, berlin germany, hamburg germany, germany, maine ...
Similarity:
83%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Noah, is not your typical entertain-the-kids-no-matter-how-boring-it-is kind of sitter. He's reluctant to take a sitting gig; he'd rather, well, be doing anything else, especially if it involves slacking. When Noah is watching the ...
Style:
humorous, harsh, not serious, hilarious, funny ...
Audience:
teens, kids, adult
Plot:
brother sister relationship, child in peril, comedy of errors, nanny, youth, party, restaurant, punched in the face, adopted son, drug dealer, infidelity, robbery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Three friends, whose lives have been drifting apart, reunite for the funeral of a fourth childhood friend. When looking through their childhood belongings, they discover a trunk which contained details on a quest their friend was attempting. It ...
Style:
funny, hilarious, humorous, not serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
treasure hunt, wilderness, river, friendship, escapades, hippie, camp, homoeroticism, friendship between men, campfire story, camping, grizzly bear ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
oregon, washington state, usa, costa rica, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man, Jack Byrnes and his wife, Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet son-in-law-to-be, Greg Focker's parents. Unlike their happily matched offspring, the future in-laws find themselves in a situation of ...
Style:
funny, humorous, parody, entertaining, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
parents and children, meet the parents, family relations, dysfunctional family, eccentric family, wedding, father in law son in law relationship, farce, ex cia agent, parenthood, sarcasm, culture clash ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
florida, miami, usa, chicago
Similarity:
100%
57K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After losing her job and learning that her husband has been unfaithful, a woman hits the road with her profane, hard-drinking grandmother.
Style:
humorous, road movie, funny, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
road trip, on the road, female protagonist, grandmother granddaughter relationship, nothing goes right, mentor, escapades, unemployment, alcoholism, alcoholic, niagara falls, overweight woman ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, louisville kentucky
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A Heffley family road trip to attend Meemaw's 90th birthday party goes hilariously off course thanks to Greg's newest scheme to get to a video gaming convention.
Style:
road movie, entertaining, humorous, funny, light ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly
Plot:
travel, road trip, boy, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, family life, diary, mother son relationship, trip, on the road, parenthood, journey ...
Time:
year 2017, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
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127K
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, humorous, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
road trip, motorcycle, midlife crisis, motorcycle gang, biker gang, on the road, biker, small town, happy ending, self discovery, skinny dipping, chase ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, california, ohio, usa, pacific ocean ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings, Sue Ellen can party and have fun. But then the babysitter abruptly dies, leaving the ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, entertaining, light, dark comedy ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens, family outing, chick flick
Plot:
fashion, mischievous children, coming of age, teenager, children, childhood, babysitter, high school, fashion show, deception, corpse, boss ...
Time:
90s, year 1990, 80s
Place:
australia, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as heads of the Baker family who, while on vacation, find themselves in competition with a rival family of eight children, headed by Eugene Levy,
Style:
feel good, hilarious, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
large family, mischievous children, family vacation, childhood, children, family holiday, holiday, parents and children, family relations, teenage life, parenthood, eccentric family ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
chicago, new york, wisconsin
Similarity:
100%
60K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of young boys on the cusp of becoming teenagers embark on an epic quest to fix their broken drone before their parents get home.
Style:
raunchy comedy, absurd, funny, light, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
best friend, sexual humor, grownups, first kiss, adult humor, school, child protagonist, fraternity, mischievous children, friend, friendship, police ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
60%
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 ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the neighborhood school children when his wife gets sick. Stopping to get donuts for the kids, things go even more awry when he finds himself a victim of a ...
Style:
humorous, sexy, funny, light, independent film ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night, teens
Plot:
robbery, chase, mischievous children, nothing goes right, farce, father son relationship, mexican standoff, workaholic, comedy of errors, on the road, parents and children, disorder ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
usa, seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
A divorced reporter, looking forward to the single life, finds his parents' marital problems derail his plans.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, situational comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
divorce, nothing goes right, eccentric family, family relations, living with parents, parents and children, dysfunctional family, disorder, family problems, divorced parents, parents, family conflict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
virginia, usa
Similarity:
100%
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