Movies like The Big Year
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The Big Year (2011)
46K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than coming out on top of the competition
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, scenic, thought provoking, semi serious, sexy, funny, inspirational, clever ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
obsession, friendship, bird, competition, father son relationship, eccentricity, camp, marital problem, rivalry, ambition, midlife crisis, storm, husband wife relationship, helicopter, love, catastrophe, natural disaster, relationships, island, god, writers, divorce, beautiful scenery, weapons, lone hero ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
alaska, usa, new jersey, china, california, san francisco
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, funny, realistic and melancholic films with plots about dialogue, catastrophe, mentor, adaptation, storytelling, brutality and fantasy world mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Big Year: The Great Outdoors (1988), The Out-of-Towners (1999), Are You Here (2013), The Internship (2013), A Walk in the Woods (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy follows the adventures of a couple, Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for a job interview.
Style:
light, feel good, humorous, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
job seeking, happy ending, family problems, nothing goes right, disorder, midlife crisis, renewed love, fish out of water, travel, justice, fish, marriage ...
Time:
70s, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, boston, manhattan new york city, ohio
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When Steve Dallas, a womanizing local weatherman, hears that his off-the-grid best friend Ben Baker has lost his estranged father, the two return to Ben's childhood home. Once there, they discover Ben has inherited the family fortune, and the ...
Style:
light, funny, intense, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
friendship, existentialism, eccentricity, mental illness, family relations, homecoming, road trip, childhood friend, womanizer, relationships, friends, money ...
Time:
future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, virginia, maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.
Style:
funny, light, feel good, inspirational, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
new job, starting over, workplace, career, computers and web, rivalry, boss and employee, fish out of water, middle aged, lifestyle change, staff, computer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.
Style:
light, scenic, road movie, humorous, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
hiking, friendship, elderly, camping, forest, camping trip, writers, friends, wilderness, escapades, midlife crisis, road trip ...
Time:
18th century, 21st century
Place:
appalachia, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.
Style:
absurd, humorous, surreal, funny, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
jazz, filmmaking, eccentricity, friendship, creativity, nothing goes right, art, sabotage, workplace, african american, memory, life philosophy ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Auggie runs a small tobacco shop in Brooklyn, New York. The whole neighborhood comes to visit him to buy cigarettes and have some small talk. During the movie Lou Reed tries to explain why he has to have a cut on his health insurance bill if he ...
Style:
talky, witty, sexy, art house, thought provoking ...
Plot:
smoking, culture clash, friendship, nude, transformation, distopia, fantasy world, melancholy, childhood, dysfunctional family, mentor, solitude ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The army is known for churning out lean mean fighting machines intent on protecting our great nation. Martin is the inexplicable the incorrigible the invicible sgt. Ernie bilko leader of a ragtag group of the sorriest soldiers ever to enlist in the ...
Style:
humorous, funny, light, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
military, gambling, revenge, military base, camp, soldier, disorder, rivalry, cons and scams, disaster, satire, farce ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, california, las vegas, greenland
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After building his dream house, architect Newton Davis proposes marriage to his girlfriend, only to be summarily rejected. He seeks solace in a one-night stand with a waitress, never imagining that a woman he slept with once would end up posing as ...
Style:
romantic, humorous, feel good, light, funny ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids, teens
Plot:
small town, lie, love triangle, love story, breakup, destiny, screwball, farce, architect, divorce, life philosophy, writers ...
Time:
90s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
usa, boston, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Straight-laced lawyer, Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) meets and falls in love with online chat friend "Lawyer-Girl", Charlene Morton (Queen Latifah), only to discover she's a convicted bank robber. Charlene escapes from jail and comes ...
Style:
funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
lawyer, interracial romance, divorce, farce, workaholic, odd couple, friendship, couple relations, comedy of errors, looking for love, prison, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Movies like Couples Retreat
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Yearning for an evening without their kids, some friends plan a night out. But to do this, their husbands need to watch the kids. What can go wrong?
Style:
humorous, entertaining, inspirational, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
christian, parenthood, pastor, parents and children, family relations, couples, nothing goes right, best friends, comedy of errors, parent child relationship, disorder, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Billy Crystal plays a Hollywood agent who stumbles upon Max, a giant living in Romania, and tries to get him into the movies.
Style:
humorous, feel good, touching, light, entertaining ...
Plot:
tall man, friendship, giant, destiny, unlikely friendships, artists and showbiz, showbiz, jewish, gangsters, nude, police investigation, childhood ...
Time:
90s
Place:
romania, usa, las vegas, europe, new mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dream movie. Rallying a ragtag team that includes a starry-eyed ingenue, a has-been diva and a film studio ...
Style:
funny, parody, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
filmmaking, hollywood, satire, movie business, dog, actor, paranoia, cameraman, audition, desire for fame, alien, deception ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A group of friends in New York, working away at their PCs and laptops, keep in touch exclusively by phone and fax. They are all too busy to meet face to face. Gale plays matchmaker, by phone, to Jerry and Barbara who, in turn, hit it off beautifully ...
Style:
ironic, satirical, humorous, light, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, eccentricity, loneliness, looking for love, love and romance, pregnancy, self discovery, dark humor, character study, adaptation, first contact, creativity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, tokyo, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Movies like Why Him?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual ...
Style:
funny, realistic, sexy, clever, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
coming of age, jewish family, jewish, dysfunctional family, teenager, culture clash, brutality, catastrophe, childhood, mental illness, mentor, love ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1937
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
George Banks is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 21 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George can't think of what life would be like without his daughter. He becomes slightly insane, but his ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, sentimental, funny ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, teens, family outing, chick flick ...
Plot:
wedding, father daughter relationship, marriage, husband wife relationship, wedding planning, wedding preparations and rituals, parents and children, event planner, meet the parents, childhood, comedy of errors, couple relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
california, los angeles, rome italy, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 ⇓
19%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: South Africa, Botswana
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a couple of soldiers trying to capture each other and a pilot ...
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
farce, culture clash, adventurer, disorder, rescue, goofy hero, nothing goes right, fish out of water, friendship, beautiful scenery, desert, unlikely friendships ...
Time:
80s
Place:
africa, south africa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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:
date night
Plot:
prison, mistaken identity, cons and scams, unlikely friendships, fish out of water, baseball, disorder, dishonesty, nothing goes right, misfit, prison life, vengeance ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
As a baby, Bobo gets separated from his family during a camping trip. After being raised by wild dogs for twenty years, Bobo is discovered by animal researcher Penny, who brings him back to his family and attempts to teach Bobo how to readjust to ...
Style:
humorous, light, funny, sentimental, absurd ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
farce, fish out of water, stupidity, self discovery, misfit, getting home, family life, life philosophy, life & death, lone hero, police investigation, mentor ...
Time:
80s
Place:
boston, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After breaking up with his longtime stage partner, a famous but jaded Vegas magician fights for relevance when a new, "hip" street magician appears on the scene.
Style:
humorous, funny, entertaining, intense, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
magic, friendship, creativity, performance, showbiz, comeback, artists and showbiz, disorder, uninhibited rivalry, partners, rivalry, performer's life ...
Time:
year 1982, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An inept taekwondo instructor struggles with marital troubles and an unhealthy obsession with fellow taekwondo enthusiast Chuck "The Truck" Williams.
Style:
funny, humorous, harsh, stylized, tragicomedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
martial arts, obsession, disorder, ambition, life is a bitch, buddies, breaking point, dark humor, contests and competitions, goofy hero, crumbling relationship, friendship ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Doug Harris is a loveable but socially awkward groom-to-be with a problem: he has no best man. With less than two weeks to go until he marries the girl of his dreams, Doug is referred to Jimmy Callahan, owner and CEO of Best Man, Inc., a company ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, humorous, not serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot:
wedding, friendship, best man, friends, buddies, love and romance, nothing goes right, marriage, dishonesty, disorder, creativity, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter ...
Style:
funny, entertaining, light, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
cons and scams, con artists, love, friendship, chase, disorder, comedy of errors, house, mistaken identity, heist, twists and turns, disaster ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Four couples, all friends, descend on a tropical island resort. Though one husband and wife are there to work on their marriage, the others just want to enjoy some fun in the sun. They soon find, however, that paradise comes at a price: ...
Style:
funny, sexy, ridiculous, humorous, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
couples therapy, resort, couple relations, friendship, divorce, friends, marriage, couples, island, farce, crumbling marriage, screwball ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hawaii, tahiti, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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 ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Michael has written a schollarly book on the revolutionary war. He has sold the film rights. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes very ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, melancholic, witty, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
culture clash, crime gone awry, couple relations, artists and showbiz, love and romance, fish out of water, showbiz, couples, actor's life, young lovers, celebrity culture, hollywood ...
Time:
80s, 18th century, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
usa, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The all-star comedy cast from Grown Ups returns (with some exciting new additions) for more summertime laughs. Lenny (Adam Sandler) has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are ...
Style:
humorous, funny, feel good, buddy movie, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
friendship, farce, friends, adulthood, party, parenthood, unlikely friendships, stupidity, midlife crisis, family relations, social relations, grownups ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
32K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A man becomes increasingly jealous of his friend's newfound success.
Style:
funny, humorous, absurd, cynical, not serious ...
Plot:
friendship, envy, inventor, stupidity, neighbor, jealousy, rise to the top, rivalry, lifestyle, resentment, dark humor, disorder ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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