Movies like Gamers
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Gamers (2006)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Gamers is a comedy about the lives of four slacker friends (and one obsessive interloper) living at home, -"with my parents... it's just temporary... 'til they die"- working in the real world but playing in a fantasy world. Obsessed with a role playing game called Demons, Nymphs and Dragons these "gamers" are the subject of this hilarious comedy.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, mockumentary, realistic, absurd, dark comedy
Plot:
friendship, obsession, role playing, friends, rivalry, obsessive quest, dark humor, farce, curses spells and rituals, racism, lsd, slacker, socially awkward, escapism, satire, dedication, roommate, slice of life, young adult, loneliness, deadpan, video game, gamer, small town, coming of age ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and captivating films with plots about friendship, satire, friends, small town, slice of life, coming of age and rivalry mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Gamers: The Mother of Invention (2009), Southbound Heist (2011), The Flying Scissors (2009), Car Babes (2006), Elephant Sighs (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A mockumentary about an aspiring inventor who dreams of winning an annual young inventor award. The only problem is... he's never made an invention that works.
Style:
feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
ambition, inventor, rivalry, invention, inventions and discoveries, contests and competitions, found footage, rivals, multiple contestants, humour, gadget, competition ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Chaz and his friends take a road trip after discovering his landlord's plot to kill the creator of the Showboy magazine. Chaz must choose between his beloved magazines, his best friends, the girl of his dreams, or saving an innocent man's ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sex comedy, captivating ...
Plot:
road trip, moral dilemma, friends, on the road, buddies, slacker, misadventure, friendship, male friendship, irreverent, young adult, satire ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Comedy starring Mason Pettit, Matthew Arkin, Devin Ratray
Style:
mockumentary, not serious, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, lifestyle, silly humor, contests and competitions, irreverent, competition, tournament, subculture, satire, deadpan, obsession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
88%
349
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A coming of age story about the quirky lives of car salesman.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
workplace, workplace situations, adolescence vs adulthood, youth, family business, save the day, family relations, friends, parents and children, coming of age, personal growth, father son relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
81%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After moving to a small rural town, uptight Joel Bixby, is invited by an agreeable new acquaintance to join a group of townsmen who meet in a ramshackle room at the edge of town. Normally a loner, Joel finds himself enamored by boisterous fast-food ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
friendship, small town, social relations, buddies, small town life, social misfits, friends, misfit, loneliness, male bonding, healing, midlife crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
"Acceptance" is a movie that is equivalent of being slapped on the wrist by your mother for not being like everyone. Forget about being different from others and being yourself. In the movie it shows how crazy students and parents can get ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, semi serious, comedy drama ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
college, college life, family relations, teenage life, parents and children, student life, obsessive quest, youth, optimism, campus, parents, teenage daughter ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
harvard university
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A day in the life of two best friends, a drug dealer, and a store manager collide at a hip-hop concert in the Inland Empire.
Style:
humorous, buddy comedy, feel good, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
drug dealer, friends, hip hop, youth, friendship, society, rivalry, ambition, happy ending, danger, escapades, best friend ...
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Three male college students, must do battle against Derek the Unholy, a dark wizard who is determined to hold onto his title as champion of the Larpers.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, lighthearted ...
Plot:
rivalry, roommate, friends, youth, university, college, win over, college life, teachers and students, battles, role playing, irreverent ...
Time:
middle ages, 21st century
Place:
canada, north america
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
This hilarious genre-bending comedy follows Gary Brewer, along with girlfriend Holly Brewer (no relation), and best friend Trevor Morehouse as Gary quests to reign supreme at the 2006 Rock, Paper, Scissors World Championships.
Style:
mockumentary, not serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot:
rivalry, goofy hero, silly humor, disorder, contests and competitions, athlete's life, rock paper scissors, competition, tournament, friendship, obsession, personal growth ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot:
friendship, disorder, partner, desire for fame, dark humor, friends, unemployment, buddies, aviation, unfulfillment, obsessive quest, nasa ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Four best friends get together for one last weekend before college graduation to finally confront the secrets that hold the key to the rest of their lives.
Style:
realistic, emotional, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
couple relations, friendship, self discovery, friends, strong female presence, uninvited guest, couples, best friend, graduation, adult virgin, high school friend, female friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When a young man's unemployment benefits run out, the IRS freezes his bank account, and his druggie brother needs help, things can't get any worse...until he discovers his girlfriend is cheating on him!
Style:
humorous, cynical, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
unemployment, estrangement, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, dark humor, buddies, lifestyle, society, friendship, down on your luck, disorder, fictional reality ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
seattle, los angeles, europe, italy, usa ...
Similarity:
68%
270
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Style:
dark comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, black comedy ...
Plot:
scam, elderly, cons and scams, con artists, partner, nothing goes right, buddies, dark humor, seance, scheme, satire, spiritualism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Barefoot Bobby Briggs, the legendary running back for the Austin Steers was today sentenced to die for his role in the armed robbery/murder at a downtown Stop 'n Go convenience store... It's five years later, and Bobby's appeals have ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, mockumentary ...
Plot:
satire, murder, rivalry, prison life, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, fighting the system, contests and competitions, sport team, legal, courtroom drama, death row ...
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A loose mix of friends freeload through film school and beyond.
Style:
satirical, thrilling, captivating, semi serious, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, satire, coming of age, school, film industry, friends, young adult, character study, slice of life, irreverent, rebellious youth, peer pressure ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
All his life, African-American Renato has been raised in an Italian-American family. Completely unaware that he is Black, his life is upended when his birth parents materialize, causing Renato to examine what he true heritage is.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, comedy drama ...
Plot:
culture clash, interracial relations, dark humor, family relations, lifestyle, friends, society, male nudity, african american, african american protagonist, identity crisis, identity ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Awkward telemarketer Martha Plant is down and out — sucking at her job and grieving her recently deceased parents. When she finds unlikely friendship in Sadie Mayflower, a bubbly vagrant with multiple personalities, Martha discovers having three ...
Style:
surreal, humorous, entertaining, funny, captivating ...
Plot:
loneliness, friendship, woman, friends, single woman, lonely, split personality, girlfriend, living alone, humour, socially awkward, female friendship ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
A hip, misguided Southern California couple decide to make a difference in the lives of the homeless by giving them lollipops with a cheery slogan on the wrapper.
Style:
dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
homelessness, satire, nothing goes right, social differences, social relations, rich and poor, society, charity, social satire, social experiment, socially awkward, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a late night bar, Henry is approached by a mysterious woman who offers to sell him the severed "manhood" of Wales' greatest vocal entertainer. Believing he can make a fortune selling the infamous appendage on to obsessive fans, ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, dark comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
celebrity culture, dark humor, buddies, manhood, chase, obsessive quest, friends, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, hotshot hero, satire, macabre ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, wales
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot.
Style:
humorous, captivating, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Plot:
rivalry, ambition, beauty pageant, contests and competitions, resort, homecoming, social relations, love and romance, farce, friendship, competition, ski resort ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Two rival record collectors attempt to con an old lady out of a rare but cursed 1930s blues record. When a series of unfortunate circumstances lands them in jail, the feud festers for over 20 years until they are released from prison and get a ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
art collection, art collector, escapades, heist gone wrong, satire, collector, robbery, obsession, rivalry, bittersweet, cursed object, nostalgia ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Comedy - Devin Begley, Destiny Monique, Amanda Nix, Liana Mendoza, Noel Gugliemi
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, reflective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, couple relations, society, buddies, life turned upside down, social differences, profanity, disorder, nightlife, fight, street life, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
Gail Mancuso film.
Style:
sitcom, mockumentary, semi serious, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, hollywood, television, fictional reality show, television studio, behind the scenes, satire, surveillance, filmmaking, ambition, confined, improv ...
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 12 min.
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Story:
The real lives of five friends affect their play in a live-action role-playing game... and vice versa.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
role playing, friends, rivalry, society, buddies, computers and web, obsession, contests and competitions, twentysomething life, social misfits, misfit, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, montreal
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Chandra Bose goes to his close friend Yatindran's house, to watch TV . One day a minor squabble gets out and Chandra storms out swearing to buy a color TV . He takes desperate measures to acquire TV and gets caught in a series of troubles.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, captivating, funny, light ...
Plot:
friendship, friend, television, friends, neighbor, escapades, brawl, buddies, best friend, humour, house, slice of life ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Voss entices local gamers to create a utopia to impress a potential employer, but paradise is disrupted when his nemesis lays claim to the city and Voss's true love.
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, independent film ...
Plot:
utopia, rivalry, leadership, role playing, uninhibited rivalry, unemployment, friendship, socially awkward, gamer, youth, love, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
44%
435
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A recently divorced man tries to find the one aspect of his marriage that still matters to him: his missing cat, Goliath.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty, melancholic ...
Plot:
cat, downfall, breakup, human nature, crumbling marriage, nothing goes right, obsessive quest, couples, family relations, pets, family problems, dark humor ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Susan has always been the self-centered oddball in her family who lazily skated through life with their begrudging support until one day she wakes up to realize she’s middle-aged with no job, no relationship, and an increasingly estranged family. ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, humorous, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
slice of life, female protagonist, midlife crisis, middle aged, grownups, unemployed, self discovery, personal growth, estrangement, lifestyle, satire, middle aged woman ...
Similarity:
42%
408
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
"All-Stars" is a hilarious commentary on the state of all youth sports today, fueled by the outrageous behavior of the desperate sports parent living vicariously through his or her child. In the vein of "Best in Show", where ...
Style:
feel good, satirical, mockumentary, captivating, funny ...
Plot:
softball, satire, ambition, parents, coach, father daughter relationship, sport team, athlete's life, humour, rivalry, athlete and trainer, competitor ...
Similarity:
42%
149
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Lindeman, 25-year-old art student, struggles to find his inspiration, finding himself in one ridiculous situation after the other.
Style:
humorous, satirical, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
inspiration, slice of life, college student, sculptor, art school, lifestyle, student, satire, social satire, creative process, art student, personal growth ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
minnesota
Similarity:
41%
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