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The Out-of-Towners (1999)
 5.5
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The Out-of-Towners (1999)
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, humorous, feel good, realistic, romantic comedy, witty, not serious, entertaining, funny, road movie ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: job seeking, happy ending, family problems, disorder, midlife crisis, fish out of water, renewed love, travel, justice, hotel, fish, marriage, satire, couples, mugging, taxi, husband wife relationship, hotel room, rottweiler, mishap, dark humor, urban, city life, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
Time: 70s, year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa, boston, manhattan new york city, ohio
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and light films with plots about disorder, couples, nothing goes right, love and romance, farce, couple relations and restaurant mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like The Out-of-Towners: The Out of Towners (1970), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Liar Liar (1997), Duplex (2003), Mixed Nuts (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Out of Towners (1970)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.
Style: funny, witty, humorous, laugh out loud, road movie ...
Plot: travel, culture clash, chase, bad luck, marriage, railway, discovery, journey, meme, pilgrimage, pilgrim, train ...
Time: year 1970, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, boston, usa, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
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, humorous ...
Audience: date night, kids
Plot: road trip, thanksgiving, travel, on the road, buddy, snow, holiday, train, airplane, airport, railway, traveling salesman ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: chicago, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, illinois, new york ...
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Liar Liar (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Fletcher Reede is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday he has just one wish - that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, slapstick comedy, laugh out loud ...
Audience: kids, date night, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: lawyer, father son relationship, liar, lie, court, change of heart, courtroom, divorce, trial, ex husband ex wife relationship, truth, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
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Duplex (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
Style: humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, stylized, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: twists and turns, dark humor, couple relations, cons and scams, neighbor neighbor relationship, writers, old woman, parrot, satire, old dark house, urbanization, love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mixed Nuts (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The events focus around a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.
Style: slapstick, christmas classics, funny, humorous, christmas comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: christmas, holiday, farce, new year, xmas, suicide, christmas season, night, lgbtq, christmas spirit, bike, bankruptcy ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: venice, seattle, europe, italy, usa ...
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100%
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
Style: humorous, semi serious, clever, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot: unemployment, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, couple relations, down on your luck, unfulfillment, odd couple, family problems, husband wife relationship, fired from the job, brother brother relationship, neighbor ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Bowfinger (1999)
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: parody, funny, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: filmmaking, hollywood, movie business, satire, dog, actor, cameraman, audition, desire for fame, african american, deception, actress ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.2
 27K
HouseSitter (1992)
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, light, feel good, humorous, funny ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: small town, breakup, lie, house, love story, screwball, architect, divorce, life philosophy, writers, disorder, unlikely couple ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: usa, massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Seems Like Old Times (1980)
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, sweet, entertaining, melancholic, feel good ...
Plot: bank robbery, farce, love triangle, dog, couple relations, dishonesty, bank teller, nothing goes right, on the run, love and romance, unlikely criminals, love affair ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 70s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Forces of Nature (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ben Holmes, a professional book-jacket blurbologist, is trying to get to Savannah for his wedding. He just barely catches the last plane, but a seagull flies into the engine as the plane is taking off. All later flights are cancelled because of an ...
Style: road movie, light, romantic, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: wedding, unlikely couple, travel, opposites attract, looking for love, disorder, nothing goes right, fall in love, beautiful scenery, writers, women, love ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa, miami, hawaii, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.2
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The Big Year (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 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 ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, scenic, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: obsession, bird, competition, friendship, father son relationship, eccentricity, camp, family drama, marital problem, rivalry, midlife crisis, storm ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: alaska, usa, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Lonely Guy (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
Style: humorous, talky, melancholic, light, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: loneliness, singleness, breakup, adaptation, starting over, couple relations, love and romance, looking for love, slutty attitude, affair, lonely, traffic jam ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Farm Girl in New York (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Sam and Matt flee their small mid-western town for New York City, where hot girls roam the streets! After months of trying to pick up ladies and failing miserably, they come up with the idea to hold a fake audition to meet chicks. Hilarity ensues ...
Style: humorous, light, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: audition, fall in love, friends, fish out of water, looking for sex, cons and scams, artists and showbiz, broadway, looking for love, inspiration, big city, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A middle aged restaurateur begins to feel the desire to roam and realizes that one day each week, his mother's apartment will be empty all afternoon. He makes several attempts at seduction, only to learn that it is much more complicated and ...
Style: sex comedy, colorful, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: midlife crisis, adultery, sleaze, dating, family relations, couples, family problems, restaurant, thirtysomething life, eccentric family, infidelity, love affair ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: new york
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Jury Duty (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a murder trial. Once there, he does everything he can to prolong the trial and deliberations and make ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, not serious, witty ...
Plot: jury, unemployment, courtroom, hotel, murder trial, serial killer, stupidity, legal, lawyer, justice, life philosophy, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Red Lips (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In Mexico City, Ricardo is a family man, pressed by responsibilities, when he finally lands a better job as creative director for an ad agency. But that's when his problems really begin: his boss is a martinet, and suddenly Ricardo finds ...
Style: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: midlife crisis, disorder, couples, nothing goes right, unfulfillment, life turned upside down, sexual relations, strong sexual content, relationship vs career, couple relations, family problems, nudity ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Meeting Spencer (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After a series of Hollywood flops, famed director Harris Chappell (Jeffrey Tambor) returns to New York to relaunch his Broadway career. But Chappell's triumphant comeback begins to spiral out of control into a wild night of comic misadventure ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: artists and showbiz, comedy of errors, disorder, nothing goes right, goofy hero, theatre director, broadway, comeback, friendship, society, profanity, screwball ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Bringing Down the House (2003)
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, humorous, entertaining, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lawyer, friendship, divorce, workaholic, odd couple, farce, interracial romance, couple relations, looking for love, comedy of errors, prison, single parent ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The First Wives Club (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot: divorce, revenge, battle of the sexes, friendship, female protagonist, female bonding, feminism, women, dancing, breakup, feminist, suicide ...
Time: 90s, 60s, year 1969
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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19%
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Couples Retreat (2009)
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, tropical, sexy, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: resort, couple relations, friendship, couples therapy, marriage, island, couples, divorce, marital problem, crumbling marriage, friends, screwball ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: tahiti, chicago
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18%
Girl Most Likely (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother.
Style: humorous, light, melancholic, teen, indie film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, eccentricity, loneliness, secrets, family problems, writers, disorder, parents and children, love and romance, nothing goes right, women, gang bang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
My Uncle Rafael (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Cultures collide when an old Armenian man stars in a new reality show
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, not serious ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Noises Off... (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A travelling theater group has so much action going on behind-the-scenes it almost ruins the performances.
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, light, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: actor's life, theater, theatre play, love and romance, disorder, showbiz, workplace situations, backstage, actor, eternal love, strong female lead, dance ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: iowa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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The Odd Couple (1968)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Felix Ungar has just broken up with his wife. Despondent, he goes to kill himself but is saved by his friend Oscar Madison. With nowhere else to go, Felix is urged by Oscar to move in with him, at least for a while. The only problem is that Felix is ...
Style: funny, atmospheric, hilarious, humorous, clever ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: friendship, buddy, buddies, friendship between men, friends who live together, bromance, poker, suicide attempt, stage play, eternal love, odd couple, old age ...
Time: 60s, year 1968, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Sgt. Bilko (1996)
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, hilarious, captivating ...
Plot: gambling, revenge, camp, soldier, u.s. army, grudge, anti hero, feud, african american, irreverence, disorder, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, greenland, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 4.9
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I Do & I Don't (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A screwball comedy about a young couple that must endure premarital counseling and the horrific married couple they are assigned to.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, wedding, couple relations, unfulfillment, marriage, love, profanity, sexual content, nudity, love and romance, screwball, verbal byplay ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Fierce Creatures (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep the zoo open, Rollo enforces a new 'fierce creatures' policy, whereby only the most ...
Style: humorous, light, absurd, black comedy, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zoo, greed, farce, monty python, moral ambiguity, danger, obnoxious boss, father son relationship, workplace intrigue, businessman, sarcasm, marketing ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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The Super (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Joe Pesci stars as Louie Kritski, a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge gives him another option, which he accepts -- he must live in his rat-infested hell ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, entertaining, clever ...
Plot: culture clash, fish out of water, stupidity, justice, misfit, self discovery, parents and children, african american, racial slur, court, hip hop, con men ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
That's What She Said (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Longtime best friends Bebe and DeeDee are both wrestling with love. Bebe has met someone new and is in the exuberant phase of a budding romance. DeeDee is trying to move on from someone she can’t forget – mostly in destructive ways. As Bebe ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good ...
Plot: best friend, city life, friends, singleness, twentysomething life, nothing goes right, disorder, lifestyle, strong female presence, friendship, friendship between men, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Johnson Family Vacation (2004)
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
Plot: interracial romance, road trip, teenager, hip hop, family relations, on the road, eccentric family, nothing goes right, family life, mischievous children, parents and children, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, missouri, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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