Movies like Ghost Writer 1989

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Ghost Writer (1989)
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Ghost Writer (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A writer moves into a Malibu beach house, and comes up against the ghost of an actress who supposedly had committed suicide there 30 years previously, but had been murdered by her boyfriend. The ghost asks the writer's help in proving her boyfriend the killer.
Plot: dog, ghost, police, writers, twins, murder, car chase, beach, invisibility, classic car, beach house, dance club, wax museum, bare butt, alcohol, kiss, bikini, gun, cleavage, jogging, concussion, bare ass, butt naked
Place: malibu california

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, independent film and feel good films with plots about dog, disorder, ghost, supernatural, love and romance, family relations and couples mostly in Comedy, Fantasy and Horror genres. Some movies like Ghost Writer: Beach Fever (1987), Switch (1991), Hunk (1987), Malibu Spring Break (2003), Slack Bay (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Beach Fever (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young Japanese entrepreneur is set on a quest by his wealthy father to find the world's best opening line in order to "get the girl". But when they stumble upon a sure-fire love potion, mayhem ensues.
Style: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, independent film
Plot: beach, ethnic stereotype, oral sex, love, father, pimp, abduction, aphrodisiac, boat, love potion, horny, beach party ...
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95%
 5.8
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Switch (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall ...
Style: humorous, sexy, satirical, semi serious, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: body swapping, afterlife, fish out of water, murder, reincarnation, gender, gender bending, switching bodies, blonde, womanizer, transsexual, redemption ...
Time: 80s, year 1991
Place: new york
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80%
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Hunk (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A "devilish" tale about an ordinary guy who is visited by a beautiful apparition promising him popularity and drop-dead good looks in exchange for his soul. Transformed overnight into a "hunk," he soon discovers there may be hell ...
Style: rom com, light, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: beach house, beach, loser, deal with the devil, gay interest, transformation, new identity, nerd, beefcake, meeting, teen angst, pact with the devil ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Malibu Spring Break (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Two Arizona girls head out to the Malibu beaches for a springbreak of partying and fun in the sun. Malibu Spring Break is a 2003 comedy starring Playboy Bunny Pilar Lastra. It also stars Kristin Novak and Charity Rahmer.
Style: grindhouse, erotic, sexy, independent film, hot
Plot: beach, female nudity, blonde, public nudity, summer, surfer, party, seductive, housekeeper, sex scene, seduction, black panties ...
Place: malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Slack Bay (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Summer 1910. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site where ...
Style: cult classic, art house, period piece, crying, avant garde
Plot: nude beach, beach, etiquette, naturist, swamp, disappearance, dune, cannibalism, cannibal, underground, lgbt, human relationship ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, year 2016, 1910s
Place: atlantic ocean, english channel
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66%
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Maxie (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When Nick and Jan move into their new apartment in San Francisco, the batty landlady upstairs tells them about a girl who used to live there in the 20's: a brash young party girl named Maxie, who died in a car crash the morning before her big ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: ghost, reincarnation, love triangle, disorder, love affair, afterlife, fish out of water, true love, supernatural, tragic hero, lifestyle, flapper ...
Time: year 1985, 1920s
Place: san francisco, usa, california
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65%
 6.1
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Bedazzled (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Elliot Richardson, suicidal techno geek, is given seven wishes to turn his life around when he meets up with a very seductive Satan. The catch: his soul. Some of his wishes include a 7 foot basketball star, a rock star, and a hamburger. But, as ...
Style: funny, light, feel good, hilarious, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night
Plot: devil, wish come true, pact with the devil, deal with the devil, femme fatale, fish out of water, supernatural, mentor, heaven and hell, curses spells and rituals, chaos, soul selling ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 2000s
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Nightmare Sisters (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Melody, Marci, and Mickey are three geeky college girls who can't get a date. One night, they invite some geeky college guys over and have a seance that results in the girls becoming possessed and turning into sex starved vamps. Will the geek ...
Style: erotic, horror comedy, slasher, splatter, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: sorority, nudity, erotica, fraternity, seduction, seance, female nudity, occult, sexploitation, blonde, exorcism, exploitation ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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WillFull (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Catherine (Anna Lise Phillips) returns to Australia after years abroad only to be confronted by her wilful mother, Katya (Anne Looby)... a ghost with attitude and a wardrobe to match.
Plot: haunting, mother, dog, flashback, mother daughter relationship, ghost, death, hallucination, family relations, motivational speaker, loss of mother, death of mother
Place: singapore
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59%
Dream a Little Dream 2 (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Dinger and Bobby's adventure start when a pair of magical sunglasses arrive at the door. Their mundane lives in L.A. get a crazy twist-but soon enough, they've got thugs on their trail who want the valuable pair for themselves. Under hot ...
Style: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, buddy comedy, independent film, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: best friend, partner, cons and scams, life turned upside down, superhuman powers, nothing goes right, chases and races, chase, buddies, stalking, mad scientist, obsessive quest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A TV adaptation of Washington Irving's classic ghost story. Humor is the drawing card in this version, with Jeff Goldblum a nerdish Ichabod Crane, Dick Butkus an appropriately nasty Brom Bones, and Meg Foster as spirited Katrina van Tassel. ...
Style: spooky, costume drama
Audience: family outing
Plot: horseman, headless horseman, ghost story, school teacher, jealous boyfriend, horse riding, spirit, jealous man, superstition, bully, legend, poltergeist ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
It All Came True (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of a famous theatrical couple, who teach him about love and commitment. The film was later ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, talky, humorous, spiritual ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: true love, ghost, haunted house, love and romance, couple relations, opposites attract, looking for love, couples, disorder, family relations, supernatural, unlikely couple ...
Time: year 1998
Place: ireland, new york, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Beetlejuice (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Thanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge of scaring away the insufferable new owners, who want to make drastic changes. In desperation, the ...
Style: gothic, black comedy, surreal, witty, dark comedy ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: afterlife, haunted house, ghost, supernatural, surrealism, dark humor, goth, dysfunctional family, teenage girl, monster, seance, attic ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: america, usa, new england, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
School Spirit (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The only thing keeping Billy Batson from the girl of his dreams is one little condom -- or rather the lack of one. Lucky Billy finds one at an all-night roadhouse -- but speeding back to his girl, he is killed in a head-on collision with a truck. ...
Style: sex comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, sexy, independent film ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, teenager, erotica, sorority, invisibility, ghost, school, porn, love, invisible man, woman in a wheelchair, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Mandibles (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Two simple-minded friends discover a giant fly in the trunk of a car and decide to domesticate it to earn money with it.
Style: funny, satirical, entertaining, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: friendship, mistaken identity, giant insect, satire, criminal, absurd humor, escapades, silly humor, friends, human animal relationship, animal human communication, extreme ...
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Wicked Stepmother (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mother/daughter pair of witches descend on a yuppie family's home and cause havoc, one at a time since they share one body & the other must live in a cat the rest of the time. Now it's up to the family's mother, a private ...
Style: semi serious, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, surprise ending
Plot: witch, fictional game show, dysfunctional family, occult, witchcraft, husband wife relationship, female protagonist, old woman, hypnosis, showdown, seduction, femme fatale ...
Time: year 1989, 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Oh Heavenly Dog (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Browning is a PI with a bad cold, who's sent to investigate a case by a mysterious client. He stumbles across the body of a young woman and is stabbed to death, and when he wakes up in heaven, they tell him he's "marginal ...
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, light, semi serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dog, afterlife, murder, reincarnation, private detective, chase, animal, murder mystery, life & death, writers, human becomes animal, haunted ...
Time: 80s, year 1980, 70s
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Chasing Christmas (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Jack Cameron is a single dad that decides not to observe Christmas because his wife left him around that time. The ghosts of Christmas past and present try and get Jack to relent, but they screw up their jobs and send themselves on a wild ride ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good, christmas classics
Plot: christmas, ghost, haunted by the past, mission gone awry, supernatural, sent to the past, christmas carol, mission, christmas spirit, xmas, holiday, time travel ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Beethoven's Christmas Adventure (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Christmas elf accidentally takes off in Santa's sleigh, crash lands in a small town, and loses the magic toy bag. Beethoven must rescue the elf, recover the bag from greedy crooks, and return the sleigh to Santa in time to save Christmas.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, light, exciting
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot: christmas, dog, pets, santa claus, holiday, escapades, best friend, misfit partners, chases and races, rescue, save the day, hopes ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Let There Be Light! (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: God comes to Earth in order to make a film.
Plot: god, body swapping, writers, hollywood, cockroach, outer space, invisibility, heaven, asteroid, bible, devil, switching bodies ...
Place: paris france
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46%
12 Wishes of Christmas (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A woman whose dog was taken by her landlord follows her life coach's instructions to make 12 wishes for a better future, and watches in surprise as each of those wishes comes true in this Christmas fantasy for the entire family. Laura was ...
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, life turned upside down, wish come true, workplace, hopes, nothing goes right, best friend, disorder, down on your luck, love and romance, life is a bitch, dog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Teen Wolf Too (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Although awkward college student Todd Howard is particularly adept at science, he's paying for school with an athletic scholarship that he will lose should he not fare well in an upcoming boxing tournament. Luckily for Todd, he has inherited ...
Style: suspense, semi serious, feel good, humorous, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, teen fantasy
Plot: werewolf, college, campus, student athlete, boxing, superhero, teenager, dangerous animal, society, moral dilemma, college life, teenage life ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 9K
Delirious (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.
Style: funny, spoof, metafiction, soap opera, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: writers, alternate reality, hospital, amnesia, fantasy world, two worlds meeting, filmmaking, double barreled shotgun, car accident, nurse, doctor, auction ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: ohio, africa, new york, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Like Father Like Son (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dr. Jack Hammond has best chances to become medical superintendent in the clinic. So he's completely absorbed in his work and has no understanding for his teenage son Chris' problems with school. By accident one of them drinks a ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, not serious, inspirational, disgusting ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night
Plot: body swapping, high school, body swap, youth, child as adult, switching roles, disorder, misfit, fish out of water, parents and children, family life, odd couple ...
Time: year 1987
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite (1981)
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In this sequel to The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything, down-on-his-luck Kirby Winter inherits a floundering business, and the magical gold watch which can stop time. But his wedding plans with Bonnie Lee Beaumont are interrupted when her ...
Plot: land grab, land developer, police, farm, boat, hotel, bomb, jail, strip club, time freeze, shotgun, pocket watch ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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My Ghost Dog (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dog's ghost returns to help boy win a custody battle, fight bullies and find his loving but shy step-dad a nice girlfriend.
Style: independent film, semi serious, exciting, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, preschool
Plot: dog, youth, family relations, heroes, blind ambition, danger, ghost, supernatural ability, rescue, animal life, friends, wizards and magicians ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.7
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High Spirits (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When Peter Plunkett's Irish castle turned hotel is about to be repossesed, he decides to spice up the attraction a bit for the 'Yanks' by having his staff pretend to haunt the castle. The trouble begins when a busload of American ...
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, funny, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: supernatural, ghost, haunting, castle, halloween, husband murders wife, fall in love, disorder, zombie, happy ending, paranormal, haunted house ...
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.9
 4K
Hardbodies (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Three middle-aged daddies visit California to have a marvelous time at the beach. When they learn that a nice apartment and an expensive cabriolet isn't enough for them to score with the chicks, they employ a student to help them. At first ...
Style: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, sexy, entertaining, erotic ...
Plot: beach, surfing, teenager, surf, beach house, making love, sex scene, older man younger woman relationship, sleaze, summer, teen angst, sex ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Mack & Rita (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A 30-year-old spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transformed into her 70-year-old self.
Style: entertaining, feel good, captivating, semi serious, satirical
Plot: body swapping, old woman, lifestyle change, changing lives, body transformation, transformation, old age, lifestyle, midlife crisis, middle aged, female protagonist, female writer ...
Place: palm springs california
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40%
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Harvey (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: James Stewart reprises his stage and 1950 film role as Elwood P. Dowd in this 1972 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie.
Plot: fantasy life, psychiatric hospital, judge, mental institution, doctor, friendship, psychiatrist, nurse, party, drunkenness, taxi driver, insanity ...
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40%
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