Movies like Opportunity Knocks
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Opportunity Knocks (1990)
3K
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 supposed to watch the house for the absent owner won't be able to watch the house due to a new job in another part of the country. This provides for a pretty nifty arrangement for Eddie and Lou...until the relatives of the house owner drop by to visit. Eddie quickly adopts the guise of the person supposedly housesitting for the owner, and the shenanigans start from there.
Style:
funny, entertaining, light, feel good, humorous, independent film, realistic, semi serious, hilarious, sentimental ...
Plot:
cons and scams, con artists, love, friendship, chase, disorder, comedy of errors, house, mistaken identity, heist, caper, con men, fraud, outlaw, meme, profanity, couples, suburbs, nothing goes right, silly humor, bittersweet, dishonesty, going straight, violent content, mafia ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago
Most similar movies to Opportunity Knocks
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, light and realistic films with plots about disorder, friendship, couples, cons and scams, nothing goes right, friends and dishonesty mostly in Comedy, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Opportunity Knocks: Duplex (2003), Hot Pursuit (1987), The Hustle (2008), Loverboy (1989), Lovemakers (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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61K
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%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Young Danny is following his rich girlfriend's family to the Caribbean. But suddenly he simply must make a chemistry test and cannot go with them. After they have left, he gets a leave from his professor and takes a plane to find them. But he ...
Style:
feel good, road movie, entertaining, light, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
high school, chase, boat, rescue, nothing goes right, disorder, friendship, youth, teenager, coming of age, prisoner, airport ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, realistic, light, entertaining ...
Plot:
gangster, partner, chases and races, crime gone awry, silly humor, friends, cons and scams, dishonesty, society, friendship, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Senor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. Some customers are special, though: When the order is for a pizza with extra anchovies, it means the female customers are looking for some loving. ...
Style:
sex comedy, funny, humorous, laugh out loud, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
pizza delivery boy, summer job, college, farce, teenager, older woman younger man relationship, pizzeria, gigolo, husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, women ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hungary, USA, UK, Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Small time Hungarian matchmakers get the job to make a Hollywood star fall in love with a Russian businessman's spoiled brat sister. They get one million dollars if they succeed, but if they fail, they will have to pay with their lives.
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, feel good, offbeat ...
Plot:
fall in love, disorder, comedy of errors, silly humor, dishonesty, cons and scams, mistaken identity, couples, rivalry, friendship, love and romance, high maintenance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Duplex similar movies
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A "relatively" romantic comedy about a professional heartbreaker (and cynical bachelor) who teams up with his attractive cousin from the UK in order to fool his friends into believing he is capable of a relationship. Hijinks and laughs ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cousin cousin relationship, disorder, unlikely couple, fall in love, cons and scams, family relations, looking for love, friendship, society, incest, comedy of errors, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
441
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A painter is accused of art-forging. He thinks his girlfriend betrayed him, so it's time for revenge.
Style:
exciting, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
frame up, partner, violent content, profanity, performer's life, disorder, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, criminal's revenge, forgery, rivalry, unlikely partners ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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, baseball, cons and scams, unlikely friendships, fish out of water, disorder, dishonesty, misfit, nothing goes right, prison life, vengeance ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
chicago, los angeles, california, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A US Senator's son who attempts to forget the break up of his fiancée is forced to vacation in Turkey by his best friends. A para-sailing trip mishap lands him in a small village in Armenia, where he is accused of being a spy. It is there he ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
mistaken identity, comedy of errors, nothing goes right, escapades, disorder, confined, fall in love, love and romance, captivity, communication problem, village, silly humor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
armenia, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
On christmas eve, three friends dressed as Santa Clauses, are arrested for attempted robbery and taken to police station, suspected to be group of thieves known as "The Santa Claus Gang". While trying to prove their innocence, the three ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Plot:
false accusation, law enforcement, comedy of errors, buddies, police station, ambition, nothing goes right, heist, friendship, christmas, silly humor, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Almost 30 years has passed and Gösta and Gun are retired. This summer they're going on a trip to their son's wedding in Gösta's new RV.
Style:
humorous, captivating, feel good, entertaining, light ...
Plot:
wedding, on the road, family relations, nothing goes right, summer vacation, disorder, family life, road trip, friendship, poor, couples, house
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest with a tempting grand prize -- the deed to their local pub. But what could happen when a duplicitous ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, feel good, light, black comedy ...
Plot:
friendship, culture clash, cons and scams, contests and competitions, rise to the top, on the run, disorder, village, love triangle, dishonesty, fall in love, ambition ...
Place:
ireland, europe, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Max Solomon faces the awful truth that he will never be a writer. So, in a desperate attempt to find his true calling, he turns to crime. In this inventive comedy, three friends have their lives turned upside down when one of them realizes that ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, feel good, independent film ...
Plot:
heist, friendship, couples, friends, disorder, unlikely criminals, nothing goes right, criminal, self discovery, bank, love and romance, contests and competitions ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Planted by his fiancee at the airport, Bruno flies away alone for a week in an All Inclusive Caribbean vacation club. Bad news never comes alone, he will have to share his room with Jean-Paul Cisse, eternal bachelor very invading .
Style:
funny, humorous, captivating, feel good, light
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
disorder, rivalry, male female relationship, friendship, society, love, dishonesty, happy ending, vacation
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Four old friends reconnect at their 20-year college reunion.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, light, feel good ...
Plot:
golf, friendship, best friend, friends, lifestyle, buddies, couple relations, thirtysomething life, betrayal, old friend, reunited friends, old friends reunited ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Films like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The heroes of Golden Oldies 1— Juca, PR, and Montanha — are back, following different routes. Montanha lives in an old mansion and gets ready to reunite with his friends. Once together again, the three friends get into hilarious situations.
Style:
humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, feel good
Plot:
silly humor, supernatural, buddies, friends, nothing goes right, disorder, cons and scams, dishonesty, ghost, mansion, lgbt, estate
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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, melancholic, sweet, funny, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
christian, parenthood, pastor, parents and children, family relations, best friend, couples, nothing goes right, comedy of errors, parent child relationship, disorder, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The wedding of Kornel, a young, well known TV scientist, to the famous singer, Alicja, is to be the social event of the year. In the suburban reception hall, the final preperations are being made. The waiter, Tytus, who is somewhat touchy having ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, realistic, melancholic, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
wedding, comedy of errors, disorder, couples, unlikely couple, parent child relationship, love, silly humor, love triangle, family relations, couple relations, gay interest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two gamblers must leave New York City after one loses a lot of money. Doing what all gamblers in trouble would do, they hurry to the gambling capital Las Vegas to turn their luck around.
Style:
spectacular, slapstick, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
gambling, gambler, nudity, prostitute, violent content, gangster, partner, best friend, profanity, silly humor, couples, friends ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place:
las vegas, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A selfish con-man must show that he can be a family man to inherit his uncle's estate. As he tries to set up his scam family, he realizes that he really wants to have a one.
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
christmas, family relations, cons and scams, suburbs, frame up, disorder, inheritance, con artists, caper, friendship, debt, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Movies like Dinner for Schmucks
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Darren gets stood up on the day of his wedding and uses his vacation tickets with his best friend, RJ, to spend his "honeymoon" at a Club Med-style resort.
Style:
humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
resort, couples, friends, disorder, fall in love, youth, lifestyle, island, beach, looking for sex, friendship, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Living in Paris, journalist Bernard has devised a scheme to keep three fiancées: Lufthansa, Air France and British United. Everything works fine as long as they only come home every third day. But when there's a change in their working ...
Style:
sex comedy, sexy, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
aviation, newspaper man, womanizer, american abroad, pilot, reporter, space, love, airline, hostage, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time:
60s
Place:
persia, europe, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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 ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Maria Laura "Mala" is an actress with little luck, but she is successful working for other women, seducing their boyfriends to know if they are faithful or not. But everything changes when her dream to perform in her acting career depends ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, realistic, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love and romance, fall in love, cons and scams, unlikely couple, dishonesty, couples, infidelity, society, manipulation, drinking alcohol, friendship, bare chested male ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When it comes to women, playboy Mike has all the right moves. So when Mike's buddies ask for advice on how to reconnect with their wives, Mike figures he'll share some secrets and help the guys regain their marriage mojo. But when ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
playboy, couple relations, buddies, couples, disorder, friends, nothing goes right, silly humor, interracial couple, advice, relationships, troubled relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Films like Fun with Dick and Jane
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 ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set on the backdrop of 1979 a group of troublemaking teenagers led by Mamachari (Hayato Ichihara) decide to prank Chuzai-san (Kuranosuke Sasaki) the local police officer who caught Mamachari’s friend Saijo (Takuya Ishida) for speeding on his ...
Style:
feel good, light, captivating, funny, humorous ...
Plot:
police, silly humor, friends, chase, practical joke, friendship, police inspector, joke, humour, asian, group, teenager
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.
Style:
entertaining, funny, humorous, slapstick, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
moving, truck, dysfunctional family, kung fu, love affair, road trip, black, classic car, gangster, family relations, on the road, unemployment ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey, idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Springtime in the French vineyards of Champagne. Patrick has gathered his oldest friends for his bachelor party. The trouble is, everyone hates his future wife. This could thus become one hellish weekend in gourmet paradise.
Style:
entertaining, funny, captivating, sincere, humorous ...
Plot:
female nudity, adventure hero, party, friends, friend, old friend, love, couples, friendship, vineyard, weekend getaway
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Paolo and his wife are waiting a baby and deciding his name, but it seems that Paolo's family and friends don't really like the chosen name.
Style:
realistic, contemplative, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
family gatherings, family relations, family problems, pregnancy, ego clash, friendship, couples, disorder, parents and children, family life, parenthood, humour ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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