Movies like Holmes & Watson

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Holmes & Watson (2018)
 3.9
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Holmes & Watson (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson join forces to investigate a murder at Buckingham Palace. They soon learn that they have only four days to solve the case, or the queen will become the next victim.
Style: ironic, humorous, not serious, feel good, parody, absurd, detective, spoof, funny, perverse ...
Plot: sherlock holmes, clue, doctor, crime investigation, villain, saving a life, prank, judge, irony, batman, secret service, humour, mission, oedipus complex, judiciary, buddy, whodunit, bullying, boy, father daughter relationship, best friend, housekeeper, telepathy, private detective, bomb ...
Time: victorian era, 1860s, 1910s, 1890s, 1900s, 20th century
Place: england, london, buckingham palace, wyoming
Keyword: reboot

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, parody, not serious and funny films with plots about disorder, investigation, murder, silly humor, satire, law enforcement and farce mostly in Comedy, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like Holmes & Watson: Without a Clue (1988), Get Hard (2015), Mystery Team (2009), Dragnet (1987), Step Brothers (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Lifelong friends and national idols Ricky Bobby and Cal Naughton Jr. have earned their NASCAR stripes with their uncanny knack of finishing races in the first and second slots, respectively, and slinging catchphrases like "Shake and bake!" ...
Style: funny, humorous, slapstick, exciting, parody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: car race, racing, farce, sport competition, stupidity, auto racing, betrayal, satire, competition, comeback, championship, teamwork ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, alabama, usa
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100%
 6.9
 11K
Without a Clue (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the operation. When Reginald Kincaid, the actor he has hired to play Holmes becomes insufferable, Watson fires him and tries to go out on his own, but ...
Style: parody, humorous, hilarious, light, entertaining ...
Plot: farce, private detective, investigation, sherlock holmes, who done it, comedy of errors, disorder, hidden identity, storytelling, doctor, actor, exodus ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 146K
Get Hard (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When obscenely rich hedge-fund manager James is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him one month to get his affairs in order. Knowing that he won't survive more than a few minutes in prison on his own, ...
Style: funny, parody, humorous, hilarious, harsh ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dumb, prison, wealth, millionaire, training, teaching the ways of the world, car wash, countdown, mentor, rags to riches, greed, creativity ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When the incompetent Officer Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.
Style: parody, spoof, funny, humorous, detective ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, family outing, date night
Plot: police, deadpan, stupidity, investigation, assassin, satire, gunfight, creativity, sarcasm, cop, dimwit, terrorist ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place: los angeles, usa, california, beirut lebanon
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes (Wilder) is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false identities, stolen ...
Style: parody, spoof, slapstick, psychotronic, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sherlock holmes, satire, private detective, amateur detective, partners against crime, dishonesty, danger, hidden identity, investigation, rivalry, misfit partners, desire for fame ...
Time: 19th century, year 1975, 1890s, victorian era
Place: buckingham palace, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he is to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.. this adds to Frank's ...
Style: parody, spoof, hilarious, humorous, funny ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: farce, police, terrorism, law enforcement, sexual humor, stupidity, undercover, gangster, race against time, save the day, master criminal, danger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1988, year 1994, 70s
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.6
 10K
Mystery Team (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A group of former Encyclopedia Brown-style child-detectives struggle to solve an adult mystery.
Style: parody, not serious, humorous, independent film, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, amateur detective, investigation, children, murder, farce, absurdism, escapades, school, friends, bowling, mysticism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new hampshire, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.0
 37K
Dragnet (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday -- the equally straight-laced nephew of the famous police sergeant of the same name -- is paired up with a young, freewheeling detective named Pep Streebeck. After investigating some strange robberies at the local zoo and the ...
Style: humorous, parody, satirical, absurd, detective ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: buddy cop, buddy, police, investigation, stupidity, partner, justice, farce, goofy hero, danger, working undercover, satire ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Director Billy Wilder adds a new and intriguing twist to the personality of intrepid detective Sherlock Holmes. One thing hasn't changed however: Holmes' crime-solving talents. Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman ...
Style: detective, satirical, atmospheric, clever, humorous ...
Plot: sherlock holmes, private detective, loch ness monster, investigation, homosexual subtext, spy, lgbtq, regret, time travel, royalty, gangster, monk ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1800s, year 1970, 1880s
Place: scotland, britain, england, europe, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.9
 317K
Step Brothers (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Brennan Huff and Dale Doback might be grown men. But that doesn't stop them from living at home and turning into jealous, competitive stepbrothers when their single parents marry. Brennan's constant competition with Dale strains his ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, hilarious, stylized, talky ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot: friendship, dysfunctional family, slacker, buddy, friends, adolescence vs adulthood, divorce, family relations, brother brother relationship, friendship between men, father son relationship, man child ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Bumbling cop Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.
Style: parody, spoof, funny, hilarious, detective ...
Audience: girls' night, family outing, date night, teens
Plot: police, satire, usa president, conspiracy, cop, stoner, police investigation, law enforcement, president, kidnapping, good versus evil, humour ...
Time: 20th century, year 1988, 90s
Place: washington d.c., los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.2
 9K
The Trixxer (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Auf dem Weg von Bitterfeld nach London verirrt sich ein sächsisches Pärchen im Wald. Ein hinterhältiges Subjekt hat den Wegweiser verdreht! So werden die beiden Zeuge, wie "der Mönch mit der Peitsche" vorsätzlich über den Haufen ...
Style: exciting, not serious, witty, humorous, funny ...
Plot: police detective, murder, police investigation, partner, law enforcement, serial killer, danger, riddles and clues, humour, monkey, partners against crime, misfit partners ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Murder on the Blackpool Express (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Blackpool coach driver and a tour guide get caught up in a deadly comedic conspiracy when a train's passengers begin mysteriously dying one by one.
Style: parody, humorous, light, contemplative, feel good ...
Plot: serial killer, falsely accused, chase, murder, revenge, whodunit, coworker relationship, horny woman, wrongful accusation, declaration of love, fan, flashback ...
Time: future
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.2
 5K
The Vexxer (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Scotland Yard investigators have to prevent the murder of Victoria Dickman when her name is found on a death list.
Style: parody, humorous, gothic, exciting, touching ...
Plot: master criminal, police detective, murder, police, nun, investigation, police investigation, inspector, law enforcement, goofy hero, disorder, estate ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: england, london, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Murder by Death (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are ...
Style: parody, surprise ending, humorous, spoof, funny ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: murder, whodunit, private detective, butler, old mansion, dark and stormy night, old dark house, murder mystery, who done it, mansion, riddles and clues, plot twist ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. A "Lethal Weapon" style cop team tries to find and stop the fiends before they can dope the nation by distributing their wares via the ...
Style: parody, spoof, humorous, absurd, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, boys' night
Plot: partners against crime, buddies, buddy, police, law enforcement, cocaine, buddy cop, mad scientist, satire, police investigation, gunfight, chase ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.6
 287K
The Other Guys (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: NYPD detectives Christopher Danson (Johnson) and P.K. Highsmith (Jackson) are the baddest and most beloved cops in New York City. They don't get tattoos, other men get tattoos of them. Two desks over and one back, sit detectives Allen Gamble ...
Style: funny, hilarious, buddy comedy, humorous, parody ...
Audience: teens, manly, kids, boys' night
Plot: police, stupidity, buddy, misfit partners, partners against crime, buddy cop, farce, hotshot, dumb, reluctant partners, car chase, corruption ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, las vegas, manhattan new york city, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Alphabet Murders (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
Style: detective, realistic, parody, not serious, humorous ...
Plot: private detective, serial killer, murder mystery, mysticism, hercule poirot, investigation, murder, law enforcement, danger, riddles and clues, who done it, silly humor ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, scotland yard, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sherlock Holmes is awakened in modern times with a tale that he had invented a method of suspended animation that he had utilized on himself. Awakened by an earthquake, he is helped by Amy Winslow, who lives at 1994 Baker Street in San Francisco. ...
Style: detective
Plot: doctor, bookstore, fish out of water, murder, violin, female doctor, homeless man, cryogenics, tiger, observation, strong female character, dog ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr. Watson suspects something more and goes to his old friend Holmes, now retired and at very ...
Style: realistic, serious, mind bending, suspenseful, detective
Plot: sherlock holmes, private detective, lookalikes, serial killer, murder, investigation, murder mystery, mastermind, who done it, prodigy, life is a bitch, hotshot hero ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, edwardian era
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976)
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old nemesis, Moriarty, has kidnapped the son of the detective's long-time love, actress Irene Adler.
Style: detective, psychotronic, period drama
Plot: 007, private detective, bank robbery, kidnapping, gold, sherlock holmes, villain, nemesis, sleuth, master criminal, caper, trapdoor ...
Place: new york, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.6
 47K
The House (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Scott and Kate Johansen’s daughter gets into the college of her dreams it’s cause for celebration. That is, until Scott and Kate learn that the scholarship they were counting on didn’t come through, and they’re now on the hook for ...
Style: thought provoking, humorous, funny, captivating, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: gambling, farce, college, neighbor, casino, middle class, bet, gambler, kickass, nerd, party, love ...
Time: year 2017
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.5
 16K
Mafia! (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
Style: parody, spoof, funny, light, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, mafia, father son relationship, farce, dumb, stupidity, multiple storylines, satire, justice, adaptation, goofy hero, assassination ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, year 1938, year 1967, year 1933
Place: italy, sicily, usa, europe, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 4.7
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Corky Romano (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangster, named Pops Romano, who calls upon Corky to infiltrate the local FBI and retrieve and destroy evidence being used to incriminate Pops for ...
Style: humorous, light, absurd, funny, not serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: gangster, undercover, unlikely criminals, fish out of water, goofy hero, organized crime, espionage, family relations, disorder, dumb, mafia, farce ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 56 min.
Story: The grandchild of Professor James Moriarty had promised the world that it has only five days left to live. Moriarty is a master of disguise, a crack shot, and is very patient. Several government figures are shot to death, and it seems that it truly ...
Style: parody, spoof, detective, realistic, not serious ...
Plot: monty python, assassination, villainess, private detective, murder, conspiracy, satire, goofy hero, dishonesty, misfit partners, rivalry, hidden identity ...
Time: 70s
Place: scotland yard, scotland, europe, washington d.c., london
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to ...
Style: detective, hilarious, funny, slapstick, parody ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: pink panther, farce, police investigation, law enforcement, childhood, thief, murder mystery, police, robbery, disguise, inspector, partner ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 20th century
Place: london, scotland yard, paris france, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.0
 112K
Super Troopers (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Five bored, occasionally high and always ineffective Vermont state troopers must prove their worth to the governor or lose their jobs. After stumbling on a drug ring, they plan to make a bust, but a rival police force is out to steal the glory.
Style: funny, humorous, light, talky, witty ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: police corruption, police, stoner, weed, prank, cop, partner, buddies, drug dealing, dishonesty, small town, dumb ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: US TV version of the classic Sherlock Holmes story
Style: detective, psychotronic
Plot: private detective, curse, family curse, sherlock holmes, plan, investigator, danger, dog, estate, murder, ghost, disguise ...
Time: 1800s, victorian era, 19th century
Place: england, scotland yard, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Private Eyes (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Don Knotts and Tim Conway star in The Private Eyes, a 1980 comedy about two bumbling detectives solving a murder. It's an impressively incompetent affair. Every ancient joke falls with a muffled thud as Knotts and Conway ham their way through ...
Style: parody, spoof, humorous, spooky, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, old dark house, chase, investigation, supernatural, police investigation, whodunit, satire, exploitation, murder mystery, dystopia, screwball ...
Time: year 1980, 80s
Place: scotland, europe, england, london, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.1
 154K
Starsky & Hutch (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcome their differences to solve an important case with help from street informant Huggy ...
Style: parody, funny, humorous, entertaining, hilarious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: buddy, cocaine, buddy cop, car chase, police, drug, police investigation, organized crime, gangster, police detective, drug lord, justice ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 2004, 2000s
Place: california, usa, chicago, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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