Fish out of water movies and TV shows – page 3
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List of fish out of water movies
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Argentina
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An animated comedy that recreates the misadventures of the passengers of the Ark built by Noah as per God’s request. It’s just that living together does not seem to come easy for the passengers on board.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, semi serious, feel good, anime ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, preschool
Plot:
ship, heroes, fish out of water, nothing goes right, ancient history, bible, heroic mission, escapades, hopes, isolation, forces of nature, flood ...
Place:
holy land
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK, Slovakia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
"Secondhand Lions" follows the comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, period piece, humorous, cute ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
coming of age, uncle nephew relationship, childhood, fish out of water, greed, courage, lion, youth, misfit, bittersweet, country, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
year 2003, 1910s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
texas, africa, middle east, austin texas, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Moving from England to California, the youngest cousins of Elle Woods must defend themselves when their schools reigning forces turn on the girls and try to frame them for a crime.
Style:
humorous, feel good, not serious, teen, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
twins, fish out of water, fashion, youth, coming of age, high school, teenager in love, blonde girl, college, occupation, teenage girl, social relations ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating – and learns a lesson about family himself.
Style:
3d animation, humorous, computer animated, funny, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, toddlers ...
Plot:
talking animal, raccoon, squirrel, animal that acts human, friendship, human, stealing food, cons and scams, fish out of water, furry, heroic mission, animal protagonist ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
indiana, usa, north america
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After Katie Mitchell is accepted into the film school of her dreams, her family decides to use this opportunity to drive Katie to school as a road trip. When their plans are interrupted by a tech uprising, the Mitchells realize that they must work ...
Style:
funny, feel good, light, 3d animation, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
robot, father daughter relationship, parents and children, road trip, dog, family relations, family life, husband, wife, journey, fish out of water, pug ...
Time:
2020s, future, 21st century
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Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A sheltered young high society woman joins the army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
Style:
sentimental, funny, semi serious, light, parody ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
basic training, self discovery, wedding, boot camp, gender, military training, fish out of water, paratrooper, women, military, transformation, soldier ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, paris france, usa
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Ethan, Benny and fledgling vampire Sarah battle zombies, demons and the other supernatural beasties that regularly threaten their school.
Style:
exciting, scary, semi serious, humorous, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen fantasy, horror for children
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, youth, superhuman powers, friends, fish out of water, nanny, good versus evil, teenage life, disorder, buddies, unlikely partners ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, ...
Style:
exciting, neo noir, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, yakuza, police, culture clash, violence, gang war, motorcycle, chase, gunfight, gangster, fish out of water, japanese mafia ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place:
japan, new york, asia, osaka japan, los angeles ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Uptight New York City executive, Michael Cromwell, pursues his soon-to-be ex-wife to South America and returns home with the son he never knew he had -- a boy raised in a tribal village in Brazil. Armed with only his blowgun, the 13-year-old ...
Style:
funny, feel good, entertaining, epic, family comedy ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, kids ...
Plot:
jungle, fish out of water, teenage boy, culture clash, childhood, parents and children, eccentric family, mischievous children, disorder, nothing goes right, youth, 13 year old ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
new york, venezuela, brazil, usa, latin america ...
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30K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, humorous, light hearted, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
dog, pets, dog sled, husky dog, fish out of water, small town, snow, nothing goes right, against the odds, friendship, animal, talking animal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alaska, antarctic, usa, cuba
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself.
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
bunker, opposites attract, fish out of water, happy ending, cold war, genius, cuban missile crisis, father son relationship, love story, fall in love, nuclear war, destiny ...
Time:
60s, future, 90s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, cuba
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, John Spartan, who had also been ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
distopia, cyberpunk, dystopia, prison, utopia, psychopath, time travel, satire, maverick cop, totalitarianism, fish out of water, violence ...
Time:
future, 2030s, near future, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
New York meets the west in this comedy starring Billy Crystal. Three New York business men decide to take a 'Wild West' vacation that turns out to not be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, clever, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
fish out of water, friendship, midlife crisis, vacation, buddies, childhood, mentor, buddy, radio, treasure hunt, food, rain ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, colorado, new york, new mexico, spain ...
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66K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The series centers on the conflict between a group of rebels from the year 2077 who time-travel to Vancouver, BC, in 2012, and a police officer who accidentally accompanies them. In spite of being many years early, the rebel group decides to ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, apocalyptic, spooky, cyber ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, heroine, time machine, getting home, terrorist group, existence paradox, policewoman, changing the past or future, sent to the past, hopes, fish out of water, computer genius ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
usa, vancouver, canada
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Brad Sexton and his wife, Caroline, are wealthy New Yorkers with both marital and financial problems. The latter issue becomes a pressing matter when they discover that their accountant has embezzled millions and pinned the blame on them. Forced to ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, romantic comedy, detective ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
amish, fish out of water, embezzlement, true love, wealth, lawyer, farce, marital discord, marital reconciliation, small town, husband and wife, divorce ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, new york
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to ...
Style:
black comedy, erotic, lovecraft, humorous, grindhouse ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
duck, superhero, alien, villain, fish out of water, nubile woman, comic book, anthropomorphic animal, anthropomorphism, pun, evil alien, benign alien ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, future
Place:
cleveland ohio, ohio
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Chevy Chase stars as Andy Farmer, a sportswriter who moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth (Madolyn Smith) to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, ...
Style:
hilarious, rom com, humorous, slapstick, social ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
small town, fish out of water, writers, husband wife relationship, aspiring writer, farce, christmas, chase, breakup, divorce, fishing, plagiarism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
vermont, new york, san francisco
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Czech Republic, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.
Style:
touching, sentimental, entertaining, sad, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, toddlers, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
robot, giant robot, friendship, small town, prejudice, self sacrifice, childhood, boy, benign alien, cold war, androids and robots, space and aliens ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 90s, year 1957, future ...
Place:
usa, maine, iceland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, sweet, cute, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
nanny, dysfunctional family, adult child friendship, family relations, love and romance, mischievous children, obnoxious boss, fall in love, little boy, fish out of water, babysitting, workplace ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, usa, connecticut ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends.
Style:
light, funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
babies and infants, baby, fatherhood, custody, fish out of water, buddies, children, police, drug dealer, friendship, parents and children, life turned upside down ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Elle Woods has it all. She's the president of her sorority, a Hawaiian Tropic girl, Miss June in her campus calendar, and, above all, a natural blonde. She dates the cutest fraternity boy on campus and wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner ...
Style:
feel good, light, sweet, romantic comedy, funny ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids ...
Plot:
sorority, lawyer, girl power, blonde, law school, fashion, college, law, university, law student, campus, believe in yourself ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, boston, harvard university, los angeles, massachusetts ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Chris Kattan goes to India to star in a Bollywood film, but can he dance...or be a dramtic lead, for that matter?
Style:
exciting, realistic, stylized, humorous, not serious ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
fish out of water, culture clash, ambition, showbiz, rejection, starlet, love affair, desire for fame, actor's life, fall in love, artists and showbiz, society ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
india, mumbai india, los angeles, asia
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684K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, stranded on an island, courage, determination, solitude, lost at sea, air disaster, survivor ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, y2k, year 1999, 2000s ...
Place:
fictional island, moscow russia, persia, america, pacific ocean ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Formerly filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira, and their two kids, über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis, suddenly find themselves broke and forced to live in Schitt's Creek, a small depressing ...
Style:
humorous, sitcom, ironic, not serious, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, family outing, teens
Plot:
small town, gay, lgbtq, motel, couple relations, gay relationship, riches to rags, real life father and son playing father and son, class differences, siblings living together, businessman, friendship ...
Time:
2010s, future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
canada, seattle
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32K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A suburban family that takes in a mysterious teen naive to the world around him. As Kyle begins to show signs of brilliance, solving the mystery of his origin and potential abilities becomes the family's mission.
Style:
entertaining, suspenseful, exciting, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
supernatural ability, foster child, supernatural, experiment, genius, teenage life, mysterious character, secret organization, self discovery, teenage love, supernatural power, fish out of water ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, washington d.c., usa
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Kenny the Shark is an animated television series produced by Discovery Kids. The show premiered on NBC's Discovery Kids on NBC from November 1, 2003 and ended February 18, 2006 with two seasons and 26 episodes having been shown. The series ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, exciting, captivating, family comedy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
fish out of water, pets, shark, youth, danger, best friend, disorder, animal life, misfit, escapades, suburban life, friendship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
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116K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after ...
Style:
surreal, dark comedy, black comedy, funny, cult classic ...
Plot:
dark humor, multiple storylines, curses spells and rituals, workplace situations, couples, disorder, fish out of water, gangster, lifestyle, supernatural ability, workplace, hotel ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
america, los angeles, usa, california
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
High school hotshot Zach Siler is the envy of his peers. But his popularity declines sharply when his cheerleader girlfriend, Taylor, leaves him for sleazy reality-television star Brock Hudson. Desperate to revive his fading reputation, Siler agrees ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sweet, teen, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenager, opposites attract, teen romance, youth, bet, fall in love, young love, high school life, teenage girl, teenage love, friendship ...
Time:
90s, y2k, year 1999, 20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Faced with insurmountable problems, five young Muscovites flee to a monastery near the half-abandoned village of Topi. They view the trip as an adventure, a long-awaited freedom from worries, and an opportunity to forget. However, the journey turns ...
Style:
dark fantasy, suspenseful, dark, sexy, stylized ...
Plot:
mysterious character, self discovery, depression, fish out of water, changing lives, loneliness, starting over, beautiful scenery, travel, failed attempt, lifestyle change, obsession ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
New York writer Tom grew up an only child and is a loner by nature. He's a man who takes pride in refusing to learn the names of his neighbors. But his life is destined for change when he marries Susan, a gregarious social butterfly from the ...
Style:
sitcom, feel good, humorous, family comedy, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
fish out of water, family life, eccentric family, couples, couple relations, family relations, suburbs, parents and children, friendship, relocation, culture clash, in laws ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kansas, usa, kansas city
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