Best movies like The Nutty Professor
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Plot Summary:
Eddie Murphy stars as shy Dr. Sherman Klump, a kind, brilliant, 'calorifically challenged' genetic professor. When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, Sherman grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and win her heart. So, with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum, Sherman becomes 'Buddy Love', a fast-talking, pumped-up , plumped down Don Juan.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 122000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, humorous, hilarious, touching, slapstick, black comedy, feel good, grindhouse, romantic comedy
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Real Genius (1985)
Plot Summary:
Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 15-year-old college wiz kid. Supposedly hard at work on a lab project with a mysterious deadline, they still find time to use their genius to discover new ways to have fun.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, cult classic, feel good, humorous, retro, epic, sex comedy, romantic comedy, anamorphic
Similar in 83%
Genius (1999)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Boyle finds that even his high IQ can't solve all of his problems when he takes on a double life in order to make friends his own age.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, smart, clever
Similar in 87%
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Plot Summary:
Jerry Lewis directed, co-wrote and starred in this riotously funny movie that set a new standard for screen comedy and inspired the hit remake. Lewis plays a timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher who discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slapstick, funny, feel good, humorous, black comedy, cult classic, aesthetic, not serious, absurd, psychotronic
Similar in 89%
Woo (1998)
Plot Summary:
Gorgeous and extraverted Woo meets insecure and straight-laced law clerk Tim at a blind date.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, feel good, semi serious, black comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, stylized, neurotic, sex comedy
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Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)
Plot Summary:
The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that reverses aging. But Sherman's thin and obnoxious alter ego, Buddy Love, wants out...and a big piece of the action. And when Buddy gets loose, things get seriously nutty.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, absurd, not serious, parody, hilarious, psychotronic, entertaining, anamorphic, black comedy
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Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)
Plot Summary:
Deuce Bigalow is a less than attractive, down on his luck aquarium cleaner. One day he wrecks the house of a gigolo and needs quick money to repair it. The only way he can make it is to become a gigolo himself, taking on an unusual mix of female clients. He encounters a couple of problems, though. He falls in love with one of his unusual clients, and a sleazy police officer is hot on his trail.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, parody, sex comedy, sexy, detective, spoof, grindhouse, romantic comedy
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Senseless (1998)
Plot Summary:
A student gets his senses enhanced by an experimental drug. But abuse is not an option.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, funny, entertaining, black comedy, romantic, suspense, experimental, disturbing, hood
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Peeples (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story follows what happens when a child psychologist surprises his girlfriend by showing up at her political family's annual get-together at their Sag Harbor vacation home only to find them desperately in need of therapy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, feel good, entertaining, black comedy, realistic
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Norbit (2007)
Plot Summary:
A mild-mannered guy who is engaged to a monstrous woman meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, slapstick, parody, feel good, not serious, hilarious, romantic, sentimental, light
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Date Movie (2006)
Plot Summary:
Spoof of romantic comedies which focuses on a man (Campbell), his crush (Hannigan), his parents (Coolidge, Willard), and her father (Griffin).
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, funny, humorous, sexy, melancholic, realistic, not serious, teen, slapstick
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Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (2008)
Plot Summary:
Martin Lawrence leads an all-star cast, including Cedric the Entertainer, Mo'Nique, and Mike Epps, in the hit comedy "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins." When a celebrated TV show host (Lawrence) returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation! It's one outrageous predicament after another when big-city attitude and small-town values collide in this hysterical comedy critics are praising for its "over-the-top hilarity!" (Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel).
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, semi serious, entertaining, sentimental, black comedy, feel good, realistic, romantic, sexy
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Son in Law (1993)
Plot Summary:
Country girl Rebecca has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feels out of place in the daunting urban setting. She is befriended by a savvy party animal named Crawl, who convinces the ambivalent Rebecca to stay in the city. When Thanksgiving break rolls around, Rebecca, no longer an innocent farm girl, invites Crawl back to South Dakota, where he pretends to be her fiancé.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, feel good, sex comedy, slapstick comedy, romantic comedy, realistic, not serious, hilarious, entertaining
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High School High (1996)
Plot Summary:
Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students into making good grades and try to woo a fellow teacher.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, funny, hilarious, humorous, hood, feel good, realistic, not serious, slapstick comedy
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Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
Plot Summary:
Rhode Island State Trooper Charlie Baileygates has a multiple personality disorder. One personality is crazy and aggressive, while the other is more friendly and laid back. Both of these personalities fall in love with the same woman named Irene after Charlie loses his medication.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 248000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, hilarious, not serious, parody, slapstick, psychological, road movie, feel good, black comedy
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Meet Dave (2008)
Plot Summary:
A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. While trying to save their planet, the aliens encounter a new problem, as their ship becomes smitten with an Earth woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, semi serious, slapstick, parody, inspirational, romantic, black comedy, family comedy, teen
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Multiplicity (1996)
Plot Summary:
Construction worker Doug Kinney finds that the pressures of his working life, combined with his duties to his wife Laura and daughter Jennifer leaves him with little time for himself. However, he is approached by geneticist Dr. Owen Leeds, who offers Doug a rather unusual solution to his problems: cloning.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, light, absurd, not serious, funny, hilarious, scary, anamorphic, cult classic
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Weird Science (1985)
Plot Summary:
Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, teen, light, cult classic, funny, romantic comedy, romantic, epic, sexual, horror comedy
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Bowfinger (1999)
Plot Summary:
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 gofer, he sets out to shoot a blockbuster featuring the biggest star in Hollywood, Kit Ramsey -- only without letting Ramsey know he's in the picture.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, humorous, witty, talky, light, feel good, not serious, spoof, hilarious
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Blast from the Past (1999)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, touching, humorous, sweet, entertaining, light, romantic comedy, realistic, semi serious
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Honey I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
Plot Summary:
Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his invention, the machine unexpectedly starts working. And when Adam comes right up to the machine, he gets zapped along with his stuffed bunny.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, light, clever, feel good, humorous, slapstick, hilarious, epic, cult classic, not serious
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The Animal (2001)
Plot Summary:
When loser Marvin Mange is involved in a horrible car accident, he's brought back to life by a deranged scientist as half man and half animal. His newfound powers are awesome -- but their adverse side effects could take over his life. Now, Marvin must fight to control his crazy primal urges around his new squeeze, Rianna, and his rival, Sgt. Sisk, who both think he's one cool cat.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, feel good, hilarious, not serious, parody, teen, fast, absurd, scary
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My Boss's Daughter (2003)
Plot Summary:
When a young man agrees to housesit for his boss, he thinks it'll be the perfect opportunity to get close to the woman he desperately has a crush on – his boss's daughter. But he doesn't plan on the long line of other houseguests that try to keep him from his mission. And he also has to deal with the daughter's older brother, who's on the run from local drug dealers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, not serious, sexy, funny, hilarious, feel good, slapstick, erotic, romantic
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There's Something About Mary (1998)
Plot Summary:
Having never fully recovered from a prom date that became a total disaster, a man finally gets a chance to reunite with his old prom date, only to run up against other suitors including the sleazy detective he hired to find her.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 325000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, romantic, romantic comedy, hilarious, absurd, light, sexy, cult classic, sex comedy
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Mr. Deeds (2002)
Plot Summary:
When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, humorous, romantic comedy, hilarious, light, not serious, romantic, slapstick, predictable
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Meet the Fockers (2004)
Plot Summary:
Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man, Jack Byrnes and his wife, Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet son-in-law-to-be, Greg Focker's parents. Unlike their happily matched offspring, the future in-laws find themselves in a situation of opposites that definitely do not attract.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 283000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, hilarious, not serious, parody, predictable, romantic, sexy, feel good
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Boomerang (1992)
Plot Summary:
Marcus is a successful advertising executive who woos and beds women almost at will. After a company merger he finds that his new boss, the ravishing Jacqueline, is treating him in exactly the same way. Completely traumatised by this, his work goes badly downhill.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: funny, witty, talky, melancholic, black comedy, light, romantic comedy, feel good, semi serious, humorous
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Just Go with It (2011)
Plot Summary:
A plastic surgeon, romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant's kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 261000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, romantic comedy, light, hilarious, teen, sweet
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Think Like a Man (2012)
Plot Summary:
The balance of power in four couples’ relationships is upset when the women start using the advice in Steve Harvey’s book, Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man, to get more of what they want from their men. When the men realize that the women have gotten a hold of their relationship “playbook,” they decide that the best defense is a good offense and come up with a plan to use this information to their advantage.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: sexy, sentimental, feel good, humorous, not serious, realistic, light, romantic, black comedy, funny
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Meet the Parents (2000)
Plot Summary:
Greg Focker is ready to marry his girlfriend, Pam, but before he pops the question, he must win over her formidable father, humorless former CIA agent Jack Byrnes, at the wedding of Pam's sister. As Greg bends over backward to make a good impression, his visit to the Byrnes home turns into a hilarious series of disasters, and everything that can go wrong does, all under Jack's critical, hawklike gaze.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 350000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, parody, entertaining, hilarious, light, absurd, witty, romantic, romantic comedy
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Hitch (2005)
Plot Summary:
Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques fail to work on Sara Melas, a tabloid reporter digging for dirt on Allegra Cole's love life. When Sara discovers Hitch's connection to Albert – now Allegra's boyfriend – it threatens to destroy both relationships.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 331000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, funny, light, romantic comedy, sentimental, sweet, hilarious, sexy, witty