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Plot Summary:
As part of a fertility research project, a male scientist agrees to carry a pregnancy in his own body.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, humorous, funny, absurd, hilarious, parody, sweet, mystic, cult classic
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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
Similar in 90%
Micki + Maude (1984)
Plot Summary:
TV reporter Rob Salinger is married to Micki, but because she's always busy working, they hardly ever spend time together. One night at which he got stood up by Micki again, Rob meets cellist Maude and they soon get romanticly involved. When it turns out Maude is pregnant with his baby, Rob decides to marry Maude. When he's on the verge of telling Micki, she tells him she's pregnant, so he doesn't have the heart to leave her, but he marries Maude anyway. Now married to two pregnant women who don't know about each other, Rob has a busy time taking care of both and keep them from finding out.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, anamorphic, clever, feel good, realistic, witty, semi serious, erotic, scary
Similar in 77%
Out to Sea (1997)
Plot Summary:
Care-free Charlie (Walter Matthau) cons his widower brother-in-law Herb (Jack Lemmon) into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in search of rich, lonely ladies. The catch is that they are required to be dance hosts! With a tyrannical cruise director, and the luscious Liz and lovely Vivian, our heroes have lots of mis-adventures before they finally return to port.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, talky, melancholic, semi serious, funny, hilarious, inspirational, realistic
Similar in 90%
The Ex (2006)
Plot Summary:
When his lawyer wife, Sofia, becomes pregnant, chronic underachiever Tom Reilly must take a job at his father-in-law's advertising firm. Tom has to adjust to the demands of a very high-powered job, and he finds himself in an increasingly hostile office rivalry with Chip, Sofia's paraplegic former lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, intense, entertaining, realistic, not serious, road movie, sexy, clever
Similar in 86%
If You Only Knew (1999)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy about a young man who fakes homosexuality to draw the interest of a woman. Instead she tries to help him find a date.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, light, melancholic, independent film, offbeat
Similar in 77%
Be My Baby (2007)
Plot Summary:
After dating several cheating husbands who pretended to be single, Rylee devises a scheme for revenge. She gets a married man drunk, convinces him that they slept together, then shows up a year later with a baby and demands money. Her blackmail plan is successful, but then she meets a single man, Max, who wants to be with her and keep the baby.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 75%
Twins (1988)
Plot Summary:
Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage while Julius is taken to a south seas island and raised by philosophers. Vincent becomes the ultimate low life and is about to be killed by loan sharks.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 134000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, road movie, entertaining, sentimental, feel good, parody, inspirational, sweet, cult classic
Similar in 81%
I.Q. (1994)
Plot Summary:
Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, sweet, romantic, funny, light, realistic, humorous, semi serious, clever
Similar in 90%
Look Who's Talking Now (1993)
Plot Summary:
When Samantha LeBon hatches a scheme to spend a romantic Christmas with her new employee -- the unsuspecting, blithesome James -- his wife, their kids and their two dogs, Rocks and Daphne, must rescue him before he makes a terrible mistake.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, family comedy, light hearted, sentimental, feel good, witty, semi serious, scary, funny
Similar in 84%
Maybe Baby (2000)
Plot Summary:
Hugh Laurie (Sam) and Joely Richardson (Lucy) star as an irresistible couple who seem to have everything - good looks, successful careers, matching motorbikes and an enthusiastic love life. The only thing they lack is the one thing that they really want - a baby. Sam sets his sights on writing a successful screenplay, a comedy about a couple trying for a baby. The only problem is that Lucy is horrified at the idea and forbids him to do it. Creative fulfillment is too much for Sam to resist and meanwhile an increasingly hormonal Lucy is distracted by the attentions of the handsome Carl Phipps (James Purefoy). Sam and Lucy's love for one another, the most important thing they have, will now truly be put to the test.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, melancholic, feel good, realistic, sentimental, talky, semi serious, clever
Similar in 88%
Look Who's Talking Too (1990)
Plot Summary:
Mollie and James are together and raising a family, which now consists of an older Mikey and his baby sister, Julie. Tension between the siblings arises, and as well with Mollie and James when Mollie's brother Stuart moves in. Mikey is also learning how to use the toilet for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, sweet, family comedy, sentimental, feel good, witty, semi serious, light, romantic
Similar in 85%
Baby Mama (2008)
Plot Summary:
A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, funny, entertaining, feel good, romantic, cute, ironic, teen, raunchy
Similar in 86%
Coneheads (1993)
Plot Summary:
With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don't exactly blend in with the population of Paramus, N.J. But for some reason, everyone believes them when they say they're from France! As the odd "Saturday Night Live" characters settle into middle-class life in this feature-length comedy, a neighbor admires their daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, absurd, not serious, satirical, feel good, skit, cult classic, offbeat
Similar in 87%
Look Who's Talking (1989)
Plot Summary:
Mollie is a single working mother who's out to find the perfect father for her child. Her baby, Mikey, prefers James, a cab driver turned babysitter who has what it takes to make them both happy. But Mollie won't even consider James. It's going to take all the tricks a baby can think of to bring them together before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, sentimental, light, feel good, humorous, clever, epic, family comedy, terrifying, witty
Similar in 85%
Father of the Bride Part II (1995)
Plot Summary:
Just when George Banks has recovered from his daughter's wedding, he receives the news that she's pregnant ... and that George's wife, Nina, is expecting too. He was planning on selling their home, but that's a plan that -- like George -- will have to change with the arrival of both a grandchild and a kid of his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, sentimental, touching, family comedy, relaxing, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 79%
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
Similar in 85%
Bubble Boy (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy is young man who was born without an immune system and has lived his life within a plastic bubble in his bedroom... who pines for the sweet caresses of girl-next-door Chloe. But when Chloe decides to marry her high school boyfriend, Jimmy -- bubble suit and all -- treks cross-country to stop her. Swoosie Kurtz, as Jimmy's overprotective mom, co-stars along with Fabio, who portrays the leader of a religious cult.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, melancholic, satirical, absurd, hilarious, light, semi serious, funny, cult classic
Similar in 88%
Lost & Found (1999)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about finding your true love at any price. Dylan Ramsey resorts to snatching his beautiful neighbor's dog so he can spend time with her while they go on a phantom dog hunt. Succeeding in his plan, Dylan goes to return the pooch, only to discover that it has hidden Dylan's best friend's diamond ring. Written by WARNER BROS.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, sweet, entertaining, funny, light, sexy, sentimental, feel good, witty
Similar in 75%
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
Similar in 76%
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
Similar in 76%
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
Similar in 78%
Coming to America (1988)
Plot Summary:
Prince Akeem, heir to the throne of Zamunda, leaves the tropical paradise kingdom in search of his queen. What better place than Queens, New York, to find his bride? Joined by his loyal servant and friend, Semmi, Akeem attempts to blend in as an ordinary American and begin his search.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 220000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, romantic comedy, cult classic, light, hilarious, parody, romantic
Similar in 84%
The Switch (2010)
Plot Summary:
An unmarried 40-year-old woman turns to a turkey baster in order to become pregnant. Seven years later, she reunites with her best friend, who has been living with a secret: he replaced her preferred sperm sample with his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, feel good, romantic comedy, cute, sweet, sentimental, funny, sincere, light
Similar in 82%
What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012)
Plot Summary:
Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-crazy author, while her husband tries not to be outdone by his father, who's expecting twins with his young trophy wife; a photographer's husband isn't sure about his wife's adoption plans; a one-time hook-up results in a surprise pregnancy for rival food-truck owners.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, romantic, funny, cute, romantic comedy, teen, sweet, parody, sexy
Similar in 75%
Little Fockers (2010)
Plot Summary:
It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job moonlighting for a drug company, Jack's suspicions about his favorite male nurse come roaring back. When Greg and Pam's entire clan descends for the twins' birthday party, Greg must prove to the skeptical Jack that he's fully capable as the man of the house.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 118000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, sexy, feel good, absurd, not serious, realistic, hilarious, parody, light
Similar in 82%
The Back-up Plan (2010)
Plot Summary:
When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been searching for all her life. Now, Zoe has to figure out how to make her two life's dreams fit with each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, romantic comedy, sweet, feel good, touching, funny, teen, semi serious, cute
Similar in 83%
Nine Months (1995)
Plot Summary:
When he finds out his longtime girlfriend is pregnant, a commitment-phobe realizes he might have to change his lifestyle for better or much, much worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, touching, humorous, romantic, melancholic, sentimental, sweet, semi serious, funny, hilarious
Similar in 88%
What Planet Are You From? (2000)
Plot Summary:
A highly-evolved planet, whose denizens feel no emotion and reproduce by cloning, plans to take over Earth from the inside by sending an operative, fashioned with a humming, mechanical penis, to impregnate an earthling and stay until the birth. The alien, Harold Anderson, goes to Phoenix as a banker and sets to work finding a mate. His approaches to women are inept, and the humming phallus doesn't help, but on the advice of a banking colleague, he cruises an AA meeting, meets Susan, and somehow convinces her to marry. The clock starts to tick: will she conceive, have a baby, and lose Harold (and the child) to his planet before he discovers emotion and starts to care?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, satirical, erotic, parody, offbeat, witty, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy
Similar in 89%
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
Similar in 79%
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