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Plot Summary:
A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: retro, romantic comedy
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Best tv shows and movies like Dear Heart (1964):
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Flodder in Amerika! (1992)
Plot Summary:
The mayor of Sunny Dale see a chance to get rid of the Flodder family: They send the asocial bunch for an international exchange to New York. There they get confused with a Russian delegation of medical doctors while the street worker Werner who accompanies them becomes imprisoned.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious
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Family Plan (1997)
Plot Summary:
A bumbling guy takes a group of orphans to summer camp.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Family, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, slapstick, independent film
Similar in 76%
Family Ties Vacation (1985)
Plot Summary:
In this two-hour TV movie episode of Family Ties, the Keaton family goes on vacation to London, England and becomes entangled in an espionage plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: freeze frame, microfilm
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Honeymoon Hotel (1964)
Plot Summary:
A man left at the alter goes on his honeymoon trip anyway, taking his best man along instead.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Wing or Thigh? (1976)
Plot Summary:
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, anthology, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, not serious, disgusting, cult film
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The Nude Restaurant (1967)
Plot Summary:
At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman, also clad in a G-string (played by Viva) and a G-bestringed (bestrung?) waiter.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: avant garde, independent film, cinema verite
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Spivak (2018)
Plot Summary:
A self-loathing, failed Eastside novelist living in the ‘hipster’ neighborhood of Echo Park in Los Angeles is shocked to find himself falling in love with everything he hates, including a simple All-American blonde girl from the Westside.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 833
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful
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Monkeys, Go Home! (1967)
Plot Summary:
Henry Dussard, a young American, inherits a picturesque but badly neglected olive farm in southern France and is determined to make it operational again despite cautionary advice from the local priest and a pretty villager. Desperate for laborers, the inventive Dussard turns to the zaniest crew of olive pickers ever recruited - four mischievous monkeys! As former members of an Air Force space team, these intelligent chimps quickly pick up on their new responsibilities - but prove to have a turbulent effect on the local townspeople.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sexy
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Brie's Bake Off Challenge (2022)
Plot Summary:
Brie Hayes is an aspiring baker who wishes to win her school's Spring Bake Off Challenge. Troubles ensue when Brie's confidence reaches an ultimate low and her "arch nemesis", Vanessa, does everything she can to slim Brie's chances of winning. Brie's family and her best friend Millie must help her gain perspective and practice to win. Stakes are high as these pre-teens compete for the grand prize of $5,000 and for four Cosmo Land tickets. This is the ultimate baking movie for children and adults who love watching cooking and baking shows.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration:
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Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting (1989)
Plot Summary:
Bill Cosby takes us on the tour to Sesame Street as the show goes on it's 20th Anniversary. It had interviews of the cast and crews of the show and memories of the show. It also features a multi-language version of some classic Sesame Street songs, Such as "Rubber Ducky".
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, educational, semi serious
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Elevator Girl (2010)
Plot Summary:
A smart, uptight attorney and a disorganized yet passionate and creative woman meet in a stuck elevator, and sparks ignite instantly. Will opposites attract, or are they simply passing time before getting off on different floors?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, humorous, semi serious, emotional, teen
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Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016)
Plot Summary:
A fateful meeting with a mysterious stranger inspires Pee-wee Herman to take his first-ever holiday.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, parody, humorous, surreal, scenic, colorful, absurd, road movie, exciting, clever
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Recipe for Disaster (2003)
Plot Summary:
Rebecca Korda and her two brothers, Sam and Max, are left alone on opening night of their family-owned restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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The Music Man (1962)
Plot Summary:
A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: period piece, sentimental, retro, entertaining, aesthetic, feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
Plot Summary:
Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two reunite. On the way he discovers France, bicycling and true love, among other things.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 132000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, funny, road movie, slapstick, sentimental, hilarious, parody, entertaining
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Playing with Fire (2019)
Plot Summary:
A crew of rugged firefighters meet their match when attempting to rescue three rambunctious kids.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, sweet, captivating, ironic, sitcom, slapstick comedy, slapstick, low brow humor, teen comedy
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Snowball Express (1972)
Plot Summary:
When John Baxter inherits a ski resort in the Rocky Mountains, he quits his job in New York and moves the family west to run it. Only to find that the place is a wreck. But together they decide to try to fix it up and run it. But Martin Ridgeway, who wants the property, does everything he can to ensure it will fail.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: family comedy, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick, cult film
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The Town Christmas Forgot (2010)
Plot Summary:
An urban family that can’t seem to get along gets stranded in a remote, impoverished lumber town two days before Christmas. When they become involved in the town’s home-grown Christmas pageant, they not only help solve the town’s problems but learn to connect with each other just in time for the holidays.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, captivating
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That Touch of Mink (1962)
Plot Summary:
A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save her virginity for marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: witty, romantic comedy, retro, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, exciting, sentimental
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The Trouble with Angels (1966)
Plot Summary:
Coming of age story for two girls, Mary Clancy and Rachel Devery, who find themselves as students at the St. Francis Academy, a catholic boarding school for girls. The story spans three years and follows the girls and their many pranks including setting off fire alarms, smoking cigars in the basement and putting bubble baths in the nuns' sugar bowls. As the girls mature, they gain a greater respect for their teachers and the commitment and devotion required to be a nun, leading one of them to make a life changing decision.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: touching, retro, feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious, sentimental, funny, light, surprise ending
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Boys' Night Out (1962)
Plot Summary:
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, retro, satirical, black and white, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)
Plot Summary:
When a widower with 10 children marries a widow with 8, can the 20 of them ever come together as one big happy family?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: light, sentimental, touching, feel good, funny, witty, romantic comedy, retro, black and white, cult classic
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The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
Plot Summary:
The film that started the classic TV series. Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried - to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his dad's been dating. Sweet family comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sweet, emotional, disturbing, melancholic, uplifting, feel good, humorous, realistic
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Old Dogs (2009)
Plot Summary:
Charlie and Dan have been best friends and business partners for thirty years; their Manhattan public relations firm is on the verge of a huge business deal with a Japanese company. With two weeks to sew up the contract, Dan gets a surprise: a woman he married on a drunken impulse nearly nine years before (annulled the next day) shows up to tell him he's the father of her twins, now seven, and she'll be in jail for 14 days for a political protest. Dan volunteers to keep the tykes, although he's up tight and clueless. With Charlie's help is there any way they can be dad and uncle, meet the kids' expectations, and still land the account?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, melancholic, hilarious, slapstick comedy, not serious, light, entertaining, realistic, buddy comedy
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Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)
Plot Summary:
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 Mimi-Siku discovers that the world outside his jungle home is indeed a strange place.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: light, funny, feel good, entertaining, epic, family comedy, happy, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy
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Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Mary, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands pull the parents away from home, leaving the kids bored -- and increasingly mischievous.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, humorous, funny, teen, family comedy, hilarious, light, inspirational, epic
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Problem Child (1990)
Plot Summary:
Ben Healy (John Ritter) and his social climbing wife Flo adopt Junior a fun-loving seven year old. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares. But is he really just a little angel trying to get out? Find out in this hilarious satire on modern-day family life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, light, hilarious, slapstick, humorous, cult classic, epic, romantic comedy, light hearted
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I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998)
Plot Summary:
Estranged from his father, college student Jake is lured home to New York for Christmas with the promise of receiving a classic Porsche as a gift. When the bullying football team dumps him in the desert in a Santa suit, Jake is left without identification or money to help him make the journey. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Allie, does not know where he is, and accepts a cross-country ride from Jake's rival, Eddie.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, semi serious, teen, christmas comedy, sentimental, funny, romantic, road movie
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Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jim Carrey stars as Tom Popper, a successful businessman who’s clueless when it comes to the really important things in life...until he inherits six “adorable” penguins, each with its own unique personality. Soon Tom’s rambunctious roommates turn his swank New York apartment into a snowy winter wonderland — and the rest of his world upside-down.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 104000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, feel good, light, slapstick, sweet, sentimental, touching, uplifting
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Home Alone (1990)
Plot Summary:
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ready to defend his territory. By planting booby traps galore, adorably mischievous Kevin stands his ground as his frantic mother attempts to race home before.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 626000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy, hilarious, slapstick, feel good, clever, christmas special