Best movies like National Lampoon's European Vacation
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Plot Summary:
The Griswalds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and thus pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe, but they just don't know how to be be good tourists. Besides, they have trouble taking holidays in countries where they CAN speak the language.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, road movie, parody, light, not serious, realistic, funny, hilarious, game show, sexy
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Corvette Summer (1978)
Plot Summary:
Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream Corvette, is stolen, he begins searching for it. His search leads him to Las Vegas, where Vanessa, a teenaged prostitute wannabe, helps him try to track it down.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
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Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets shot and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe he's still alive. The killer wants to do his job so when he is informed that the stiff is still alive he's got to shoot him again, and again, and again.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, black comedy, hilarious, dark comedy, entertaining, absurd, not serious, buddy comedy, slapstick comedy
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Senior Trip (1995)
Plot Summary:
While on detention, a group of misfits and slackers have to write a letter to the President explaining what is wrong with the education system. There is only one problem, the President loves it! Hence, the group must travel to Washington to meet the Main Man.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, sex comedy, independent film, offbeat, realistic, not serious, funny, clever, bad ending
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The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: South Africa, Botswana
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, feel good, intellectual, cult classic, slapstick, independent film, mockumentary, spectacular
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Ass Backwards (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two best friends (Kate and Chloe) embark on a cross country trip back to their hometown to attempt to win a pageant that eluded them as children.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, underground film, independent film
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Bachelor Party Vegas (2006)
Plot Summary:
A planned evening of debauchery in Las Vegas to celebrate their best friend's wedding goes horribly -- but hilariously -- wrong for five average guys.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, sex comedy, feel good, realistic
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Troop Beverly Hills (1989)
Plot Summary:
A Beverly Hills housewife in the middle of a divorce tries to find focus in her life by taking over her daughter's Wilderness Girls troop.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: family comedy, independent film, sentimental, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, crying, hispanic, weeping
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Wieners (2008)
Plot Summary:
A road trip comedy about three friends who travel across the country in a Wiener Wagon to beat up a popular daytime talk show therapist.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, feel good, exciting, tense, light, erotic
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Captain Ron (1992)
Plot Summary:
When mild-mannered Martin Harvey finds out that he has inherited a vintage yacht, he decides to take his family on a Caribbean vacation to retrieve the vessel. Upon arriving on a small island and realizing that the ship is in rough shape, Martin and his family end up with more than they bargained for as the roguish Captain Ron signs on to sail the boat to Miami. It doesn't take long before Ron's anything-goes antics get the Harveys into plenty of trouble.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, cult classic, hilarious, feel good, semi serious, exciting, light, clever, unusual plot structure
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Joe Dirt (2001)
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Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blasting Van Halen in his jacked-up economy car, the irrepressibly optimistic Joe hits the road alone in search of his folks.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, hilarious, light, road movie, absurd, not serious, slapstick, cult classic
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Caddyshack (1980)
Plot Summary:
At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist Judge Smails, and then the caddy golf tournament which Smails sponsors.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 125000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, slapstick, light, intense, not serious, parody, humorous, feel good, sex comedy, captivating
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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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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie, black comedy, witty, funny, light, talky, not serious, independent film, humorous, dark comedy
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Fanboys (2009)
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In 1999, Star Wars fanatics take a cross-country trip to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch so their dying friend can see a screening of The Phantom Menace before its release.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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Tommy Boy (1995)
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, hilarious, feel good, not serious, realistic, parody, thought provoking, clever, suspense
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, suspense, parody, spoof, realistic, not serious, cult classic, hilarious
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Plot tags: mumblecore, humorous, sentimental, touching, realistic, road movie, captivating, funny, cult classic, semi serious
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 141000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 63000
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Country: UK, Germany, USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 120000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, hilarious, realistic, not serious, teen, road movie, feel good, romantic, slasher
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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)
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Sometimes, it takes a strange night to put everything else into focus. And that's exactly what happens to Harold and his roommate, Kumar, when they set out to get the best stoner fix money can buy: White Castle hamburgers. Both guys are at a crossroads, about to make major decisions that will affect the course of their lives. Yet they arrive at wisdom by accident as they drive around New Jersey in search of fast food.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 204000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 88 min
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Plot Summary:
It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by Connie's obnoxious brother-in-law, Roman Craig, his wife, Kate, and the couple's two daughters. As the excursion wears on, the Ripleys find themselves at odds with the stuffy Craig family.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 51000
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Country: USA
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Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, absurd, slapstick, cult classic, epic, romantic comedy, spectacular, colorful
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Plot Summary:
The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls—Las Vegas.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, light, slapstick, not serious, feel good, dark comedy, scenic, offbeat
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National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
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Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family on a quest to Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 118000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 226
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 114000
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Country: USA
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EuroTrip (2004)
Plot Summary:
When Scott learns that his longtime cyber-buddy from Berlin is a gorgeous young woman, he and his friends embark on a trip across Europe.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 219000
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Country: USA
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Plot Summary:
Four friends take off on an 1800 mile road trip to retrieve an illicit tape mistakenly mailed to a girl friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 176000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Plot Summary:
It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 211000
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
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