20 best movies like Bananas (1971)

List of the best movies like Bananas (1971): The Brink, Zombies vs. Strippers, Animal Farm, The Sweeter Side of Life, The Coed and the Zombie Stoner, Mega Python vs. Gatoroid, Mortdecai, Bedazzled, Tom Segura: Mostly Stories, A Day Without a Mexican.

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Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

Three top U.S. government and military officials scramble to prevent World War 3 from happening amidst the chaos of a geopolitical crisis.

Markimdb: 3.4
Genrehorror, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:16

The Tough Titty is about to go under after losing a lot of money and gaining no customers. After they bring together their staff for the night to declare bankruptcy and lay offs, little do they know that around them the city is being sieged by the walking dead.

Markimdb: 6
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, family
CountryUSA, United Kingdom

An animated film from 1999 based on the famous novel by George Orwell. Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:21

Pampered Manhattan housewife Desiree Harper has it all. That is until her husband unexpectedly dumps her for his acupuncturist. Faced with an airtight prenup, Desiree reluctantly lands a job making cupcakes at her father's bakery in Flemington, NJ. She soon discovers there's more to life than 5th Avenue and true love can be even sweeter in small town America.

Markimdb: 3.6
Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

When a sorority girl falls in love with a zombie, it's only a matter of time before a zombie apocalypse is unleashed on campus. The sorority girl discovers that weed is the cure. Now, she must smoke out the whole school before it's too late.

Markimdb: 3
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA

A fanatical animal rights activist releases giant pythons into the Everglades, believing the wild animals should be set free. When they start decimating the native animal population, an over-zealous park ranger feeds experimental steroids to wild alligators so they can fight back. The giant pythons and gargantuan alligators go on a killing spree, and it is now left up to the two feuding women to put aside their differences to put a stop to the creatures and the destruction.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, adventure, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:28

    Art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code that gains access to hidden Nazi gold.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantasy, comedy
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:33

    Elliot Richardson, suicidal techno geek, is given seven wishes to turn his life around when he meets up with a very seductive Satan. The catch: his soul. Some of his wishes include a 7 foot basketball star, a rock star, and a hamburger. But, as could be expected, the Devil must put her own little twist on each his fantasies.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, documentary
    CountryUSA

    The bearded, bawdy, and comically bitter Tom Segura gets real about body piercings, the "Area 51" of men's bodies, and the lie he told Mike Tyson.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Mexico, Spain

    One morning, California wakes up to find that one-third of its population -- the Hispanic third -- has disappeared. A strange pink fog envelops the state, and communication outside its boundaries is completely cut off. The economic, political and social implications of this disaster threaten California's way of life, and for a group of disparate people (all white, except for one Latina), the cracks in their private lives are forced wide open.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950's, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the Marxist government of Fidel Castro. Castro's regime ultimately leads the nightclub owner to flee to New York.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    Bud and Doyle are two losers who are doing nothing with their lives. Both of their girlfriends are actively involved in saving the environment, but the two friends couldn't care less about saving the Earth. One day, when a group of scientists begin a mission to live inside a "Bio-Dome" for a year without outside contact, Bud and Doyle mistakenly become part of the project themselves.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from New York to Central America.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, music
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:42

    Mark Hunter is an intelligent but shy teenager who has just moved to suburban Arizona from New York. Unbeknownst to his parents and peers, at 10pm each school night Mark takes to the shortwave radio in his basement and transforms into pirate DJ "Hard Harry". Mark's show, at once thoughtful and profane, becomes an underground hit with students at his high school, inspiring the wrath of his principal and the Federal Communications Commission [FCC].

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryGermany, Mexico, USA
    Duration01:49

    The year is 1958, and in Holguín, Cuba, a boy's world is about to change forever.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genreaction, comedy, military
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany
    Duration02:01

      Vietnam veteran 'Four Leaf' Tayback's memoir, Tropic Thunder, is being made into a film, but Director Damien Cockburn can’t control the cast of prima donnas. Behind schedule and over budget, Cockburn is ordered by a studio executive to get filming back on track, or risk its cancellation. On Tayback's advice, Cockburn drops the actors into the middle of the jungle to film the remaining scenes but, unbeknownst to the actors and production, the group have been dropped in the middle of the Golden Triangle, the home of heroin-producing gangs.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      On his latest expedition, Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into a space-time vortex alongside his research assistant and a redneck survivalist. In this alternate universe, the trio make friends with a primate named Chaka, their only ally in a world full of dinosaurs and other fantastic creatures.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:37

      Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she finds herself in the middle of a matchmaking festival, and the local matchmaker is determined to pair her off with one of the local bachelors.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:43

      When Elizabeth returns to her mother's home after her marriage breaks up, she recreates her imaginary childhood friend, Fred, to escape from the trauma of losing her husband and her job. In between the chaos and mayhem that Fred creates, Elizabeth attempts to win back her husband and return to normality.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:09

      Andy, a successful marketing guy quits his job, gets a new job at a research facility, makes a powerful enemy who makes him volunteer for a nearly impossible project: The $99 PC. The only available guys at the lab, three sociopaths, together they compile a revolutionary PC for $99, then they become the victims of a venture capitalist and Andy's old foe, can he find a way to overcome the problems?

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genreaction, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      Two top CIA operatives wage an epic battle against one another after they discover they are dating the same woman.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, western
      CountryItaly, Spain, USA

      While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for the soul of the guerrilla general Paco, as Mexicans threw off repressive government and all-powerful landowners in the 1910s. Tracked by the vengeful Curly, Paco liberates villages, but is tempted by social banditry's treasures, which Kowalski revels in.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious visitor.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      Our hero, Cooper, awakes to find himself nauseous, weak and covered in webbing, hanging from the ceiling of an office where, just minutes ago, he started his new job. As he struggles out of his slimy prison he comes face to face with his opponent - a grotesque, powerful and very angry bug. All 3 ft of it. And so begins a hideous, nail-biting, comedic, all-action adventure to find a safe haven while constantly outwitting an infestation of monstrous proportions. As Cooper embarks on his journey, he befriends a ragtag group of survivors including the feisty, determined Sara. Will they make it to safety before they are picked off one by one? And what other surprises are in store for our group of unlikely heroes?

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryFrance, USA
      Duration01:26

      A modern Cinderella in Paris: While the plain Kelly Carter jobs as a gadrobiere for the famous fashion designer Francesco, she dreams of designing shoes for him. However she can't win his attention... until she meets a good fairy on the street, who enchants a pair of Kelly's shoes, so that she turns into supermodel Prudence whenever she wears them. She attends one of Francesco's balls and immediately wins his heart. Now, how can she make him love her real self?

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration02:05

      Two romantically-engaged corporate spies team up to manipulate a corporate race to corner the market on a medical innovation that will reap huge profits and enable them to lead an extravagant lifestyle together.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, military
      CountryWest Germany, USA
      Duration02:01

      "Hair" is a 1979 musical war comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical "Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" about a Vietnam War draftee, Claude, who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center. Claude heads to New York upon receiving his draft notice, leaving the family ranch in Oklahoma. He arrives in New York where he is rapidly indoctrinated into the youth subculture before reporting in for boot camp.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      Three bad girls (a down-and-out stripper, a drug-running killer and a corporate powerbroker) arrive at a remote desert hideaway to extort and steal $200 million in diamonds from a ruthless underworld kingpin.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:00

      Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.

      Markimdb: 3.2
      Genrehorror, action, comedy
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:31

      When the world is taken over by flesh eating zombies, best friends Tommy and Edwin figure out a way to benefit from it by turning zombies into fertilizer for growing potent weed! There will be bud.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:00

        After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, Japan, Colombia
        Duration02:32

          The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrecomedy, musical
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:37

          The famous Captain Spaulding returns from Africa and attends a gala party where a valuable painting is stolen.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrethriller, comedy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:53

          Political double-talk, dirty tricks, hidden microphones, spy satellites, bugging the Oval Office and a nuclear bomb for sale are all ingredients in this swift, funny and frightening look at the possibilities in today's political arenas. Sean Connery stars as TV Newsman Patrick Hale on an international chase to track two suitcase sized nuclear weapons and to uncover the twisting maze of apparent involvement of US Government agencies.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrecomedy, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:44

            Fed up with the cruelty and stupidity of American culture, an unlikely duo goes on a killing spree, killing reality TV stars, bigots and others they find repugnant in this black comedy.

            Markimdb: 6.1
            Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:57

            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.

            Markimdb: 6
            Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:46

            Chip's problem is that he can't say no to beautiful women. This weakness gets him into a world of trouble when he agrees to help his girlfriend steal $68,000.

            Markimdb: 4.4
            Genreaction, comedy, adventure, military
            CountryGermany, USA
            Duration01:28

            An american woman, in search of her fiance', becomes involved in a revolution of a central-american country.

            Markimdb: 4.9
            Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:25

            Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens.

            Markimdb: 5.6
            Genreaction, comedy
            CountryChina, Hong Kong, USA

            A tale of revenge, honor and greed follows a group of misfits that gets involved with a kitchen cleaver made from the top five swords of the martial arts world in this wild and brash action comedy.

            Markimdb: 5.3
            Genrefantastic, action, comedy
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom
            Duration01:44

            Based on the British cult comic-strip, our tank-riding anti-heroine fights a mega-corporation, which controls the world's water supply.

            Markimdb: 6.3
            Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime, detective
            CountryUSA, France
            Duration01:37

            A tale of double cross and revenge, centered upon the members of an elite U.S. Special Forces unit sent into the Bolivian jungle on a search and destroy mission. The team-Clay, Jensen, Roque, Pooch and Cougar -find themselves the target of a lethal betrayal instigated from inside by a powerful enemy known only as Max. Presumed dead, the group makes plans to even the score when they're joined by the mysterious Aisha, a beautiful operative with her own agenda. Working together, they must remain deep undercover while tracking the heavily-guarded Max, a ruthless man bent on embroiling the world in a new high-tech global war.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime, music
            CountrySweden, France, Denmark
            Duration01:42

            A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genrecomedy, adventure
            CountryUSA, Canada, Germany
            Duration01:30

            Six years have elapsed since Guantanamo Bay, leaving Harold and Kumar estranged from one another with very different families, friends and lives. But when Kumar arrives on Harold's doorstep during the holiday season with a mysterious package in hand, he inadvertently burns down Harold's father-in-law's beloved Christmas tree. To fix the problem, Harold and Kumar embark on a mission through New York City to find the perfect Christmas tree, once again stumbling into trouble at every single turn.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genrecomedy
            CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Belgium, Canada, USA
            Duration02:30

            Stalin's core team of ministers tussle for control following the Russian leader's stroke in 1953.

            Markimdb: 5
            Genrecomedy
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:34

            While attempting to seduce gorgeous lawyer Diane Lightson, wealthy gadabout Chris Thorne agrees to drive her to Atlantic City, N.J. But, when some reckless driving draws the attention of a deeply critical cop, they and the flamboyant "Brazillionaires" who tagged along end up in the court of a grotesque and vengeful judge, who has a special vendetta against the wealthy and erudite.

            Markimdb: 7
            Genrefantastic, action, comedy
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Japan
            Duration01:49

            Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.




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