20 best movies like Cheaper to Keep Her (1981)

List of the best movies like Cheaper to Keep Her (1981): The One and Only Ivan, The Family Tree, Snatch, Flight 666, Sleepwalk with Me, The Blazing World, Wadjda, A Futile and Stupid Gesture, People of Earth, Our Brand Is Crisis.

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Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, family
CountryUSA

Ivan is a 400-pound silverback gorilla who shares a communal habitat in a suburban shopping mall with Stella the elephant, Bob the dog, and various other animals. He has few memories of the jungle where he was captured, but when a baby elephant named Ruby arrives, it touches something deep within him. Ruby is recently separated from her family in the wild, which causes him to question his life, where he comes from and where he ultimately wants to be.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryAustralia, USA
Duration01:27

A mother and wife stricken with memory loss allows a dysfunctional family a second chance at harmony and happiness.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:09

A group of up-and-coming hustlers stumble upon a truckload of stolen gold bullion and are suddenly thrust into the high-stakes world of organized crime.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy, family
CountryUSA

Passengers and crew on a flight are attacked by unseen forces that threaten all aboard.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:20

A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure
CountryUSA

Ever since Margaret was six years old, she has been haunted by the memory of watching her sister drown during an explosive fight between her parents. As a young woman, she slides further into her twisted inner life, ultimately finding herself on the brink of suicide. Through an epic journey down the smokiest and scariest corridors of her imagination, she tries to exorcise the demons pushing her closer and closer to the edge.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, drama
CountrySaudi Arabia, Netherlands, Germany, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration01:38

Wadjda is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Although she lives in a conservative world, Wadjda is fun loving, entrepreneurial and always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn't be playing with, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so that she can beat Abdullah in a race. But Wadjda's mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. So Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herself...

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:37

The National Lampoon name became globally recognized after the monumental success of Animal House—but before the glory days, it was a scrappy yet divinely subversive magazine and radio show that introduced the world to comedic geniuses like Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, John Belushi, and Gilda Radner. The driving force behind National Lampoon was Doug Kenney (Will Forte), and his truly wild and crazy story unfolds in A Futile and Stupid Gesture from Harvard to Hollywood to Caddyshack and beyond.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrefantastic, comedy, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

Skeptical journalist Ozzie Graham investigates a support group for alien abductees to write about the members' supposed encounters. The more he digs into their oddball claims, the more he realizes there is truth in their stories and possibly even signs that point to his own alien abduction.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:29

A feature film based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", which focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA

Desperate to get out from under her overprotective mother, a home-schooled teen runs off to live with her dad, and forms a bond with his much-younger boyfriend.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryCanada, USA, United Kingdom

A cranky, retired author reluctantly embarks on a final book tour to help out a young publisher.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genreaction, comedy, crime
CountryUSA

The owners of a failing security company start robbing houses to boost business.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genrefantastic, action, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:58

A rookie cop is tasked with shadowing Officer Downe, a no-nonsense LAPD cop with regenerative powers, as he wages an ultra-violent war against the nefarious villains of Los Angeles.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrecomedy, adventure, crime
CountryUSA

When best friends, Jack and Scottie, get a once in a lifetime shot at hidden loot, they take off on a cross-country adventure turned crime spree. With a whiny accidental hostage in tow, and a deranged bounty huntress and Johnny Law hot on their trail, it's going to be a race to the bullet-riddled finish.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA

Comedian Taylor Tomlinson is halfway through her 20s — and she's over it. From dating losers to a failed engagement, she takes aim at her life choices.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA

A 30-something year old decides to "break up" with his best buds in order to finally grow up.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrethriller, comedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

Each member of a group of people has a connection to a self-help book authored by a reclusive former football coach.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:27

An inner-city high school teacher discovers she is pregnant at the same time as one of her most promising students and the two develop an unlikely friendship while struggling to navigate their unexpected pregnancies.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA, United Kingdom

14 years after making a film about his journey across the USA, Borat risks life and limb when he returns to the United States with his young daughter, and reveals more about the culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the political elections.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:19

It’s been more than 10 years since our last appointment at Calvin’s Barbershop. Calvin and his longtime crew, including Eddie, are still there, but the shop has undergone some major changes. Most noticeably, our once male-dominated sanctuary is now co-ed. The ladies bring their own flavor, drama and gossip to the shop challenging the fellas at every turn. Despite the good times and camaraderie within the shop, the surrounding community has taken a turn for the worse, forcing Calvin and our crew to come together to not only save the shop, but their neighborhood.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, comedy, adventure, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:29

The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulous gang and others of that ilk to justice.

Markimdb: 3.4
Genrecomedy, family
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:25

The original traditional one-hundred-percent red-blooded two-fisted all-american christmas continues five years later with Ralphie, Randy mom and the old man. This time Ralphie has his eyes fixed on a car. But trouble is sure to follow.

Markimdb: 8.6
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA

MICHAEL is a former college indie rocker who's now a new dad and not sure how he feels about his life of comfortable domesticity. His wife HELEN is not sure how she feels about Michael not being sure...especially when he's the one always opting for "crazy" evenings of watching Netflix on the couch with a six pack of tall boys safely nearby. Perhaps Michael can make one last great grasp at rock stardom and finally find that complete 100% certain no-doubt-about-it contentment that has so far eluded him.

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.




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