20 best movies like Doctor Detroit (1983)

List of the best movies like Doctor Detroit (1983): Kaboom, Big Money Rustlas, The Rum Diary, Honeymoon in Vegas, Bad Biology, Seven Psychopaths, Broadway Danny Rose, Harvard Man, Freaky Deaky, 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag.

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Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy
CountryUSA, France
Duration01:26

Smith, a typical young college student who likes partying and engaging in acts of random sex and debauchery, has been having some interesting dreams revolving around two gorgeous women -- and is shocked when he meets the dream girls in real life. Lorelei looks just like his fantasy brunette, while a mysterious red-haired girl being chased by assassins draws him into an international conspiracy. Or is it all just a drug-induced hallucination?

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrecomedy, western, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

The Insane Clown Posse heads back to the Wild West in this prequel to BIG MONEY HUSTLAS. Nothing happens in the dusty town of Mud Bug without the approval of gambling magnate Big Baby Chips (Violent J), and the locals turn and run when his henchmen come out to play. But when swaggering sheriff Sugar Wolf (Shaggy 2 Dope) teaches the locals to fight back, Big Baby Chips and his gang head for the hills in a hail of gunfire.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, biography
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:00

    Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s “The Lost Generation,” Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman, Chenaults and her fiancée Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals.  It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his girlfriend. They finally decide to tie the knot in Vegas, but a wealthy gambler arranges for the man to lose $65K in a poker game and offers to clear the debt for a weekend with his fiancée.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrehorror, comedy
    CountryUSA

    Driven by biological excess, a young man and woman search for sexual fulfillment, unaware of each other's existence. Unfortunately, they eventually meet, and the bonding of these two very unusual human beings ends in an explosive and ultimately over-the-top sexual experience, resulting in a truly god awful love story....

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:50

      A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:24

      A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova (Nick Apollo Forte), whose career is on the rebound.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:00

      College has always been a time for experimentation, sexual, cultural and otherwise. "Harvard Man" plays out against a background of love, sex, basketball, crime and experimentation. Action and philosophy in young people's quest to discover their true identity.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime
      CountryUSA

      Set in 1974, a pair of '60s radicals rely on their bomb-making skills on their way to becoming capitalists.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrecomedy, adventure, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:35

      Mafia hitman Tommy Spinelli (Joe Pesci) is flying to San Diego with a bag that holds eight severed heads, which he's bringing to his superiors to prove that some troublesome rival mobsters are permanently out of the picture. When his bag gets accidentally switched at the airport, Tommy must track down his duffel bag and the 8 heads it contains.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      Single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. When she meets two dancers from a nearby gentlemen's club, Diana's convinced there's fast money to be made stripping.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      When Danielle is banished to special education because of her misbehavior, she joins Clarke on a road trip to discover themselves.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.

      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: 6.3
        Genrecomedy, western
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:24

        A group of unscrupulous characters seek buried treasure in the old west.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrecomedy, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, West Germany
        Duration01:47

        A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        A group of teenagers spend the night in a furniture shop for a graduation party. When one of them talks her boyfriend into a game of hide-and-seek, a psycho killer starts hunting them down one by one.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

        A prototype enhanced human, on the run from Chinese-hired hit men, hooks up with a dread-locked bystander, and the two of them elude their pursuers narrowly each time.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:47

        Martin Blank is a hitman for hire. When he starts to develop a conscience, he botches a couple of routine jobs. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he decides to attend his ten-year high school reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrecomedy
        CountryUSA, Mexico

        Guy Carter, an insecure expectant father unable to find work in his field, accepts a job driving hookers around Los Angeles. One long and crazy evening proves to our hero that he is, in fact, up to the task of fatherhood.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrecomedy, musical, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:03

        In prohibition-era Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a south-side racketeer, knock off the boss Big Jim. Everyone falls in line behind Guy except Robbo, who controls the north side. Although he's out-gunned, Robbo wants to keep his own territory. A pool-playing dude from Indiana and the director of a boys' orphanage join forces with Robbo; and, when he gives some money to the orphanage, he becomes the toast of the town as a hood like Robin Hood. Meanwhile, Guy schemes to get rid of Robbo, and Big Jim's heretofore unknown daughter Marian appears and goes from man to man trying to find an ally in her quest to run the whole show. Can Robbo hold things together?

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
        Duration01:45

        A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrecomedy, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        A story about a brain surgeon who tries to end his unhappy marriage to spend more time with a disembodied brain.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
        CountryUSA

        While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:30

        Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. Mistress America is a comedy about dream-chasing, score-settling, makeshift families, and cat-stealing.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, adventure
        CountryFrance

        A beautiful woman hires an intrepid adventurer to help find her father, who has disappeared in the jungle while searching for a rare and priceless butterfly. Along the way they run into cannibals, a race of Amazon warriors and all the usual attractions one would expect to find in a lost jungle.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
        CountryUSA

        Two fraternity pledges go to a sleazy bar looking for strippers to entertain their college friends.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrethriller, comedy
        CountryItaly, USA
        Duration01:21

        The federal agent Joe Dee Foster is currently investigating a serial killer, helped by doctor Animal who is isolated in a maximum security jail.

        Markimdb: 4.4
        Genrecomedy, crime
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:38

        After leaving the prison, the dwarf criminal Calvin Sims joins to his moron brother Percy to steal an expensive huge diamond in a jewelry for the mobster Walken. They are chased by the police, and Calvin hides the stone in the purse of the executive Vanessa Edwards, whose husband Darryl Edwards wants to have a baby. Percy convinces Calvin to dress like a baby and be left in front of the Edwards's house to get inside the house and retrieve the diamond. Darryl and Vanessa keep Calvin for the weekend and decide to adopt him, while Walken threatens Darryl to get the stone back.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:43

        After attending a gathering on a billionaire's yacht during a European vacation, a New York cop and his wife become prime suspects when he's murdered.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
        CountrySpain, Portugal, Germany
        Duration02:04

        Mommy's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his expensive wedding ring inside the body of a prostitute. Mafioso whorehouse owner Villambrosa finds the ring. Meanwhile Villambrosa's rival gangster Souza sends femme fatale Fatima to check things out. Juantxo and his friends are trying to get the ring back and in the process get involved in the war between gangs.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrethriller, comedy, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        Hard-as-nails cop, Jake Stone moves in with the Robbersons so he can watch a hitman who has moved in next door. The Hitman is one thing—but can you survive the Robberson family.

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genrehorror, comedy
        CountryUSA

        Seven college students are picked to travel to a private island owned by the reclusive Vincent King and his film-obsessed wife Mary Shelley to study island wildlife. But is isn't long when a mysterious killer begins killing the students one-by-one, and modeling them after gory murder scenes from numerous horror films.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:54

        A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrecomedy, western
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:36

        Sam Whiskey is an all-round talent, but when the attractive widow Laura offers him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars, which Laura's dead husband stole recently, from a sunken ship and secretly bring them back to the mint before they are missed. But how shall he manage to get several hundred pounds of gold into the mint without anyone noticing?

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, western
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:43

        Two cowboys inherit a "social club" specializing in satisfying men.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:20

        A foul-mouthed finishing school graduate mistakenly winds up on an ill-fated fishing boat, and faces the wrath of a crew that considers him bad luck.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:44

        Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affair with the mistress of mob boss Tony "The Tiger" Russo, Angela and her son depart for New York City to make a fresh start. Unfortunately, Tony has set his sights upon Angela -- and so has an undercover FBI agent looking to use her to bust Tony.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrecomedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:45

        A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrecomedy, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a principal's office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke sets out to unmask the thief. Bobby prints an article fingering Class President Paul Moore as the thief, shredding the youth's reputation. But as Bobby gets to know Paul's girlfriend, Francesca, he comes to realize he was wrong about Paul, so he sets out to unmask the true culprit.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, crime
        CountryIndia

        Comic thriller about two people who miss the last local train and how missing the train changes the course of their lives forever.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrecomedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:22

        Jack and his buddy Ben check in at a posh Florida resort, planning to spend every hour in hot pursuit of gorgeous babes. But their plans hit a major detour when they try to bed the wife of a conniving jewel thief. They'll have to outsmart him, a nasty security guard and an obnoxious jock if they're ever going to get a moment alone with the girls of their dreams!

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, family, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:39

        Baby Bink couldn't ask for more; he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, he lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby Bink's parents; especially the three enterprising kidnapers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper. Successfully kidnaping Baby Bink, they have a harder time keeping hold of the rascal, who not only keeps one step ahead of them, but seems to be more than a little bit smarter than the three bumbling criminals.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrecomedy, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:44

        Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of freedom. and soon realize that they still have the pizzazz when, picking up their prison checks at a bank, they foil a robbery attempt.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genreaction, comedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

        Texas Ranger Roland Sharp is assigned to protect the only witnesses to the murder of a key figure in the prosecution of a drug kingpin -- a group of University of Texas cheerleaders. Sharp must now go undercover as an assistant cheerleading coach and move in with the young women.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, adventure
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, USA
        Duration01:29

        The script, which was written on a day-to-day basis as the film was being shot, concerns the adventures of a motley crew of swindlers and ne'er-do-wells trying to lay claim to land rich in uranium deposits in Kenya as they wait in a small Italian port to travel aboard an ill-fated tramp steamer en route to Mombasa.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:56

        A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
        CountryUSA, Mexico
        Duration01:34

        Drug baron Peter Loomis (Patrick Stewart) has his $400 million dollar drug fortune stolen in South America. Loomis sends Armor O'Malley (Denis Leary), a ruthless killer to find his money. Cole Parker (Mario Van Peebles), a DEA Agent is on a South American mission of justice and revenge. He is sent to find his father's killer. Cole busts an eccentric smuggler, Dani Servigo (Christopher Lambert) to help Cole to find the smuggler's brother's money that he has stolen from Loomis. But O'Malley wants to find the fortune for himself. In a Cat and Mouse game, Cole and Dani are forced to help each other to find the missing fortune while trying to avoid O'Malley and his men. Together, Servigo and Parker search for the boat.

        Markimdb: 3.4
        Genreaction, comedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:20

        A 30-something couple unintentionally become involved in a botched jewel heist while shopping for wedding rings.




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