20 best movies like Doug Stanhope: No Place Like Home (2016)

List of the best movies like Doug Stanhope: No Place Like Home (2016): The One and Only Ivan, The Bronze, The Matchbreaker, About Time, Silver Linings Playbook, That's My Boy, The Wolf of Wall Street, 50/50, Dolemite Is My Name, The Main Event.

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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: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama, sport
CountryUSA

In 2004, Hope Ann Greggory became an American hero after winning the bronze medal for the women's gymnastics team. Today, she's still living in her small hometown, washed-up and embittered. Stuck in the past, Hope must reassess her life when a promising young gymnast threatens her local celebrity status.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:03

When an idealistic romantic gets fired from his day job, he is offered a "one-time gig" to break up a girl's relationship for her disapproving parents. This "one-time" gig spreads through word-of-mouth and he ends up becoming a professional match-breaker. However, he ends up falling for one of his clients and must figure out how to balance his secret job with his love-life.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:03

    The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life – so he decides to make his world a better place... by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as he thinks.

    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: 5.5
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:56

      While in his teens, Donny fathered a son, Todd, and raised him as a single parent up until Todd's 18th birthday. Now, after not seeing each other for years, Todd's world comes crashing down when Donny resurfaces just before Todd's wedding.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration03:00

        A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

        Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrecomedy, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration03:03

        The story of Rudy Ray Moore, who created the iconic big screen pimp character Dolemite in the 1970s.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, family, sport
        CountryUSA

        After discovering a magical mask, an 11-year-old aspiring wrestler enters a competition to become the next WWE superstar by using special powers from a magical mask.

        Markimdb: 4.3
        Genrehorror, comedy
        CountryUSA

        Two voyeuristic nerds are hacking the devices of people as they themselves are hacked by the feed from story tellers Mister Malevolent and Mystic Woman who have seven moralistic horror stories to tell.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
        CountryUSA

        A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:25

        When they say “love is blind” they must have been talking about Amy and Ben. Amy is a beautiful young woman with a mysterious past. Ben is a scruffy slacker, whose only ambition seems to be avoiding growing up. However, Amy sees something in Ben that Ben doesn't see in himself, which gives Ben the confidence to make something of his life. The power of love shows Ben that being a grown-up isn't such a bad thing after all.

        Markimdb: 8.2
        Genrecomedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:43

        Elegant, proper Grace and freewheeling, eccentric Frankie are a pair of frenemies whose lives are turned upside down - and permanently intertwined - when their husbands leave them for each other. Together, they must face starting over in their 70s in a 21st century world.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrecomedy, crime
        CountryUSA

        Detective Nick Blades is a New Orleans cop on trial for corruption. Assistant District Attorney Theo Gold is the man in charge of putting him behind bars. When these two unlikely partners from opposite sides of the law stumble onto a criminal plot, they’ll need to rely on luck – and patience – to take down a dangerous killer without killing each other first.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genreaction, comedy, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:36

        Friends hatch a plot to retrieve a stolen cat by posing as drug dealers for a street gang.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genrecomedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:25

        After being rejected from every medical residency program on his list, Dr. David Tracy scrambles to perform 1750 hours of clinical therapy out of his garage to become a licensed therapist before his $500,000 activate and destroy his life.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA

        The story of a woman who loves her dog more than her husband. And then her husband loses the dog.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:39

        Returning home to working class Warwick, Rhode Island, Peter Latang encounters childhood friend Donald Treebeck for what starts as a simple favor and turns into a long van ride into two friends past.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrefantasy, comedy, family
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        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.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:48

        An aimless man is sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:00

        After the bizarre death of her brother, Johana Burwood must return home after four years, to face her strange siblings, her out of touch father and her very touchy past.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrecomedy, drama, western
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:01

        Being a pro athlete didn't pan out for Colt. Now he's helping his dad and brother keep the ranch afloat, and figuring out how he fits into the family.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrefantastic, comedy, family
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        Mae and Gabby are two friends who go everywhere together but they are not very popular in their school. Their classmates always pressure because they have not had a boyfriend so to avoid further setbacks, the girls put in place a plan to create the perfect boyfriend. Both believe that it will be easy to create their perfect guy using the military team building; machinery owned by the father of Mae, the machine works through a wireless keyboard. The machine can create with their settings, a robotic soldier. Of this plan was born Albert an ideal guy to be a perfect boyfriend. He will be the most popular boy of the school.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryFrance, Germany, USA
        Duration02:35

        A week in the life of a bus driver and poet named Paterson, and his supportive wife Laura.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrecomedy
        CountryUSA

        Loiter Squad is an American sketch comedy television series starring Tyler, The Creator, Jasper Dolphin, Taco Bennett, and Lionel Boyce from the Los Angeles hip hop group Odd Future. The show regularly features other members of the group as well. Jeff Tremaine, Shanna Zablow, Dimitry Elyashkevich, Lance Bangs, Nick Weidenfeld and Keith Crofford are the show's executive producers. The show is produced by Dickhouse Entertainment for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block. The show's second season made its debut on March 10, 2013.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:12

        October, 2008. Young nun Colleen is avoiding all contact from her family, until an email from her mother announces, “Your brother is home.” On returning to her childhood home in Asheville, NC, she finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth/metal posters. Her parents are happy enough to see her, but unease and awkwardness abounds. Her brother is living as a recluse in the guesthouse since returning home from the Iraq war. During Colleen’s visit, tensions rise and fall with a little help from Halloween, pot cupcakes, and GWAR. Little Sister is a sad comedy about family – a schmaltz-free, pathos-drenched, feel good movie for the little goth girl inside us all.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrecomedy
        CountryFrance, Belgium, USA
        Duration01:35

        A wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
        CountryUSA, China, France, Canada, Russia
        Duration01:56

        Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:05

        A comedy that takes place in the 1960's during turbulent times in the United States when a middle class suburban family is visited by a guest who turns their household completely upside down.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA, Mexico

        A young white handyman, hired by a wealthy Mexican-American family to upkeep their ranch, finds himself caught between disgruntled locals and the family’s outrageously decadent daughters and discovers that something quite unusual is happening at the ranch.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrecomedy, detective
        CountryFrance, USA
        Duration01:34

        Dolph Springer wakes up one morning to realize he has lost the love of his life, his dog, Paul. During his quest to get Paul (and his life) back, Dolph radically changes the lives of others -- risking his sanity all the while.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrecomedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:21

        When Ethan arrives at the airport just in time to declare his undying love for his girlfriend, love appears to have conquered all. The scene, however, is really the ending of Ethan's novel, which his agent calls "unrealistic." Ethan soon meets a waitress, Jesse, and falls in love with her despite her growing devotion to Troy, a charming businessman. But the line between reality and fiction becomes increasingly blurred.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrecomedy, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:48

        Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        Nina Geld's passion and talent have made her a rising star in the comedy scene, but she's an emotional mess offstage. When a new professional opportunity coincides with a romantic one, she is forced to confront her own deeply troubled past.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrecomedy, drama, music
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada

        A young Scottish singer, Rose-Lynn Harlan, dreams of making it as a country artist in Nashville after being released from prison.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:45

        An eighteen year old high school drop out and his twenty-seven year old friend start trafficking marijuana across the border of Canada in order to make money and their lives are changed forever.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genreaction, comedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        Chronicles the adventures of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as he rides a "wheelchair of death" to stop the world from being taking over by polio-carrying werewolves during WWII. A deadly menace that are led by Werewolf Hitler, Mussolini and Emperor Hirohito.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrecomedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:14

        Ali Wong might be seven-months pregnant, but there’s not a fetus in the world that can stop this acerbic and savage train of comedy from delivering a masterful hour of stand-up.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrecomedy
        CountryUSA

        Comedian Tom Papa takes on body image issues, social media, pets, Staten Island, the "old days" and more in a special from his home state of New Jersey.

        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: 8.1
        Genrecomedy, documentary
        CountryUSA

        Comedy legend Dave Chappelle returns to his roots with an all-new stand-up special filmed at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:26

        Charles Swan III, a successful graphic designer, has it all: fame, money and devilish charm that have provided him with a seemingly perfect life. But when a perplexing beauty named Ivana suddenly ends their relationship, Charles is left heartbroken. With the support of his loyal intimates - Kirby, Saul, and his sister, Izzy – Charles begins a delirious journey of self-reflection to try and come to terms with a life without Ivana. "A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III" is an unconventional melodrama told in a bold and playful style.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrecomedy, drama, sport
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:53

        A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout -- 30 years after their last match.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA

        When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrecomedy, documentary
        CountryUSA

        Comedy juggernaut Dave Chappelle's fourth Netflix Special, taped on November 20th, 2017 at Los Angeles' Comedy Store.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrecomedy, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:19

        A comedic look at the life of Steve Jobs.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrecomedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:17

        Burned by a bad breakup, a struggling New York City playwright makes an unlikely connection with a divorced app designer she meets on a blind date.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:48

        Delve into the oddball family life of Miranda Sings, an incredibly confident, totally untalented star on the rise, who continues to fail upward by the power of her belief that she was born famous, it's just no one knows it yet.




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