16 best movies like Taxi (1978)


List of the best movies like Taxi (1978): The One and Only Ivan, Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader, The Perfect Family, Wrecked, Jersey Shore Shark Attack, The Greasy Strangler, Living Among Us, A Numbers Game, Coming & Going, The Chaperone.

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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: 4.4
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:23

Aspiring college cheerleader, Cassie Stratford consumes an experimental drug that grants her beauty and enough athletic ability to make the cheer squad. The drug has an unforeseen side effect — Cassie starts to grow and grow and grow!

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:24

Kathleen Turner stars as suburban mother and devout Catholic Eileen Cleary, who has always kept up appearances. When she runs for the Catholic Woman of the Year title at her local parish, her final test is introducing her family to the board for the seal of approval. Now she must finally face the nonconformist family she has been glossing over for years...

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure, detective
CountryUSA
Duration00:52

Single-camera comedy centering on a diverse group of survivors adjusting to being stranded on an uninhabited island, a dangerous new world where they must face many threats – mostly brought on by themselves. No longer plugged into the rest of the world, the group struggles to navigate their makeshift society while also learning to live without such modern comforts as indoor plumbing, Wi-Fi, social media and Chipotle.

Markimdb: 3
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

Many years ago, hundreds of locals and tourists were massacred by giant man-eating sharks in the infamous 1916 Jersey Shore attacks. But that's just a legend... or is it? It's a holiday weekend on the Jersey Shore and, unbeknownst to anyone, underwater drills have attracted dozens of albino bull sharks to the pier. When a man goes missing, TC (The Complication), Nookie and friends fear the worst and plead with the police chief to close down the beach. It isn't until a famous singer is eaten alive during a performance on the pier that the shark hunt begins. Now, the Preppies must work together with the Guidos in order to save the Jersey Shore and its inhabitants from another vicious slaughter.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

Ronnie runs a Disco walking tour with his son, Brayden. When a sexy woman takes the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her love. It also signals the arrival of an oily strangler who stalks the streets at night.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

Vampires have just made themselves public! Now a group of documentarians have been granted access to spend some time with them and learn how they live and coexist with humans. But as reality sets in, the crew realize they are in for far more than they bargained for.

Markimdb: 3.7
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA

Neil Black is a good looking schmoozer who can sell anything to anyone, literally. The beautiful Catherine (Madison Walls) doesn’t seem to close deals as easily as Mr. Black (Steven Bauer) and soon realizes her sales room is headed for disaster. Not able to handle rejection or accept failure, Catherine is forced to hand over her sales team to Neil Black, and watch as he turns her unproductive lazy sales room into a prosperous and successful “money room.” Basically, the plot focuses on the transformation of Catherine’s failing sales room and the blossoming relationship between her and Neil Black.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

Coming & Going is an irreverent romantic comedy that poses the question: How far would you go to capture the heart of the one you love? Lee (Rhys Darby) is a young, skilled OBGYN who lacks confidence when it comes to talking to women outside his successful medical practice. A minor injury temporarily lands him in a wheelchair and it is at that precise time that he meets his dream girl Alex (Sasha Alexander). Convinced she's only paid attention to him because he's in that chair, he stays in it to win her affections well after his injury has healed. Coming & Going is about love and the extreme things people do for it.

Markimdb: 5
Genreaction, comedy, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

An ex-con on the run from his criminal past, hides out from those he ratted on by chaperoning a field trip to New Orleans.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, comedy
CountryUSA

Six of the worlds scariest psychopaths escape from a local Asylum and proceed to unleash terror on the unsuspecting crowd of a Halloween Funhouse whose themed mazes are inspired by their various reigns of terror.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy
CountryUSA, Australia
Duration01:52

    Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA

    Wanda Sykes tackles politics, reality TV, racism and the secret she'd take to the grave in this rollicking, no-holds-barred stand-up special.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:32

    When architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her 15-year-old daughter Bee goes on a quest with Bernadette's husband to find her.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:25

    Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.




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