20 best movies like The Darwin Awards (2006)

List of the best movies like The Darwin Awards (2006): The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Deadpool 2, Minutemen, Explorers, The Leisure Seeker, The Mountain Between Us, The Bounty Hunter, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Baggage Claim, LOL.

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Markimdb: 7.3
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:54

A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:13

Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy's life.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, melodrama, adventure, family
CountryUSA

When three high-school friends invent a time-machine, they decide to use it to go back in time and prevent other youngsters from making humiliating mistakes.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, adventure, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

The visionary dreams of three curious and adventuresome young boys become an exciting reality in Explorers, the action-fantasy from director Joe Dante, who combines keen humor, warmth and fantasy with unexpected twists. In their makeshift laboratory, the boys use an amazing discovery and their ingenuity to build their own spaceship and launch themselves on a fantastic interplanetary journey.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryItaly, France
Duration02:17

A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey from Boston to Key West, recapturing their passion for life and their love for each other on a road trip that provides revelation and surprise right up to the very end.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:20

Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:46

    Milo Boyd is a bounty hunter whose latest gig is rather satisfying, as he finds out that the bail-skipper he must chase down is his own ex-wife, Nicole -- but she has no intention of getting nabbed without a fight. Complicating matters, Nicole's wannabe-boyfriend, Stewart, joins the chase.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    Pledging to keep herself from being the oldest and the only woman in her entire family never to wed, Montana embarks on a thirty-day, thirty-thousand-mile expedition to charm a potential suitor into becoming her fiancé.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne, "accidentally" reads her teenage daughter's racy journal, she realizes just how wide their communication gap has grown.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:02

    A young woman is forced to reflect on her first relationship when she inadvertently moves into her ex boyfriend's apartment building.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, adventure
    Duration01:05

    A what-in-the-living-hell-is-wrong-with-this-family comedy created by comic super-couple Jason Jones & Samantha Bee and inspired by their own experiences with family trips. Unfiltered dad Nate hits the road with wife Robin and kids Delilah and Jared. Every leg of their trip is fraught with disaster as they encounter one hellish turn after another. If there's trouble on the road, this family will find it and plow into it.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:25

    A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, adventure
    CountryFiji, USA

    Magazine photographer Alex Anderson and author Colin Page head to Fiji in search of the illusive blue pearl that Colin wrote about in his bestselling novel Pearl in Paradise. Alex stands to land the creative director position if she can photograph the pearl for the magazine’s 30th anniversary issue, and Colin hopes that by writing a guest article about the long-lost gem he can boost sales of his failing other books and not lose his publisher. As the two head off to their search, neither is aware yet that finding love could be the rarest adventure of all.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    When Ross is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and given six weeks to live, his newly engaged older brother Seth offers to spend his $50,000 wedding fund on a final trip of a lifetime. Their plans are complicated when Ross invites a call girl to join the group and Seth’s uptight fiancée insists on tagging along. This raucous road trip comedy features hip-hop star Asher Roth.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:10

    A slightly unhinged former Navy SEAL lands a job as a police officer in Los Angeles where he's partnered with a veteran detective trying to keep maintain a low stress level in his life.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    After an extramarital indiscretion, a fairy-tale prince and his sidekick are turned into frogs for all eternity or until the prince can convince a maiden to kiss and then marry him.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:37

    When their plane is rerouted due to a hurricane warning, two single female best friends find themselves competing for the same guy during an extended layover in St. Louis.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, music
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:21

    A young woman struggles to move on with her life after the death of her husband, an acclaimed folk singer, when a brash New York writer forces her to confront her loss and the ambiguous circumstances of his death.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, comedy, adventure
    CountryItaly, USA
    Duration01:47

    After Mason picks up hitchhiking Rosco with his truck, they are mistaken for two bank robbers by the traffic police. They manage to escape only to be confused for two secret agents while trying to take a flight at the airport.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, adventure
    CountryUSA

    Medium Sylvia Pickel and psychometrist Nick Deezy meet at a psychic research facility in New York. Not long after, they're contacted by Harry Buscafusco, who offers them $50,000 to find his lost son in South America, in the heart of Incan territory where they discover an ancient mystical secret, and each other.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, adventure, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:39

    A professor creates a device that allows him and his colleague to change the course of events from the past in order to improve their current life.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genreaction, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    An uptight by-the-book cop must protect the widow of a drug boss from crooked cops and gunmen.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, adventure
    CountryUSA

    Just because a journey leads you somewhere you didn't expect, doesn't mean you ended up in the wrong place.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:33

    After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    A mother takes her two sons on an unusual road trip from New York. Pittsburgh, St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    Two wounded souls commiserate through drinking and aimless wandering while acting out the roles of the happy relationships that elude them in reality. Greta Gerwig and Olly Alexander deliver beautifully-tuned comic performances in their portrayal of young adults learning to cope with the unavoidable perils of emotional dependency.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a boy with no future and no family. Tom has to choose between honoring a friendship or honoring an oath because the town alcoholic is accused of the murder. Tom and Huck go through several adventures trying to retrieve evidence.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:44

    For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing uncomfortably close, Paul escapes on the first RV that passes by his compound in Area 51. Fortunately, it contains the two earthlings who are most likely to rescue and harbor an alien on the run.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    When new kid in town Ed Wallis is given an assignment to interview an older person, he turns to his mysterious neighbor, Ashby Holt for help. That new connection leads to unexpected journeys for both of them, as Ashby – who turns out to be a retired CIA assassin – deals with a terminal prognosis, and Ed deals with adjusting to life with his newly single mom and developing relationship with a brainy classmate, Eloise.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

      A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately hinging on the battle of truth vs. trust.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrecomedy, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:24

      Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, a grown up Rusty Griswold takes his wife and their two sons on a cross-country road trip to the coolest theme park in America, Walley World. Needless to say, things don't go quite as planned.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:29

      A couple who can't stop fighting embark on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage: turning their fights into songs and starting a band.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA

      Prince Akeem Joffer is set to become King of Zamunda when he discovers he has a son he never knew about in America – a street savvy Queens native named Lavelle. Honoring his royal father's dying wish to groom this son as the crown prince, Akeem and Semmi set off to America once again.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, adventure, family
      CountryUSA, Hungary, France
      Duration01:44

        Three young women vacationing in Paris find themselves whisked away to Monte Carlo after one of the girls is mistaken for a British heiress.

        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.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        In an attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend on Christmas Eve, Kate ends up ruining her blind date with Miles, a handsome guy she's been set up with. In a strange twist of fate, Kate is given the chance to re-live Christmas Eve twelve times.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:57

        A frustrated artist gets lost inside the cardboard fort he builds in his living room.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA, Spain
        Duration01:34

          A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:57

          A woman at rock bottom must find her way across Los Angeles in order to crash her ex-boyfriend's engagement party.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:09

          Desperate for a good story, a sex-addicted journalist throws himself into the world of high-class escorts when he starts following a Stanford-educated prostitute.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:34

          A drama centered around the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, adventure, family
          CountryAustria, United Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:45

          D'Artagnan travels to Paris hoping to become a musketeer, one of the French king's elite bodyguards, only to discover that the corps has been disbanded by conniving Cardinal Richelieu, who secretly hopes to usurp the throne. Fortunately, Athos, Porthos and Aramis have refused to lay down their weapons and continue to protect their king. D'Artagnan joins with the rogues to expose Richelieu's plot against the crown.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure, music
          CountryUSA, Bahamas

          Yet to fulfill their rock and roll destiny, the now middle-aged best friends Bill and Ted set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they are helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures and a few music legends—to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
          CountryUSA, Croatia, Mexico
          Duration01:40

          An emerging journalist (Jesse Eisenberg), an experienced cameraman (Terrence Howard), and a discredited reporter (Richard Gere) find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative mistakes them for a CIA hit squad in a light-hearted thriller inspired by Scott Anderson's popular Esquire article. The Weinstein Company provides stateside

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:31

          An unemployed lingerie buyer convinces her bail bondsman cousin to give her a shot as a bounty hunter. Her first assignment is to track down a former cop on the run for murder – the same man who broke her heart years before. With the help of some friends and the best bounty hunter in the business, she slowly learns what it takes to be a true bounty hunter.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration00:30

          A down-on-her-luck young woman who falls into a job as a personal assistant to a star quarterback sidelined with an injury. He's never had a female assistant before and she knows nothing about football.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family
          CountryUSA, New Zealand
          Duration02:18

          For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace, who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales... until she meets Pete, a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete's descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham's stories. With the help of Natalie, an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack owns the local lumber mill, Grace sets out to determine where Pete came from, where he belongs, and the truth about this dragon.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, adventure
          CountryMexico, USA
          Duration01:46

          Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course he's up to no good, and Joan is just another pawn in his wicked game. But Jack Colton and his sidekick Ralph show up to help our intrepid heroine save the day.




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