20 best movies like The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank (1978)

List of the best movies like The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank (1978): The One and Only Ivan, The Color Wheel, FDR: American Badass!, A Case of You, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend, Pink Skies Ahead, Work It, Poseidon Rex, 12 Hour Shift, Game Night.

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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: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA

JR has broken up with her professor. She enlists her nervous and obnoxious younger brother Colin to take a short road trip in order to help move out her belongings. They bicker and fight, with one another and pretty much anybody they encounter, before being brought to a place of togetherness and understanding as a result of being pushed away by everybody in their lives except one another.

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: 5.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

Young writer Sam has a crush on Birdie, the cute and quirky barista at his local coffee shop. When his conventional attempts to woo her crash and burn, he takes his efforts online, creating an Internet profile embellished with all of the details that would make him Birdie’s dream guy. When the harebrained scheme is a surprise success and Birdie falls for his exaggerated alter ego, Sam must keep up the act or lose his dream girl forever.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, adventure, detective
CountryUSA

Kimmy's a famous author and she's about to marry a prince! But first she has to foil the Reverend's evil plot. It's your move: What should Kimmy do next?

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA

A young woman struggles with an anxiety disorder after dropping out of school.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, music
CountryUSA

A brilliant but clumsy high school senior vows to get into her late father's alma mater by transforming herself and a misfit squad into dance champions.

Markimdb: 2.6
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:21

Jackson Slate, famous treasure hunter, is out to find the legendary Lost Gold Of Cortez in the open waters off a secluded island in the Caribbean Sea. Using dynamite to blast his way through centuries of silt, new chasms are created reaching miles below the ancient ocean floor. From here, an ancient evil is released, that quickly, savagely, and without warning, destroys Jackson s boat and kills his crew. The sole survivor of the carnage, Jackson teams up with marine biologist, Sarah, to venture back to the site and investigate the horrific events. They extract an egg from the darkest depths of the ocean and take it back to the lab to investigate. But when it hatches, they realise they have awaken a deadly prehistoric monster, the P-Rex, which will stop at nothing until the entire island is destroyed...

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryUSA

It's 1999 and over the course of one 12-hour shift at an Arkansas hospital, a junkie nurse, her scheming cousin and a group of black market organ-trading criminals start a heist that could lead to their collective demise.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:08

Max and Annie's weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother Brooks arranges a murder mystery party -- complete with fake thugs and federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all supposed to be part of the game. As the competitors set out to solve the case, they start to learn that neither the game nor Brooks are what they seem to be. The friends soon find themselves in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn over the course of one chaotic night.

Markimdb: 5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Brothers Charlie, Adrian and Michael try to unlearn everything their psychoanalyst parents have taught them about life, as their family unit teeters on the edge of a collapse.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:18

    College friends find their weekend of sex and debauchery ruined when deadly zombie beavers swarm their riverside cabin.

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    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA

    High schooler Marshall is hoping to seal the deal on prom night, but Sarah, his date, might not be as into it as he had hoped.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    A comedian tries to make it as a serious actor when his reality-TV star fiancé talks him into broadcasting their wedding on her TV show.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA

    Randall Zimmerman (Eric Starkey) is a simple man who loves his job as a parking enforcement officer. When he discovers he is dying, he just wants everything to stay the way that it is. Unfortunately for Randall, his friends and family have other ideas. His best friend Jay (Topher Owen) urges him to "live life to the fullest" by going on crazy adventures. His girlfriend Sasha (Carrie Slaughter) wants to have his baby. And his mother Corinna (Rebekah Turner) tries to save his life with home cooking, yoga, and smothering love. Randall must find a way to help all of them fulfill their needs if he's going to have any chance of achieving his own dying wish -- fixing a meter that's been broken for more than a year!

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA

    3 Days of Normal follows the story of straight-laced deputy Bill Morgan who is quite content literally living within the quaint boundaries of Washington, New Hampshire. Bill’s stable and rather uneventful life is thrown for a loop when he finds and arrests a woman, Nikki Gold, passed out in her car from inebriation. Unbeknownst to him, the woman happens to be a popular movie actress longing for some normalcy in her hectic life.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    Rebellious Mickey and good-natured Gus navigate the thrills and agonies of modern relationships.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, short
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:02

    A satire on "typical" upper middle class girls.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, drama, family
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:28

    Sally and Jason Danville's life are turned upside down when a tragic accident suddenly names them the caretakers of four young children.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:15

    Filmed at The Vic Theatre in Chicago, Marc Maron: More Later captures Maron as he dishes out compelling, raw, and wildly honest stand-up. In this brand new special, Maron tackles religion, relationships, rage, Skype sex and ice cream among other topics in the sheerly authentic way that only he can.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, documentary
    CountryUSA

    Ray Romano cut his stand-up teeth at the Comedy Cellar in New York. Now, in his first comedy special in 23 years, he returns to where it all began.




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