20 best movies like Trading Places (1983)

List of the best movies like Trading Places (1983): Cheap Thrills, We Are the Nobles, The One and Only Ivan, Afternoon Delight, The Wolf of Wall Street, Bad Johnson, Pretty Woman, ABCs of Death 2, Serf, Like a Boss.

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Markimdb: 6.7
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

    Recently fired and facing eviction, a new dad has his life turned upside down when he meets a wealthy couple who offer a path to financial security... but at a price.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountryMexico
    Duration01:48

    Tells the "riches to rags" story of the Nobles, three upper-class twenty-somethings that appear to have no limits to their checkbooks, and no direction in their lives. Until one day, their father tries to teach them a lesson by staging a financial scandal that forces the whole family to escape to an old house in the poor side of town, and leads the "kids" to do what they haven't done before: get jobs.

    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: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    Rachel is a quick-witted and lovable stay-at-home mom. Frustrated with the realities of preschool auctions, a lacklustre sex life and career that's gone kaput, she visits a strip club to spice up her marriage and meets McKenna, a stripper she adopts as her live-in nanny.

    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: 4.5
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:28

      Women are practically throwing themselves at Rich and he can’t seem to control himself. But he continually blames his penis, which seems to have a mind of its own. After ruining yet another promising relationship with Jamie, Rich has finally had enough and wishes his penis would just leave him alone. The next morning, Rich wakes up to find his wish has come true and his johnson is no longer on his body. Even worse, Rich is shocked to discover that his penis has taken human form...

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      When a millionaire wheeler-dealer enters a business contract with a Hollywood sex worker Vivian Ward, he loses his heart in the bargain.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA, New Zealand, Canada, Israel, Japan, Nigeria
      Duration02:05

      Taking all that was great from the first installment, ABCs OF DEATH 2 aims to be a wilder, leaner, faster paced and even more entertaining anthology this time around, with a new crop of award-winning, visionary filmmakers from around the globe.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy
      CountryRussia

      Young major Grisha played in a beautiful life and decided that everything was permissible for him. He has done a lot of things, and now he faces a prison. To correct his son, a desperate oligarch-father goes to extreme measures. Together with his old friend, a psychologist, he comes up with a unique project: the atmosphere of the nineteenth century is being created on the basis of an abandoned village. Grisha gets into a custom-made accident and is allegedly transferred to the past. In fact, a sophisticated psychological experiment is being conducted on him - a spoiled major is turned into the usual servant Grishka, who lives in a stable in the territory of a manor’s estate. He is surrounded by actors whose goal is to change his life and personality. Each of his movements is closely monitored by a team of psychologists using a variety of cameras. Grisha will have to re-learn how to communicate with people, appreciate simple pleasures, work, and also find true love.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA

      Two female friends with very different ideals decide to start a beauty company together. One is more practical, while the other wants to earn her fortune and live a lavish lifestyle.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:08

      It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.

      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
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, Mexico
      Duration01:45

      A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrefantastic, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:35

      In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him into a macabre universe.

      Markimdb: 3.2
      Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy
      CountryUSA

      Ida and her friend Rebecca return to Ida's house after a harrowing day in the desert where their film-crew friends vanish. Through some quirk in technology it appears they went back in time where Ida's then 20-year-old father kills a crew member during a fight. Ida takes Rebecca to her father's workshop where they look at an old 16mm black-and-white film that captures the fragments of events from that day... a 35 years ago.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA

      An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. He learns his only surviving relative is his great grandson, a computer coder who he can’t connect with.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrecomedy, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:33

      When Scott and Kate Johansen’s daughter gets into the college of her dreams it’s cause for celebration. That is, until Scott and Kate learn that the scholarship they were counting on didn’t come through, and they’re now on the hook for tuition they can’t begin to afford. With the help of their friend and neighbor Frank also in need of a major payday they decide to open an illegal casino in his suburban house, risking everything together on a Vegas-style bacchanal where money flows, inhibitions are checked at the door, and all bets are off.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:39

      Kevin Carson is a young man living in the projects who has to survive a three-day weekend after his opportunistic neighbors find out he's holding a winning lottery ticket worth $370 million

      Markimdb: 3.7
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      A raucous comedy about an unlucky hipster who accidentally takes two Erectile Dysfunction pills and goes through a day of misadventures.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrecomedy, drama, biography, sport
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Qatar
      Duration02:00

      Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:10

      Terrence J. stars as Charlie, a playboy who's convinced that relationships are dead. His two best friends, Donald Faison and Robert C. Riley, bet him that if he sticks to one woman for one month, he's bound to get attached. Charlie denies this until he crosses paths with the beautiful and mysterious Eva, played by singer/actress Cassie. They may agree to a casual affair, but eventually Charlie is questioning whether he may actually want more.

      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: 6.1
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:37

      Recent MIT grad Matt Franklin should be well on his way to a successful career at a Fortune 500 company, but instead he rebels against maturity by taking a job at a video store. Matt rethinks his position when his unrequited high-school crush, Tori, walks in and invites him to an end-of-summer party. With the help of his twin sister and his best friend, Matt hatches a plan to change the course of his life.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      When a couple discovers that a brass teapot makes them money whenever they hurt themselves, they must come to terms with how far they are willing to go.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrecomedy, adventure
      CountryFrance, India, Belgium, Singapore, USA
      Duration01:29

      The story of Ajatashatru Oghash Rathod, a fakir who tricks his local village in Rajasthan, India into believing his possesses special powers and into paying him to fly to Paris to buy a bed of nails from an Ikea store.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryJapan
      Duration01:49

      Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a private detective. He is divorced from his ex-wife Kyoko and he has an 11-year-old son Shingo. His mother Yoshiko lives alone at her apartment. One day, Ryota, his ex-wife Kyoko, and son Shingo gather at Yoshiko's apartment. A typhoon passes and the family must stay there all night long.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      Dave is a married man with two kids and a loving wife , and Mitch is a single man who is at the prime of his sexual life. One fateful night while Mitch and Dave are peeing in a fountain when lightning strikes, they switch bodies.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrecomedy, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:32

      When obscenely rich hedge-fund manager James is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him one month to get his affairs in order. Knowing that he won't survive more than a few minutes in prison on his own, James desperately turns to Darnell-- a black businessman who's never even had a parking ticket -- for help. As Darnell puts James through the wringer, both learn that they were wrong about many things, including each other.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:33

      On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the production.

      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: 3.5
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:16

      An inexperienced college student meets a wealthy businessman whose sexual practices put a strain on their relationship.

      Markimdb: 3.6
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
      CountryUSA

      Six children genetically cross-bred with avian DNA, complete with wings, take flight around the country to discover their origins.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:24

      A horror comedy centered on a guy who learns that his unusual stomach problems are being caused by a demon living in his intestines.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrecomedy, western, short
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:09

      In the tradition of classic westerns, a narrator sets up the story of a lone gunslinger who walks into a saloon. However, the people in this saloon can hear the narrator and the narrator may just be a little bit bloodthirsty.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:23

      Middle-aged and divorced, Wilson finds himself lonely, smug and obsessed with his past.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:59

      Four girlfriends take a trip to New Orleans for an annual festival and, along the way, rediscover their wild sides and strengthen the bonds of sisterhood.

      Markimdb: 4
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy
      CountryUSA

      In the near future, the President of the United States hires a team of mercenaries to retrieve an alien bio-weapon from a top secret research facility orbiting the Earth. The plan is working until the cargo escapes.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA

      On the night of her 30th birthday, Lindsay Corwin, an unlucky environmentalist with a string of bad relationships, decides to make the ultimate wish: for all of her birthday wishes to come true. When her nearly three decades of wishes, including everything from losing weight to meeting Mr. Right, start magically coming true all at once, Lindsay is awestruck—until she realizes the life, and the man, she’s always wished for might not be the one she really wants.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:32

      A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA, Canada

      College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, action, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:56

      Demon hunter, Jebediah Huntley teams up with an FBI agent to battle a supernatural force in the southern state of Mississippi.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      A favor for a woman from her past throws the life of a pregnant, retired porn star into chaos.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:30

      A world-weary college professor is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible with a biting sense of humor, a reckless streak and a touch of madness.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryJapan, USA
      Duration02:09

      A lonely, chain-smoking office lady in Tokyo falls for her teacher when she decides to take English lessons. When her teacher disappears, she sets out on a journey to find him.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA

      Slackers who live for free in a rock star's mansion find that their ride on the gravy train is coming to an end with the sale of their pal's residence.

      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: 7.2
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Belgium, Canada, USA
      Duration02:30

      Stalin's core team of ministers tussle for control following the Russian leader's stroke in 1953.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA

      Teenager Cleo's school science project goes quite awry, causing her popular older sister Molly to go invisible.

      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.




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