20 movies like The Cocoanuts, ordered by similarity : Gold Diggers of 1935(1935), The Great Muppet Caper(1981), The Blues Brothers(1980), Min and Bill(1930), Dulhe Raja(1998), Step Lively(1944), Rich, Young and Pretty(1951), Thoroughly Modern Millie(1967), Six of a Kind(1934), Gold Diggers of 1933(1933), All the Best(2009), Jadoo(2013) ...
Musical, Comedy
USA
1929
96 Minutes
Groucho Marx Joseph Santley Harpo Marx Chico Marx Zeppo Marx Kay Francis Oscar Shaw Mary Eaton Margaret Dumont Cyril Ring Basil Ruysdael
hotel owner wealthy woman daughter guest clerk brother hysterical madcap florida hotel hall auction house business land rush financial crisis theft auction brother relationship adventure quest
During the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1935
95 Minutes
Dick Powell Gloria Stuart Adolphe Menjou Glenda Farrell Grant Mitchell Dorothy Dare Alice Brady Frank McHugh Hugh Herbert Winifred Shaw Joseph Cawthorn
mother daughter son fiancée lover hotel desk clerk amusing lighthearted hotel romance rivalry love wealth performance pursuit underdog 1930s
Romantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.
Musical, Comedy, Kids & Family
UK|USA
1981
95 Minutes
Jim Henson Frank Oz Dave Goelz Jerry Nelson Richard Hunt Charles Grodin Diana Rigg John Cleese Robert Morley Peter Ustinov Jack Warden
kermit the frog miss piggy fozzie bear gonzo fashion designer brother amusing cheeky engaging england london hotel prison diamond heist false accusations prison break reporting friendship brother/sister relationship adventure
Kermit the Frog, The Great Gonzo, and Fozzie Bear are reporters who travel to Britain to interview a rich victim of jewel thieves and help her along with her secretary, Miss Piggy.
Musical, Comedy, Action
USA
1980
133 Minutes
John Belushi Dan Aykroyd James Brown Cab Calloway Ray Charles Carrie Fisher Aretha Franklin Henry Gibson John Candy Murphy Dunne Steve Cropper
cab calloway musician police officer woman nun ex-girlfriend amusing madcap frenetic unrestrained spirited illinois jail car hotel bar shopping mall blues debt car chase
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1930
66 Minutes
Marie Dressler Wallace Beery Dorothy Jordan Marjorie Rambeau Don Dillaway DeWitt Jennings Russell Hopton Frank McGlynn Greta Gould Jack Pennick Hank Bell
hotel manager sweetheart daughter mother principal boyfriend bleak melodramatic intense hotel waterfront house boarding school ship adoption poverty mother/child relationship business murder jealousy
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.
Comedy, Drama
India
1998
149 Minutes
restaurant owner restaurant employee young man young woman hotel owner daughter amusing hilarious hysterical madcap outlandish india city house bungalow hotel restaurant love triangle fighting greed
Poor Raja opens a fast food restaurant right opposite a five star hotel run by it's owner Singhania, earning his wrath. The wealthy hotel owner uses all his influence to remove Raja, but in... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1944
88 Minutes
Frank Sinatra George Murphy Adolphe Menjou Gloria DeHaven Eugene Pallette Anne Jeffreys Walter Slezak
playwright producer hotel manager hotel owner airy endearing spirited new york city hotel theater broadway scam music money rise underdog quest 1940s
Gordon Miller is rehearsing a musical comedy in the penthouse suite of Gribble's hotel...on credit. The mounting bill is driving Gribble frantic. Chaos increases when playwright Glen ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1951
95 Minutes
Jane Powell Danielle Darrieux Wendell Corey Vic Damone Fernando Lamas Marcel Dalio Una Merkel Richard Anderson Jean Murat Hans Conried Monique Chantal
rancher daughter nightclub employee seducer mother boyfriend mushy spirited playful paris nightclub hotel restaurant father/daughter relationship mother/daughter relationship secret marital problems reunion culture clash love
Jim Stauton Rogers, a Texas rancher turned international diplomat, takes his young daughter, Elizabeth Rogers, on a trip to Paris. He is concerned that his daughter might come in contact ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1967
138 Minutes
Julie Andrews Mary Tyler Moore Carol Channing James Fox Beatrice Lillie John Gavin Lisabeth Hush Jack Soo Noriyuki "Pat" Morita Philip Ahn Cavada Humphrey
secretary orphan salesman boss manager kidnapper madcap campy lighthearted new york city hotel long island, n.y. chinatown skyscraper love triangle employment kidnapping wealth transformation love
Millie Dillmount comes to town in the roaring twenties to encounter flappers, sexuality, and white slavers.
Comedy
USA
1934
62 Minutes
W.C. Fields George Burns Gracie Allen Charles Ruggles Mary Boland Bradley Page Grace Bradley Alison Skipworth
husband wife sheriff colleague man woman hysterical madcap nevada open road hotel pool hall bank road trip robbery chase second honeymoon frame-ups investigation adventure
When a respectable middle-class couple take a cross-country trip by auto, they share expenses with a decidedly oddball couple, none of whom know the car carries embezzled funds.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1933
96 Minutes
Joan Blondell Ruby Keeler Dick Powell Aline MacMahon Guy Kibbee Warren William Ned Sparks Ginger Rogers Sterling Holloway Ferdinand Gottschalk Robert Agnew
showgirl singer songwriter theatrical producer wealthy man brother engaging playful rousing new york city apartment broadway theater poverty wealth show business romance deception song and dance underdog love
A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play.
Comedy, Action
India
2009
144 Minutes
Sanjay Dutt Ajay Devgn Bipasha Basu Fardeen Khan Mugdha Godse Ashwini Kalsekar
young man brother stepbrother gangster singer amusing hilarious lighthearted hysterical madcap quirky goa, india india city house bungalow lying cheating marriage adventure
The unexpected arrival of his elder NRI brother and assorted characters complicates the life of a Goan male.
Comedy
UK
2013
79 Minutes
Amara Karan Tom Mison Madhur Jaffrey Adeel Akhtar Paul Bazely Ray Panthaki Harish Patel Nikesh Patel Kulvinder Ghir Romy Ahluwalia
brother chef rival daughter lawyer restaurateur amusing airy lighthearted engaging witty heartwarming england brother relationship family feud running a business sibling rivalry restaurant business indian cuisine love
This comedy revolves around two brothers, both wonderful chefs, who fall out catastrophically. At the climax of their dispute they rip the family recipe book in half - one brother gets the ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1977
88 Minutes
Alan Arkin Rob Reiner Vincent Gardenia Anjanette Comer Kay Medford Barbara Dana Sid Caesar
father son brother-in-law wife teen boy business owner hilarious quirky madcap store mental institution house florida car arson brother relationship schemes financial troubles insurance fraud family
Benny and his wife Ruthie a getting set to drive down to Florida, but Benny needs someone to look after his store while he's gone. Though he doesn't think much of him, Benny hands the ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1965
90 Minutes
Frankie Avalon Dwayne Hickman Deborah Walley Yvonne Craig Robert Q. Lewis Bobbi Shaw Aron Kincaid Steven Rogers
college student impostor young woman cross-dresser love interest skier campy amusing madcap ski resort college southern california idaho cab hotel vacation ski trip courtship cross-dressing gender roles
In this musical, college classmates Todd Armstrong (Frankie Avalon) and Craig Gamble (Dwayne Hickman) head out on a group ski vacation, and agree that if they're going to get girlfriends, they need to understand how women think.
Musical, Comedy
India
2009
126 Minutes
Govinda Sushmita Sen Lara Dutta Rajpal Yadav Riteish Deshmukh Ranvir Shorey Sohail Khan
businessman wife model mistress amusing hilarious lighthearted hysterical madcap quirky india city house bungalow affair lying cheating jealousy adventure quest
A man and a woman have to pretend to be a couple in order to salvage a CEO's marriage.
Musical, Comedy, Romance
India
2005
155 Minutes
Govinda Preity Zinta Prem Chopra Sadashiv Amrapurkar Mohnish Bahl Johnny Lever Satish Kaushik Kader Khan
thief mafioso wealthy woman con man father amusing hilarious lighthearted madcap india house bungalow street restaurant cheating marriage proposal proposal confusion love adventure
International Criminal Don, Supremo, alias Trikal Anna is concerned when he hears that two of his trusted lieutenants are at war with each other. So he decides to travel to India to settle ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
India
2005
180 Minutes
Samita Bangargi Harsh Chhaya Aditya Lakhia Madhavan Akhilendra Mishra Satish Shah Raj Zutshi Shikha Shalu Varma
villager brother sister father-in-law in-law young woman hilarious lighthearted hysterical madcap india village house bungalow united kingdom restaurant marriage marriage of convenience marrying for money immigration
A small-town cook moves to London to earn a living, but from his employer's sudden death to the immigration officials on his trail, plans soon go sour.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1935
87 Minutes
Dick Powell Ann Dvorak Fred Allen Patsy Kelly Raymond Walburn David Rubinoff Benny Baker Andrew Tombes Alan Dinehart Paul Harvey Edwin Maxwell
singer dancer manager politician wife rival playful cheeky engaging bus new york city town rally hotel ambition politics radio romance performance rise
Entertainers enter a political rally to get out of the rain and become part of the show. One of them (Powell) gives a speech in place of the besotted candidate (Walburn) and is chosen to be... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1947
100 Minutes
Bing Crosby Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Gale Sondergaard Frank Faylen The Wiere Brothers George Meeker
singer trumpeter love interest guardian brother lighthearted charming ocean liner rio de janeiro arranged marriage stowaway love triangle hypnosis deception adventure love 1940s
Two inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1943
99 Minutes
Mickey Rooney Busby Berkeley Judy Garland Gil Stratton Robert Strickland Rags Ragland June Allyson Nancy Walker Guy Kibbee Tommy Dorsey Band Frances Rafferty
young man young woman father dean daughter student endearing winsome amusing college american west education courtship performance love school quest adventure temptation 1940s
A young philandering playboy is sent to a College, somewhere in the American West, and organizes a show, together with his sweetheart, to save the college from closure due to falling enrollments.