20 movies like For Pete's Sake, ordered by similarity : The Silent Partner(1978), Son of Flubber(1963), Bol Bachchan(2012), Ghostbusters(1984), Perfect Friday(1970), Life Is a Miracle(2004), Night of the Living Deb(2015), Singh Is Kinng(2008), Sandwich(2006), Confidentially Yours(1983), Husband Material(2018), Behen Hogi Teri(2017) ...
Comedy
USA
1974
90 Minutes
Barbra Streisand Michael Sarrazin Estelle Parsons William Redfield Molly Picon Louis Zorich Vivian Bonnell Richard Ward Heywood Hale Broun Joseph Maher Vincent Schiavelli
housewife cab driver loan shark madam cattle rustler sister-in-law amusing madcap thrilling brooklyn, n.y. apartment bank subway stocks mafia debt prostitution disguise secret quest
A housewife tries to finance her cab-driving husband's education.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
Canada
1978
103 Minutes
Elliott Gould Christopher Plummer Susannah York Céline Lomez Michael Kirby Ken Pogue John Candy Gail Dahms Micheal Donoghue Jack Duffy
bank teller bank robber love interest brooding confident tense thrilling intense toronto apartment bank canada bank robbery theft schemes pursuit quest revenge rivalry love
A timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he's been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash.
Comedy, Kids & Family
USA
1963
100 Minutes
Fred MacMurray Nancy Olson Keenan Wynn Tommy Kirk Elliott Reid Joanna Moore Leon Ames Ed Wynn Charles Ruggles Paul Lynde
professor scientist wife student loan shark government official amusing lighthearted outlandish emotional college classroom house laboratory football field inventions weird science government secrets marriage debt
When Professor Brainard experiments further on Flubber derivatives, he gets in trouble and only his students can help.
Comedy, Action, Drama
2012
150 Minutes
Ajay Devgn Abhishek Bachchan Asin Thottumkal Prachi Desai Asrani Archana Puran Singh Krishna Abhishek Neeraj Vora Jeetu Verma
young man friend child sister girlfriend hilarious lighthearted hysterical madcap amusing india house apartment bungalow temple hidden identity mistaken identity confusion love interest adventure
When Abbas breaks open the lock of an ancestral Hindu temple to save a child trapped inside, he faces trouble. He tries to hide his true identity with a fake Hindu name, which leads to a web of lies.
Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
USA
1984
107 Minutes
Bill Murray Dan Aykroyd Harold Ramis Sigourney Weaver Rick Moranis Annie Potts William Atherton Ernie Hudson
parapsychologist love interest nerd supernatural being ghost secretary hilarious eerie amusing new york city firehouse apartment library city apartment college campus ghosts demonic possession supernatural daunting task showdown
Three former parapsychology professors set up shop as a unique ghost removal service.
Comedy
UK
1970
94 Minutes
Ursula Andress Stanley Baker David Warner Patience Collier T.P. McKenna David Waller Joan Benham Julian Orchard Trisha Mortimer Ann Tirard Hugh Halliday
bank employee aristocrat wife witty intricate suspenseful london bank love triangle bank heist double-cross temptation underdog love 1970s
The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan. He ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama, War
Serbia|France|Italy
2004
154 Minutes
Slavko Stimac Natasa Solak Vesna Trivalic Vuk Kostic Aleksandar Bercek Stribor Kusturica Nikola Kojo Mirjana Karanovic Davor Janjic Adnan Omerovic Obrad Durovic
engineer wife son soldier nurse lover madcap dark charming chilling bosnia serbia railroad tracks battlefield house war star-crossed lovers railroad prison life love
What could be better for the village than a scenic railway to bring in the tourists? What could be worse for tourism than war? Luka builds the railway and shuts his eyes to war. Then Luka's wife runs off with a musician and his son is called up to the army. Luka's life is a war zone. Then he meets Sabaha..
Comedy
USA
2015
85 Minutes
Maria Thayer Ray Wise Michael Cassidy Chris Marquette Syd Wilder Brian Sacca Julie Brister Almarie Guerra
zombie love interest woman man attacker friend amusing thrilling lighthearted witty cheeky hilarious united states apartment bar zombies lovers secrets comedy relationships
After a girls' night out, endearingly awkward Deb wakes up in the apartment of the most attractive guy in Portland, Maine. She's thrilled, but she can't remember much of what got her there.... See full summary »
Romance, Drama, Comedy, Action, Crime
Australia|India
2008
138 Minutes
Akshay Kumar Katrina Kaif Om Puri Kiron Kher Ranvir Shorey Javed Jaffrey Neha Dhupia Yashpal Sharma
mafia boss associate villager village idiot love interest criminologist amusing brash cheeky madcap spirited thrilling india egypt mix-up underworld banishment misunderstanding redemption romance
A comic caper about Happy Singh, a Punjabi villager who goes through a series of misadventures and eventually becomes the King of the Australian underworld.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
India
2006
180 Minutes
Govinda Raveena Tandon Mahima Chaudhry Mohnish Bahl Shammi Kapoor Mushtaq Khan Kiran Kumar Reema Lagoo Ananth Narayan Mahadevan Shweta Menon Satish Shah
screenwriter wealthy woman wife son father sister amusing cool hilarious lighthearted madcap outlandish house bungalow school coffee shop restaurant street love triangle arranged marriage
Sher Singh lives with his mother and handicapped sister in Punjab but moves to Mumbai, changes his name to Shekhar, meets Nisha and falls in love. When his mother asks him to return, he ... See full summary »
Comedy, Western
France
1983
90 Minutes
Fanny Ardant Jean-Louis Trintignant Philippe Laudenbach Caroline Sihol Philippe Morier-Genoud Xavier Saint-Macary Jean-Louis Richard Roland Thenot
wife secretary boss lover real estate broker police officer amusing witty suspenseful tender france office small town hideout unrequited love secret life frame-ups wrongfully accused murder investigation infidelity
Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place as Julien Vercel, an estate agent who knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discovers ... See full summary »
Comedy, Romance, Drama
India
2018
150 Minutes
Tapsee Pannu Abhishek Bachchan Vicky Kaushal Jasmin Bajwa Ashnoor Kaur Abdul Quadir Amin Saurabh Sachdeva
young woman dj bank employee father mother emotional intense melodramatic inspiring heartwarming charming india disco love triangle loveless marriage wedding true love unconditional love forbidden love love
A love triangle between a spirited young woman, her outgoing boyfriend and a fiance who's husband material.
Comedy, Drama
India
2017
128 Minutes
Rajkummar Rao Shruti Haasan Gautam Gulati Darshan Jariwala Ninad Kamat Ranjeet
young man young woman neighbor love interest friend indian amusing charming playful lighthearted engaging cheeky india neighborhood love interest young love first love expedition tradition family
Gattu (Rajkummar Rao) has a problem, he loves Binny (Shruti Haasan) who lives in their neighborhood. But everyone says that the girls of the neighborhood should be treated as own sister or ... See full summary »
Crime, Comedy, Drama
Canada|USA
2018
92 Minutes
Ethan Hawke Noomi Rapace Mark Strong Chris Heyerdahl Bea Santos Thorbjørn Harr Shanti Roney Mark Rendall John Ralston
bank robbers hostage friend bank robber prime minister police officer tense amusing offbeat dark witty heartwarming stockholm bank bank robbery stockholm syndrome hostage situation heist unlikely allies criminal past
Based on the absurd but true 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm that was documented in the New Yorker as the origins of the 'Stockholm Syndrome'.
Comedy
USA
1925
57 Minutes
Buster Keaton T. Roy Barnes Snitz Edwards Ruth Dwyer Frances Raymond Jules Cowles Erwin Connelly Jean Arthur
stockbroker love interest woman best friend bride relative hilarious madcap tender city river mountain street house wealth daunting task race against time marriage inheritance underdog
A man learns he will inherit a fortune if he marries by 7 p.m. that same day.
Crime, Comedy, Drama, Action
2017
105 Minutes
Dean O'Gorman James Rolleston Ashleigh Cummings Antonia Prebble Matt Whelan Ben Mitchell Milo Cawthorne Siobhan Marshall
outlaw cop friend boyfriend girlfriend driver amusing engaging endearing thrilling heartwarming new zealand vehicle barn road on the run big city on the run road trip protest
Accidental outlaws travel New Zealand in a yellow mini, protesting conformity and chasing lost love, with the cops and the media hot on their tail.
Comedy
USA
1984
86 Minutes
Woody Allen Mia Farrow Nick Apollo Forte Craig Vandenburgh Herb Reynolds Paul Greco Frank Renzulli
agent singer mistress client gangster comedian hilarious quirky new york city nightclub delicatessen new jersey show business infidelity jealousy love mistaken identity love triangle quest adventure
In his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster.
Musical, Comedy, Drama
India
1968
157 Minutes
Shammi Kapoor Rajshree Pran Mumtaz Dhumal Madhavi Mohan Choti Asit Sen Krishan Dhawan Ratnamala Mridula
orphan landlord neighbor poor woman emotional endearing amusing moving india house bungalow apartment building love betrayal orphans love triangle pact love quest pursuit
Of unknown parentage, as he was abandoned as a child, calling himself Brahmachari (Shammi Kapoor) lives in a heavily mortgaged house, with twelve other young orphans, and a servant/former ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1941
84 Minutes
Merle Oberon Melvyn Douglas Burgess Meredith Alan Mowbray Olive Blakeney Harry Davenport Eve Arden Sig Ruman Richard Carle Mary Currier Jean Fenwick
psychologist wife husband butler love interest pianist amusing airy cheeky doctor's office art gallery new york city hotel apartment marriage love triangle psychoanalysis divorce love love
A psychoanalyst causes a woman to doubt her happy marriage.
Comedy
USA
1942
90 Minutes
Claudette Colbert Joel McCrea Rudy Vallee Mary Astor Sig Arno Robert Warwick Arthur Stuart Hull Torben Meyer Jimmy Conlin Victor Potel William Demarest
husband wife architect millionaire sister amusing madcap lighthearted palm beach, fla. yacht new york city train mansion deception romance love triangle wealth marriage love pursuit
An inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying a millionaire.
Comedy
UK
1976
90 Minutes
James Bolam Rodney Bewes Brigit Forsyth Mary Tamm Sheila Fearn Zena Walker Judy Buxton Alun Armstrong Vicki Michelle Ronald Lacey Anulka Dziubinska
friend bachelor lover wife divorce amusing brooding cheeky endearing melodramatic playful van town beach bed and breakfast bedroom flat relationships love happiness
Terry is divorced from his German wife and has a Finnish girlfriend Christina. At Thelma's suggestion they join her and Bob on a caravan holiday but due to a mishap the men get separated ... See full summary »