20 movies like Matinee, ordered by similarity : Hope Springs Eternal(2018), Lady Bird(2017), Shazam!(2019), East Is East(1999), The Troops of St. Tropez(1964), Judge Hardy and Son(1939), Spanking the Monkey(1994), 101 Reykjavik(2000), Then Came You(2018), Hotel Transylvania 2(2015), Blockers(2018), Sixteen Candles(1984) ...
Comedy
USA
1993
99 Minutes
John Goodman Cathy Moriarty Simon Fenton Omri Katz Lisa Jakub Kellie Martin Jesse Lee Soffer Lucinda Jenney James Villemaire Robert Picardo Jesse White
producer actress girlfriend son friend daughter charming campy lighthearted amusing key west, fla. military base movie theater high school cuban missile crisis b-movies cold war paranoia filmmaking family
A small-time film promoter releases a kitschy horror film during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2018
78 Minutes
Mia Rose Frampton Stony Blyden Beau Brooks Lauren Giraldo Pej Vahdat Beth Lacke Juliette Angelo Kate Rachesky
cancer patient survivor boyfriend friend family member amusing endearing moving touching charming high school cafeteria hospital doctor's office gym classroom survival new life second chance friendship
When 18 year old Hope Gracin suddenly finds herself in remission from end-stage cancer, she must learn to live without an expiration date.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
94 Minutes
Saoirse Ronan Laurie Metcalf Timothée Chalamet Lucas Hedges Tracy Letts Odeya Rush Jake McDorman Beanie Feldstein Lois Smith Stephen McKinley Henderson Jordan Rodrigues
mother daughter teenager high-school student best friend teacher father moving uplifting playful california high school catholic school sacramento, calif. family home university united states prom mother/daughter relationship coming of age
In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.
Fantasy, Comedy, Action, Adventure
USA|Canada
2019
132 Minutes
Zachary Levi Mark Strong Asher Angel Jack Dylan Grazer Djimon Hounsou Grace Fulton Ian Chen Jovan Armand Faithe Herman Cooper Andrews Marta Milans
teenager disabled boy bully foster mother superhero friend amusing emotional endearing uplifting hilarious cheeky philadelphia convenience store subway foster home school classroom superhuman abilities saving the world
A newly fostered young boy in search of his mother instead finds unexpected super powers and soon gains a powerful enemy.
Comedy
UK
1999
96 Minutes
Om Puri Linda Bassett Jordan Routledge Archie Panjabi Emil Marwa Chris Bisson Jimi Mistry Raji James Ian Aspinall Lesley Nicol Gary Damer
father wife son daughter friend charming amusing london family home father/son relationship family dysfunction arranged marriage racism teenage rebellion growing up rivalry 1970s
In early 1970s England, a Pakistani father finds the authority he has previously maintained challenged by his increasingly Anglicized children.
Comedy
France|Italy
1964
95 Minutes
Louis De Funès Michel Galabru Jean Lefebvre Geneviève Grad Daniel Cauchy Madeleine Delavaivre Maria Pacome Claude Piéplu Christian Marin
police captain daughter police officer friend airy amusing charming cheeky engaging hedonistic hilarious lighthearted playful quirky spirited witty saint-tropez, france petty crime new town lying
Gendarme Ludovic Cruchot is re-assigned to the French Riviera seaside resort town of Saint-Tropez where petty criminals and his own daughter give him a hard time.
Comedy
USA
1939
87 Minutes
Lewis Stone Mickey Rooney Cecilia Parker Fay Holden Sara Haden Ann Rutherford June Preisser Maria Ouspenskaya Henry Hull Martha O'Driscoll
judge wife son daughter immigrant girlfriend amusing charming small town household high school family illness blackmail dating father/son relationship contest quest rescue temptation
Judge Hardy, trying to find a relative of an aged couple to prevent them from losing their home, enlists the aid of his son Andy.
Comedy
USA
1994
106 Minutes
Jeremy Davies Alberta Watson Benjamin Hendrickson Carla Gallo Matthew Puckett Judette Jones
medical student son mother father friend young girl shocking amusing offbeat emotional household neighborhood bathroom bedroom woods field incest mother/son relationship family dysfunction sexual taboo
A med student is forced by his traveling salesman dad to cancel a top summer internship and look after his hot mom, who's bedridden with a broken leg. Applying lotion to her legs arouses him.
Comedy
Iceland|Denmark|France|Norway|Germany
2000
89 Minutes
Victoria Abril Hilmir Snær Guðnason Hanna Maria Karlsdottir Baltasar Kormákur Ólafur Darri Ólafsson Thrudur Vilhjalmdottir
slacker girlfriend mother dance instructor lesbian son lighthearted amusing offbeat outlandish slum reykjavík, iceland house bar party mother/son relationship unplanned pregnancy unusual romance unemployment family secrets
Will the 30 y.o. Hlynur ever move out of his mother's apartment in Reykjavík? Social welfare keeps him passive but things change when his mother's Spanish friend, Lola, arrives and stays through Xmas and New Year's Eve.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
USA
2018
99 Minutes
Asa Butterfield Maisie Williams Nina Dobrev Tyler Hoechlin Peyton List Ken Jeong David Koechner Tituss Burgess Sonya Walger Ann Osmond Colin Moss
hypochondriac terminally ill person friend family amusing charming cheeky creative emotional fiery hilarious inspiring playful quirky sad spirited wild united states terminal illness hypochondria
A hypochondriac working as an airport baggage handler is forced to confront his fears when a British teenager with a terminal illness enlists him to help her carry out her eccentric bucket list.
Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
USA
2015
89 Minutes
dracula daughter grandson father friend human lighthearted madcap endearing amusing heartwarming hotel transylvania graveyard bedroom dining room tower monsters training father/son relationship
Dracula and his friends try to bring out the monster in his half human, half vampire grandson in order to keep Mavis from leaving the hotel.
Comedy
USA
2018
102 Minutes
Leslie Mann Ike Barinholtz John Cena Kathryn Newton Geraldine Viswanathan Gideon Adlon Graham Phillips Miles Robbins Jimmy Bellinger Ramona Young Jake Picking
parent daughter teenager friend teen boy teen girl cool confident amusing hilarious lighthearted playful prom house school limousine party parent/child relationship parenthood teen romance
Three parents try to stop their daughters from losing their virginity on prom night.
Comedy
USA
1984
90 Minutes
Molly Ringwald Anthony Michael Hall Michael Schoeffling Paul Dooley Justin Henry Gedde Watanabe Blanche Baker Carlin Glynn Edward Andrews Billie Bird Carole Cook
teen girl nerd hunk friend sister foreign exchange student charming touching quirky emotional suburbia family home high school adolescence coming of age birthdays fitting in teen romance family growing up
A girl's "sweet" sixteenth birthday becomes anything but special, as she suffers from every embarrassment possible.
Comedy
USA
2009
103 Minutes
Andy Garcia Julianna Margulies Steven Strait Emily Mortimer Ezra Miller Dominik García-Lorido Carrie Baker Reynolds Hope Glendon-Ross Alan Arkin Louis Mustillo Jee Young Han
prison guard ex-convict wife daughter father son hilarious touching bronx, n.y. prison audition school family home island family forgiveness father/son relationship responsibility love new life
Prison guard Vince tells Molly from acting class, that one inmate is his 24 y.o. love child. Vince takes him home to stay with his family - straight A son with fat girl fetish, college dropout/stripper daughter and cute wife.
Comedy
USA
2008
102 Minutes
Kal Penn Hayden Schlossberg John Cho Rob Corddry Jack Conley Roger Bart Danneel Harris Eric Winter Paula Garcés Jon Reep Missi Pyle
stoner girlfriend prison guard ex-girlfriend homeland security officer friend hilarious cheeky madcap airplane guantanamo, cuba swimming pool texas brothel prison terrorism drugs wrongfully accused romance friendship
After being mistaken for terrorists and thrown into Guantánamo Bay, stoners Harold and Kumar escape and return to the U.S., where they proceed to flee across the country with federal agents in hot pursuit.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2019
98 Minutes
Ellar Coltrane Ian Nelson Analeigh Tipton Callan McAuliffe Ella Hunt Bill Milner Hayden Szeto Lana Condor Victoria Justice
best friend band member friend love interest girlfriend cheeky amusing emotional charming stage bar woods house apartment growing up friendship romance broken heart love triangle love
A coming-of-age story about the complexities of young romantic relationships.
Comedy, Biography, Drama
France|USA
2018
113 Minutes
Joaquin Phoenix Jonah Hill Rooney Mara Jack Black Carrie Brownstein Beth Ditto Kim Gordon Udo Kier
handicapped person alcoholic artist friend girlfriend family member inspiring intense emotional powerful quirky witty portland, ore. house doctor's office ambulance street strip club artistic struggle therapy
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
Comedy
2006
95 Minutes
Daniel Auteuil Dany Boon Julie Gayet Julie Durand Jacques Mathou Marie Pillet
antique dealer friend girlfriend taxi driver amusing emotional charming paris restaurant apartment friendship deception party loneliness loyalty transformation discovery growing up 2000s
To win a wager, a friendless antique dealer (Daniel Auteuil) hires a cab driver (Dany Boon) to help him find a real buddy.
Comedy
USA
1963
112 Minutes
Frank Sinatra Lee J. Cobb Molly Picon Barbara Rush Jill St. John Dan Blocker Phyllis McGuire Tony Bill
ladies' man brother girlfriend father mother amusing lighthearted madcap cool new york city apartment family home family feud bad behavior brotherhood commitment idolization growing up transformation 1960s
After leaving his parents' home, young Buddy Baker goes to live with his womanizing older brother in a posh Manhattan apartment where he learns how to be a partying playboy.
Other, Comedy
USA
2014
88 Minutes
Joel McHale Robin Williams Lauren Graham Clark Duke Oliver Platt Wendi McLendon-Covey Tim Heidecker Candice Bergen
robin williams father son santa claus family patriarch wife amusing charming lighthearted melodramatic emotional playful church family dinner family home christmas family family gathering family relationships fighting
Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hits the road with his dad in an attempt to make the 8-hour round trip before sunrise.
Comedy
Italy|France
1960
94 Minutes
Vittorio Gassman Anna Maria Ferrero Dorian Gray Peppino De Filippo Mario Carotenuto Alberto Bonucci Fosco Giachetti Luigi Pavese Linda Sini Aldo Bufi Landi
con artist girlfriend actor cellmate friend amusing charming outlandish crafty italy prison vaudeville show acting theft impersonation crime con game relationships love adventure
Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.