20 movies like The Last Big Thing, ordered by similarity : Tatie Danielle(1990), Go(1999), The Draughtsman's Contract(1982), The Wedding Banquet(1993), A Girl Is a Girl(1999), Dave(1993), Being John Malkovich(1999), Polyester(1981), Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work(2010), In the Soup(1992), Spanking the Monkey(1994), 101 Reykjavik(2000) ...
Comedy
1996
98 Minutes
Dan Zukovic Susan Heimbeinder Pamela Dickerson Mark Ruffalo Andrew Falk James Lorinz Sibel Ergener Louis Mustillo Simon Kay Blaine Capatch Mitch Mayer
reporter band member performance artist roommate model brash playful offbeat los angeles house pop culture values fame aspirations deception arrogance wretched excess temptation 1990s
Victims plot to get back at a Los Angeles media scammer (Dan Zukovic) who does insulting interviews and calls it performance art.
Comedy
France
1990
112 Minutes
Tsilla Chelton Catherine Jacob Isabelle Nanty Eric Prat Neige Dolsky Laurence Février
widow nephew housekeeper nanny wife amusing hysterical offbeat paris household auxerre, france aging friendship family love-hate relationship transformation temptation 1990s
Auntie Danielle, supposedly in ailing health but in reality just a nasty old bitch, lives with a paid housekeeper who she regularly abuses. When the housekeeper dies falling off a ladder, ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
1999
103 Minutes
Desmond Askew Taye Diggs William Fichtner J.E. Freeman Katie Holmes Jane Krakowski Breckin Meyer Jay Mohr Timothy Olyphant Sarah Polley Scott Wolf
storekeeper drug dealer undercover cop teen girl wife actor frenetic playful cool grocery store street car los angeles las vegas strip club drugs set-up accident hedonism road trip
A checkout girl covering for a co-worker (Desmond Askew) faces danger from a drug dealer she double-crosses out of desperation.
Comedy, Drama
1982
103 Minutes
Anthony Higgins Janet Suzman Anne Louise Lambert Dave Hill Hugh Fraser Neil Cunningham David Gant David Meyer
artist wealthy woman mother wealthy man father daughter crafty intricate suspenseful sultry england estate house moat art infidelity murder schemes investigation wealth
An artist (Anthony Higgins) trades 12 drawings for sex with the mistress (Janet Suzman) of a 17th-century English estate.
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy
Taiwan|USA
1993
107 Minutes
Winston Chao May Chin Mitchell Lichtenstein Sihung Lung Ah-Leh Gua Tien Pien
gay man landlord artist boyfriend father mother amusing madcap offbeat emotional manhattan, n.y. apartment banquet hall wedding marriage of convenience homosexuality cultural differences immigration wedding family
To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.
Comedy
Canada
1999
86 Minutes
Andrew McIntyre Rhonda Dent Laurie Maria Baranyay Aeryn Twidle Jo-Ann MacDonald Keir MacPherson David Pauls Marnie Robinson
single man sorority sister punk rocker model slacker musician engaging witty offbeat playful vancouver, british columbia apartment club store bedroom bachelorhood new romance dating sexual conquests settling down
Trevor (Andrew McIntyre) has never had any particular difficulty in meeting beautiful women to spend time with, but his failure to find the perfect female has left him stymied. Shifting ... See full summary »
Comedy
1993
110 Minutes
Kevin Kline Sigourney Weaver Frank Langella Ben Kingsley Kevin Dunn Ving Rhames Charles Grodin Faith Prince Laura Linney Bonnie Hunt Parley Baer
president first lady impostor political consultant press officer secret service agent amusing confident playful suspenseful madcap washington, d.c. white house office ballroom bedroom capitol building impersonation propaganda deception
White House aides draft a down-to-earth double (Kevin Kline) to impersonate the president, who has had a stroke.
Comedy
USA
1999
112 Minutes
John Cusack Cameron Diaz Catherine Keener Orson Bean Mary Kay Place John Malkovich Charlie Sheen Ned Bellamy
puppeteer wife john malkovich clerk pretty woman quirky offbeat creative new york city new jersey subconscious mind office aging love triangle immortality aspirations fame infidelity discovery transformation
A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.
Comedy
USA
1981
86 Minutes
Divine Tab Hunter Edith Massey Mink Stole David Samson Joni Ruth White Mary Garlington Ken King Hans Kramm Stiv Bators
housewife theater owner secretary juvenile delinquent daughter husband campy hysterical outlandish baltimore house movie theater drive-in theater affair family dysfunction midlife crisis family wretched excess love temptation
A suburban housewife's world falls apart when she finds that her pornographer husband is serially unfaithful to her, her daughter is pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's feet.
Documentary, Comedy, Biography
USA
2010
84 Minutes
Annie Sundberg Joan Rivers Jocelyn Pickett Bill Sammeth Larry A. Thompson Graham Reed Kevin Brennan
celebrity comedian daughter raw engaging new york city los angeles household joan rivers plastic surgery comedy entertainment wealth fame wretched excess rise fall 2000s
A documentary on the life and career of Joan Rivers, made as the comedienne turns 75 years old.
Comedy
USA|France|Germany|Japan|Italy|Spain
1992
93 Minutes
Steve Buscemi Seymour Cassel Jennifer Beals Pat Moya Will Patton Sully Boyer Steven Randazzo Francesco Messina Jim Jarmusch Carol Kane Stanley Tucci
writer neighbor con artist producer actor director offbeat playful witty gritty new york city apartment restaurant street film set aspirations filmmaking unrequited love unlikely allies petty crime
New Yorker Adolpho Rollo is your classic head-movie auteur. In his mind, he's creating deathless classics of the screen. Back in the real world, he can't pay the rent on the downtown grothole he calls home.
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.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2009
99 Minutes
Robin Williams Alexie Gilmore Daryl Sabara Tom Kenny Lorraine Nicholson Geoff Pierson Evan Martin Henry Simmons Jermaine Williams Toby Huss Mitzi McCall
son schoolteacher girlfriend colleague brash dark offbeat school house united states suicide subconscious father/son relationship writing deception transformation underdog rise 2000s
When his son's body is found in a humiliating accident, a lonely high school teacher inadvertently attracts an overwhelming amount of community and media attention after covering up the truth with a phony suicide note.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
1989
115 Minutes
Dennis Hopper Jodie Foster Dean Stockwell Vincent Price John Turturro Fred Ward Joe Pesci Helena Kalianiotes Charlie Sheen Julie Adams Tony Sirico
gangster artist mafia boss hit man boyfriend gallery owner dark suspenseful offbeat new mexico seattle police station theater house art gallery mobsters obsession art running away assassination
Mobsters and the police chase a hit man (Dennis Hopper) and his target, an electric-sign artist (Jodie Foster) with problems of her own.
Comedy
USA
1941
112 Minutes
Monty Woolley Bette Davis Ann Sheridan Richard Travis Jimmy Durante Billie Burke Reginald Gardiner Elisabeth Fraser Grant Mitchell George Barbier Mary Wickes
radio host assistant host reporter actress lighthearted witty charming brash playful ohio family home celebrities upper class social life houseguest transformation discovery 1930s
A frustrated city girl disguises herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with a handsome Major.
Comedy
Spain
2001
108 Minutes
Neus Asensi Antonio Resines Nathalie Seseña Karra Elejalde Pere Ponce Carlos Lozano
housewife abusive husband sister cousin messenger lover dark disturbing offbeat amusing madrid suburbia household shop abusive marriage murder plot friendship infidelity femme fatales family
Azucena is tired of her abusive husband Felipe and is desperately in love with Pablo. She sets up a plan to become a widow as soon as possible and it will involve her hypochondriac sister Isabel and her gay cousin Quique.
Comedy
USA
1989
116 Minutes
Michael Douglas Kathleen Turner Danny DeVito Marianne Sagebrecht Sean Astin Heather Fairfield G.D. Spradlin Peter Donat Trenton Teigen Bethany McKinney
husband wife lawyer son daughter brash amusing dark hysterical madcap house massachusetts auction house law firm divorce marriage marital problems family feud greed rivalry
A married couple try everything to get each other to leave the house in a vicious divorce battle.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
98 Minutes
Aubrey Plaza Elizabeth Olsen O'Shea Jackson Jr. Wyatt Russell Billy Magnussen Pom Klementieff Hannah Utt Angelica Amor
young woman mother socialite brash disturbing gritty hilarious offbeat house wedding apartment backyard grief obsession stalking social network adventure discovery pursuit temptation
An unhinged social media stalker moves to LA and insinuates herself into the life of an Instagram star.
Comedy
UK|Ireland|France|USA
1998
91 Minutes
Ian Bannen David Kelly Fionnula Flanagan Susan Lynch James Nesbitt Maura O'Malley Robert Hickey Paddy Ward James Ryland Fintan McKeown Matthew Devitt
lottery winner best friend wife villager farmer claim inspector quirky amusing ireland village household church pub lottery deception death blackmail friendship teamwork quest
When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
Comedy
USA|UK
1998
117 Minutes
Jeff Bridges John Goodman Julianne Moore Steve Buscemi Peter Stormare David Huddleston Philip Seymour Hoffman Flea Leon Russom Sam Elliott Tara Reid
man bowler friend millionaire criminal thug outlandish offbeat hilarious los angeles mistaken identity hedonism drug cartel alcohol underdog crime rise revenge escape 1990s
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.