Movies like Neighbors (1981)
The best movies like Neighbors (1981) are Night Shift (1982), Making the Grade (1984) and Smorgasbord (1983). If Neighbors hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Odd Couple (1968)7.4/10 from 691 votes
- NewestWhat About Bob? (1991)Released 1991
Night Shift (1982)
A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbor complains about the loss of her pimp. His partner, upon hearing the situation, suggests that they fill that opening themselves using the morgue at night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMaking the Grade (1984)
Lazy preppie Palmer Woodrow hires street-smart Eddie Keaton to go to school for him while he lives it up in Europe. Eddie falls in love with preppie gal Tracey, upsetting Biff, the Hoover Academy bully. When his bookie from the old neighborhood, Dice, comes to collect on Eddie's gambling debts and Palmer returns early from Europe, the scheme slowly starts to unravel. Soon, Eddie can't even tell whose side he's really on.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Smorgasbord (1983)
Warren Nefron is a hopeless klutz who has some of the worst luck in the world: when he tries to end it all with a foolproof suicide plan, he still manages to mess it up. In desperation, he goes to a psychiatrist to see if there is some way for him to end his troubles.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Under the Rainbow (1981)
In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The nephew changes the name to the Hotel Rainbow and overbooks with royalty, assassins, secret agents, Japanese tourists, and munchkins. Secret Service agent Bruce Thorpe and casting director Annie Clark find romance amidst the intrigue and confusion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Couch Trip (1988)
The escaped mental patient and delinquent John W. Burns Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisScavenger Hunt (1979)
An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of dollars - which will only be given to the person or team, amongst his family and hired help, who wins a madcap scavenger hunt.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDown and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisClub Paradise (1986)
When Chicago firefighter Jack Moniker retires and moves to a small Caribbean island, he is befriended by the owner of a run-down resort. Together they renovate the resort and lure tourists to Club Paradise in an effort to fight off corrupt officials and businessmen who want to claim the resort as their own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisEasy Money (1983)
To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisZapped! (1982)
Peyton and Barney are fun loving high school students working on a science project with white mice. When one of the mice begins to move food toward itself with out touching it, Barney finds he has accidently discovered a formula for telekinetic powers. Now, how much trouble can a high school boy who can move things with just his mind get into?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDoctor Detroit (1983)
A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLosin' It (1983)
In 1965, four Los Angeles school friends -- Woody, Dave, Spider and Wendell -- go on a series of misadventures when they head to Tijuana, Mexico, for a night of cruisin', causing trouble, and to lose their virginity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisJ-Men Forever (1979)
The Lightning Bug has a multi-prong scheme to enslave the earth. First, rock and roll, which the JMen counter with Muzac, then marijuana. Finally, the JMen build a bomb to blow up the moon with, but the Bug beats them to it by self destructing the moon by playing his rock and roll too loud.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Caddyshack (1980)
At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist Judge Smails, and then the caddy golf tournament which Smails sponsors.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe End (1978)
Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists the help of a delusional mental patient to help him commit suicide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Odd Couple (1968)
In New York, Felix, a neurotic news writer who just broke up with his wife, is urged by his chaotic friend Oscar, a sports journalist, to move in with him, but their lifestyles are as different as night and day are, so Felix's ideas about housekeeping soon begin to irritate Oscar.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisUsed Cars (1980)
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Survivors (1983)
Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a grudge against the two.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Best of Times (1986)
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBack to School (1986)
Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason's college. While Jason tries to fit in with his fellow students, Thornton struggles to gain his son's respect, giving way to hilarious antics.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMoving (1988)
Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMadHouse (1990)
The luxurious villa of Mark and Jessie Bannister, a yuppie couple, is overrun by loads of uninvited guests who turn the house up side down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisCritical Condition (1987)
Eddie is a con artist. When he's framed and comes before a judge, he hopes to get off the hook by claiming insanity—but instead ends up in a hospital for a mental assessment. That night, a storm causes a power failure and, in the ensuing chaos, Eddie is mistaken for a doctor and suddenly finds himself in charge of the hospital.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisWhat About Bob? (1991)
Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias, Bob follows Marvin to his family's country house. Dr. Marvin tries to get him to leave; the trouble is, everyone loves Bob. As his oblivious patient makes himself at home, Dr. Marvin loses his professional composure and, before long, may be ready for the loony bin himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHead Office (1985)
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Jerk (1979)
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhere’s Poppa? (1970)
When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take care of her. He fears that his batty mom's eccentricities will shortly lead to Louise's departure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUp! (1976)
Adolf Hitler is hiding out in California under the identity of Adolf Schwartz; however, he is soon murdered by a mysterious assailant. This coincides with the arrival of a mysterious woman in a nearby town. Whatever the case might be, nobody seems interested in investigating the crime, but there are many who are interested in her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMy Chauffeur (1986)
A feisty young woman accepts a mysterious offer to become a chauffeur for a Beverly Hills limousine business, much to the chagrin of her older male coworkers and the disbelief of her customers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Out-of-Towners (1970)
A trip to New York for a job interview turns into a trip to hell for a small town couple.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Neighbors?
The closest matches to Neighbors are Night Shift (1982), Making the Grade (1984) and Smorgasbord (1983). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Neighbors?
People who watched Neighbors most often go on to Night Shift (1982), Making the Grade (1984) and Smorgasbord (1983).
What is the highest-rated movie like Neighbors?
The Odd Couple (1968), rated 7.4/10 by 691 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Neighbors?
What About Bob? (1991) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Neighbors?
Yes: Night Shift (1982), Making the Grade (1984) and Smorgasbord (1983).
How are movies similar to Neighbors chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Neighbors, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.