Highest-Rated Movies about 'Mishaps', Sort by Popularity

Lowlife (2017), The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1994), The Circus (1928), Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958), A Bug's Life (1998), The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, but Your Teeth Are in My Neck (1967), Caught in the Draft (1941), The Great Outdoors (1988) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Mishaps movies.

#3. The Circus (1928)

Storyline: The Tramp finds himself at a circus where he is promptly chased around by the police who think he is a pickpocket. Running into the Bigtop, he is an accidental sensation with his hilarious efforts to elude the police. The circus owner immediately hires him, but discovers that the Tramp cannot be funny on purpose, so he takes advantage of the situation by making the Tramp a janitor who just happens to always be in the Bigtop at showtime. Unaware of this exploitation, the Tramp falls for the owner's lovely acrobatic stepdaughter, who is abused by her father. His chances seem good, until a dashing rival comes in and Charlie feels he has to compete with him.

Plot Keywords: tramp, beautiful woman, ringmaster, acrobat, police officer, magician, playful ...

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#4. Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)

Storyline: Caught red-handed for a crime he swears he didn't commit, the hopeful criminal mastermind and--for now--small-time thief, Cosimo, entrusts the square-jawed boxer, Peppe, with the plan for a seemingly fail-proof pawnshop heist on the quiet Madonna Street. However, as the news of this lucrative job spreads like wildfire, instead, it's Cosimo's band of maladroit petty criminals--including a destitute photographer with fatherly obligations--who will take action for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. But, will things work as planned?—Nick Riganas

Plot Keywords: thief, safecracker, spinster, police officer, maid, charming, hilarious ...

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#5. A Bug's Life (1998)

Storyline: At an annual pace, a huge colony of ants is forced to collect every piece of food that grows on their island for a group of menacing grasshoppers. But that all changes when a misfit inventor ant named Flik accidentally knocks over the offering pile thus forcing the grasshoppers' devious leader Hopper to force the ants to redo their gathering of food. Despite the fact that his friends don't believe him and desperate to help save the colony, Flik volunteers to go out into the world and search for a group of 'warrior' bugs. Instead, what he got was a talented group of circus performers. But when the grasshoppers return and take control of the island, Flik must prove himself a true hero before it's too late.

Plot Keywords: ant, grasshopper, inventor, leader, circus performer, queen, lighthearted ...

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#7. Caught in the Draft (1941)

Storyline: Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married...but falls for a colonel's daughter. By mistake, he and his two cronies enlist. In basic training, Don hopes to make a good impression on the fair Antoinette and her father, but his military career is largely slapstick. Will he ever get his corporal's stripes?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: movie star, coward, love interest, colonel, father, assistant, madcap ...

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#8. The Great Outdoors (1988)

Storyline: Nostalgic about the good old days in the honeymoon cabin, the patriarch Chet and the Ripley family set off to the idyllic woods of Wisconsin for the summer vacation. However, their plans for a peaceful family bonding in the heart of the untamed nature will be thwarted, when the high-rolling brother-in-law Roman and the snotty Craig family decide to crash the party. Eventually, as the two families try to have a good time together, a seemingly endless series of misfortunes and mini-disasters with thirsty leeches, cunning racoons and a mythical wild bear, threaten to ruin the vacation. What will it take to salvage the weekend?

Plot Keywords: father, wife, son, sister, brother-in-law, daughter, amusing ...

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#9. Snowball Express (1972)

Storyline: When John Baxter inherits a ski resort in the Rocky Mountains, he quits his job in New York and moves the family west to run it, only to find that the place is a wreck. Together they decide to try to fix it up and run it. But Martin Ridgeway wants the property and does everything he can to ensure that their efforts will fail.—Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>

Plot Keywords: proprieter, bellhop, banker, wife, ski resort operator, amusing, witty ...

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#10. Dutch (1991)

Storyline: Working-class good guy Dutch Dooley is the current boyfriend of a wealthy, snobbish tycoon's ex-wife. Volunteering to drive the woman's son home for Thanksgiving to Chicago from his boarding school in Georgia, little does Dutch expect the picaresque adventures in store for him. When a blunt, down-to-earth construction worker takes to the road with an insufferable twelve-year-old snob (desperately insecure under the surface) who does not approve of him in the least, quite a little must happen before they can reach their destination as friends -- or, for that matter, get home at all.

Plot Keywords: boyfriend, divorcée, brat, homeless person, prostitute, ex-husband, madcap ...

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#11. Casanova 70 (1965)

Storyline: Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, a U.N. official and modern-day Casanova, cannot get aroused unless there's danger in sex, but women and society are too compliant, so he's often impotent. A psychiatrist warns him it will get worse, and he should be celibate. Andrea tries and fails at that, abandons his fiancée, finds the occasional life-threatening liaison, and pursues a woman tethered to a dull but murderous husband. Will Andrea find pleasure and fulfillment, or is he doomed to pursue and then go limp when the pursuit is successful?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: major, ladies' man, beautiful woman, love interest, amusing, sultry, italy ...

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#12. The Money Pit (1986)

Storyline: Walter Fielding and Anna Crowley have to start looking for a new house- but there's not much they can afford! This soon changes when they meet a lonely old con artist who sells them a beautiful mansion at a ridiculously low price. Only there's a catch. The second they move into the house it falls apart, starting with the stairway collapsing to the bathtub falling through the floor to eventually the chimney falling into the house! Finally, they have to renovate the house before the frame collapses but the renovations also prove to be a disaster.

Plot Keywords: lawyer, girlfriend, con man, contractor, yuppie, ex-husband, madcap ...

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#13. Black Sheep (1996)

Storyline: Comedy about the prospective Washington State Governor Al Donnelly whose only stumbling block on the road to power is his embarrassing younger brother Mike. To keep him out of mischief, Al forces one of his aides, Steve Dodds to keep an eye on him during the election. However, this is easier said than done...

Plot Keywords: governor, gym teacher, political candidate, aide, brother, mountain man, madcap ...

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#14. Man of the Year (2006)

Storyline: Tom Dobbs, comedic host of a political talk show - a la Bill Maher and Jon Stewart - runs for President of the US as an independent candidate who, after an issues-oriented campaign and an explosive performance in the final debate, gets just enough votes to win. Trouble is he owes his victory to a computer glitch in the national touch-screen voting system marketed by Delacroy, a private company with a rising stock price. To protect their fortune, Delacroy executives want to keep the glitch a secret, but one programmer, Eleanor Green, wants Dobbs to know the truth. Can she get to him?

Plot Keywords: talk show host, presidential candidate, president, computer programmer, fan, campaign manager, hilarious ...

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#15. Johnny English (2003)

Storyline: When a funeral of a British spy is attacked, all of the remaining spies are killed. Only one spy is left and is now Britain's last hope. Johnny English and his sidekick, Bough have been assigned the case of investigating the theft of the British Crown Jewels. The prime suspect is a mysterious French entrepreneur, known as Pascal Sauvage. English and Bough soon find out the horrifying truth behind the theft and Sauvage, but it's not going to be an easy job to bring him to justice.

Plot Keywords: secret agent, sidekick, spy, businessman, englishman, queen, hilarious ...

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