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Reindeer Games(2000)

R
| 2h 4min | Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama
2.8/5 (with 276 votes)

After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.

Switch(1991)

R
| 1h 44min | Fantasy, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 91 votes)

Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.

Mrs. Winterbourne(1996)

PG-13
| 1h 45min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.4/5 (with 65 votes)

Connie Doyle is eighteen, pregnant and alone. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife pregnant Patricia. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hospital to find out that it's been assumed that she's Patricia. Hugh's mother takes her in and she falls in love with Hugh's brother Bill. Just when she thinks everything is going her way, her ex-boyfriend shows up.

Like Father Like Son(1987)

PG-13
| 1h 36min | Comedy, Fantasy
2.9/5 (with 60 votes)

Dr. Jack Hammond has best chances to become medical superintendent in the clinic. So he's completely absorbed in his work and has no understanding for his teenage son Chris' problems with school. By accident one of them drinks a brain-exchanging serum, and it switches their identities. This leads of course to extraordinary complications in school and at work, but also to insight in the problems and feelings of each other.

Vice Versa(1988)

PG
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.0/5 (with 85 votes)

A mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son, and vice versa.

The Hard Way(1991)

R
| 1h 51min | Action, Comedy, Crime
3.1/5 (with 185 votes)

Seeking to raise his credibility as an actor and to land a role as a tough cop on a new show, Hollywood action star Nick Lang works a deal with New York City Police Capt. Brix, who by chance is one of his fans. Nick will be paired with detective Lt. John Moss and learn how to act like a real cop. But when Nick drives John crazy with questions and imitating him, he gets in the way of John's pursuit of a serial killer.

Changing Sides(2009)

1h 33min | Comedy
2.7/5 (with 137 votes)

Ariane and Hugo decide to exchange the lives they lead to escape from their routine, which after ten years of marriage, gives them the feeling of being hamsters in a wheel. She suddenly finds herself at the head of a construction equipment rental company and he tries to take the role of a house calling jewelry salesman...But is life really better when you live it on the other side of the bed?

18 Again!(1988)

PG
| 1h 40min | Fantasy, Comedy
2.9/5 (with 33 votes)

18 Again! is a 1988 comedy film starring George Burns and Charlie Schlatter. The plot involves a grandson switching souls with his grandfather by means of an accident. This was one of a series of unrelated films, including Like Father, Like Son and Vice Versa, produced in the late 1980s involving a similar plotline.

Just One of the Girls(1993)

R
| 1h 31min | Comedy
2.7/5 (with 24 votes)

Chris has to change school to attend a music program, but a bully named Kurt is going to make his life impossible so he decided to dress as a girl to avoid this. Taking advantage of his condition he became (girl-)friend with Marie, and fell in love with her.

If I Were You 2(2009)

1h 36min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 112 votes)

Claudio and Helena are on the verge of breaking up, until the couple experiences another strange phenomenon that looks to help them understand one another more.

Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader(2012)

R
| 1h 23min | Comedy, Science Fiction
3.0/5 (with 22 votes)

Aspiring college cheerleader, Cassie Stratford consumes an experimental drug that grants her beauty and enough athletic ability to make the cheer squad. The drug has an unforeseen side effect — Cassie starts to grow and grow and grow!

Directed by Kevin O'Neill - With Sean Young

Love Is All You Need?(2016)

2h 2min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 15 votes)

Set in a world where homosexuality is the norm, a small Indiana town is rocked to its core when Jude, the star quarterback of the local university football team, strikes up a love affair with Ryan, a sports journalism major. When the straight couple is outed, the community’s powerful religious leader begins a vitriolic crusade against all heterosexuals.

Directed by Kim Rocco Shields - With Briana Evigan, Tyler Blackburn, Emily Osment, Elisabeth Röhm, Jeremy Sisto
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Almost Normal(2005)

2.7/5 (with 13 votes)

A gay man approaching a mid-life crisis is tired of being different because he is gay. He wants to be normal. Suddenly he is yanked back in time to when he was in high school. But this time, the world is gay and to be straight is considered deviant behavior. Then something else happens. He meets a girl. And suddenly normal becomes ...well almost normal.

Directed by Marc Moody

Pale Blood(1990)

1h 33min | Horror, Thriller
2.5/5 (with 10 votes)

3 dead women, blood drained through small bites and placed around L.A. The murders catch international attention of a lonely man looking to teach a suspected vampire some morals.

Directed by V.V. Dachin Hsu, Michael W. Leighton - With George Chakiris

Vice Versa(1948)

1h 51min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other. Mr Bultitude becomes a school boy who smokes cigars and has a very conservative view on child upbringing, while his son Dick becomes a gentleman who spends his time drinking lemonade and arranging children's parties.

Si j'étais elle(2004)

1h 35min | Comedy, TV Movie
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Alex is the perfect snapshot of misogynist some of its charm: he leaves his wife Léa. Selfish, indifferent, absent, he combines all handicaps to Léa's eyes, to end, leaves him.

Love Is All You Need?(2011)

2.5/5 (with 11 votes)

Ashley was raised in a picture perfect all-American family with two moms, two grandpas, two uncles, and a little brother. But Ashley has a problem, she has a crush on a boy at school, which is against everything this world has ever taught her.

Directed by Kim Rocco Shields

Wait 'Till Your Mother Gets Home(1983)

2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

An award winning high school football coach finds himself out of work, and switching roles with his wife for the summer when she goes back to work for the first time in 15 years.

Kleinruppin Forever(2004)

1h 43min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

Two twin brothers are living on a different sides of Berlin Wall after being separated after birth.

So You Want to Wear the Pants(1952)

10min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes to switch points of view during a session.

Just Suppose(1948)

9min | Comedy

An off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home as he does in the movies; it's a ticket to a domestic disturbance. Next, a son gets to treat his father the way his father treats him. In the third episode, to a shopkeeper's chagrin, a man shops for a hat the way a woman does. In the final sketch, we suppose a household in which the man gets pregnant and has a baby, while the mom, clueless about little children, is the one with the career.

Smile, Baby(2015)

8min | Drama

Darren vies for a promotion while facing sexism from his co-workers in a gender-swapped world.

The Home Maker(1925)

1h 20min | Drama

A man's life seems to be falling apart. He's bored with his job, gets passed over for a promotion and, when the pressures get to be too much, he tries to commit suicide, but he even fails at that and manages only to cripple himself instead of killing himself. Forced to stay at home, he finds the role of "househusband" enjoyable--until his wife takes a low-paying job with his old company, and rapidly rises up the corporate ladder.

The Hearing(2024)

1h 21min | Documentary

Four rejected asylum seekers relive the hearing on their reasons for fleeing their home countries, shedding light on the core of the asylum procedure. Will the interviewees be able to describe their traumatic experiences in a way that satisfies the official criteria?

The Crazy Neighbors 2(1980)

1h 36min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Fermin and Julio are two married men whose wives, Justina and Mireya, are political leaders. While Justine is part of a conservative party, Mireya leads one that is feminist. Their husbands have become something completely different to what is generally expected in that is it they who are responsible for caring for their children, cleaning the house, etc...though of course they also get into trouble with women. Fermin and Julio are regulars at a whorehouse who runs Encarna, but it's unusual in that in addition to its main function, it also servers as a nursery.