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The Out of Towners (1970)
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The Out of Towners (1970)
Original name: The Out-of-Towners
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.
Style: funny, humorous, witty, laugh out loud, road movie, uplifting, poignant, romantic comedy, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: travel, chase, culture clash, bad luck, railway, marriage, journey, discovery, pilgrimage, pilgrim, meme, train, mugging, taxi, husband wife relationship, farce, job interview, misfit, on the road, couples, society, nothing goes right, partner, disorder, silly humor ...
Time: year 1970, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, boston, usa, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city, new jersey
Keyword: partners, cuban, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about disorder, couples, nothing goes right, love and romance, couple relations, husband wife relationship and farce mostly in Comedy, Romance and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Out of Towners: The Out-of-Towners (1999), For Richer or Poorer (1997), What's Up, Doc? (1972), The Odd Couple (1968), The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Out-of-Towners (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy follows the adventures of a couple, Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for a job interview.
Style: light, humorous, feel good, realistic, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: job seeking, happy ending, family problems, disorder, midlife crisis, renewed love, fish out of water, travel, justice, fish, hotel, marriage ...
Time: 70s, year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa, ohio, manhattan new york city, boston
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100%
For Richer or Poorer (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Brad Sexton and his wife, Caroline, are wealthy New Yorkers with both marital and financial problems. The latter issue becomes a pressing matter when they discover that their accountant has embezzled millions and pinned the blame on them. Forced to ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, detective, fun ...
Plot: amish, fish out of water, embezzlement, lawyer, wealth, farce, marital reconciliation, marital discord, small town, true love, divorce, emancipation ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: pennsylvania, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two researchers have come to San Francisco to compete for a research grant in Music. One seems a bit distracted, and that was before he meets her. A strange woman seems to have devoted her life to confusing and embarrassing him. At the same time a ...
Style: hilarious, funny, romantic, fast paced, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: hotel, car chase, screwball, chase, judge, love story, manic pixie dream girl, destiny, love triangle, farce, mistaken identity, eternal love ...
Time: 70s, year 1972, 20th century, prehistoric times
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Odd Couple (1968)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Felix Ungar has just broken up with his wife. Despondent, he goes to kill himself but is saved by his friend Oscar Madison. With nowhere else to go, Felix is urged by Oscar to move in with him, at least for a while. The only problem is that Felix is ...
Style: funny, atmospheric, hilarious, humorous, clever ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: friendship, buddy, buddies, friendship between men, friends who live together, bromance, poker, suicide attempt, stage play, eternal love, odd couple, old age ...
Time: 60s, year 1968, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
Style: humorous, semi serious, clever, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot: unemployment, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, couple relations, down on your luck, unfulfillment, odd couple, family problems, husband wife relationship, fired from the job, brother brother relationship, neighbor ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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37%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling ...
Style: road movie, humorous, witty, talky, funny ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1985
Place: las vegas, arizona, nevada, new york, los angeles
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34%
The Odd Couple II (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 30 years after the first film, Oscar and Felix embark on a road trip together, to attend the wedding of Oscar's son to Felix's daughter.
Style: road movie, slapstick, humorous, not serious, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, marriage, road trip, on the road, couples, old age, divorce, senior citizen, feeling, aging, wedding, odd couple ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Sunshine Boys (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't spoken in over 20 years of retirement. Willy Clark's nephew is the producer of a TV ...
Style: funny, talky, humorous, witty, laugh out loud ...
Plot: aging, old age, vaudeville, senior citizen, actor, spy, stage play, grudge, comedian, showbiz, couples, friends ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Sherman's Way (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An eccentric Olympic has-been who prefers leisure to work, finds himself stuck with a rigid pre-law Yale student with no time for wasting time. Between skinny-dipping and stealing cars, this odd-couple learn from each other that balance is the key ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, touching ...
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Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral appearance.
Style: sex comedy, laugh out loud, retro, semi serious, realistic ...
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Time: 60s
Place: bay area, san francisco
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29%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: humorous, funny, light, satirical, sexy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
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Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: usa, seattle
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28%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, witty ...
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Time: 80s, year 1981
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Duration: 84 min.
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Style: black and white, funny, talky, clever, touching ...
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Time: 20th century, year 1984, 80s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After a series of Hollywood flops, famed director Harris Chappell (Jeffrey Tambor) returns to New York to relaunch his Broadway career. But Chappell's triumphant comeback begins to spiral out of control into a wild night of comic misadventure ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, independent film ...
Audience: date night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: South Africa, Botswana, USA
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: funny, humorous, feel good, entertaining, talky ...
Audience: teens
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28%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Jan decides to marry his girl-friend Sara, he is not aware of his opponent: her father, who is an Italian.
Style: humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: date night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
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Style: humorous, light, inspirational, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
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28%
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Brain Donors (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Three manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run ...
Style: funny, humorous, witty, unusual plot structure, surreal ...
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Time: 90s, year 1992
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
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Style: sexy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Would I Lie to You? 3 (2012)
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Story: Eddie, Dov, Yvan et les autres… Nos chaleureux amis ont migré du Sentier moribond à la banlieue florissante d’Aubervilliers… Là où les vieux entrepreneurs juifs ont laissé le terrain à de jeunes grossistes chinois courageux et ...
Style: realistic, humorous
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual ...
Style: funny, realistic, semi autobiographical, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, teens
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Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
For Pete's Sake (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Henry (Streisand) is a woman who would do anything for her husband Pete-- including borrow money so he has a chance of making his dreams come true. But now there's the loan sharks to deal with...
Style: hilarious, realistic, semi serious, witty, feel good ...
Plot: money, loan shark, dishonesty, race against time, fall in love, love and romance, prostitute, nothing goes right, couple relations, screwball, couples, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Vive la France (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Muzafar and Feruz are two easy going shepherds from Taboulistan, a tiny country in Asia that is unknown to the rest of the world. To alert the world to his country’s existence, the son of Taboulistan’s president decides to instigate a program of ...
Style: not serious, humorous, funny, entertaining, light ...
Audience: family outing, boys' night, chick flick
Plot: nude beach, terrorism, fish out of water, culture clash, farce, partner, mistaken identity, goofy hero, nothing goes right, disorder, society, terrorist attack ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Couples Retreat (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Four couples, all friends, descend on a tropical island resort. Though one husband and wife are there to work on their marriage, the others just want to enjoy some fun in the sun. They soon find, however, that paradise comes at a price: ...
Style: funny, tropical, sexy, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: resort, couple relations, friendship, couples therapy, marriage, island, couples, divorce, marital problem, crumbling marriage, friends, screwball ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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