Movies and TV shows like The Vicar of Dibley

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The Vicar of Dibley (1994)
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The Vicar of Dibley (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Reverend Granger is assigned as the Vicar of the rural parish of Dibley, but she is not quite what the villagers expected.
Style: sitcom, retro, light hearted, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, double entendre, comfort, fun
Plot: english countryside, church, christmas, friendship, religion, small community, small town, religious, priest, faith, farmer, professional, overweight man, weirdo, satire, everyday life, girl power, sexual humor, cottage, women power, chubby, holiday, conservative, christianity, chocolate ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century, 1990s, contemporary
Place: england, europe, britain
Keyword: french, bbc

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, sitcom and semi serious films and TV series with plots about british humour, society, family relations, friendship, workplace, friends and social relations mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Vicar of Dibley: The Green Green Grass (2005), Father Ted (1995), Ballykissangel (1996), Black Books (2000), Fawlty Towers (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Green Green Grass (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Green Green Grass is a new comedy series and is a spin-off from Only Fools And Horses. It features the characters of Boycie and Marlene and introduces their son, Tyler, now 15 years old. Since we last met them, Boycie's second-hand car empire ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, humorous, witty, realistic
Plot: farm, countryside, lifestyle, eccentric family, fish out of water, starting over, social differences, boss and employee, disorder, society, obnoxious boss, english countryside ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, england
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Father Ted (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: A crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast.
Style: surreal, sitcom, semi serious, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: priest, clergy, bishop, friendship, catholic priest, against the odds, family relations, family life, conservative, eccentric family, small town, workplace ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: ireland, fictional island, europe
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Ballykissangel (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Ballykissangel is a BBC television drama set in Ireland, produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland. The original story revolved around a young English Roman Catholic priest as he became part of a rural community. It ran for six series, which were ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Plot: small town, village life, friendship, catholic, pub, catholic church, catholic priest, englishman abroad, agnostic, young couple, religion, priest ...
Time: 20th century
Place: ireland, england, europe
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Black Books (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Black Books centres around the foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black. Bernard’s devotion to the twin pleasures of drunkenness and wilful antagonism deepens and enriches both his life and that of Manny, his assistant. ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, talky, not serious, offbeat ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: bookstore, weirdo, workplace, workplace situations, friendship, misfit, best friend, workplace problem, uptight character, store, drunkenness, farce ...
Time: near future, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
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Fawlty Towers (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom produced by BBC Television that was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Twelve episodes were made. The show was written by John Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth, both of whom also starred in the ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, hilarious, not serious, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: owner, farce, hotel, snob, cockney, married couple, couples, tourist, monty python, humour, disorder, nothing goes right ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: england, britain, europe
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Last of the Summer Wine (1973)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures ...
Style: sitcom, talky, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, elderly, small town, countryside, retirement, social relations, unemployment, working class, trio, veteran, library, pub ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s, 21st century
Place: yorkshire, northern england, england, united kingdom, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Rev. is a British television sitcom produced by Big Talk Productions. The show premiered on BBC Two on 28 June 2010. The show's working titles were The City Vicar and Handle With Prayer. The series revolves around a Church of England priest, ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, humorous, entertaining, light ...
Plot: church, clergy, priest, belief, society, moral dilemma, religions or cults, social relations, urban setting, religion, prejudice, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
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Doc Martin (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role. It was created by Dominic Minghella after the character of Dr. Martin Bamford in the 2000 comedy film Saving Grace. The show is set in the fictional ...
Style: witty, clever, sincere, cynical, humorous ...
Plot: doctor, village life, social relations, doctors and patients, treatment, medicine, teacher, surgery, responsibility, antisocial behavior, manners, hospital ...
Time: 2020s, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, cornwall, london, europe
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French and Saunders (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act.
Style: sketch comedy, sitcom, parody, mockumentary, not serious ...
Plot: sketch, satire, everyday life, humour, media satire, cross dressing, celebrity culture, showbiz, artists and showbiz, gender, media, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: The lives of cousins Kerry and Kurtan in the rural village of Cotswolds.
Style: sitcom, mockumentary, humorous, light, feel good ...
Plot: rural setting, small town, brother sister relationship, grownups, friendship, countryside, society, identity crisis, adolescence, nature, youth, aspiration ...
Place: britain, england
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Little Mosque on the Prairie (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Little Mosque on the Prairie is a Canadian sitcom that aired on CBC, created by Zarqa Nawaz and produced by WestWind Pictures. It was filmed in Toronto, Ontario and Indian Head, Saskatchewan. The series was selected and showcased at the 2009 Dawn ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, touching, realistic, witty ...
Plot: small town, culture clash, muslim, family relations, couples, parents and children, clergy, battle of the sexes, religions or cults, social relations, interracial relations, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Bless Me Father (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Bless Me Father is a British sitcom starring Arthur Lowe, Daniel Abineri, Gabrielle Daye, Patrick McAlinney, David Ryall, Derek Francis and Sheila Keith. It was aired on ITV from 1978 until 1981 and described the adventures of an Irish Catholic ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot: catholic church, religions or cults, social relations, church, society, clergy, suburban life, suburbs, housekeeper, catholic, british, religion ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1950
Place: england, london
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Roger & Val Have Just Got In (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: Roger & Val Have Just Got In is a British sitcom that stars Dawn French and Alfred Molina playing married couple Roger and Val Stevenson. The show premiered on BBC Two on 6 August 2010 and six episodes were broadcast for the first series. The ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Plot: married couple, couple relations, working class, family relations, everyday life, rivalry, long term relationship, bittersweet, couples, realism, verbal byplay, british humour ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Desmond's (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Story: Desmond's was a British television situation comedy broadcast by Channel 4 from 1989 to 1994. With 71 episodes, Desmond's became Channel 4's longest-running sitcom. The first series was shot in 1988, with the first episode broadcast ...
Style: sitcom, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: london, england, britain
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The Great Outdoors (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: The Great Outdoors was a British television sitcom. The show follows the friendships of a misfit rambling club in Southern England in which patronising group-leader Bob becomes embroiled in a battle of wills against new arrival and deputy ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sitcom, captivating, realistic ...
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Dinnerladies (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 34 min.
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Style: sitcom, semi serious, humorous, realistic, comfort
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I'm Alan Partridge (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: I'm Alan Partridge is a BBC situation comedy starring Steve Coogan, of which two series of six episodes each were produced — the first in 1997 and the second in 2002. The series followed the titular Alan Partridge, a failed television ...
Style: sitcom, laugh out loud, hilarious, realistic, not serious ...
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Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: europe, england
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20%
Till Death Us Do Part (1965)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Till Death Us Do Part is a ground-breaking British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1975. First airing as a Comedy Playhouse pilot, the show aired in seven series until 1975. Six years later, ITV continued the sitcom, calling it Till Death.... ...
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Audience: kids
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Place: london, england
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Catherine Tate Show is a British television sketch comedy written by Catherine Tate and Aschlin Ditta. Tate also stars in all but one of the show's sketches, which feature a wide range of characters. The Catherine Tate Show airs on BBC Two ...
Style: humorous, not serious, witty, realistic, sketch comedy ...
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Place: europe, england
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Amen (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Amen is an American television sitcom produced by Carson Productions that ran from September 27, 1986 to May 11, 1991 on NBC. Set in Sherman Hemsley's real-life hometown of Philadelphia, Amen stars Hemsley as the deacon of a church and was part ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous
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Ladies of Letters (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Two middle-age crazy English widows become best friends via letters, over many misadventure-filled years. Having met under a table at a wedding, when both were drunk with merriment, misunderstanding comes naturally to them. The ladies and their kin ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, sitcom, realistic
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Place: england, europe
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The New Statesman (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time. It was written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran at the request of, and as a starring vehicle for, its principal actor, Rik ...
Style: sitcom, dark comedy, political, surreal, semi serious ...
Plot: politics, satire, political satire, greed, sketch, conservative, parliament, politician, british politics, campaign, workplace romance, workplace intrigue ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place: yorkshire, northern england, europe, england
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20%
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Corner Gas (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Corner Gas is a Canadian television sitcom created by Brent Butt. The series ran for six seasons from 2004 to 2009. Re-runs still air on CTV, CTV Two and The Comedy Network in Canada. Deriving its name from the roadside gas station in the fictional ...
Style: sitcom, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
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19%
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Beautiful People (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Beautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys creative director Simon Doonan. The series takes place in Reading, Berkshire, in 1997, where thirteen-year-old Simon Doonan and his best friend Kylie dream ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching ...
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Time: 90s
Place: england, london, europe
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The Likely Lads (1964)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Likely Lads is a British sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and produced by Dick Clement. Twenty episodes were broadcast by the BBC, in three series, between 16 December 1964 and 23 July 1966. However, only eight of ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: working class, friendship, friends, workplace, buddies, society, workplace situations, factory worker, old woman, dysfunctional relationship, electrician, separation ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: northern england, europe, england
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The Royle Family (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: British comedy series focusing on the lives of a working-class family in Manchester who love the TV.
Style: sitcom, semi serious, realistic, talky, humorous
Plot: working class, christmas, voodoo, sketch, family relations, social commentary, couples, slacker, temperamental, suffering, couple relations, society ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: manchester, northern england, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
In with the Flynns (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In with the Flynns is a British sitcom created by Caryn Mandabach, produced by Caryn Mandabach Productions, and broadcast by the BBC. The first series began broadcast on 8 June 2011 for six episodes on BBC One and in high definition on BBC One HD in ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot: family life, family relations, parents and children, siblings relations, supportive parent, everyday life, rivalry, friendship, love, youth, couples, couple relations ...
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Place: manchester, england, europe
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Are You Being Served? Again! (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: Grace & Favour is a British sitcom sequel to the long-running series Are You Being Served? It aired on BBC1 for two series from 1992 to 1993 and marked the return of Are You Being Served? creators and writers Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft.
Style: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, realistic, double entendre
Plot: countryside, partner, disorder, social relations, estate, staff, retired, unlikely partners, nothing goes right, human nature, workplace, family business ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, united kingdom
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British Men Behaving Badly (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Men Behaving Badly is a British sitcom that was created and written by Simon Nye. It follows the lives of Gary Strang and his flatmates, Dermot Povey and Tony Smart. It was first broadcast on ITV in 1992. A total of six series were made along with a ...
Style: sitcom, talky, humorous, not serious, witty ...
Plot: friendship, roommate, lifestyle, socially awkward, self involved, irresponsible, friends, slacker, couple relations, loser, misfit partners, singleness ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, europe, london, united kingdom
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19%
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Miranda (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Socially inept Miranda always gets into awkward situations; working in her joke shop with best friend Stevie, being hounded by her pushy mother, and especially when she's around her crush Gary.
Style: sitcom, not serious, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Plot: comedian, dating, female protagonist, family relations, love and romance, crush, disorder, couples, unsupportive parent, nothing goes right, lifestyle, living with parents ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
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