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Irish Jam (2006)
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Irish Jam (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest with a tempting grand prize -- the deed to their local pub. But what could happen when a duplicitous American rapper emerges as the best poet around?
Style: humorous, entertaining, light, feel good, black comedy, realistic, semi serious
Plot: friendship, culture clash, cons and scams, rise to the top, contests and competitions, on the run, disorder, village, love triangle, family relations, fall in love, ambition, buddies, dishonesty, poetry, escapades, save the day, pub, fish out of water, friends, misfit, parents and children, love and romance, gender bending, village life ...
Time: contemporary
Place: ireland, los angeles, usa, europe
Keyword: partners, irish

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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 friends, disorder, friendship, buddies, society, love and romance and family relations mostly in Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Irish Jam: Mobsters and Mormons (2005), The Yank (2014), Next Friday (2000), Kissing Cousins (2008), Mystics (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mobsters and Mormons (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mafia family from New Jersey is placed in the witness relocation program to an all-Mormon community in Utah.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: friendship, culture clash, hidden identity, fish out of water, gangster, misfit, society, teenage life, starting over, buddies, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: utah, nebraska, new jersey
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The Yank (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Tom Murphy, a middle-aged Irish-American man from Cleveland, travels to Ireland for his best friend’s wedding and to find the perfect woman.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good ...
Plot: friends, family relations, culture clash, buddies, fall in love, love and romance, parents and children, disorder, bar fight
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, ohio, usa, cleveland ohio, dublin ireland
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Next Friday (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ice Cube returns as Craig Jones, a streetwise man from South Central Los Angeles who has a knack for getting into trouble. This time out, Craig is still trying to outsmart neighborhood bully Debo (Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr.); after Craig gets ...
Style: funny, humorous, hood, feel good, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: weed, hip hop, black, urban, stoner, ghetto, marijuana, dishonesty, friendship, family relations, society, lifestyle ...
Time: 90s, y2k, year 2000
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kissing Cousins (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A "relatively" romantic comedy about a professional heartbreaker (and cynical bachelor) who teams up with his attractive cousin from the UK in order to fool his friends into believing he is capable of a relationship. Hijinks and laughs ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cousin cousin relationship, disorder, unlikely couple, fall in love, cons and scams, family relations, looking for love, friendship, society, incest, comedy of errors, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Mystics (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: elderly, cons and scams, partner, buddies, nothing goes right, dark humor, seance, scam, senior citizen, gangster, con artists, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
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The Hustle (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, light, entertaining ...
Plot: gangster, partner, chases and races, crime gone awry, silly humor, friends, cons and scams, dishonesty, society, friendship, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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An Everlasting Piece (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Colin (Barry McEvoy) is a Catholic and George (Brian O'Byrne) is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business partners. After persuading a mad wig salesman, known as the ...
Style: humorous, psychological, absurd, stylized, feel good ...
Plot: ira, friendship, society, rivalry, politics, religions or cults, food, hunting, trouble, criminal heroes, contests and competitions, friends ...
Time: 90s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Belgian Job (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Willy Vander Brook, a world with Franco-Belgian roots, travels to Paris for an interview. He is welcomed by his childhood friend Serge, an ex pub operator, and his roommate Frank, a fierce supporter of the Walloon independence. When Willy discovers ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: hotel, hidden identity, buddies, culture clash, misfit, vengeance, disorder, society, cons and scams, partner, misfit partners, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, belgium, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Closer You Get (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Irish bachelors take out an ad in the Miami Herald, looking for love.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sex comedy
Plot: small town, village, couples, couple relations, isolation, family relations, battle of the sexes, village life, small town life, love, male female relationship, friendship between men ...
Time: 90s
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Happy Birthday, Harris Malden (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Harris Malden wears his insecurity on his face in a curious disguise for everyone to see. No one in the neighborhood, not even his best friend Paul or his brother Melvin, has the heart to tell him how ridiculous he looks with the thick black line ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, realistic ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.0
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Pretty Bird (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: disorder, friendship, partner, unemployment, buddies, dark humor, desire for fame, friends, aviation, unfulfillment, nasa, obsessive quest ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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You and Your Stupid Mate (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Phillip (Phillips) and Geoffrey (Sampson) are two Aussie larrikins, whose lives centre around running the un-official "Sons and Surf" website...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, save the day, partner, lifestyle, nothing goes right, escapades, misfit, odd couple, unemployment, cons and scams, party, friendship ...
Place: australia
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30%
A Kiss for Jed Wood (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Nineteen year old Orla from Country Antrim wins 'Follow a Star' on the Irish national TV station. Her prize is a quest - to find C&W star Jed Wood, give him a kiss, and report on her adventure on the following week's show. Ray ...
Style: humorous, light, sincere, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: artists and showbiz, stalking, escapades, media, filmmaking, opposites attract, partner, ambition, radio dj, couples, fall in love, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
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A Boss in the Living Room (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Cristina lives a peaceful life until her older brother Ciro, who has to attend a trial, asks to spend house arrests at Cristina’s home.
Style: not serious, humorous, light, feel good, realistic
Plot: hidden identity, life turned upside down, fish out of water, society, culture clash, misfit, family life, couple relations, family relations, dishonesty, couples, disorder ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Sam and Matt flee their small mid-western town for New York City, where hot girls roam the streets! After months of trying to pick up ladies and failing miserably, they come up with the idea to hold a fake audition to meet chicks. Hilarity ensues ...
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Audience: date night
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: With one more day of parole left, J.T. vows to play by the book. But when he finds out his mom will lose their home unless they come up with a serious amount of money, J.T. takes a chance by entering a lowrider contest that violates his parole.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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