Movies like The Wise Guy

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The Wise Guy (1962)
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The Wise Guy (1962)
Original name: Ο Ατσίδας
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Alekos (Dinos Iliopoulos) is in love with Voula (Maria Voulgari) whose brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry her soon. Alekos' father (Pantelis Zervos) on the other hand insists that Alekos' sister (Zoe Laskari) has to get married before him. His sister Annoula (Zoe Laskari) is in love with Antonis (Stephanos Stratigos) and pressures him to ask for her hand in marriage from her family. Antonis meets Alekos by accident at a cafe in Panorama - they don't know each other - and advises him to use the infalible method of "escaping through an engagement" to calm down Voula's brother. This is after all what he intends to do himself... And God help them...
Style: romantic
Plot: love, blonde, lovers, beach, suicide, greek, happy ending, coffee, brother sister relationship, brother, problem, garden, tradition, gardener, black ops, stranger, satire, secret, affair, blond, sibling relationship, plan, sister, family honor, marriage ...
Time: 60s, 1960s
Place: greece, balkan, hellas, macedonia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out light, romantic, humorous and entertaining films with plots about love, greek, hellenic, happy ending, family relations, love and romance and dancing mostly in Comedy, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like The Wise Guy: My Daughter, the Socialist (1966), The King of Gaffes (1962), Throbs at the Desk (1963), Marriage... Greek Style (1964), The Bait (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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My Daughter, the Socialist (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Liza falls in love with one of her father's employees. Her socialistic ideas about employment drive her to collide with her father and the sociopolitical status of the time.
Plot: factory, socialist, factory worker, love, father, socialism, hiking, beach, boss, singing, strike, greek ...
Time: 60s
Place: athens greece, hellas, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The King of Gaffes (1962)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A very clever detective is on a mission to find a shipowner's daughter, having as a sole research element a mole on the girl's buttock.
Style: detective
Plot: cycling, captured, male protagonist, tasks, fall in love, cruiser, investigation, affair, athenian, chase, investigator, love ...
Time: 60s
Place: greece, athens greece, hellas
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Throbs at the Desk (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Lisa is a student, pretending the sick not to go to school. Her parents are worried about her health and call the doctor to examine her. He realizes her lies but he covers her. Soon, they fall in love and eventually get married. However, after the ...
Plot: doctor, marriage, misunderstanding, suspicion, nostalgia, greek, married, pretense, tutor, classmate, student, carriage ...
Time: 60s
Place: greece, constantinople, hellas, athens greece, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Marriage... Greek Style (1964)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Mina is dreaming of becoming a painter and Petros works in a company. They meet and fall in love during the carnival, but later lose contact. They meet again without recognizing each other and eventually get married. However they have no idea how ...
Style: slapstick comedy
Plot: marriage, mother, married couple, house, married, student, car crash, greek, farce, courtroom, party, mother in law ...
Time: 60s
Place: hellas, athens greece, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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The Bait (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Α crook turns a cabaret girl into a fine lady to use her as bait for his victims.
Plot: scoundrel, dancer, poker, nightclub, friend, con game, wealth, con man, entertainment, customer, night, trick ...
Time: 60s
Place: greece, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
A Bachelor's Pad For Ten (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 114 min.
Story: To make some easy money, Stamatis rents Chroni's house to his womanizer boss Soultanoglou but also to his other boss's wife, Dora, who decided to cheat on her husband ... So, Chroni's house turns into a double love nest for cheating ...
Plot: sibling relationship, siblings, cheating, videotaping, money problems, striptease, police officer, employee, boss, extramarital affair, finance, connection ...
Time: 80s
Place: athens greece, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Teddy Boy My Love (1965)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two young lovers are discovering that the widowed parents keep hidden bond and plan to marry soon Life, salesman dream and consumer goods of our civilization, will enter the life Asimaki, a benevolent and middle-aged widower chromatopoli, having ...
Plot: saleswoman, widower, love, family relations, father, chore, descendant, club, money, inheritance, labor, nightclub ...
Time: 60s, future
Place: greece, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Mermaids for Love (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Petros, a race car driver and son of a construction mogul, hears about an island with promising business opportunities. He tells his father, they have to buy land there but Flora, a night club owner also learns about it and arrives at the island ...
Plot: greek, dancing, singing, fall in love, hopes, aspiration, wedding ring, racecar driver, opportunity, secret, race, beer ...
Place: hellas, athens greece, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Something Hot (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 110 min.
Story: During an International Trade Fair at Thessaloniki, a mature woman, Rena (Martha Karagianni), goes there with her sister to convince her childhood friend Dinos (Dinos Iliopoulos) to have a "white wedding" so that she can inherit a large ...
Plot: friend, woman, daughter, love, beach, boss, dancing, flirting, sea, water skiing, club, music band ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
My friend Lefterakis (1963)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Theodoros in order to be able to go out with his occasional lovers, he "invented" a non-existent friend from Patras, Lefterakis, and use him as an alibi in wife Fofo. When one day arrives at home, quite suddenly, the non-existent friend ...
Plot: imaginary friend, wife, womanizer, lie, night, farce, misunderstanding, maid, unfaithful husband, masquerade, greek, fur ...
Time: 60s
Place: hellas, athens greece, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 4.1
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Joy and Tears (1970)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A carefree young man, Alekos, son of shipowner Venier, meets a poor girl, Christina, who makes the clown in a small circus. Christina does not tell Aleko the truth about her work, and when an unexpected episode forces her to return to the circus, ...
Plot: son, party, makeover, blonde, servant, lovers, rain, greek, performer, arena, circus, butler ...
Time: 70s
Place: hellas, greece, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Blue Beads from Greece (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A feud develops between a taverna with bouzoukia and a club next door that plays modern music.
Plot: fall in love, rich girl, nightclub, dancing, wealth, girl, barber, street kid, gypsy, vocalist, street urchin, merchant ...
Time: 60s
Place: greece, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Oi 900 tis Marinas (1961)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In a countryside village, a veteran politician, Damalas, and a young attorney, Ntinos, son of the village doctor, are rivals in the upcoming elections. Main controller of the political dispute is the all-powerful president of the village, Spyros ...
Plot: president, village, politician, election, in love, poor, politics, dowry, rivals, rivalry, progress, sun ...
Time: 60s
Place: greece, hellas, provence, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
My Kuya's Wedding (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Inseparable as siblings, Jeff and Kat grew up very close to each other through thick and thin. Kat being overzealous and very wary of girls who likes her brother Jeff. Her Kuya simply means the world to her. Years later, Kat is all grown-up and ...
Plot: wedding, brother, airport, jealousy, friend, twins, sister, cemetery, church, ex boyfriend, gay friend, brother sister relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.0
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Overboard (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee. A remake of the 1987 comedy.
Style: romantic, humorous, light, funny, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, date night
Plot: memory loss, happy ending, family life, amnesia, rich, love, vengeance, sea, social differences, family relations, ship, memory ...
Time: 2010s
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Apollo Goes on Holiday (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece, Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Prince Jan is spying on beautiful tour guide Elena from his helicopter while touring Greece. He escapes from his entourage and joins the girl's group, posing as a humble visitor. The two fall in love, but Prince Jan, knowing that he has duties ...
Plot: prince, ambassador, dancing, tour guide, tourist, singing, secret identity, theater, greek island, dancer, singer, sea ...
Time: 60s
Place: greece, hellas, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Kill Me If You Dare (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Kill Me Darling is the story of a couple who decide to kill each other. Okan and Demet are married couple for 5 years. However, despite their years together, their relationship is not very good. The love of the two started like a fairy tale, ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, romantic, light ...
Plot: marriage, love, honeymoon, holiday, married, lottery, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, fall in love, couples, love and romance, family relations ...
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
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License to Wed (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Newly engaged, Ben and Sadie can't wait to start their life together and live happily ever after. However Sadie's family church's Reverend Frank won't bless their union until they pass his patented, "foolproof" marriage ...
Style: romantic, romantic comedy, light, funny, realistic ...
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Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Balkanisateur (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Greece, Bulgaria, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two friends from a small Greek town travel to Bulgaria and Switzerland, hoping they can gain money from the difference in foreign exchange rates.
Style: road movie
Plot: road trip, bank robbery, banker, cash, dance, mission, plan, dinner, athenian, trip, malfunction, scheme ...
Time: 90s
Place: balkan, hellas, athens greece, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Blonde Around the Corner (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An unemployed astrophysicist finds a job of a docker at a grocery store, where he falls in love with a street-wise saleswoman in the produce department. But the groom runs away at the wedding reception.
Style: captivating, humorous, sincere, romantic, light
Plot: wedding, male female relationship, satire, love, love and romance, happy ending, life, workplace, job, meaning of life, clerk, astronomer ...
Time: 80s
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Our Love (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An usherette in a theatre, where a distinguished and popular actor performs, gets her big break when the leading actress has an accident. The director decides to take advantage of the heretofore unexploited talent of the girl and asks her to replace ...
Plot: love affair, accident, replacement, success, behind the scenes, past, doorman, love, happy ending, singing, revenge, greek ...
Time: 60s
Place: greece, hellas, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Charilaos Maraziotis (Nikos Stavridis) is a shopkeeper who owes the whole market and is in danger of going to jail, both because of his creditors and because of IKA and the tax administration. Iro is his secretary and fiancee, because she is poor, ...
Style: mad
Plot: debt, girlfriend, factory owner, napoleon bonaparte, psychiatric hospital, founder, insane, problem, madhouse, financial problem, male protagonist, psycho ...
Time: 60s
Place: greece, hellas, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Female Company (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A woman's company, with women of high society of a small greek town is doing everything to have sex with the first male they can find.
Plot: cheating wife, greek, card playing, soldier, reporter, sex, priest, satire, sex talk, gay, sex maniac, high society ...
Time: 90s
Place: greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When a heartbroken scientist moves back home to start over, her scheming brother hires a handsome stranger to convince her to sell their land.
Style: entertaining, captivating, satirical, disturbing
Plot: male female relationship, brother sister relationship, love interest, satire, frame up, love and romance, love affair, romantic relationship, relationships, family relations, farm, strong female lead ...
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Pressured by their immigrant parents to find spouses, two Indian-Americans pretend to date in order to survive a summer of weddings – but find themselves falling for each other as they struggle to balance who they are with who their parents want ...
Style: entertaining, satirical, romantic, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
He's a Mad Mad Veggos (1965)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Thanassis leaves the orphanage tries to do various jobs but with no consolidates. A private detective manages to find his father who is rich. Thanasis will move into his luxurious house but there will come other problems.
Plot: mansion, household, manor, barber, evil plot, staff, mad doctor, missing father, father son reunion, heir, conspiracy, father son relationship ...
Time: 60s
Place: athens greece, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Baldheaded Agent and the Land of Destruction Mission (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Undercover cop takes to find and restore a rich girl who ran away from home
Style: road movie, hilarious, slapstick comedy, eurospy
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, secret agent, hardship, spying, diploma, mishap, tasks, ruse, operative, scheming ...
Time: 60s
Place: greece, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Bang-Bang Wedding! (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Elias and Marina arrive in Crete to join their lives in the holy bonds of marriage, friends and family that are waiting and how! The marriage is celebrated regularly and all are preparing to celebrate but their fate surprises A small but ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, feel good, light, road movie
Plot: wedding ceremony, wedding, marriage, wedding party, father son relationship, misadventure, wedding planning, love and romance, family relations, disorder, friendship, car crash ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greece, crete
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.7
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You Again (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: History -- make that high school -- may repeat itself when Marni learns that Joanna, the mean girl from her past, is set to be her sister-in-law. Before the wedding bells toll, Marni must show her brother that a tiger doesn't change its ...
Style: romantic, romantic comedy, teen, light, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: wedding, bullying, cheerleading, marriage, female protagonist, teenager, bully, happy ending, wedding preparations and rituals, uninhibited rivalry, adolescence, farce ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.0
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Lost in Love (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A modern day treasure hunt for a mystical relic that turns into a love story for all time.
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, friendship, escapades, fall in love, couples, disorder, island, rivalry, excavation, spirituality, diving, artifact ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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