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The Diamond Arm (1969)
 8.3
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The Diamond Arm (1969)
Original name: Бриллиантовая рука
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Semyon Gorbunkov goes on a cruise with a smuggler on board. In Istanbul, he slips and breaks his arm. What he didn't know is that this was a signal for the gang of smugglers.
Style: humorous, feel good, light, realistic, funny, slapstick comedy, witty, not serious, crying, spoof ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: gem, cons and scams, police investigation, smuggling, farce, nothing goes right, mistaken identity, smuggler, goofy hero, police station, secret mission, chases and races, disorder, espionage, friendship between men, disguise, neighbor neighbor relationship, false friend, male objectification, undercover agent, marital crisis, seduction, criminal, taxi driver, secret ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, 20th century
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia, istanbul turkey
Keyword: russian, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, funny and feel good films with plots about disorder, dishonesty, chase, goofy hero, silly humor, nothing goes right and farce mostly in Comedy, Crime and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Diamond Arm: Starsky & Hutch (2004), Up to His Ears (1965), Gentlemen of Fortune (1971), OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006), Screwed (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Operation 'Y' & Other Shurik's Adventures (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik (alternative spelling — Shourick), the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets ...
Style: witty, feel good, light, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: construction worker, warehouse, workplace, petty criminal, community service, goofy hero, misfit partners, nothing goes right, disorder, burglary, rivalry, university student ...
Time: 1950s, 60s
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. Other people (who were around when she died) also learn about it. Thus several people arrive in Leningrad trying to find ...
Style: detective, road movie
Plot: spy, summer, lion, automobile, italian abroad, inheritance, smoking, death of mother, car chase, heiress, cigar, buried treasure ...
Place: soviet union, russia, rome italy, st. petersburg russia, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Shurik Timofeev builds a working model of a time machine. By accident, Ivan Bunsha, an apartment complex manager, and George Miloslavsky, a petty burglar, are transferred to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible goes into the year 1973.
Style: light, humorous, feel good, funny, surreal ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: time travel, time machine, fish out of water, inventor, race against time, mistaken identity, comedy of errors, changing the past or future, goofy hero, misfit, misfit partners, disorder ...
Time: 16th century, year 1973
Place: soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 154K
Starsky & Hutch (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcome their differences to solve an important case with help from street informant Huggy ...
Style: parody, funny, humorous, entertaining, hilarious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: buddy, cocaine, buddy cop, car chase, police, drug, police investigation, organized crime, gangster, police detective, drug lord, justice ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 2004, 2000s
Place: california, usa, chicago, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Up to His Ears (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Up the Himalayas... Up the Yang-tze... Up in a balloon... Up-stage with a stripper... Up-town in Hong Kong... You can't keep a great adventurer down
Style: semi serious, realistic, exciting, humorous, slapstick comedy ...
Plot: on the run, goofy hero, danger, disorder, escapades, assassination attempt, love and romance, on the road, dull life, husband wife relationship, obsession, economist ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: himalaya, nepal, hong kong, asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Gentlemen of Fortune (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A kindergarten director Troshkin is a dead ringer for a criminal nicknamed "Docent" who stole the priceless...
Style: witty, funny, feel good, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: lookalikes, criminal heroes, cons and scams, disguise, petty criminal, secret agent, kindergarten, chess, russian mafia, art theft, escape, undercover ...
Time: 70s
Place: ussr, russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Secret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties, and brings peace to the Middle East.
Style: parody, spoof, humorous, light, suspense ...
Plot: spy, espionage, farce, secret agent, undercover agent, secret service, female spy, state affairs, dance, embassy, villain, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 2006, 2000s, 50s ...
Place: france, africa, usa, middle east, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 9K
Screwed (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A chauffeur kidnaps his rich boss's dog to hold it for ransom, but when she accidentally gets the dog back, she thinks that it's the chauffeur who's been kidnapped.
Style: funny, humorous, intense, feel good, witty ...
Plot: mistaken identity, crime gone awry, fish out of water, comedy of errors, friendship, nothing goes right, partner, hostage, cons and scams, disorder, goofy hero, misfit ...
Time: 90s
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
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The Sucker (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it ...
Style: road movie, semi serious, humorous, realistic, funny ...
Audience: kids
Plot: car chase, anti hero, hitchhiker, gangster, odd couple, dishonesty, partner, disorder, drug dealing, criminal heroes, chase, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france, naples italy, rome italy, southern italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.5
 2K
Bullseye! (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Michael Caine, Roger Moore and Sally Kirkland star as three of the most unlikely rogues to ever score a heist. Hidden away in a vault is a fortune in diamonds, payment for a secret formula two government scientists have unscrupulously sold to the ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, independent film, captivating, light ...
Plot: scientist, disorder, undercover, cons and scams, nothing goes right, chases and races, goofy hero, intrigue, dishonesty, experiment, disguise, con artists ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets shot and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe ...
Style: funny, humorous, black comedy, hilarious, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids
Plot: dark humor, beach, summer, murder, farce, insurance, comedy of errors, heat wave, organized crime, employer employee relationship, mob boss, nothing goes right ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 55K
Baby's Day Out (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Baby Bink couldn't ask for more; he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, he lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, slapstick, not serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: babies and infants, mischievous children, chase, escapades, danger, stupidity, prank, young heroes, kidnapping, lost child, rescue, farce ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess ...
Style: funny, parody, spoof, hilarious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, date night, family friendly, family outing, teens
Plot: jungle, gross out humor, dumb, human animal relationship, animal, farce, save the day, disorder, goofy hero, road trip, satire, pets ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: africa, nigeria, asia, china, himalaya ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 53K
Spies Like Us (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.
Style: humorous, parody, funny, light, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, kgb, chase, mistaken identity, race against time, buddy, farce, secret service, nuclear war, nuclear threat ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: afghanistan, soviet union, middle east, asia, pakistan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 11K
The Goat (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
Style: funny, humorous, laugh out loud, buddy comedy, sweet ...
Plot: bad luck, private detective, farce, amnesia, love and romance, memory loss, cigarette smoking, partner, accountant, goofy hero, nothing goes right, odd couple ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: france, paris france, latin america, mexico, acapulco mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
Style: funny, slapstick, humorous, absurd, light ...
Audience: kids
Plot: kidnapping, farce, law enforcement, vengeance, chase, pink panther, spy, save the world, manic, comedy of errors, goofy hero, fighting crime ...
Time: 20th century, year 1976, 70s
Place: munich germany, west germany, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Wild Goose Chase (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the ...
Style: slapstick, realistic, not serious, humorous, poliziottesco ...
Plot: transvestism, farce, chase, investigation, silly humor, disorder, workplace situations, nothing goes right, chases and races, workplace, goofy hero, theater ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: france, europe, england, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Nuns on the Run (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to "leave" he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. B&C decide to steal the money for themselves, but ...
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, laugh out loud ...
Plot: cross dressing, nun, chase, priest, fish out of water, farce, on the run, disguise, convent, disorder, odd couple, partner ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Crime Busters (1977)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store.
Style: not serious, exciting, humorous, entertaining, buddy comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: law enforcement, cons and scams, police, criminal heroes, police investigation, chases and races, odd couple, partners against crime, buddies, misfit, gang, heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 11K
The Monster (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, slapstick, parody, realistic ...
Plot: mistaken identity, farce, serial killer, odd couple, chase, dark humor, unemployment, european, parents, woman with a gun, mysticism, murder ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries.
Style: slapstick, realistic, not serious, exciting, humorous ...
Plot: assassination attempt, female nudity, female terrorist, nudity, danger, femme fatale, dangerous attraction, fall in love, goofy hero, escapades, chases and races, terrorism ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: mexico, latin america, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Pink Panther (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Inspector Dreyfus assigns the worst police ...
Style: hilarious, humorous, slapstick, light, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: robbery, pink panther, law enforcement, danger, goofy hero, riddles and clues, incompetent police, farce, police, investigation, murder mystery, bank robber ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, new york, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, not serious, slapstick ...
Audience: kids
Plot: deaf, disability, murder, blindness, farce, chase, blind man, witness, mute or deaf, friendship, deafness, odd couple ...
Time: 80s
Place: manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 6.2
 8K
Tough Guys (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie Lang (Douglas) are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of ...
Style: entertaining, road movie, funny, light, humorous ...
Plot: prison, aging, gangster, police investigation, partner, unlikely friendships, odd couple, nothing goes right, elderly, dishonesty, stalking, buddies ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, year 1956
Place: bolivia, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Johnny Dangerously (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the 1930s, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
Style: funny, parody, spoof, humorous, light ...
Plot: gangster, organized crime, chase, rivalry, cons and scams, dishonesty, rise to the top, goofy hero, disorder, mobster, satire, crime boss ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1910s, year 1935
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A diamond advocate is attempting to steal a collection of diamonds, yet troubles arise when he realizes that he is not the only one after the diamonds.
Style: funny, dark comedy, black comedy, dramatic, light ...
Plot: heist, zoophilia, manipulation, femme fatale, satire, eternal love, robbery, hustler, outlaw, mission, swindle, diamond ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: europe, britain, tower bridge london, london, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Twelve Chairs (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min.
Story: A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist ...
Style: humorous, realistic, captivating, exciting, cynical ...
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, cons and scams, partner, escapades, con artists, rivalry, improv, friends, transformation, adaptation, gem ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 1920s
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In this comic but dated story, nerdy Shurik travels to Caucas in search of native legends and folklore. But what he finds is a beautiful girl whom, due to intoxication and deceit of the local "gang", he ends up literally stealing for the ...
Style: feel good, humorous, romantic, spoof
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: student, corrupt official, couple relations, kidnapping, love affair, social relations, criminal gang, human relationship, love and romance, summer, caucasian, iron curtain ...
Place: soviet union, ussr, caucasus, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
11%
 5.9
 2K
The Actors (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: During the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O'Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his character. He meets Barreller who he discovers owes someone he's never met a considerable sum ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, offbeat
Plot: disguise, debt, debt collector, hidden identity, unlikely criminals, disorder, cons and scams, dishonesty, gangster, pretense, aging, caper ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Who Killed Bambi? (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story: It tells the story of two young friends who must find a way for the president of the company in which they work (and father of one of them) safe return home, and that is enclosed strange circumstances naked in the trunk of his car.
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, light, dark comedy ...
Plot: comedy of errors, mistaken identity, crime gone awry, disorder, nothing goes right, buddies, dark humor, profanity, friends, kidnapping, love story, truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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