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The Luau (2005)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Having just lost his job at a soul food take-out joint, Cedric (Brian Hooks) gets the bad news that a local female crime kingpin has picked the wrong time to call in a large IOU he racked up some time back. Needing a fast buck, Cedric and some friends decide to stage a Hawaiian luau, and charge people for the privilege of enjoying the feast. However, what was to be a small, exclusive party becomes a massive neighborhood blowout, and everyone who is owed money by Cedric (a sizable list in itself) shows up expecting free food and entertainment.
Style:
feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, fast paced, independent film, tension, crime drama, black cinema
Audience:
adult
Plot:
debt, satire, party, escapades, money problems, friends, neighborhood, community, urban, hustler, payback, female crime boss, black, social satire
Time:
2000s, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, satirical, entertaining and feel good films with plots about satire, escapades, urban, friendship, friends, social satire and party mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like The Luau: Unstoppable (2023), Bad Trip (2017), It's Going to Work 2 (2016), Slumber Party (2005), Quick Pick (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story charts the journey of two childhood friends Kohinoor Kalyan and Jilani Ramdas. They are both enthusiastic and easy-going. On an unfateful day, the duo loses a heavy amount in cricket betting. They unintentionally enter the villain's ...
Style:
captivating, feel good, satirical, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
friendship, trap, bet, gambling, friends, escapades, money problems, satire, money, risk, desperation, loyalty ...
Place:
india
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95%
223
Genre: Comedy
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
'Bad Trip' is a comedy in which four friends in their last week as housemates interference in an unfortunate situation where they have to sell within one week an unprecedented amount of cocaine.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, satirical, ironic, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, satire, irony, drug, drug dealer, escapades, friends, neighbor, social satire, cocaine, drug dealing, misadventure ...
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77%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After going through a failed heist, 5 friends, apparently back to their normal lives, are involved in an opportunity to pull off another one.
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, captivating, funny ...
Plot:
satire, heist, fugitives, silly humor, escapades, humour, unlikely criminals, runaway, friends, dark humor, urban, criminal underworld ...
Place:
rio de janeiro
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
When Naomi, a fine, young sexy thing from South Central LA is invited to Palm Springs by her rich Uncle Bob to house sit for the weekend, she jumps at the chance to get out of the hood.
Style:
entertaining, funny, humorous, light, captivating ...
Plot:
party, dancing, escapades, humour, private club, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, friends, teenager, group of friends, satire, girlfriend, teenage girl ...
Place:
south central los angeles
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Eddie, a lovable loser who's strapped for cash and on the verge of getting evicted from his apartment, thinks he's lost the 135 million dollar winning lottery ticket and enlists the help of his two best friends to help him search for it ...
Style:
satirical, humorous, funny, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
lottery ticket, gangster, money problems, financial problem, friends, humour, mishap, misfit, escapades, relationship problems, group of friends, satire ...
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Seguito de Febbre da cavallo!
Style:
feel good, captivating, humorous, funny, satirical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
gambling, money problems, friendship, satire, money, bet, escapades, friends, humour, needing money, heist, scheming ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Gaetano is a divorced traffic cop in a relationship with a beautiful and exuberant woman, for whom he happily provides standards of living well above his means. He plans to propose to her, but she is thinking to run away with his handsome superior. ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, humorous, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lottery, luck, gambling debt, gambler, money, lifestyle, money problems, satire, social problems, escapades, police officer, debt ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Faced with their biggest challenge yet, the gang sets out to honor a lost friend only to find themselves in the middle of where it all began – Spring Break – where they learn their old school ways of partying hardly compete with today's ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, raunchy comedy
Plot:
funeral, friendship, satire, escapades, friends, ashes, female nudity, spring break, hallucination, party, drug trip, escape room ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Follows Jaclyn who really wants a baby, and realizes she doesn't need a husband to be a mother after a messy divorce and wasted years of online dating, so she and her best friends create a plan to get her pregnant at a very special party.
Style:
feel good, satirical, captivating, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
social satire, friend, female friendship, relationship problems, pregnancy, satire, escapades, wanting a baby, empowerment, self discovery, female empowerment, independent woman ...
Similarity:
54%
622
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Pontagnac, a married man, tries to seduce Victoire, the wife of his good friend. Little does he know, Victoire has plans of her own to punish her cheating husband. The would-be fling ignites a dizzying spell of complications as characters arrange ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, satirical, semi serious, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, social satire, husband wife relationship, farce, infidelity, adultery, deception, escapades, male female relationship, relationship problems, family relations, humour ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Basketball coach Ashmokeem kidnaps and blackmails the opposite team's player and his family in order to secure the championship for his team.
Style:
satirical, humorous, entertaining, funny, feel good ...
Plot:
basketball, kidnapping, blackmail, satire, urban, basketball coach, basketball team, abduction, basketball player, sport team, dishonesty, competitor ...
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54%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A continuation of a funny adventures of a dachshund puppy and four his friends - taxi drivers.
Style:
humorous, feel good, entertaining, funny, semi serious ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
dachshund, friendship, escapades, dog, satire, friends, social satire, humour, pet dog, animal human communication, taxi, human animal relationship ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
soviet union
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A movie based on the italian sitcom "I Soliti Idioti".
Style:
entertaining, ironic, sitcom, satirical, funny ...
Plot:
satire, irreverent, friendship, silly humor, absurd humor, irony, escapades, humour, friends, social satire, pop culture, youth culture ...
Time:
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Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After learning their company has been illicitly spying, collecting and selling data on them, three millennial friends band together to fight back against a lecherous boss and the company's maniacal, Tarzan-obsessed CEO.
Style:
satirical, buddy comedy, dark comedy, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
satire, surveillance, friends, escapades, group of friends, workplace, workplace situations, teamwork, friendship, social commentary, privacy, empowerment ...
Similarity:
52%
972
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
On New Year's Eve 1999, three friends, who are attempting to break into the music scene through pirate radio, drive through London in a desperate search for tickets for the best millennium party ever.
Style:
satirical, funny, captivating, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, journey, grownups, british, satire, friends, travel, new year, escapades, party, coming of age, nostalgia ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two guys start a risky new business to pay off a debt.
Style:
satirical, buddy comedy, captivating, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
drug, stoner, satire, businessman, marijuana, business, cannabis, escapades, black people, problem, buddies, get rich quick scheme ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Oh Dong-sik is the completely rigid character who has always led a text-book life. Dong-sik is threatened by loan sharks when his mother signs up for a private loan in order to advance Dong-sik’s father’s promotion into the principal position. ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
social satire, satire, debt, salesman, coworker, relationship vs career, career, workplace situations, escapades, job, social climber, assistant ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea, korea
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
5 friends have a plan to rob a transporter that can change their lives.
Style:
captivating, funny, entertaining, satirical, semi serious ...
Plot:
heist, robbery, satire, escapades, burglar, attempted robbery, heist gone wrong, criminal, friends, problem, car chase, mansion ...
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, entertaining, satirical, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, satirical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
christmas, casino, satire, love affair, love interest, christmas spirit, love story, christmas season, money, money problems, hitman, gambling ...
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A play-it-safe guy must search for his wife's missing cat, bringing him face-to-face with the colorful, wacky, and sometimes, the more dangerous element of his neighborhood, forcing him to confront his fears and rethink his M.O.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, light, funny, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
neighborhood, missing pet, city life, overcoming fear, teenage angst, urban setting, satire, working class, self discovery, reluctant hero, street life, ethnic diversity ...
Time:
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Place:
new york
Similarity:
45%
243
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A taco shop's business is jeopardized when a gourmet taco truck parks across the street.
Style:
feel good, captivating, semi serious, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot:
food, satire, business, business competition, diner, fast food restaurant, rivalry, escapades, competitor, small business, urban, entrepreneurship ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Three friends accidentally kill a scum bag, then have to pretend he is still alive to cover up their crime.
Style:
dark comedy, buddy comedy, satirical, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
satire, fatal accident, cover-up, murder, gangster, corpse, cover up, three friends, problem, hung over, con trick, escapades ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
You thought the boys would actually sober up? Not until after they change the world.
Style:
captivating, funny, entertaining, satirical, feel good ...
Plot:
satire, party, drug use, vulgar language, trailer park boys, joke, escapades, comedian, social satire, stand up comedian, humour, public speaking ...
Place:
austin texas
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
With his signature one-liners and drawings, Demetri Martin muses on doughnut holes, dogs, sports bars, the alphabet's most aggressive letters and more.
Style:
funny, witty, humorous, ironic, satirical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
stand up comedy, social problems, humour, public speaking, stand up comedian, social satire, satire, joke, topical humor, irony, comedian, live performance ...
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A cranky middle-aged dad and his two best friends find themselves out of step in a changing world of millennial CEOs and powerful preschool principals.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, captivating, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
best friend, hypocrisy, life, parenting, parenthood, parents, friends, lifestyle, social problems, satire, friendship, social satire ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
Nicole takes the stage at the Gramercy Theatre for a HOT new set, discussing everything from how she basically is a vegan (she's just doing her part), what she's looking for in a man, and just how crazy this past year-and-a-half has been.
Style:
funny, captivating, entertaining, satirical, feel good ...
Plot:
female comedian, stand up comedy, humour, social satire, public speaking, comedian, joke, stand up comedian, social issues, satire, social problems, woman ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Brother Gokhan, Accountant Servet, Meatball Necmi and Del Piero Hikmet are released from prison on probation and they join group therapy in order to be reintegrated to society.
Style:
humorous, satirical, feel good, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
group therapy, social problems, relationships, ex convict, society, parole, escapades, satire, lifestyle, fish out of water, male bonding, friendship ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
What if pain was merely a set up for the ultimate surprise party? Genie Burns, owner of Surprise Enterprise, masterminds off the wall surprise parties in nobody would-suspect-it locations. Here she takes crazy risks but in her love life, she plays ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, satirical, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
wedding, relationships, love triangle, surprise party, party, surprise birthday party, satire, love interest, male female relationship, wedding preparations and rituals, love affair, love story ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
A jilted woman and her friends end up with a 35-carat blood diamond during Diwali, but when it goes missing, they must find it before they get their eyes scooped out by a homicidal maniac.
Style:
entertaining, semi serious, feel good, satirical, funny ...
Plot:
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Place:
chicago
Similarity:
38%
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