Movies like Hallelujah!

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Hallelujah! (2009)
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Hallelujah! (2009)
Original name: Le Missionnaire
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Following his release from a seven-year stretch in prison, Mario Diccara discovers that his affairs with the underworld aren't completely settled. His brother Patrick, a priest, suggests that he stays with elderly Father Etienne in a small village in Ardeche until the conflict blows over. But their plan takes an unexpected turn when Father Etienne dies.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, entertaining, offbeat, realistic
Plot: priest, fake priest, mistaken identity, small town, village, church, social relations, disorder, hidden identity, farce, cons and scams, ex convict, love and romance, village life, love affair, society, clergy, small town life, dishonesty, criminal heroes, religions or cults, prison, criminal, impostor, drug ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and captivating films with plots about disorder, society, dishonesty, love and romance, social relations, mistaken identity and small town mostly in Comedy, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Hallelujah!: The Priest's Children (2013), Zonad (2009), Puckoon (2002), Locked Out (2006), The Belgian Job (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Priest's Children (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, tragicomedy, suspense ...
Plot: satire, priest, pregnancy, mediterranean, clergy, religions or cults, unwanted pregnancy, village life, society, dishonesty, disorder, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, balkan, croatia
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Zonad (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Zonad (Simon Delaney) is from space…probably. Or so the Cassidy family assume when they discover an apparent alien in a shiny red space suit and helmet passed out on the living room floor beside the drinks cabinet. The Cassidys and the people of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, witty, black comedy ...
Plot: family relations, mistaken identity, hidden identity, social relations, cons and scams, family life, dishonesty, disorder, village, con artists, alien, morality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
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74%
 5.7
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Puckoon (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, black comedy, realistic ...
Plot: border, life turned upside down, comedy of errors, satire, political unrest, cons and scams, society, politics, disorder, social relations, village life, village ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 6.2
 2K
Locked Out (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Once upon a time, somewhere... a homeless guy finds a policeman's uniform...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, exciting, realistic ...
Plot: police, suicide, hidden identity, mistaken identity, family problems, disorder, social relations, social misfits, misfit, farce, kidnapping, child in peril ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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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 ⇓
67%
Heavens Above! (1963)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the ...
Style: parody, black and white, semi serious, witty, clever ...
Plot: priest, satire, church, anti hero, culture clash, small town life, fish out of water, village, prison, factory, small town, village life ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: england, europe, london
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66%
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Mohamed Dubois (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Arnaud Dubois may be the heir to a bank, but he prefers to call himself Mohamed. Having fallen out with his father, he turns his back on the family residence. On his travels, he meets Mustafa, who introduces him to his sister Sabrina. Having fallen ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, biting
Plot: hidden identity, social differences, interracial relations, fish out of water, disorder, society, dishonesty, fall in love, love and romance, fake identity, shakespeare, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
We're No Angels (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two escaped cons only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.
Style: humorous, feel good, clever, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: mistaken identity, prison, clergy, small town, religion, fake priest, priest, monk, fish out of water, buddies, on the run, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Hot Under the Collar (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jerry tries to seduce his girlfriend Monica via hypnosis, but it accidentally makes her want to enter a convent and take a vow of chastity instead. Jerry tries to get her out by disguising himself to a priest and later as a nun. Alas, his rescue ...
Style: independent film, cynical, realistic, semi serious, sexual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: nun, couples, religions or cults, disorder, heist, love affair, convent, unfulfilled love, dishonesty, vengeance, love and romance, criminal heroes ...
Time: 90s
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65%
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The Deported (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An Italian-American actor is deported to Mexico by some crooked INS Agents, and a pack of orphans helps him find his way back to America
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, realistic ...
Plot: orphan, friendship, gang, confined, mistaken identity, small town, immigrant, deportation, actor, comeback, boy, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Pope Must Diet (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and the reappearance of his old lover.
Style: humorous, not serious, witty, feel good, light ...
Plot: priest, comedy of errors, clergy, mistaken identity, disorder, religions or cults, dishonesty, atheism, pope, vatican, cons and scams, rebellion ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Tortilla Heaven (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Isidor's Tortilla Heaven is the best restaurant in New Mexico maybe even the world. But though his tortillas are scrumptious, his enchiladas divine, Isidor has never made a dime. Why? He lives in Falfurrias, population 73. One Sunday, while all ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: restaurant, miraculous event, cooking and food, life turned upside down, religions or cults, hopes, small town, overnight success, jesus christ, jesus, religion, social relations ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa, mexico
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62%
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Masquerades (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream- to finally be appreciated by his fellow villagers. Screwing up his carefully maintained image is ...
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot: family relations, brother sister relationship, small town, small town life, couples, love and romance, cons and scams, village, siblings relations, arab, husband wife relationship, lie ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: algeria, middle east, north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 5.9
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Incognito (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: This offbeat musical drama stars Lucas (Bénabar), an up-and-coming singer ready to do anything to be on top of the French pop scene.
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, realistic
Plot: desire for fame, musician's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, disorder, dishonesty, rock, hopes, cons and scams, hidden identity, friends ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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61%
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Dead Tired (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc (Michel Blanc) is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around ...
Style: light, absurd, melancholic, talky, humorous ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, twins, self discovery, disorder, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, actor's life, satire, cinema, filmmaking, dishonesty, couple relations ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: france, paris france
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61%
A Pain in the Ass (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An unlikely friendship develops between a hitman and a suicidal guy who have both checked into the same hotel for different reasons.
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, semi serious ...
Plot: hotel, odd couple, hitman, farce, disorder, dark humor, suicide attempt, friendship, chance meeting, society, twins, comedy of errors ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Pastor Shepherd (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The tale of a down-on-his-luck freeze-dried-pet-salesman and his journey to become the first-ever-cyber-evangelist.
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, captivating ...
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Time: 21st century
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60%
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
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60%
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Welcome Mr. President (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. Love fishing, the company of friends, the library ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot: politics, disorder, farce, state affairs, dishonesty, fish out of water, politician, political satire, satire, president, silly humor, political leader ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
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Last Call for Nowhere (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: French border cop José Fernandez has just one last extradition to do before his long-awaited promotion to the crime bureau. But his detainee Akim, victim of a judiciary glitch, is outraged to find himself saddled with the identity of a potential ...
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, funny, feel good
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Place: france
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Never Say... Never! (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Paris, 1830. Valentin loses himself in alcohol, gambling and women. He does not believe in life and especially not in love. His uncle Van Buck believes only in the virtues of money and trade. Everything separates them until the day when Van Buck, to ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 19th century
Place: paris france, france
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60%
The Stroller Strategy (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Thomas Platz is suddenly made the guardian of a baby - then pretends to be its real father in order to win back Marie, the girlfriend who dumped him a year before. Stuck between staying a man-child forever, and proving he is ready to take the ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic ...
Audience: date night, kids
Plot: wooing, renewed love, dishonesty, life turned upside down, baby, ex girlfriend, seduction, babies and infants, disorder, love and romance, fish out of water, kindergarten ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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60%
Would I Lie to You? 2 (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Dans le quartier du Sentier, Eddie Vuibert, Dov et Yvan sont confrontés aux procédés pour le moins expéditifs de leur nouveau client, Eurodiscount, une chaîne européenne d'hypermarchés. Karine, lasse des turpitudes de son volage époux, ...
Style: realistic, humorous, not serious, feel good, light
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Time: year 2001
Place: france, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Xate is an ordinary woman from Midyat with eight children in tow. The only thing that sets her apart is her husband's job as Mayor of Midyat. Until, that is, an extraordinary day changes her life - and the lives of everyone else in Midyat. For ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: family life, mayor, parents and children, disorder, politics, life turned upside down, small town, state affairs, social relations, society, small town life, family relations ...
Time: 20th century
Place: middle east, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Dinner Guest (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Fifty years old, three years past of unemployment, benefits decreasing very quickly... Gerard is at the end of the rope when a position is offered him in Indonesia. To win the favor of his new employer, Gerard invites him to dinner at home. Fatal ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, semi serious ...
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Madame Irma (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Francis, who is in his forties, manages the French subsidiary of an American high-tech company. But the shareholders suddenly decide to close it. Depressed by the idea of being unemployed and the prospect of losing his second wife, Francis decides ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, cynical ...
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Time: 21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
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Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Lost and Found in Armenia (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A US Senator's son who attempts to forget the break up of his fiancée is forced to vacation in Turkey by his best friends. A para-sailing trip mishap lands him in a small village in Armenia, where he is accused of being a spy. It is there he ...
Style: realistic, humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: mistaken identity, comedy of errors, nothing goes right, escapades, disorder, confined, fall in love, love and romance, captivity, communication problem, village, silly humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: armenia, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
3 Days of Normal (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: 3 Days of Normal follows the story of straight-laced deputy Bill Morgan who is quite content literally living within the quaint boundaries of Washington, New Hampshire. Bill’s stable and rather uneventful life is thrown for a loop when he finds ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, self discovery, fall in love, small town sheriff, hopes, social relations, small town life, love and romance, police, town, actress, journalist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new hampshire, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Boudu (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: humorous, semi serious, witty, captivating, offbeat ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, fish out of water, disorder, social relations, couples, misfit, couple relations, social differences, love and romance, rich and poor, infidelity, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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