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The Troops in New York (1965)
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The Troops in New York (1965)
Original name: Le Gendarme à New-York
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The second installment of Gendarmes series, tells the story of Sergeant Cruchot (Louis De Funes), who, together with his faithful comrades, has been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.
Style: humorous, realistic, exciting, feel good, captivating, anthology, not serious, slapstick, cult film
Audience: family outing
Plot: gendarme, law enforcement, stowaway, fish out of water, police, comedy of errors, daughter, nothing goes right, goofy hero, misfit, family relations, chase, disorder, french police, nun, father daughter relationship, airport, psychoanalysis, ocean liner, gendarmerie, disguise, father daughter conflict, conference, parents and children, chases and races ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, usa, new york, paris france, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city, riviera ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, not serious and exciting films with plots about disorder, silly humor, goofy hero, police, law enforcement, chases and races and car mostly in Comedy, Crime and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Troops in New York: The Troops Get Married (1968), The Troops & Aliens (1979), The Troops of St. Tropez (1964), The Troops & Troop-ettes (1982), The Troops on Vacation (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Troops Get Married (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Saint-Tropez police launch a major offensive against dangerous drivers. Marechal Cruchot (Louis de Funès) relishes the assignment, which he pursues with a manic zeal. Cruchot is after an offending driver, who turns out to be Josépha (Claude ...
Style: humorous, realistic, exciting, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: gendarme, nun, farce, fall in love, father daughter relationship, boss and employee, goofy hero, marriage, humiliation, disorder, nothing goes right, workplace ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, french riviera, saint tropez, cote d'azur, riviera ...
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100%
The Troops & Aliens (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The bungling inspector Cruchot (Funès) finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that ...
Style: slapstick, not serious, exciting, humorous, fun
Plot: alien, evil alien, gendarme, police, gendarmerie, ufo, conspiracy, french police, space, visitor, clone, police officer ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: french riviera, cote d'azur, saint tropez, france, riviera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Troops of St. Tropez (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The ambitious police officer Cruchot (Louis de Funès) is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling ...
Style: funny, humorous, realistic, light, satirical ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: gendarme, police, seaside, father daughter relationship, art theft, goofy hero, beach, incompetent police, yacht, comedy of errors, fighting crime, investigation ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, french riviera, cote d'azur, saint tropez, riviera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Troops & Troop-ettes (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the ...
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, exciting, tense ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: gendarme, kidnapping, police, policewoman, law enforcement, comedy of errors, nothing goes right, goofy hero, workplace situations, yacht, beach, mother superior ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, saint tropez, provence, riviera, mediterranean sea ...
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The Troops on Vacation (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the ...
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, captivating ...
Plot: gendarme, nude beach, amateur detective, retirement, goofy hero, save the day, nun, colleague, memory loss, chases and races, nothing goes right, dull life ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, saint tropez, french riviera, europe, cote d'azur ...
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Fantomas (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusion by constantly changing his appearance.
Style: neo noir, funny, intellectual, humorous, not serious ...
Plot: fantomas, heist, superhero, anti hero, conspiracy, motorcycle chase, kidnapping, chase, newspaper, press conference, police operation, thief ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Halal State Security (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Someone is killing Parisians of Arab ethnicity. When an Algerian diplomat is murdered by the same assailant, two Algerian detectives are sent to help the French with the investigation and they have their own ways of doing things.
Style: humorous, entertaining, light, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, partner, odd couple, buddies, disorder, fish out of water, racism, chase, society, investigation, buddy cop, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, algeria, europe
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31%
The Fugitives (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action.
Style: feel good, exciting, witty, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: chase, comedy of errors, reluctant partners, fugitives, bank robbery, goofy hero, odd couple, disorder, nothing goes right, chases and races, unlikely criminals, nobody believes ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Let's Rob the Bank (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Shopkeeper Victor Garnier has naively invested his family's life savings in an African mine, on his banker's recommendation. When the mine is nationalized, rendering the stock worthless, he considers himself shamelessly robbed by the bank; ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, spoof ...
Plot: heist, tunnel, bank, cons and scams, dark humor, parents, gold, disorder, crime gone awry, dancer's life, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time: 60s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Arab on the City (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: 25-year-old Khalid Belkacem has failed at everything: college education, summer camp instructor's permit, driver's license, and even his BCG. He never expected to become the first "positive discrimination" member of the police ...
Style: humorous, not serious, parody, captivating, witty ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: fish out of water, farce, goofy hero, police investigation, serial killer, silly humor, interracial relations, society, danger, urban ghetto life, disorder, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Madigan's Millions (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: humorous, semi serious, exciting, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, cons and scams, disorder, partner, dishonesty, chase, crime gone awry, goofy hero, money, gangster, police, hooligan ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Taxi 4 (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Before being extradited to Africa to stand trial, a notorious Belgian criminal is entrusted to the Marseilles police department for less than 24 hours. But the wily crook convinces bumbling policeman Emilien he's a lowly Belgian embassy ...
Style: feel good, realistic, not serious, humorous, hilarious ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: taxi, car chase, chase, goofy hero, disorder, friends, prisoners exchange, escapades, danger, master criminal, nothing goes right, partners against crime ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: marseille, europe, france, provence, monaco
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Witless Protection (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story centers on a small-town sheriff who witnesses what he believes is a kidnapping and rushes to rescue a woman. The kidnappers turn out to be FBI agents assigned to protect her and deliver her to a big Enron-type corruption trial in Chicago ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, realistic, not serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: law enforcement, fbi, comedy of errors, dumb, woman in danger, hidden identity, goofy hero, on the run, disorder, wrong place wrong time, fish out of water, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Fantomas Unleashed (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantômas is also planning to abduct a second scientist, professor ...
Style: parody, not serious, exciting, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: perfect crime, gadget, farce, kidnapping, disorder, danger, law enforcement, partners against crime, working undercover, french police, master of disguise, gendarme ...
Time: 60s
Place: europe, france, rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Oscar (1967)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is pregnant, an employee stole a large ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, sincere, entertaining ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, farce, family relations, comedy of errors, disorder, fraud, blackmail, boss and employee, power relations, parents and children, cons and scams, greed ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Dope (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their way to Paris to begin careers as recording artists, the pair stumbles across a potent type of ...
Style: humorous, realistic, not serious, feel good, light ...
Plot: drug dealing, friends, partner, misfit partners, buddies, nothing goes right, chase, chases and races, drug abuse, disorder, silly humor, marijuana ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Marquis (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Thomas Gardesse, a traveling alarm systems salesman, is arrested for a minor offense and sentenced to six months imprisonment. To win the respect of his fellow inmates, he claims he is "The Marquis," a brilliant robber whose identity has ...
Style: humorous, not serious, captivating, feel good, realistic
Plot: fish out of water, mistaken identity, master criminal, comedy of errors, goofy hero, teaching the ways of the world, unlikely criminals, heist, disorder, power relations, silly humor, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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 ...
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Taxi 2 (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.
Style: humorous, exciting, hilarious, not serious, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: car chase, chase, taxi, yakuza, kidnapping, police investigation, gang, police, buddy, creativity, stereotypes, hostage ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 90s
Place: france, marseille, paris france, europe
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23%
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.
Style: humorous, not serious, captivating, feel good, intellectual ...
Plot: perfect crime, police, master criminal, mastermind, goofy hero, chase, disguise, gadget, castle, anti hero, fantomas, criminal ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: europe, france, scottish highlands, united kingdom, scotland
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23%
Inspector Blunder (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, detective
Plot: law enforcement, french police, reporter, rescue, kidnapping, gangster, confined, dishonesty, journalism, disorder, silly humor, son ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: france, paris france
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The Pimp (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp.
Style: humorous, not serious, exciting, witty, realistic
Plot: pimp, goofy hero, twins, gang, heroes, lifestyle, stereotypes, impostor, gadget, danger, farce, rivalry ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe, marseille
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22%
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 ⇓
21%
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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 ⇓
21%
Protect and Serve (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A pair of bumbling French cops team up to take on the underworld.
Style: realistic, feel good, humorous, not serious, exciting
Plot: partner, odd couple, fish out of water, misfit, police investigation, heroic mission, partners against crime, fighting crime, culture clash, society, law enforcement, buddies ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Meeting Spencer (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After a series of Hollywood flops, famed director Harris Chappell (Jeffrey Tambor) returns to New York to relaunch his Broadway career. But Chappell's triumphant comeback begins to spiral out of control into a wild night of comic misadventure ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: artists and showbiz, comedy of errors, disorder, nothing goes right, goofy hero, theatre director, broadway, comeback, friendship, society, profanity, screwball ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Taxi 3 (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A gang of thieves calling themselves the Santa Claus Gang are wreaking havoc, and the police can't keep up. Police Captain Gilbert is distracted by a Chinese reporter writing a story on his squad, and taxi driver Daniel is in the midst of a ...
Style: humorous, exciting, funny, light, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: car chase, car, taxi driver, unlikely partners, buddies, skiing, disguise, pregnancy, mentor, betrayal, fight scenes, incompetent police ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Flic Story (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving ...
Style: cynical, realistic, not serious, witty, humorous
Plot: cop, human trafficking, nudity, gangster, murder of a nude woman, disorder, fish out of water, working undercover, nothing goes right, tough law enforcer, law enforcement, drug dealing ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: france, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Restaurant (1966)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime (Louis de Funès), is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.
Style: humorous, exciting, realistic, feel good, tense ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: food, dishonesty, false accusation, hospitality, abduction, restaurant, cooking, boss, waiter, comedy of errors, workplace situations, escapades ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Band (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Evan Evans, the director of a ballet troupe, is rehearsing his next show in Monaco, in preparation for a worldwide tour. When one member of his troupe leaves to get married, Evans imposes a regime of strict discipline on his remaining dancers. The ...
Style: not serious, humorous, stylized, exciting, feel good ...
Plot: farce, choreographer, audition, ballet, quibbling, goofy hero, artists and showbiz, workplace situations, car accident, yacht, disorder, power relations ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, monaco, french riviera, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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