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The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: South Africa, Botswana
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a couple of soldiers trying to capture each other and a pilot and passenger of a small plane, who are each having a few problems of their own.
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, light, talky, semi serious, erotic, parody, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
farce, culture clash, adventurer, friendship, rescue, nothing goes right, disorder, fish out of water, goofy hero, beautiful scenery, desert, unlikely friendships, animals, lawyer, stranded, catastrophe, jungle, doctors, children, natural disaster, island, monkey, violence, writers, studying ...
Time:
80s
Place:
africa, south africa, new york
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, funny, melancholic and cult film films with plots about culture clash, mentor, first contact, fantasy world, adaptation, destiny and dialogue mostly in Comedy, Adventure and Action genres. Some movies like The Gods Must Be Crazy II: Moving (1988), Uncle Buck (1989), Crocodile Dundee (1986), The Toy (1982), The Twelve Chairs (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: South Africa, Botswana
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Misery is brought to a small group of Sho in the Kalahari desert in the form of a cola bottle. In his quest to throw the evil object over the edge of the earth, Xixo encounters Western "civilization," a haphazard doctor and a tyranical ...
Style:
funny, light, humorous, feel good, intellectual ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing
Plot:
desert, culture clash, tribe, wilderness, on the road, rivalry, philosophy, farce, female nudity, jungle, snake, gunfight ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
africa, south africa, cape town south africa
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100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.
Style:
funny, entertaining, humorous, stylized, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gangsters, farce, moving, dysfunctional family, kung fu, con men, truck, justice, creativity, stereotypes, technology, parallel universe ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey, idaho, new orleans, usa
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100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
As an idle, good-natured bachelor, Uncle Buck is the last person you would think of to watch the kids. However, during a family crisis, he is suddenly left in charge of his nephew and nieces. Unaccustomed to suburban life, fun-loving Uncle Buck soon ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, light, touching ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
childhood, teenager, parents and children, when the parents are away, happy ending, unlikely friendships, fish out of water, respect, uncle nephew relationship, mischievous children, child care, siblings relations ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
wisconsin, california, chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a New York reporter plucks crocodile hunter Dundee from the Australian Outback for a visit to the Big Apple, it's a clash of cultures and a recipe for good-natured comedy as naïve Dundee negotiates the concrete jungle. Dundee proves that ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, romantic, funny, exciting ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night
Plot:
culture clash, tourist, escapades, fish out of water, jungle, transformation, swamp, life philosophy, adventurer, crocodile, creativity, mentor ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, australia, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers ...
Style:
humorous, funny, sentimental, feel good, satirical ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
friendship, youth, children, childhood, rich and poor, social differences, family problems, spoiled brat, fish out of water, life philosophy, twists and turns, millionaire ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
TV child star of the '70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a normal guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything but normal. Desperate to win the part, Dickie hires a ...
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funny, feel good, humorous, touching, satirical ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
childhood, youth, culture clash, family relations, nothing goes right, actor's life, child prodigy, parents and children, family life, disorder, satire, fantasy world ...
Time:
2000s, 70s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A treasure hunt. An aging ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime has finally adjusted to life under the commisars in Russia. Both he and the local priest find that the family jewels were hidden in a chair, one of a set of twelve. They return separately ...
Style:
satirical, stylized, talky, philosophical, witty ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
farce, treasure hunt, road trip, corruption, betrayal, mentor, life philosophy, greed, brutality, twists and turns, adventurer, obsessive quest ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
russia, ussr, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
As a baby, Bobo gets separated from his family during a camping trip. After being raised by wild dogs for twenty years, Bobo is discovered by animal researcher Penny, who brings him back to his family and attempts to teach Bobo how to readjust to ...
Style:
humorous, light, funny, sentimental, absurd ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
farce, fish out of water, stupidity, self discovery, misfit, getting home, family life, life philosophy, life & death, lone hero, police investigation, mentor ...
Time:
80s
Place:
boston, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, parody, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
culture clash, immigrants, deportation, mistaken identity, adaptation, farce, twists and turns, fish out of water, disorder, false accusation, comedy of errors, interracial relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mexico, los angeles, latin america, california, tijuana mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter ...
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funny, entertaining, light, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
cons and scams, con artists, love, friendship, chase, disorder, comedy of errors, house, mistaken identity, heist, twists and turns, disaster ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, light, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
baseball, millionaire, lawyer, hotel, childhood, inheritance, photographer, culture clash, destiny, police investigation, fight scenes, money ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey, new york, california, manhattan new york city, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.
Style:
parody, funny, humorous, satirical, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
caveman, satire, road trip, farce, slavery, religion, stupidity, sarcasm, friendship between men, circumcision, virginity, dumb ...
Time:
prehistoric times, prehistory, stone age
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.
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Plot:
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20th century, 70s, 80s, year 1957, 50s
Place:
kansas, milan italy, italy, new york state, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a heretofore undiscovered New Guinea tribe. Grass skirts, makeup, and staged rituals transform his ...
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humorous, absurd, feel good, scary, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing
Plot:
farce, hoax, expedition, college, dishonesty, switching roles, comedy of errors, cons and scams, nothing goes right, embezzlement, jungle, single parent ...
Time:
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Place:
papua new guinea
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Ruben and Robby are twin brothers, adopted by Mona, one of the wealthiest - and most eccentric - women in Santa Barbara. Ruben is devoted to Mona, but Robby is more devoted to her money. So when Mona leaves her fortune and estate to Ruben it starts ...
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bad ending, entertaining, harsh, clever, visually appealing ...
Plot:
lawyer, twins, vengeance, suspense, greed, gangsters, first contact, fight scenes, farce, fantasy world, radio, destiny ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The title says it all. There's a mix up involving stolen diamonds which Ernest has (naturally) made into a yo-yo and given to his would be girlfriend, Rene. But Rene wants a man of action, and doesn't think that Ernest fits the bill. After ...
Style:
humorous, light, parody, road movie, splatter ...
Audience:
teens, kids
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satire, disaster, humour, nude, jungle, creativity, alternate reality, dinosaur, nostalgia, farce, fight scenes, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally ...
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feel good, humorous, campy, light, clever ...
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kids, chick flick, girls' night, teens
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twins, luxury hotel, twins separated at birth, hotel, women, farce, culture clash, shakespeare, brutality, life philosophy, chase, adaptation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, west virginia, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man claiming to be Carol Brady's long-lost first husband, Roy Martin, shows up at the suburban Brady residence one evening. An impostor, the man is actually determined to steal the Bradys' familiar horse statue, a $20-million ancient ...
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parody, funny, humorous, sexy, satirical ...
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teens, kids, family outing
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satire, surfing, dysfunctional family, culture clash, kidnapping, family vacation, television, camp, wedding, destiny, vengeance, fight scenes ...
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70s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Michael has written a schollarly book on the revolutionary war. He has sold the film rights. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes very ...
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humorous, feel good, melancholic, witty, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
culture clash, crime gone awry, couple relations, artists and showbiz, love and romance, fish out of water, showbiz, couples, actor's life, young lovers, celebrity culture, hollywood ...
Time:
80s, 18th century, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
usa, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Joe Pesci stars as Louie Kritski, a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge gives him another option, which he accepts -- he must live in his rat-infested hell ...
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funny, humorous, light, entertaining, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
culture clash, fish out of water, justice, stupidity, misfit, self discovery, parents and children, african american, racial slur, court, brutality, fight scenes ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Henderson Dores (Daniel Day Lewis), a New York based art dealer from England, travels to Georgia to persuade patriarch, Harry Dean Stanton, to sell a Monet previously thought lost.
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish Arthur Fanshawe, who has no clue about what's going on around him, but who wants to use his ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the neighborhood school children when his wife gets sick. Stopping to get donuts for the kids, things go even more awry when he finds himself a victim of a ...
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kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The escaped delinquent John W. Burns, Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird.
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Time:
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17%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
As not-quite-orderlies who're downright Disorderlies, rap-music favorites The Fat Boys rule. Playing the freewheeling caretakers of the frail Dennison (Hollywood legend Ralph Bellamy), they stir up a comedic culture clash in Palm Beach society ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When he discovers his girlfriend having sex with his brother, Frankie (Scotti) decides to head to Manhattan, leaving his Bronx pizza shop forever for the fame and fortune of show business. But before stardom, he needs a place to stay. Looking in the ...
Style:
talky, clever, humorous, sexy, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Place:
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17%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than ...
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16%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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16%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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