Movies like Gung Ho
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Gung Ho (1986)
15K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.
Style:
humorous, funny, light, captivating, cult classic, realistic, semi serious, inspirational, romantic, clever ...
Plot:
culture clash, workplace, labor union, friendship, satire, small town, worker, factory worker, unemployment, businessman, lie, working class, labor strike, comedy of manners, deception, society, buddies, factory, business, car, obesity, breakup, shame, humiliation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
japan, usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, asia, tokyo, american
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Most similar movies to Gung Ho
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and light films with plots about friendship, friends, society, culture clash, love and romance, buddies and coming of age mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Gung Ho: Mr. Mom (1983), The Paper (1994), Hollidaysburg (2014), Living on Tokyo Time (1987), Night Shift (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
31K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jack and Caroline are a couple making a decent living When Jack suddenly loses his job. They agree that he should stay at home and look after the house while Caroline works. It's just that he's never done it before, and really doesn't ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, sentimental, realistic, cult classic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
parenthood, fired from the job, fish out of water, advertising, self discovery, switching roles, family life, parents and children, relationship vs career, misfit, unfulfillment, rise and fall ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983, 90s
Place:
detroit, north america
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17K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Henry Hackett is the editor of a New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchetman Alicia Clark, ...
Style:
black comedy, talky, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
journalism, newspaper, newspaper editor, workaholic, satire, media, workplace, newspaper reporter, husband wife relationship, quarrel, scapegoat, father daughter estrangement ...
Time:
20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Home for Thanksgiving break after their first semester at college, five friends discover just how much things change (and don't) after high school.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, friends, youth, homecoming, thanksgiving, college, society, woman, coming of age, small town, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pittsburgh
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56%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When her visa expires, a young Japanese immigrant in San Francisco agrees to marry a Japanese-American boy to avoid being deported back to Japan.
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
kids in trouble, japanese woman, foreigner, immigrant, couples, society, misfit, unfulfillment, love and romance, self discovery, fall in love, culture clash ...
Time:
80s
Place:
japan, asia, san francisco, california
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbour ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, talky, intense ...
Plot:
pimp, friendship, prostitution, sex club, elevator, thanksgiving, christmas, extortion, fiance fiancee relationship, anger, neighbor, argument ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.
Style:
humorous, romantic, semi serious, sex comedy, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
teenager, lifeguard, friendship, coming of age, college, workplace situations, workplace, love and romance, summer, party, beach, cousin ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Cleveland. 1973. Marv, the owner of an old neighborhood Jewish deli, must stay open 24 hours to cater to a new generation of clientèle, but straight-laced neighborhood do-gooders want to close him down. Meanwhile inside, hippies, bikers and crusty ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot:
working class, love and romance, workplace, couples, boss and employee, power relations, culture clash, save the day, fish out of water, family relations, immigrant, nothing goes right ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An offbeat, episodic film about three friends, Paul, a shy love-seeker, Lloyd, a vibrant conspiracy nut, and Jon, an aspiring filmmaker and peeping tom. The film satirizes free-love, the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, and amateur film-making.
Style:
funny, light, cult classic, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
voyeur, bookstore, peeping, sexuality, book, film industry, exodus, voyeurism, satire, partner, looking for love, anti war ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, asia, usa, vietnam
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, non-linear ...
Plot:
looking for love, culture clash, fish out of water, love and romance, fall in love, disorder, lifestyle, misfit, society, buddies, social differences, nightlife ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
50%
819
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Walkaway, a light-comedy drama, mocks the clutches of social obligations on young Indian professionals settled in New York City.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
buddies, friendship, couples, family relations, couple relations, fall in love, lifestyle, society, love and romance, parents and children, unsupportive parent, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, india
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.
Style:
talky, road movie, philosophical, humorous, cult classic ...
Plot:
highway, friendship, wilderness, male bonding, isolation, character study, woods, workplace, buddies, workplace situations, driver, letter ...
Time:
year 1988, 20th century, 80s
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
50%
47K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network.
Style:
satirical, humorous, light, entertaining, funny ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
fictional reality show, satire, happy ending, television, surveillance, media hype, brother brother relationship, fish out of water, audition, life philosophy, misfit, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california, new jersey
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A militant performance-artist and a tall Korean foreign-exchange student become trapped in a small Southern town.
Style:
satirical, captivating, psychological, semi serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
culture clash, self discovery, friendship, coming of age, small town, fish out of water, socially awkward, relationships, introspection, social issues, friends, satire ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film deals with an Indian American student who wanted to pursue his love of music over the more 'typical' academic endeavors of Indian Americans (e.g., medicine, engineering, law, and business).
Style:
witty, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
college, culture clash, lifestyle, follow your dream, parents and children, friendship, teenage life, society, nothing goes right, misfit, youth, hopes ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fischer can't remember the last time he woke up without a hangover. He lives in a church: a real one. Where people baptize, marry, pray and die. It's an ideal situation for a young guy with no aspirations: if he locks up the church, he can ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, mumblecore, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
wedding, church, self discovery, friendship, redemption, odd couple, buddies, addiction, coming of age, alcoholism, vandalism, religion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot:
friendship, disorder, partner, desire for fame, dark humor, friends, unemployment, buddies, aviation, unfulfillment, obsessive quest, nasa ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Freshly graduated from high school, Ana receives a full scholarship to Columbia University. Her very traditional, old-world parents feel that now is the time for Ana to help provide for the family, not the time for college.
Style:
touching, clever, captivating, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, overweight, mother daughter relationship, first sex, dressmaker, youth, culture clash, women, physical appearance, factory, husband wife relationship, dating ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, new york, latin america
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Madrid, 1974. Six years have passed since Martin and his family have returned to Spain from Switzerland. A visit to their adopted country will bring complications.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
friendship, family relations, parents and children, culture clash, disorder, farce, homecoming, love affair, culture shock, identity, immigration, nostalgia ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
switzerland, madrid
Similarity:
48%
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15K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
To get to know his girlfriend's son, a man volunteers to pick him up from a prep school....only to learn that her son's not the nicest kid.
Style:
road movie, funny, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, family outing, teens
Plot:
road trip, mischievous children, prank, holiday, culture clash, nothing goes right, foe turned friend, working class, unlikely friendships, reluctant partners, partner, thanksgiving ...
Time:
year 1991, 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
chicago, georgia, usa, australia, london
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
One worker in a bankrupt factory finds an unusual solution to save his co-workers from unemployment. If it doesn't work the factory will be privatized and sold to a French company planning to convert the plant into a snail cannery. Only 300 of ...
Style:
entertaining, satirical, captivating, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
working class, satire, labor union, unemployment, social commentary, factory worker, labor leader, factory owner, coworker, co worker co worker relationship, workplace, employer employee relationship ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When ...
Style:
inspirational, witty, stylized, funny, humorous ...
Plot:
coming of age, small town, friendship, relationships, profanity, friends, runaway, old love, love, love and romance, social differences, factory ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
This Is Not A Test is a comedy/drama directed by Christopher Angel. The film is based around a man called Carl (Hill Harper) who's living his everyday life whilst trying to cope with his fear of terrorist nuclear attacks. However, with the ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, independent film ...
Plot:
obsession, crumbling marriage, couples, family problems, satire, terrorism, society, friends, buddies, urban, eccentric family, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
48%
119
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
A film that explores the true meaning of a word by medical professionals, feelings of real people and the images that represent the word to the filmmaker. The viewer will get into a journey through true stories and feelings, chasing the true meaning ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
hip hop, misfit, social misfits, cause and meaning, friendship, rap, hip hop culture, japanese culture, friends, pop culture, musician's life, humour ...
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
48%
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656
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two best friends, garbage truck drivers in Hollywood become celebrities overnight after they find Cuba Gooding Jr.’s Best Supporting Actor Oscar for JERRY MAGUIRE in the trash and suddenly their lives go topsy-turvy.
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, light, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hollywood, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, overnight success, partner, buddies, odd couple, lifestyle, once in a lifetime opportunity, showbiz, celebrity culture, working class ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The continuing adventures of the barbers at Calvin's Barbershop. Gina, a stylist at the beauty shop next door, is now trying to cut in on his buisness. Calvin is again struggling to keep his father's shop and traditions alive--this time ...
Style:
funny, humorous, feel good, hilarious, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
beauty salon, fighting the system, urban, black, barbershop, friendship, workplace, friends, workplace romance, hip hop, family business, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
chicago, indiana, illinois, usa
Similarity:
48%
276
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The Flats tells a cautionary tale of friendship and desire played out among a group of 20-somethings transitioning into adulthood. Main character Harper and his buddies make the most of their freedom prior to an impending court-ordered jail ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
youth, friendship, coming of age, love triangle, love and romance, human nature, unemployment, friendship between men, moral dilemma, loss of innocence, betrayal, regret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington state, oregon, usa
Similarity:
48%
24K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their ...
Style:
humorous, melancholic, sentimental, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, date night
Plot:
friendship, food, coming of age, diner, gambling debt, christmas, love and romance, adulthood, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, youth, introspection ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1959, year 1982, 20th century
Place:
baltimore, maryland, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ritchie is the epitome of everything wrong with modern man: a pompous, foul-mouthed idiot, driven only to get the latest girl of the week Something changes after his first real relationship that includes Ritchie's two favorite things: frequent ...
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
womanizer, sexual relations, friendship, couples, prostitute, fall in love, disorder, society, best friend, profanity, transsexual, looking for sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A high school faculty lotto pool places its fate in the lucky numbers they've played for ten years after hearing budget cuts have eliminated all their jobs.
Style:
realistic, humorous, educational, captivating, light ...
Plot:
lottery, hopes, gambling, dedicated educator, teachers and students, society, high school, disorder, idealism, life turned upside down, social relations, desperation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The engaging story of an over-the-hill professional wrestler who's afraid of conflict in real life, but agrees to face "The Darkness" in the ring in an attempt to regain his former glory in the eyes of his one remaining fan - an eight ...
Style:
humorous, independent film, captivating, light, sincere ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
self discovery, rivalry, athlete's life, contests and competitions, ambition, friendship, hopes, wrestler, redemption, professional wrestling, society, wrestling ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
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