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Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)
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Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)
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 three troubled children into the Shelmikedmu, a primitive culture whose habits enthrall scholars. But when a spiteful rival threatens to blow the whistle on Krippendorf's ruse, he gets into the act as well.
Style: humorous, feel good, witty, semi serious, absurd, scary, parody, funny, clever, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: farce, anthropology, hoax, expedition, college, dishonesty, switching roles, comedy of errors, cons and scams, nothing goes right, embezzlement, jungle, family relations, single parent, eccentricity, monkey, youth, photographer, stoner, racist, circumcision, lecture, outlaw, animal, parents and children ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 18th century
Place: papua new guinea
Keyword: arabic, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and semi serious films with plots about disorder, family relations, couples, nothing goes right, dishonesty, parents and children and cons and scams mostly in Comedy, Crime and Family genres. Some movies like Krippendorf's Tribe: The Impostors (1998), Raising Flagg (2006), The Pooch and the Pauper (2000), The Best and the Brightest (2010), 13 Moons (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Impostors (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In an attempt to resurrect the slapstick comedy of Laurel and Hardy or The Marx Brothers, Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt team-up as two out-of-work actors who accidentally stow away on a ship to hide from a drunken, belligerent lead actor who has ...
Style: humorous, light, absurd, feel good, witty ...
Plot: farce, eccentricity, deadpan, cruise, hidden identity, goofy hero, nothing goes right, down on your luck, artists and showbiz, satire, ship, screwball ...
Time: 1930s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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95%
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A boy witnesses his mother kissing what he believes to be is the real Santa Clause and retaliates with mischief.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, exciting, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, single parent, family gatherings, fish out of water, family relations, disorder, couple relations, mischievous children, couples, nothing goes right ...
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93%
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Raising Flagg (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A comedy centered on a handyman (Arkin) and his lifelong competition with his neighbor (Pendleton.)
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: parents and children, single parent, couple relations, betrayal, family relations, couples, friendship, eccentric family, family life, contests and competitions, small town, human nature ...
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
The Pooch and the Pauper (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The bulldog Liberty (who's thoughts we're able to hear) is the "First Dog of the USA", i.e. the president's dog. As such he has a lot of representative duties, but also many privileges which made him snobby and condescending ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, realistic
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: dog, bulldog, switching roles, comedy of errors, mistaken identity, fish out of water, disorder, family relations, misfit, odd couple, pets, getting home ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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The Best and the Brightest (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Set in the world of New York City's elite private kindergartens, The Best and the Brightest centers on a fresh-faced young couple, Samantha and Jeff, who have only recently moved into town. The comedy centers on their dawning realization of the ...
Style: witty, humorous, realistic, not serious
Plot: disorder, farce, obsession, couple relations, kindergarten, mistaken identity, parents and children, moral dilemma, hidden identity, dishonesty, blind ambition, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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13 Moons (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Can you solve the mystery of the 13 moons?
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, absurd, independent film ...
Plot: obsessive quest, performer's life, nothing goes right, profanity, life is a bitch, escapades, comedy of errors, cons and scams, artists and showbiz, disorder, estrangement, down on your luck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Steal Big Steal Little (1995)
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 ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot: lawyer, twins, vengeance, estate, dual role, family relations, sibling relationship, rich and poor, comedy of errors, down on your luck, siblings relations, family life ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Manna from Heaven (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later you find out it was a just a loan and it's due immediately. Once upon a time, many years ago, a neighborhood in ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: family relations, friends, parents and children, family life, religions or cults, nothing goes right, love and romance, single parent, unlikely couple, buddies, cons and scams, eccentric family ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself - The Play (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: When Madea gets sick, her family comes to her aid. What they don't realize is that they're the ones who need her help. As always, Madea's cockeyed outlook on life saves the day and guarantees side-splitting laughs along the way.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic
Plot: eccentric family, family life, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, nothing goes right, family problems, fish out of water, goofy hero, madea, prison, prison life, siblings relations ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Kissing Cousins (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A "relatively" romantic comedy about a professional heartbreaker (and cynical bachelor) who teams up with his attractive cousin from the UK in order to fool his friends into believing he is capable of a relationship. Hijinks and laughs ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cousin cousin relationship, disorder, unlikely couple, fall in love, cons and scams, family relations, looking for love, friendship, society, incest, comedy of errors, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, slapstick, feel good ...
Plot: workplace, farce, department store, family relations, rise to the top, parents and children, wooing, disorder, goofy hero, chaos and mayhem, store, mistaken identity ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Two Much (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A young gallerist is in love with two sisters at the same time. In order to solve the problem he decides to invent his own twin-brother.
Style: humorous, light, feel good, witty, anamorphic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: twins, farce, greed, art, love triangle, switching roles, dishonesty, dangerous attraction, wooing, nothing goes right, hidden identity, screwball ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Changing Sides (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Ariane and Hugo decide to exchange the lives they lead to escape from their routine, which after ten years of marriage, gives them the feeling of being hamsters in a wheel. She suddenly finds herself at the head of a construction equipment rental ...
Style: humorous, light, funny, feel good, witty ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: switching roles, battle of the sexes, family relations, fish out of water, unsupportive spouse, dull life, disorder, family problems, relationship vs career, family life, parents and children, up and down relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Opportunity Knocks (1990)
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 ...
Style: entertaining, funny, light, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: cons and scams, con artists, love, friendship, chase, comedy of errors, disorder, house, mistaken identity, meme, con men, heist ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
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A Boss in the Living Room (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Cristina lives a peaceful life until her older brother Ciro, who has to attend a trial, asks to spend house arrests at Cristina’s home.
Style: not serious, humorous, light, feel good, realistic
Plot: hidden identity, life turned upside down, fish out of water, society, culture clash, misfit, family life, couple relations, family relations, dishonesty, couples, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Good Intentions (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Meet Etta Milford. Loving Wife. Doting Mother. Armed Robber. Etta's husband constantly blows their money on make-shift inventions. When she decides to secretly take "investment" matters into her own hands - things quickly go awry! ...
Style: not serious, feel good, uplifting, realistic, indie film ...
Plot: couple relations, crime gone awry, couples, small town, hidden identity, family life, lifestyle, disorder, parents and children, small town life, eccentric family, strong female presence ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Girl from Rio (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obsessed London clerk, robbing a bank and boarding the first flight to Rio are just the beginning.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: comedy of errors, samba, bank robber, obsessive quest, unlikely criminals, nothing goes right, couples, disorder, obsession, love and romance, dangerous attraction, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, london, brazil, europe, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
For Pete's Sake (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Henry (Streisand) is a woman who would do anything for her husband Pete-- including borrow money so he has a chance of making his dreams come true. But now there's the loan sharks to deal with...
Style: hilarious, realistic, semi serious, witty, feel good ...
Plot: money, loan shark, dishonesty, race against time, fall in love, love and romance, prostitute, nothing goes right, couple relations, screwball, couples, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Acceptance (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: "Acceptance" is a movie that is equivalent of being slapped on the wrist by your mother for not being like everyone. Forget about being different from others and being yourself. In the movie it shows how crazy students and parents can get ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: college, college life, family relations, teenage life, student life, optimism, youth, parents and children, obsessive quest, campus, school, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 5.6
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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 ...
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Time: 90s
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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The Hold-Up (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Lola's a single mom, broke, working as a janitor and maid. Silvia is pregnant, and her lover (her boss) won't leave his wife. Maite, newly a widow, discovers she's penniless but wants to maintain appearances and give her daughter a ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sexy, sexual
Plot: crime gone awry, bank robbery, bank, unlikely criminals, comedy of errors, hostage, criminal heroes, single parent, dishonesty, society, working class, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Safe Men (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves in conflict with their professional colleagues. Romantic ...
Style: light, humorous, melancholic, absurd, buddy comedy ...
Plot: safecracker, heist, mistaken identity, organized crime, comedy of errors, cons and scams, gangster, farce, caper, justice, crime boss, unlikely criminals ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Where's the Party Yaar? (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film is based on Sunil Thakkar's own experiences running and throwing parties for the Music Masala radio station, and having to discriminate between "Fresh off the Boat" Indians and the more fashionable, hip, Americanized Indians. ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, sexy, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: college, youth, disorder, lifestyle, love and romance, teenage love, fish out of water, odd couple, culture clash, party, prediction, hindu ...
Place: texas, usa, india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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 6.5
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Kabluey (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Leslie is left with few options when her husband is sent back to war in the Middle East. A modest amount of help arrives in the form of his brother, Salman, who is less than prepared to care for the couple's two preadolescent boys. When Leslie ...
Style: surreal, humorous, dark comedy, light, black comedy ...
Plot: life, dark humor, small town, single parent, parenthood, loneliness, workplace, family relations, family life, insanity, existentialism, greed ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the marriage he takes his fiancée home to the castle where he grew up among his eccentric relatives. His uncle decides that he needs to be cured from a ...
Style: parody, humorous, funny, melancholic, absurd ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: ghost, dysfunctional family, farce, radio, haunted house, family relations, couples, nothing goes right, love and romance, family problems, disorder, stalking ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Special Delivery (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A bonded courier transports a bratty teenager on an international flight, but realizes a trap has been set up for them when they reach the U.S.
Style: humorous, sentimental, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Plot: teenage life, good versus evil, custody, youth, frame up, family relations, hopes, cons and scams, dishonesty, rivalry, danger, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, hawaii, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Blame It on the Bellboy (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit man sent to take out a mobster. Another is a lech looking for a little action with a woman he never met, whom he was set up with. And one of them ...
Style: humorous, satirical, realistic, not serious, feel good
Audience: teens
Plot: hotel, mistaken identity, farce, chase, torture, screwball, business, hitman, dating, messenger, infidelity, suitcase of money ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: venice, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 5.8
 14K
The Toy (1982)
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: funny, feel good, satirical, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: friendship, youth, family problems, social differences, rich and poor, spoiled brat, toys, fish out of water, life philosophy, twists and turns, millionaire, slavery ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 20th century
Place: usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 5.2
 367
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 ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 5.4
 380
The Cabin (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A pair of single parents, who have each brought their children to a remote Scottish resort for an annual family-and-games event, are accidentally booked into the same cabin. Naturally, they can't stand each other...at first.
Style: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, not serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: parents and children, love and romance, resort, disorder, family relations, family life, youth, couples, friendship, single parent, frog, auto mechanic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland, europe, edinburgh scotland, glasgow scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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