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Local Hero (1983)
29K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Style:
witty, sweet, humorous, touching, talky, scenic, cynical, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
small town, village life, husband wife relationship, fish out of water, culture clash, american abroad, melancholy, social commentary, oil, therapist, rabbit, beautiful scenery, friendship, travel, helicopter, environmentalism, eccentric man, greed, mermaid, village, social relations, human nature, loneliness, desire, negotiation ...
Time:
20th century, year 1983, 80s
Place:
scotland, houston texas, texas, american, russian
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about culture clash, small town, society, friendship, dialogue, catastrophe and mentor mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Local Hero: Waking Ned (1998), Comfort and Joy (1984), Bagdad Cafe (1987), Gregory's Girl (1980), Cemetery Junction (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Ireland, France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
Style:
humorous, feel good, dark comedy, black comedy, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
lottery winner, small town, friendship, friends, countryside, lottery, gambling, death, greed, skinny dipping, casino, landscape ...
Time:
future, year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, england
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw that their "mountain" is only a hill, the offended community sets out to remedy the situation. The film is based on a story heard by ...
Style:
period piece, humorous, feel good, romantic comedy, lighthearted ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
village, scientific expedition, world war one, small town, renaissance, dating, countryside, culture clash, farm, love, coal mining, fishing village ...
Time:
1910s, edwardian era, 19th century, future, 20th century
Place:
wales, england, europe, ireland, scotland ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Radio host Alan Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, offbeat ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
christmas, ice cream, radio dj, breakup, family feud, radio station, food, radio, friend, shoplifting, loneliness, intimidation ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
glasgow scotland, scotland, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A surreal comedy depicting a diverse cast of characters and the changes they undergo as the German tourist Jasmin interacts with each of them at a remote truck stop in the middle of the Mojave desert.
Style:
touching, surreal, meditative, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot:
desert, friendship, restaurant, character study, motel, food, transformation, magic realism, life philosophy, female friendship, starting over, wilderness ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
utah, california, las vegas, nevada, germany
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In his Scottish New Town home, gangling Gregory and his schoolfriends are starting to find out about girls. He fancies Dorothy, not least because she has got into the football team - and is a better player than him. He finally asks her out, but it ...
Style:
independent film, feel good, sentimental, romantic comedy, comedy drama ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, soccer, teenager, football, unrequited love, brother sister relationship, friendship between boys, sexual awakening, coach, teenage love, infatuation ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980, year 1981, 70s
Place:
scotland, britain, europe, australia, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Style:
sad, realistic, atmospheric, thought provoking, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, eccentric woman, suicide, orphan, self discovery, friendship, eccentricity, depression, flood, female protagonist, aunt niece relationship, grief ...
Time:
year 1987, 20th century, 50s, 1950s, 70s
Similarity:
67%
18K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Australia, South Africa
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The true story of how the Parkes Radio Telescope was used to relay the live television of man's first steps on the moon, during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
Style:
touching, humorous, factual, suspense, funny ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
nasa, moon landing, moon, space travel, humanity, friendship, social relations, human spirit, ambition, hopes, underdog, space ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 60s, year 1969
Place:
australia, new south wales, new zealand
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As ...
Style:
inspirational, semi serious, entertaining, offbeat, novela ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
doctor, manipulation, husband and wife, fishing village, fish, small village, white lie, con trick, small town, con game, cricket, isolated community ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 21st century
Place:
newfoundland, canada, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, Italy
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
In Milos Forman's satire on Communism set in a small Czechoslovakian town in the 1960s, the local firemen decide to organize a ball, however the proceedings are dogged by difficulty at every step. They plan to organize a beauty pageant at the ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, allegory, surreal, cult classic ...
Plot:
satire, firefighter, political satire, corruption, bureaucracy, fire, husband wife relationship, confusion, fire brigade, small town, renaissance, farce ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
czech republic, eastern europe, czechoslovakia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When a rock band at the top of their game suddenly loses their leader, their direction suddenly becomes questionable. All the band members know is that the leader's clothes were found at the edge of a waterfront and he had not been seen since. ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
musician, culture clash, friends, music band, society, artists and showbiz, disorder, power relations, misfit, love and romance, social differences, fish out of water ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A shy teenage boy trying to escape the influence of his domineering mother, has his world changed when he begins to work for a retired actress.
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, witty, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, eccentricity, dysfunctional family, obsession, family problems, friendship, intergenerational friendship, parenthood, redemption, honest, parents and children, family relations ...
Time:
year 2006, 70s
Place:
scotland, england, united kingdom, edinburgh scotland, europe ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A film based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, in which a young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather ...
Style:
touching, road movie, tragicomedy, scenic, sentimental ...
Plot:
holocaust, closeted homosexual, on the road, culture clash, journey, self discovery, collector, road trip, prejudice, judaism, dog, friendship ...
Time:
year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe, europe, odessa ukraine, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering ...
Style:
independent film, black comedy, retro, cult classic, realistic ...
Plot:
working class, realism, mission, philosophy, family relations, liberal, couples, yuppie, culture clash, class differences, couple relations, babies and infants ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, India, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Ismail Merchant's feature directorial debut addresses a subject close to his heart: the expressive Urdu language of Northern India, in danger of extinction as political trends and modernization obscure its contributions to Indian culture. ...
Style:
parallel cinema, insightful, contemplative, biting, realistic ...
Plot:
poetry, poet, tradition, progress, unfulfillment, writer's life, artists and showbiz, society, culture clash, alcohol abuse, frustration, cynicism ...
Time:
year 1994, 20th century, 90s
Place:
india
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, non-linear, intense, serious ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
existentialism, renaissance, voice over narration, happiness, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, desert, beach, cynicism, language barrier, reflection, melancholy ...
Time:
medieval times, prehistoric times, 17th century, middle ages, year 1994 ...
Place:
italy, europe, africa, scotland, new york ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Christian Slater is a stranger who comes to a small town. The local citizens think he's up to no good. After bothering him for a while, he blurts out in frustration, that he is there to kill himself.
Style:
offbeat, psychological, realistic, semi serious, talky ...
Plot:
small town, suburbs, existentialism, dealing with death, society, clergy, misfit, human nature, friendship, on the road, small town life, dark humor ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A Hollywood Film unit invades a small Vermont town leading to wholesale abandonment of values and virtue. A smart, warm and funny movie - and not just for movie buffs. Tagline: When a film crew came to Waterford, Vermont - They Shot First And Asked ...
Style:
feel good, independent film, talky, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
small town, filmmaking, satire, hollywood, showbiz, seduction, actor, greed, movie business, lifestyle, love and romance, small town life ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place:
new england, vermont, england
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the villagers devise a scheme ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
culture clash, nothing goes right, friendship, small town, unemployment, village, doctor, goofy hero, disorder, social relations, comedy of errors, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
canada, quebec, montreal, australia
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, sweet, touching, cute ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, date night, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
cooking, cooking and food, restaurant, food, culture clash, chef, interracial relations, prejudice, interracial romance, beautiful scenery, small town, immigrant ...
Time:
year 2014, 19th century, 21st century
Place:
france, india, mumbai india, paris france, switzerland ...
Similarity:
17%
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:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, touching, realistic, rom com ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
charity, small town, women, leukemia, female nudity, female empowerment, elderly, life philosophy, model, human spirit, friendship, food ...
Time:
90s, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, britain, northern england, europe, los angeles ...
Similarity:
17%
10K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, road movie, inspirational, touching ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, date night
Plot:
coming of age, on the road, friendship, young lovers, road trip, culture clash, male bonding, travel, adolescence, adolescence vs adulthood, student life, obsessive quest ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1985, 80s, future
Place:
texas, austin texas, vietnam
Similarity:
17%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Here and There (Serbian: Tamo i ovde) is a Serbian film which was premiered at the Belgrade Film Festival FEST 2009. Here and There follows two interconnected stories on two different continents. Robert (Thornton), a depressed New Yorker, tries to ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, clever, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
immigrant, lifestyle, life is a bitch, misfit, fish out of water, family relations, eviction, disorder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, culture clash, emigration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, balkan, new york, serbia, europe ...
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
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Story:
1930s comedy drama based on EF Benson's novels, about the rivalry between two women in a quaint village.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, period piece ...
Plot:
small town, village, rivalry, lesbian, society, social relations, village life, small town life, snobbism, priest, friendship, gossip ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Onetime campus radical Nanni Moretti renounces his past to become a priest. Returning to his home village, Moretti is appalled at the lack of religious reverence amongst the townsfolk. Unable to communicate with any of his old friends, who've ...
Style:
spiritual, cult classic, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
priest, circus, spirit, love letter, church, religions or cults, social relations, family problems, solace, dark humor, society, clergy ...
Time:
80s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Gene spends his days canvassing about childhood obesity. One day he canvasses Titty, an emotionally-arrested 19-year-old who has successfully sued his own father to win back a large inheritance and gotten himself disowned in the process. Gene ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, offbeat, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
friendship, love triangle, friends, social misfits, rabbit, misfit, male friendship, character study, outsider, bittersweet, animal rights, social commentary ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Dirty Shame is the only bar in the small town of Paradise, Michigan. A burnt out, chain-smoking fortyish bar maid is the only waitress at The Dirty Shame. A group of local red necks conspiring to bring a mail order bride to their Midwest town ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good, independent film ...
Plot:
fish out of water, friendship, starting over, society, couples, love and romance, couple relations, culture clash, immigrant, husband wife relationship, mail order bride, countryside ...
Time:
90s
Place:
michigan, ukraine, usa, kiev ukraine
Similarity:
17%
10K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the small town of Mumford, a psychologist of the same name moves in and quickly becomes very popular, despite a questionable past.
Style:
humorous, realistic, psychological, melancholic, compassionate ...
Plot:
therapy, small town, depression, starting over, mental illness, psychologist, friendship, fugitive, secret, flashback, psychiatrist, trust ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
china, phoenix arizona, west virginia, seattle
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A girl from Yazoo City, Mississippi pins all her hopes on winning the local beauty pageant.
Style:
witty, humorous, talky, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, small town, underdog, seamstress, love and romance, human nature, contests and competitions, youth, fall in love, family problems, couples, parents and children ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa, new york
Similarity:
17%
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