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The Mouse on the Moon (1963)
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The Mouse on the Moon (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them to the moon.
Style: thought provoking, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic
Audience: family outing
Plot: spy, cold war, satire, moon landing, espionage, royalty, social satire, spacesuit, fictitious country, space travel, space and aliens, politics, political conspiracy, head of state, nothing goes right, disorder, silly humor, dishonesty, state affairs, misfit partners, cons and scams, airplane, money, queen, pilot ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 1960s
Place: usa, soviet union, ussr, united states, united states of america
Keyword: russian, american

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and independent film films with plots about disorder, dishonesty, satire, politics, state affairs, love and romance and spy mostly in Comedy, Romance and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The Mouse on the Moon: Moon Pilot (1962), The Monitors (1969), Agent 8 3/4 (1964), The President's Analyst (1967), Don't Drink the Water (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Moon Pilot (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An Air Force captain inadvertently volunteers to make the first manned flight around the moon. He immediately falls under the watchful protection of various security agencies, but despite all their precautions, a young woman who may be an enemy spy ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Audience: family outing
Plot: space exploration, ufo, monkey, female alien, alien, spacesuit, space, astronomy, moon landing, moon, space wars, space travel ...
Time: 60s
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 4.7
 330
The Monitors (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.
Style: apocalyptic, independent film, semi serious, offbeat, humorous ...
Plot: alien, satire, alien invasion, invasion, dystopia, ufo, propaganda, rebellion, disorder, state affairs, mad scientist, rescue ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all over the world, she leaves him. While she is away, George converts her family home into a discotheque, ...
Style: slapstick, semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous
Plot: con artists, con men, escapades, disorder, estate, espionage, blind ambition, nothing goes right, chases and races, fish out of water, road not taken, cons and scams ...
Time: 60s
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 6.1
 926
Agent 8 3/4 (1964)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young man travels to Prague for his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
Style: parody, political thriller, not serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, farce, secret agent, james bond spoof, danger, heroes, escapades, state affairs, undercover, disorder ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: prague, czech republic, europe, czechoslovakia, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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The President's Analyst (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now ...
Style: funny, humorous, witty, clever, satirical ...
Plot: spy, espionage, politics, secret agent, cold war, conspiracy, surveillance, assassination attempt, state affairs, manhunt, undercover, political intrigue ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place: new jersey, usa, washington d.c., england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Don't Drink the Water (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted when their plane is forced to land in Vulgaria. The Hollanders leave the plane to take pictures which results in accusations of spying. Chased by Vulgarian soldiers, they take refuge in ...
Style: retro, independent film, realistic, semi serious, exciting ...
Plot: gay, hijacking, secret agent, airplane, disorder, espionage, on the run, undercover, soldier, politics, odd couple, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: new jersey, russia, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.2
 2K
Company Man (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He helps a Russian ballet dancer defect and is then sent to Cuba to locate "Agent X" for the CIA.
Style: humorous, light, satirical, funny, dark comedy ...
Plot: secrets, farce, politics, hidden identity, political unrest, government agency, amateur detective, satire, espionage, spy, cuban revolution, secret agent ...
Time: 60s
Place: cuba, usa, new york, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Way... Way Out (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.
Style: laugh out loud, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: kids
Plot: spacesuit, cold war, astronaut, couples, cosmonaut, space station, spacecraft, space and aliens, battle of the sexes, confined, pregnancy, outer space ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, year 1989
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Bruce (Rod Taylor), the owner of a aerospace company, is infatuated with Jennifer (Doris Day) and hires her to be his biographer so that he can be near her and win her affections. Is she actually a Russian spy trying to obtain aerospace secrets?
Style: humorous, romantic comedy, retro, semi serious, exciting ...
Plot: spy, cold war, spying, mistaken identity, espionage, nasa, island, happy ending, love, sea, ship, writers ...
Time: year 1966, future, 60s, 20th century
Place: california, long beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The American Way (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A group of Vietnam vets disturbs television programs from a B-29 airplane. They want to sabotage Mrs Westinghouse's political campaign who is running for the Senate in support of US military involvement in South America. Mrs Westinghouse orders ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, psychotronic ...
Plot: airplane, vietnam veteran, politics, escapades, military, danger, prank, state affairs, head of state, rebelliousness, fighting the system, media ...
Time: 80s, year 1986
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Piccadilly Jim (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his dreams.
Style: ironic, tragicomedy, captivating, romantic, social ...
Plot: society, fall in love, family relations, dishonesty, hidden identity, couples, power relations, disorder, love and romance, snobbism, parents and children, woman ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: usa, england, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Canadian Bacon (1995)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Canadian Bacon is the only fictitious film from Director Michael Moore. This comedy is about an American president who decides to go to war to bring the public’s opinion of him up during election time. Canadian Bacon is actor John Candy’s last ...
Style: humorous, political, satirical, light, talky ...
Audience: kids
Plot: president, political satire, conspiracy, politics, cold war, culture clash, farce, political conspiracy, satire, dishonesty, world politics, head of state ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, canada, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Jerry Lewis directed, co-wrote and starred in this riotously funny movie that set a new standard for screen comedy and inspired the hit remake. Lewis plays a timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher who discovers a magical potion that can transform him ...
Style: slapstick, funny, feel good, humorous, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night, family outing
Plot: college, transformation, nerd, love, chemistry, coming of age, mad scientist, professor, potion, laboratory, clown, mad doctor ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 314
Future '38 (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: An American Agent from 1938 travels through time to hamstring Hitler! Transported to the year 2018, he hoodwinks hoodlums, infuriates the Fuhrer, and goes gaga for a gal 80 years his junior!
Style: feel good, captivating, humorous, entertaining, satirical ...
Plot: time travel, spy, mission, time jump, flash forward, heroic mission, escapades, satire, changing the past or future, nazi, party, crystal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Dave (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Bill Mitchell is the philandering and distant President of the United States. Dave Kovic is a sweet-natured and caring Temp Agency operator, who by a staggering coincidence looks exactly like the President. As such, when Mitchell wants to escape an ...
Style: feel good, political, touching, humorous, witty ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: president, u.s. president, politics, conspiracy, political corruption, lookalikes, congress, head of state, white house, state affairs, fish out of water, love affair ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
A Good Man in Africa (1994)
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 ...
Style: humorous, independent film, captivating, semi serious, realistic
Plot: jungle, golf, political corruption, politics, male nudity, satire, colonialism, 007, revolution, disorder, couples, down on your luck ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Get Smart, Again! (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: KAOS has invented a weather machine so Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 are called back into action to foil this evil plan.
Style: spoof, parody, fast, exciting, not serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: spy, espionage, weather, satire, weirdo, love affair, secret agent, intelligence agency, fellow agent, working undercover, disorder, chases and races ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Lovemakers (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hungary, USA, UK, Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Small time Hungarian matchmakers get the job to make a Hollywood star fall in love with a Russian businessman's spoiled brat sister. They get one million dollars if they succeed, but if they fail, they will have to pay with their lives.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, offbeat ...
Plot: fall in love, disorder, comedy of errors, silly humor, dishonesty, cons and scams, mistaken identity, couples, rivalry, friendship, love and romance, high maintenance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Nasty Rabbit (1964)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Russian spies secretly infect rabbits with a deadly bacteria, then let them loose in the U.S.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, parody, not serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, espionage, cold war, rabbit, partner, secret agent, silly humor, dishonesty, danger, undercover, chases and races, heroes ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Strange Bedfellows (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In London, stuffy statesman Carter Harrison meets Toni, a Bohemian artist with a hot Italian temper. The two impulsively marry and then find that they disagree on everything. Shortly afterward they separate. We then meet them five years later on the ...
Style: retro, cute, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: politics, fall in love, love and romance, nothing goes right, boss and employee, down on your luck, unfulfillment, couples, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, celebrity culture, infidelity ...
Time: 60s
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Steptoe and Son (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are junk dealers, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. But Harold, who likes the bright lights in the West End of London, meets a stripper, ...
Style: dark comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sitcom ...
Plot: working class, marriage, stripper, son, father in law daughter in law relationship, father, love, odd couple, love and romance, nothing goes right, fall in love, parents and children ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: europe, england, spain, london, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that reverses aging. But Sherman's thin and obnoxious alter ego, Buddy Love, wants out...and a big piece ...
Style: humorous, funny, not serious, parody, hilarious ...
Audience: family outing, teens, date night, adult
Plot: physical appearance, stupidity, genetics, fountain of youth, mad scientist, disorder, eccentric family, supernatural ability, nothing goes right, goofy hero, buddies, love and romance ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 2000s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbit from a massive gun barrel built into the side of a Welsh mountain, but money troubles, spies and ...
Style: independent film, captivating, semi serious, humorous, slapstick ...
Plot: steampunk, spacesuit, alternate history, space race, moon, disorder, adventurer, space and aliens, chases and races, escapades, contests and competitions, imaginary ...
Time: 19th century, year 1967
Place: england, siberia, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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R.T.T. (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Florence, his companion of five years, shocks him with the news that she's leaving him, moving to Miami and marrying another man, Arthur loses it. He follows Florence to all the way to Florida with plans to stop the wedding, which is set ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, entertaining, realistic ...
Plot: disorder, cons and scams, escapades, chases and races, couple relations, nothing goes right, smuggling, criminal heroes, unlikely couple, odd couple, unlikely partners, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, france, europe, usa, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Moon Over Parador (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse.. to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills ...
Style: political, clever, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: politics, revolution, farce, fictitious country, impersonation, dictator, fictional country, moon, doppelganger, cia agent, carnival, deception ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: south america, latin america, caribbean, paraguay, greenwich village manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.3
 721
First Family (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The president (Bob Newhart) and his boozing wife (Madeline Kahn) go to Africa to bargain for their abducted daughter's (Gilda Radner) return.
Style: political, cynical, exciting, parody, not serious ...
Plot: u.s. president, president, politics, alcohol abuse, family life, eccentric family, kidnapping, looking for sex, head of state, state affairs, disorder, silly humor ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Beautiful alien Amazonian women plan to conquer the world using an army of vegetable monsters. Dim-witted privates Philbrick and Penn bumble into a cave in search of atomic activity but collide instead with fierce carrot-topped tree mutants and ...
Style: retro, suspense, independent film, slapstick, semi serious ...
Plot: alien, 666, killer animal, ufo, creature feature, occult, soldier, outer space, silly humor, disorder, spacecraft, battles ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 4.9
 3K
The Experts (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Travis and Wendell are two down-on-their-luck New Yorkers who think they're relocating to a small town in Nebraska to open a nightclub. What they don't know is they have actually been abducted by a KGB operative and flown to the Soviet ...
Style: light, satirical, entertaining, humorous, exciting ...
Plot: cold war, kgb, happy ending, nightclub, missing person, cons and scams, culture clash, reluctant partners, dishonesty, politics, espionage, chase ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: usa, russia, new york, soviet union, nebraska
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the ...
Style: political, biting, cynical, realistic, not serious ...
Plot: satire, monty python, politics, nudity, manipulation, disorder, ambition, dishonesty, media, rise to the top, head of state, society ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.3
 466
High Season (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commissions a sculpture of the Unknown Tourist for the town square; the sculptor he brings to Rhodes is ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, rom com ...
Audience: date night
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, expatriate, photograph, photography, summer, art, couple relations, dishonesty, love and romance, couples, island, cons and scams ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: greece, europe, turkey, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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