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Jupiter's Thigh (1980)
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Original name: On a volé la cuisse de Jupiter
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the lovely buttocks of a classical statue and is determined to donate it to the Louvre. Agnes wants to sell it and gets a handsome local sailor to take it for an appraisal. When the sailor is murdered, the police suspect Charles and arrest Antoine as his accomplice. Lise swings into action, but before she can clear the men, Agnes springs them from jail, and now Lise must help them elude the police, find the real murderer, and recover the statue fragment. More art goes missing. What is the statue's secret?
Style:
humorous, exciting, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending
Plot:
false accusation, murder, adventure, crimes, romance, couple relations, graphic violence, love and romance, mystery, chases and races, dishonesty, law enforcement, disorder, nudity (full frontal - brief), parody, thief, female nudity, archaeologist, monastery, archaeology, greek, female detective, chase, on the run, helicopter ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
greece, europe, athens greece
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and witty films with plots about disorder, dishonesty, couples, love and romance, crimes, couple relations and romance mostly in Comedy, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Jupiter's Thigh: R.T.T. (2009), The Discord (1978), She No Longer Talks She Shoots (1972), Zero to Sixty (1978), Man About Dog (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
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Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, witty, exciting, realistic, semi serious
Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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boys' night
Plot:
ambition, dishonesty, buddies, crimes, disorder, bookies, gambling, male friendship, male bonding, friendship between men, friends, down on your luck ...
Time:
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Place:
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73%
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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:
realistic, semi serious, witty, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
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Place:
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71%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, sexual
Plot:
love and romance, love triangle, couple relations, couples, romance, nudity (full frontal - brief), college, infidelity, topless, bikini, lesbian kiss, lesbian sex
Time:
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833
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A wealthy writer who has had terrible experiences with money-hungry girlfriends & ex-wives pretends to be a broke, washed-up novelist to see if the woman he loves wants him for himself or just for his money.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, witty, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Pierre is a clumsy, overly serious math teacher at an all-girls high school. His life is thrown into chaos after encountering a beautiful British actress and the paparazzi that follow her around.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Story:
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