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Oscar (1991)
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Oscar (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise.
Style: talky, witty, humorous, feel good, not serious, clever, funny, parody, cult classic, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: mistaken identity, gangster, accountant, parents and children, disorder, fish out of water, couples, dishonesty, going straight, goofy hero, cons and scams, farce, mafia, mobster, eternal love, happy ending, past, satire, dungeon, exodus, screwball, stop motion, cop, gangsta, pregnancy ...
Time: 90s, 1930s, year 1991
Place: italy
Keyword: gangsters, doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, witty and not serious films with plots about disorder, cons and scams, gangster, silly humor, dishonesty, satire and farce mostly in Comedy, Crime and Adventure genres. Some movies like Oscar: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), We're No Angels (1989), My Blue Heaven (1990), Ruthless People (1986), Analyze This (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000 first.
Style: clever, feel good, funny, humorous, surprise ending ...
Audience: kids, family friendly
Plot: con artists, con men, rivalry, cons and scams, bet, twists and turns, competition, farce, caper, high society, gigolo, entrepreneur ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: french riviera, france, arizona, riviera, south of france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
We're No Angels (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two escaped cons only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.
Style: humorous, feel good, clever, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: mistaken identity, prison, clergy, small town, religion, fake priest, priest, monk, fish out of water, buddies, on the run, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
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My Blue Heaven (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, talky, intense ...
Plot: fbi agent, gangster, small town, organized crime, witness protection, fbi, fish out of water, district attorney, switching roles, hidden identity, vengeance, hitman ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, new york, usa, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Ruthless People (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, funny, hilarious, laugh out loud ...
Plot: kidnapping, greed, videotaped sex, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, farce, ransom, misunderstanding, fashion, revenge, vengeance, mistress ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Movie in collections
 6.7
 161K
Analyze This (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Countless wiseguy films are spoofed in this film that centers on the neuroses and angst of a powerful Mafia racketeer who suffers from panic attacks. When Paul Vitti needs help dealing with his role in the "family," unlucky shrink Dr. Ben ...
Style: spoof, humorous, funny, psychological, clever ...
Plot: mafia, psychiatrist, mob boss, gangster, mobster, organized crime, psychology, adaptation, attempted murder, anger, introspection, doctors and patients ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1957
Place: new york, florida, miami beach, usa, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets shot and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe ...
Style: funny, humorous, black comedy, hilarious, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids
Plot: dark humor, beach, summer, murder, farce, insurance, comedy of errors, heat wave, organized crime, employer employee relationship, mob boss, nothing goes right ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
True Identity (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.
Style: light, realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty
Plot: hitman, satire, mafia, gangster, silly humor, disorder, switching roles, on the run, opposites attract, hidden identity, dishonesty, society ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Take the Money and Run (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The life and times of Virgil Starkwell, inept bank robber.
Style: mockumentary, humorous, clever, witty, funny ...
Plot: prison, robbery, heist, fighting the system, goofy hero, couples, petty criminal, unlikely criminals, misfit, couple relations, hapless, cons and scams ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, 50s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place: persia, turkey, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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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 ...
Plot: mistaken identity, crime gone awry, fish out of water, comedy of errors, friendship, nothing goes right, partner, hostage, cons and scams, disorder, goofy hero, misfit ...
Time: 90s
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Plump Fiction (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Follows the plot of Pulp Fiction, also parodying scenes from other movies
Style: parody, spoof, spooky, independent film, fast ...
Audience: teens
Plot: partner, silly humor, hitman, disorder, psychopath, cons and scams, dishonesty, clergy, memory lapse, memory, diabetes, sense of smell ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 3.3
 2K
The Godson (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After the death of his older brother, Guiseppe "the guppy" Calzone (Kevin McDonald, "KIDS IN THE HALL") becomes head of the Calzone Mob family. His aging father (Dom DeLuise) knows his son is not cut out for the job, so he sends ...
Style: parody, independent film, fast, realistic, not serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: satire, mobster, mafia, gangster, family relations, disorder, college, parents and children, university, silly humor, mafia don, phone sex ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Small Time Crooks (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Style: talky, humorous, melancholic, stylized, realistic ...
Plot: heist, love and romance, caper, corruption, robbery, unlikely criminals, disorder, couple relations, overnight success, cons and scams, bank robbery, art ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, feel good, satirical ...
Audience: family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot: unemployment, robbery, heist, caper, loss of job, bankruptcy, business, gangster, husband wife relationship, satire, greed, couples ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.5
 7K
Oscar (1967)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is pregnant, an employee stole a large ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, sincere, entertaining ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, farce, family relations, comedy of errors, disorder, fraud, blackmail, boss and employee, power relations, parents and children, cons and scams, greed ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.5
 22K
The Freshman (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all his belongings, Clark meets Carmine "Jimmy the Toucan" Sabatini, an "importer" bearing a startling ...
Style: funny, parody, witty, humorous, surreal ...
Audience: kids
Plot: mafia, gangster, fish out of water, endangered species, zoo, food, college, affection, godfather, mobster, corruption, filmmaking ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: vermont, new york, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Set in 1920's New York City, this movie tells the story of idealistic young playwright David Shayne. Producer Julian Marx finally finds funding for the project from gangster Nick Valenti. The catch is that Nick's girl friend Olive Neal ...
Style: light, humorous, funny, atmospheric, talky ...
Plot: mafia, gangster, backstage, murder, actor, writers, playwright, actress, rehearsal, satire, friendship, showbiz ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1994
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he is to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.. this adds to Frank's ...
Style: parody, spoof, hilarious, humorous, funny ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: farce, police, terrorism, law enforcement, sexual humor, stupidity, undercover, gangster, race against time, save the day, master criminal, danger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1988, year 1994, 70s
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Friends and Family (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Children and parents. In New York City, Stephen and Danny live well: they're smooth, cool, in love, and good at what they do. Stephen's Midwestern parents pay them a surprise visit. Meanwhile, Jenny and Matt tell their parents they are ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, talky, witty ...
Plot: gay, love and romance, hitman, comedy of errors, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, gangster, family gatherings, gender, lgbt, lgbtq, mafia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, wisconsin, manhattan new york city, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Scotland, PA (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, who has much smarter. Pat believes she could do better with the place than their boss Norm is doing, so she plans to usurp Norm, convincing ...
Style: humorous, dark comedy, disturbing, talky, witty ...
Plot: shakespeare, murder, eccentricity, disorder, law enforcement, nothing goes right, couple relations, goofy hero, police detective, farce, comedy of errors, business venture ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2001
Place: pennsylvania, nova scotia, europe, former yugoslavia, bosnia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
Style: humorous, feel good, intense, light, semi serious ...
Plot: heist, unemployment, unlikely criminals, bank robbery, police investigation, couples, robbery, bankruptcy, cons and scams, survival, couple relations, kids and family ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.9
 5K
Brain Donors (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Three manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run ...
Style: funny, humorous, witty, unusual plot structure, surreal ...
Plot: idiot, stupidity, chase, firefly, crazy, dumb, police corruption, buddy, ballet, dishonesty, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, not serious, slapstick ...
Audience: kids
Plot: deaf, disability, murder, blindness, farce, chase, blind man, witness, mute or deaf, friendship, deafness, odd couple ...
Time: 80s
Place: manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Johnny Stecchino (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her ...
Style: slapstick comedy, not serious, realistic, witty, offbeat ...
Plot: mistaken identity, down syndrome, mafia, gangster, fall in love, italian mafia, amor, dark humor, insurance fraud, murder, cocaine, mole ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: italy, palermo italy, europe, sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Stealing Harvard (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: John and his girlfriend have vowed to marry once they save $30,000 for their dream house. But the minute they achieve their financial goal, John finds out his niece has been accepted at Harvard, and he's reminded of his promise to pay for her ...
Style: funny, humorous, stylized, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: robbery, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, partner, disorder, cons and scams, nothing goes right, buddies, couple relations, dishonesty, father daughter relationship, toilet humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: harvard university, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.8
 162K
White Chicks (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. As punishment, they are forced to escort a pair of socialites to the Hamptons, where they're going to be used as bait for a kidnapper. But when the girls realize ...
Style: humorous, funny, satirical, parody, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: cross dressing, fbi, dumb, fish out of water, working undercover, gender bending, buddy cop, gender disguise, undercover, sisters, stereotypes, chase ...
Time: year 2004, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.3
 4K
Another You (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is supposed to keep him out of trouble, but when people begin to recognize George as the missing millionaire ...
Style: black comedy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty ...
Plot: beer, sanitarium, con man, hustler, manipulation, partner, misfit, odd couple, femme fatale, friendship, dishonesty, forgery ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa, beverly hills, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans), who ...
Style: parody, hood, absurd, funny, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: gang, friendship, youth, ghetto, dumb, gangster, social satire, hip hop, african american, city life, sarcasm, stoner ...
Time: 90s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.5
 16K
Mafia! (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
Style: parody, spoof, funny, light, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, mafia, father son relationship, farce, dumb, stupidity, multiple storylines, satire, justice, adaptation, goofy hero, assassination ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, year 1938, year 1967, year 1933
Place: italy, sicily, usa, europe, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.6
 6K
Wise Guys (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
Style: buddy comedy, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gambling, hitman, gangster, buddies, frame up, criminal heroes, dishonesty, goofy hero, siblings relations, cons and scams, heist ...
Time: 80s
Place: atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.0
 3K
The Pimp (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp.
Style: humorous, not serious, exciting, witty, realistic
Plot: pimp, goofy hero, twins, gang, heroes, lifestyle, stereotypes, impostor, gadget, danger, farce, rivalry ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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