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Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)
124K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mild-mannered Paul Blart (Kevin James) has always had huge dreams of becoming a State Trooper. Until then, he patrols the local mall as a security guard. With his closely cropped moustache, personal transporter and gung-ho attitude, only Blart seems to take his job seriously. All that changes when a team of thugs raids the mall and takes hostages. Untrained, unarmed and a super-size target, Blart has to become a real cop to save the day.
Style:
funny, humorous, feel good, hilarious, light, laugh out loud, anime, action comedy, cult classic, exciting ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, girls' night, family friendly, adult
Plot:
security guard, shopping mall, father daughter relationship, fall in love, goofy hero, workplace situations, disorder, one man army, single parent, law enforcement, die hard, save the day, single father, business, army, police, twins, conspiracy, teenage girl, holiday, in love, migration, security, satire, name calling ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
new jersey, usa, boston, american
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, funny, feel good and not serious films with plots about disorder, farce, adaptation, dialogue, mentor, chase and catastrophe mostly in Comedy, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Paul Blart: Mall Cop: Let's Be Cops (2014), The Other Guys (2010), Daddy Day Care (2003), Home Alone 3 (1997), Zookeeper (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, las vegas, new jersey
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
entertaining, humorous, funny, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, toddlers, family outing ...
Plot:
children, mischievous children, unemployment, nothing goes right, farce, fish out of water, kindergarten, goofy hero, friends, workplace situations, disorder, down on your luck ...
Time:
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Place:
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100%
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138K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concealing a top-secret microchip. Now Alex must fend off the spies as they try break into his house to get it back.
Style:
feel good, humorous, parody, slapstick, christmas classics ...
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
tennessee
Similarity:
100%
737K
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, entertaining, feel good, parody, humorous ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, funny, humorous, slapstick, spy comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
funny, humorous, parody, slapstick, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
parody, funny, spoof, humorous, slapstick ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, family outing, date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Nacho Libre is loosely based on the story of Fray Tormenta ("Friar Storm"), aka Rev. Sergio Gutierrez Benitez, a real-life Mexican Catholic priest who had a 23-year career as a masked luchador. He competed in order to support the orphanage ...
Style:
funny, humorous, ironic, cult classic, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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34%
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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103K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
family outing, girls' night, chick flick, teens, kids ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, kids, family outing
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Story:
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Style:
humorous, hilarious, melancholic, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, boys' night, girls' night, teen drama
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Time:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Time:
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usa
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34%
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Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
pittsburgh
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, teen, feel good, hilarious, funny ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
33%
124K
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Recruited to join a top-secret mission for the Air Force, a renegade pilot finds himself coping with an incompetent admiral and a carefully selected squadron of flyers who are either inept or half-blind.
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, humorous, hilarious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, date night, family outing
Plot:
satire, stupidity, goofy hero, airplane, aviation, air force, secret mission, heroic mission, save the day, disorder, military base, danger ...
Time:
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Place:
iraq, mediterranean sea, california
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA, Zambia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Kevin McCallister's parents have split up. Now living with his mom, he decides to spend Christmas with his dad at the mansion of his father's rich girlfriend, Natalie. Meanwhile robber Marv Merchants, one of the villains from the first two ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
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