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Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa (1968)
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Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa (1968)
Original name: Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with a friend to Africa, in search of another friend who had vanished there in mysterious circumstances. They will find him alright - as a tribal chief, surrounded with lots of topless, shapely wives. They are going to return to civilisation, but will their friend come with them?
Style: parody, surprise ending, black comedy, dark comedy, italian comedy
Plot: female nudity, odd couple, jungle, friendship, soldier, entrepreneur, priest, missing person, on the road, lion, family relations, high society, rain, accountant, mission, missionary, odyssey, african, publisher, killing an animal, waterfall, colonialism, ostrich, family crisis, broken down car ...
Time: 60s, year 1968, 1960s
Place: africa, portugal, rome italy, angola, kenya
Keyword: french, portuguese

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Taste of Life (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Elvio Battistini works as a ticket taker in the local cinema of the small town where he lives. He has a prosthesis in one leg, the result of an accident, but he tells anyone who will listen it is a war injury. Giuseppe Mondardini, is also an older ...
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Time: 80s
Place: italy
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The New Monsters (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 15 years after the monumental "I mostri" which was a great example of Italian sketch comedy, 3 of the greatest Italian directors ever (Risi, Monicelli, Scola) the best Italian writers ever (Age, Scarpelli) the best Italian actors ever ...
Style: anthology, black comedy, dark comedy, grotesque
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Place: italy, rome italy
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The Teacher from Vigevano (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all his goodwill setting up a footwear little factory. But after some time, unexpectedly, a financial ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, surprise ending
Plot: father son relationship, surrealism, school, extramarital affair, prostitute, teacher, humiliation, entrepreneurship, taxes, retiring, nightmare, loss of wife ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy
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The Best of Enemies (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met upon by an enemy Italian patrol that allows them to go free. But, when the Brits are given orders to attack the Italians, lots of problems ensue.
Plot: world war two, airplane crash, friend, capture, british army, italian army, colonialism, desert, soccer, friendship, italian soldier
Time: year 1961
Place: ethiopia
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The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: South Africa, Botswana
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Misery is brought to a small group of Sho in the Kalahari desert in the form of a cola bottle. In his quest to throw the evil object over the edge of the earth, Xixo encounters Western "civilization," a haphazard doctor and a tyranical ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, feel good, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing
Plot: desert, culture clash, tribe, wilderness, philosophy, on the road, rivalry, danger, heartwarming, african, road trip, animal ...
Time: year 1980, 80s, 20th century, 70s
Place: africa, south africa, cape town south africa
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Carry on Up the Jungle (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The Carry On team send up the Tarzan tradition in great style. Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an expedition to find her long-lost baby. Bill Boosey is the fearless hunter and guide. Prof. Tinkle is searching for the rare Oozalum bird. Everything is going ...
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Genre: Comedy
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Duration: 88 min.
Story: Sweet-sour comedy on Italy's 1950's rage to get rich as fast as possible! The businessman wants to satisfy his wife's craving for luxury and a "respectable life" so he becomes heavily indebted. In desperation he agrees to ...
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Time: 60s
Place: rome italy, italy
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Travels with My Aunt (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A stodgy young man gets caught up in his free-living aunt"s shady schemes.
Style: retro, semi serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous ...
Plot: sexual freedom, funeral, aunt nephew relationship, prostitution, ransom, stranger on a train, cigar, literary, flashback, painting, butler, train station ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
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47%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A three novels about an ordinary people discovering erotic movies.
Style: anthology, sexy
Plot: sex, priest, female nudity, seduction, lesbian, male full rear nudity, lesbianism, porn magazine, film within a film
Time: 70s
Place: italy
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43%
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Duration: 107 min.
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Style: humorous, cult classic, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
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Story: A road trip comedy about three friends who travel across the country in a Wiener Wagon to beat up a popular daytime talk show therapist.
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, exciting, light ...
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Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a native village is apparently terrorized by a Lion, the local sergeant enlists the help of a veterinarian working at a nearby animal study center. It is soon discovered that the Lion has a unique problem, it has double vision due to the fact ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, realistic
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: animal, cat, explorer, lost world, lion, veterinarian, poacher, animal life, disability, family relations, parents and children, black market ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: africa
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Style: semi serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous
Plot: rivalry, friendship, actress, motorcycle, beach, motorcycle gang, young, pinball machine
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Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Daughter of the Jungle (1982)
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Style: humorous, road movie, parody, light, not serious ...
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Style: anthology
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
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