Movies like The Shrimp on the Barbie

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The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990)
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The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Carlos has failed in show-biz and currently works as a waiter in a Mexican restaurant. There he meets Alex and dumb footballer Bruce celebrating their engagement with her parents. Alex' father is less than thrilled of her fiancée and says he'd rather accept anybody else. Eventually Alex hires Carlos to present him as her new fiancée.
Style: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, funny, romantic, road movie, sexy, clever ...
Plot: erotica, food, satire, restaurant, psycho, betrayal, misfit, family relations, love and romance, couples, self discovery, infidelity, unemployment, down on your luck, hidden identity, disorder, silly humor, fish out of water, comedy of errors, dishonesty, horse, friendship, rich, party, millionaire ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia
Keyword: american, gangsters, australian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and independent film films with plots about disorder, couples, love and romance, family relations, dishonesty, fish out of water and society mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like The Shrimp on the Barbie: Born in East L.A. (1987), Kissing Cousins (2008), Rude Awakening (1989), The Dog Problem (2006), The Wog Boy (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Born in East L.A. (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without ...
Style: humorous, parody, funny, entertaining, talky ...
Plot: immigrant, culture clash, deportation, mistaken identity, weed, farce, adaptation, twists and turns, fish out of water, disorder, false accusation, comedy of errors ...
Time: 80s
Place: mexico, los angeles, latin america, california, tijuana mexico
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Kissing Cousins (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A "relatively" romantic comedy about a professional heartbreaker (and cynical bachelor) who teams up with his attractive cousin from the UK in order to fool his friends into believing he is capable of a relationship. Hijinks and laughs ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cousin cousin relationship, disorder, unlikely couple, fall in love, cons and scams, family relations, looking for love, friendship, society, incest, comedy of errors, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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30%
Rude Awakening (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the later 1960s, two hippies are forced to leave their friends as they are wanted by the FBI, who sees them as criminals. They hide in the jungle for 20 years, secluded from the outside world. In the later 1980s, the find out that a secret war is ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, political comedy
Plot: jungle, stoner, hippie, fish, marijuana, politics, partner, undercover, chases and races, buddies, state affairs, on the run ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 60s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Dog Problem (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the film, Solo is a down-on-his-luck writer who is encouraged by his psychiatrist to get a dog. Solo meets his love interest, who he assumes to be a dog owner when meeting her at a dog play park, but dog problems stand in their way.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, clever, independent film ...
Plot: therapy, dog, disorder, down on your luck, self discovery, writer's life, couples, friendship, pets, nothing goes right, stripper, mixed martial arts ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Wog Boy (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Steve liked Celia from the moment they met. But following a clash with her boss, Raelene Beagle-Thorpe, Minister for Employment, he finds himself on national television branded as Australia's biggest dole bludger. Now Steve has to prove to ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, not serious, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, unemployment, working class, friends, social differences, love and romance, fighting the system, father son relationship, male female relationship, identity, exodus, misfit ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania
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27%
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Caffeine (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A fanciful battle of the sexes ensues when the relationships of the staff and patrons of a quirky London café are unexpectedly turned upside down by sudden revelations of terribly embarrassing secrets having to do with their sexual misadventures.
Style: talky, semi serious, feel good, humorous, funny ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: drug abuse, friendship, battle of the sexes, workplace situations, looking for love, love and romance, lifestyle, twentysomething life, couple relations, disorder, couples, family relations ...
Place: europe, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Paris Follies (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Long married 50-somethings Brigitte and Xavier are prize cattle breeders in regional France. Life is good, but the departure of their children from home has thrown Brigitte’s world into flux, as she finds herself locked into routine. She keeps ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, romantic drama
Plot: couples, couple relations, self discovery, family relations, midlife crisis, dull life, disorder, husband wife relationship, infidelity, adultery, party, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Kath & Kimderella (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Fountain Lakes' foxy ladies who turn more than just heads when they go on an overseas trip and end up being the centre of their very own fairytale.
Style: not serious, humorous, captivating, realistic, weird
Plot: fish out of water, family relations, parents and children, couples, dishonesty, society, best friend, silly humor, wedding, disorder, single parent, fear of flying ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, italy, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Family Plan (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Charlie MacKenzie is an ambitious young career woman who stretches the truth in a job interview by professing to be married with a family. But her little white lie leads to a great big problem when her new boss moves next door. Desperate to ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sitcom, witty ...
Plot: hidden identity, eccentric family, family problems, couples, workplace, actor's life, boss and employee, couple relations, love and romance, cons and scams, workplace situations, best friend ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Madhouse (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The luxurious villa of Mark and Jessie Bannister, a yuppie couple, is overrun by loads of uninvited guests who turn the house up side down.
Style: humorous, melancholic, semi serious, realistic, black comedy ...
Plot: uninvited guest, family gatherings, couples, eccentricity, pregnancy, family life, down on your luck, lifestyle, disorder, family problems, siblings relations, childhood ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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So Fine (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success - the bottomless pants.
Style: sex comedy, sexy, entertaining, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: fashion, satire, gangster, sleaze, disco, opera, lawyer, disorder, couples, society, dishonesty, workplace ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: new york, usa, venice, italy, manhattan new york city
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26%
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Stoogemania (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Howard F. Howard idolizes The Three Stooges. His friends and familiy are worried, and consider having him committed.
Style: independent film, slapstick, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: obsession, mental institution, partner, love and romance, buddies, psychopath, couples, friends, friendship, parents and children, unemployment, love affair ...
Time: 80s
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26%
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Boudu (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: humorous, semi serious, witty, captivating, offbeat ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, fish out of water, disorder, social relations, couples, misfit, couple relations, social differences, love and romance, rich and poor, infidelity, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Walk Like a Man (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: As a baby, Bobo gets separated from his family during a camping trip. After being raised by wild dogs for twenty years, Bobo is discovered by animal researcher Penny, who brings him back to his family and attempts to teach Bobo how to readjust to ...
Style: light, funny, sentimental, humorous, slapstick ...
Plot: fish out of water, farce, stupidity, self discovery, misfit, getting home, family life, feral child, inheritance, wolf, lost child, cat ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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August 15th (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three men are abandonned by their wives for a few days in the summer holidays. They are alone with five kids to feed and a house to maintain. And they will learn what they did wrong with their wives.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot: beach, family relations, self discovery, life turned upside down, fish out of water, parents and children, friends, disorder, introspection, buddies, ocean, nudism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Jungle (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Luxembourg, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Vincent and Mathias are two friends, in their thirties, who live off Vincent’s father. One day, during a meal where the wine and talk both flow a little too freely, Vincent’s father offers the two friends a bet. If they can survive seven days ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: friendship, love and romance, betrayal, couples, survival, wager, unemployed, birthday party, loyalty, best friend, jungle, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Mohamed Dubois (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Arnaud Dubois may be the heir to a bank, but he prefers to call himself Mohamed. Having fallen out with his father, he turns his back on the family residence. On his travels, he meets Mustafa, who introduces him to his sister Sabrina. Having fallen ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, biting
Plot: hidden identity, social differences, interracial relations, fish out of water, disorder, society, dishonesty, fall in love, love and romance, fake identity, shakespeare, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Would I Lie to You? 3 (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Eddie, Dov, Yvan et les autres… Nos chaleureux amis ont migré du Sentier moribond à la banlieue florissante d’Aubervilliers… Là où les vieux entrepreneurs juifs ont laissé le terrain à de jeunes grossistes chinois courageux et ...
Style: realistic, humorous
Plot: friendship, disorder, misfit, partner, friends, religions or cults, fish out of water, comedy of errors, society, love and romance, nothing goes right, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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A Boss in the Living Room (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Cristina lives a peaceful life until her older brother Ciro, who has to attend a trial, asks to spend house arrests at Cristina’s home.
Style: not serious, humorous, light, feel good, realistic
Plot: hidden identity, life turned upside down, fish out of water, society, culture clash, misfit, family life, couple relations, family relations, dishonesty, couples, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Which Way Is Up? (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Richard Pryor plays three roles - a beleaguered, sex-starved farm worker named Leroy Jones; the farm worker's randy old father Rufus; and the hypocritical town preacher Rev. Lenox Thomas - and Pryor has never been so outrageously funny. The ...
Style: black comedy, not serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot: labor union, blaxploitation, african american, clergy, black, church, adultery, labor leader, migrant worker, domestic abuse, partner, manipulation ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Fast Food (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Auggie wants to make it big and has tried pretty much everything in order to do so. His next idea: turn his cousin's garage into a burger joint. To make it appealing, they develop a very very very special sauce. But beware, the king of fast ...
Style: sex comedy, independent film, realistic, not serious, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: restaurant, food, business, sleaze, sorority, partner, silly humor, ambition, workplace, lifestyle, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Love Thy Neighbor (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Suburbanites Danny and Linda try to overcome their various differences and try to get along after his wife and her husband run off with each other.
Style: realistic, semi serious, offbeat, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: adultery, infidelity, suburbs, bittersweet, family relations, family problems, couples, suburban life, family life, love affair, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Mobsters and Mormons (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mafia family from New Jersey is placed in the witness relocation program to an all-Mormon community in Utah.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: friendship, culture clash, hidden identity, fish out of water, gangster, misfit, society, teenage life, starting over, buddies, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: utah, nebraska, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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A Million to Juan (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Romantic comedy about an honest Mexican immigrant who struggles without a green card by selling oranges on a street corner. One day a limousine pulls up and he is handed a check for $1,000,000 with instructions that he is to give the check back in ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, slapstick
Plot: chicano, family relations, community, money, restaurant, immigrant, disorder, cons and scams, social differences, down on your luck, mistaken identity, rich and poor ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: mexico, los angeles, california, usa, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film is the immediate continuation of Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, released the previous year. Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, clothed with a chequed jacket, Étienne Dorsay becomes ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, witty, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, midlife crisis, tennis, buddies, friends, love and romance, disorder, love affair, dishonesty, couple relations, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Opportunity Knocks (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter ...
Style: entertaining, funny, light, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: cons and scams, con artists, love, friendship, chase, comedy of errors, disorder, house, mistaken identity, meme, con men, heist ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Weather Girl (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After learning her boyfriend (Harmon) cheated on her with his co-host (Olson), a Seattle morning show weather girl (O’Kelley) freaks out on-air and is fired. Forced to move in with her little brother (Devlin) and deal with his best friend (Adams), ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: self discovery, weatherman, couples, infidelity, identity crisis, ambition, down on your luck, family relations, grownups, love and romance, dating, famous ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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B*A*P*S (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Can two clueless Georgia homegirls with big hearts -- and even bigger hair -- find happiness, fame and thrills in the swank hills of Beverly? Anything is possible when you are B.A.P.'s. They revive Blakemore's interest for life, and he ...
Style: black comedy, cult classic, rom com, realistic, not serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: black, hip hop, irreverence, black cast, urban, women, friendship, female bonding, millionaire, restaurant, guilt, nephew ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, beverly hills, usa, california, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
You and Your Stupid Mate (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Phillip (Phillips) and Geoffrey (Sampson) are two Aussie larrikins, whose lives centre around running the un-official "Sons and Surf" website...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, save the day, partner, lifestyle, nothing goes right, escapades, misfit, odd couple, unemployment, cons and scams, party, friendship ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Unemployed (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jamal and Dex are two hapless out of work actors who come to terms with reality when they realize they've been pursuing their dreams for over ten years and still haven't booked a single speaking role. When the two run out of cash and face ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, slasher ...
Plot: nothing goes right, follow your dream, against the odds, fish out of water, love and romance, unlikely couple, actor's life, buddies, couples, disorder, unemployment, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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