Movies like Silent Partner 2001
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Silent Partner (2001)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two friends train a greyhound together.
Plot:
gambling, drug use, alcoholic, dog, money, bet, doping, partner
Place:
sydney australia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and tense films with plots about gambling, money, bet, friendship, dog, blood and friends mostly in Drama, Comedy and Sport genres. Some movies like Silent Partner: Dalkeith (2001), The Squeeze (2015), A Punters Prayer (2016), Saltwater (2000), Mississippi Grind (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Tells the true story of the residents at Dalkeith Residential Home who sit around every day just waiting to die until staff buy them a greyhound. Naming the dog Dalkeith after the home, they discover she is a phenomenal runner and she is soon ...
Plot:
australian, dog, gambling, male female relationship, bet, retirement home, old woman, elderly, old man, lawsuit
Place:
australia
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95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A humble young man with uncommon skills from a small southern town gets caught up in high stakes golf matches between big-time gamblers until the game becomes life and death.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense
Plot:
golf, gambling, ambition, athlete's life, dishonesty, bet, money, power relations, twentysomething life, club, mob
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas
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50%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young gambler makes a large, risky bet on a horse race. When the odds turn in his favour, more than one party has sudden interest in the winning betting slip, and they'll do anything to get their hands on it.
Plot:
gangsters, gambling, poker, horse race, money, british, greek, irish, jamaican, roulette, bet, turk ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An Irish-Italian café owner in a seaside town faces a life crisis, as his wife recently died and he's severely in debt. His oldest son tries to help, but has serious problems of his own, while his younger son and daughter are having troubles ...
Plot:
irish, loss of mother, bet, loss of son
Place:
ireland
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49%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Gerry is a talented but down-on-his-luck gambler whose fortunes begin to change when he meets Curtis, a younger, highly charismatic poker player. The two strike up an immediate friendship and Gerry quickly persuades his new friend to accompany him ...
Style:
road movie, tense, depressing, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
gambling, friendship, money problems, redemption, crime gone awry, debt, obsessive quest, partners, unlikely partners, down on your luck, money, road trip ...
Time:
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Place:
new orleans, california, usa, memphis, southern usa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An American cowboy in the Philippines gets mixed up in cockfighting.
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cockfight, rooster, champion, tournament, theft, death, money, gambling, chase, friendship, controversy, violence ...
Time:
70s
Place:
the philippines
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46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A University teacher finds three bright students and decides to teach them how to count cards to make lots of money. As they learn how to play the casinos, things get tricky when the debt owing teacher informs them that their front man wants ...
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gambling, student life, teachers and students, college, mathematics, manipulation, college graduate, power relations, dishonesty, ambition, card playing, cons and scams ...
Time:
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Place:
canada
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44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After leaving his small Georgia town behind to start a new life in Los Angeles, aspiring businessman Carter quickly becomes a success. But when he loses his girlfriend and his job in the same morning, he decides to return to his old town with hopes ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Plot:
filmmaking, screenwriter, writers, empire, man wearing towel, male underwear, boxer shorts, man wrapped in a towel
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In remote Western Australia, two estranged farmer brothers, Colin and Les, are at war. But when Les' prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley - so the brothers must work ...
Plot:
veterinarian, sheep, farm, brother brother relationship, outback, countryside, australian, alcohol abuse, fire, love, hospital, family relations ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A wry, insightful comedy of manners in which somewhat dizzy society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat while remaining oblivious to her husband's health and financial problems as well as her ...
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Place:
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32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Jacques et Martine, couple de bourgeois ordinaires, ont invité à dîner un ami perdu de vue depuis dix ans et devenu depuis une vedette des médias.
Style:
philosophical, cult film
Plot:
food, restaurant, bored housewife, zodiac, old friends, dysfunctional couple, old friends reunited, guest, gambling, depression, poker game, dinner party ...
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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satirical, entertaining, humorous, captivating, funny ...
Plot:
gambling, money, bet, escapades, horse race, needing money, humour, money problems, friends, satire, friendship, rebirth
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31%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Four old college friends in their forties come together in a time of trouble and despair. Old joy relives, but the harsh reality of their problems can't satisfy them and eventually endangers their friendships.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Place:
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30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
As an ex-gambler teaches a hot-shot college kid some things about playing cards, he finds himself pulled into the world series of poker, where his protégé is his toughest competition.
Style:
realistic, tense, psychological, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A son hoards money stolen from the talent agency employing him, but his efforts are in vain when the money goes missing under odd circumstances.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When an incorruptible government pay clerk, who isn't taken seriously by anyone including his family, get robbed while carrying huge amount of work money, he becomes popular because people believe he faked the robbery and kept the money.
Plot:
money, robbery, corruption, friendship, morality, family man, honesty
Time:
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Place:
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28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
Raghunandan (Mohanlal) is a TV show host and a budding novelist. He is a loner and a compulsive alcoholic, the latter of which resulted in his divorce from Meera (Kaniha). Despite this Meera and her husband Alexy (Shankar Ramakrishnan) are his best ...
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28%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Tom White is an architect who chooses to become homeless despite an seemingly otherwise successful life. However, it soon becomes clear that not everything is as it appears at work. Tom chooses a different path and cuts ties with his normal life.
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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