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The Three Veterans (1984)
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Original name: Tři veteráni
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish brothers. Each of the veterans is given a magic item - one gets magic harp that provides him with servants by wish, other one endless pouch of gold and the last one owns magic hat that can create all the staff excluding money and people.
Style:
psychotronic, costume drama, fairy tale, cult film
Plot:
soldier, curse, veteran, cursed, magic, princess, money, painter, king, friendship, castle, gnome, kingdom, hotel, theft, dwarf, friendship between men, beggar, telephone call, war veteran, group of friends, greed, absurd humor, cooking, false identity ...
Place:
europe, central europe
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Most similar movies to The Three Veterans
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out fairy tale, psychotronic, costume drama and period drama films with plots about disguise, princess, king, magic, castle, nobleman and forest mostly in Family, Fantasy and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Three Veterans: Give the Devil His Due (1985), How to Wake a Princess (1978), Crazy Kingdom (2016), Princess Lost in Time (2020), Prince Bayaya (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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czech republic, czechoslovakia, central europe, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min.
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Plot:
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
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Story:
A wonderful fairytale about looking for love, defeating evil and learning some valuable moral lessons on the way. The story begins with the young Prince Velen , who is left in charge of the castle and his three sisters. During the night he has a ...
Style:
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Audience:
kids
Plot:
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Every day princess Elen wakes up to her birthday celebrations knowing that she must kill the evil witch who cursed her or find a true love. In case she didn't make it, the kingdom will be destroyed by dark storm, as it already had happened ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, central europe
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
The hero of this popular fairy tale is a young prince who, after the death of his parents, goes out into the world. During his travels he meets a magical talking horse and falls in love with the beautiful princess Slavna. On the advice of his horse, ...
Style:
fairy tale, psychotronic, costume drama, period drama
Plot:
gardener, kaiju, slavic mythology, giant monster, mythology, horse, princess, prince, castle, magic, kingdom, inn ...
Place:
europe, central europe
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught in a trapset, they become allies in a fight to prevent ruins from being turned into mushroom farm by the city authorities.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
eastern europe, central europe, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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54%
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Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Czechoslovakia
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Story:
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Audience:
kids
Plot:
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Similarity:
50%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Story:
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Style:
fairy tale, captivating, humorous, exciting, psychotronic
Plot:
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Country: Czechoslovakia
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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czech republic, europe, central europe
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
eastern europe, europe, czech republic, prague, czechoslovakia ...
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
persia
Similarity:
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Country: Czech Republic
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
Vikram (Mohammad Iqbal Khan) and Ajay (Anuj Sawhney), and an accomplice, John D'Souza (Paresh Rawal), become prime suspects, and are on the run. They must apprehend Chindi and recover the crown to absolve themselves of this crime. While being ...
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Country: Czechoslovakia
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Story:
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fairy tale, cult classic, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, metafiction ...
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kids, teen fantasy
Plot:
witch, sorcerer, owl, broken leg, psychiatric patient, parallel world, troublemaker, coming of age, supernatural, mythology, psychological manipulation, vintage car ...
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Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe, europe, czech republic
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Story:
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Style:
fairy tale, psychotronic, freeze frame, dark fantasy
Plot:
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Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychotronic, fairy tale, visually appealing, captivating, light ...
Plot:
teenage protagonist, friendship, little boy, baby, supernatural power, rivalry, greed, countryside, boy, voice over narration, money, grandmother grandson relationship ...
Place:
central europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
crying, psychotronic, fairy tale, costume drama, period drama
Plot:
queen, time travel, changing the past or future, fictional kingdom, newborn, lifestyle change, gang, kidnapper, woods, secretly observing, girl, passive aggressive girl ...
Place:
europe, central europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
stylized, humorous, feel good, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, preschool
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Time:
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Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears escape and seek him out and a school inspector comes into town.
Style:
slapstick comedy, slapstick
Plot:
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