Movies like The Liar

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The Liar (1981)
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The Liar (1981)
Original name: Valehtelija
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, West Germany
Duration: 53 min.
Story: Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses.
Style: black and white, student film
Plot: aspiring writer, love, money, student, friendship, writers, restaurant, deception, cheating, bum, drifter, lie, beer, male female relationship, liar, loan, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friend, selfishness, money problems, bar
Place: helsinki finland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, captivating, semi serious and realistic films with plots about friendship, male female relationship, friend, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, bar and love and romance mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Liar: The Worthless (1982), The Factotum (1991), Sixpack (2011), A Girl, Three Guys, and a Gun (2000), Lovelife (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Worthless (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.
Style: road movie
Plot: love letter, drifter, outsider, ex-lover, on the run, underground, nature, circus, on the road, runaway, helicopter, ex girlfriend ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: helsinki finland, paris france, finland
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95%
 7.0
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The Factotum (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Cesare Botero (Nanni Moretti), a young and corrupted minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli (Silvio Orlando).
Plot: corruption, television, political corruption, prophetic, political party, writers, satire, male female relationship, naivete, ghost writer, corrupt politician, school class ...
Place: rome italy
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60%
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Sixpack (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Sixpack is a positive story on the outskirts of society. The story takes place in Helsinki on rock and following the advent of exclusion of the story regarding one of summer days. The film's protagonist, Marshal, is stuck in a shabby home. Lihi ...
Style: thought provoking, humorous
Plot: runaway, working class, unemployment, money problems, outsider, drunkard, generation gap, adulthood, beer, friendship, friendship between men, tram ...
Place: eastern europe, helsinki finland
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59%
A Girl, Three Guys, and a Gun (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three smalltown friends looking to leave their troubles behind come up with a robbery scheme to fund their trip to the big city. But as their plan goes awry and the authorities become involved, they are left with no other alternative but to take ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, independent film
Plot: road trip, friendship, on the road, robbery, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, armed robbery, chase, assault, caper, male female relationship, ambush ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Lovelife (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Lovelife is a 1997 romantic comedy film written and directed by Jon Harmon Feldman. The ensemble cast includes Matt Letscher, Sherilyn Fenn, Saffron Burrows, Carla Gugino, Bruce Davison, Jon Tenney and Peter Krause. Lovelife was nominated for a ...
Style: sex comedy, independent film, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: professor, older man younger woman relationship, low self esteem, love, writers, love triangle, friendship, breakup, older woman younger man relationship, couples, friends, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 90s
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56%
In the Thick of It (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: This optimistic Italian slice-of-life drama chronicles a typical day in the lives of teenagers living in the grim suburbs of Rome. The story is set in the suburb of Tuscolano which is located near the Cinecitta studios and concerns a group of ...
Style: independent film
Plot: teenage gang, con man, stealing, money, dating, teenage girl, flash forward, brother brother relationship, sex, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, prostitute, friend ...
Place: rome italy
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54%
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Summertime (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 25-year-old Iiris and Karoliina have been best friends since childhood. Karoliina has been travelling and living abroad for some years now, but is coming back home for the summer as Karoliina has gotten them a job as waitresses in Hanko, the best ...
Style: humorous, light, bleak
Audience: chick flick
Plot: summer, student, adultery, love, friendship, infidelity, fall in love, unfaithful husband, love and romance, beach, art, dating ...
Time: 2010s
Place: finland
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52%
A Fine Romance (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After Mala caught her boyfriend cheating and kicked him out, she's fed up with men.
Style: sweet, disturbing, captivating, learning
Plot: student, love affair, male female relationship, love and romance, friendship, society, couples, love, lifestyle, promise, lodger, education ...
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51%
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Ali & the Queens (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After his father's passing, a teenager sets out for New York in search of his estranged mother and soon finds love and connection in unexpected places.
Style: humorous, entertaining, captivating, indonesian
Plot: teenager, teenage life, looking for love, estranged mother, mother son estrangement, lifestyle, friendship, estrangement, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love story, estranged family member, family relations ...
Place: new york
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43%
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Fallen Leaves (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The film tells the story of Ansa, a supermarket shelf-stocker on a zero-hour contract, later a recyclable plastic sorter, and Holappa, a sandblaster, an alcoholic, later an ex-alcoholic, whose paths have accidentally crossed and who, despite ...
Style: thrilling, semi serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: love story, male female relationship, couple relations, relationship problems, love interest, love and romance, relationships, love affair, chance meeting, destiny, satire, alcoholism ...
Time: 2020s
Place: finland, eastern europe, helsinki finland
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43%
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Hustlers (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The director Lauri Nurkse tells that Veijarit is a film about "arjensietokyvyttömyys" (= inability to tolerate everyday life) and about the Peter Pan complex. The main actor Mikko Leppilampi says it's about ...
Style: neo noir
Plot: erotica, male star appears nude, boy, bare chested male, woman, nudity, young adult, fall in love, friendship between men, male female relationship, urban setting, friend ...
Place: eastern europe
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41%
Seducing Doctor Lewis (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the villagers devise a scheme ...
Style: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot: culture clash, village, friendship, small town, unemployment, doctor, goofy hero, nothing goes right, social relations, disorder, comedy of errors, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: canada, quebec, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Clouds and Rain Over Wushan (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A policeman (Wang Wenqiang) investigates an introverted signal-station manager (Xianmin Zhang) suspected of raping a hotel clerk (Zhong Ping).
Style: black comedy
Plot: alienation, social criticism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, sex, friendship, small town, friend, hotel, group of friends, river, widow, investigation ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Metroland (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After ten years absence Toni, Chris's best friend, suddenly reappears in London to bring chaos and doubt into Chris's calm, tranquil, slightly boring, predictable life. Chris starts to remember his carefree youth as a photographer in Paris ...
Style: cult classic, sexual, comedy drama, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: male nudity, friendship, male pubic hair, marriage, adultery, sex, bittersweet, coming of age, midlife crisis, drinking, railway, liar ...
Time: year 1997, 70s, 20th century, 60s, year 1977
Place: england, paris france, london, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl Ship (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Su-chan, Mai-chan, Sawako-san follows the lives of three women who are former co-workers. 34-year-old Su-chan works at a coffee shop and has feelings for the manager there. 34-year-old Mai-chan works at an OA machine maker. She is in a relationship ...
Style: humorous, realistic, captivating, light
Plot: female friendship, coworker relationship, adulterous husband, adultery, love and romance, love, unspoken love, unfaithful, love affair, coworker, couple relations, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Bohemian Life (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, France, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
Style: black and white, dark comedy, cerebral, spiritual, art house ...
Plot: painter, painting, art, artist, writers, friendship, eviction, composer, artists' life, spirituality, classical music, comedian ...
Time: year 1992, 20th century, 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe
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35%
The Other Side of Hope (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
Style: comedy drama, realistic, serious, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: refugee, syrian refugee, racism, loss of family, illegal alien, war refugee, migration, unemployment, life is a bitch, restaurant, european, syrian war ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 90s
Place: finland, eastern europe, helsinki finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Playing Solo (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: No overview found.
Plot: male female relationship, cheating, reporter, jealousy, dementia, pregnancy, selfishness, mother in law, retirement home, fall in love, unfaithful husband, traumatic childhood ...
Time: year 2007
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Dogpound Shuffle (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man who has lost his beloved pet dog enlists the help of a young drifter in finding the animal. This leads to a series of misadventures, including a confrontation with a hulking dog-pound worker and a stint providing the entertainment at a ...
Style: independent film
Plot: friendship between men, friendship, dog, animal shelter, performer, bum, drifter, song and dance
Time: year 1975
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.5
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Rams (2020)
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: virus, outback, veterinarian, farm, siblings, farmer, brother brother relationship, sheep, rural setting, alcoholism, bare chested male, shootout ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
A Family of Three (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When novelist Andrea Dewenter dies in a car accident, the lives of her husband Christian, grown-up son Lars, and adolescent daughter Elaine go off the rails. For all three, the few days between Andrea's sudden death and her funeral turn into an ...
Style: rough, sentimental, disturbing, touching, independent film ...
Plot: male female relationship, dysfunctional family, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, car accident, friendship, self discovery, tragic event, marital problem, loss of wife, accidental death, dark secret, teenage girl ...
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32%
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Just Love! (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Silvia’s father grants her permission to meet Dorante, the man she’s promised to in marriage, by pretending to be her servant Lisette, who in turn will play the role of her mistress.
Style: entertaining, light, captivating, romantic, modern day adaptation
Plot: domestic servant, master servant relationship, engagement, deception, love and romance, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, love story, pretense, relationships, couple relations ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Day He Arrives (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Sang-Joon is a professor in the film department at a provincial university. He goes to Seoul to meet his senior, Young-Ho, who works as a film critic. Sang-Joon stays in a northern village in Seoul for 3 days.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, poetic ...
Plot: friendship, professor, friends, film critic, cinema, countryside, asian, village, drinking, cigarette smoking, piano, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seoul, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Fishbowl California (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A man struggling to find purpose in life is enlightened by a drunk ailing widow.
Style: surprise ending, crying, independent film
Audience: kids
Plot: widow, homeless, friendship, bicycle, revenge, love, boy, drinking, drunk, elderly, child, drunkenness ...
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Everyone's Life (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads in their lives, with their dreams and their secrets, their hopes and their limitations, all beneath the same sun, each with their own dark side. In ...
Style: captivating, light, sentimental, melancholic, touching ...
Plot: multiple storylines, festival, love and romance, love, romantic friendship, male female relationship, music, lifestyle, music festival, romantic relationship, relationships, friends ...
Time: year 2017
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Too Handsome To Handle (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Wary of the effects of his good looks on others, a shut-in agrees to attend high school for the first time and meets a girl who's immune to his charm.
Style: semi serious, disturbing, captivating, psychological, satirical ...
Plot: school, teenage life, high school life, lifestyle, changing lives, slice of life, schoolboy, relationships, couple relations, teenager, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage boy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Zombie and the Ghost Train (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health ...
Style: realistic, offbeat, semi serious, gloomy, humorous
Plot: musician's life, zombie, alcoholism, on the road, death, outsider, rock band, relationships, lifestyle, losing-it hero, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s
Place: turkey, europe, finland, helsinki finland, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.2
 1K
Two Days (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Paul Miller (Paul Rudd - Friends, The Cider House Rules) has struggled as an actor in Hollywood for years, and now he's had enough. But not just of show business-of life. In two days, he's going to kill himself. But in true Hollywood ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, cerebral ...
Plot: suicide, filmmaking, actor's life, introspection, change of heart, lifestyle, life is a bitch, breaking point, showbiz, direction and purpose, death wish, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.5
 115
Bittersweet (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Finnish movie.
Plot: jealous man, breakup, friendship between men, fall in love, sexual behavior, dating, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friend, love triangle, party, female nudity, jealousy ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.4
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North Beach (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: San Francisco comes alive in this amusing chronicle of urban life. When Tyler has a drunken one night stand with a local stripper, his secret precedes him all over town. Now amidst a haze of springtime revelry, he must make amends to his fiance ...
Style: independent film
Plot: buddy, stripper, rock band, slacker, neighborhood, drunken sex, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, sex, friendship, party, friend, drinking ...
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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