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Waking Ned (1998)
30K
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Ireland, France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
Style:
feel good, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, touching, offbeat, inspirational, sad, anamorphic, laugh out loud ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
lottery winner, small town, friendship, friends, countryside, lottery, gambling, death, greed, skinny dipping, caper, life, luck, old age, landscape, card playing, casino, village life, nothing goes right, social relations, disorder, pretense, comedy of errors, buddies, dishonesty ...
Time:
future, year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about disorder, friends, friendship, small town, social relations, nothing goes right and society mostly in Comedy, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Waking Ned: The Grand Seduction (2013), Saving Grace (2000), Local Hero (1983), Mystics (2003), Puckoon (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 90 min.
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Style:
dark comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, black comedy ...
Plot:
scam, elderly, cons and scams, con artists, partner, nothing goes right, buddies, dark humor, seance, scheme, satire, spiritualism ...
Time:
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Place:
ireland, europe
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Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
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semi serious, humorous, captivating, black comedy, biting ...
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Zonad (Simon Delaney) is from space…probably. Or so the Cassidy family assume when they discover an apparent alien in a shiny red space suit and helmet passed out on the living room floor beside the drinks cabinet. The Cassidys and the people of ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, witty, black comedy ...
Plot:
family relations, mistaken identity, hidden identity, family life, cons and scams, social relations, dishonesty, village, disorder, con artists, alien, morality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
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100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, not serious, humorous, feel good, road movie
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, touching, witty, feel good, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
ireland, boston, usa, europe, seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Irish bachelors take out an ad in the Miami Herald, looking for love.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, sex comedy
Plot:
small town, couples, couple relations, isolation, family relations, battle of the sexes, village life, small town life, love, male female relationship, friendship between men, social relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Each week, Pierre and his friends organize what is called as "un dîner de cons". Everyone brings the dumbest guy he could find as a guest. Pierre thinks his champ -François Pignon- will steal the show.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
black and white, talky, witty, clever, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. Edwina quickly falls out with the locals while also falling in with the son of the community's leader
Style:
witty, humorous, surprise ending, slasher, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
ireland, europe, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
prison, gardening, prison escape, friendship, outdoor sex, solitude, unlikely friendships, adaptation, happy ending, misfit, fish out of water, going straight ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
24%
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
culture clash, family relations, friends, love and romance, buddies, parents and children, fall in love, fish out of water, personal growth, heartwarming, self discovery, satire ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three pedigree chumps learn that every underdog has its day in this freewheeling Irish comedy. In hock to the tune of £50,000 to a Belfast bookie and saddled with a dopey greyhound that wouldn't run if its backside was on fire, the likely lads ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ambition, disorder, gambling, bookies, buddies, dishonesty, male bonding, friendship between men, male friendship, dog, road trip, partner ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, Luxembourg, Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Runway is inspired by the true story of a South American pilot who landed his plane near Mallow, in 1983. Against all odds, the people of the town came together to build a runway to get him home and briefly caught the imagination of the nation. ...
Style:
emotional, touching, semi serious, feel good, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
family relations, friends, family life, parents and children, religions or cults, unlikely couple, buddies, love and romance, single parent, nothing goes right, fish out of water, cons and scams ...
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
19%
262
Genre: Comedy
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Michel Ressac wins a dinner with cyclist legend Eddy Merckx in an advertising campaign to promote the sales of sofas and hopes that he can do his own father, who is a huge cycling fan, a favour. But unfortunately he arrives too late at the dinner. ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot:
self discovery, obsessive quest, hidden identity, partner, on the road, misfit partners, cons and scams, disorder, dishonesty, escapades, life turned upside down, hopes ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Dirty Shame is the only bar in the small town of Paradise, Michigan. A burnt out, chain-smoking fortyish bar maid is the only waitress at The Dirty Shame. A group of local red necks conspiring to bring a mail order bride to their Midwest town ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
cynical, not serious, witty, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
small town, small town life, nothing goes right, private detective, best friend, friendship, life turned upside down, ambition, disorder, cons and scams, farce, goofy hero ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
witty, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
dark humor, nothing goes right, odd couple, friends, lifestyle, partner, performer's life, misfit partners, social relations, one last chance, daydreamer, disorder ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, miami
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18%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
18%
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