Movies like Yankee Zulu

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Yankee Zulu (1993)
 6.4
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Yankee Zulu (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two South African boys, one white, Rhino, and one black, Zulu, go their separate ways after an incident. Many years later, they meet up again as adults, when one, after living for years in the United States, is now a wanted criminal. The two end up being a part of a madcap chase involving a check for a large amount of lottery money, pursued by Gen. Diehard and Rhino's ex-wife Rowena, who was the cause of the rift between the two protagonists.
Style: parody, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
Plot: treasure hunt, afrikaans, friendship, friends, buddies, animal, chase, lottery ticket, disguise, interracial friendship, old friend, prize money, racism, interracial relations, adoption, best friend, discrimination, society, animal life, on the run, partner, disorder, switching roles, estrangement, disagreement ...
Time: 90s
Place: africa, south africa
Keyword: old friends, partners

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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 friends, friendship, disorder, buddies, society, partner and love and romance mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Yankee Zulu: Mad Buddies (2012), The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989), Moola (2007), Downhill (2014), The New Country (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mr. Bones 2: Back from the Past (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Africa
Duration: 101 min.
Story: MR. BONES 2: BACK FROM THE PAST, is the story of Hekule, the King of Kuvukiland who is given a gemstone by the dying Kunji Balanadin. The stone is cursed and causes Hekule to become possessed by the spirit of the mischievous Kunji. It is up Mr. ...
Style: not serious, humorous, light, feel good, slapstick ...
Audience: teens
Plot: imaginary, misfit, obsessive quest, village life, silly humor, danger, heroes, time travel, escapades, sent to the future, fish out of water, save the day ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.1
 432
Mad Buddies (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Africa
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two sworn enemies, Boetie (Leon Schuster) and Beast (Kenneth Nkosi) are forced to do a road trip together on foot, only to discover that they have been conned into being part of a TV reality show.
Style: humorous, not serious, buddy comedy, feel good, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: buddies, on the road, rivalry, partner, vengeance, fictional reality show, interracial friendship, obsessive quest, fight, racism, odd couple, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Africa, Botswana, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a couple of soldiers trying to capture each other and a pilot ...
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, entertaining, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: culture clash, adventurer, farce, rescue, goofy hero, danger, nothing goes right, disorder, fish out of water, friendship, beautiful scenery, desert ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: africa, south africa, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.0
 426
Moola (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Just as the business which Steve helped create, American Lightsticks, is on the brink of collapse, a huge 'deal' suddenly materializes, and he and his partners are sure that their lives have changed forever. A true-to-life comedy inspired ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, contemplative
Plot: friendship, friends, best friend, obsessive quest, betrayal, down on your luck, partner, buddies, sexual content, profanity, beach, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Movie in collections
 6.3
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Downhill (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Four old school friends reunite to attempt the epic coast to coast walk, across the United Kingdom. As their journey unfolds, this comically incompatible foursome walk full tilt into their mid-life crises.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, road movie, fake documentary
Audience: boys' night
Plot: best friend, friendship, friends, buddies, disorder, self discovery, escapades, farce, midlife crisis, on the road, unfulfillment, nothing goes right ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The New Country (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 232 min.
Story: A 15 year old Somalian boy meets a 40 year old Iranian man on a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them they decide to the take their faiths in their own hands and together they go on a ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, captivating, tense, retro ...
Plot: refugee, friendship, teenager, african, obsessive quest, human nature, on the run, working class, on the road, discrimination, estrangement, misfit ...
Time: 90s
Place: somalia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Breaking the Rules (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two friends take their dying buddy on one last road trip.
Style: feel good, sad, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: cancer, youth, friendship, partner, best friend, friends, life is a bitch, buddies, tragic hero, unfulfillment, hopes, self discovery ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.8
 685
The Big Ask (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The Big Ask is a dark comedy about three couples who head to the desert to help their friend heal after the death of his mother. They would do anything for him - except for the one thing he wants.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, desert, moral dilemma, best friend, bittersweet, dark humor, buddies, couples, death of mother, young adult, dealing with death, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Alumni Chapter (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: What happens when you graduate from college, only to find that jobs are practically nonexistent and your best friends aren't what they seem? Four old friends reunite after college graduation. The conversation quickly turns sour, and a series of ...
Style: contemplative, humorous, captivating, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, college, introspection, adolescence vs adulthood, unfulfillment, estrangement, society, best friend, friends, dull life, lifestyle, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.4
 446
Mama Jack (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Africa
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in Cape Town, South Africa Mama Jack is the story of Jack Theron, an ordinary person working on a film set. However, his movie producer boss hates him and wants to remove him from the production of the film. In a bid to get rid of Jack, the ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, captivating, light, satirical ...
Plot: afrikaans, cross dressing, male to female cross dressing, gender disguise, love interest, workplace situations, male female relationship, in love, disguise, satire, fall in love, silly humor ...
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Hassan and Marcus (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When the lives of Mahmoud, a Muslim Sheikh (Omar Sharif) and Boulos, a Christian Theologian (Adel Imam) are threatened by religious extremists on both sides, the Egyptian government inducts them into a witness protection program that requires them ...
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Plot: on the run, friendship, family relations, switching roles, assassination attempt, culture clash, disorder, society, fall in love, parents and children, fake identity, arab ...
Time: 21st century
Place: egypt, africa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Amar Akbar & Tony (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Amar, Akbar & Tony follows the lives and loves of three childhood friends through twists and turns as the characters face sudden and unforeseen changes to their idealistic and trouble-free young lives. With hilarious and sometimes tragic ...
Style: sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous, witty ...
Plot: life turned upside down, friendship, fall in love, looking for love, society, buddies, disorder, love and romance, interracial relations, profanity, friends, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.1
 1K
Expecting (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Lizzie's best friend, Andie, becomes pregnant and offers to give the baby to her. Lizzie's husband, Peter, reluctantly goes along with being the child's father, and Andie moves into the guest room for the remainder of the pregnancy.
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, indie film ...
Plot: friends, baby, best friend, life turned upside down, family relations, friendship, pregnancy, woman, father, husband, adoption, weakness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 3.7
 45
Ornaments (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Religion, alcohol and politics are three things best avoided at holidays - but it's something this group of friends haven't learned. In this dark comedy, six friends have reunited for what may be their last holiday together.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, christmas horror, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, christmas, estrangement, dark humor, love and romance, buddies, youth, college, holiday, gay, xmas, gay subtext ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.4
 850
Macaroni (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax.
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: unrequited love, friendship, culture clash, on the road, mistaken identity, buddies, dishonesty, love and romance, society, family relations, couples, disorder ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: italy, europe, napoli italy, naples italy, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.6
 3K
Spud (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 103 min.
Story: It's South Africa 1990. Two major events are about to happen: The release of Nelson Mandela and, more importantly, it's Spud Milton's first year at an elite boys only private boarding school. John Milton is a boy from an ordinary ...
Style: realistic, sincere, sentimental, feel good, parody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, teachers and students, fish out of water, love and romance, private school, boy, boarding school, childhood, preparatory school, life lesson, monty python, life changing ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
With Friends Like These (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Black Kelly gets back from New York, she discovers that more has changed than just her hair color while she's been away. Frederic found himself a girlfriend and plans to move. Kurt and Blonde Kelly live together with their one-year-old ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: best friend, youth, friendship, friends, homecoming, young adult, nudity, snobbism, social relations, twentysomething life, bittersweet, male full rear nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, brussels, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two African-Americans and two Puerto-Ricans (though one pretends to be Italian) go out on the town on a Friday night. They will be forced to get to know each other, and even worst, learn to like each other as friends
Style: hood, entertaining, black comedy, independent film, talky ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: urban, friends, gang, hip hop culture, brotherhood, blaxploitation, hip hop, black, gangster, neighborhood, discrimination, subway ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, bronx new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Movie in collections
 5.6
 933
Highball (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A newly-married couple tries to build their social life.
Style: independent film, cynical, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: couples, partner, looking for love, looking for sex, singleness, twentysomething life, teenage love, nightlife, new year, celebrity culture, friendship, friends ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.3
 813
Walkaway (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Walkaway, a light-comedy drama, mocks the clutches of social obligations on young Indian professionals settled in New York City.
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: buddies, friendship, couples, family relations, fall in love, couple relations, society, love and romance, lifestyle, parents and children, unsupportive parent, family tradition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Wonderful Times (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Michel Berthier, cadre supérieur d'une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d'être licencié. Comme il n'ose pas avouer la vérité à Juliette, sa compagne, il s'endette pour maintenir le niveau de la famille qu'il couvre de ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, sexy
Plot: friendship, society, unlikely criminals, disorder, partner, misfit partners, dishonesty, poverty, rescue, loss of job, homeless, unemployment ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
James' Journey to Jerusalem (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 91 min.
Story: During his journey to Jerusalem young James learns the meaning of being Israeli.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, contemplative, biting ...
Plot: wisdom of life, fish out of water, friendship, culture clash, immigrant, society, power relations, teaching the ways of the world, boss and employee, social differences, racism, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 5.1
 687
Five Aces (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Chris Martin has a problem: his impending marriage. Like any other man about to enter into the holy vows of matrimony, Chris has begun to second guess himself. Is married life what he really wants? While his bride-to-be takes care of the wedding ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexual ...
Plot: bittersweet, wedding, family relations, friends, couples, thirtysomething life, chase, introspection, love and romance, buddies, moral dilemma, friendship ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Movie in collections
 6.0
 2K
Happy 140 (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A group of friends and family reunite at the fancy new holiday home of a woman who is about to turn 40.
Style: humorous, cynical, semi serious, light, touching ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, friends, disorder, friendship, discussion, lottery, life turned upside down, advocate, helicopter, actress, money ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.1
 548
Good Luck (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bernard "Bern" Lemly (Gregory Hines) is fed up with being in a wheelchair and wants more out of life. Meanwhile, former football player Tony "Ole" Olezniak (Vincent D'Onofrio) is stewing after recently losing his sight. The ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: blindness, blind character, partner, hostage, friends, disability, ambition, misfit, human spirit, hopes, buddies, self discovery ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Confessions of a Womanizer (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ritchie is the epitome of everything wrong with modern man: a pompous, foul-mouthed idiot, driven only to get the latest girl of the week Something changes after his first real relationship that includes Ritchie's two favorite things: frequent ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: womanizer, friendship, couples, prostitute, sexual relations, fall in love, society, disorder, best friend, profanity, love and romance, looking for sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 4.7
 3K
Mr. Bones (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: South Africa
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A medicine man is sent looking for the son of his tribal king, and brings back an American golfer and a host of goons intent on keeping him in the golf tournament.
Style: exciting, not serious, humorous, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: obsessive quest, golf, ambition, rivalry, escapades, disorder, oracle, imaginary, wizards and magicians, golfer, tribe, african tribe ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Mother (Bill Cosby), Jugs (Raquel Welch) & Speed (Harvey Keitel) work for a ambulance company competing for a L.A. city contract.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: satire, murder, chase, paramedic, black, truck, trucker, medical, rivalry, nothing goes right, fighting the system, contests and competitions ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
2 B Perfectly Honest (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly moves back home to live with his parents while Josh, a hippie computer wiz who's married and has ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, clever, humorous
Plot: friends, friendship, partner, lifestyle, love and romance, odd couple, self discovery, couples, disorder, infidelity, dishonesty, nothing goes right ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.5
 2K
Upperdog (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival, he to material wealth on Oslo's west side, she to an average family on the east side. In contrast to her younger brother, Yanne remembers ...
Style: semi serious, emotional, humorous, captivating, realistic
Plot: family relations, adoption, human nature, siblings relations, society, friends, social differences, disorder, refugee, immigrant, war trauma, siblings ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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