Movies like Cry of the Cormoran

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Cry of the Cormoran (1971)
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Cry of the Cormoran (1971)
Original name: Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
Style: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
Plot: interracial sex, gambling, gang, kidnapping, unemployment, on the run, forgery, disorder, farce, dishonesty, criminal heroes, gangster, horse, police, alcoholic, horse race, bowling, taxi driver, corruption, diamond, casual sex, police corruption, caravan, jacket, intimidation ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, turkey
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and captivating films with plots about disorder, dishonesty, criminal heroes, gangster, couples, love and romance and police mostly in Comedy, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Cry of the Cormoran: Idiot in Paris (1967), Who's Got the Action? (1962), Off and Running (2008), She No Longer Talks She Shoots (1972), Turf (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Idiot in Paris (1967)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual
Plot: social relations, prostitute, village, village life, village idiot, frenchman, drunken man, merchant
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Who's Got the Action? (1962)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: gambling, bookies, casino, gangster, forces of nature, cons and scams, disorder, nothing goes right, rivalry, ambition, dishonesty, contests and competitions ...
Time: 60s
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66%
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.
Style: semi serious, realistic, cynical, humorous, witty ...
Plot: gangster, satire, criminal's revenge, rivalry, criminal heroes, betrayal, gang, dishonesty, cons and scams, heist, nudity, mugging ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: montmartre paris, paris france
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59%
Off and Running (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A missed highway exit and here is Darry Marzouki, unemployed conjurer, crossing the road with Irène Montier Duval, a beautiful bourgeois, the Hermès bag full of banknotes. Out of love, she served as an intermediary in an arms sale between a French ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot: on the run, love affair, unemployment, love and romance, tourette's syndrome, political corruption, restaurant, money, chauffeur, hotel room, kidnapping, corruption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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She No Longer Talks She Shoots (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities ...
Style: realistic, humorous, spoof
Plot: marriage proposal, slum, relic, nun, bourgeoisie, priest, scam, journalist, reporter, supernatural ability, journalism, society ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
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56%
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Turf (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating
Plot: ambition, partner, rivalry, friends, contests and competitions, gambling, misfit partners, disorder, buddies, dishonesty, horse
Time: 21st century
Place: france, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
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How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and invent himself an awful life. Then he meets the beautiful woman whose goal in life is to sleep with ...
Style: captivating, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: love and romance, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, poet, suicide attempt, hotel manager, female nudity, poem, gas explosion, poetry reading, clock, tape recorder
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Happy Easter (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle (Jean-Paul Belmondo) drops his wife Sophie (Marie Laforet) off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie (Sophie Marceau), who has just had a fight ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sex comedy, feel good ...
Plot: womanizer, adultery, farce, nothing goes right, easter, couples, disorder, dishonesty, infidelity, adulterer, young love, airport ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything (1973)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, ...
Style: slapstick, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot: disorder, goofy hero, nothing goes right, juvenile delinquency, chaos and mayhem, job, family honor, anesthetic, breaking the fourth wall, father son relationship, archbishop, army general ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Carom Shots (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy
Plot: ambition, firm, dark humor, career, comedy of errors, murder, workplace intrigue, workplace, rise to the top, hierarchy, frog
Time: 60s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Let's Not Get Angry (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: One-time gangster Antoine is enjoying retirement on the coast, now managing a boating club. He receives a visit from a former accomplice who asks for a loan. The money will be repaid by a crook who is now in hiding; Antoine intends to recover his ...
Style: dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous ...
Plot: gangster, criminal heroes, englishman, thief, haunted by the past, escape, killing, theft, car trunk, gang, horse, hotel room ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: french riviera, france, riviera, south of france, nice france
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48%
Move Along, There is Nothing to See (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Inspector Leroux is investigating the owner of a contemporary art gallery Helen Duvernet who is suspected of being involved in trafficking of stolen paintings. He is both intrigued and attracted by the young woman, follows her everywhere and finally ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful
Plot: art theft, performer's life, couples, fighting the system, tragic hero, criminal heroes, boss and employee, love and romance, fall in love, destructive relationship, kidnapping, workplace romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Inspector Blunder (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, detective
Plot: law enforcement, french police, reporter, rescue, kidnapping, gangster, confined, dishonesty, journalism, disorder, silly humor, son ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Happiness Is in the Field (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employees, and an impossible wife and daughter. His only joy is sharing lunch with his friend Gerard. Then a TV show called "where are you?" ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, clever, offbeat ...
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Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: europe, france, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Dinner Guest (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Fifty years old, three years past of unemployment, benefits decreasing very quickly... Gerard is at the end of the rope when a position is offered him in Indonesia. To win the favor of his new employer, Gerard invites him to dinner at home. Fatal ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, semi serious ...
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Duration: 90 min.
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Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Duration: 108 min.
Story: Retired Englishman George Hall's hypochondria worsens and takes its toll on his family.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Plot: disorder, elderly, nothing goes right, dysfunctional family, parents and children, gay, estrangement, family problems, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
George and Mildred (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Big screen spin-off of the Seventies sitcom. Mildred Roper (Yootha Joyce, who died shortly after filming was completed) is determined to make husband George (Brian Roper) celebrate their wedding anniversary in style, at a posh hotel in London. ...
Style: sitcom, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous
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Time: 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Party 7 (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
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Style: semi serious, stylized, humorous, realistic, suspenseful ...
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39%
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Hallelujah! (2009)
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Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Following his release from a seven-year stretch in prison, Mario Diccara discovers that his affairs with the underworld aren't completely settled. His brother Patrick, a priest, suggests that he stays with elderly Father Etienne in a small ...
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Incognito (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: This offbeat musical drama stars Lucas (Bénabar), an up-and-coming singer ready to do anything to be on top of the French pop scene.
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, realistic
Plot: desire for fame, musician's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, disorder, dishonesty, rock, hopes, cons and scams, hidden identity, friends ...
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Place: france, europe
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38%
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Mohamed Dubois (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Arnaud Dubois may be the heir to a bank, but he prefers to call himself Mohamed. Having fallen out with his father, he turns his back on the family residence. On his travels, he meets Mustafa, who introduces him to his sister Sabrina. Having fallen ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, biting
Plot: hidden identity, social differences, interracial relations, fish out of water, disorder, society, dishonesty, fall in love, love and romance, fake identity, shakespeare, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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38%
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The Longshot (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Four losers borrow money from gangsters to bet on a "sure thing", but lose. The gangsters go after them to get their money.
Style: independent film, realistic, exciting, humorous
Plot: horse race, ambition, criminal heroes, dishonesty, disorder, down on your luck, cons and scams, gambling, gangster, horse, mafia, mob boss ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
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Style: independent film, slapstick, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: mafia, conspiracy, gangster, violent content, unlikely criminals, assassination, dishonesty, criminal heroes, breakup, down on your luck, murder, job ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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36%
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This is the funny story about two warring Mafia gangs in New York. The weaker gang use incredibly a lion to blackmail the opposite gang's "clients". The police succeeds to stop one of the gang, while the other remain without the Boss.
Style: slapstick, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: mafia, gangster, gang, silly humor, disorder, hitman, goofy hero, criminal heroes, assassination attempt, gang war, lion, police ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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35%
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Daddy Cool (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story about the age gap between a scientist father, Philipe Le Tallec, and his newly discovered teen aged daughter, Eglantine.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: family relations, parents and children, disorder, youth, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, estrangement, coming of age, scientist, daughter, social relations, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
No More Mr. Nice Guy (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Die Brüder Kipp (Joachim Król) und Most (Horst Krause) machen sich auf den Weg, um das Gut ihrer Oma zu erben. Auf diesem Weg begegnen sie Viktor (Konstantin Kotljarov), einem desertierten russischen Soldaten, der die beiden kidnappt und Nadine ...
Style: road movie, realistic, not serious, humorous
Plot: on the run, sibling relationship, goofy hero, misfit, nothing goes right, uneducated, disorder, family relations, farce, communication problem, on the road, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: german democratic republic, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Birds of a Feather 2 (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe - dressed as a woman - hoping to be picked up. But Albin gets more than he bargains for when the fly he catches in his web is actually a spy, who uses him as ...
Style: funny, sex comedy, surreal, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: transvestism, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, glbt, spy, transsexual, transvestite, transgender, farce, drag queen, gay subtext ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: italy, saint tropez, europe, sicily, riviera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Monsieur Gangster (1963)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively ...
Style: dark comedy, fast paced, cult classic, noir, funny ...
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Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Gentlemen in White Vests (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A crime comedy directed by Wolfgang Staudte.
Style: realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous
Plot: gangster, disorder, heist, life turned upside down, car chase, forgery, lovers on the run, rivalry, criminal heroes, chases and races, gang, dishonesty ...
Time: 60s
Place: germany, west berlin west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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