Movies like The Security Men
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The Security Men (2013)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 43 min.
Story:
Duckers, Jimmy and Ray are three work-shy security guards at a shopping mall who spend much of their time mocking their Jobsworth boss Kenneth. One night they bunk off to watch and bet on a boxing match at the electrical shop, only to find on their return that the mall's jewellers has been robbed. To save face - and their jobs - they bring in computer ace Rhys to help concoct a new CCTV film in which two of them pose as robbers and the other two pursue them but lose them. It looks very genuine but P.C. Greaves has his doubts. Can they get away with it?
Style:
humorous, talky, semi serious, realistic, sitcom
Plot:
working class, workplace, workplace situations, shopping mall, disorder, security guard, robbery, nightshift
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
england, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and sitcom films with plots about workplace, workplace situations, disorder, british humour, working class, friends and couples mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like The Security Men: Twenty Twelve (2011), Early Doors (2003), W1A (2014), Mutiny on the Buses (1972), White Van Man (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Twenty Twelve is a BBC television comedy series written and directed by John Morton. Starring Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Hynes and Amelia Bullmore, the programme is a spoof on-location documentary following the organisation of the 2012 Summer Olympics ...
Style:
sitcom, semi serious, humorous, realistic, talky
Plot:
satire, workplace situations, disorder, secretary, power relations, boss and employee, nothing goes right, team, olympics, boss, loner, workplace ...
Time:
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Place:
england, london, europe
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95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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A sitcom set in a small pub in Manchester, “The Grapes”, where daily life is bound up in the issues of love, loneliness, and blocked urinals. Regular drinkers Joe and Duffy pass the time with landlord Ken and his police officer cronies.
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sitcom, semi serious, realistic, humorous, talky
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everyday life, old friend, workplace, society, buddies, workplace situations, working class, gossip and rumors, friends, slacker, owner, pub ...
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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The follow-up to 'Twenty Twelve' as Ian Fletcher takes up the position of 'Head of Values' at the BBC. His task is to clarify, define, or re-define the core purpose of the BBC across all its functions and to position it ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, semi serious, light, feel good ...
Plot:
satire, workplace situations, workplace, disorder, nothing goes right, intern, television, bbc, journalism, branding, new job, unsupportive coworkers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Bus driver Stan Butler agrees to marry Suzy, much to the anguish of Mum, her son-in-law, Arthur, and daughter Olive. How, they wonder, will they ever manage without Stan's money coming in? Then Arthur is sacked, and Stan agrees to delay the ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, semi serious, cynical, biting ...
Plot:
bus, working class, strike, lechery, couples, disorder, dishonesty, society, workplace, rivalry, ego clash, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
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Place:
britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The incredible misadventures of two handymen on the road and the extraordinary people they meet along the way.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, captivating, light, feel good ...
Plot:
working class, construction worker, family relations, nothing goes right, workplace, disorder, workplace situations, family business, society, destruction, partners, friendship ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
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Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights is a British sitcom about The Phoenix Club, a working men's club in the northern English town of Farnworth, Greater Manchester. The show was written by Neil Fitzmaurice, Peter Kay and Dave Spikey, produced by ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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working class, boss and employee, ambition, workplace, workplace situations, disability, workplace problem, nightclub, friends, owner, staff, singer ...
Time:
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Place:
northern england, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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The Likely Lads is a British sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and produced by Dick Clement. Twenty episodes were broadcast by the BBC, in three series, between 16 December 1964 and 23 July 1966. However, only eight of ...
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working class, friendship, friends, workplace, buddies, society, workplace situations, factory worker, electrician, dysfunctional relationship, rivalry, separation ...
Time:
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Place:
northern england, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
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Famous DJ Alan Partridge gives us an insight into what happens behind the microphone at North Norfolk digital radio.
Style:
not serious, clever, humorous, talky, realistic ...
Plot:
goofy hero, workplace, artists and showbiz, media, disorder, workplace situations, recording studio, satire, newscaster, humour, radio show, radio station
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story:
Set inside the offices of the "Nation Building Authority", a newly created government organisation responsible for overseeing major infrastructure projects, Utopia explores that moment when bureaucracy and grand dreams collide. It's a ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, semi serious, realistic, biting
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
sitcom, semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In order to save his own job, an employment agent has to find work for the most unemployable man on Maui.
Style:
humorous, light, entertaining, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 26 min.
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Set in Valco, a fictional budget supermarket in the north west of England, Trollied finds the funny in one of our most familiar surroundings and focuses on the types of characters we all recognise: bored checkout staff, ineffectual managers and a ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Checco, an uneducated but self-satisfied fellow from Milan, who has always dreamed of becoming a police officer, fails his entrance exam for the third time. It must be said that at the oral examination Checco said that the reason why he wanted to ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The hilarious cast of Nora's Hair Salon is back in this outrageous, bust-a-gut comedy! Featuring familiar faces and fresh new names, Nora's Hair Salon 2: A Cut Above will have you cutting up all over again! As co-owner of Nora's Hair ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 29 min.
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Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Grace & Favour is a British sitcom sequel to the long-running series Are You Being Served? It aired on BBC1 for two series from 1992 to 1993 and marked the return of Are You Being Served? creators and writers Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, campy, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
hotel, estate, countryside, staff, social relations, retired, disorder, human nature, unlikely partners, nothing goes right, workplace, partners ...
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Place:
england, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Charlie MacKenzie is an ambitious young career woman who stretches the truth in a job interview by professing to be married with a family. But her little white lie leads to a great big problem when her new boss moves next door. Desperate to ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, witty ...
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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humorous, feel good, captivating, light, semi serious ...
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Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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sitcom, humorous, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Duration: 30 min.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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Place:
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37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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Style:
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Plot:
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36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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