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Restaurant Stakeout (2012)
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Restaurant Stakeout (2012)
Genre:
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Restaurant Stakeout is an American reality television series on the Food Network. The series debuted on March 12, 2012, with the second season premiering on August 29, 2012. The series follows New York City restaurant owner William Jack "Willie" Degel, who goes behind the scenes of different restaurants across the country with hidden cameras to examine their service problems. It is one of the first "reality" shows attempted on Food Network.
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: cooking and food, restaurant, restaurant owner, waiter, diner, hidden camera, advice, employee, problem solving, help, surveillance, staff, workplace situations, business, problem, secretly observing, workplace problem, food, waitress, bar, service, kitchen, reality
Time: 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, feel good, serious and captivating films and TV series with plots about workplace situations, food, cooking and food, workplace, restaurant, cooking and chef mostly in Comedy, Family and Drama genres. Some movies like Restaurant Stakeout: Rehab Addict (2010), Martha Stewart Living (1996), Flip or Flop (2013), Tricked (2013), Iron Chef (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed (2002)
Genre:
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed is a series of television shows in which the methods behind magic tricks and illusions are explained. In its original incarnation there were four shows broadcast in ...
Style: serious, realistic, explanatory, sincere, non fiction
Plot: magic show, wizards and magicians, uncover truth, delusion, backstage, stage magician, magic, disappearance, teaching the ways of the world, card playing, interview, pretense ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee (2003)
Genre:
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In an atmosphere as inviting as her recipes, Sandra Lee, author of the best-selling cookbook Semi-Homemade Cooking, shares her techniques for combining fresh ingredients with specially selected store-bought items. The results: mouthwatering meals ...
Style: realistic, captivating, feel good, entertaining, light ...
Plot: cooking, cookery, cooking and food, food, cooking show, advice, meal, baking, strong female presence, recipe, pastry, dessert ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Rehab Addict (2010)
Genre:
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Nicole Curtis works in Minneapolis and Detroit discovering houses that were once the best part of their neighborhood but are starting to fall apart. She recruits her crew to come out and rebuild the houses to their original glory days. is a ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot: renovation, home improvement, designer, real estate, worker, architecture, carpenter, workplace situations, construction, recovery, construction worker, strength ...
Time: 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa, michigan, detroit
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Martha Stewart Living (1996)
Genre:
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Martha Stewart, the Bob Vila of Home Economics, gives tips on everything from cooking and flower arranging to gardening and making homemade Christmas decorations.
Style: realistic, semi serious, explanatory, sentimental, non fiction ...
Audience: kids, girls' night
Plot: cookery, lifestyle, strong female presence, advice, home improvement, baking, cooking, gardening, megalomaniac, painting, crafts and hobbies, studio ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Flip or Flop (2013)
Genre:
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: Tarek is a self-proclaimed real estate genius with determination and drive. Christina is Tarek's picture-perfect wife, who Tarek's friends still can't believe he landed. In each episode of Flip or Flop, Tarek and Christina flip a new ...
Style: light, captivating, entertaining, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: renovation, home renovation, home improvement, real estate, investments, buying a house, house for sale, workplace situations, construction, recovery, real estate agent, couples ...
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Tricked (2013)
Genre:
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The charming magician, Ben Hanlin, conjures up mischief as unsuspecting celebrities and members of the public are taken in by his unique brand of hidden camera magic.
Plot: magic, prank, hidden camera, trick, british, celebrity, magician, magic trick
Time: 2010s
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Iron Chef (1993)
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Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Iron Chef is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1993, is a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed ...
Style: exciting, culinary, tense, game show, serious ...
Plot: cooking, food, fanaticism, competition, cooking competition, multiple contestants, rules and policies, chef, cooking and food, cookery, race against time, rivalry ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Ghost Hunters (2004)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Paranormal investigators investigate places that are reported to be haunted. Engaging forensic experts, historical records and the most innovative technology available, the squad helps everyday people who are struggling with unexplained supernatural ...
Style: realistic, scary, suspenseful, serious, creepy ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, amateur detective, supernatural ability, ordinary people, paranormal activity, medieval, ghost hunter, paranormal phenomena, talent ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new england, arizona
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Kitchen Confidential (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Kitchen Confidential is an American television sitcom that debuted on September 19, 2005, on the Fox network, based on Anthony Bourdain's New York Times bestselling book, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly. Bradley ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot: chef, cooking and food, restaurant, comeback, food, lifestyle change, workplace situations, one more chance, lifestyle, success, supportive friend, character change ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Manhunters: Fugitive Task Force (2008)
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
TV show
Story: An elite task force headed by US Marshal Lenny DePaul hunt down some of world's most wanted fugitives and felons
Style: suspense, disturbing, serious, realistic
Plot: law enforcement, swat team, u.s. marshal, police, task force, workplace situations, hunt down, police arrest, workplace, law enforcer, runaway, danger ...
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Rica Famosa Latina (2014)
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Country: USA
TV show
Story: Rica, Famosa, Latina is an Estrella TV reality series which was co-created by Lenard Liberman of Estrella TV, and by Joyce Giraud. The Spanish-language show was inspired by the Real Housewives franchise.
Style: captivating, disturbing, entertaining, non fiction
Plot: high society, latina, rich man, royalty, celebrity, rich woman, society, lifestyle, slice of life, women
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The French Chef (1962)
Genre: Documentary, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The French Chef is a television cooking show created and hosted by Julia Child, and produced and broadcast by WGBH, the public television station in Boston, Massachusetts, from February 11, 1963 to 1973. It was one of the first cooking shows on ...
Style: retro
Audience: kids
Plot: cooking, food, chubby, chef, cooking and food, recipe, cookery, kitchen
Time: 60s
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37%
Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum (2009)
Genre:
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Can parents of extremely spoilt teenagers reverse their years of indulging and mollycoddling? Can they fast track their over-protected brats into fully functioning, independent adults using real life challenges in just a few weeks? We're about ...
Plot: twenty something, job, teenager, youth, living together, house, young people
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36%
Ghost Adventures (2008)
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Paranormal investigator Zak Bagans and his crew, Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin, search for haunted locations both domestically and internationally. During their investigations, Zak and crew acquaint themselves with the general area; interview locals ...
Style: serious, scary, atmospheric, anthology, spooky ...
Plot: ghost, paranormal phenomena, supernatural, investigation, paranormal activity, ghost story, uncover truth, mysterious place, encounter, obsessive quest, nobody believes, isolation ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: yuma arizona, usa, tucson arizona, new mexico, arizona
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36%
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In the Weeds (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: It's Martha's first night as a waitress in an upscale New York restaurant. Veteran Chloe shows her the ropes and introduces her to the lives of the restaurant staff. Adam, a hopeful playwright, suffers for his art while dealing with a very ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, witty, sex comedy ...
Plot: restaurant, waitress, food, workplace, lifestyle, looking for love, relationship vs career, workplace romance, workplace situations, couples, love and romance, city life ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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2 Broke Girls (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and form a bond over one day owning their own successful cupcake business. Only one thing ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, feel good, humorous, light ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Giada at Home (2008)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Giada De Laurentiis lets her hair down as she demonstrates her love for cooking and entertaining California-style in this disarmingly laid-back show that allows De Laurentiis to venture far afield from her usual Italian culinary fare.
Style: culinary, talky, realistic, serious, feel good ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Whites (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Whites was a BBC sitcom, written by Oliver Lansley and Matt King, directed by David Kerr, and starring Alan Davies as the executive chef at a country house hotel. BBC Two gave the go ahead for the show to go into production in August 2009 with the ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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33%
The Kitchen. War for the hotel (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Having suffered a fiasco in the hotel business and saying goodbye to the Eleon Hotel, Eleanora retires to Tuscany. Everything changes when her ex Nagiev, guilty of her bankruptcy, begins construction of the grandiose complex in Sochi
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, funny, entertaining ...
Plot: restaurant, business, job, workplace problem, escapades, workplace situations, staff, creativity, workplace, chef, waiter, cooking ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Love & War is an American television sitcom, which aired on CBS from September 21, 1992 to February 1, 1995. Created by Diane English, the series originally starred Susan Dey as Wally Porter, a Chicago restaurateur, and Jay Thomas as Jack ...
Style: sitcom, talky, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
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Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, illinois, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Made in Jersey (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A young working-class woman who uses her street smarts to compete among her pedigreed Manhattan colleagues at a prestigious New York law firm.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, talky
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Duration: 78 min.
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33%
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Country: USA
Duration: 35 min.
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33%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Golden Palace is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 18, 1992, to May 14, 1993. The show is a spin-off of the sitcom The Golden Girls, continuing the story from that series. CBS cancelled the spin-off in 1993 after one ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental ...
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32%
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Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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Style: funny, entertaining, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
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32%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Aspiring rock musician Neal Downs manages a cereal bar. Stylish Miss Pussy Katz is the creator of radically-themed art clothing. When the cereal bar, brings in an offbeat crew of locals, who debate the arcana of cereal history and ideal milk/flake ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, sincere ...
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32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: What would you do if you won the lottery? How would it change your life? Follow a group of seven gas station employees in Queens, New York, who have been chipping into a lottery pool for years, never thinking they'd actually win. They need to ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, captivating
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