Movies and TV shows like Only Fools and Horses

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Only Fools and Horses (1981)
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Only Fools and Horses (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
TV show
Story: The misadventures of two wheeler dealer brothers Del Boy and Rodney Trotter of “Trotters Independent Traders PLC” who scrape their living by selling dodgy goods believing that next year they will be millionaires.
Style: sitcom, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, hilarious, psychedelic, deep, cult classic, clever ...
Plot: working class, cockney, grandfather, world war two veteran, black market, disorder, eccentric family, brother brother relationship, pub, short man, veteran, partner, siblings relations, dishonesty, hopes, business, brother, ambition, uncle, christmas, sketch, cons and scams, shipwreck, humour, merchant ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 21st century, 1990s, contemporary
Place: england, london, britain, europe
Keyword: partners, flat, sketch show, bbc, marketplace, music video

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, sitcom and semi serious films and TV series with plots about british humour, workplace, workplace situations, working class, disorder, family relations and satire mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Only Fools and Horses: Open All Hours (1976), Steptoe and Son (1962), The Likely Lads (1964), Fawlty Towers (1975), Barbara (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Open All Hours (1976)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Open All Hours is a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke and starring Ronnie Barker as a miserly shop keeper and David Jason as his put-upon nephew who works as his errand boy. It ran for 26 episodes in four series, which premiered in 1976, 1981, 1982 ...
Style: sitcom, contemplative, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: humour, cooking show, nephew, uncle, storekeeper, customer, nurse, miser, working class, bicycle, workaholic, generation gap ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century
Place: northern england, yorkshire, england, europe
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Steptoe and Son (1962)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who deal in selling used items. They live on Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, ...
Style: sitcom, dark comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: working class, son, father, family business, love hate relationship, melancholy, business, partner, odd couple, lifestyle, reluctant partners, society ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: england, europe, london, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Likely Lads (1964)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: working class, friendship, friends, workplace, buddies, society, workplace situations, factory worker, old woman, dysfunctional relationship, electrician, separation ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: northern england, europe, england
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Fawlty Towers (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom produced by BBC Television that was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979. Twelve episodes were made. The show was written by John Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth, both of whom also starred in the ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, hilarious, not serious, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: owner, farce, hotel, snob, cockney, married couple, couples, tourist, monty python, humour, disorder, nothing goes right ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Barbara (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story: Barbara is a British sitcom starring Gwen Taylor in the title role. A pilot was broadcast in 1995, and three series were then televised from 1999 to 2003. It was made by Central Television, and filmed at their Lenton Lane studios in Nottingham in ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, humorous
Plot: family relations, couples, perversion, couple relations, society, suburban life, family life, eccentric family, suburbs, workplace situations, male female relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: yorkshire, england, northern england
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Miranda (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Socially inept Miranda always gets into awkward situations; working in her joke shop with best friend Stevie, being hounded by her pushy mother, and especially when she's around her crush Gary.
Style: sitcom, not serious, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Plot: comedian, dating, female protagonist, family relations, love and romance, crush, disorder, couples, unsupportive parent, nothing goes right, lifestyle, living with parents ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Mrs. Brown's Boys (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: Get ready to experience everyone’s favourite mother hen at her most outrageous in her very first Live Tour DVD. Prepare for a riot of bad behaviour as you see Mrs Brown Live and unleashed for the first time in a show jam packed with all the ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, witty, not serious, hilarious ...
Plot: family relations, eccentric family, elderly, everyday life, plan gone awry, disorder, couple relations, parents and children, living with parents, profanity, couples, newlyweds ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
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Not Going Out (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Lee is a childish northerner who lives in a fancy penthouse apartment in London who goes through a variety of jobs such as a janitor and ice cream man as well as attempting relationships with female flatmates. His best mate, Daily Mail reading, ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental ...
Plot: slacker, roommate, lifestyle, friendship, fall in love, love triangle, couples, job seeking, disorder, thirtysomething life, working class, flatmate ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, europe
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Blandings (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Blandings is a British comedy television series adapted by Guy Andrews from the Blandings Castle stories of P.G. Wodehouse. It was first broadcast on BBC One from 13 January 2013, and stars Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders and Mark Williams. The ...
Style: humorous, not serious, sitcom, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: eccentric family, english countryside, lord, master and servant, butler, family relations, estate, castle, power relations, pig, aristocrat, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: europe
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Grafters (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Grafters was a British drama–comedy programme originally broadcast in the UK on ITV from 27 October 1998 to 20 December 1999 for 16 episodes over two series. Grafters was based around the Purvis brothers Joe and Trevor, who along with their ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: construction worker, brother, couples, blue collar, sibling relationship, cousin, working class, couple relations, workplace, unfulfillment, siblings relations, workplace situations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, london, europe
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Rock & Chips (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: Prequel to Only Fools and Horses, set in the 1960s, Joan Trotter is in an unhappy marriage with the work-shy Reg, with whom she has a teenage son, Derek ("Del Boy"). However, the reappearance in Peckham of bank robber, "art ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty
Plot: working class, society, theft, lifestyle, childbirth, bittersweet, promotion, petty criminal, dishonesty, infidelity, pregnancy, criminal heroes ...
Time: 20th century, year 1960, 60s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Still Open All Hours (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke and featuring several of the permanent cast members of the original series
Style: sitcom, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: store, family relations, workplace, workplace situations, parents and children, family business, friendship, cooking show, storekeeper, salesman, customer, photograph ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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White Van Man (2011)
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, nothing goes right, family relations, workplace, society, workplace situations, family business, disorder, destruction, partner, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, northern england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Desmond's (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Desmond's was a British television situation comedy broadcast by Channel 4 from 1989 to 1994. With 71 episodes, Desmond's became Channel 4's longest-running sitcom. The first series was shot in 1988, with the first episode broadcast ...
Style: sitcom, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: working class, business, barbershop, family relations, immigrant, social differences, family business, couples, beauty salon, friends, couple relations, social relations ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: london, england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Bottom (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Bottom is a British anarchic sitcom that originally aired on BBC2 between 1991 and 1995. It was written by and starring comic duo Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall as Richie and Eddie, two flatmates who live on the dole in Hammersmith, London. The ...
Style: sitcom, hilarious, dark comedy, witty, realistic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: unemployment, humour, sketch, sexual humor, bachelor, unemployed, alcoholic, fight, scam, boredom, breaking the fourth wall, partner ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, europe, britain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Max And Paddy's Road To Nowhere is the much-loved sequel to Peter Kay's critically-acclaimed comedy series, "Phoenix Nights". Written by and starring Peter Kay and Patrick McGuinness, this six-part comedy/drama series is the ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, witty, semi serious ...
Plot: motor home, friendship, friends, on the road, buddies, lifestyle, odd couple, social relations, disorder, profanity, silly humor, partner ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Phoenix Nights (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: 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
Plot: working class, workplace situations, workplace, boss and employee, ambition, workplace problem, disability, sketch, nightclub, staff, singer, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: northern england, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Black Books (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Black Books centres around the foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black. Bernard’s devotion to the twin pleasures of drunkenness and wilful antagonism deepens and enriches both his life and that of Manny, his assistant. ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, talky, not serious, offbeat ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: bookstore, weirdo, workplace, workplace situations, friendship, misfit, best friend, workplace problem, uptight character, store, drunkenness, farce ...
Time: near future, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Twenty Twelve (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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, mockumentary, semi serious, humorous, talky ...
Plot: satire, workplace situations, nothing goes right, boss and employee, secretary, disorder, power relations, team, olympics, boss, workplace, loner ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Till Death Us Do Part (1965)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Till Death Us Do Part is a ground-breaking British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1975. First airing as a Comedy Playhouse pilot, the show aired in seven series until 1975. Six years later, ITV continued the sitcom, calling it Till Death.... ...
Style: sitcom, political, controversial, realistic, not serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: working class, racism, satire, conservative, wife, husband, daughter, baby, fanatic, family relations, sexist, marital argument ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Fast Show (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Fast Show is a multi BAFTA award winning sketch comedy show written and produced by Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson.
Style: sketch comedy, animated comedy, hilarious, sitcom, fast ...
Plot: sketch, disorder, satire, young heroes, humour, young adult, misfit, nothing goes right, silly humor, absurdism, surrealism, british ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Archie Bunker's Place (1979)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Archie Bunker's Place is an American sitcom originally broadcast on the CBS network, conceived in 1979 as a spin-off and continuation of All in the Family. While not as popular as its predecessor, the show maintained a large enough audience to ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, not serious, humorous, witty ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: partner, satire, disorder, friends, family relations, misfit partners, friendship, society, workplace, workplace situations, eccentric family, working class ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Early Doors (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: 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.
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous, talky
Plot: everyday life, old friend, society, buddies, workplace, working class, workplace situations, slacker, friends, gossip and rumors, owner, pub ...
Time: 21st century
Place: northern england, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Two Ronnies (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: The Two Ronnies is a British sketch show which aired on BBC1 from 1971 to 1987. It featured the double act of Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett, the "Two Ronnies" of the title.
Style: sketch comedy, witty, humorous, sitcom, not serious ...
Plot: sketch, humour, disorder, odd couple, partner, singer, joke, comedy team, singing, duo, fast talker, song ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Are You Being Served? (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Classic comedy set in fading department store Grace Brothers.
Style: sitcom, humorous, retro, hilarious, double entendre ...
Plot: department store, workplace, store, camp, small business, christmas, gay, sexism, farce, innuendo, sexual innuendo, silly humor ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place: europe, london, england, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Big Train (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Big Train is a surreal British television comedy sketch show created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, writers of the successful sitcom Father Ted. The first series was broadcast on BBC Two in 1998, while the second, in which Linehan was not ...
Style: sketch comedy, sitcom, surreal, absurd, fast ...
Plot: sketch, humour, comedian, absurdism, silly humor, disorder, satire, british, social satire, absurd humor, surrealism, irreverence ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Are You Being Served? Again! (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: 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, semi serious, realistic, double entendre
Plot: countryside, partner, disorder, social relations, estate, staff, retired, unlikely partners, nothing goes right, human nature, workplace, family business ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, united kingdom
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35%
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Yes Minister (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Set principally in the private office of a British Cabinet minister in the Department of Administrative Affairs in Whitehall, Yes Minister follows the ministerial career of The Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP, played by Paul Eddington. His various struggles to ...
Style: sitcom, political, realistic, witty, clever ...
Plot: minister, british politics, secretary, government official, workplace situations, satire, british government, politician, power relations, state affairs, boss and employee, politics ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place: england, britain, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Dinnerladies (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 34 min.
TV show
Story: Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren tries to maintain a semblance of order in amongst the chaos, while dealing with the ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, humorous, realistic, comfort
Plot: workplace, mother, staff, handyman, christmas, working class, manager, workplace situations, factory, love and romance, up and down relationship, factory worker ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: northern england, england, europe, manchester, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Raised by Wolves (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Set on a Wolverhampton council estate, Raised By Wolves is modern day reimagining of the childhood of Caitlin Moran and her brothers and sisters. Single-mum Della lives in a three bedroom council house with Germaine, Aretha, Yoko, Mariah, Wyatt and ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, single mother, eccentric family, family life, youth, single parent, teenage life, aspiration, rite of passage, strong female lead, feminist, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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