Movies like The Supergrass
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The Supergrass (1985)
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
While taking a holiday in the country with his mother, Dennis hits on a scheme to impress a girl so that she'll go away on a trip with him as his girlfriend. Although he fails to gain any interest from the girl, the police take a great interest in his story. From this point on, Dennis digs a deeper hole for himself at every turn
Style:
neo noir, humorous, realistic, semi serious, alternative comedy
Plot:
drug dealing, undercover agent, cross dressing, gangsters, sexual relations, frame up, couples, law enforcement, mistaken identity, partners, disorder, farce, dishonesty, sex, female nudity, male female relationship, seaside, vomiting, bra, crime, crimes
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
england
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Most similar movies to The Supergrass
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about disorder, dishonesty, gangsters, cons and scams, partners, criminal heroes and heist mostly in Comedy, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like The Supergrass: The Shipment (2001), The Pope Must Diet (1991), Doing Time (1979), Framed (1990), Down the Drain (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A mob enforcer is hired to recover a shipment of Viagra gone awry.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good
Plot:
gangsters, hitman, dishonesty, partners, unlikely criminals, drug dealing, disorder, sexual humor, viagra
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and the reappearance of his old lover.
Style:
humorous, not serious, witty, feel good, light ...
Plot:
priest, comedy of errors, clergy, mistaken identity, religions or cults, disorder, dishonesty, catholic church, atheism, cons and scams, society, switching roles ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, vatican, europe, rome italy
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83%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, clever
Plot:
prison, escape, disorder, friends, troublemaker, confined, buddies, intrigue, nothing goes right, partners, prison life, farce
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
426
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A painter is accused of art-forging. He thinks his girlfriend betrayed him, so it's time for revenge.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, exciting, humorous
Plot:
frame up, performer's life, graphic violence, disorder, partners, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, forgery, criminal's revenge, rivalry, unlikely partners, cons and scams ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A dishonest lawyer devises a scheme to rob a bank by recruiting criminals he has represented to do the job for him. When the robbery is completed, he learns that the "loot" from the vault is in fact a microchip containing top-secret ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, exciting, humorous, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, storage unit, farce, criminal heroes, betrayal, rivalry, law enforcement, crime gone awry, dishonesty, disorder, girlfriend, microchip ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Movies similar to Nuns on the Run
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Ryoko Itakura returns as the government tax agent willing to tackle the toughest cases. This time she takes on a fanatical but lucrative religious cult run by a vile lecher.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
sex, satire, conspiracy, track down, dishonesty, society, gangsters, cons and scams, student life, culture clash, who done it, tax evasion ...
Time:
80s
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
435
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The leader of a group of misfits, his girlfriend and an assassin have devised a bizarre plan to smuggle stolen jewelry over the US/Mexican border. They implant the jewelry in a racing horse.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, cynical, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
hitman, psychopath, disorder, dishonesty, partners, criminal heroes, nothing goes right, on the run, cons and scams, down on your luck, horse, criminal ...
Time:
80s
Place:
latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, cult film
Plot:
law enforcement, french police, reporter, rescue, kidnapping, dishonesty, journalism, gangsters, confined, disorder, silly humor, cemetery ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Paper Soldiers follows an overeager burglar named Shawn (Kevin Hart) through the ups and downs of his short, stressful career.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, exciting, realistic
Plot:
gangsters, african american, dishonesty, drug dealing, partners, nothing goes right, disorder, unlikely criminals, ambition, criminal heroes, hip hop, gang ...
Place:
usa, memphis
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
hitman, hotel, wedding, chaos and mayhem, false accusation, couples, gangsters, criminal heroes, dishonesty, disorder, mistaken identity, working class
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
london
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Films like Happy Easter
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Romantic comedy which has Barney Lincoln and Angel McGinnis as a pair of amorous adventurers in the gambling places of London and the Riviera. Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, stylized, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
gambling, casino, poker, con artists, wedding, couples, mate swapping, disorder, rivalry, unlikely criminals, partners, dishonesty ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
europe, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
humorous, exciting, semi serious, feel good, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disorder, cons and scams, heist, crime gone awry, dishonesty, goofy hero, partners, track down, chase, gangsters, money, bully ...
Time:
60s
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A couple of bumbling con men go on the lam when they can't repay a loan from the mob.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
scam, sting operation, mafia, politician, bandit, get rich quick scheme, friends, disorder, cons and scams, friendship, on the run, best friends ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two meat salesmen (Romano, James) will stop at nothing to get a sale.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, fall in love, buddies, dishonesty, disorder, hitman, friendship, workplace situations, farce, cooking and food, salesman, meat ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three washed-up actors must deliver the most convincing performances of their lives as part of a dangerous plot designed to finance their triumphant comeback.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
hollywood, crime gone awry, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals, elderly, dishonesty, gangsters, criminal heroes, disorder, heist, cons and scams, filmmaking ...
Place:
usa, las vegas, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mistakenly believing that he will be let go from the company, Philippe decides to sabotage the production at Saucibec. Upon learning that he is not the one who will be laid off, he will go to great lengths to right his wrongs ... but it's ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
revenge, rivalry, vengeance, dishonesty, mistaken identity, disorder, gangsters, crime boss, lawsuit, kidnapping, vengeful fired employee, factory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Sickan has a new plan. This time, the gang are going to steal a small computer micro chip which contains...
Style:
not serious, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, humorous
Plot:
heist, disorder, cons and scams, farce, gang, criminal heroes, dishonesty, partners, master criminal, silly humor, gold bar, swedish police ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
stockholm sweden, sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Criminal trio strike at furniture store, discover a secret network for shipping computers to the Soviet Union.
Style:
semi serious, not serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
heist, disorder, criminal heroes, master criminal, partners, dishonesty, farce, cons and scams, silly humor, chinese restaurant, submarine, diver ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
stockholm sweden, sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving ...
Style:
not serious, realistic, cynical, witty, humorous
Plot:
gangsters, human trafficking, nude, murder of a nude woman, nothing goes right, tough law enforcer, undercover, drug dealing, law enforcement, working undercover, fish out of water, disorder ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
french riviera, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.
Style:
light, semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous
Plot:
hitman, satire, mafia, silly humor, disorder, hidden identity, dishonesty, society, on the run, switching roles, gangsters, opposites attract ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Movies like Killer
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
Style:
buddy comedy, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, gambling, hitman, buddies, frame up, goofy hero, partners, criminal heroes, dishonesty, cons and scams, siblings relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Framed for crimes they didn't commit, two small-timers are headed up the river without a paddle. Now, the only thing that can bail them out is a case of mistaken identity. It's the hysterical prison comedy that's so funny, it's ...
Style:
realistic, not serious, humorous
Plot:
prison, gang, hostage, escape, frame up, cons and scams, prison life, mistaken identity, embezzlement, injustice, disorder, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ben is a small-time gangster who gets the opportunity to earn a lot of money. His boss sends him to a remote ranch with bag full of drugs and orders him to wait for the buyer. But the routine drug deal turns to disaster because of Ben’s ...
Style:
erotic, semi serious, realistic, humorous, suspenseful
Plot:
sex scene, making love, desert, prostitute, gangsters, disorder, bowling, mate swapping, farm, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, drug dealing ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to "leave" he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. B&C decide to steal the money for themselves, but ...
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
cross dressing, on the run, nun, chase, priest, fish out of water, farce, partners, dishonesty, bully, gangsters, disguise ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Michael Caine, Roger Moore and Sally Kirkland star as three of the most unlikely rogues to ever score a heist. Hidden away in a vault is a fortune in diamonds, payment for a secret formula two government scientists have unscrupulously sold to the ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, realistic ...
Plot:
scientist, cons and scams, disorder, undercover, intrigue, nothing goes right, dishonesty, goofy hero, con artists, experiment, disguise, caper ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Films like Grilled
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Laxminarayan lives a poor lifestyle in Mumbai along with his widowed mother, Kanta, who wants him to be a successful gangster like Batlabhai, and would like him to kill a few people, make enough money, then get married to Khujli's daughter, ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, funny ...
Plot:
hitman, mistaken identity, gangsters, dishonesty, disorder, down on your luck, comedy of errors, bomb, chaos and mayhem, hotel, salesman, confusion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, cult film
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, gang, silly humor, farce, disorder, hitman, criminal heroes, assassination attempt, goofy hero, police, gang war ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
My New Partner is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, starring Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte. Noiret plays a streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue. At the ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, witty, neo noir, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, prostitute, corrupt cop, buddy cop, police corruption, corruption, disorder, law enforcement, partners, misfit partners, odd couple, buddies ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Voilà dix ans que les chemins de René et de François se sont séparés. De l'époque glorieuse où, flics, ils écumaient le quartier Montmartre, il ne leur reste qu'une poignée de souvenirs, l'argent de leurs ripouseries ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
Plot:
mistaken identity, police corruption, police detective, disorder, partners, dishonesty, law enforcement, buddies, odd couple, misfit partners, chinese mafia, buddy cop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Ryoko Itakura is a government tax agent who has just landed a big promotion. Her first assignment is to catch wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo. She has a tough job, since in Japan tax evasion is an art and Gondo is, in effect, Rembrandt. Her job is ...
Style:
feminist film, surreal, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
sex, female nudity, lawyer, legal, couples, disorder, opposites attract, ambition, politics, rivalry, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
80s
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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