Movies like Kaleidoscope 1966
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Kaleidoscope (1966)
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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 he has succeeded in marking the original plates for the backs of all the playing cards manufactured in a plant in Geneva and used in all the gambling joints in Europe. In his gambling depredation, Barney is spotted by Angel McGinnis, the daughter of a Scotland Yard Inspector 'Manny' McGinnis on the lookout for a man to do a job. The inspector enlists Barney's help in playing poker with a shady London character whom Scotland Yard wants to force to financial ruin.
Style:
feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, psychological thriller
Plot:
gambling, casino, poker, con artists, wedding, kidnapping, couples, mate swapping, rivalry, infidelity, mind game, partners, disorder, dishonesty, criminal heroes, unlikely criminals, cons and scams, heist, caper, card playing, poker player, scheme, crime, warner bros, crimes
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
europe, switzerland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about dishonesty, disorder, cons and scams, heist, criminal heroes, partners and unlikely criminals mostly in Comedy, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Kaleidoscope: Silver Bears (1977), My Secret Cache (1997), The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968), The Hollywood Sign (2001), The Happy Thieves (1961). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher (Michael Caine) is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore (Martin Balsam) to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he arrives, Fletcher finds that the bank, acquired by his ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous
Plot:
bank, unlikely criminals, hidden identity, crime gone awry, nothing goes right, criminal heroes, betrayal, forgery, dishonesty, femme fatale, gangsters, prodigy ...
Time:
70s
Place:
switzerland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sakiko, a young bank teller, has an unhealthy obsession with money. Thieves hold up the bank, kidnapping Sakiko in the process, but eventually crash their car, resulting in a suitcase stuffed with cash falling into a nearby river. For the remainder ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
heist, kidnapping, stash, cave, graphic violence, disorder, dishonesty, obsession, obsessive quest, contests and competitions, unlikely criminals, crime gone awry ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A kidnapped mobster (Vittorio De Sica) persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, exciting, humorous, stylized
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, heist, kidnapping, train robbery, exploitation, mafia, disorder, gang, goofy hero, criminal's revenge, rivalry, betrayal ...
Time:
60s
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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 ⇓
81%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
We confess! They did it! But it's how they did it that makes it so delightful!
Style:
realistic, semi serious, cynical, humorous, stylized
Plot:
heist, art theft, art thief, hitman, disorder, museum, dishonesty, criminal heroes, mind game, forgery, love and romance, betrayal ...
Time:
60s
Place:
paris france, spain, madrid, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Hoping to foil his own gold-digging wife's plan, a loathsome businessman arranges his own kidnapping, only to realize that there are plenty of other people interested in his wealth as well.
Style:
witty, semi serious, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot:
kidnapping, nothing goes right, dishonesty, breakup, couples, disorder, crumbling marriage, love and romance, crime gone awry, couple relations, unlikely criminals, cons and scams ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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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 ⇓
78%
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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:
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Place:
paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A con-artist (Peter Ustinov) gains employment at an insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming their "new" wonder computer.
Style:
cynical, semi serious, realistic, witty, clever ...
Plot:
computer, heist, computer cracker, femme fatale, disorder, buddies, dishonesty, partners, nothing goes right, computers and web, down on your luck, prison ...
Time:
60s
Place:
brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of London. The six of them set up business in a disused monastery off the Cornish coast, despite the fact that none of them really qualifies as a monk - ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
erotica, monastery, animal life, disorder, siblings relations, heist, cons and scams, gambling, island, on the run, criminal heroes, gang ...
Time:
60s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
scenic, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
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Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The movie begins with the Jönsson gang making a minor burglary. It goes wrong and the gang leader, Sickan, gets caught. After he has spent 10 months in jail, Vanheden and Rocky come to welcome him when he's released. But he doesn't take ...
Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
heist, criminal, disorder, safecracker, master criminal, gang, partners, criminal's revenge, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, criminal heroes, dishonesty ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organize his jail break. But instead of Philip is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, to escape. Now Felix is obliged to help Philip to escape. He will succeeded and from that ...
Style:
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Plot:
cons and scams, betrayal, twists and turns, deception, friends, dishonesty, partners, criminal heroes, swamp, trick, strong female character, thief ...
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A rather dull minded bank robber suddenly suffers from a change of heart and decides to give the money back. However, he then learns that getting the money back into the bank is much more difficult than taking it out.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
babies and infants, heist, criminal heroes, cons and scams, beach, bank, crime gone awry, disorder, couples, wooing, partners, dishonesty ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ⇓
55%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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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:
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Place:
stockholm sweden, sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two small-time thieves come together as a bizarre comic duo in a quest to make their childhood dreams come true. In a limousine stuffed with cash stolen from the mob, they take off for Miami, where they plan to fly to a safe haven in Costa Rica. On ...
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semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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