Movies like The Telephone Always Rings Twice
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The Telephone Always Rings Twice (1985)
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Original name: Le téléphone sonne toujours deux fois
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Marc Elbichon, a novice private sleuth, is investigating a wave of assassinations bearing a particular characteristic: the perpetrator, dubbed the "telephone killer" always strangles his female victims with a telephone cord.
Style:
mind bending, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious
Plot:
serial killer, private detective, law enforcement, contests and competitions, police investigation, amateur detective, female nudity, cemetery, veterinarian, private investigator, movie theatre, gay bar, phone terror, deadly, phone booth, crimes
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and witty films with plots about disorder, female nudity, deadly, couples, murder, dishonesty and love and romance mostly in Comedy, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Telephone Always Rings Twice: The Three Brothers (1995), Madame Irma (2006), I Hate My Best Friends' Kids (2007), This Girl for Hire (1983), Serial Lover (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Three half-brothers are reunited at their mother's funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that they will not receive it after all. The men grow closer while deciding how to proceed.
Style:
not serious, feel good, humorous, entertaining, light ...
Plot:
inheritance, court, on the run, disorder, family relations, family problems, partners, cons and scams, money, brother brother relationship, lawyer, little boy ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Francis, who is in his forties, manages the French subsidiary of an American high-tech company. But the shareholders suddenly decide to close it. Depressed by the idea of being unemployed and the prospect of losing his second wife, Francis decides ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, cynical ...
Plot:
hidden identity, social relations, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, unemployment, gender bending, fortune teller, loss of job, con men, unlikely couple, midlife crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and invent himself an awful life. Then he meets the beautiful woman whose goal in life is to sleep with ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
love and romance, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, suicide attempt, poet, poem, female nudity, hotel manager, gas explosion, poetry reading, clock, tape recorder
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Inspector Leroux is investigating the owner of a contemporary art gallery Helen Duvernet who is suspected of being involved in trafficking of stolen paintings. He is both intrigued and attracted by the young woman, follows her everywhere and finally ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, suspenseful
Plot:
art theft, performer's life, couples, love and romance, tragic hero, criminal heroes, fighting the system, boss and employee, destructive relationship, workplace romance, fall in love, farce ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A month of vacation with friends: difficult to bear the kids of his friends, especially when the methods of education differ and that some prove to be unbearable.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental
Plot:
family relations, coming of age, summer vacation, sex scene, friendship, motherhood, female nudity, sex on floor
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Films like Max mon amour
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the murder of a obnoxious mystery writer. Along the way, Brady gets help from her flamboyant mother ...
Style:
suspenseful, witty, humorous, cynical, realistic ...
Plot:
private investigator, murder, store, hollywood, showbiz, filmmaking, artists and showbiz, law enforcement, private detective, investigation, farce, female detective ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic, neo noir
Plot:
serial killer, murder, dark humor, disorder, looking for love, thirty something, writers, misfit, freak, tragedy, accidental death, police ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The lives of three Parisians - a color-blind painter, a radio show host and a perverted photographer - intertwine and go hilariously out of control.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
love triangle, kidnapping, love and romance, artist, female nudity, female full frontal nudity, photograph
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
This offbeat musical drama stars Lucas (Bénabar), an up-and-coming singer ready to do anything to be on top of the French pop scene.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty
Plot:
desire for fame, musician's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, rock, cons and scams, hopes, disorder, dishonesty, hidden identity, friends
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also encounters an old nemesis known as the Dragon Queen who is the ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, witty, suspenseful, humorous ...
Plot:
police officer, serial killer, charlie chan, who done it, murder, investigation, uninhibited rivalry, goofy hero, law enforcement, dishonesty, private detective, golden years ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Movies like Happy Easter
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle (Jean-Paul Belmondo) drops his wife Sophie (Marie Laforet) off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie (Sophie Marceau), who has just had a fight ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot:
womanizer, adultery, farce, adulterer, nothing goes right, easter, couples, disorder, infidelity, dishonesty, young love, airport ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Three young men (Jacques, Pierre and Michel) share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver, and asks him if he can leave ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, date night
Plot:
fish out of water, disorder, self discovery, buddies, parents and children, grownups, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, life turned upside down, babysitting, friends, delivery ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When George (Greg Mullavey) and Martha (Meredith MacRae) let Harvey (Garrett Morris), an annoying census taker, into their home, they find themselves under a barrage of increasingly abusive questions. Furious at his intrusiveness, and at their ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, flirting, family relations, police detective, dark humor, family business, family life, aging, private detective, investigation, law enforcement, amateur detective ...
Time:
80s
Place:
austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty
Plot:
farce, disorder, nothing goes right, juvenile delinquency, goofy hero, chaos and mayhem, factory, bazooka, bank robbery, army general, father son relationship, bourgeoisie ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A pair of bumbling French cops team up to take on the underworld.
Style:
realistic, feel good, humorous, not serious, exciting
Plot:
partners, misfit, odd couple, police investigation, fish out of water, buddies, law enforcement, disorder, fighting crime, partners against crime, society, heroic mission ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Movies like Times Have Been Better
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, sexual, humorous
Plot:
social relations, prostitute, village, village life, village idiot, drunken man, frenchman, merchant
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 26 min.
Story:
A look at the lives and loves of a group of young ex-patriates living in Paris. Part of Amazon's Pilot Season, in which viewers, after watching the pilot episode, get to vote on which show they want to return for more episodes. "The ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, talky
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love affair, love and romance, city life, twentysomething life, love, failed pilot, urban
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
Style:
biting, realistic, semi serious, witty, clever ...
Plot:
relocation, house, suspense, love and romance, society, couples, family relations, social differences, property, moving
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Homophobic detective Mark Rima (James Vallo) must "partner" up with the very gay and flamboyant Detective Chris Riant (Shawn Quinlan) to stop a serial killing Nun (Judy Tenuta) from offing 5 band members otherwise known as "The Ex ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
serial killer, gay, police investigation, friendship, partners, witnessing a crime, reluctant partners, secret agents, amateur detective, law enforcement, gay slur, church ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
French filmmaker Eric Lartigau directs the anarchic buddy comedy Bullit and Riper, originally released as Mais qui a tue Pamela Rose? French comedic television stars Kad Merad and Olivier Barroux are both the protagonists and the screenwriters. As a ...
Style:
parody, humorous, realistic, not serious, exciting
Plot:
investigation, save the day, partners, law enforcement, odd couple, reluctant partners, partners against crime, assassination attempt, buddies, disorder, heroes, misfit partners ...
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of Aleksandra and Cyrille, a prominent, trendy, and very well-off Parisian couple, whose life is not quite the same after seven-year-old Alekseï from Russia suddenly pops up in their 100% cashmere, childless home. Aleksandra soon realises ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, feel good ...
Plot:
couples, family problems, family relations, suspense, life turned upside down, family in crisis, couple relations, disorder, adoption, coming of age, celebrity culture, female nudity
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A slacker turns P.I. to solve a rock star's murder.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, parody, neo noir
Plot:
private detective, porn actress, sex, female nudity, blonde, dishonesty, amateur detective, artists and showbiz, dark humor, murder, frame up, drug abuse ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Carlo Verdone at his best is incredibly supported by a fantastic Alberto Sordi and a cast of street-genie non-actors that outperform beyond any imagination.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
rivalry, friendship, motorcycle, beach, motorcycle gang, pinball machine
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled ...
Style:
biting, surreal, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
satire, culture clash, extramarital affair, suspense, bittersweet, performer's life, disorder, family relations, estrangement, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, society ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Who says crime doesn't pay? The mob will pay Jimmy Corona anything to stay away. But, then again, so would most people. His agent brushes off Jimmy's latest book proposal: detailing the conspiracy between Lee Harvey Oswald and Marylin ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful
Plot:
mafia, conspiracy, unlikely criminals, criminal heroes, dishonesty, gangsters, assassination, murder, breakup, down on your luck, graphic violence, farce ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Fastlife: always go further, faster, to shine in the eyes of others: this is the motto of Franklin. Franklin is a megalomaniac obsessed by the desire to shine at any price. He will have to choose between becoming a man or continue to live the ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, against the odds, ambition, escapades, blind ambition, hopes, contests and competitions, adolescence vs adulthood, megalomaniac, desire for fame, choice, life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
25-year-old Khalid Belkacem has failed at everything: college education, summer camp instructor's permit, driver's license, and even his BCG. He never expected to become the first "positive discrimination" member of the police ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, parody, witty, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police investigation, goofy hero, farce, fish out of water, serial killer, silly humor, society, law enforcement, interracial relations, urban ghetto life, disorder, murderer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inexplicably, transported two thousand years into the future. They find themselves walking the ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, captivating, thought provoking, funny
Plot:
time travel, time traveler, time loop, society, changing the past or future, religious, religion, time paradox, time jump, time warp, social relations, religious faith ...
Place:
paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The film is the immediate continuation of Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, released the previous year. Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, clothed with a chequed jacket, Étienne Dorsay becomes ...
Style:
humorous, touching, semi serious, witty, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, tennis, midlife crisis, love and romance, friends, buddies, couple relations, dishonesty, love affair, infidelity, disorder, nothing goes right ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Gregoire is retiring after many years with the same bank, and his collegues surprise him with the gift of a beautiful call girl...
Style:
sexy, realistic, semi serious, erotic, sexual ...
Plot:
call girl, adultery, hotel, train, gift, dancing, husband wife relationship, retirement, medical student, bank manager, disorder, retiring ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france, europe, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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