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Having a Wild Weekend (1965)
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Having a Wild Weekend
Original name: Catch Us If You Can
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Dinah (Barbara Ferris) is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take a break. While shooting a commercial spot for meat, she meets Steve (Dave Clark), a stuntman. Dinah and Steve hit it off and decide to head to an island to get away from it all (bringing along four of Steve's friends, Mike Smith, Lenny Davidson, Denis West Payton, and Rick Huxley, who -- surprise! -- play music with him). Before long, Dinah is reported missing and everyone is looking for her, making their getaway anything but tranquil.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, clever, offbeat, witty
Audience: date night
Plot: rock, buddies, music band, music, musician's life, island, performer's life, desire for fame, nothing goes right, rise and fall, rising to stardom, friendship, celebrity culture, showbiz, ambition, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, friends, disorder, actor's life, media satire, missing person, campaign, partners, trampoline ...
Time: 60s
Place: england, europe, london

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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 artists and showbiz, lifestyle, friends, music band, musician's life, showbiz and music mostly in Comedy, Music and Drama genres. Some movies like Having a Wild Weekend: Summer Holiday (1963), The Monkees (1966), Down and Out with the Dolls (2001), The Knack... and How to Get It (1965), Josie and the Pussycats (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978)
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The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 76 min.
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Summer Holiday (1963)
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Summer Holiday
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 1960s musical showcasing Cliff Richard. Four bus mechanics working for London Transport strike up a deal with the company: they do up a one of the company's legendary red double decker buses and take it to southern Europe as a mobile hotel. If ...
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The Monkees
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Duration: 30 min.
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Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)
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The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
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Down and Out with the Dolls
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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The Knack... and How to Get It (1965)
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The Knack... and How to Get It
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: In England, the times are a changing: it's mods and rockers. On the day Nancy gets off the London train, cases in hand, looking for the YWCA, Colin has had enough of missing out on the sexual revolution. He begs his smooth (and misogynistic) ...
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Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
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 20K
Josie and the Pussycats
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
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2gether
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Electric Apricot
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Undiscovered
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Podium
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A Hard Day's Night (1964)
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A Hard Day's Night
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: UK
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Stella Street (2004)
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Stella Street
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 80 min.
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Svengali (2013)
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Svengali
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Duration: 93 min.
Story: Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts ...
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This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
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This Is Spinal Tap
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Duration: 82 min.
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I Really Hate My Job
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
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Story: 'Every day is another day closer to the day I'll never have to do this again.' Five women, one restaurant, one night, one birthday, one breakdown. Then the phone rings. A famous actor is coming for dinner. I Really Hate My Job is the ...
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My Boyfriend's Back (1989)
 5.7
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My Boyfriend's Back
Genre: Comedy
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Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Body Slam (1986)
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Body Slam
Genre: Comedy, Music, Sport
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Duration: 89 min.
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Sugar Town
Genre: Comedy, Music
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