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Having a Wild Weekend (1965)
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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:
humorous, clever, feel good, offbeat, realistic, witty, semi serious
Audience:
date night
Plot:
music, island, friendship, rock, friends, missing person, performer's life, partners, music band, ambition, artists and showbiz, rise and fall, campaign, musician's life, lifestyle, buddies, actor's life, disorder, nothing goes right, showbiz, desire for fame, rising to stardom, celebrity culture, media satire, dancing ...
Time:
60s
Place:
england, london, europe
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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, friends, lifestyle, showbiz, musician's life, music band and ambition mostly in Comedy, Music and Drama genres. Some movies like Having a Wild Weekend: Svengali (2013), Down and Out with the Dolls (2001), 2gether (2000), Electric Apricot (2006), Killing Bono (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
The story of the rise and fall of the Pre-Fab Four.
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clever, witty, humorous, offbeat, cynical ...
Plot:
parody, rise and fall, music, buddies, musician's life, partners, rising to stardom, celebrity culture, artists and showbiz, media satire, media, journalism ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1960s
Place:
germany, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK
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 ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, sincere
Plot:
music band, follow your dream, hopes, artists and showbiz, relationship vs career, music, desire for fame, ambition, music industry, couples, disorder, fish out of water ...
Time:
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Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, biting, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
punk, celebrity culture, unfulfillment, social misfits, artists and showbiz, gays and lesbians, rivalry, friendship, friends, desire for fame, music, ego clash ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Story:
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Style:
feel good, witty, humorous, not serious, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rise to the top, relationship vs career, rising to stardom, desire for fame, celebrity culture, nothing goes right, performer's life, media satire, artists and showbiz, disorder, nightlife, partners ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Electric Apricot is a spoof of jam bands centered around the band, Electric Apricot, in the style of "This Is Spinal Tap"
Style:
offbeat, realistic, cynical, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
music, disorder, partners, buddies, holy grail, rock, filmmaking, heavy metal, artists and showbiz, performer's life, musician's life, on the road ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their high school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world.
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feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty
Plot:
rivalry, desire for fame, follow your dream, teenage life, friends, teenage boy, brother brother relationship, music band, celebrity culture, band, rock, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Comedy, Music, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
M. Harry Smilac is a down-on-his-luck music manager who is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his band, Kicks (The most recent of the gigs is a Dairy Queen opening!!). When making arrangements for a campaign fund-raiser, he ...
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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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, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Turkey
Duration: 128 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 ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Bernand Fréderic is a mediocre bank executive. He's married and have a son. He used to have antother profession: to be French star Claude Francois. Now, with the Imitators Gala Night coming up, he must choose between his wife or the only thing ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 80 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:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, feel good, offbeat, witty, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
music, secret, conspiracy, friendship, fame, manager, rising to stardom, celebrity culture, artists and showbiz, media satire, dishonesty, musician's life ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
"Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by the Mothers and the Royal Symphony Orchestra, is a ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 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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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Music
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Time:
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