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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, psychotronic
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: Electric Apricot (2006), Svengali (2013), Down and Out with the Dolls (2001), Where's Firuze? (2004), Killing Bono (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
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Plot:
parody, music, media, music band, musician's life, partners, rising to stardom, journalism, lifestyle, buddies, celebrity culture, rise and fall ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ 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 ...
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humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, sincere
Plot:
music band, follow your dream, hopes, relationship vs career, artists and showbiz, ambition, desire for fame, music, music industry, disorder, couples, showbiz ...
Time:
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Place:
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86%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
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Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, feel good, witty, humorous, realistic
Plot:
lifestyle, rising to stardom, ambition, desire for fame, showbiz, fall in love, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, musician's life, buddies, comedy team, disorder ...
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.
Style:
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Plot:
rivalry, desire for fame, follow your dream, friends, teenage life, ambition, teenage boy, brother brother relationship, music band, celebrity culture, band, rock ...
Time:
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Place:
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77%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of Ivan and Josh, two dim witted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company. They soon learn the in's and out's of the business in LA and with some ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 30 min.
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Comedy, Music, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Music
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: UK
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Music
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
cynical, humorous, stylized, offbeat, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
punk, music, manipulation, rebelliousness, cons and scams, showbiz, chaos and mayhem, artists and showbiz, buddies, ambition, music band, rise and fall ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Musical, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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