Movies like My Best Pals
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My Best Pals (1989)
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Original name: Mes meilleurs copains
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernadette has left them to become a rock-star, and is back 15 years later for a weekend. Jean-Marie Poire describes with this movie the portrait of a generation with lots of humor served by excelent actors.
Style:
humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, cult film, contemplative
Plot:
lgbt, friendship, friends, music band, introspection, lifestyle, buddies, once promising, nude, gay, musician, rock band, past, guitarist, homosexual, rock and roll, memory, cuckold, showbiz, country house, casual sex, male female relationship, group of friends, dentist, bisexuality ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s, 60s, 1960s
Place:
paris france, france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and talky films with plots about friends, friendship, couples, lifestyle, buddies, music and unfulfillment mostly in Comedy, Drama and Music genres. Some movies like My Best Pals: Soul Men (2008), Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983), Good Old Daze (1994), The Wedding Weekend (2006), Zombie and the Ghost Train (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two former backup soul singers, Louis and Floyd, have not spoken to each other in 20 years, and reluctantly agree to travel across the country together to a reunion concert to honor their recently-deceased lead singer. Cleo, a beautiful young woman ...
Style:
sentimental, realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
adult
Plot:
african american, artists and showbiz, showbiz, musician's life, buddies, music band, lifestyle, on the road, gangsters, porn star, hip hop, black cast ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
usa
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95%
Genre: Comedy, Music, War
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he ...
Style:
parody, cult film
Plot:
world war two, satire, diva, french resistance, german officer, lgbt, singer, musician, debate, widow, revenge, family reunited ...
Time:
1940s, 70s
Place:
france, paris france
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81%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They ...
Style:
non-linear, semi serious, realistic, sincere, witty ...
Plot:
deaf, coming of age, hospital, memory, high school, friendship, friends, overdose, dealing with death, best friends, life is a bitch, youth ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A group of guys who sang together in a college a cappella group reunite 15 years later to perform at a friend's wedding and discover how their lives have progressed -- and in some cases regressed -- since their college heyday.
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
friendship, wedding, music band, college, lifestyle, music, reunited friends, weekend, group of friends, marriage, rivalry, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, gloomy, offbeat
Plot:
musician's life, alcohol abuse, zombie apocalypse, zombie, on the road, death, outsider, rock band, relationships, unfulfillment, lifestyle, social misfits ...
Time:
90s
Place:
finland, europe, turkey, helsinki finland, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the little white lies ...
Style:
semi serious, talky, emotional, humorous, melancholic ...
Plot:
gay, vacation, friendship, beach house, secret, repressed homosexual, friends, friend, unrequited love, group of friends, declaration of love, accident ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Music, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
music band, lifestyle, musician's life, artists and showbiz, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, unfaithful boyfriend, financial problem, german history, punk rock, gay couple, music, friends ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
munich germany, germany, hamburg germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A wife pressures her husband to solicit work papers from his civil servant father.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, talky, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, immigrants, crumbling marriage, family problems, estrangement, family life, society, dishonesty, unfulfillment, disorder, couples, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
1974. Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the football terraces, Joe McCain is bored of a life that's going nowhere. Enter hair-dresser Jane: blonde, beautiful, and moving to the beat of a whole new world of sound, movement and ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, psychological, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, nightlife, society, youth, unfulfillment, lifestyle, music, buddies, friendship, subculture, young lovers, love and romance ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Icelandic drama about two remote road-workers.
Style:
humorous, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, workplace, friends, workplace situations, buddies, couples, bittersweet, painting
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.
Style:
witty, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sexy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
midlife crisis, love, marriage, friendship, battle of the sexes, pregnancy, infidelity, introspection, lifestyle, love affair, buddies, couple relations ...
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, feel good, sexy, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
music, drummer, recording studio, rock and roll, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, showbiz, small town, jazz musician, musician, music band, rising to stardom, ambition ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, ohio, usa, pittsburgh, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of friends in a Tel Aviv suburb get together to watch Universong, a Eurovision-like television song contest. They gather to watch and are depressed by the lifelessness of the Israeli entry, a parody of many recent offerings, a flashy, ...
Style:
parody, humorous, semi serious, satirical, funny ...
Plot:
gay, group of friends, friendship, lgbt, competition, singing competition, music band, contests and competitions, music, lgbtq, contest, friends ...
Place:
israel, tel aviv israel, paris france, tel aviv
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59%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, clever, offbeat
Plot:
friendship, lifestyle, couple relations, human nature, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, unfulfillment, friends, couples, psychiatrist, cellist, suicide ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
Style:
talky, witty, realistic, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, suburbs, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, love and romance, husband wife relationship, family history, irony, hypocrisy, food, restaurant ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Taking his young city girlfriend along for the trip, a man visits old musical friends in a country village for a string quartet rehearsal.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot:
modernism, musician, small town, funeral, classmate, gay interest, bittersweet, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, musician's life, misfit, music ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A decade after the disappearance of his best friend and musical partner, Guille receives the offer from a label to finally release an album that never saw the light of day. His friend Pablo tries to help him overcome loss and grief, and release the ...
Style:
captivating, sincere
Plot:
musician, friendship, missing person, disappearance, loss of friend, musician's life, music band, friends, dealing with the past, rock band, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, music ...
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54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Lucas, Manu, Philippe, Jacob et Mario s'aiment depuis l'enfance. Ils ont du talent et de l'espoir. Ils rêvent de musique et de gloire. Leur groupe de rock, Lust, connaît un succès grandissant, mais les aspirations de chacun rendent ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot:
youth, music band, music, artists and showbiz, friendship, teenage love, rock band, nightclub, jealousy, music industry, singer, blues ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Agnes Jaoui plays a local political candidate Agathe Villanova, who returns to her childhood home in the south of France in order to help her sister Florence (Pascale Arbillot) sort through their recently deceased mother's belongings. While ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, talky, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, haunted by the past, small town, infidelity, filmmaking, siblings relations, sister sister relationship, love, politics, mother son relationship, bittersweet, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
542
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Max, Paul and Simon have been friends for 35 years. They take great pleasure in their one vacation a year together without their partners and meet-up regularly to spend evenings drinking or playing cards. Each has a successful career and they all ...
Style:
humorous, cynical, semi serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, moral dilemma, friends, life turned upside down, dark humor, disorder, murder, police, cover up, escapades, buddies, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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:
realistic, cynical, humorous, semi serious, offbeat
Plot:
music, lifestyle, partners, music band, performer's life, friends, disorder, rock, on the road, filmmaking, heavy metal culture, musician's life ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In this lively French remake of Humpday, best buds reunite and revive their friendship on a questionable dare. Can two straight guys really make a gay sex film, together?
Style:
humorous, realistic, sexy, semi serious, light ...
Plot:
manhood, friendship, buddies, filmmaking, sexual relations, friends, couples, suburbs, experimenting, gay interest, gay, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
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48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
On the eve of selling her mother's house, a thirty-something housewife wakes up to a hangover surrounded by her best friends from high school...
Style:
talky, semi serious, humorous, realistic
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
friends, friendship, couple relations, love and romance, couples, looking for love, introspection, singleness, lifestyle, hopes, unfulfillment, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.
Style:
psychotronic, feminist film, semi serious, realistic, cynical ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
punk, rock and roll, punk rock, coming of age, feminist, girl gang, satire, dancing, friendship, counterculture, alienation, woman ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
On his spring break at the seaside, with his wife and his four year old son, Bogdan Ciocazanu runs into his best friends from high-school at the precise date and time that reminds all of them of their most glorious drinking trips and sexual ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious
Plot:
friendship, family relations, nude, couple relations, friends, couples, lifestyle, introspection, unfulfillment, buddies, midlife crisis, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
romania, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Following the success of the popular Japanese romantic comedy drama, NODAME CANTABILE: THE MOVIE hits the big screen! Hiroshi Tamaki and Juri Ueno reprise in their roles and continue their love for music and their pursuit for their ambitions. Chiaki ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, anime ...
Plot:
orchestra, classical music, lifestyle, ambition, musician's life, friendship, rivalry, couple relations, youth, makeover, superhero, farce ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Alex, Antoine, Jeff and Manu. Four friends, four years later. Their relationships, friendship, shared secrets, feelings of guilt and their desire to change and improve.
Style:
witty, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
friendship, group of friends, couples, friends, couple relations, best friends, buddies, adultery, male female relationship, divorced woman, divorced man, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, paris france, france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.
Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous
Plot:
friendship, best friends, family life, parents and children, couples, friends, couple relations, children, female friendship, death of friend, doll, psychologist ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
france
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42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three longtime friends set off on a boat trip with their romantic partners, but inclement weather, jealousy and confessions, will put to test their friendships.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, psychological, talky ...
Plot:
friendship, couples, friends, ship, escapades, forces of nature, cruise, conflict, jealousy, rivalry, ocean, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Chris Martin has a problem: his impending marriage. Like any other man about to enter into the holy vows of matrimony, Chris has begun to second guess himself. Is married life what he really wants? While his bride-to-be takes care of the wedding ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, sexual, humorous ...
Plot:
bittersweet, wedding, friends, couples, thirtysomething life, family relations, introspection, moral dilemma, love and romance, chase, buddies, friendship ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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