Movies like NVA
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NVA (2005)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of young recruits doing their compulsory military service in the East German army 'NVA' prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, captivating, light, melancholic, exciting
Plot:
military base, army, soldier, rebelliousness, military life, military, friends, misfit, daydreamer, boot camp, basic training, prank, spy, coming of age, rebellion, buddies, hapless soldier, power relations, sex, female nudity, dream, homosexual, burlesque, german history, satire ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
german democratic republic, germany, east germany, europe, gdr
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and light films with plots about friends, buddies, disorder, society, love and romance, friendship and misfit mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like NVA: Military Academy (2007), The Call-up (1979), Ah Boys To Men (Part 1) (2012), Russian Disco (2012), Manta, Manta (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The movie deals with a guy who gets to join the German Bundeswehr involuntarily because a colleague loses his denial papers in order to get the chance to get down on his girlfriend. When entering the Bundeswehr he acts like a giant idiot and of ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
military, life turned upside down, military life, disorder, misfit, soldier, military base, hapless soldier, fish out of water, basic training, adolescence vs adulthood, boot camp ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It's time for Jonsson to return to his old regiment to rehearse what he learned during conscription a few years ago. He meets his old friends, platoon leader Larsson and the music loving captain 'Beethoven'. Jonsson and his comrades ...
Style:
realistic, not serious, cynical, biting, humorous
Plot:
platoon, military service, superior officer, friends, power relations, chaos, disorder, nothing goes right, soldier, buddies, military, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Singapore
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Ah Boys to Men (新兵正传) is a 2012–2013 Singaporean two-part comedy film produced and directed by Jack Neo, written by Neo and Link Sng and starring Wang Wei Liang, Noah Yap, Joshua Tan and Maxi Lim. It revolves around a group of army ...
Style:
satirical, humorous, captivating, funny, light ...
Plot:
army, military camp, military training, military service, soldier, military life, humour, satire, military base, military, ferry, bombing ...
Place:
singapore
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Russendisko is the story of Wladimir, Andrej and Mischa. Three young Russian friends, who move from Moscow to Berlin in a lucky wave of emigration right after the fall of the Berlin wall. They take their chance looking for a better life and find ...
Style:
humorous, touching, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot:
friendship, society, misfit, intrigue, rivalry, migration, love and romance, friends, fall in love, cultural difference, russian immigrant, businessman ...
Time:
year 1990, 21st century
Place:
germany, berlin germany, russia, central europe, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A not so clever guy called Berti with a Opel Manta (a low budget European sports-coupe from the '80s) gets competition in a street race from a guy with a fast Mercedes, and another slick guy with a Ferrari tries to get his hands on Bertis ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, light
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rivalry, car race, contests and competitions, couple relations, couples, car chase, adolescence vs adulthood, buddies, driving, youth, boys and girls, macho man ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
germany, europe, west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Uuno is forced to complete his mandatory military service when it is revealed that he only spent one day in the army in his youth. As is typical of the Turhapuro series his family and friends become closely tied in with these events. His friends ...
Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
army, military, soldier, silly humor, disorder, goofy hero, hapless soldier, marriage for money, military service, social climber, military officer, fortune hunter ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Reunites the same cast, reprising their characters from the 2006 original film, but transplants them from the 1980s to the Italy of 2006. This leap allows the filmmaker to compare and contrast youth culture across generations, from the era of the ...
Style:
realistic, feel good, sentimental, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
love and romance, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle, buddies, sex, father son relationship, infidelity, friendship, marriage, love, nude, friends ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In October 1989, the part of the West Berlin borough of Kreuzberg called SO 36, had been largely shut off by the Wall from the rest of the city for 28 years. A lethargic sub-culture of students, artists, bohemians and barflys had flourished among ...
Style:
cynical, bleak, melancholic, atmospheric, semi serious ...
Plot:
depression, lone hero, imagination, irreverent, existentialism, life philosophy, culture clash, adaptation, lifestyle, unfulfilled love, couples, buddies ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989
Place:
germany, europe, east germany, berlin germany, west berlin west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Eleven moving dates, eight friends: Philipp, Wiebke, Jessica, Maria, Swantje, Michael, Thomas, Dina – all in their twenties and mutually lonesome. And always searching: For a new city, a new job, an own apartment, a new, or even an old love. The ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, light, feel good, sexy ...
Plot:
couples, love and romance, family relations, friendship, breakup, goth girl, coming of age, loyalty, sex scene, female nudity, christmas dinner, video chat
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Willy Vander Brook, a world with Franco-Belgian roots, travels to Paris for an interview. He is welcomed by his childhood friend Serge, an ex pub operator, and his roommate Frank, a fierce supporter of the Walloon independence. When Willy discovers ...
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
cons and scams, hidden identity, buddies, culture clash, vengeance, society, disorder, hotel, misfit, misfit partners, dishonesty, silly humor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, belgium, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot:
americana, disorder, friendship, friends, unemployment, desire for fame, dark humor, buddies, partners, aviation, experimenting, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, sentimental ...
Plot:
prank, high school, high school life, disorder, youth, rebelliousness, hardcase students, rebellion, exam, private school, school, corporal punishment ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
france, versailles, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A comfortable underachiever and serial prankster, in the midst of their quarter life crisis, reunite against childhood enemies in a contemporary suburban epic.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, light
Audience:
teens
Plot:
prank, misfit, love and romance, social misfits, best friends, friends, friendship, true love, rivalry, youth, uninhibited rivalry, buddies ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, of the "West ...
Style:
political, controversial, realistic, semi serious, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, german history, love, friendship, youth, border crossing, boys and girls, defloration, stasi, grownups, teenage love, social differences ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
east germany, germany, german democratic republic, berlin germany, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The snow is staying away from the Bavarian ski village of Haunzenberg, and so are the skiers. Business is failing and so is Georg's relationship with Emilie. During his attempt to reignite the fires of passion, the wooden cross in the next room ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, light, sexy ...
Plot:
family relations, small town, clergy, skiing, hopes, resort, village, killed during sex, friends, buddies, miraculous event, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, bavaria, rome italy, vatican
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the military dictatorship in Greece, are assigned to the then recently founded Armed Forces Television. This TV ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
porn, army, dictatorship, soldier, military, greek, filmmaking, satire, state affairs, fighting the system, media, society ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 80s, year 1967
Place:
greece, europe, hellas, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
907
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Passengers on a low cost flight from Djerba to Beauvais have their patience tested to destruction when their departure is delayed for eight hours because of a fault with the plane's air-conditioning. In the end, they are so fed up that they ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, entertaining, semi serious, funny ...
Plot:
airplane, nothing goes right, rebellion, disorder, rebelliousness, friends, satire, fear of flying, tourist, humour, travel agency, passenger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, tunisia, europe, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Quotas for women, parking spaces for women, online shopping, small talk and gossip. Software developer Erol, porta-potty rep Lars, and commercial pilot Helmut are licking the wounds of their masculinity – a female-free zone is what’s needed! In ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, light, captivating, feel good ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cons and scams, buddies, rivalry, silly humor, couple relations, couples, nothing goes right, dishonesty, family problems, manipulation, disorder, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An overprotective single mother tries to stop her son joining the parachute unit by sending him to the college, fearful that he may end up his life like his father did. He secretly leaves the college and joins the army, but the mother finds out and ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous
Plot:
military, soldier, power relations, military life, parents and children, american soldier, parachute, army life, u.s. army, barracks, helmet, boots ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Confirmed bachelor Paul falls for Iris, who’s unfortunately as good as married. Although his friends have women problems of their own, and all end up moving into Paul’s apartment, they concoct a daring plan to help Paul save Iris from marrying ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, light, sincere ...
Plot:
love affair, couples, best friend, dream girl, fall in love, rivalry, society, single, love and romance, female objectification, female nudity, sleeping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 57 min.
Story:
In this holiday prequel, it’s 1997 and Sunnyvale Trailer Park is getting ready for the holiday season. Julian’s got a great idea to make money this Christmas, Ricky gets confused between God and Santa, and Bubbles tries to get the Boys together ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, not serious, realistic ...
Plot:
christmas, nothing goes right, friends, misfit, buddies, petty criminal, life is a bitch, holiday, white trash, disorder, society, social misfits
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The real first comedy about love.
Style:
humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
love and romance, buddies, forbidden love, couples, unfulfillment, friends, singleness, first love
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two young Spanish men, with a university education, are tired of unemployment and decide to move to Germany. But soon they will find out that finding a better living is not as easy as they expected.
Style:
humorous, captivating, sincere, feel good, light ...
Plot:
unemployment, immigrants, buddies, nothing goes right, love and romance, society, travel, finance, economic crisis, emigrant, friends, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Melinda comes to Washington DC to visit her friend Debbie, and to find a job in government, where she hopes to do her part to make it better. She gets a lower echelon administrative position at the Pentagon, and finds things pretty slack. Her boss ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, feel good, light ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obnoxious boss, basic training, power relations, gender, dishonesty, battle of the sexes, workplace, boss and employee, female protagonist, military training, couples, society ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, washington d.c., virginia, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Bubbles and the other boys get a letter from a TPB fan club president in Minneapolis, Minnesota to do a live show at the State Theatre for Christmas. Ricky goes along with it to make nice with Santa Jesus God after a rough-up the previous year, ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, captivating, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot:
friends, buddies, disorder, society, misfit, christmas, life is a bitch, social misfits, show
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After falling victim to a humiliating prank by the high school Queen Bee, best friends and world-class geeks, Mindy and Jodi, decide to get their revenge by uniting the outcasts of the school against her and her circle of friends.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, feel good ...
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teens, chick flick, girls' night
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Time:
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Place:
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20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
breakup, love, odd couple, friendship, disorder, workplace situations, workplace, problem solving, relationship problems, male female relationship, relationships, travel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Estonia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, sentimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The army is known for churning out lean mean fighting machines intent on protecting our great nation. Martin is the inexplicable the incorrigible the invicible sgt. Ernie bilko leader of a ragtag group of the sorriest soldiers ever to enlist in the ...
Style:
humorous, funny, light, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
military, gambling, revenge, military base, camp, soldier, disorder, rivalry, cons and scams, disaster, satire, farce ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, california, las vegas, greenland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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