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Return to Green Acres (1990)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Tv movie that reunites most the show's cast members. The Douglases move back to New York. But when Haney tries to get everyone's property so that a developer can build on them, the residents go to New York to get Douglas to help them. But he's a little hesitant.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
farm, couples, small town, social relations, disorder, small town life, save the day, cons and scams, countryside, reunion
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and offbeat films with plots about small town, small town life, couples, disorder, social relations, love and romance and family relations mostly in Comedy, Family and Musical genres. Some movies like Return to Green Acres: Green Acres (1965), 3 Days of Normal (2012), Postmark Paradise (2000), Sherman's Way (2008), Hollidaysburg (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. Produced by Filmways as a sister show to Petticoat Junction, the series was first broadcast on CBS, from September ...
Style:
sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous, light ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
countryside, farm, small town, fish out of water, workplace, small town life, workplace situations, hotshot lawyer, pets, family life, village life, tv show ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
3 Days of Normal follows the story of straight-laced deputy Bill Morgan who is quite content literally living within the quaint boundaries of Washington, New Hampshire. Bill’s stable and rather uneventful life is thrown for a loop when he finds ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
small town, self discovery, fall in love, small town sheriff, social relations, hopes, small town life, love and romance, actress, drunkenness, journalist
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new hampshire, washington d.c.
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25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Dirty Shame is the only bar in the small town of Paradise, Michigan. A burnt out, chain-smoking fortyish bar maid is the only waitress at The Dirty Shame. A group of local red necks conspiring to bring a mail order bride to their Midwest town ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic
Plot:
fish out of water, friendship, starting over, society, couples, love and romance, culture clash, couple relations, immigrants, husband wife relationship, mail order bride, countryside ...
Time:
90s
Place:
michigan, ukraine, usa, kiev ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An eccentric Olympic has-been who prefers leisure to work, finds himself stuck with a rigid pre-law Yale student with no time for wasting time. Between skinny-dipping and stealing cars, this odd-couple learn from each other that balance is the key ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, witty ...
Plot:
couples, disorder, friends, introspection, nothing goes right, unlikely couple, lifestyle, youth, odd couple, eccentric family, small town, partners ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, new york, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Home for Thanksgiving break after their first semester at college, five friends discover just how much things change (and don't) after high school.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, youth, friends, homecoming, thanksgiving, college, society, coming of age, woman, small town life, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
3 interconnecting stories set along the Lincoln Highway in South Central Pennsylvania.
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humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, semi serious ...
Plot:
amish, urban legend, farm, introspection, society, small town, writers, friendship, rivalry, moving, bigfoot, sasquatch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Sam and Matt flee their small mid-western town for New York City, where hot girls roam the streets! After months of trying to pick up ladies and failing miserably, they come up with the idea to hold a fake audition to meet chicks. Hilarity ensues ...
Style:
humorous, light, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
audition, friends, fall in love, artists and showbiz, fish out of water, looking for sex, cons and scams, broadway, looking for love, inspiration, big city, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female throat specialist, Pamela Taylor, whom he falls in love with.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, stylized, humorous
Plot:
opera, music, couples, doctors and patients, fall in love, artists and showbiz, love and romance
Time:
80s
Place:
san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Meet Etta Milford. Loving Wife. Doting Mother. Armed Robber. Etta's husband constantly blows their money on make-shift inventions. When she decides to secretly take "investment" matters into her own hands - things quickly go awry! ...
Style:
uplifting, not serious, feel good, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
crime gone awry, couples, couple relations, hidden identity, lifestyle, eccentric family, family life, small town, small town life, parents and children, disorder, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream- to finally be appreciated by his fellow villagers. Screwing up his carefully maintained image is ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, contemplative ...
Plot:
family relations, brother sister relationship, small town, small town life, love and romance, cons and scams, village, siblings relations, couples, husband wife relationship, lie, wedding ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
algeria, north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A hipster film student returns to his rural hometown to make a scathing documentary about his former tormentors, focusing on the annual 'kick-ass bash' at his cousin's trailer. He learns the hard way that revenge rarely goes as ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, campy, realistic, offbeat
Plot:
filmmaking, buddies, starting over, redemption, vengeance, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, small town, elderly lovers, society, social relations, midlife crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a small Southern town, the local sheriff tries to keep everything peaceful and under control.
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semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
sheriff, small town, americana, redneck, social relations, disorder, lifestyle, society, nothing goes right, alcohol abuse, small town life, graphic violence ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
louisiana, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A comedy about a woman who saves her chicken farm and her family by agreeing to be the subject of a "reality show" with a celebrity Hollywood weight loss expert. Both women change and discover the true meaning of success (Imdb.com)
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semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous, biting ...
Plot:
lifestyle, farm, manipulation, life turned upside down, ambition, disorder, couples, family problems, tv show, family in crisis, culture clash, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Isidor's Tortilla Heaven is the best restaurant in New Mexico maybe even the world. But though his tortillas are scrumptious, his enchiladas divine, Isidor has never made a dime. Why? He lives in Falfurrias, population 73. One Sunday, while all ...
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humorous, feel good, light, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
restaurant, miraculous event, cooking and food, life turned upside down, hopes, religions or cults, overnight success, small town, jesus, religion, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, biting ...
Plot:
job promotion, workplace intrigue, boss and employee, power relations, cons and scams, workplace situations, workplace romance, rise to the top, dishonesty, workplace, business, money ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
One weekend, Aunt Bam's nephew-in-law Stewart is granted a court-ordered visitation with his children. Although his new, much-younger wife Mona is a bundle of nerves, Stewart seizes the opportunity to reconnect with his children, whom he loves ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic, emotional
Plot:
family relations, couples, family life, family problems, disorder, parents and children, strong female presence, dysfunctional family, couple relations, family gatherings, african american protagonist
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The basic storyline of the film follows Bobby and Scott, two young men in their late twenties who are struggling to make careers out of their artistic dreams but their competitiveness with each other gets in the way.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
couples, lifestyle, looking for love, performer's life, artists and showbiz, couple relations, life is a bitch, twentysomething life, down on your luck, male female relationship, dog, plagiarism ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In Blythe, California, a small town in the remote California desert, Ethan Inglebrink is an eccentric, agoraphobic heroin addict who is obsessed with his garden. This dark comedy follows the last days of Ethan's life as he struggles to find ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, cynical, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
contests and competitions, life is a bitch, friends, ambition, drug abuse, siblings relations, buddies, couples, addiction, dark humor, redneck, desert ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In order to avoid the closure a bar the owner and some friends organize a wet-T-shirt competition. As they thought this attracks new people and certainly money.
Style:
sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, sexy, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
beach, teenager, love, nude, social relations, save the day, contests and competitions, gender, workplace, small town life, small town, disco ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While heading to the town where his sister, Marci, lives, big-city banker Bill Campbell is robbed by a woman who takes everything he has, including his clothes and a business document worth millions of dollars. Bill eventually reunites with Marci, ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
small town, murder, beer, forest, switching roles, twins, rivalry, misfit, race against time, vengeance, social relations, screwball ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings.Householder George Roper is happy to take the offered money and run but his wife Mildred and their lodgers join with other residents to take a stand and ...
Style:
sitcom, semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty
Plot:
landlord, restaurant, social relations, couples, disorder, couple relations, henpecked husband, sex, chef, landlord tenant relationship, male female relationship, long haired male ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Following his release from a seven-year stretch in prison, Mario Diccara discovers that his affairs with the underworld aren't completely settled. His brother Patrick, a priest, suggests that he stays with elderly Father Etienne in a small ...
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humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Plot:
priest, mistaken identity, small town, fake priest, church, social relations, disorder, hidden identity, farce, village, cons and scams, ex convict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
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20%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola (Greta Gerwig) finds herself suddenly without a partner when her longtime fiance, Luke (Joel Kinnaman), dumps her. With her 30th birthday looming and being forced to re-enter the New York City dating scene, ...
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sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, best friends, starting over, singleness, breakup, disorder, hopes, introspection, lifestyle, life turned upside down, ex boyfriend, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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20%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
WALTER is lonely. He is 71 and has no friends. He lives in a small apartment in Upper West Side in Manhattan and every morning he goes through the same monotonous routine: pills, fiber, canned food, cleaning, TV and the book with all his expenses. ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
misfit, lifestyle, life turned upside down, dull life, disorder, golden years, social misfits, money, goth, hitman, unlikely partners, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After living for years as a struggling artist in New York City, Jake is calling it quits and returning home to Ohio. On his last day in the city, he persuades his three oldest friends – Billy, Rocks and Gunderson – to help him retrace their ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, talky ...
Plot:
on the road, friendship, best friends, buddies, cause and meaning, getting home, family relations, painter, art, coming of age, thirtysomething life, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
It is nearly a generation since we've visited Dobie Gillis, and the middle-aged Dobie is nothing like he was as a youth, having has sown all of his wild oats. He's settled into the predictable adult life, married to the reliable Zelda (who ...
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realistic, semi serious, feel good, sitcom, humorous ...
Plot:
couples, family relations, buddies, love and romance, dishonesty, single parent, criminal heroes, high school, love triangle, family life, college, dangerous attraction ...
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usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Zonad (Simon Delaney) is from space…probably. Or so the Cassidy family assume when they discover an apparent alien in a shiny red space suit and helmet passed out on the living room floor beside the drinks cabinet. The Cassidys and the people of ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, witty, realistic ...
Plot:
mistaken identity, hidden identity, social relations, family relations, family life, cons and scams, dishonesty, disorder, village, con artists, alien, morality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
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19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic, fairy tale ...
Plot:
unhappy marriage, couple relations, husband wife relationship, notoriety, lawyer, farmer, divorce, french countryside, village, small town, village life, murder ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, europe, france, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Henry (Streisand) is a woman who would do anything for her husband Pete-- including borrow money so he has a chance of making his dreams come true. But now there's the loan sharks to deal with...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
money, loan shark, love and romance, couple relations, prostitute, nothing goes right, dishonesty, race against time, screwball, couples, family relations, loan ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
“The Living Wake” is a dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered ...
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Plot:
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