Movies like The Projectionist
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The Projectionist (1970)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A projectionist bored with his everyday life begins fantasizing about his being one of the superheroes he sees in the movies he shows.
Style:
independent film, offbeat, humorous, stylized, semi serious, psychotronic
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
projectionist, loner, superhero, heroes, secret identity, time travel, misfit, fascism, love and romance, nightclub, escapades, lobbyist, rivalry, daydreamer, imaginary, good versus evil, alien encounter, fish out of water, mad scientist, master villain, superhuman powers, young heroes, uninhibited rivalry, heroic mission, media satire ...
Time:
year 1971, 60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, offbeat and feel good films with plots about rivalry, escapades, imaginary, heroes, danger, good versus evil and disorder mostly in Comedy, Fantasy and Drama genres. Some movies like The Projectionist: A Knight in Camelot (1998), A Man Who Was Superman (2008), Teen Sorcery (1999), Hercules in New York (1970), Just Another Pandora's Box (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court." Here, a computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her laptop, which she uses to amaze the court.
Style:
humorous, feel good, entertaining, captivating, slapstick ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
time travel, heroic mission, arthurian legend, good versus evil, imaginary, friendship, escapades, rivalry, fish out of water, heroes, disorder, king arthur ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages, 20th century
Place:
england, usa, connecticut, europe
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
SONG Soo-jung is a producer going on her third year at a small company. Her specialty is human interest stories. She is driven to produce these shallow stories for the sake of her ambition of one day becoming Korea’s own Oprah Winfrey. However, ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
superhero, obsession, good versus evil, save the day, heroic mission, heroes, collision, escapades, master villain, danger, secret identity, love story ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
korea
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Canada, Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dawn (A.J. Cook), the new girl in school, discovers that her classmate Mercedes (Lexa Doig) is actually a witch and must do everything she can to stop her from using her powers for evil. She is soon plunged into a life and death battle against an ...
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Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
cheerleader, witch, time travel, mean girl, fire breathing dragon, wicca, knight, teenage girl, paranormal, teenager, social relations, wizards and magicians ...
Time:
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Place:
massachusetts, usa
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Hercules (Schwarzenegger) is sent to Earth where he finds true love and starts a promising career in the bodybuilder business.
Style:
independent film, humorous, melancholic, semi serious, cult classic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
hercules, fish out of water, gangster, chase, zeus, greek mythology, father son relationship, farce, professor, friendship, ship, bodybuilding ...
Time:
70s, 60s, year 1969, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, usa, north america, new york state ...
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63%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Qing Ye Se only knows how to be a thief, but he runs into major trouble when he accidentally steals the heart of Rose, an immortal fairy. During a chaotic chase, Qing gets ahold of the Pandora's Box, sending them both back in time to the Three ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, tense
Plot:
time travel, mistaken identity, escapades, battles, imaginary, rivalry, heroes, dishonesty, disorder, friendship, chosen one, love and romance ...
Place:
hong kong, ancient china
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61%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A secret society, the Delta Knights, attempts to save a medieval society from the evil over-lady.
Style:
exciting, semi serious, humorous, stylized, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
knight, good versus evil, sword and sorcery, heroic mission, youth, heroes, sorcery, adventurer, escapades, rescue, legends and myths, rivalry ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Set in modern times, Alex finds King Arthur's sword Excalibur and must prove himself worthy of it.
Style:
stylized, humorous, arthurian, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
magic, good versus evil, child protagonist, heroic mission, wizards and magicians, battles, legends and myths, curses spells and rituals, mischievous children, escapades, youth, child hero ...
Time:
middle ages
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Boothnath vows to redeem himself when spirits tease him, and searches for a child to terrify. He befriends Akhrot, a slum kid, and helps him take on the country's most powerful politician.
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, sitcom, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
ghost, mischievous children, good versus evil, friendship, political satire, friends, family relations, rivalry, supernatural, young heroes, youth, revenge ...
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, non-linear ...
Plot:
looking for love, culture clash, fish out of water, love and romance, fall in love, disorder, lifestyle, misfit, society, buddies, social differences, nightlife ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In Manhattan, the aspirant writer Jabez Stone is a complete loser: he is not able to sell his novels, he lives in a lousy apartment and he does not have success with women. When one of his friends Julius Jenson sells his novel for US$ 190,000.00 to ...
Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, rom com, teen ...
Plot:
deal with the devil, hopes, writers, love and romance, moral dilemma, writer's life, imaginary, lifestyle, introspection, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, looking for love ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
12-year-old Pelle accidentally gets bitten by an ant and develops unimaginable superpowers. With help from his friend, comic book nerd Wilhelm, Pelle creates a secret identity as the superhero Antboy. Slowly things start to happen in the surburban ...
Style:
humorous, exciting, captivating, tense, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
superhuman powers, youth, good versus evil, escapades, rivalry, coming of age, master villain, imaginary, superhero, boy, laboratory, comic book ...
Place:
denmark, copenhagen
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An artist fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City's Holland Tunnel. He winds up falling in love with a beautiful woman, who takes him to the moon on a Lunar Cruiser.
Style:
surreal, semi serious, feel good, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
true love, moon, artist, older woman younger man relationship, bus trip, heroes, hopes, imaginary, love and romance, society, save the world, folk hero ...
Time:
future
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
fairy tale, folk tale, captivating, semi serious, light hearted ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
good versus evil, disappearance, obsessive quest, journey, friendship, search and rescue, villain, missing sister, happy ending, folk hero, imaginary, imaginary character ...
Time:
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Similarity:
52%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Fantasy adventure about the arrival of Buddhism in China. When the Goddess of Happiness tosses the Longevity Monk and his disciples out of heaven (because the Monkey King tried to attain immortality), the Monkey King is reincarnated as the Joker. He ...
Style:
stylized, spoof, humorous, offbeat, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
martial arts, true love, wuxia, monkey king, kung fu, legends and myths, changing the past or future, giant spider, reincarnation, religions or cults, monk, heroic mission ...
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Story:
The story of office drone Sebastian King's tongue-in-cheek adventures in the magically steampunk world of Mantecoza. Using the magical ring and a magical word, Sebastian travels between worlds, trying to save both from the evil machinations of ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
Broadcast of a live performance of the Roundabout Theater Company's 2000 New York revival of the classic Kaufman-Hart comedy, about a famous (and famously acid-tongued) theater critic who is forced to stay in a Midwestern couple's home and ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, offbeat
Plot:
nothing goes right, live performance, lifestyle, social differences, farce, love and romance, misfit, opposites attract, couple relations, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, fish out of water ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
50%
441
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd. This mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall rabbit that only he can see. All's well until Elwood's social-climbing sister, Veta, and ...
Style:
humorous, offbeat, touching, feel good, semi serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
rabbit, friendship, wrongfully committed, invisibility, friends, family relations, misfit, chase, best friend, sanitarium, judge, drunkenness ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
America's 7th Best Superhero Team, the Specials, are a group of geeks and oddballs. We get to see one day in their lives as fan and new member Nightbird joins the group, just in time for the group to get a new line of action figures. But the ...
Style:
not serious, exciting, independent film, entertaining, spoof ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, teens
Plot:
superhuman powers, superhero, good versus evil, danger, imaginary, escapades, goofy hero, secretary, comic book, satire, coffee, villain ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
california
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A group of misfit teens evade a corrupt scientist when they steal and attempt to return a suit that delivers supernatural strength to its wearer.
Style:
semi serious, exciting, humorous, stylized, independent film
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
superpower, prodigy, escapades, mad scientist, school, teenage life, imaginary, disorder, youth, teenager, imaginary friend, superhero ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Germany, Spain, Austria, India, Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Lilli is traveling to India, to solve a mystery.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, entertaining, computer animated
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
friendship, dragon, heroic mission, fish out of water, supernatural ability, young heroes, daring rescue, disorder, rivalry, danger, save the day, good versus evil ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A boy is the only family member without superpowers in this Disney Film. The world depends on him saving his family from computerized brainwashers. Will he realize that it doesn't take superpowers to be a hero in time to help them defeat the ...
Style:
semi serious, exciting, humorous
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, daring rescue, good versus evil, save the day, young heroes, rivalry, master villain, danger, escapades, parents and children, eccentric family, teenage life ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Bernard Bottle, a mild mannered art buyer, is fired by his greedy boss, abandoned by his girlfriend and discovers a genie in an old bottle. The genie immediately embraces the modern world and helps Bernard on the side.
Style:
christmas classics, semi serious, offbeat, humorous, feel good
Plot:
genie, time travel, holiday, xmas, fantasy life, desire, wedding, couples, family relations, disorder, dealer, down on your luck ...
Place:
europe, england, london
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A plane carrying beauty contestants crash lands on a deserted island. Captain Maximus Powers (Roberts) and co-pilot Mike Saunders (Schlatter) have to take care of their passengers, while avoiding the dangers of Jurassic Pork (a giant prehistoric ...
Style:
parody, humorous, not serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, date night, family outing
Plot:
fish out of water, survival, heroic mission, isolation, disorder, escapades, race against time, misfit, save the day, rescue, forces of nature, absurd humor ...
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Iceland, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Tells the story of Beatrice (Sarah Polley), a tabloid journalist whose fiancé is killed by a monster in Iceland. She ends up falling in love with the monster in the end. The monster is immortal, but longs to die. Beatrice helps him achieve this by ...
Style:
fairy tale, stylized, humorous, allegory, black comedy ...
Plot:
beauty and the beast, monster, satire, dangerous attraction, love and romance, haunted by the past, fish out of water, friendship, social commentary, mad scientist, hospital, creature ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
iceland, europe, reykjavik iceland, new york
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since become defunct. A retired spy Marissa (Jessica Alba) is thrown back into the action along with her stepchildren when a ...
Style:
entertaining, spy comedy, exciting, semi serious, spoof ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
child spy, child hero, children, secret agent, espionage, heroes, time travel, save the world, hidden identity, young heroes, heroic mission, undercover ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Set 15 years after "Twentieth Century Boys," Kanna (Airi Taira) reunites with several main characters from the first film in an attempt to stop Friend's increasing influence over the world and continued plans to eliminate humanity, as ...
Style:
stylized, suspenseful, serious, exciting, manga ...
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, rivalry, good versus evil, terrorism, danger, heroes, haunted by the past, escapades, battles, apocalypse, worldwide chaos ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
One day, apathetic high school student Yosuke meets a beautiful girl named Eri. Eri does battle every night with an indestructible, chainsaw-wielding maniac, “Chainsaw Man”. As Yosuke and Eri bond, he eventually joins the fight. Features CG ...
Style:
scary, stylized, semi serious, humorous, suspense ...
Plot:
supernatural, escapades, good versus evil, uninhibited rivalry, imaginary, teenage crush, gory, teenage life, martial arts, deadly creature, danger, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, travelling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with pretty ...
Style:
arthurian, semi serious, feel good, humorous, psychotronic
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
time travel, king arthur, astronaut, nasa, medieval, fish out of water, arthurian legend, space adventure, jousting, camelot, yankee, astronomy ...
Time:
middle ages, year 1979, 6th century, medieval times
Place:
england, cornwall, connecticut, usa, europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Originally an absurdist play by Eugene Ionesco, Rhinoceros tells the story of a French town plagued by rhinoceroses. These are not ordinary rhinoceroses, but people who have been victims of "rhinoceritis." Or is it something else entirely? ...
Style:
surreal, independent film, contemplative, semi serious, biting ...
Plot:
absurdism, disorder, couples, dark humor, couple relations, misfit, idealism, hopes, society, human nature, urban, individualism ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
All Lodge wants is for his gaming group to finish their adventure. Unfortunately, they're more interested in seducing barmaids, mooning their enemies, and setting random villagers on fire. Desperate to rein in his players, Lodge injects two ...
Style:
parody, talky, stylized, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot:
lone hero, dark hero, friendship, small town, gangster, escapades, parallel world, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, heroes, supernatural ability, sword and shield ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
39%
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