Movies like Boys on the Beach

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Boys on the Beach (1999)
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Boys on the Beach (1999)
Original name: Le ciel, les oiseaux et... ta mère !
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Four guys from a Paris housing project fabricate a documentary about drug dealers working in the City of Lights. When a television network falls hook, line, and sinker for the prank video, the foursome are given a free three-week vacation in the upscale resort community of Biarritz. As they interact with both locals and fellow tourists, they learn about love, friendship, racism, and the differences between the rich and the poor.
Style: humorous, realistic, cynical, not serious, offbeat
Audience: boys' night
Plot: beach, resort, friends, rich and poor, love and romance, fall in love, stoners, society, lifestyle, disorder, prank, fish out of water, buddies, dishonesty, cons and scams, friendship, vacation, drug dealer, contest, male female relationship, friend, fake news report, videotaping, buddy, racism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe

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Most similar movies to Boys on the Beach

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and not serious films with plots about disorder, friends, buddies, love and romance, couples, lifestyle and silly humor mostly in Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Boys on the Beach: The Belgian Job (2012), Would I Lie to You? 2 (2001), Would I Lie to You? 3 (2012), Protect and Serve (2010), Incognito (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
The Belgian Job (2012)
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 ⇓
95%
Would I Lie to You? 2 (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Dans le quartier du Sentier, Eddie Vuibert, Dov et Yvan sont confrontés aux procédés pour le moins expéditifs de leur nouveau client, Eurodiscount, une chaîne européenne d'hypermarchés. Karine, lasse des turpitudes de son volage époux, ...
Style: realistic, humorous, not serious, feel good, light ...
Plot: satire, working class, comedy of errors, partners, friends, workplace situations, social differences, fall in love, couple relations, buddies, farce, workplace ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Would I Lie to You? 3 (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Eddie, Dov, Yvan et les autres… Nos chaleureux amis ont migré du Sentier moribond à la banlieue florissante d’Aubervilliers… Là où les vieux entrepreneurs juifs ont laissé le terrain à de jeunes grossistes chinois courageux et ...
Style: realistic, humorous
Plot: friendship, disorder, misfit, friends, religions or cults, fish out of water, comedy of errors, fall in love, nothing goes right, buddies, love and romance, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france, asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Protect and Serve (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A pair of bumbling French cops team up to take on the underworld.
Style: realistic, feel good, humorous, not serious, exciting
Plot: partners, misfit, odd couple, police investigation, fish out of water, buddies, law enforcement, disorder, fighting crime, partners against crime, society, heroic mission ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Incognito (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: This offbeat musical drama stars Lucas (Bénabar), an up-and-coming singer ready to do anything to be on top of the French pop scene.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty
Plot: desire for fame, musician's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, rock, cons and scams, hopes, disorder, dishonesty, hidden identity, friends
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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WTF (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Rémi Gaillard is the real character of the World network, troll, provocateur, one of the biggest-selling comic actor in Europe. One and a half milliards of viewing and millions of fans. A day came, and he decided to steady down: got married, ...
Style: humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, realistic
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: prank, desire for fame, ambition, rising to stardom, buddies, disorder, fictional reality show, escapades, sex, friends, computers and web, silly humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Kings of Mykonos (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia, Greece
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The sequel to the highly successful Australian comedy THE WOG BOY - starring Nick Giannopoulous and Vince Colosimo as best mates Steve and Frank. The Kings of Mykonos: Wog Boy 2 picks up a few years after the original and things aren't going so ...
Style: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, realistic
Plot: summer, buddies, resort, disorder, love and romance, life turned upside down, uncle, friends, beach, fall in love, inheritance, beach resort ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greece, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Camping (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Plastic surgeon Michel Saint-Josse is on his way to Spain where he hopes to spend a stress-free holiday in a luxury hotel with his teenage daughter Vanessa. When his car breaks down near a camping, Michel accepts the offer of help from an extrovert ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Plot: camp, friendship, beach, nothing goes right, disorder, family relations, buddies, resort, fish out of water, snobbism, husband wife relationship, vacation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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The 11 Commandments (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After an evening of drinking, six men find themselves in front of The God of the Joke. Distressed to find that people aren't laughing anymore, He gives the six friends a mission: to save the world with the Eleven Commandments of the Joke. The ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, funny, offbeat
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: prank, buddies, disorder, chaos and mayhem, friends, silly humor, stupidity, vandalism, humiliation, disguise, chaos, nude ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Camping 2 (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Jean-Pierre Savelli is a forty-something employee of an insurance company in Clermont-Ferrand who finds himself facing a mid-life crisis. When his fiancée Valérie decides to put their relationship on hold, he changes his holiday plans and heads ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Plot: friendship, nude, beach, island, summer vacation, nudist, nudist camp, love and romance, holiday, disorder, friends, camp ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Life's a Beach (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Darren gets stood up on the day of his wedding and uses his vacation tickets with his best friend, RJ, to spend his "honeymoon" at a Club Med-style resort.
Style: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: resort, disorder, friends, couples, fall in love, youth, lifestyle, island, looking for sex, beach, friendship, honeymoon ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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So Woman! (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Clemence is a brilliant young lawyer who has just settled herself in a comfortable chair. She does not want to be involved in love.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic
Plot: fall in love, friendship, love and romance, family relations, friends, lifestyle, parents and children, disorder, dishonesty, cons and scams, best friends, singleness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Special Correspondents (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: R2I, a famous news radio station, sends its best reporting duo to Iraq: Frank, journalist, and Poussin, sound engineer. Very quickly, millions of listeners follow their highly documented stories, reflecting the hot intensity of the fighting and the ...
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot: journalism, farce, misfit, buddies, dishonesty, cons and scams, nothing goes right, media, partners, heroes, friends, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, iraq, middle east, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Depression and Friends (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Frank is diagnosed with depression, his friends try to cheer him up but soon enough they all discover they are as depressed as him.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: introspection, buddies, nothing goes right, thirtysomething life, disorder, depression, lifestyle, partners, friends, reunion
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Mohamed Dubois (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Arnaud Dubois may be the heir to a bank, but he prefers to call himself Mohamed. Having fallen out with his father, he turns his back on the family residence. On his travels, he meets Mustafa, who introduces him to his sister Sabrina. Having fallen ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, biting
Plot: hidden identity, interracial relations, social differences, fish out of water, disorder, society, love and romance, dishonesty, fall in love, fake identity, suspense, restaurant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Time for Loving (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A comedy about the adventures of several families during their sea vacations.
Style: semi serious, realistic, emotional, touching, humorous ...
Plot: youth, love and romance, prank, coming of age, wooing, resort, beach, friendship, love affair, looking for sex, fall in love, teenage life ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: tuscany, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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What a Drag (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A closeted gay man's attempt to "act straight" for the sake of his job has unexpected consequences.
Style: sexy, campy, humorous, clever, realistic ...
Plot: transvestism, lgbt, gay, lgbtq, isolation, infidelity, disco, couples, dishonesty, restaurant, gender, society ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 3.2
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Incontrôlable (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Georges, one morning, became uncontrollable despite himself. Something that has the donkey's voice in Shrek, can control his body.
Style: not serious, humorous, light, feel good, offbeat
Plot: goofy hero, split personality, love and romance, mentally unstable, couple relations, disorder, misfit, nothing goes right, fall in love, fish out of water, couples, miraculous event ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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The Shaukeens (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Three friends in their 60s try to do everything that they couldn't do in their younger days - before death arrives.
Style: humorous, realistic, not serious
Plot: buddies, friends, escapades, elderly, disorder, golden years, fall in love, love and romance, parents and children, couple relations, friend, bollywood
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Three Men and a Cradle (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Three young men (Jacques, Pierre and Michel) share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver, and asks him if he can leave ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, touching ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: fish out of water, disorder, self discovery, buddies, parents and children, grownups, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, life turned upside down, babysitting, friends, delivery ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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August 15th (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three men are abandonned by their wives for a few days in the summer holidays. They are alone with five kids to feed and a house to maintain. And they will learn what they did wrong with their wives.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot: beach, family relations, self discovery, life turned upside down, parents and children, fish out of water, friends, disorder, buddies, introspection, ocean, nudism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Jay and Silent Bob Get Old: Tea Bagging in the UK (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 240 min.
Story: The hilarious duo Jay & Silent Bob are back. Film icons Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes made history and fans all over the world with the characters Jay & Silent Bob from the movies Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay & ...
Style: realistic, humorous, talky, witty, not serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friends, friendship, showbiz, filmmaking, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, buddies, odd couple, profanity
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film is the immediate continuation of Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, released the previous year. Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, clothed with a chequed jacket, Étienne Dorsay becomes ...
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, witty, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, tennis, midlife crisis, love and romance, friends, buddies, couple relations, dishonesty, love affair, infidelity, disorder, nothing goes right ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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The Grand Dukes (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.
Style: cynical, realistic, semi serious, humorous, clever ...
Plot: aging, disorder, rally, couples, cons and scams, showbiz, farce, on the road, love and romance, starting over, lifestyle, actor's life ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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 1K
The Dope (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their way to Paris to begin careers as recording artists, the pair stumbles across a potent type of ...
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good ...
Plot: partners, drug dealing, friends, chase, nothing goes right, misfit partners, buddies, drug abuse, disorder, silly humor, marijuana, nude ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Dikkenek (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jean-Claude is a loud-mouthed, know-it-all and full time boor who is best friends with Stef, a self-styled lady killer who would do better with the fairer sex if he could work up the ambition to wake up in the morning. Stef has decided that he may ...
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, offbeat, hot
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, friendship between men, womanizer, wannabe, dark humor, escapades, buddies, goofy hero, farce, promiscuity, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Bachelor Days Are Over (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Arnaud nicknamed "Cui Cui" no longer knows which way to look. He is about to marry Anna but he is not sure he really loves her. To make matters worse, he falls in love during the stag party he has with his friends. And Léa, a nightclub ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: family relations, introspection, buddies, couple relations, lifestyle, nothing goes right, disorder, couples, marriage, friendship, friends, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.6
 3K
Upswing (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Katri and Janne want to make a trip, which none of their friends have made. They end up in Jakomäki.
Style: not serious, witty, humorous, realistic, offbeat
Plot: fish out of water, hidden identity, cons and scams, farce, social differences, rich and poor, disorder, dishonesty, society, dark humor, financial problem, tourism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Jim Jefferies: Alcoholocaust (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Share this *Alcoholocaust: (Meaning: The aftermath of a drinking party, usually resulting in every available horizontal surface being covered in empty booze containers, spilled beverages and a general sticky alcoholic residue.) Jim Jefferies, the ...
Style: sincere, not serious, cynical, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lifestyle, performer's life, politically correct, artists and showbiz, buddies, alcohol abuse, stand up special, friends, stand up, live audience, drugs/alcohol, profanity
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Floundering (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a young man's unemployment benefits run out, the IRS freezes his bank account, and his druggie brother needs help, things can't get any worse...until he discovers his girlfriend is cheating on him!
Style: humorous, semi serious, cynical, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: unemployment, estrangement, life is a bitch, friendship, mentally unstable, dark humor, society, lifestyle, buddies, down on your luck, disorder, fictional reality ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, europe, usa, venice, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%