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Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer (1976)
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Original name: גבעת חלפון אינה עונה
Genre: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Sergio Konstanza, a Swindler, owes money to Mr. Hasson. He escapes to the desert where he joins a wacky army reserve unit whose Seargent is engaged to one of Mr. Hasson's Daughters.
Style:
cult classic, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick comedy, romantic comedy, raunchy comedy, weird, cult film
Audience:
teens
Plot:
israeli, conservative, israeli culture, desert, soldier, military, chases and races, satire, military base, nothing goes right, military life, disorder, silly humor, dishonesty, daring rescue, cons and scams, army, border, israeli army, oil well, israeli soldier, occupation, hebrew, track down
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
israel, middle east, egypt, palestine, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, not serious and feel good films with plots about disorder, nothing goes right, silly humor, satire, friends, israeli and buddies mostly in Comedy, Drama and History genres. Some movies like Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer: Operation Grandma (1999), Zero Motivation (2014), When Pigs Have Wings (2011), This is Sodom (2010), The Call-up (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 54 min.
Story:
Mivtza Savta ("Operation Grandma") is a satirical Israeli comedy about three very different brothers trying to get around many obstacles to bury their grandmother on her kibbutz. The story takes place in Israel, in the fictional kibbutz ...
Style:
black comedy, not serious, realistic, offbeat, feel good ...
Plot:
israeli, bureaucracy, family problems, social relations, disorder, family relations, nothing goes right, chases and races, military, race against time, soldier, family gatherings ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
middle east, israel
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Filmmaker Talya Lavie steps into the spotlight with a dark comedy about everyday life for a unit of young female Israeli soldiers. The human resources office at a remote desert base serves as the setting for this cast of characters, who bide their ...
Style:
funny, witty, talky, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot:
office, kick-butt women, satire, military, virginity, female soldier, military base, soldier, friendship, female pubic hair, israeli army, israeli ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, russia, tokyo
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64%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a tempest, fishermen do not find only fish in their nets. That is what happens to Jafaar, a poor fisherman who lives poorly in Gaza. And what he hauls in is really upsetting: imagine that, a pig! An unclean animal judged impure not only by the ...
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realistic, semi serious, humorous, philosophical, biting ...
Plot:
disorder, society, culture clash, suicide, israeli, moving, judaism, mission, bicycle, injustice, nothing goes right, misfit ...
Time:
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Place:
middle east, palestine, israel, palestinian authority
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53%
Genre: Comedy, History
Country: Israel, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When ancient Sodom is doomed to destruction due to its people's corrupt ways, Lot is the only righteous man destined to be spared.
Style:
parody, not serious, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
king, silly humor, love and romance, chases and races, switching roles, satire, disorder, fall in love, dishonesty, society, social decay, cons and scams ...
Place:
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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:
biting, cynical, realistic, not serious, humorous ...
Plot:
platoon, military service, superior officer, power relations, friends, disorder, chaos, military base, military life, basic training, chaos and mayhem, soldier ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After being called for his mandatory yearly Israeli army reserve duty, Arik Schwartzman finds himself looking for a uniform wearing serial rapist. He is aided by Natalie, a young female soldier who looks for her lost father.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous
Plot:
occupation, israeli, law enforcement, soldier, danger, military, army investigation, woman in danger, military base, military life, israeli army, mental patient ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
israel
Similarity:
48%
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:
sexy, not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
military, military life, life turned upside down, disorder, soldier, misfit, adolescence vs adulthood, hapless soldier, basic training, fish out of water, boot camp, military base ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Gote and Eli are two aging friends who don't want to age. Gote is a lifeguard who's fighting peepers on the Tel-Aviv beach. Eli is a guitar player who dreams of building a night club in altman's restaurant.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, uplifting, sexual, touching ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
israeli, lifeguard, nudity, beach, friendship, infidelity, rock, adolescence vs adulthood, voyeurism, womanizer, buddies, dishonesty ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
palestine, middle east, israel, tel aviv israel
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
"Party Crashers" chronicles the amusing encounter between Marco Polo (Marcelo Adnet), a Copacabana's trickster, and Beto (Eduardo Sterblitch), a boy passionate and somewhat pixilated, on the New Year's Eve in Rio. Together they ...
Style:
humorous, buddy comedy, lighthearted, light, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
sexual content, femme fatale, nothing goes right, escapades, buddies, cons and scams, silly humor, disorder, party, journey, new year's eve, escapism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sallah Shabati, the patriarch of the big family recently arrived to Israel from Yemen, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst of absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish ...
Style:
black comedy, black and white, biting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
israeli, islam, arab culture, satire, immigrant, family relations, society, fighting the system, rebellion, family life, large family, refugee camp ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east
Similarity:
37%
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:
slapstick, lighthearted, realistic, not serious, humorous
Plot:
farce, absurd humor, army life, fish out of water, satire, conscription, mistaken identity, cross dressing, political satire, escapism, army, soldier ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
finland
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot:
gangster, partner, crime gone awry, chases and races, dishonesty, friends, race against time, disorder, cons and scams, society, friendship, buddies ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Thane Furrows, an extremely cynical but unintentionally hilarious children's book writer, wakes up one morning, and, since pretty much everyone and everything annoys him, begins another day of complaining to himself. However, the day proves to ...
Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
death, disorder, dark humor, nothing goes right, losing-it hero, buddies, confined, writers, friends, uninvited guest, isolation, paranoia ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
buddy comedy, satirical, offbeat, dark comedy, lighthearted ...
Plot:
rock band, friendship, fish out of water, drug smuggling, misadventure, escape, political satire, corruption, satire, survival, irreverent, islam ...
Place:
lebanon, israel, palestine
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, not serious, entertaining, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
goofy hero, buddies, nothing goes right, partner, chase, obsessive quest, escapades, disorder, sarcasm, monkey, bully, evidence ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place:
munich germany, germany, europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, not serious, realistic, touching, captivating
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
beverly hills
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Israel, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, light, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
rabbi, culture clash, fish out of water, midlife crisis, religions or cults, society, nothing goes right, disorder, husband wife relationship, israeli, immigrant, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, france, paris france, europe, middle east ...
Similarity:
34%
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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33%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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33%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, not serious, entertaining, captivating, satirical ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, satire, airplane, disorder, rebelliousness, friends, fear of flying, tourist, humour, passenger, silly humor, hijacking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, africa, europe, tunisia
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
misfit, journalism, farce, partner, media, friends, buddies, danger, dishonesty, cons and scams, disorder, nothing goes right ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq, france, europe, middle east, paris france
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, not serious, realistic, witty, sentimental
Plot:
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Place:
mongolia, latin america, brazil, asia
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
slapstick, sitcom, situational comedy, lighthearted, feel good ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of Shemesh, a Simple guy from the suburbs who moves to the big city to fulfill his dreams appealed to the Israeli market as they've also crowned. Shemesh's Struggle to cope with life in the big city, Financial, Social and ...
Style:
sitcom, situational comedy, cult classic, slapstick, not serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
israel
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, funny, light, hilarious, feel good ...
Plot:
gambling, revenge, camp, military, vendetta, feud, soldier, cons and scams, irreverence, african american, grudge, disorder ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, california, greenland, las vegas
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
not serious, humorous, light, captivating
Plot:
nothing goes right, family business, ghost, hotel, silly humor, disorder, family relations, dishonesty, supernatural, workplace, cons and scams, seance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, hungary
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
This documentary follows 10 contestants as they compete for 1 million dollars in prize money.
Style:
humorous, not serious, realistic, witty, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disorder, chaos, contests and competitions, rivalry, chaos and mayhem, physical appearance, misfit, silly humor, profanity, interview, nudity, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Balding advertising executive Mr. Baum spends more time on a new ad campaign for purple sunglasses than he does with his own family. But suddenly he is forced to reexamine his life after a doctor tells him that he has an 'aggressive' brain ...
Style:
dark comedy, contemplative, semi serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
satire, dull life, family relations, dark humor, dealing with death, race against time, introspection, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, terminal illness, family life, doctor ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story:
An Israeli satire show featuring satirical references to current affairs of the past week through parodies of the people involved, as well as the thoughts of recurring characters. One of the most watched and influential shows on Israeli TV.
Style:
parody, witty, humorous, cynical, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
politics, political satire, society, state affairs, politically correct, media satire, artists and showbiz, israeli, satire, comedy team, impersonation, absurdism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, not serious, realistic, exciting, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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28%
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