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On the Nose (2001)
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On the Nose (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Brendan is a janitor at a university who has a fondness for gambling, especially betting on horse races. However, he doesn't have much skill at it, and poorly considered bets have drained the bank account he'd set aside for his daughter's education. Brendan's wife has made Brendan promise to give up gambling, but when their daughter announces she's just been accepted to Trinity College in Ireland, Brendan has to come up with the tuition money, and fast. While doing his sweeping at work, Brendan makes a remarkable discovery - the preserved head of an aboriginal tribesman who, under proper conditions, can pick the winners in horse races.
Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, independent film, offbeat
Plot: gambling, gangster, family relations, disorder, workplace, workplace situations, university, introspection, moral dilemma, comedy of errors, dishonesty, criminal heroes, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, horse race, campus, money, college, female nudity, bet, bare breasts, chase, professor, winning, gambler ...
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
Keyword: gangsters, irish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, feel good and realistic films with plots about family relations, disorder, love and romance, dishonesty, workplace, couples and parents and children mostly in Comedy, Fantasy and Drama genres. Some movies like On the Nose: Life's a Breeze (2013), Waltzing Anna (2006), The Pope Must Diet (1991), A Nanny for Christmas (2010), 12 Wishes of Christmas (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Life's a Breeze (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Life's A Breeze tells the story of a family as they search for a lost fortune around the streets of Dublin.
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, family problems, on the road, comedy of errors, life turned upside down, disorder, family life, lifestyle, society, humour, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
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 5.1
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Waltzing Anna (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Dr. Charlie Keegan is ordered to serve 6 months as the staff doctor at a second rate retirement home or lose his medical licence after accusations of swindling elderly patients. What the doctor expects will be a brief interruption from his lucrative ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, touching, semi serious, emotional ...
Plot: doctors and patients, couples, workplace, moral dilemma, mental illness, elderly, introspection, fall in love, love and romance, misfit, human nature, aging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
The Pope Must Diet (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and the reappearance of his old lover.
Style: humorous, not serious, witty, feel good, light ...
Plot: priest, comedy of errors, clergy, mistaken identity, disorder, religions or cults, dishonesty, atheism, pope, vatican, cons and scams, rebellion ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
A Nanny for Christmas (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ally (Emmanuelle Vaugier) is a smart young career woman who needs a new job. Samantha (Cynthia Gibb) is a busy Beverly Hills advertising executive/mom whose too-well-mannered kids need some fun in their lives. And Danny Donner (Dean Cain) is the ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: nanny, christmas, holiday, love and romance, comedy of errors, fall in love, workplace, lifestyle, disorder, couples, parents and children, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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12 Wishes of Christmas (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A woman whose dog was taken by her landlord follows her life coach's instructions to make 12 wishes for a better future, and watches in surprise as each of those wishes comes true in this Christmas fantasy for the entire family. Laura was ...
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, life turned upside down, wish come true, workplace, hopes, nothing goes right, best friend, disorder, down on your luck, love and romance, life is a bitch, dog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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77%
 3.6
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The Yank (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Tom Murphy, a middle-aged Irish-American man from Cleveland, travels to Ireland for his best friend’s wedding and to find the perfect woman.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good ...
Plot: friends, family relations, culture clash, buddies, fall in love, love and romance, parents and children, disorder, bar fight
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, ohio, usa, cleveland ohio, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Man About Dog (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three pedigree chumps learn that every underdog has its day in this freewheeling Irish comedy. In hock to the tune of £50,000 to a Belfast bookie and saddled with a dopey greyhound that wouldn't run if its backside was on fire, the likely lads ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ambition, bookies, gambling, disorder, dishonesty, buddies, male bonding, friendship between men, dog, road trip, down on your luck, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Waking Ned Devine (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Ireland, France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
Style: humorous, feel good, dark comedy, black comedy, touching ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: small town, friendship, friends, countryside, gambling, lottery winner, death, greed, casino, caper, old age, landscape ...
Time: future, year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Holiday Switch (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A week before Christmas, Paula finds herself struggling with bills and life with her blue-collar husband Gary and her two daughters. When Nick, her high school boyfriend returns to town, a wealthy art gallery owner, Paula wonders if she made the ...
Style: feel good, humorous, sentimental, captivating, light ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, introspection, miraculous event, road not taken, wish fulfillment, couples, time portal, another dimension, winter, holiday, love, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 5.7
 11K
High Spirits (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When Peter Plunkett's Irish castle turned hotel is about to be repossesed, he decides to spice up the attraction a bit for the 'Yanks' by having his staff pretend to haunt the castle. The trouble begins when a busload of American ...
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, funny, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: supernatural, ghost, haunting, castle, halloween, husband murders wife, fall in love, disorder, zombie, happy ending, paranormal, haunted house ...
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 5.2
 367
Zonad (2009)
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, black comedy ...
Plot: family relations, mistaken identity, hidden identity, social relations, cons and scams, family life, dishonesty, disorder, village, con artists, alien, morality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Charley and the Angel (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, sentimental, offbeat ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: afterlife, redemption, youth, family relations, guardian angel, couples, hopes, going straight, unfulfillment, supernatural, human spirit, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.0
 468
The Life Coach (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Max Chêne is a life coach who helps to motivate everybody from professional athletes to government ministers to business executives. After his gambling debts get out of control and his wife throws him out, he is approached to take on a unique ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Plot: workplace, workplace romance, workplace situations, save the day, escapades, gambler, gambling, gambling debt, money problems, financial problem, rivalry, relationship problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.4
 2K
Snow (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Set in San Ernesto, California with only three days before Christmas, Nick Snowden needs to rescue a young reindeer from a zoo.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good, touching
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, fish out of water, escapades, daring rescue, fall in love, hidden identity, love and romance, dishonesty, race against time, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Ghost with Driver (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A chauffeur for a corrupt CEO, and a few hours later, his boss himself, are killed by the industrialist's associate. But their ghosts remain on Earth, and they try to tell the millionaire's teenage son the identity of the killer.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot: afterlife, ghost, family relations, boss and employee, workplace, misfit partners, supernatural, dishonesty, righting the wronged, power relations, disorder, workplace intrigue ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: france, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
A Thousand Words (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja (Cliff Curtis) for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes unglued after a ...
Style: light, entertaining, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: life & death, guru, change of heart, workplace, life philosophy, buddhist, liar, family relations, life turned upside down, imaginary, communication problem, existentialism ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis (1988)
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 ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, sitcom, humorous ...
Plot: family relations, couples, single parent, criminal heroes, dangerous attraction, dishonesty, love and romance, buddies, love triangle, college, family life, high school ...
Time: 60s, 50s
Place: colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.5
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Seven Dinners (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After five years of marriage, their relationships have come to a dead end – no kids, no common interests, almost no more love is left… When the wife asks for divorce, the husband tries the last remedy to cure their relationships – a scientific ...
Style: light, feel good, sentimental, humorous, touching
Audience: family outing
Plot: couples, love and romance, family relations, love, hopes, marriage, sex, husband wife relationship, destiny, twists and turns, male full rear nudity, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Never Say... Never! (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Paris, 1830. Valentin loses himself in alcohol, gambling and women. He does not believe in life and especially not in love. His uncle Van Buck believes only in the virtues of money and trade. Everything separates them until the day when Van Buck, to ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cons and scams, womanizer, dishonesty, gambling, wooing, money, seduction, money problems, cat versus mouse, humour, escapades, love affair ...
Time: 19th century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A middle-aged man tries to get by in Milan while trying to retain his dignity.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: fall in love, parents and children, family relations, bittersweet, workplace situations, workplace, love and romance, society, urban, father son relationship, loneliness, kindness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Florida (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Tired of rough winters, a Quebec family buys a motel in south Florida. But life is not easy down where motels grow faster than grass. Two bigger businessmen are out to get them for invading their turf. However, that is not even the beginning of ...
Style: feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: family relations, real estate, manipulation, workplace, rivalry, couple relations, dishonesty, couples, disorder, comedy of errors, family business, hotel ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: florida, quebec, usa, montreal
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46%
When Santa Fell to Earth (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Christmas is just two weeks away, it is pouring with rain, and Ben is struggling to get into the Christmas spirit. Suddenly, Bens life takes a turn for the better when Santa Niklas Goodfellow and his Christmas caravan come crashing down to Earth in ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, good versus evil, family relations, family life, imaginary, disorder, hopes, youth, young heroes, on the run, wish come true, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Moore Street market-trader Agnes Brown finds her livelihood under threat from a ruthless developer, she and her family embark on a campaign to save her stall, aided as only the Browns will be by a motley troop of blind trainee Ninjas, an ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, happy ...
Plot: elderly, campaign, fighting the system, disorder, court case, eccentric family, family relations, family life, satire, wife, strong female presence, fruit
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Big Bad Wolf (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering about the meaning of their lives and were swamped by a wave of existential doubts. An entirely new ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, feel good, light ...
Plot: family relations, infidelity, disorder, siblings relations, couples, life turned upside down, dishonesty, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, loss of mother, hospital, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, versailles
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Frits and Franky (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Frits & Franky find a lot of money in a car that crashes into the water. They don't know what to do with it.
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good
Plot: gangster, unlikely criminals, family relations, chases and races, silly humor, nothing goes right, disorder
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
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43%
Escanaba in da Moonlight (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A macho man in a family on the eve of deer-hunting season must deal with the eldest son's curse of never having bagged a buck.
Style: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, light, cult classic ...
Plot: family relations, goofy hero, obsessive quest, parents and children, dysfunctional family, disorder, family problems, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, deer hunting, camp, camping ...
Time: year 1989, 80s, 21st century
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.4
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The Longshot (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Four losers borrow money from gangsters to bet on a "sure thing", but lose. The gangsters go after them to get their money.
Style: independent film, realistic, exciting, humorous
Plot: horse race, ambition, criminal heroes, dishonesty, disorder, down on your luck, cons and scams, gambling, gangster, horse, mafia, mob boss ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.2
 60
Get a Job (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In order to save his own job, an employment agent has to find work for the most unemployable man on Maui.
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot: racial stereotype, workplace situations, partner, disorder, friends, goofy hero, workplace, adult as child, unemployment, farce, wedding
Time: 21st century
Place: hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.0
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Dr. Cabbie (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An unemployed doctor turned cab driver becomes a local hero when he converts his taxi into a mobile clinic. Dr. CABBIE is the heart warming journey of a young Indian Doctor who immigrates to Canada with the selfless ambition of healing others while ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: taxi, doctor, fish out of water, disorder, workplace, follow your dream, hopes, buddies, misfit, love and romance, workplace situations, interracial relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Mr. St. Nick (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Kelsey Grammer stars as Nick St. Nicholas, a Miami-based playboy philanthropist who is about to make his life complete by wedding the girl of his dreams, gorgeous TV weathercaster Heidi Gardelle (Elaine Hendrix). Not known to the general public is ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, santa claus, family business, parents and children, family life, rescue, disorder, beach, xmas, holiday, factory, destiny ...
Place: florida, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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