Movies like SOS

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SOS (1988)
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SOS (1988)
Original name: SOS - en segelsällskapsresa
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The landlubber Stig-Helmer and his Norwegian friend Ole get on a barge by mistake. They arrive at an archipelago and have to spend Midsummer among the fancy rich boat people, their yachts and summer houses.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, suspense
Plot: water, yacht, friends, resort, escapades, social differences, nothing goes right, buddies, submarine, viking, party, businessman, summer, golf, sailboat, politician, boat, high society, fall in love, class differences, husband wife relationship, sexism, costume party, cruise ship, sailing ...
Time: 80s
Place: europe, eastern europe
Keyword: sweden

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Most similar movies to SOS

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about disorder, nothing goes right, friends, buddies, family relations, escapades and silly humor mostly in Comedy, Family and Drama genres. Some movies like SOS: The Accidental Golfer (1991), Charter Trip 2 (1985), The Call-up (1979), The Boatniks (1970), Docking the Boat (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Package Tour or Can You Get Fish and Chips at the Flamenco (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Stig-Helmer and Ole Bramserud on a trip to the Canary Islands for Christmas.
Style: hilarious, humorous, realistic, offbeat, semi serious ...
Plot: fear of flying, anti hero, resort, hotel, christmas, tourist, travel, golf, shyness, vacation, summer vacation, disorder ...
Time: 70s
Place: europe, spain, eastern europe, canary islands, stockholm sweden ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Accidental Golfer (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: I bet anyone can get better at golf than you are in one week, a golfer says to her golfing businessman for a boyfriend in a quarrel. Unfortunately Stig-Helmer is standing nearby when the boyfriend accepts the bet, and he is chosen to be the ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Plot: golf, bet, chosen one, rivalry, contests and competitions, nothing goes right, lifestyle, ambition, buddies, pub, unemployment, businessman ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, europe, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Charter Trip 2 (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Stig-Helmer takes another vacation with his norwegian friend Ole. This time it's time for a skiing vacation in the Alps. Of course, Stig-Helmer has never learnt downhill skiing, but he attends a ski school. And together they manage to charm two ...
Style: exciting, realistic, not serious, humorous, offbeat
Plot: hang gliding, picnic, ski resort, winter, holiday, hotel, new year, family relations, skiing, silly humor, mountain, wooing ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: switzerland, alps, swiss alps, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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The Call-up (1979)
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: cynical, biting, realistic, not serious, humorous
Plot: platoon, military service, disorder, chaos, power relations, friends, superior officer, chaos and mayhem, military base, military life, basic training, military ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Anderssons Rock the Mountains (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The Svensson family goes on a ski-vacation during the winter holiday. Sune, the family flirt girl-charmer, is yet again pulled into a difficult relationship and his father Rudolf is pushed into difficulty parent challenges while the little brother ...
Style: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: siblings relations, family relations, disorder, resort, youth, nothing goes right, family vacation, friendship, vacation, parent child relationship, parents and children, silly humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.5
 850
The Boatniks (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Young and awkward, The Coast-Guard's ensign Thomas Garland suffers from the comparison with his late father, a war hero. Which does not prevent him from falling for pretty Kate Fairchild, a young woman who runs a sailing school. Of course the ...
Style: slapstick, exciting, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: submarine, boat, ocean liner, underwater, sea, disorder, danger, goofy hero, criminal heroes, rescue, nothing goes right, escapades ...
Time: 60s
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Docking the Boat (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of party goers have trouble getting their boat ashore on a small island. The inhabitants of the island try to help, often with the help of an old sailor, and the results are absurd and hilarious.
Style: dark comedy, funny, dark, not serious, realistic ...
Plot: water, nordic, boat, buddies, nothing goes right, friends, disorder, friendship, clumsiness, group, summer, clumsy ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Anderssons Hit the Road (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sune and his family discovers an old painting that could be worth a fortune. There's only one problem, it lacks a signature. Follow the Anderssons in a wacky roadtrip through Europe, filled with crazy fun.
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, light, slapstick
Plot: family relations, parents and children, silly humor, disorder, youth, nothing goes right, on the road, resort, road trip, vacation, car trouble, car ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara star as Roger and Peggy Hobbs, a St. Louis couple with a large brood who desire a seaside vacation. Renting a cottage by the ocean is just the first step in a summer fraught with disasters, including a couch ...
Style: black and white, humorous, retro, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: beach, dysfunctional family, summer vacation, summer, family relations, parenthood, house, island, sailing, dancing, guest, fatherhood ...
Time: year 1962, 20th century, 60s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Anderssons in Greece (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Sune is back! Together with his little brother Håkan Bråkan, big sister Anna, mother Karin and dad Rudolf, Sune embarks on a summer holiday trip to Greece. As every summer before, the family plans to spend their vacation in Myggträsk. Then the ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: summer vacation, resort, vacation, family vacation, beach resort, family relations, child protagonist, nothing goes right, siblings relations, parents and children, young love, silly humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Bit of Tom Jones? (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In a late night bar, Henry is approached by a mysterious woman who offers to sell him the severed "manhood" of Wales' greatest vocal entertainer. Believing he can make a fortune selling the infamous appendage on to obsessive fans, ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
Plot: buddies, manhood, chase, friends, obsessive quest, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, dark humor, nothing goes right, hotshot hero, mysterious character, bar
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Ernest Rides Again (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Buffoonish Ernest and his dimwitted pal Abner unearth a huge cannon reputed to contain the crown jewels of England.
Style: funny, independent film, humorous, semi serious
Plot: weirdo, cannon, nothing goes right, escapades, rivalry, on the run, college, down on your luck, family life, disorder, indiana jones
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Mystics (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: elderly, cons and scams, partner, buddies, nothing goes right, dark humor, seance, scam, senior citizen, gangster, con artists, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Who Pulled the Plug? (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story: To secure an order for 1 000 cruise ships from an Arab prince, two companies have to compete by racing each other by canal from Stockholm to Gothenburg. A small family owned company on the brink of bankruptcy is pitted against their major competitor ...
Style: realistic, not serious, offbeat, humorous, eighties
Plot: poor, water, exodus, debt collector, boat, race, silly humor, disorder, contests and competitions, rivalry, escapades, ambition ...
Time: 80s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
One-Week Bachelors (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Gary's wife going away and he drives her to the airport. Gary has planned a week of hard work but at the airport he met Lasse, and then becomes nothing that Gary had in mind. An unlikely friendship develops between the two, and Gary succeed in ...
Style: sex comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, eighties
Plot: architect, opposites attract, sexual content, nudity, odd couple, buddies, nothing goes right, rave, disorder, friends, comedy of errors, auto mechanic ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot: camp, friendship, camping, beach, nothing goes right, family relations, disorder, buddies, resort, fish out of water, snobbism, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.4
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Freebird (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Rock and Roll Road Movie Comedy set in Wales
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: biker, gang, nothing goes right, buddies, on the road, motorcycle chase, countryside, drug dealing, disorder, bike, motorcycle, classic car ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
iParty with Victorious (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Carly is enjoying life with her new boyfriend Steven Carson, a home-schooled boy with divorced parents who spends part of his life in Los Angeles. What she doesn't know is that while in Los Angeles, Steven has another girlfriend, a student at ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, surprise ending
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: teenage life, best friend, dishonesty, friendship, youth, infidelity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, party, crossover, makeup artist, friends, actor playing himself ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Ernest Goes to Africa (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The title says it all. There's a mix up involving stolen diamonds which Ernest has (naturally) made into a yo-yo and given to his would be girlfriend, Rene. But Rene wants a man of action, and doesn't think that Ernest fits the bill. After ...
Style: humorous, independent film, feel good, semi serious
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: jungle, humour, satire, weirdo, rescue, kidnapping, silly humor, partner, disorder, friends, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals ...
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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, partner, friends, religions or cults, fish out of water, comedy of errors, society, love and romance, nothing goes right, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Sune's Summer (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story: It's summer and Sune Anderssons family is planning a holiday in Greece. Sunes father, Rudolf is sulking because then he won't be able to go on his beloved fishing trip. But after seeing how much the Greek trip is going to cost, he comes up ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, not serious, humorous, touching
Audience: family outing
Plot: boy, childhood sweetheart, european, summer, family relations, daydreamer, car, silly humor, friends, disorder, nothing goes right, family life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Stella Street (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Michael Caine, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Roger Moore all live on a quiet street in Surbiton and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards run their corner shop - who knew?
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, realistic, clever ...
Plot: misfit, fish out of water, disorder, satire, lifestyle, social decay, culture clash, showbiz, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, society, buddies ...
Time: 60s, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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, greek, friends, fall in love, beach, inheritance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greece, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Fidgety Bram (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Fidgety Bram (seven years old) thinks a lot about the world around him. He is very much looking forward to enter the first grade. But then he ends up in the class of the strict teacher Mr. Fish. The straightfoward Mr. Fish doesn’t care about the ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: family relations, mischievous children, school, parents and children, youth, disorder, coming of age, children, uncontrollable, friends, power relations, teachers and students
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Moon in a Bottle (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Zeta has a month to hand in a novel she has been commissioned to write and every day she searches for inspiration among the strange customers who are regulars at the Café Rossignol. There she becomes close to Alicia, a pretty waitress who ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Plot: fall in love, ambition, desire for fame, friends, writer's life, love and romance, ghost writer, artists and showbiz, blind ambition, cafe, donkey, piano ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Life's a Beach (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 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, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: resort, couples, friends, disorder, fall in love, youth, lifestyle, island, beach, looking for sex, friendship, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: While trying to avoid an obsessed girl, rocker Drake Parker meets a young girl, who makes him promise to give her family the best Christmas ever. Later, at the Premiere's first ever Christmas party, a group of teens start to make trouble. ...
Style: christmas special, semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, youth, comedy of errors, mischievous children, nothing goes right, family relations, lifestyle, step siblings, disorder, friends, siblings relations, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.0
 2K
Bingo Bongo (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The ape-man, found somewhere in the jungles of Congo, transferred to Milan and named Bingo Bongo. The only one who believes in the human qualities of him is Laura, a woman anthropologist , so their affection for each other even grows to love.
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, family outing
Plot: teaching the ways of the world, culture clash, fish out of water, misfit, college, social relations, friendship, fall in love, superpower, escapades, training, mentor ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: italy, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Stig-Helmer Story (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Stig-Helmer Story is a 2011 Swedish comedy film directed by Lasse Åberg. The film is the sixth in the series about Stig-Helmer Olsson.
Plot: shakespeare's romeo and juliet, bully, aging, salvation army, memory, forbidden love, shyness, flashback, male female relationship, model train, banjo, band
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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, disorder, elderly, escapades, parents and children, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, friend, bollywood, hindi
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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