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SOS (1988)
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Original name: SOS - en segelsällskapsresa
Genre: Comedy
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
Plot:
yacht, friends, suspense, 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:
sweden, europe, eastern europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and offbeat films with plots about disorder, friends, buddies, nothing goes right, love and romance, friendship and couples mostly in Comedy, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like SOS: The Accidental Golfer (1991), Charter Trip 2 (1985), The Call-up (1979), One-Week Bachelors (1982), Stella Street (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Stig-Helmer and Ole Bramserud on a trip to the Canary Islands for Christmas.
Style:
realistic, humorous, compassionate, melancholic, funny ...
Plot:
fear of flying, resort, hotel, christmas, swedish, travel, holiday, childhood, honest, island, catastrophe, vengeance ...
Time:
50s, 80s, 70s, 1930s
Place:
tokyo, sweden, europe, spain, stockholm sweden ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
golf, chosen one, lifestyle, buddies, sport, contests and competitions, rivalry, nothing goes right, ambition, pub, castle, unemployment ...
Time:
90s
Place:
sweden, scotland, europe, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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71%
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:
not serious, realistic, exciting, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
picnic, winter, ski resort, holiday, hotel, hang gliding, skiing, family relations, farce, comedy of errors, wooing, mistaken identity ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
switzerland, alps, swiss alps, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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:
realistic, not serious, cynical, biting, humorous
Plot:
platoon, military service, superior officer, friends, power relations, chaos, disorder, nothing goes right, soldier, buddies, military, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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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:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
architect, opposites attract, sexual content, nude, nothing goes right, buddies, odd couple, rave, disorder, friends, comedy of errors, infidelity ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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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, humorous, witty, realistic, clever ...
Plot:
misfit, fish out of water, disorder, satire, lifestyle, culture clash, tv show, showbiz, social decay, rise and fall, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
elderly, cons and scams, buddies, partners, nothing goes right, golden years, dark humor, scam, seance, senior citizen, gangsters, con artists ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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:
not serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
debt collector, boat, race, silly humor, disorder, uninhibited rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, escapades, rivalry, sabotage, actress playing herself ...
Time:
80s
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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:
gang, nothing goes right, buddies, on the road, motorcycle chase, biker, disorder, drug dealing, countryside, motorcycle, rocker, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 ⇓
27%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
Style:
biting, realistic, semi serious, witty, clever ...
Plot:
relocation, house, suspense, love and romance, society, couples, family relations, social differences, property, moving
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 ⇓
25%
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:
ambition, desire for fame, fall in love, love and romance, writer's life, friends, ghost writer, artists and showbiz, blind ambition, piano, cafe, donkey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 ⇓
24%
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 ⇓
24%
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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:
funny, dark, realistic, not serious, humorous
Plot:
boat, buddies, nothing goes right, friends, disorder, friendship, summer, clumsy, message in a bottle, ship, fistfight, clumsiness ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden, sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
CASPER and PHILIP two friends in their mid twenties, share a flat and spend most of their time chasing after girls. They chat girls up together, then flip a coin about who gets to pursue her. PHILIP always wins, but CASPER is the lucky one with the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, spain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
23%
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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, love and romance, buddies, parents and children, fall in love, disorder, bar fight
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, ohio, usa, cleveland ohio, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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clever, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Plot:
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23%
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Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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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:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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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 ...
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Country: Sweden
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 57 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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