Movies like Mystics
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Mystics (2003)
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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:
humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
elderly, cons and scams, dark humor, nothing goes right, partners, buddies, golden years, seance, scam, senior citizen, gangsters, con artists, friends, disorder, dishonesty, widow, gangster, crimes
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
ireland, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about disorder, friends, buddies, dishonesty, nothing goes right, partners and cons and scams mostly in Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like Mystics: Waking Ned Devine (1998), Man About Dog (2004), The Hustle (2008), Irish Jam (2006), Shut Up and Shoot Me (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Plot:
gangsters, partners, crime gone awry, buddies, silly humor, race against time, friends, nothing goes right, chase, disorder, society, cons and scams ...
Time:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest with a tempting grand prize -- the deed to their local pub. But what could happen when a duplicitous ...
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humorous, entertaining, feel good, light, realistic ...
Plot:
culture clash, friendship, cons and scams, on the run, rise to the top, contests and competitions, disorder, love triangle, village, fall in love, buddies, dishonesty ...
Place:
ireland, europe, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Colin Frampton is an Englishman who never stops worrying, not even on holiday in Prague. When Colin's wife is accidentally squashed by a statue, he decides that he can't face life without her. So Colin bribes Pavel to help him die. An ...
Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, realistic, offbeat
Plot:
dark humor, hitman, misfit, partners, friendship, criminal heroes, gangsters, death wish, goofy hero, love and romance, buddies, disorder ...
Time:
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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 ⇓
28%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Plot:
mistaken identity, hidden identity, social relations, family relations, family life, cons and scams, dishonesty, disorder, village, con artists, alien, morality ...
Time:
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Place:
ireland, europe
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25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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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 ⇓
25%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three washed-up actors must deliver the most convincing performances of their lives as part of a dangerous plot designed to finance their triumphant comeback.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
hollywood, crime gone awry, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals, elderly, dishonesty, gangsters, criminal heroes, disorder, heist, cons and scams, filmmaking ...
Place:
usa, las vegas, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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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 ⇓
25%
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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:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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:
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24%
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 ⇓
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of ...
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semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Four students who work on different jobs during their vacations in summer are tired of doing the same thing every year. Therefore they decide to open up a moving company together and confront themselves with the former boss of one of them.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story:
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not serious, feel good, humorous, talky, realistic ...
Plot:
buddies, artists and showbiz, friends, filmmaking, friendship, odd couple, misfit partners, partners, disorder, profanity
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The story of two lads from Belfast as they stumble their way through the London gay underworld in search of 'gainful employment'. This being the offering of sexual favours to older gay men in order to subsidise their respective giros. 9 ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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semi serious, touching, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Plot:
actor's life, elderly, showbiz, friends, golden years, artists and showbiz, retirement home, filmmaking, disorder, retirement home life, hollywood, silly humor ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, sad, realistic ...
Plot:
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Place:
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