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Train Birds (1998)
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Train Birds (1998)
Original name: Zugvögel – einmal nach Inari
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Crime
Country: Germany, Finland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Hannes is a beer-truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Time-Table Contest in Inari (Finland). When his new boss cancels his extra holidays to go there, Hans goes mad... On his journey to Finland by train, followed by the police, he meets lot of folks and the love of his life.
Style: road movie, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: chess, truck driver, chase, police investigation, lapland, photographic memory, detective inspector, suspicion of murder, dark humor, misfit, on the road, love and romance, fall in love, law enforcement, false accusation, on the run, social relations, time, computer, smuggling, boat, beer, beggar, cell phone, cigarette smoking ...
Time: 90s
Place: finland, europe
Keyword: rose

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and offbeat films with plots about love and romance, fall in love, disorder, couples, on the run, on the road and dishonesty mostly in Comedy, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Train Birds: No More Mr. Nice Guy (1993), Au Revoir Taipei (2010), Jatt & Juliet 2 (2013), L'amour aux Trousses (2005), Johnny Stecchino (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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No More Mr. Nice Guy (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Die Brüder Kipp (Joachim Król) und Most (Horst Krause) machen sich auf den Weg, um das Gut ihrer Oma zu erben. Auf diesem Weg begegnen sie Viktor (Konstantin Kotljarov), einem desertierten russischen Soldaten, der die beiden kidnappt und Nadine ...
Style: road movie, realistic, not serious, humorous
Plot: on the run, sibling relationship, goofy hero, misfit, nothing goes right, uneducated, disorder, family relations, farce, communication problem, on the road, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: german democratic republic, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Au Revoir Taipei (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Kai (Jack Yao), who works at his parent's noodle shop by day and spends his nights in a bookstore to learn French, decides to go to Paris after his girlfriend, who recently left for Paris, dumps him by phone. Then the local neighborhood mafia ...
Style: realistic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, light hearted
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, couple relations, love affair, fall in love, couples, disorder, nothing goes right, misfit, love and romance, fish out of water, bookstore, book ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, taiwan, paris france, asia, taipei
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 62 min.
Story: Lugubrious Finns Valto and Reino take to the road in search of coffee and vodka, without which their lives are not worth living. But their reveries are interrupted by the arrival of garrulous Russian Klaudia and Estonian Tatiana - who are clearly ...
Style: road movie, black and white, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: on the road, coffee, nordic, summer, social satire, misfit, hitchhiker, dark humor, social relations, estrangement, couples, friends ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century, 60s
Place: europe, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Jatt & Juliet 2 (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A sequel to the hit Punjabi romantic comedy.
Style: humorous, not serious, feel good, realistic, fun
Plot: punjabi, disorder, unlikely couple, law enforcement, couples, love and romance, fall in love, opposites attract, mission, chase, fish out of water, misfit
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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L'amour aux Trousses (2005)
Genre: Crime, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Franck and Paul are working as team buddies in their Paris police unit. They are sent on a mission in Toulon to solve a drug traffic mystery, but things get out of hand when Paul learns that Franck has an affair with Valeria, his wife, who also ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, exciting
Plot: police investigation, partners against crime, love triangle, drug dealing, couple relations, law enforcement, partner, buddies, friendship, infidelity, betrayal, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Johnny Stecchino (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her ...
Style: slapstick comedy, not serious, realistic, witty, offbeat ...
Plot: mistaken identity, down syndrome, mafia, gangster, fall in love, italian mafia, amor, dark humor, insurance fraud, murder, cocaine, mole ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: italy, palermo italy, europe, sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.0
 189
Tea & Sangria (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Jilted in Madrid, a bewildered Englishman must learn to live and love again - the Spanish way.
Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: date night
Plot: life turned upside down, culture clash, fish out of water, love and romance, society, misfit, disorder, social relations, love
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Ariel (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Taisto Kasurinen is a Finnish coal miner whose father has just committed suicide and who is framed for a crime he did not commit. In jail, he starts to dream about leaving the country and starting a new life. He escapes from prison but things ...
Style: dark comedy, art house, road movie, stylized, witty ...
Plot: on the road, fall in love, minimal dialogue, social commentary, suicide, marriage, unemployment, chaos, revolution, loser, nordic, outlaw ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century, future
Place: finland, europe, helsinki finland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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 5.1
 475
Coast to Coast (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Madie is a neurotic, wealthy woman who escapes from a New York state mental hospital where her unwholesome husband had her committed to avoid the trial of a expensive divorce. Madie hitches a ride back to California with a certain Charles Callahan, ...
Style: road movie, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: truck, trucker, love, bounty hunter, chase, on the road, mental institution, crumbling marriage, misfit, dishonesty, fall in love, on the run ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: california, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Me and Morrison (2001)
Genre: Crime, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A bittersweet tale of a love affair between two people whose lives seem to have lost all direction. The female lead, Milla, is drifting aimlessly through life until she meets Aki. They fall in love - but happiness in a relationship shadowed by crime ...
Style: sincere, humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: family relations, love and romance, couples, human nature, fall in love, society, parent child relationship, organized crime, coping, sex scene, sexual content, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 5.3
 155
I'm Yours (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A road movie romance that conjures a heady concoction of free love and end of the world conspiracy.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, romantic
Plot: on the road, unlikely couple, self discovery, love and romance, bittersweet, conspiracy, world
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.0
 1K
Off Beat (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, light, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: law enforcement, impersonating a police officer, love and romance, switching roles, friendship, disorder, mistaken identity, police officer, misfit, contests and competitions, fish out of water, partner ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden, Germany, France, UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story: After fifteen years' service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide, but can't go through with it, so he hires a contract killer in a seedy bar to murder him at some unspecified time in the future. ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, surreal, neo noir, semi serious ...
Plot: killer, assassin, stream of consciousness, professional, loner, loneliness, bittersweet, dull life, dark humor, down on your luck, change of luck, nothing goes right ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: england, london, europe, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Matsugane Potshot Affair (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic and darkly humorous.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, realistic
Plot: nothing goes right, police investigation, police detective, law enforcement, silly humor, gangster, disorder, social relations, small town, dark humor, satire, nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.0
 446
Men to Kiss (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The gay couple Tobi and Ernie are being visited by Ernie's old friend Uta. What at first looks like an innocent house-call, turns into an insidious attack on the couple's relationship.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: gay, gay couple, lgbt, gay relationship, love and romance, couples, opposites attract, fall in love, nightlife, lgbtq, twentysomething life, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.0
 1K
Living It Up (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Lola, a Mexican waitress working in Madrid, befriends a 30-year-old suicidal man who has borrowed $1,000,000 to spend on his last day on Earth, knowing he will be killed anyway if he fails to return the money. After meeting Lola, however, he decides ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: mafia, love, debt, fall in love, danger, gangster, young lovers, waitress, money, suicide, profanity, deadend life ...
Time: 90s
Place: spain, europe, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Bombay to Bangkok (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Bombay to Bangkok is a Bollywood film starring Shreyas Talpade and Lena Christensen in the lead roles. It is written and directed by Nagesh Kukunoor and produced by Elahe Hiptoola and Rahul Puri. Shankar (Shreyas Talpade), a petty thief, in ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sexy, humorous, suspenseful ...
Plot: gangster, disorder, young lovers, unlikely couple, on the run, fall in love, chaos and mayhem, couples, battle of the sexes, criminal heroes, goofy hero, sexual relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, thailand, bangkok thailand, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.8
 766
Night Bus (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, neo noir, fast ...
Plot: femme fatale, on the run, dishonesty, escapades, cons and scams, chases and races, on the road, cash, chase, unlikely partners, twists and turns, bus ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: italy, europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Steam-bread Blues (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Franz, the local police officer in a tiny bavarian village has to investigate in a case involving a disliked school principal who commited suicide? Or was it murder after all?
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: multiple suspects, brother brother relationship, police investigation, partners against crime, murder, law enforcement, amateur detective, social relations, father son relationship, cop, monkey, abuse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, germany, southern germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.4
 469
Blue Moon (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After screwing up a money exchange a Viennese small-time crook accompanied by a Russian hostess hits the road to the East.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, atmospheric, road movie ...
Plot: on the road, gangster, dishonesty, crime gone awry, obsessive quest, cons and scams, fall in love, on the run, love and romance, disorder, prostitute, iron curtain ...
Time: 21st century
Place: slovakia, vienna, eastern europe, central europe, ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.3
 385
The Trio (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Zobel and Karl are a long time gay couple who live together in a trailer home with Lizzie, Zobel's spunky daughter from a heterosexual misadventure. Together these three form a team of thieves who eke out an existence as pickpockets. After a ...
Style: talky, realistic, semi serious, sexual, offbeat ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay interest, outlaw, erotica, male nudity, gay subtext, family relations, couples, gays and lesbians, single parent, dealing with death ...
Time: 90s
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.2
 338
Alex and Leo (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Leo, an advertising executive in his mid-30s, falls in love with Alex who's just gotten out of a long-term relationship. While Alex doesn't quite know how to react to Leo's advances, Leo's facing trouble with Alex's oddball ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, sexy ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, couples, love and romance, gays and lesbians, fall in love, gender, breakup, lgbt, male nudity, drunk, male objectification
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Little Sharks (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When dishwasher Ingo, whose girl-friend has just left him, returns a borrowed bar stool to the Folkwang Acting School in Essen, he stumbles into the audition for next year's new students. He lets Johannes, the broke and unsuccessful applicant, ...
Style: road movie, semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Plot: hitchhiker, male objectification, friendship, love and romance, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, buddies, youth, city life, urban, naked in public ...
Time: 90s
Place: munich germany, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 6.1
 6K
Loosies (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young pickpocket in the New York subways, living a fast, free, lifestyle is confronted by a woman whom he had a one night affair with, she informs him that she is now pregnant with his child, he must now choose between continuing the lifestyle he ...
Style: sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic, romantic ...
Plot: disorder, law enforcement, introspection, unlikely couple, criminal heroes, couples, on the run, chases and races, casanova, life turned upside down, pregnancy, urban ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Bacon on the Side (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: culture clash, fall in love, immigrant, couples, society, parents and children, interracial relations, disorder, love and romance, family relations
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Killing Is My Business, Honey (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A hit man whose mission is to prevent the printing of a tell-all book written by a former Mafioso, falls in love with the employee who may lose her job if the book doesn't get published.
Style: realistic, humorous, tense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: hitman, workplace, mistaken identity, disorder, gangster, dishonesty, politics, fall in love, impossible love, love affair, boss and employee, monkey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Adrenaline Drive (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money. A cross-country chase ensues.
Style: dark comedy, road movie, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, on the run, hospital, stolen money, partner, gangster, fall in love, fugitives, odd couple, chases and races, nothing goes right, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Perfect Date (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Michel dreams of a perfect meeting with the woman of his dreams, entirely due to chance, as his parents and grandparents experienced. Vincent, Michel's contrast, is completely different. He is more the man of the direct approach and he follows ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: couples, looking for love, fall in love, love and romance, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, friendship between men, love story, friends, buddies, looking for sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Hit by Lightning (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When Ricky Miller, a single, quiet 40-year old aspiring writer and manager of Debbie's (think Denny's) and probably the last person you'd notice in a crowd is 'hit by lightning' and meets the love of his life, the beautiful ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Plot: best friend, love triangle, dating, comedy of errors, fall in love, destructive relationship, love and romance, disorder, dark humor, dishonesty, couple relations, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 517
Bank Robber (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After robbing a bank, the robber hides out from the police in a seedy hotel where he is forced to bribe various tennants for protection as well as their silence which becomes more difficult as greed takes over and the people demand more exuberant ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, entertaining, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: hotel, disorder, nothing goes right, dishonesty, heist, bank robber, blackmail, money, friendship, police, motel, bank robbery ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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