Movies like The Great Match

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The Great Match (2006)
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The Great Match (2006)
Original name: La gran final
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A comedy about the attempts of tribal groups around the world to watch a soccer match.
Style: humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, sentimental
Plot: nothing goes right, obsessive quest, escapades, ambition, disorder, fish out of water, race against time, globalization, soccer, football, travel, world cup, desert, sport, on the road, contests and competitions, television, chases and races, antenna, adventure
Time: contemporary
Place: asia, brazil, latin america, mongolia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, not serious and light films with plots about disorder, nothing goes right, silly humor, escapades, friends, ambition and buddies mostly in Comedy, Adventure and Sport genres. Some movies like The Great Match: The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980), The Test (2013), Noobz (2012), Erkan & Stefan (2000), Sole a catinelle (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: South Africa, Botswana
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Misery is brought to a small group of Sho in the Kalahari desert in the form of a cola bottle. In his quest to throw the evil object over the edge of the earth, Xixo encounters Western "civilization," a haphazard doctor and a tyranical ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, feel good, intellectual ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: desert, culture clash, tribe, wilderness, on the road, rivalry, philosophy, farce, female nudity, jungle, snake, gunfight ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century
Place: africa, south africa, cape town south africa
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The Test (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 86 min.
Story: On the final test of a public tender for federal judge in Rio de Janeiro, the four finalists lawyers come from bizarre way: the gaucho Rogério Carlos (Fábio Porchat) comes surrounded woman dressed transvestites, the São Paulo Rezende (Rodrigo ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: contests and competitions, buddies, disorder, ambition, nothing goes right, rivalry, silly humor, friends, legal, fish out of water, nude, sexual content
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro
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67%
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Noobz (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Four friends hit the road to LA to compete in the Cyberbowl Video Game Championship, but will they be able to compete with the worst hangovers of their lives?
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, light
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: buddies, obsessive quest, computers and web, on the road, contests and competitions, misfit partners, rivalry, friends, tournament, partners, disorder, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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62%
Erkan & Stefan (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Editor Eckernförde has come into the possession of an audiocassette that contains a recording of the last minutes of deceased politician Uwe Barschel. The circumstances of his untimely death have never been completely resolved - until now. ...
Style: not serious, humorous, entertaining, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: chase, obsessive quest, goofy hero, buddies, nothing goes right, escapades, partners, disorder, sarcasm, evidence, misfit partners, state affairs ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: munich germany, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Sole a catinelle (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The story of a father and a son. An on the road trip from South to North.
Style: humorous, sentimental, not serious, realistic
Plot: nothing goes right, parents and children, fish out of water, misfit, society, unemployment, disorder, family relations, supportive parent, coming of age, rich and poor, parents separation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
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51%
Moroccan Gigolos (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, Belgium
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The story follows three young men who are willing to do anything to reach their dreams, even to prostitute themselves to gain money for the bussines they want. They obviously get themselves into trouble and various funny situations.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, light, feel good
Audience: date night
Plot: sex worker, prostitute, ambition, comedy of errors, disorder, race against time, buddies, nothing goes right, friendship between men, friends, blind ambition, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Lost in Thailand (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lost in Thailand is the story of two rival business managers, Xu (Xu Zheng) and Bo (Huang Bo), who are fighting over a revolutionary new in-house technology for control of their company. If Xu wins, his future will be secured. The critical task is ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, melancholic, touching
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: comedy of errors, fish out of water, escapades, culture clash, nothing goes right, on the road, disorder, travel, silly humor, rivalry, hung over, city ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
My Big Fat Independent Movie (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: This film is a spoof along the lines of "Scary Movie" and "Not Another Teen Movie." It includes parodies of some of the indie film world's most renowned movies such as "Memento," "Pulp Fiction," ...
Style: parody, humorous, witty, not serious, realistic ...
Plot: nothing goes right, obsessive quest, filmmaking, crime gone awry, mistaken identity, goofy hero, satire, hostage, gender, mentally challenged, artists and showbiz, mate swapping ...
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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One Day in Europe (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: One day in Europe shows stories set in four European countries. All of them involve thievery in some way or the other. The protagonists are strangers in the respective country. For none of them their stay turns out as planned.
Style: realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, touching
Plot: disorder, fish out of water, culture clash, lifestyle, travel, communication problem, performer's life, society, dishonesty, soccer, city life, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany, spain, russia, istanbul turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Mr. Bones 2: Back from the Past (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Africa
Duration: 101 min.
Story: MR. BONES 2: BACK FROM THE PAST, is the story of Hekule, the King of Kuvukiland who is given a gemstone by the dying Kunji Balanadin. The stone is cursed and causes Hekule to become possessed by the spirit of the mischievous Kunji. It is up Mr. ...
Style: not serious, humorous, light, feel good, exciting
Audience: teens
Plot: obsessive quest, misfit, village life, silly humor, heroes, sent to the future, time travel, fish out of water, escapades, curses spells and rituals, disorder, nothing goes right ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Flying Scissors (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Comedy starring Mason Pettit, Matthew Arkin, Devin Ratray
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, witty, offbeat
Plot: ambition, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, lifestyle, silly humor, contests and competitions, museum, steroids, feminist, rock paper scissors
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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: not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light
Plot: unlikely criminals, gangsters, family relations, silly humor, disorder, nothing goes right, chases and races
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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13 Moons (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Can you solve the mystery of the 13 moons?
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, absurd, realistic ...
Plot: obsessive quest, nothing goes right, performer's life, life is a bitch, disorder, artists and showbiz, escapades, comedy of errors, cons and scams, down on your luck, bail bondsman, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Rock, Paper, Scissors: The Way of the Tosser (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: This hilarious genre-bending comedy follows Gary Brewer, along with girlfriend Holly Brewer (no relation), and best friend Trevor Morehouse as Gary quests to reign supreme at the 2006 Rock, Paper, Scissors World Championships.
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, light, offbeat
Plot: rivalry, goofy hero, ambition, silly humor, disorder, contests and competitions, athlete's life, rock paper scissors, uninhibited rivalry, effeminacy, tank top
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Muita Calma Nessa Hora (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Three young friends, Tita, Mari and Aninha decide to change their situations and travel to a beach place for a weekend. On the road, they meet Estrella, a hippie that wants a hide to try to find her unknown father. Together, they will live ...
Style: sexy, not serious, humorous, realistic
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: strong female presence, friends, buddies, escapades, silly humor, best friends, disorder, youth, beach, on the road, twentysomething life, drugs/alcohol ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Recep Ivedik 4 (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Recep Ivedik coaches the children football team in his neighborhood. For the training he uses the only free piece of land as football field on which he used to play football as a child. Recep notices sadly that this piece of land was sold to a ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, psychedelic
Plot: tv show, silly humor, disorder, nothing goes right, goofy hero, misfit, contests and competitions, social misfits, rivalry, ambition, fictional reality show, television ...
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Place: istanbul turkey, turkey
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Party Crashers (2012)
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 ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sexual content, femme fatale, cons and scams, nothing goes right, buddies, escapades, silly humor, disorder, journey, dishonesty, friends, party
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Parisian Bitch (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Thirty-year-old Camilla, born a bitch, realizes that she doesn't have the life she deserves and decides that the only destiny worthy of her is that of a royal princess.
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, light, realistic ...
Plot: escapades, ambition, disorder, satire, goofy hero, social climbing, hidden camera, suspense, silly humor, misfit, blind ambition, obsessive quest ...
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The Best and the Brightest (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Set in the world of New York City's elite private kindergartens, The Best and the Brightest centers on a fresh-faced young couple, Samantha and Jeff, who have only recently moved into town. The comedy centers on their dawning realization of the ...
Style: witty, humorous, not serious, realistic
Plot: obsession, farce, couple relations, disorder, kindergarten, mistaken identity, blind ambition, ambition, moral dilemma, parents and children, hidden identity, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Win Win (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Switzerland, Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Swiss mayor and a Chinese watchmaker living in the Jura decide to organize the semi-finals of Miss China in Switzerland.
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, biting
Plot: ambition, culture clash, campaign, society, contests and competitions, beauty pageant, interracial friendship, chinese, disorder, media, interracial relations, suspense ...
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Shooting Stars (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A Fleury-Mérogis, un match de foot a lieu dans la cour de prison. Tibor Kovacs, un jeune Hongrois, fait des prodiges avec le ballon. Véritable virtuose du football, il rêve de jouer en équipe de France. Pour Manu, son compagnon de cellule, Tibor ...
Style: not serious, humorous, witty, realistic, semi serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: soccer, prodigy, ambition, desire for fame, friendship, disorder, athlete's life, misfit partners, misfit, buddies, intrigue, sport ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Bogus Witch Project (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A series of short films spoofing "The Blair Witch Project."
Style: parody, humorous, witty, not serious, light ...
Plot: desire for fame, buddies, disorder, filmmaking, survival, nothing goes right, escapades, obsessive quest, artists and showbiz, media satire, forest, found footage ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Sharp as Marbles (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Albert isn't the brightest bulb on the block. But that's okay, he's got his best friends, George and Ernie to help him out. Only problem, they're just as dumb as he is.
Style: humorous, not serious, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, friendship, youth, misfit, buddies, fish out of water, silly humor, odd couple, nothing goes right, goofy hero, escapades, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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WTF (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Rémi Gaillard is the real character of the World network, troll, provocateur, one of the biggest-selling comic actor in Europe. One and a half milliards of viewing and millions of fans. A day came, and he decided to steady down: got married, ...
Style: humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, realistic
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: prank, desire for fame, ambition, rising to stardom, buddies, disorder, fictional reality show, escapades, sex, friends, computers and web, silly humor ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all over the world, she leaves him. While she is away, George converts her family home into a discotheque, ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, feel good
Plot: con artists, con men, farce, crime gone awry, down on your luck, nothing goes right, obsessive quest, blind ambition, fish out of water, dishonesty, cons and scams, road not taken ...
Time: 60s
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The Hustle (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot: gangsters, partners, crime gone awry, buddies, silly humor, race against time, friends, nothing goes right, chase, disorder, society, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
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29%
The Shaukeens (2014)
Genre: Comedy
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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: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Mike Bassett: England Manager is an hilarious British Comedy that stars Ricky Thomlinson. Featuring Cameos from Barry Venison, Gabby Yorath, Atomic Kitten and Pele.When the England manager has a heart attack, footballs' top brass turn to Mike ...
Style: not serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, funny ...
Plot: football, soccer, sport, athlete's life, rise to the top, ambition, lifestyle, underdog, contests and competitions, rivalry, athlete and trainer, sport team ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, rio de janeiro, latin america, europe, brazil ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Who's Got the Action? (1962)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous
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Out on Parole (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: With one more day of parole left, J.T. vows to play by the book. But when he finds out his mom will lose their home unless they come up with a serious amount of money, J.T. takes a chance by entering a lowrider contest that violates his parole.
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, realistic ...
Plot: contests and competitions, rivalry, warden, friends, ambition, race against time, cons and scams, ex convict, save the day, parole, contest, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
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