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Which Way Is Up? (1977)
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Which Way Is Up? (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Richard Pryor plays three roles - a beleaguered, sex-starved farm worker named Leroy Jones; the farm worker's randy old father Rufus; and the hypocritical town preacher Rev. Lenox Thomas - and Pryor has never been so outrageously funny. The lives and love lives of these three men cross and crisscross as Leroy tries to get his life back on track.
Style: black comedy, feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious, campy, cult film
Plot: labor union, blaxploitation, african american, church, adultery, clergy, black, migrant worker, labor leader, domestic abuse, love triangle, betrayal, misfit, prodigy, love and romance, farm, fall in love, couples, social differences, society, infidelity, manipulation, partner, disorder, fish out of water ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
Keyword: gangsters, partners

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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, society, love and romance, couples, misfit, fish out of water and workplace mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Which Way Is Up?: Brewster's Millions (1985), Would I Lie to You? 2 (2001), The Hustle (2008), Car Wash (1976), Critical Condition (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Brewster's Millions (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's ...
Style: feel good, funny, entertaining, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: baseball, millionaire, greed, rags to riches, hotel, lawyer, heir, baseball player, african american, farce, childhood, inheritance ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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95%
Would I Lie to You? 2 (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Dans le quartier du Sentier, Eddie Vuibert, Dov et Yvan sont confrontés aux procédés pour le moins expéditifs de leur nouveau client, Eurodiscount, une chaîne européenne d'hypermarchés. Karine, lasse des turpitudes de son volage époux, ...
Style: realistic, humorous, not serious, feel good, light
Plot: partner, satire, working class, workplace situations, comedy of errors, friends, love and romance, mistaken identity, dishonesty, materialism, social differences, buddies ...
Time: year 2001
Place: france, europe
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90%
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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, light, entertaining ...
Plot: gangster, partner, chases and races, crime gone awry, silly humor, friends, cons and scams, dishonesty, society, friendship, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Time: 21st century
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74%
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Car Wash (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot: workplace, blaxploitation, car wash, black, culture clash, misfit, ambition, interracial relations, workplace situations, car, muslim, fired from the job ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Critical Condition (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Eddie is a con artist. But this time he's framed and comes before a judge. By claiming insanity, he hopes to get off the hook. He manages end up in a hospital for a mental examination. That night, a storm breaks out over New York, and the ...
Style: humorous, intense, semi serious, light, entertaining ...
Plot: doctor, mistaken identity, hospital, african american, fish out of water, doctors and patients, hidden identity, nothing goes right, mental institution, disorder, gangster, medicine ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Five on the Black Hand Side (1973)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: blaxploitation, family relations, black, wedding, african, society, couple relations, politics, life is a bitch, family problems, injustice, couples ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Carpool Guy (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Joel Goodman is a hotshot advertising executive angling for a promotion, but he feels stuck - not least of all in traffic. A seeming answer to his prayers comes in the form of a homeless man whom Joel pays to sit in his passenger seat so he can use ...
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: office, rivalry, odd couple, workplace, workplace intrigue, power relations, traffic jam, ambition, rich and poor, lifestyle change, friendship, advertising executive ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
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66%
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Recep Ivedik 2 (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When his grandmother takes ill, foolish brute Recep tries to satisfy her wishes by getting a job and attempting to find a suitable wife.
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot: goofy hero, love and romance, disorder, workplace, social misfits, unemployment, misfit, fish out of water, life is a bitch, nothing goes right, boss and employee, job seeking ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
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64%
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Mail Order Wife (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A documentarian funds a NYC doorman's Asian mail order bride in exchange for the right to film the experience.
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, realistic, mockumentary ...
Plot: love triangle, couples, fall in love, couple relations, dishonesty, fish out of water, manipulation, deception, adultery, obsession, sexual abuse, exploitation ...
Place: usa, new york
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60%
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The Toy (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers ...
Style: funny, feel good, satirical, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: friendship, youth, family problems, social differences, rich and poor, spoiled brat, toys, fish out of water, life philosophy, twists and turns, millionaire, slavery ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 20th century
Place: usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 4.9
 684
The Boss' Wife (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Daniel Stern stars as a stockbroker trying to climb the corporate ladder. There's only one thing stopping him...his boss' beautiful and flirtatious wife! THE BOSS' WIFE is a full-bodied, high-spirited, bedroom comedy about lust, love ...
Style: sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, sexy, sexual ...
Plot: love, pretty girl, business, stock broker, temptation, power relations, disorder, couples, nothing goes right, ambition, love and romance, boss and employee ...
Time: year 1986, future
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56%
Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the ...
Style: parody, witty, humorous, entertaining, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hollywood, farce, racism, filmmaking, blaxploitation, black, prejudice, dark humor, storytelling, movie business, black history, misfit ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: california, usa
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54%
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The Wash (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: With the rent due and his car booted, Sean (Dr. Dre) has to come up with some ends...and fast. When his best buddy and roommate Dee Loc (Snoop Dogg), suggests that Sean get a job busting suds down at the local car wash.
Style: humorous, absurd, hood, not serious, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: weed, hip hop, gang, stoner, stupidity, urban, rescue, nothing goes right, odd couple, partner, society, workplace ...
Time: year 2001
Place: los angeles
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54%
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Irish Jam (2006)
Genre: Comedy
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 ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, feel good, light, black comedy ...
Plot: friendship, culture clash, cons and scams, contests and competitions, rise to the top, on the run, disorder, village, love triangle, dishonesty, fall in love, ambition ...
Place: ireland, europe, usa, los angeles
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53%
Kissing Cousins (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A "relatively" romantic comedy about a professional heartbreaker (and cynical bachelor) who teams up with his attractive cousin from the UK in order to fool his friends into believing he is capable of a relationship. Hijinks and laughs ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cousin cousin relationship, disorder, unlikely couple, fall in love, cons and scams, family relations, looking for love, friendship, society, incest, comedy of errors, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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51%
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Down Dog (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 32 min.
Story: A handsome, carefree yoga instructor has breezed through life, women, and jobs, but when he breaks up with his girlfriend -- who's also his partner at their successful yoga studio -- he's forced to face reality for the first time. A ...
Style: realistic, humorous, not serious, feel good, light ...
Plot: friends, disorder, buddies, workplace, workplace situations, fish out of water, twentysomething life, silly humor, dog, business partner, policewoman, female police officer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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51%
All's Faire in Love (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two rival Medieval shows vie for supremacy in the world of Renaissance Faires.
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, fairy tale, slapstick ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: couples, love and romance, disorder, workplace, campus, college, uninhibited rivalry, artists and showbiz, goofy hero, fish out of water, workplace romance, wooing ...
Time: middle ages, 21st century
Place: usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
What a Beautiful Day (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Checco, an uneducated but self-satisfied fellow from Milan, who has always dreamed of becoming a police officer, fails his entrance exam for the third time. It must be said that at the oral examination Checco said that the reason why he wanted to ...
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, happy
Plot: fall in love, goofy hero, workplace, workplace situations, danger, love and romance, power relations, disorder, silly humor, urban, terrorism
Time: 21st century
Place: milan italy, italy, europe
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45%
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Sherman's Way (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An eccentric Olympic has-been who prefers leisure to work, finds himself stuck with a rigid pre-law Yale student with no time for wasting time. Between skinny-dipping and stealing cars, this odd-couple learn from each other that balance is the key ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, touching ...
Plot: disorder, couples, friends, unlikely couple, introspection, lifestyle, nothing goes right, odd couple, youth, small town, eccentric family, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, california, los angeles
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44%
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Dumbbells (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dumbbells is a light-hearted buddy comedy set amongst a group of misfit employees that work in a struggling fitness center in Los Angeles.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, realistic ...
Plot: workplace, workplace situations, buddies, basketball player, gym, ambition, recovery, society, social misfits, boss and employee, misfit, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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44%
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Incontrôlable (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Georges, one morning, became uncontrollable despite himself. Something that has the donkey's voice in Shrek, can control his body.
Style: not serious, humorous, light, feel good, offbeat
Plot: split personality, goofy hero, disorder, fish out of water, nothing goes right, couple relations, mentally unstable, misfit, fall in love, love and romance, imaginary, silly humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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43%
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100 Mile Rule (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: semi serious, cynical, realistic, humorous, clever
Plot: infidelity, moral dilemma, introspection, femme fatale, cons and scams, nothing goes right, couple relations, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, manipulation, heist ...
Place: usa, los angeles, california, detroit
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43%
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The Breaks (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Derrick, a racially-confused Irishman raised in the hood by a black family is having the worst day ever. Determined to prove to his fed-up mother and would-be girlfriend that he's not a screw-up, he sets out to do one thing right (get some ...
Style: black comedy, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: urban, hip hop, discrimination, black man, hip hop culture, interracial, family relations, society, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, odd couple, misfit ...
Time: 90s
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41%
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Boy Toy (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jake: an unsuccessful - yet well endowed - underwear model in L.A, who finds a lucrative new line of work as a platonic escort for women of a certain age. But, just as he finds himself a deep-pocketed "sugar mama" in Barbra, he meets ...
Style: not serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous, funny ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sexual content, love and romance, battle of the sexes, couples, platonic, womanizer, disorder, male escort, profanity, relationship problems, humour, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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41%
Protect and Serve (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A pair of bumbling French cops team up to take on the underworld.
Style: realistic, feel good, humorous, not serious, exciting
Plot: partner, odd couple, fish out of water, misfit, police investigation, heroic mission, partners against crime, fighting crime, culture clash, society, law enforcement, buddies ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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41%
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Moving (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.
Style: entertaining, funny, humorous, slapstick, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: moving, truck, dysfunctional family, kung fu, love affair, road trip, black, classic car, gangster, family relations, on the road, unemployment ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey, idaho, usa
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40%
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Basic Training (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Melinda comes to Washington DC to visit her friend Debbie, and to find a job in government, where she hopes to do her part to make it better. She gets a lower echelon administrative position at the Pentagon, and finds things pretty slack. Her boss ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, feel good, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: basic training, obnoxious boss, power relations, dishonesty, gender, boss and employee, battle of the sexes, workplace, female protagonist, couples, racism, military life ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, washington d.c., virginia, pentagon
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40%
California Casanova (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Stagehand at a nightclub falls for one of the performers. He wins her heart after taking lessons on suavity from a gigolo "count".
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience: date night
Plot: power relations, disorder, couples, farce, nightclub, teaching the ways of the world, strong sexual content, lifestyle, fall in love, womanizer, love and romance, starting over ...
Time: 90s
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39%
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So Fine (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success - the bottomless pants.
Style: sex comedy, sexy, entertaining, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: fashion, satire, gangster, sleaze, disco, opera, lawyer, disorder, couples, society, dishonesty, workplace ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: new york, usa, venice, italy, manhattan new york city
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39%
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The Makeover (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: This is an update of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" that changes the genders of the main characters. Hannah Higgins attempts to turn blue-collar Boston beer vendor Elliot Doolittle into a viable candidate and inadvertently learns ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, romantic
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: politics, disorder, hopes, fish out of water, social differences, partner, campaign, couples, rivalry, misfit, unlikely couple, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts
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38%
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