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How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
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How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after the night before - he had attended a friend's stag party - he finds that he is married to the very beautiful woman who popped out of the cake - and who doesn't speak a word of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his cartoon character from a super spy to a somewhat harried husband.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, clever, humorous, witty, retro, sex comedy, black and white, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: butler, farce, sexist, bachelor, lust, sexism, language barrier, misogynist, misogyny, murder trial, breaking the fourth wall, uxoricide, husband wife reunion, lawyer, bachelor party, courtroom, cartoonist, murder, marriage, fall in love, in love, blonde, mannequin, drunkenness, jury ...
Time: 1900s, 60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place: new york, new jersey
Keyword: doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, witty and semi serious films with plots about couples, disorder, love and romance, dishonesty, couple relations, husband wife relationship and farce mostly in Comedy, Mystery and Romance genres. Some movies like How to Murder Your Wife: Good Neighbor Sam (1964), Getting Away with Murder (1996), The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975), The Out of Towners (1970), She-Devil (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral appearance.
Style: sex comedy, laugh out loud, retro, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: marketing, suburbs, private detective, family relations, love triangle, neighbor, fish out of water, comedy of errors, suburban life, breakup, cons and scams, family life ...
Time: 60s
Place: bay area, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Getting Away with Murder (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When the very moralistic college ethics instructor Jack Lambert finds himself living next door to an accused German death camp commander, he takes it upon himself to rid the world of this man.
Style: humorous, witty, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy ...
Plot: murder, vigilantism, dark humor, neighbor neighbor relationship, false accusation, investigation, college, uncover truth, racism, college professor, disorder, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
Style: humorous, semi serious, clever, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot: unemployment, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, couple relations, down on your luck, unfulfillment, odd couple, family problems, husband wife relationship, fired from the job, brother brother relationship, neighbor ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
The Out of Towners (1970)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.
Style: funny, witty, humorous, laugh out loud, road movie ...
Plot: travel, culture clash, chase, bad luck, marriage, railway, discovery, journey, meme, pilgrimage, pilgrim, train ...
Time: year 1970, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, boston, usa, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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She-Devil (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
Style: black comedy, funny, dark comedy, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: infidelity, revenge, novelist, mistress, dysfunctional marriage, adultery, divorce, women, breakup, embezzlement, extramarital affair, sex scene ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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The Odd Couple (1968)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Felix Ungar has just broken up with his wife. Despondent, he goes to kill himself but is saved by his friend Oscar Madison. With nowhere else to go, Felix is urged by Oscar to move in with him, at least for a while. The only problem is that Felix is ...
Style: funny, atmospheric, hilarious, humorous, clever ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: friendship, buddy, buddies, friendship between men, friends who live together, bromance, poker, suicide attempt, stage play, eternal love, odd couple, old age ...
Time: 60s, year 1968, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Comic Book Villains (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When word hits the street that a nearby elderly gentleman has a cache of old, rare, and very valuable mint condition comic books, rival comic book shop owners Raymond McGillicuddy (Donal Logue) and Norman Link (Michael Rapaport) both set out to be ...
Style: humorous, stylized, dark comedy, cynical, clever ...
Plot: small town, internet, dark humor, dishonesty, comic book, satire, friendship, rivals, feud, old woman, male female relationship, death ...
Time: y2k
Place: barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Any Wednesday (1966)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Ellen Gordon, a New York executive's mistress falls for the executive's young business associate when the young man is accidentally sent to use the apartment where the executive and his mistress get together every Wednesday. More ...
Style: sexy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: farce, couple relations, infidelity, love affair, love triangle, couples, womanizer, love and romance, dishonesty, mistress, screwball, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1966, 60s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Boys' Night Out (1962)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment ...
Style: sex comedy, retro, black and white, satirical, semi serious ...
Plot: adultery, screwball, psychology, sociology, marriage, office politics, infidelity, redheaded woman, disorder, couples, love and romance, hidden identity ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.5
 5K
Buddy Buddy (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Buddy Buddy is a 1981 American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder that stars Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss and Klaus Kinski. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the 1973 French language film L'Emmerdeur, ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, witty ...
Plot: hitman, killer, island, suicide attempt, on the road, twins, contract killer, hotel room, hired killer, farce, clinic, mentally unstable ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Henry J. Tyroone leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but ...
Style: retro, semi serious, realistic, cynical, biting ...
Plot: farce, economics, oil, finance, hustler, wall street, opportunist, businessman, stock market, businesswoman, scam, misunderstanding ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: texas, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Bedtime Story (1964)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Benson, is a Casanova who tricks women into having sex with him before leaving them. He is content with his game until he meets Jamison, a real operator who poses as an exiled prince and not only gets women to share his bed but also to give him ...
Style: not serious, realistic, cynical, biting, humorous ...
Plot: con artists, gigolo, prince, bet, seduction, world war two, caper, outlaw, exodus, anti nazi, rivalry, con man ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: riviera, france, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.0
 9K
Loverboy (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Senor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. Some customers are special, though: When the order is for a pizza with extra anchovies, it means the female customers are looking for some loving. ...
Style: sex comedy, funny, humorous, laugh out loud, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: pizza delivery boy, summer job, college, farce, teenager, older woman younger man relationship, pizzeria, gigolo, husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, women ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 hit, millions of people were left in the dark, including Waldo Zane, a New York executive in the process of stealing a fortune from his company, and two people whose paths he's destined to cross, ...
Style: surprise ending
Plot: marital reconciliation, talk show host, marriage, actress, psychiatrist, farce, voice over narration, husband wife relationship, interview, embezzlement, suspicion of adultery, nepotism ...
Time: year 1965, 60s
Place: connecticut, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Divorce American Style (1967)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
Style: retro, funny, romantic comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: divorce, battle of the sexes, marriage, couples, prostitute, suburban life, satire, divorced woman, comedy of manners, passionate kiss, hypnotist, divorce lawyer ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: los angeles
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50%
Where's Poppa? (1970)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take care of her. He fears that his batty mom's ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, funny, clever, humorous ...
Plot: oedipus complex, emotional blackmail, gang, court, humiliation, old woman, judge, nurse, dementia, love at first sight, brother brother relationship, lawyer ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 61K
Duplex (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
Style: humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, stylized, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: twists and turns, dark humor, couple relations, cons and scams, neighbor neighbor relationship, writers, old woman, parrot, satire, old dark house, urbanization, love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Notorious Landlady (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
Style: romantic comedy, slapstick, mind bending, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: diplomat, landlady, attempted murder, murder, law enforcement, fall in love, rivalry, legal action, legal, amateur detective, legal investigation, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
What's New Pussycat (1965)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
Style: funny, humorous, sex comedy, esoteric, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: hotel, farce, women, psychiatrist, police, chase, adultery, psychotherapy, therapy, librarian, psychology, trippy ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Flirting with Disaster (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Adopted as a child, new father Mel Colpin (Ben Stiller) decides he cannot name his son until he knows his birth parents, and determines to make a cross-country quest to find them. Accompanied by his wife, Nancy (Patricia Arquette), and an inept yet ...
Style: road movie, black comedy, witty, funny, light ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, road trip, mistaken identity, adoption, on the road, farce, plot twist, family relations, visceral, crime gone awry, disorder, self discovery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new mexico, new york, michigan, san diego california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
For Pete's Sake (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Henry (Streisand) is a woman who would do anything for her husband Pete-- including borrow money so he has a chance of making his dreams come true. But now there's the loan sharks to deal with...
Style: hilarious, realistic, semi serious, witty, feel good ...
Plot: money, loan shark, dishonesty, race against time, fall in love, love and romance, prostitute, nothing goes right, couple relations, screwball, couples, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Tucker decides to take an impromptu trip to celebrate his friend's bachelor party. He drags his friend into a lie with his fiancée, gets him into trouble and then abandons him in order to pursue a hilarious carnal interest. Tucker is ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: wedding, strip club, bachelor party, friendship between men, fiance fiancee relationship, drunkenness, friendship, couple relations, sex, stripper, nudity, sex scene ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Max mon amour (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A French wife takes a zoo chimp named Max to be her lover.
Style: disturbing, realistic, humorous, clever, erotic ...
Plot: zoophilia, infidelity, dark humor, love triangle, couple relations, love and romance, obsession, captive, held captive, psychology, bourgeoisie, animal ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The World's Greatest Lover (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When frustrated movie studio mogul Adolph Zitz announces a talent search for a romantic leading man to rival the great Rudolph Valentino, thousands of hopefuls decend upon Hollywood. Rudy Valentine, a neurotic baker from Milwaukee, knows little ...
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, witty
Plot: tango, hollywood, mistaken identity, filmmaking, satire, dancing, fall in love, in love, impersonation, neurosis, prostitute, horse ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: usa
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41%
Sibling Rivalry (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Marjorie Turner is suffocating. Her younger sister Jeanine has no ambition, and her 8 year marriage to Harry puts her in constant competition with his family (all doctors)..
Style: humorous, sexy, black comedy, cynical, dark comedy ...
Plot: sister sister relationship, dying during sex, hotel room, salesman, infidelity, comedy of errors, sibling rivalry, nothing goes right, love affair, brother brother relationship, dishonesty, farce ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Jury Duty (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a murder trial. Once there, he does everything he can to prolong the trial and deliberations and make ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, not serious, witty ...
Plot: jury, unemployment, courtroom, hotel, murder trial, serial killer, stupidity, legal, lawyer, justice, life philosophy, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother in law as the king of the ambulance chasing lawyers starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see ...
Style: humorous, witty, cynical, talky, melancholic ...
Plot: american football, lawyer, insurance fraud, surveillance, insurance, lawsuit, hospital, friendship, cons and scams, odd couple, workplace, crooked lawyer ...
Time: 20th century, year 1966, 60s
Place: cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.5
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My Chauffeur (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A feisty young woman accepts a mysterious offer to become a chauffeur for a Beverly Hills limousine business, much to the chagrin of her older male coworkers and the disbelief of her customers.
Style: grindhouse, humorous, sex comedy, rom com, independent film ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: love, limousine driver, dog, taxi, driver, teen angst, chauffeur, limousine, sexism, chauvinism, sexist, female protagonist ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Couples Retreat (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Four couples, all friends, descend on a tropical island resort. Though one husband and wife are there to work on their marriage, the others just want to enjoy some fun in the sun. They soon find, however, that paradise comes at a price: ...
Style: funny, tropical, sexy, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: resort, couple relations, friendship, couples therapy, marriage, island, couples, divorce, marital problem, crumbling marriage, friends, screwball ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: tahiti, chicago
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36%
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