Movies like Eastern Business

If you like "Eastern Business" you are looking for absurd movies about / with friendship, journey, robbery, bad luck, jail and optimism themes of Comedy and Drama genre shot in Romania or Lithuania.
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Eastern Business (2016)
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Eastern Business (2016)
Original name: Afacerea Est
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Lithuania, Moldova
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two Moldavian friends begin a journey full of adventures and suspense trying various business ideas in order to earn enough money to achieve their dreams.
Style: absurd
Plot: friendship, journey, robbery, bad luck, jail, optimism
Keyword: romanian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and captivating films with plots about friendship, friends, journey, robbery, love and romance, jail and theft mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Eastern Business: Thanos and Despina (1967), The Honest One (1984), 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006), Trusting Beatrice (1992), Goodnight Irene (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Thanos and Despina (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Katina, an impoverished Greek woman, tries to arrange the marrage of her shepherd son, Thanos, to Despina, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. But when Despina's father, Vlahopoulos refuses to give his blessings and wants Despina to marry a ...
Style: absurd
Plot: chaos, robbery, revenge, shepherd, landowner, peasant, arranged marriage, poverty, suicide, dog, sheep
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The Honest One (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When an incorruptible government pay clerk, who isn't taken seriously by anyone including his family, get robbed while carrying huge amount of work money, he becomes popular because people believe he faked the robbery and kept the money.
Plot: money, turk, corruption, robbery, friendship, family man, morality, honesty
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12:08 East of Bucharest (2006)
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Country: Romania
Duration: 89 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Goodnight Irene (2008)
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Story: A few weeks before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Pago, Rice and Bibi leave the calm city of Cesena looking for adventure: a ten-days-long holiday in Eastern Europe, in those places where the Soviet regime is still alive.
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