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The Stig-Helmer Story (2011)
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The Stig-Helmer Story (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Stig-Helmer Story is a 2011 Swedish comedy film directed by Lasse Åberg. The film is the sixth in the series about Stig-Helmer Olsson.
Plot: shakespeare's romeo and juliet, forbidden love, bully, memory, male female relationship, aging, shyness, flashback, salvation army, band, banjo, model train
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, captivating and semi serious films with plots about male female relationship, family relations, flashback, couples, love and romance, aging and husband wife relationship mostly in Comedy, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like The Stig-Helmer Story: Charter Trip 2 (1985), The Accidental Golfer (1991), SOS (1988), The Grump (2014), The Call-up (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Package Tour or Can You Get Fish and Chips at the Flamenco (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Stig-Helmer and Ole Bramserud on a trip to the Canary Islands for Christmas.
Style: hilarious, humorous, realistic, offbeat, semi serious ...
Plot: fear of flying, anti hero, resort, hotel, christmas, tourist, travel, golf, shyness, vacation, summer vacation, disorder ...
Time: 70s
Place: europe, spain, eastern europe, canary islands, stockholm sweden ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Charter Trip 2 (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Stig-Helmer takes another vacation with his norwegian friend Ole. This time it's time for a skiing vacation in the Alps. Of course, Stig-Helmer has never learnt downhill skiing, but he attends a ski school. And together they manage to charm two ...
Style: exciting, realistic, not serious, humorous, offbeat
Plot: hang gliding, picnic, ski resort, winter, holiday, hotel, new year, family relations, skiing, silly humor, mountain, wooing ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: switzerland, alps, swiss alps, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Accidental Golfer (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: I bet anyone can get better at golf than you are in one week, a golfer says to her golfing businessman for a boyfriend in a quarrel. Unfortunately Stig-Helmer is standing nearby when the boyfriend accepts the bet, and he is chosen to be the ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Plot: golf, bet, chosen one, rivalry, contests and competitions, nothing goes right, lifestyle, ambition, buddies, pub, unemployment, businessman ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, europe, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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SOS (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The landlubber Stig-Helmer and his Norwegian friend Ole get on a barge by mistake. They arrive at an archipelago and have to spend Midsummer among the fancy rich boat people, their yachts and summer houses.
Style: semi serious, realistic, biting, humorous
Plot: water, yacht, escapades, buddies, nothing goes right, friends, social differences, resort, golf, viking, submarine, sinking boat ...
Time: 80s
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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The Grump (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Iceland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A stubbornly traditional eighty-year-old farmer — whose social attitudes verge on the prehistoric — raises hell when he is forced to move in with his sadsack, city-dwelling son and domineering daughter-in-law, in this hilarious social satire ...
Style: captivating, emotional, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, aging, fish out of water, parents and children, family life, father son relationship, illness, generation gap, grandfather, farmer, memory, businessman ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: finland, helsinki finland, europe, eastern europe
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The Call-up (1979)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It's time for Jonsson to return to his old regiment to rehearse what he learned during conscription a few years ago. He meets his old friends, platoon leader Larsson and the music loving captain 'Beethoven'. Jonsson and his comrades ...
Style: cynical, biting, realistic, not serious, humorous
Plot: platoon, military service, disorder, chaos, power relations, friends, superior officer, chaos and mayhem, military base, military life, basic training, military ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
La Quarantaine (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: La quarantaine is a Canadian film comedy-drama first released in 1982, directed by Anne Claire Poirier. The film stars Monique Mercure, Caroline Beaudoin, Roger Blay, Benoît Pellerin and Louise Rémy. It has also been released under the title: ...
Style: crying
Plot: time capsule, bus, flashback, lawyer, husband wife relationship, friendship, game playing, love, psychiatrist, party, 40 year old, childhood sweetheart ...
Time: post world war two
Place: quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Reach for Me (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Old and bitter, Alvin just wants some peace and quiet in his last days. His wish, however, is not granted when a young, vibrant and ironically full of life Kevin becomes Alvin's hospice roommate. Through this "odd couple" ...
Style: realistic, humorous, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: aging, retirement home, couples, elderly, terminal illness, unfulfillment, retirement home life, time, love, widower, old man, introspection ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Bombay Dreams (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Ebba and her friend Camilla go looking for her mother in India.
Audience: teens
Plot: adoptive mother, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, friendship, male nudity, teenage boy, school, teenager, bare chested male, nudity, male pubic hair, friend ...
Place: stockholm sweden, mumbai india, bombay india, eastern europe
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The Beggar's Opera (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original hugely successful 1728 political satire written by Englishman John Gay. Composers and writers ...
Plot: renaissance, opera, gang, politics, criminal as protagonist, criminal, psychological manipulation, manipulative person, manipulative woman, scheme, manipulative behavior, male female relationship ...
Place: eastern europe
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Sunny Side (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In this movie adaptation of the TV-Show by the same name, we join the three couples in a comedy about divorces, love, child longing, weird parents and unwritten bathing rules in Torekov.
Style: entertaining, captivating, thought provoking, humorous, psychotronic
Plot: couples, family relations, couple relations, parenthood, relationship problems, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family life, divorce, absurd humor, love and romance, male female relationship, parents and children ...
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
I Love You, Daddy (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: When a successful television writer's daughter becomes the interest of an aging filmmaker with an appalling past, he becomes worried about how to handle the situation.
Style: controversial, entertaining, captivating, visual, underground film ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, nymphet, relationships, filmmaker, male female relationship, romantic relationship, secret past, forbidden love, troubled past, father and daughter, relationship problems, love affair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
All That Jack's (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: totalitarian regime, jealousy, school, party, housekeeper, investigator, hate, education, sexual harassment, investigation, retirement, immaturity ...
Place: eastern europe, balkan, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Rick (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: "Rigoletto" retold at Christmas time in Manhattan's corporate world. Rick, an executive at Image, is a jerk to a woman applying for a job. That evening, he's out for drinks with his much younger boss, Duke, and the same women is ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, clever, suspenseful ...
Plot: hitman, curse, office, wall street, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, teenage life, workplace intrigue, parents and children, forbidden love, workplace, dishonesty ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Gra (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: About an existentialist alienation drama between a bourgeois couple caught in a stationary environment. Between a man and a woman lost in themselves.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When a middle aged woman tries a new unauthorized medicine, her life changes drastically.
Style: disturbing, humorous, psychological, satirical, captivating
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Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Purgatory Comics (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating ...
Style: experimental
Plot: feminism, revolution, swing, female friendship, feminist, gender issues, solidarity, husband wife relationship, marriage, flashback, divorce, actress ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Dalecarlians (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Mia returns from Stockholm to her parents' home in a small town in Dalecarlia (Dalarna) to celebrate her father's 70th birthday. Her elder sisters Eivor and Gunilla welcome her, but their different lifestyles prevent them from really ...
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.5
 982
Hustlers (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The director Lauri Nurkse tells that Veijarit is a film about "arjensietokyvyttömyys" (= inability to tolerate everyday life) and about the Peter Pan complex. The main actor Mikko Leppilampi says it's about ...
Style: neo noir
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Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Me and Veronica (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two sisters share a disturbing family secret.
Style: independent film
Plot: mental illness, suicide, waitress, sister, social worker, welfare, woman, sibling relationship, siblings, alcoholism, drug, rivals ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Trust Me (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A comical fresco on human misdemeanors and betrayals... A film about our right to not be perfect.
Style: semi serious, humorous, atmospheric, captivating, realistic ...
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Place: europe, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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5 Flights Up (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, comedy drama ...
Audience: date night
Plot: real estate, couples, couple relations, elderly, love and romance, society, aging, interracial relations, husband wife relationship, senior citizen, aged person, marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, powerful ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, aging, mistaken identity, memory, couples, love and romance, writer's life, couple relations, writers, old age, senior citizen, poetry ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england
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26%
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Hello Lonesome (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Lonely since his wife left him and alienated from his daughter, a cantankerous voice-over artist strikes up an unlikely friendship with his regular deliveryman. Many suburbs away, an elderly widow loses her license to drive and turns to her wry ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, psychological ...
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Time: 21st century
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Rare, Medium, Well Done (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that takes place in Helsinki in summer the main character (played by Mänttäri himself) jumps from one bar and bed to the next. Especially ...
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25%
Hungry Hearts (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The story focuses on a young, up-and-coming chef who caters a party for four mysterious women only to discover they have a shocking surprise in store for him.
Style: entertaining, captivating, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: chef, dinner party, women, mystery woman, relationships, male female relationship, surprise, food, suicide
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24%
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The Misguided (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After planning to leave the city with his girlfriend, a young man must first betray her in order to save his brother from a deadly situation.
Style: touching, psychological, captivating, dark, independent film
Plot: family relations, life is a bitch, love affair, forbidden love, tragic love, dysfunctional family, love triangle, male female relationship, relationship problems, irony, romantic triangle, love story ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Dad (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A busy executive (Ted Danson) learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him (Jack Lemmon) than ever before. Estranged from his own son (Ethan ...
Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, uplifting, inspirational ...
Plot: father son relationship, aging, family drama, hospital, family bonds, doctor, hopes, parents and children, family life, terminal illness, redemption, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.5
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The Matriarch (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Martta and Otto are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendents of the Romanovs and wander from town to town in Finland seeking work, accompanied by their two half-witted adult sons, Hippo , Repe and equally silly son-in-law ...
Style: family saga, road movie, captivating, touching
Plot: strong female lead, strong female character, family relations, matriarchy, criminal gang, family honor, past, generation, ancestry, male female relationship, honor, eviction ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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