Movies like Thank Heaven for Small Favors

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Thank Heaven for Small Favors (1963)
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Thank Heaven for Small Favors (1963)
Original name: Un drôle de paroissien
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family named Lachesnaye to do strange work.
Plot: police officer, religion, church, hunger, catholic church, poverty, robbery, charity, nightmare, bourgeoisie, burglary, stealing money, lack of money, motorcycle, cold, job, theft, family relations, poor, cafe, stealing, french new wave, candle, catholic mass, cheese ...
Time: 60s, 1960s
Place: paris france, france

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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 family relations, husband wife relationship, catholic church, church, police, female nudity and priest mostly in Comedy, Crime and Horror genres. Some movies like Thank Heaven for Small Favors: The Stud (1970), The Big Wash (1968), The Buddies (1965), Bonsoir (1994), Le Mentor (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Stud (1970)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Veterinary surgeon William Chaminade is having a peaceful holiday in the South of France when he is witness to an event that will change not only his life but the destiny of France! A young woman tries to kill herself by jumping from the upstairs ...
Plot: bored wife, tax collector, sexual frustration, congressman, veterinarian, sexual desire, summer vacation, public health, male prostitution, medical experiment, married woman, sexually aggressive woman ...
Time: 60s
Place: south of france
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95%
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The Big Wash (1968)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed on Paris roofs to coat the T.V. antennas with a special product cutting the signal reception.
Style: slapstick comedy, detective
Plot: anarchist, vandal, english class, criminal on the run, kidnapped man, school janitor, wanted, squad, political persecution, male to female cross dressing, chambermaid, backfire ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france
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84%
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The Buddies (1965)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Seven pals decide to take a few days'holidays to free up the time necessary to pull three enormous pranks. Their aim is to ridicule three established bodies: the army, the church and the administration. Quite arbitrarily, they set their hearts ...
Plot: cinema, hallucination, small town, sermon, french army, childhood friend, practical joke, hedonism, group of friends, seine river, catholic mass, toilet ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Bonsoir (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: No overview found.
Plot: male homosexuality, gay slur, dressmaker, unemployment, inheritance, con man, homelessness, heiress, lesbian, job
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Le Mentor (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A ruined old man turned homeless overhears the conversation of a young couple. He decides to intervene and become their mentor.
Plot: stealing, nudity, homelessness, cheating girlfriend, young girl, homeless, supermarket, homeless man, older man younger woman relationship, old man, infidelity, restaurant ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Apprentices (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Black comedy about two best friends, one a budding playwright and the other a motorbike freak, who spend their time annoying their girlfriends and getting into various scrapes. Things turn nasty, however, when the pair are caught burgling the ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, cynical, biting, humorous ...
Plot: friendship, nudity, partner, bittersweet, sexual content, martial arts, down on your luck, dull life, friends, dark humor, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
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43%
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Idiot in Paris (1967)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual
Plot: social relations, prostitute, village, village life, village idiot, frenchman, drunken man, merchant
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Incorrigible (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright ...
Plot: art theft, nature, heist, gypsy, philosopher, trailer home, museum, robbery, ransom, thief, criminal, pretense ...
Time: 70s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Big Scare (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two police inspectors Triquet and Vergus launch their investigations to arrest a dangerous escaped forger named Mickey Le Bénedictin.
Style: detective, spoof
Plot: local legend, gypsy camp, brothel, butcher, mob violence, serial killer, drunk, french police, gendarmerie, murder confession, counterfeit money, pharmacist ...
Time: 60s
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
She No Longer Talks She Shoots (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities ...
Style: realistic, humorous, spoof
Plot: marriage proposal, slum, relic, nun, bourgeoisie, priest, scam, journalist, reporter, supernatural ability, journalism, society ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
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34%
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Daddy Cool (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story about the age gap between a scientist father, Philipe Le Tallec, and his newly discovered teen aged daughter, Eglantine.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: family relations, parents and children, disorder, youth, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, estrangement, coming of age, scientist, daughter, social relations, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Let's Have a Riot (1970)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Episodes centering on different aspects of early 1970s Italian life:set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish.
Style: intellectual
Plot: eccentricity, illicit love, con man, years of lead, translator, mogul, police officer, weirdo, extremist, satire, revolutionary, male female relationship ...
Place: new york
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33%
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Nasty Habits (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.
Style: sex comedy, independent film
Plot: abbess, catholic, religion, convent, nun, nunsploitation, catholic priest, catholic church, priest, mother superior, newcomer, watergate ...
Place: philadelphia
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31%
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Stay With Us (2022)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Gad Elmaleh decides to leave New York and move back to Paris, to get baptized and become a Catholic. Despite his attempt to hide the truth from his Jewish family, Gad's parents discover their son's unconditional love for the Virgin Mary ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, funny, light ...
Plot: family relations, catholicism, religion, jewish family, religious, belief in god, faith, jewish culture, catholic church, religious conversion, religious faith, catholic ...
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30%
Dandelions by the Roots (1964)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put into a double bass case. A day later the gangster ...
Style: dark comedy, surprise ending
Plot: communism, skeleton, actor, corpse, money, party, chase, stage play, bet, backstage, horse race, forger ...
Time: 60s
Place: montmartre paris, paris france
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Serial (Bad) Weddings (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins.
Style: light, entertaining, funny, romantic, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: wedding, interracial relations, racism, sister sister relationship, stereotypes, happy ending, black man, marriage, family drama, couples, fishing, family bonds ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Tender Scoundrel (1966)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jean-Paul Belmondo is a lovable lothario who delights in his womanizing ways in this ribald comedy adventure. When two women can't get enough of him, he is chased to Tahiti and back to Paris by admiring females. His experiences are exhausting ...
Plot: outlaw, baroness, compulsive liar, womanizer, taxi driver, inheritance, lie, high society, pacific island, rich woman, liar, cruise ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: tahiti, france, paris france
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The Ultimate Accessory (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story of Aleksandra and Cyrille, a prominent, trendy, and very well-off Parisian couple, whose life is not quite the same after seven-year-old Alekseï from Russia suddenly pops up in their 100% cashmere, childless home. Aleksandra soon realises ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, light ...
Plot: family problems, couples, family relations, life turned upside down, couple relations, adoption, family in crisis, disorder, coming of age, celebrity culture, female nudity
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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29%
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Chouchou (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an assistant by a psychotherapist, known for his good mood, he also work as a waiter in a transvestite cabaret of Clichy where he ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Time: 2000s, 21st century
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Teen Spirit (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A 30 ans, Bruno, rock-star has been, vit toujours aux crochets de sa petite amie. Les temps sont durs... surtout quand une ex ressurgit de nulle part pour lui apprendre qu'il est le père de Nancy, 13 ans, dont il n'a jamais soupçonné ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching
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Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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27%
Happy He Who Like Ulysses (1970)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: For 25 years now, under the Provence sun, Antonin, a farmhand, has shared his work and everyday life with a horse named Ulysse. What a shock when Pascal, the farmer, tells him he has decided to sell Ulysse to a picador for being too old. Not only ...
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Place: france, provence
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The Women on the 6th Floor (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school. The affluent man lives a steady yet ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, feel good, unusual plot structure, inspirational ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couples, adultery, working class, immigrant, high society, maid, strong female character, hopes, self discovery, starting over, class differences, free spirited ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1965, year 1962
Place: france, paris france, spain, europe
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Revenge of a Blonde (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An upstanding provincial reporter becomes presenter of the TV news on a commercial network owned by an influential Italian businessman. He soon outgrows his family and neglects them terribly. Investigating a fascist terrorist cell, the ...
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26%
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The Suitor (1962)
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Duration: 83 min.
Story: Absent-minded yet cultured, Pierre answers his parents demands to wed by ignoring both astronomy and the housemaid, instead falling head-over-heels for rich damsels.
Style: surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, slapstick, realistic ...
Plot: crazy love, farce, hide and seek, fall in love, nothing goes right, obsession, love and romance, disorder, wooing, looking for love, piano, bourgeoisie ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
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26%
Dad on the Run (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jonas (Clément Sibony), a 23-year-old dad attempts to carry out an important Jewish tradition: burying the foreskin of his newly circumcised son. The forgetful father only has a few hours to complete the task... but have a group of hit men on his ...
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My Pastor Among the Nudists (1982)
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Duration: 83 min.
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24%
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Duration: 90 min.
Story: No overview found.
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24%
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Story: No overview found.
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Place: italy
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