Movies like A Patriotic Man
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A Patriotic Man (2013)
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Original name: Isänmaallinen mies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Finland, Croatia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Every nation gets the heroes it deserves. A man with a special blood type is used as a device for human doping athletes skiing national team.
Style:
tense, unusual plot structure, humorous, patriotic, contemplative
Plot:
conspiracy, olympics, patriotism, athlete, doping, coach, doctor, skiing, olympic athlete, olympic gold medalist, winter olympics, morals, winter, female nudity, sex scene, divorce, adultery, cheating, infidelity, unemployment, drunk, ethics, nurse, world championship, skier ...
Time:
80s
Place:
ussr, finland, soviet union
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, light and semi serious films with plots about female nudity, infidelity, sex scene, friendship, male nudity, husband wife relationship and bare breasts mostly in Drama, Comedy and Sport genres. Some movies like A Patriotic Man: Village of the Stone Roller (1995), Matti: Hell Is for Heroes (2006), Downhill Racer (1969), The Bronze (2015), The Grand Duke Of Corsica (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Pekka (Martti Suosalo) saapuu pitkästä aikaa kotiseudulleen pieneen Jerusalemin kylään juhlistamaan kylän viimeisiä häitä. Hänen oma avioliittonsa näyttää ajautuneen umpikujaan. Kylän väki kokoontuu valmistelemaan tätä viimeistä ...
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semi serious, realistic, touching, emotional, humorous ...
Plot:
wedding, countryside, couples, social relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, village life, village, bittersweet, finnish, middle aged man, middle aged woman ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Finland
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Four Olympic gold medals, seven World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships and forty six World Cup circuit victories.Once his career as a professional athlete ended, however, the other side of his personality emerged into public ...
Style:
humorous, intense, realistic, semi serious, satirical ...
Plot:
domestic violence, ambition, rise and fall, lifestyle, olympic gold medalist, self control, skiing, contests and competitions, athlete's life, life is a bitch, olympics, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century, year 1984, year 1988 ...
Place:
finland, bavaria, europe, helsinki finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An ambitious young skier, determined to break all existing records, is contemptuous of the teamwork advocated by the US coach when they go to Europe for the Olympics.
Style:
serious, realistic, stylized, rough, witty ...
Plot:
skiing, sport, winter, snow, winter olympics, olympics, teammate, narcissism, ambition, satire, power relations, sport team ...
Time:
60s
Place:
colorado, europe, oregon, switzerland, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 2004, Hope Ann Greggory became an American hero after winning the bronze medal for the women's gymnastics team. Today, she's still living in her small hometown, washed-up and embittered. Stuck in the past, Hope must reassess her life ...
Style:
semi serious, absurd, light, funny, erotic ...
Plot:
sex scene, gymnastics, olympics, rise and fall, rivalry, training, sport, ambition, female protagonist, rudeness, toilet humor, sexual humor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A cantankerous and brilliant architect, Alfred, embarks on a highly unusual commission in Malta for a man who calls himself 'The Grand Duke of Corsica'. An epidemic hits the Island and all must flee, but Alfred remains to finish the job.
Style:
captivating, tense, light, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
architect, billionaire, friends, friendship, society, art, pandemic, exodus, mausoleum, rich man, terminal illness, female nudity ...
Place:
malta, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two men and a woman, all rallye drivers, get too closely involved, competing in the race and in love.
Plot:
society, car, critic, mechanic, dentist, dating, auto mechanic, affair, cheating, hunting, young man, married couple ...
Time:
60s
Place:
helsinki finland, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Maarit Lalli film a woman who knew how to say yes, and the man who could not say no. Ricky Kalin (Antti Luusuaniemi) is a real estate agent who loves women. Annika Lahti (Pihla Viitala) is a private, not so very good one at that. Annika specializes ...
Style:
humorous
Plot:
unfaithful husband, divorce, sex scene, sex addict, adultery, breakup, sex, relationships, male full rear nudity, private investigator, engagement, dance lesson ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
finland, helsinki finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
25-year-old Iiris and Karoliina have been best friends since childhood. Karoliina has been travelling and living abroad for some years now, but is coming back home for the summer as Karoliina has gotten them a job as waitresses in Hanko, the best ...
Style:
bleak, humorous, light
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
summer, love, friendship, student, infidelity, adultery, unfaithful husband, fall in love, love and romance, beach, art, holiday ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating
Plot:
writer's life, chase, obsession, womanizer, writer's block, publisher, fictional biography, writers, art, manhood, artists and showbiz, media ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Luokkakokous is a story about three men that travel back to their hometown to attend their high school class reunion.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, feel good, light, contemplative
Plot:
high school reunion, old friends reunited, friendship, childhood friend, fatherhood, midlife crisis, friends, escapades, youth, group of friends, divorce, night ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Argentina, Mexico, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Mariel is a veteran elite diver who has one last chance at the Olympic Games. However, when a terrible truth comes to light, Mariel faces her biggest personal question: Is winning her true dream?
Plot:
sexual harassment, olympics, ambition, diving, motel, rivalry, coach, athlete, training, female nudity, female athlete, girl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Juha Berg is a 30-year-old hopeless drunk in the Kallio neighborhood of Helsinki. Juha doesn't have the first intention of changing his way of life - just the opposite. He really enjoys sundry sexual relationships, adrenalin-inducing violence ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, sexy ...
Plot:
alcohol abuse, best friends, love and romance, starting over, hopes, suicide attempt, drunk, friendship, male prostitution, temptation, friendship between men, suicide by hanging ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
finland, helsinki finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Two former Olympians, one a figure skater and the other a hockey player, pin their hopes of one last shot at Olympic glory on one another. That is, of course, if they can keep from killing each other in the process...
Style:
sweet, feel good, humorous, light, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, kids ...
Plot:
figure skating, skating, sport, opposites attract, happy ending, underdog, fall in love, competition, olympics, love, couples, starting over ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new jersey, france, minnesota, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A group of friends reunite after 30 years to climb the Mont Ventoux again. Memories to a happy youth but also new discoveries from the past. One person is not present at the reunion. Why is that? What happened?
Style:
unusual plot structure, captivating, feel good, light, humorous ...
Plot:
friendship, riding a bicycle, mountain, loss of friend, friends, escapades, bicycle, flashback, wine, poetry, reunion, rubik's cube ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical mentality of the northern part of Finland. While perhaps not as entertaining to a person ...
Style:
cult film
Plot:
female nudity, drunk, finnish, drunken man, interrogation, police interrogation, rainstorm, male nudity, police officer, reckless driving, wrestling, dream ...
Time:
80s
Place:
baltics, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Welcome to adulthood! When two early-30s couples celebrate their last annual Halloween party in New York, they are confronted with sex, lies, and unspoken drama which tests their relationships and futures.
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere
Plot:
pregnancy, infidelity, couples, couple relations, friends, thirtysomething life, best friends, introspection, crumbling marriage, friendship, divorce, adultery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Back from a professional trip to Paris, a neurologist at the pinnacle of his career has to pick up his wife so that they can attend a family meal to commemorate his father, who died a year before. At his mother's flat, the guests are waiting ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, tense, humorous
Plot:
family relations, family conflict, bossy wife, three generations, dysfunctional couple, infidelity, alzheimer's disease, humiliation, suspense, relationships, marriage, doctors ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
bucharest
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Sport
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, Eddie the Eagle is a feel-good story about Michael "Eddie" Edwards (Taron Egerton), an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself - even as an entire nation was counting him ...
Style:
inspirational, feel good, motivational, emotional, art house ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
life, skiing, determination, olympics, athlete, following a dream, sport, winter olympics, destiny, coach, athletic training, winter sports ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Czech Republic, Sweden
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Set in the year 1720, the story is about what happens to 29-year-old Tordenskiold when the Great Northern War ends and he doesn't know what to do with the rest of his life. His trusted valet persuades him to go on a European ‘road trip’ to ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, humorous, psychological
Plot:
friendship, navy, king, infidelity, scandinavian girl, cross dressing, suspense, duel, fistfight, sex scene, dog, male nudity ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
germany, denmark, scandinavia, copenhagen, hamburg germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Finland
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A film about Finnish artist Kalervo Palsa who was completely neglected by his peers and time
Style:
surreal, sincere, humorous, unusual plot structure, contemplative
Plot:
surrealism, teacher, painter, drunkenness, countryside, drunken man, alcohol abuse, art, painting, brother brother relationship, imagination, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even ...
Style:
humorous, light, intense, entertaining, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens, date night, boys' night
Plot:
friendship, self discovery, lapland, ultimatum, on the road, youth, obsessive quest, adolescence vs adulthood, taxi driver, nothing goes right, escapades, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland, europe, eastern europe, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In Mystery, Alaska, life revolves around the legendary Saturday hockey game at the local pond. But everything changes when the hometown team unexpectedly gets booked in an exhibition match against the New York Rangers. When quirky small-towners, ...
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, entertaining, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
small town, sport, ice hockey, underdog, happy ending, transformation, contests and competitions, ambition, winter, ice skater, snow, championship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
alaska, usa, new york, new jersey, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Martin Clunes plays Edward, an English tutor at an Oxford language school. Seemingly charming and thoughtful, Edward is really a calculating liar and manipulator. A series of events triggered at a dinner party leads Edward down a very precarious and ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, captivating, serious, thrilling ...
Plot:
love, murder, seduction, court, infidelity, inheritance, suspicion, adultery, money, cheating wife, erotica, sex ...
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Story:
A group of friends plan an intervention to help their pal address his drinking problem. Things go awry when the shrink they hired fails to show up
Style:
semi serious, realistic, psychological, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
alcohol abuse, friendship, lifestyle, family problems, love and romance, crumbling marriage, dysfunctional family, social decay, parents and children, american football, bittersweet, husband wife relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Georgia, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
10 women, seven of them belonging to the poorest population, are desperately trying to win a beauty contest for mothers who have more than 3 children. The winner will get an apartment and $25000
Style:
feel good, unusual plot structure, light, humorous, contemplative
Plot:
female protagonist, exploitation, husband wife relationship, women, rivalry, infidelity, resentment, mother daughter relationship, psychological abuse, violent man, beauty pageant, female nudity ...
Place:
georgia, georgia (former ussr)
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The 1980s snooker rivalry between Alex “Hurricane” Higgins and Steve “The Nugget” Davis, two very different personalities who helped popularise the sport on TV.
Style:
light, sincere, disturbing, unusual plot structure, captivating ...
Plot:
snooker, sport, alcohol abuse, alcoholic, professional sports, british, professional athlete, self destructing, manager, rivalry, husband wife relationship, sports hero ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 1982
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Saara is a middle-aged doctor who one day finds out that her architect-husband Leo is having an affair with a younger woman, Tuuli. Instead of revealing her true identity, Saara pretends to be someone else and makes friends with Tuuli. At the same ...
Style:
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Plot:
love affair, older woman teenage boy sex, self defense, love triangle, lesbian seduction, lesbian, infidelity, family problems, mistrust, dishonesty, cheating wife, pretense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A film by Christian Linblad.
Style:
cult film, porno movie
Plot:
strict father, father son relationship, police, sex, film producer, female nudity, prostitute, male female relationship, cheating wife, one night stand, drunk, sex scene ...
Time:
90s
Place:
helsinki finland, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A two-bit promoter tries to take a women's wrestling team to the top.
Style:
sexy, psychotronic, sex comedy, campy, realistic ...
Plot:
wrestling, women's wrestling, female fight, martial arts, power relations, lifestyle, ambition, sport, femme fatale, underdog, gangsters, athlete's life ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A football coach afraid of commitment has to take care of his nephew with Asperger's Syndrome.
Style:
captivating, sincere, humorous, light, feel good
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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