Movies like The Wise Guy
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The Wise Guy (1962)
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Original name: Ο Ατσίδας
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Alekos (Dinos Iliopoulos) is in love with Voula (Maria Voulgari) whose brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry her soon. Alekos' father (Pantelis Zervos) on the other hand insists that Alekos' sister (Zoe Laskari) has to get married before him. His sister Annoula (Zoe Laskari) is in love with Antonis (Stephanos Stratigos) and pressures him to ask for her hand in marriage from her family. Antonis meets Alekos by accident at a cafe in Panorama - they don't know each other - and advises him to use the infalible method of "escaping through an engagement" to calm down Voula's brother. This is after all what he intends to do himself... And God help them...
Style:
romantic
Plot:
love, dancing, blonde, lovers, beach, suicide, greek, happy ending, coffee, brother sister relationship, brother, problem, garden, tradition, gardener, black ops, stranger, satire, secret, affair, blond, plan, sister, family honor, marriage ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
greece, balkan, hellas, macedonia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out romantic, light, humorous and feel good films with plots about love, hellenic, greek, happy ending, dancing, sea and beach mostly in Comedy, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like The Wise Guy: The Bait (1964), Woe to young people (1961), Teddy Boy My Love (1965), Something Hot (1964), My Daughter, the Socialist (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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89%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
During an International Trade Fair at Thessaloniki, a mature woman, Rena (Martha Karagianni), goes there with her sister to convince her childhood friend Dinos (Dinos Iliopoulos) to have a "white wedding" so that she can inherit a large ...
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Liza falls in love with one of her father's employees. Her socialistic ideas about employment drive her to collide with her father and the sociopolitical status of the time.
Plot:
factory, socialist, factory worker, romance, greek, dancing, arrest, sea, beach, fight, rally, daughter ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A very clever detective is on a mission to find a shipowner's daughter, having as a sole research element a mole on the girl's buttock.
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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82%
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Mina is dreaming of becoming a painter and Petros works in a company. They meet and fall in love during the carnival, but later lose contact. They meet again without recognizing each other and eventually get married. However they have no idea how ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
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Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A feud develops between a taverna with bouzoukia and a club next door that plays modern music.
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Theodoros in order to be able to go out with his occasional lovers, he "invented" a non-existent friend from Patras, Lefterakis, and use him as an alibi in wife Fofo. When one day arrives at home, quite suddenly, the non-existent friend ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Romance, Comedy
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Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
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Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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