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The Wise Guy (1962)
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Original name: Ο Ατσίδας
Genre: Comedy
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...
Plot:
family honor, fake suicide, dance, domineering father, brother, beach
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and intellectual films with plots about beach, female nudity, bikini, sea, holiday, sex and friendship mostly in Comedy, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like The Wise Guy: The King of Gaffes (1962), Teddy Boy My Love (1965), Kamikazi, agapi mou (1983), He's a Mad Mad Veggos (1965), My friend Lefterakis (1963). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
greek island, beach, police officer, captain, boat, falling in love, private detective, assistant, name change
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95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Two young lovers are discovering that the widowed parents keep hidden bond and plan to marry soon Life, salesman dream and consumer goods of our civilization, will enter the life Asimaki, a benevolent and middle-aged widower chromatopoli, having ...
Plot:
love, widower, saleswoman, father, father son relationship, loner, secret, money, blonde, mother daughter relationship, trust, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
60s, future, 1960s
Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Stathis loves bikes, Rena wants to dance all the time and Aleksis goes crazy for rock music. They are three crazy siblings. One of them, Stathis, doesn't seem capable to keep a job and when he loses his girlfriend, his mother decides to give ...
Plot:
disco, fat woman, music band, guitar, motorcycle, waiter, hotel, band, singing
Time:
80s
Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When Thanassis leaves the orphanage tries to do various jobs but with no consolidates. A private detective manages to find his father who is rich. Thanasis will move into his luxurious house but there will come other problems.
Plot:
mansion, happy ending, dream, orphan, poverty, insanity, orphanage, house, scheme, butler, convertible, crew ...
Place:
athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Undercover cop takes to find and restore a rich girl who ran away from home
Plot:
secret agent, bald, spy spoof, james bond spoof, plan, duo, partnership, luck, success, undercover, team, road ...
Time:
1960s
Place:
greece
⇓ 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:
imaginary friend, womanizer, wife, misunderstanding, fur, farce, maid
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70%
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:
lock of hair, ridicule, ambition, singer, love, band, tradition, party, kiss, restaurant, razor, barbershop ...
Place:
athens greece
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69%
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:
beach, dancing, song, boss, music band, club, sea, exhibition, flirt, water skiing
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A property developer wants to take over an Australian beach for a high rise resort. He sends his son to Australia to check out the situation, posing as an exchange lifeguard. He falls in love with a woman who owns the land his father needs for the ...
Plot:
beach, competition, speedo, nude swimming, lifeguard, lifesaver, nude beach, nudism, female nudity, drowning
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41%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Peter, the hero, aged 20, finds himself on a deserted Greek island with no other men in sight. The women of the island, regardless of age harass him sexually. What starts off as a typical male sexual fantasy turns out into a nightmare
Plot:
sensuality, surrealism, beach, female nudity, peeping tom, sex, island, breasts, nightmare, mermaid, sister, menage a trois
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Two Arizona girls head out to the Malibu beaches for a springbreak of partying and fun in the sun. Malibu Spring Break is a 2003 comedy starring Playboy Bunny Pilar Lastra. It also stars Kristin Novak and Charity Rahmer.
Plot:
beach, summer, surfer, party, blonde, black panties, panties pulled down, panties, female removes her clothes, female nudity, mini skirt, blue panties ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Working as waiters in a private beach resort Andrew fell head over heels for lovely Dovie (Ina Raymundo). Unexpected voluptuous foreign guests led by Carolyn Sapp visit the beach and now Andrew was torn between his attraction to Carol and his love ...
Plot:
beach, bikini, rescue, sex, tourist, bad breath, garlic, foreigner, nurse, speech, horse, drowning ...
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36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant ...
Plot:
beach, pregnant, summer, voyeur, teenager, swimsuit, teenage girl, female nudity, topless, bikini
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Africa
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
We go on vacation to Margate with the van Tonder Family. Hendrik wants to go fishing, the kids swim and play Yollie and Maggie wants to sunbathe and Ouboet has a self built modded speedboat (Spuitpoep II) which he wants to test out at sea. Their ...
Plot:
afrikaans, beach, competition, caravan, bikini, sea, teenager, neighbor, holiday
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Panos and Archimedes (Panos Michalopoulos and Sotiris Moustakas) are colleagues (teachers) and roommates. The first is a new modern, and the second is more conservative. Panos will attempt to dynamically put Archimedes in life. The second will ...
Plot:
self confidence, gun, female nudity, brunette, mafia, roommate, teacher, professor, student, friendship, friend, beach ...
Time:
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Place:
greece
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Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A wealthy middle-aged man tries to seduce younger women at an oceanfront resort.
Plot:
sex, nude beach, beach, female nudity, adultery, holiday, blackmail, nudism
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia, Greece
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The sequel to the highly successful Australian comedy THE WOG BOY - starring Nick Giannopoulous and Vince Colosimo as best mates Steve and Frank. The Kings of Mykonos: Wog Boy 2 picks up a few years after the original and things aren't going so ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, realistic
Plot:
life turned upside down, buddies, resort, beach, fall in love, love and romance, island, disorder, friends, uncle, inheritance, beach resort
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Four friends head to Senior Week in Ocean City, Maryland, to celebrate high school graduation.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic
Plot:
beach, best friends, buddies, high school, graduate, high school student, party, young lovers, coming of age, ocean or sea, looking for love, teachers and students ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A very middle-class Bavarian family spend the last day of their Mediterranean vacation on the beach, day-dreaming and muttering racist remarks about Italians.
Style:
comic
Plot:
holiday, beach, vacation, mistrust, seaside, tourist, german abroad, restaurant, eating, arrogance, mediterranean, sunbathing ...
Place:
italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Pandelis is a garbageman who is anxiously waiting to retire and receive his well-earned superannuation payout. His wife and mother-in-law are also awaiting the super payout, but they have different ideas as to how the money should be spent. The ...
Plot:
retirement, mother-in-law, middle aged man, wife, disappearance, sex, prostitute, husband wife relationship, photographer, beach, restaurant, friendship ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Three students Juanita, Jean and Hans bored with their life in Paris go to Brazil in search of sexual adventures. Las Chicas de Copacabana is a sexual coming age film from maverick filmmaker Jess Franco. Visually the film is bland when compared to ...
Plot:
casual sex, beach, menage a trois, father daughter relationship, shower, prostitute, friendship, flirting, father son relationship, lesbian sex, lesbianism, erotica ...
Place:
rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A story of two wannabe Schoolies on the Gold Coast during a state-wide crackdown on drugs. The boys stumble upon a stash of "weed", and through the misguidance of an older brother trying to replace his earlier Schoolies experience, they ...
Plot:
marijuana, war on drugs, police chief, brother, drug dealing, holiday
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28%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Jean-Pierre Savelli is a forty-something employee of an insurance company in Clermont-Ferrand who finds himself facing a mid-life crisis. When his fiancée Valérie decides to put their relationship on hold, he changes his holiday plans and heads ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good
Plot:
beach, alcohol, camping, disorder, drugs/alcohol, buddies, holiday, looking for sex, resort, midlife crisis, camp, love and romance ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Also known as THE LONELY DESTINY OF JOHN TRAVOLTO, it's the first and only Travoltasploitation movie. It's about a hotel cook named Gianni who can't dance but is frustratingly in love with the sexy blonde DJ (Cicciolina) at the ...
Plot:
disco, dancing, music, dance, movie star, hotel
Place:
rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An American teenager shipped off to spend the summer with his dad, a Greek resort manager, happens upon an ancient ruin where three sensual demi-goddesses have been imprisoned for the last few millennia. He speaks the magic words, returning them to ...
Plot:
bikini, female full frontal nudity, female nudity, sex, beach
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Α crook turns a cabaret girl into a fine lady to use her as bait for his victims.
Plot:
greek, officer, cabaret, trick, blond, scam, performer, belly dancer, poker, show, undercover, rescue from drowning ...
Time:
1960s, 60s
Place:
greece
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27%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Brothers come to the aid of their uncle, who bet his Miami beach-sports school on a fixed volleyball game.
Plot:
volleyball, beach, summer camp, tied to a bed, stripper, abduction, bikini, kicked in the head, beach volleyball, erotica, female nudity, bound and gagged
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Story:
Gopan, a tourist guide's life takes a change as an unintentional statement by him lands his rival, Kuraichan, into the police station and ruins the later's family life.
Plot:
revenge, dancer, politician, alcoholic, boat, brother
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Gender-bender comedy directed by Omiros Efstratiadis.
Style:
romantic, intellectual
Plot:
disguise, matchmaking, candidate, strategy, advice, photo shoot, camp, race, undercover, matchmaker, sand, match ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
New York tourist Tony Curtis falls asleep on a Southern California beach on his first night in the West and wakes up to The New Phantasmagoria--catamarans, surfers (including a dog), bodybuilders, acrobats, motorcycle chicken races, a nut fishing in ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, cliffhanger
Plot:
beach, love triangle, love and romance, romance, holiday, couple relations, couples, surfing, psychedelia, refrigerator, skydiving, gate ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1960s
Place:
california, usa, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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