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
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Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
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Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy
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Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Romance, Comedy
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Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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