Movies like The Wise Guy
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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...
Style:
romantic
Plot:
love, blonde, suicide, secret, beach, greek, happy ending, marriage, gardener, single, stranger, tradition, domineering father, suicide note, siblings, plan, family honor, brother, affair, garden, coffee, brother sister relationship, dance, blond, ultimatum ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
greece
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and light films with plots about greek, beach, marriage, love, romance, happy ending and sex mostly in Comedy, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like The Wise Guy: Teddy Boy My Love (1965), My friend Lefterakis (1963), The Blue Beads from Greece (1967), The Bait (1964), He's a Mad Mad Veggos (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
widower, saleswoman, love, father, father daughter relationship, loner, male female relationship, fast car, furniture, employee, flat, blond ...
Time:
1960s, 60s, future
Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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, wife, womanizer, greek, maid, misunderstanding, farce, fur
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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:
falling in love, band, rich girl, dancing, music, singer, shaving, tourist, bassist, club, dream, fight ...
Time:
60s
Place:
greece, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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, scheming, road, success, undercover, team, partnership, luck, business, director, gadget ...
Time:
1960s
Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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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, police, champagne, hotel, belly dancer, performer, poker, rescue from drowning, officer, cabaret, entertainment, customer ...
Time:
1960s, 60s
Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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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:
plan, mad doctor, wealth, staff, mansion, crew, scheme, rags to riches, manic laughter, evil plot, happy ending, dream ...
Place:
athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
We are at the beginning of the Tribulation and Kostas Papademas wants to give rights and is dedicated to the family and the convenience store. Indeed, it avoids to marry Helen, because of the situation, he must first betrothed his sister, who is ...
Plot:
bed, mother, siblings, merchant, tank, sweetheart, marriage, promise, dream, revolution
Time:
70s
Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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:
captain, police officer, name change, assistant, beach, greek island, falling in love, private detective, boat
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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:
womanizer, disco, reckless driving, graduation, conservative, egg, summer, bikini, puppy, greek, high school, happy ending ...
Time:
80s
Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Charilaos Maraziotis (Nikos Stavridis) is a shopkeeper who owes the whole market and is in danger of going to jail, both because of his creditors and because of IKA and the tax administration. Iro is his secretary and fiancee, because she is poor, ...
Plot:
spirit, employee, psychiatry, police officer, greek, debt, bikini, secretary, mental institution, alcohol, psychiatrist, money ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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:
guitar, fat woman, music band, motorcycle, waiter, band, singing, hotel, disco
Time:
80s
Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the military dictatorship in Greece, are assigned to the then recently founded Armed Forces Television. This TV ...
Style:
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Plot:
filmmaking, dictatorship, tv station, army, fighting the system, porn, political unrest, military life, rebellion, state affairs, media satire, rebelliousness ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1960s, year 1967
Place:
greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A princess has to pretend to be in love with a rude and ignorant boy to obtein success among her citizens.
Style:
entertaining, romantic, funny, light
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
love, princess, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, escapades, romance, politics, parents and children, family relations, state affairs, family, marriage ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
High school galpals Balta and Stylianou buy into romantic dreams about love and marriage but, after a series of tragicomic incidents in their Greek village, topped off by a cow's emotional fulfillment, decide to go after a waiter/musician and ...
Plot:
choice, male female relationship, teenage girl, veterinarian, high school, piano, greek, virgin, slaughterhouse, tampon, farming, father daughter relationship ...
Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Gender-bender comedy directed by Omiros Efstratiadis.
Style:
romantic, intellectual
Plot:
disguise, matchmaking, beach, model, gender disguise, friendship, agent, photographer, friend, photo shoot, mother, father ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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:
flirt, water skiing, club, sea, boss, exhibition, song, dancing, music band, beach
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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:
marriage, mother, mother-in-law, married couple, mother in law, nerd, theater, marital problem, marital reconciliation, male female relationship, party, greek ...
Time:
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Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience:
date night
Plot:
nightclub, love triangle, couples, love and romance, romance, blond, lover, cinderella story, infidelity, marriage, sex, love ...
Time:
contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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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:
socialist, factory, factory worker, romance, worker, daughter, strike, beach, dance, sunday, rally, political commentary ...
Time:
1960s, 60s
Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Gwyn Marcus has always wanted a marriage like her parents. She has just accepted the proposal of her boyfriend Matt, but she has misgivings about their future together. Her fear of commitment grows as she learns of the various affairs that her ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, neurotic, light, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
self discovery, parents and children, romance, couple relations, infidelity, looking for love, fall in love, love affair, couples, eccentric family, dysfunctional family, marital problem ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ 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:
realistic, not serious, humorous
Plot:
fall in love, buddies, disorder, love and romance, life turned upside down, resort, beach, island, friends, beach resort, uncle, inheritance
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Summer 1969. Dictatorship. In a small country town, young Achileas breaks his leg by falling off the yard wall of the local cinema. He wanted to see Brigit Bardot naked... However, during his visit to the city to treat his broken leg, for the first ...
Plot:
children, moon landing, priest, masturbation, communist, grocer, american flag, bicycle, prostitute, cinema, television
Time:
year 1969, 1960s
Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After five years of marriage, their relationships have come to a dead end – no kids, no common interests, almost no more love is left… When the wife asks for divorce, the husband tries the last remedy to cure their relationships – a scientific ...
Style:
light, humorous, sentimental, touching, feel good
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
love and romance, family relations, couples, sex, escapades, romance, family, husband wife relationship, love, hopes, marriage, happy ending ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Greece
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Rena and her brother Stratakis trying to establish themselves as singers in Athens without fail successfully, unlike their cousin, Pepita NTU peaks that has become famous singer in Italy. A efolplistis, Lambros Fokas, who had met the Pepita few ...
Plot:
greek, misunderstanding, diva, singer, party, dancing
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
It's a summer of fun for two teenaged boys who spend their time chasing two sisters, annoying a biker gang, and basically getting into typical sophomoric hijinks whenever they can.
Style:
sexy
Plot:
sex, love, pinball, van, teenager, holiday, beach, pinball machine, summer, game, bikini, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.
Plot:
vignette, everyday life, disco, widow, night, flirt, sketch, doctor, map, money, restaurant, singer ...
Time:
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Place:
greece, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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