Movies like Hodgepodge

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Hodgepodge (1981)
 8.5
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Hodgepodge (1981)
Original name: தில்லு முல்லு
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Thillu Mullu (Tamil: தில்லு முல்லு) is a 1981 Tamil comedy film starring Rajinikanth, Madhavi, 'Thengai' Srinivasan, Nagesh, Sowkar Janaki and music composed by M. S. Viswanathan. The film is directed by noted filmmaker, K. Balachander.The film is actually a remake of the Hindi comedy film Gol Maal, which released in 1979. Thillu Mullu became a blockbuster upon release, and is in the "top 10 Tamil movies" made of all time.
Plot: lookalikes, twins, deception, office, lie, twin brother, weirdo, mistaken identity, employer employee relationship, job interview, dual role, soccer match, identical twins, comedy of errors, eccentricity, tamil, moustache, fake moustache, twin
Place: india

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Most similar movies to Hodgepodge

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and feel good films with plots about mistaken identity, comedy of errors, twins, tamil, family relations, satire and disorder mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Hodgepodge: Hanky Panky (1979), Michael Madana Kamarajan (1990), Jeans (1998), Pammal K. Sambandam (2002), Steal Big Steal Little (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hanky Panky (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ramprasad a recent college graduate who finds a job with a finicky man, Bhavani Shankar, who believes that a man without a mustache is a man without a character. When Ramprasad is caught by his boss at a soccer match, he has to invent a twin ...
Style: retro, funny, cult classic, light, realistic ...
Plot: rebel, indians, mistaken identity, comedy of errors, forbidden love, fall in love, love and romance, twins, chase, couples, family relations, disorder ...
Time: 70s
Place: india
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95%
Michael Madana Kamarajan (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 162 min.
Story: The film tells a story of quadruplets, Michael, Madhanagopal, Kameshwaran, and Raju, all played by Kamal Haasan. Kamal had distinguished each of those characters with his body language and language lingo. Michael has a husky voice, Madan has an ...
Style: realistic, serious, humorous
Plot: criminal heroes, switching roles, twins, family relations, destiny, lookalikes, loan, disagreement, siblings relations, road not taken, impersonation, farce ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: india
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Jeans (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story: Vishu and Ramu are a pair of Indian twins living in America with their father, Rajamani. When Madhumita (Aishwarya Rai) and her brother come to America to get medical treatment for their ailing grandmother, Vishu and Ramu end up meeting them at the ...
Plot: brain tumor, identical twins, tumor, love, twin brother, dual role, surgery, restaurant, wedding, twins, medical student, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
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Pammal K. Sambandam (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: A bachelor and a movie stuntman, Tamilian Pammal K. Sambandham, reprimands his brother, Anand, for hastily getting married to Malathi. He finds out that Malathi is being instigated by her single, male-hating friend, Janaki, who instructs her not to ...
Style: romantic comedy
Plot: engagement, surgery, stuntman, battle of the sexes, broken engagement, sexism, doctor, wedding, police station, divorce, tamil, guilty pleasure ...
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Steal Big Steal Little (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Ruben and Robby are twin brothers, adopted by Mona, one of the wealthiest - and most eccentric - women in Santa Barbara. Ruben is devoted to Mona, but Robby is more devoted to her money. So when Mona leaves her fortune and estate to Ruben it starts ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot: lawyer, twins, vengeance, estate, dual role, family relations, sibling relationship, rich and poor, comedy of errors, down on your luck, siblings relations, family life ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, chicago, usa
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Smiling Prince (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Punnagai Mannan is a Tamil language film starring Kamal Haasan in the lead role of the protagonist. The film was directed by K. Balachander.The film opens with lead actor Kamal Hassan and his love interest Rekha,attempting suicide from a cliff. In ...
Style: sad, tragic ending
Plot: tragedy, loss of girlfriend, bomb, suicide attempt, loss of loved one, dancer, dual role, tamil
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Poochakkoru Mookkuthi (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Poochakkoru Mookkuthi movie tells Revathi (Menaka) who comes to the city from a small town in search of job and to have a good life and as it is with everyone her problem starts with finding a house. Shyam (Shankar) loves to become a popular singer. ...
Plot: suspicion of adultery, marital problem, multiple storylines, love triangle, dysfunctional marriage, farce, confusion, mistaken identity, screwball, misunderstanding, chaos, comedy of errors ...
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Imsai Arasan 23am Pulikesi (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Set in the late 18th century during the early stages of the British Raj, the film tells the story of twin brothers separated at birth. Pulikesi XXIII, the foolish elder brother, becomes a puppet of his uncle, the Chief Minister, while Ukraputhan, ...
Style: satirical, funny, ironic, entertaining, humorous ...
Plot: satire, political humor, irony, ruler, government, humour, family relations, tamil
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35%
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Dear God (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When letters written to God start getting results, and replies, people everywhere are amazed. The Post Office however is annoyed.
Style: inspirational, humorous, spiritual, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: holiday, money, office, letter, courtroom, lawyer, eccentricity, christmas, bike, con man, faith based, faith ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
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Twins at the Zoo (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The parents decided to send two twins, Honza, and Martin, on vacation to their grandfather.
Plot: coming of age, boy, youth, zookeeper, identical twins, twins, zoo, children, animal, violinist, nudity, male nudity ...
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Comali (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A youngster in his mid-30s goes through a series of struggles after coming to terms with the fact that he was in coma for 16 years.
Style: satirical, captivating, disturbing, semi serious, psychological
Plot: satire, changing lives, society, life is a bitch, social problems, social issues, lifestyle, lifestyle change, coma, waking up from a coma, tamil
Place: india
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The Comedy of Errors (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders ...
Plot: shakespeare, mistaken identity, abbey, twins, shakespeare play, costume, slapping, kicked in the butt
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That's Not Me (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Polly’s dreams of making it as an actor are shattered when her identical twin sister Amy lands the lead role in a huge TV show. Mistaken for her famous sister at every turn, Polly decides to use Amy’s celebrity for her own advantage – free ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, light, feel good
Plot: mistaken identity, fame, sibling rivalry, hollywood, rise to the top, actress, life is a bitch, twins, twin sister, clone
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32%
The Pooch and the Pauper (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The bulldog Liberty (who's thoughts we're able to hear) is the "First Dog of the USA", i.e. the president's dog. As such he has a lot of representative duties, but also many privileges which made him snobby and condescending ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, realistic
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: dog, bulldog, switching roles, comedy of errors, mistaken identity, fish out of water, disorder, family relations, misfit, odd couple, pets, getting home ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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30%
The Guardian Angel (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Madrid, 1981. Jorge has just arrived in Madrid to live in beautiful large house with his brother, mother, grandmother Obdulia, a wealthy woman who is somewhat deaf, and his grandfather, an aged and senile octogenarian.
Plot: stealing, memory loss, eccentricity, family relations, weirdo, brother brother relationship, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, deception, money, drunkenness, mother daughter relationship ...
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Big Business (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally ...
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Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, west virginia
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Country: France
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Ryo Takebayashi’s film about coworkers caught in a time loop is packed with knowing winks and references to the highs and lows of corporate culture.
Style: satirical, manga
Plot: time loop, office, workplace, employer employee relationship, time warp, time travel, time, office worker, workplace situations, time jump, satire, office work ...
Place: japan
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Time: 21st century
Place: italy
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28%
Would I Lie to You? 2 (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Dans le quartier du Sentier, Eddie Vuibert, Dov et Yvan sont confrontés aux procédés pour le moins expéditifs de leur nouveau client, Eurodiscount, une chaîne européenne d'hypermarchés. Karine, lasse des turpitudes de son volage époux, ...
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28%
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Country: India
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Story: Shankar Dada (Chiranjeevi) is a local goon with a good heart who defends his extortion and settlement business as social service to maintain peace in society. But he pretends to be a doctor to his parents to make them contended about their ...
Style: captivating, humorous, light, entertaining, funny ...
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Country: India
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Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, exciting, funny ...
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Lingaa (2014)
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Country: India
Duration: 174 min.
Story: After being turned down by the ruling Britons, the rightful heir to a famous dynasty inspires local villagers to build a dam themselves. A small-time thief reforms after learning about the role played by his grandfather in building a dam.
Style: captivating, satirical, thrilling
Plot: descendant, fight, royalty, villain, ancestor, dam, criminal, satire, gangster, bandit, changing lives, water ...
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27%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: political, psychedelic, independent film
Plot: driver, taxi, rags to riches, eccentricity, riches to rags, weirdo, arrested development, college graduate, taxi driver, pigeon
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27%
Happiness Is in the Field (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
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Place: europe, france, south of france
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Svensson, Svensson - In Sickness and in Health (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 84 min.
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Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
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Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: india
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26%
Do Not Disturb (2016)
Genre: Comedy
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Place: england
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26%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Bhaskaran is a happy-go-lucky guy, who is yet to complete his B.A. degree, writing arrear examinations annually for years. His only friend is Nallathambi who owns a barber saloon, which he received as a dowry for marrying a two-month pregnant woman. ...
Style: romantic, entertaining, satirical, funny, semi serious ...
Plot: friendship, love interest, love story, love and romance, relationships, in love, satire, class differences, couple relations, family problems, family disapproval, social problems ...
Place: india
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25%
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Stranded (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The last train travel of the year from Barcelona to Madrid, suddenly stops by a voltage drop in the middle of nowhere during a fierce snowstorm. Because of the peculiarity of its passengers, will begin to emerge hilarious conflicts between them.
Style: captivating, humorous, road movie, not serious
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25%
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