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Go to Blazes (1962)
289
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Bernard, Harry and Alfie are three charming but unsuccessful crooks who smash and grab tactics rarely come off. On their way for another stint behind bars they see the traffic part for an on call fire engine and hatch a new plan. Upon their release they set out to acquire a fire engine to use as the perfect getaway vehicle on a jewelry robbery. But when they are mistaken for real firemen their plan slowly begins to unravel. When Harry gets scared by the appearance of the police he accidentally runs into a dress salons changing room. He meets the beautiful Chantal who might just hold the key to finally pulling off a successful heist.
Style:
sitcom, situational comedy, slapstick, lighthearted, fast paced, period piece, black and white, independent film
Plot:
heist, mistaken identity, bank robbery, caper, absurd humor, disguise, farce, unhappiness, urban, satire, police chase, arson, robbery, junkyard, treehouse, fire escape, explosion, fire truck, bouquet, jewelry store, french accent, dressing room
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slapstick, lighthearted, sitcom and situational comedy films with plots about mistaken identity, satire, farce, urban, friendship, unhappiness and dark humor mostly in Comedy, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like Go to Blazes: Oh Egon! (1961), Beware of Yeti! (1961), Lottovoittaja UKK Turhapuro (1976), Boeing Boeing (1985), George and Mildred (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
192
Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
lighthearted, family comedy, situational comedy, sitcom, slapstick ...
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A yeti in transit escapes in Warsaw, and a professor, assisted by a prisoner, go after him.
Style:
absurd, lighthearted, situational comedy, slapstick, sitcom ...
Plot:
bigfoot, misunderstanding, farce, mistaken identity, satire, prison escape, investigation, snow, yeti, social commentary, urban, cold weather ...
Place:
poland
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91%
Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A comedy directed by Rolf Olsen.
Style:
sitcom, light hearted, situational comedy, slapstick, sex comedy ...
Plot:
unhappiness, investigation, sexual innuendo, satire, farce, scandal, dark humor, escapism, mistaken identity, friendship, small town, social satire ...
Place:
west germany
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
It is the first anniversary of Uuno and Elisabet. Uuno has placed a bet with his friend Härski-Hartikainen a year ago, that if Uuno can take just one year of marriage with Elisabet, Hartikainen will treat him a festive dinner. However, Hartikainen ...
Style:
sitcom, situational comedy, slapstick, lighthearted, romantic comedy
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An inept sergeant is mistaken for a secret agent and charged with finding a spy, but he is so stupid he is demoted and becomes a corporal.
Style:
sitcom, situational comedy, slapstick, lighthearted, absurd ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
mistaken identity, demotion, farce, incompetence, irreverent, spy spoof, satire, espionage, small town, mediterranean, urban, agent ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, napoli italy, naples italy
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The movie is an adaptation of the 1960 French play of the same name and is considered to be a cult comedy classic in Malayalam. It was also one of the first commercial successes of the Mohanlal-Mukesh-Priyadarashan team. Shyam (Mohanlal) is a ...
Style:
sitcom, situational comedy, romantic comedy, lighthearted, fast paced ...
Plot:
farce, friendship, deception, flirting, adaptation, chaos, conflict, urban, aviation, satire, mistaken identity, rivalry ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Big screen spin-off of the Seventies sitcom. Mildred Roper (Yootha Joyce, who died shortly after filming was completed) is determined to make husband George (Brian Roper) celebrate their wedding anniversary in style, at a posh hotel in London. ...
Style:
sitcom, situational comedy, lighthearted, slapstick, period piece ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
mistaken identity, misunderstanding, hitman, farce, married couple, fish out of water, urban, adaptation, social climbing, hotel, wedding, gangster ...
Time:
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Place:
london
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
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Style:
gujarati, situational comedy, family comedy, feel good, lighthearted ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
urban, father daughter relationship, wooing, family drama, heartwarming, underdog, mistaken identity, cat and mouse, romantic rivalry, satire
Place:
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Similarity:
77%
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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. ...
Style:
sitcom, situational comedy, romantic comedy, lighthearted, feel good ...
Plot:
mistaken identity, misunderstanding, fake marriage, deception, urban, unhappiness, love triangle, aspiring singer, family drama, social satire, class differences, women ...
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Sister Angela and Sister Mary park his van in front of a bank branch. They enter the bank and with the weapons hidden under their habits, commit the robbery of the century, to the astonishment of all employees and customers. After thorough police ...
Style:
situational comedy, sitcom, twisted, lighthearted, slapstick ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bank robbery, nun, heist, mistaken identity, disguise, farce, deception, investigation, cross dressing, police investigation, female friendship, church ...
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Jack of all trades and master of none, Al Baxter (Sam Taft) stays afloat by working four jobs. As if that weren't enough, happenstance leads Al to place four ads in the phone book, resulting in four more jobs. Trouble is, none of them is real. ...
Style:
situational comedy, lighthearted, slapstick, sitcom, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
farce, mistaken identity, fish out of water, tour guide, screwball, private investigator, satire, small town, con artists, road trip, wedding, sting operation ...
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The three brothers, Akos, Tamas and Andras - known from the first part - try to get back their 60 million forints stolen by impostor Alex who ran away with the money and the girlfriend of the oldest brother.
Style:
lighthearted, situational comedy, sitcom, feel good, fast paced ...
Plot:
brothers, con artists, misadventure, scheming, impostor, scam, betrayal, revenge, heist, friendship, urban, romantic rivalry ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
budapest
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Seriously strapped for cash, three college roommates decide to solve their financial woes by kidnapping the daughter of a wealthy businessman. But the rookie criminals make a huge mistake when they accidentally grab the wrong girl (Tori Spelling). ...
Style:
dark comedy, lighthearted, situational comedy, sitcom, buddy comedy ...
Plot:
kidnapping, mistaken identity, young adult, heist gone wrong, desperation, hostage situation, college life, get rich quick scheme, unhappiness, irreverent, wealthy family, greed ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
With the mafia on their tail, Altan and Gürkan embark on new misadventures when they find themselves at a party hosted by a notorious antiques smuggler.
Style:
buddy comedy, situational comedy, lighthearted, sitcom, slapstick ...
Plot:
friendship, misadventure, unhappiness, mafia, bromance, party, irreverent, urban, young adult, criminal underworld, satire, nightlife ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
sitcom, situational comedy, lighthearted, buddy comedy, slapstick ...
Plot:
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61%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An incompetent gang of criminals attempt to go straight.
Style:
lighthearted, situational comedy, sitcom, buddy comedy, feel good ...
Plot:
heist gone wrong, gang, plan gone wrong, misadventure, heist, friendship, loyalty, redemption, urban, mistaken identity, satire, rehabilitation ...
Time:
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Place:
cyprus
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
uplifting, lighthearted, feel good, romantic comedy, retro ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
sex comedy, sitcom, situational comedy, lighthearted, slapstick ...
Plot:
beauty pageant, erotica, summer, sauna, sexual innuendo, unhappiness, farce, escapism, male bonding, amor, summer camp, romantic rivalry ...
Time:
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Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A convict out of prison to visit his mother, followed by two policemen. A lunatic out of the asylum, followed by two doctors. Their meeting is the beginning of the most hilarious situations, as they begin their quest for freedom
Style:
buddy comedy, situational comedy, sitcom, lighthearted, feel good ...
Plot:
mistaken identity, freedom, misfit, chaos, prisoner, friendship, escape, misadventure, body swapping, road trip, caper, satire ...
Place:
greece
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Story:
A doctor in a hotel has a lot of problems like a man repeatedly fails to commit suicide, a pair of window washers witness a murder by a hit man, a suspicious wife checks up on her husband who happens to be having an affair with her and many more...
Style:
sex comedy, sexy, sensual, lighthearted, situational comedy ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this spoof of spy films, Alan, a U.N. translator, and his kindergarten teacher wife, Beverly, get roped into helping foil a presidential assassination plot by an unlikely G-man-who just so happens to look like Alan's old college buddy, ...
Style:
parody, lighthearted, action comedy, satirical, absurd ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Italian comedy
Style:
buddy comedy, period piece, light hearted, slapstick
Plot:
grave robbing, friendship, police chase, pursuit, heist, unemployment, farce, survival, satire, law enforcement, secrets, dark humor ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
buddy comedy, period piece, light hearted, witty, offbeat ...
Plot:
heist, caper, satire, disguise, unhappiness, publicity stunt, mistaken identity, high society, underdog, criminal, killing, police officer ...
Time:
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Place:
london, scotland yard
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Iran
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Noghtechin is an Iranian television sitcom. It was broadcast for the first time by the IRIB in 2003 and 2004. It was written, directed, and starred Mehran Modiri, the creator of Pavarchin and Shabhaye Barareh. The show was famous for Bamshad and his ...
Style:
sitcom, lighthearted, feel good, slapstick, fast paced
Plot:
farce, male friendship, satire, irreverent, urban, friendship between men, persian
Similarity:
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107
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
As a cruel joke, billionaire William Randolph Hughes planted a series of boxes around the Southwest, in the hopes that someone would find them. The first box told the discoverer that an enormous fortune was buried in a box somewhere, along with ...
Style:
road movie, situational comedy, sitcom, fast paced, lighthearted ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
treasure hunt, greed, treasure map, scheming, rivalry, satire, competition, social commentary, friendship, heist, dark humor, nudity ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
light hearted, slapstick, sitcom, situational comedy, adult comedy
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Chorus girls relate in the court of Judge Goodbody on how the Peeping Phantom would watch them undress, but the Phantom himself turns up with his own surprising testimony.
Style:
lighthearted, romantic comedy, slapstick, period piece, picaresque ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
peeping tom, gender roles, farce, satire, sexual humor, surprise twist, mistaken identity, machismo, sexploitation, seduction, marriage, showbiz ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Selected criminals are being trained to fill in vacancies for police
Style:
slapstick, lighthearted, fast paced, buddy comedy, slapstick comedy
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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