Movies like The Guardian Angel 1996

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The Guardian Angel (1996)
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The Guardian Angel (1996)
Original name: El ángel de la guarda
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: thief, money, friendship, memory loss, theft, family relations, deception, maid, father daughter relationship, memory, mother daughter relationship, nerd, father son relationship, drunkenness, military coup, husband wife relationship, weirdo, death of father, patriarch, deafness, stealing money, friend, brother brother relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, grandmother grandson relationship ...
Time: 80s
Place: madrid

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, feel good and realistic films with plots about family relations, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, friendship and drinking mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like The Guardian Angel: Brother for All the Money (1979), So There (1997), Never Too Late (1965), Five on the Black Hand Side (1973), What a Mess! (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Brother for All the Money (1979)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Honza and Zuzana are very young husband and wife. They have a little daughter of whom willingly occasionally take care the grandparents and Honza's fifteen-year-old brother Martin. Zuzana continues studying and Honza devotes all weekends as an ...
Plot: jealousy, brother brother relationship, young love, police officer, teenage boy, young adult, family relations, mother daughter relationship, marriage, kidnapping, police, drinking ...
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95%
 5.6
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So There (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy a truck, a trucker's dream. The father, practical joker, and larger-than-life lover, keeps a ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: daughter, unfaithfulness, family relations, suicide attempt, patriarch, plumber, accountant, cruelty, mafioso, family dinner, brother sister relationship, husband wife relationship ...
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77%
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Never Too Late (1965)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A 60-year-old lumber supply businessman is dismayed to learn his 50-year-old wife is pregnant. A film adaptation of the hit Broadway comedy, with Paul Ford repeating his stage role as the flabbergasted papa-to-be.
Style: retro, independent film
Plot: parenthood, small town, mayor, father daughter relationship, expectant father, father in law son in law relationship, mother in law son in law relationship, trying to get pregnant, pregnancy, pregnant wife, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Place: boston
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61%
Five on the Black Hand Side (1973)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: blaxploitation, family relations, black, wedding, african, society, couple relations, politics, life is a bitch, family problems, injustice, couples ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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What a Mess! (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 143 min.
Story: The story starts in a Siberia where world's biggest diamond was found. It is so valuable that it may not only pay off the enormous national debt, but also allow every Russian citizen to move to the Canary Islands. However, Mafia plans to steal ...
Style: humorous, feel good, absurd, light, entertaining ...
Plot: family relations, brother brother relationship, drunkenness, embezzler, twin brother, long lost relative, long lost son, cons and scams, escapades, wedding, couple relations, family secret ...
Place: russia
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56%
Life Doesn't Scare Me (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things.
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage girl, parent child relationship, grownups, high school, adolescence, coming of age, friendship, mental illness, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, friend, flash forward ...
Time: 80s, 70s
Place: paris france
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56%
In the Thick of It (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: This optimistic Italian slice-of-life drama chronicles a typical day in the lives of teenagers living in the grim suburbs of Rome. The story is set in the suburb of Tuscolano which is located near the Cinecitta studios and concerns a group of ...
Style: independent film
Plot: teenage gang, con man, stealing, money, dating, teenage girl, flash forward, brother brother relationship, sex, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, prostitute, friend ...
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Passed Away (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A bunch of eccentric relatives gather for their patriarch's funeral.
Style: black comedy, laugh out loud, dark comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: funeral, family relations, pregnancy, midlife crisis, dark humor, family problems, couples, single parent, nothing goes right, love and romance, clergy, elderly ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The First Star (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A married father of three, lives in Créteil doing odd jobs and spends his time at the local PMU bar. One day, to please his daughter, he promises a little too quick to take the whole family on vacation to ski. The only problem: if he breaks his ...
Style: satirical, humorous, semi serious, funny, entertaining ...
Plot: ski resort, holiday, husband wife relationship, family holiday, family relations, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, satire, father son relationship, mother son relationship, male female relationship, father daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 5.9
 2K
The Nugget (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 'The Nugget' looks at how instant wealth suddenly changes the lives of three working class men - not necessarily for the better, but always with hilarious consequences.
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, exciting
Plot: gold, ambition, couple relations, treasure hunt, social misfits, nothing goes right, crime gone awry, buddies, cons and scams, disorder, partner, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
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53%
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Mom's Day Away (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A frustrated stay-at-home mom takes a weekend away when her family ignores her over Mother's Day.
Style: captivating, entertaining, humorous, light, feel good ...
Plot: mother's day, husband wife relationship, family relations, relationship vs career, career, mother son relationship, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, relationships, mother daughter relationship, real estate agent, motherhood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Three for Two (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: THREE FOR TWO presents Lucy with the Great One, Jackie Gleason, combining their comedic talents for the first time, in a trio of comedy-dramas centered on the various aspects of marriage.
Style: dark comedy
Plot: marriage, nightclub, crown, luxury hotel, new year's eve, memory, singing, waiter, argument, father daughter relationship, infidelity, mother daughter relationship ...
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.9
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Houseguest (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In hot water with the mob over an unpaid debt, a con man poses as a family friend in an affluent Pennsylvania suburb.
Style: humorous, black comedy, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: friendship, stupidity, dysfunctional family, mistaken identity, teenage girl, dentist, redemption, boy, reckless driving, impersonation, debt, lawyer ...
Time: 90s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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45%
 5.3
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Combat High (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: "Police Academy"-style comedy set in a military school. Two errant high-school students are ordered by a judge to spend a year at a prestigious military academy, where one of the cadets finds out who is responsible for a spate of midnight ...
Style: parody, semi serious, humorous
Plot: cadet, thief, prank, school, military school, partner, buddies, youth, misfit, disorder, friends, fish out of water ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Dad or Mom (2023)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Florencia and Vicente are getting divorced. When both are promoted at their jobs, they will do anything in order to do not keep custody of their children.
Style: satirical, funny, entertaining, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: divorce, relationship vs career, child custody, satire, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, mother son relationship, male female relationship, relationships, family relations ...
Time: year 2007, 2020s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Hook, Line And Sinker (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive (Jerry Lewis) goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then learns his medical diagnosis was a mistake. This 1969 comedy, directed by George Marshall, also stars Anne Francis, Peter Lawford and ...
Plot: infidelity, doctor, debt, surgery, fraud, terminal illness, drunkenness, hospital, dog, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time: year 1969
Place: lisbon portugal, portugal
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Summer Rental (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in a feud with a local yachtsman, and has to race him to ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, funny, intense ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A group of four siblings compete for the heritage of their father.
Style: humorous, entertaining, light, funny, captivating ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Absolutely Fabulous (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The wildly popular British television show Absolutely Fabulous gets a Francophonic makeover with this film version directed by Gabriel Aghion. In this go around, Josiane Balasko and Nathalie Baye play the incorrigible Eddie and Patsy, who leave no ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, canada, woodstock
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.6
 48
Found Money (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Max and Sam, disillusioned with people's day-to-day callousness toward each other, and angered by a pension-stealing bank, invent The Invisible Friend, Inc. The intention was to reward kind acts, but things rarely turn out as planned.
Plot: stealing, good samaritan, banking, computer expert, caper, bank, friendship, money, unemployment, scheme, theft, security guard ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Pearls and Pigs (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the ...
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, light, semi serious ...
Plot: rivalry, contests and competitions, family relations, step siblings, talent show, father son relationship, money, small town, brother brother relationship, girl, friendship, prize ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Worst Christmas of My Life (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Paolo needs to reach the castle of Alberto Caccia, where he was invited to spend Christmas with his family and Margherita, the ninth month of pregnancy. With them there will also be blessed, daughter of Alberto and childhood friend of Margherita, ...
Style: light, entertaining, feel good, humorous, funny ...
Audience: family outing
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Greedy (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, surprise ending, feel good ...
Plot: wealth, greed, millionaire, uncle nephew relationship, bowling, eccentric family, family relations, last will and testament, family gatherings, vandalism, grandfather, parents and children ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Kids Are Alright: Destination Asturias (2021)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Ricardo, a responsible father, decides to personally take his son to a camp in Asturias, other parents propose that he should also take care of their children. When the train is about to leave, Felipe, a flamboyant individual and grandfather of ...
Style: funny, entertaining, humorous, light, feel good ...
Plot: road trip, travel, train travel, escapades, humour, chase, parents and children, teamwork, teenager, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, stealing ...
Place: madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Village of Simpletons (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A vignette of stories from the small town of Pölhölä, known as the Village of Simpletons.
Plot: eccentricity, rural setting, town, summer, presumed dead, village idiot, scheming, village, old age, father son relationship, search party, missing person ...
Time: 80s
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.5
 1K
Mom or Dad? (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A divorced couple fights for the custody of their three children: neither of them wants it. Mom wants to leave them to dad, and vice versa.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, funny, feel good ...
Plot: divorce, custody battle, humour, family relations, father son relationship, troubled marriage, male female relationship, family problems, mother daughter relationship, parents and children, relationship problems, father daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.9
 91
Dogs & Cats (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: uzu lives with Furuta, her fiance, but one day she leaves home without saying a word. She moves into the apartment of her friend Abe, but he has gone abroad and Yoko now lives in his apartment. Suzu and Yoko, who have known each other since ...
Plot: roommate, friendship, rivalry, childhood friend, affection, dark humor, animal, cat, female rivalry, friend, drinking, ex classmate ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.7
 209
Taste of Life (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Elvio Battistini works as a ticket taker in the local cinema of the small town where he lives. He has a prosthesis in one leg, the result of an accident, but he tells anyone who will listen it is a war injury. Giuseppe Mondardini, is also an older ...
Plot: old age, friendship, old man, melancholy, family relations
Time: 80s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
My Brother Has a Cute Brother (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Honza Pavelka (Jan Hrusínský) wins the junior motorbike speed races. His thirteen-year-old brother Martin (Roman Cada), his assistant and biggest fan, answers the questions of his schoolfriend Pavlína in a superior tone. Student Zuzana (Libuse ...
Plot: teenage boy, elderly, husband wife relationship, doctor, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, friendship, teenager, boy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, brother brother relationship ...
Place: prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.4
 246
Kid Power (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, sincere
Plot: teen rebel, family relations, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, husband wife relationship, rebellious daughter, divorced parents, babysitter, revenge, prank, parents, children ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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