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How to Dupe a Lawyer (1980)
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How to Dupe a Lawyer (1980)
Original name: Jak napálit advokáta
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Attorney Horic is a specialist for cases connected with motoring. He approaches to his work unconventionally, he does not hesitate to search for evidence right in the terrain and he is willing to take various risks.
Plot: legal, lawyer, attorney, police officer, fishing, photographer, doctor, restaurant, judge, cabaret, stuntman, car accident, secretary, auto mechanic, blackmail, father son relationship, female judge, older man younger woman relationship, hitchhiking, hitchhiker, auto repair, acrobat, blackmailer, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, car ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, dark comedy and semi serious films with plots about murder, police officer, arrest, police, judge, bare chested male and husband wife relationship mostly in Comedy, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like How to Dupe a Lawyer: The Rabbit Case (1980), My Cousin Vinny (1992), A Ghost of a Chance (2011), A Girl Fit to Be Killed (1976), Hubert the Smart Boy (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Rabbit Case (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes to practice in the countryside. His series of odd court cases reveals more about the human condition ...
Plot: renaissance, legal, rabbit, manipulative behavior, female judge, gypsy, arrest, infertility, aunt nephew relationship, burglary, debt, hairdresser ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 7.6
 139K
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his ...
Style: funny, feel good, hilarious, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: courtroom, courtroom drama, lawyer, court, trial, small town, legal, mistaken identity, murder, justice, false accusation, cousin cousin relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: alabama, new york, southern usa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
A Ghost of a Chance (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Defence lawyer Emi is assigned to a particularly unusual case: a man is suspected of murdering his wealthy wife, and his only alibi is a 421-year old ghost, Rokubei. At first Emi is hesitant, but when she pursues her lead she is visited by the ghost ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, disturbing
Plot: courtroom, court, murder, explorer, breakup, descendant, small business owner, murderer, criminal, japanese history, judge, japanese woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
A Girl Fit to Be Killed (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The waitress Gita from the hotel "Bobí vrch" approaches her lover who has not left his wife yet and gives him an ultimatum: if he does not do all according to her wish, she will announce to the police his machinations with foreign ...
Style: dark comedy, crying, psychotronic, detective, freeze frame ...
Plot: food, hotel, restaurant, motel, woods, photography, estranged daughter, private investigation, secretly observing, hotel receptionist, police investigator, murder of a woman ...
Place: prague, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Hubert the Smart Boy (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Titulní hrdina komediálního filmu je typický žižkovský frajer. S chytrostí a šarmem si vyřizuje otevřené účty s policejním inspektorem Mourkem, který ho chce stůj co stůj dostat do kriminálu. Jenže Fešák Hubert unikne z každé ...
Style: detective, poliziottesco, crying
Plot: hotel room, escape, peeping tom, husband wife relationship, dog, restaurant, on the run, adultery, voyeurism, photograph, party, hotel ...
Time: 1920s
Place: prague, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Poor White Trash (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Mike and Lenny are two buddies who dream of getting out of the trailer park. Out of desperation they resort to burglary as a means of financing Mike's college education. Their dream is jeopardized one summer day when their ploy to shoplift Near ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, entertaining, dark comedy ...
Plot: family relations, ambition, parents and children, disorder, youth, teenage life, unfaithful wife, single parent, small town, redneck, fight, manipulation ...
Time: 90s
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 4.9
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The Big Bounce (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A small-time con artist and a Hawaiian real estate developer's mischievous, enterprising mistress team up for a potential $200,000 score.
Style: intense, witty, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: robbery, skinny dipping, blackmail, mentor, judge, fondling, unlikely criminals, betrayal, erotica, heist, stereotypes, unlikely friendships ...
Time: year 2004
Place: hawaii, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Devilish Honeymoon (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting all their effort into getting the one man. This will inevitable lead to all sorts of mischief, crime and even a murder. This murder-comedy, shot at ...
Style: poliziottesco, detective, black comedy, dark comedy, psychotronic ...
Plot: coworker relationship, scientist, prison, rivalry, jealousy, honeymoon, mouse, husband wife relationship, broken leg, wedding, jail, marriage ...
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Fuks (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two broken, police, destruction of property by arson with an explosive charge, stealing a car. Not bad for one night! Such is the balance of Alex's eighteenth birthday - the main hero of the film.
Style: smart
Plot: con game, bare butt, automobile, female nudity, driving, car, naked breasts, car theft, eavesdropping, sexual attraction, investigator, teenager ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
A Fork in the Road (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An escaped convict and a woman ponder what to do with a not-quite-dead body.
Style: semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, humorous, black comedy ...
Plot: on the run, murder, kidnapping, convict, escape, partner, chases and races, odd couple, danger, nothing goes right, confined, missing person ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Absolutely Grounded (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Two very different people, in a hurry for two very different reasons, are thrown together when all flights are grounded by a volcanic eruption. As they learn each other's secrets and encounter some of the idiosyncratic locals, they must find a ...
Plot: gay, hitchhiking, infidelity, travel, hotel, revenge, blackmail, volcano, car, restaurant
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.4
 2K
Odd Job (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An unemployed factory worker takes a job as a hit man to make ends meet.
Style: dark comedy
Plot: police officer, anonymous telephone call, heart attack, lottery, police, hospital, love, beach, gas station, factory, church, lie ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A diamond advocate is attempting to steal a collection of diamonds, yet troubles arise when he realizes that he is not the only one after the diamonds.
Style: funny, dark comedy, black comedy, dramatic, light ...
Plot: heist, zoophilia, manipulation, femme fatale, satire, eternal love, robbery, hustler, outlaw, mission, swindle, diamond ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: europe, britain, tower bridge london, london, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Father Son Therapy (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A cop and his son have to put away their differences while undercover on a therapeutic trip.
Style: semi serious, satirical, captivating, feel good, entertaining
Plot: father son relationship, father and son, parents and children, sleuth, satire, teamwork, crime investigation, police investigation, police officer, investigation, family relations, uncover truth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Get Charlie Tully (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000 but during their flight out Charlie is arrested for coning an American and a dog. Reggie stores the money in a Swiss Bank and after Charlie is released is about to tell ...
Style: sex comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: on the run, camp, heist, gangster, bank, love affair, cons and scams, chases and races, love and romance, chase, dishonesty, criminal heroes ...
Time: 70s
Place: london, rome italy, italy, europe, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.2
 136K
Twins (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, road movie, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, date night
Plot: twins, road trip, buddy, fish out of water, family relations, on the road, partner, brothers, buddies, culture clash, brother brother relationship, siblings ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place: usa, los angeles, arizona, austin texas, santa fe new mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Terminal Exposure (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two beach combing-shutterbugs accidentally capture a murder on film. Now detectives, the boys set out to capture a murderess shot only from behind, with a rose tattoo on her behind. Fun in the sun turns dangerous when they end up shooting bullets ...
Style: detective, cult classic, dark comedy, independent film, neo noir
Audience: teens
Plot: beach, murder, erotic dream, voyeur, voyeurism, female nudity, city, corvette, water gun, obese woman, best friend, stripper ...
Place: venice beach california, venice california, los angeles, las vegas, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Who Killed Bambi? (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story: It tells the story of two young friends who must find a way for the president of the company in which they work (and father of one of them) safe return home, and that is enclosed strange circumstances naked in the trunk of his car.
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, light, dark comedy ...
Plot: comedy of errors, mistaken identity, crime gone awry, disorder, nothing goes right, buddies, dark humor, profanity, friends, kidnapping, love story, truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Juego peligroso (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two stories set in Río de Janeiro. The first one (HO) is about a man who picks up a couple of newlyweds on the highway to Río. The couple's car is wrecked and the man offers his help to take the bride to their honeymoon bungalow. Everything ...
Style: neo noir
Plot: blackmail, newlywed, dead woman, blonde, murder, poison, car accident, boat, lovers, black widow, handsome man, woman in a bikini ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.8
 36K
Keeping Mum (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair and his children are up to no good.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, witty, light, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: murder, dysfunctional family, serial killer, family problems, religion, insanity, village, family values, clergy, small town, lust, church ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.5
 16K
Mafia! (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
Style: parody, spoof, funny, light, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, mafia, father son relationship, farce, dumb, stupidity, multiple storylines, satire, justice, adaptation, goofy hero, assassination ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, year 1938, year 1967, year 1933
Place: italy, sicily, usa, europe, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Winter Potato Dumplings (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Crime comedy set in a village somewhere in Bavaria, centering around a village policeman's attempt to solve a murder case, his chaotic private life and the dysfunctional relationship with his wacky father.
Style: funny, light, humorous, captivating, detective
Plot: dysfunctional family, father son relationship, police officer, private investigation, friendship between men, family relations, characters killed one by one, private detective, disorder, justice, crime solving, small town life ...
Place: bavaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Leslie, My Name Is Evil (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Perry, a sheltered chemical engineer, falls in love with Leslie, a former homecoming princess, when he becomes a jury member at her hippie death cult murder trial.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: promiscuous daughter, cheerleader, casual sex, virgin sacrifice, courtroom drama, murder, jury, courtroom, adolescence vs adulthood, fall in love, gang, assassination ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Lucky Numbers (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the TV station's lotto ball girl to rig the state lottery drawing. The numbers come up right, but ...
Style: stylized, humorous, realistic, not serious, feel good ...
Plot: lottery, small town, justice, weatherman, dark humor, criminal heroes, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals, couple relations, cons and scams, stripper, gambling ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 80s
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.6
 2K
Courted (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a feared judge of the French court, Xavier Racine, encounters a French-Danish juror, Ditte Lorensen-Coteret, at a murder trial, their shared past is slowly uncovered.
Style: captivating, light, sincere, humorous
Plot: courtroom, lawyer, jury, court, judge, justice, testimony, love and romance, couples, transformation, criminal trial, courtroom drama ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.6
 67K
Half Baked (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Three lovable party buds try to bail their friend out of jail. But just when the guys have mastered a plan, everything comes dangerously close to going up in smoke.
Style: funny, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, hood ...
Plot: weed, marijuana, stoner, drug, stupidity, drug dealer, satire, drug addict, urban, voice over narration, breaking the fourth wall, rottweiler ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Illegally Yours (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Called up for jury duty, Richard Dice finds his first crush and only real, but unrequited love, on trial for murder. Richard desperately tries to prove Mollys innocence while untangling a complicated web of murder, blackmail and perjury, and still ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: murder, jury, lawyer, law, crush, heroes, youth, dishonesty, protagonist as suspect, love and romance, legal, legal investigation ...
Time: 80s
Place: south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.1
 3K
From the Hip (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a promotion in his firm, and he must now defend a college professor who is appearantly guilty of ...
Style: anamorphic, psychological, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, court, murder, law, satire, lawsuit, trial, brat pack, defense attorney, murder trial, college professor ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.9
 125
Brooklyn Story (1992)
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The sequel to a popular teenage crime comedy Kamarád do deste (1988). The same tandem of friends (Lukás Vaculík and Sagvan Tofi) now operates disco 'Brooklyn'. The crook they cleverly put behind bars (Karel Augusta) is ...
Style: crying, freeze frame, detective
Plot: bare chested male, shakespeare, skater, coworker relationship, fan, death by overdose, italian abroad, hotel receptionist, released from prison, nightclub, jail cell, police officer ...
Place: prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.9
 289
The Red Ibis (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: No overview found.
Plot: serial killer, hair salon, male wears an earring, voice over narration, taxi, chase, flashback, violinist, hotel, dancing, strangulation, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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