Movies like Mr Coconut

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Mr Coconut (1989)
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Mr Coconut (1989)
Original name: 合家歡
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Michael Hui plays the lovable "Mr. Coconut", who arrives in town from Hainan China where he lived with his coconuts. Here in the sophisticated urban jungles of Hong Kong. "Mr. Coconut" has finally reunited with his family, as he endures Hong Kong Streets of the late 1980s, filled with stock and property gamblers, heavy mobile phones etc..... "Mr. Coconut", a Hong Kong Lunar New Year film classic, is also Michael's first 30 million box office hit in which he received the Best Actor Nomination in 1989.
Plot: train, pyramid, billiards, hospital, family relations, deception, salesman, robbery, native, swimming pool, skateboard, brother sister relationship, conscience, little girl, fever, diarrhea, loan, dignity, moral dilemma, lecher, niece, flashback, cocktail party, culture shock, fictional game show ...
Place: egypt, hong kong, congo
Keyword: chinese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about family relations, disorder, youth, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, dog and little girl mostly in Comedy, Family and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Mr Coconut: In-Laws, Out-Laws (2004), Don Quixote's Children (1966), All's Well, Ends Well 2009 (2009), Flodder in Amerika! (1992), Katya and the Crocodile (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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In-Laws, Out-Laws (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Raymond Wong's Mandarin Films jumps back into the Lunar New Year fray with In-Laws, Out-Laws, an ensemble comedy which recalls the Lunar New Year flicks of years past. Like some of the other flicks Wong had his name on (Eighth Happiness, ...
Style: slapstick comedy
Plot: family relations, sword fight, flashback, swimming pool, variety show, taekwondo, robbery, coach, tour guide, father son relationship, nightmare, dysfunctional marriage ...
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Don Quixote's Children (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min.
Story: The head of maternity clinic is nicknamed Don Quixote by his neighbors. He spends days and nights with newborn children, forgetting about his own growing sons.
Plot: family relations, father son relationship, hospital, don quixote, lonely man, soviet
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All's Well, Ends Well 2009 (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Kei's eldest sister Sandra is a hot-tempered magazine editor and her temperament has left her single all this while. One of the family rules is that none of the siblings could get married before their eldest sister. Kei seeks help from the ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, captivating, romantic, satirical ...
Audience: date night
Plot: family relations, womanizer, relationships, love story, love and romance, male female relationship, looking for love, couple relations, romantic relationship, fall in love, eccentric family, love affair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Flodder in Amerika! (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The mayor of Sunny Dale see a chance to get rid of the Flodder family: They send the asocial bunch for an international exchange to New York. There they get confused with a Russian delegation of medical doctors while the street worker Werner who ...
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, mistaken identity, nudity, female nudity, chaos, luxury, disorder, love and romance, nothing goes right, dishonesty, fall in love, social misfits ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, netherlands, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Katya and the Crocodile (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 66 min.
Story: It is the summer holiday and little Mísa Horák has taken a few animals from the school's so-called "Corner of Living Nature" home to care for. But when he brings home two Angora rabbits, a starling, a little monkey, a tortoise and a ...
Plot: girl, boy, little girl, little boy, hiding place, monkey, rabbit, family relations, turtle
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Skateboard Kid (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: No one could be more bored than Zack, the new kid in town with no friends in sight. When a gang of hip, skateboarding thrashers start cruising his neighborhood, Zack hopes his luck will change. But they want nothing to do with him. Then Zack makes ...
Style: independent film
Plot: skateboard, family relations, skater, stupid kid, magical object
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Pup Star (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A Yorkshire Terrier, competing in a televised singing competition, is separated from her owner by an opportunist dog pound worker.
Style: road movie, feel good, light, humorous
Audience: kids
Plot: dog, talking dog, animal shelter, family relations, friendship, little girl, children, dog actor, pet owner relationship, single father, talking animal, stupid kid ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Larry's daughter wants only one thing for Christmas - a talking bear. His daughter's step-dad intends to make sure that Larry can't get one.
Style: realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, feel good ...
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Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, family relations, goofy hero, family life, parents and children, disorder, chases and races, race against time, nothing goes right, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Bill, a TV news reporter, tries to make ends meet to support himself, his wife and three daughters in urban Hong Kong. In the mist of the misadventures of Bill and his family, their luck and lives ultimately change when Bill's wife suddenly ...
Plot: reporter, wife, chinese new year, lottery, kidnapped child, cancer, neighborhood, lottery winner, family relations, superhero spoof, adultery, surrealism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
A Loud House Christmas (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min.
Story: Lincoln Loud gears up for the ultimate Christmas, until he finds out that most of his sisters have plans to be elsewhere for the big day. Determined to remind his family that they all need to be together, Lincoln and his best friend Clyde McBride ...
Style: feel good, sincere, captivating, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, family tradition, family relations, friendship, family gatherings, brother sister relationship, parents and children, escapades, satire, sabotage, stranded, beast ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Skateboard Kid 2 (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Take a roller coaster ride full of high octane adventure as 12 year old Sammy takes to the skies. With the help of a magical flying skateboard, Sammy ends up the hottest skateboarder in town. But a group of local thrashers don't like the extra ...
Style: independent film
Plot: skateboard, skater, child, family relations, magical object
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Mary, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, humorous, funny, teen ...
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Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: illinois, chicago, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ 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 ⇓
31%
Dennis the Menace (1987)
Genre: Family, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
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Style: not serious, realistic, humorous
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, preschool
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Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
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Duration: 79 min.
Story: My sisters kids are home alone
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 88 min.
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29%
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Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
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The Even Stevens Movie (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Sune's Summer (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story: It's summer and Sune Anderssons family is planning a holiday in Greece. Sunes father, Rudolf is sulking because then he won't be able to go on his beloved fishing trip. But after seeing how much the Greek trip is going to cost, he comes up ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Summerdog (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Snowball Express (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After the Lowry Family moves from New York to Placerville in California, a golden retriever comes to their house. The family starts to take care of her and the retriever, now named Pilot, has puppies. They give all of the puppies away, but later ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, feel good, light ...
Audience: family outing
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
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Story: Two rich children devise a way to escape their grandfather and visit their mother. Unfortunately for two hapless safe crackers, they become part of the plan.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, slapstick ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, adult
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
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Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, slapstick
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
'Twas the Night (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
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Style: semi serious, humorous, light, entertaining, naughty
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, family relations, disorder, dishonesty, on the run, cons and scams, mischievous children, imaginary, christmas eve, uncle nephew relationship, youth, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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