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Hello, Fred the Beard (1978)
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Original name: Hallo Szpicbródka, czyli ostatni występ króla kasiarzy
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1920s Warsaw, a legendary conman tries to exploit the financial problems of a vaudeville theatre in order to rob a bank.
Style:
period piece, witty, lighthearted, slapstick, costume drama, tension, romantic comedy
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
vaudeville, bank robbery, heist, showbiz, scheming, economic crisis, nostalgia, satire, entertainment industry, corruption, intrigue, class differences, escapism, friendship, escape, bank robber, investor, theater, actress, bankruptcy, con man, con artists, stage performance, music hall, fountain ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s
Place:
warsaw poland, poland
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
After being humiliated and kicked out from a music hall because they could not pay the bill, six ne'er-do-wells decide to kidnap the star performer Emel Sayın for revenge.
Style:
lighthearted, buddy comedy, feel good, romantic comedy, retro ...
Plot:
kidnapping, revenge, poverty, casino, friendship, showbiz, heist gone wrong, farce, loyalty, mistreatment, celebrity culture, urban ...
Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
A romantic love story set in a good old XIX century in the best traditions of Russian vaudevilles.
Style:
romantic comedy, costume drama, spoof, lighthearted, satirical ...
Plot:
vaudeville, deception, theater, farce, social satire, matchmaking, marriage, father daughter relationship, ambition, scheming, aspiring actress, class differences ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Iran
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An invitation for a famous Iranian bandmaster, Maxx, living in a foreign country, is accidentally sent to a young cabaret singer with the same name.
Style:
lighthearted
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mistaken identity, music industry, identity, cabaret, culture clash, theater, ambition, celebrity, performance art, nightlife, showbiz, class differences ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
persia, iran
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Three short segments about love.
Style:
anthology, romantic comedy, romantic, light hearted, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
marriage, wedding, love, couples, relationships, city life, engagement, slice of life, wooing, nostalgia, gender roles, post war ...
Time:
60s
Place:
warsaw poland, poland, europe
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
lighthearted, feel good, romantic comedy, slapstick, retro ...
Plot:
bureaucracy, farce, compassion, friendship, office politics, male friendship, secretary, housekeeper, satire, small town, deception, moral dilemma ...
Time:
70s
Place:
west germany
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Life goes quietly in a traditional neighborhood of Madrid. Two beautiful girls, Susana and Casta, trade workers in the area, accepting mature attentions of a pharmacist, Don Hilarion. This affection dislike the young Julian, who is in love with ...
Style:
period piece, romantic comedy, lighthearted, costume drama
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
jealousy, love triangle, flirting, romantic rivalry, nostalgia, city life, wooing, festival, narration, street life, choir, working class ...
Time:
19th century, 60s, 1890s
Place:
madrid
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Princess Ida and Prince Hilarion were betrothed when the Prince was two years old and the Princess just one year old. Twenty years have now passed, and the time has come for Hilarion to claim his bride. The Princess, however, has other ideas. She ...
Style:
light hearted, romantic comedy, romantic, costume drama, period piece ...
Plot:
operetta, cross dressing, gender roles, farce, satire, mistaken identity, social commentary, friendship, female empowerment, wooing, chivalry, male bonding ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
england
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece, Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Prince Jan is spying on beautiful tour guide Elena from his helicopter while touring Greece. He escapes from his entourage and joins the girl's group, posing as a humble visitor. The two fall in love, but Prince Jan, knowing that he has duties ...
Style:
romantic comedy, lighthearted, romantic drama, feel good, retro ...
Plot:
prince, love story, holiday romance, tour guide, royalty, hidden identity, mistaken identity, seaside, mediterranean, disguise, escapism, wooing ...
Time:
60s
Place:
greece, hellas, athens greece
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
Kadhalikka Neramillai (Tamil: காதலிக்க நேரமில்லை English: No time to love) is a 1964 Tamil comedy film starring T. S. Balaiya, R. Muthuraman, Ravichandran, Nagesh and others. The film was directed by Sridhar with ...
Style:
romantic comedy, situational comedy, sitcom, feel good, light hearted ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
disguise, friendship, happy ending, nostalgia, young love, mistaken identity, comedy of errors, wooing, office romance, family drama, love triangle, urban ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Norway
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
Vi opplever Børs storøyde forundring ved det første møtet med de brede gater i Trondheim, og med en elektrisk trikk. Vi er med Bør i stråhatt og storrutet dress på nattlig frieri i Olderdalens skoger, og følger ham i livkjole og ...
Style:
light hearted, period piece, parody, costume drama
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
social climbing, satire, ambition, social satire, capitalism, class conflict, small town, fish out of water, rise and fall, entrepreneurship, farce, nostalgia ...
Time:
1920s, 1910s
Similarity:
58%
426
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories.
Style:
anthology, romantic comedy, sex comedy, lighthearted, witty ...
Plot:
love, satire, gender roles, social commentary, infidelity, adaptation, sexually liberated, slice of life, lust, semi nudity, marriage, class differences ...
Time:
60s
Place:
europe, italy
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
The movie revolves around three childhood friends, who are married and settled in their lives but are afraid of their wives.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, thrilling, satirical, buddy comedy ...
Plot:
vacation, satire, husband wife relationship, divorce lawyer, friendship, friends, advocate, love affair, male female relationship, relationships, road trip, marriage ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Engineer Quiller has become rich by selling his completely indestructible shop-window glass to jeweleries around the world. But this got him lots of enemies too: the insurance agencies, who've lost hundreds of customers, and the burglarers. ...
Style:
romantic comedy, lighthearted, feel good, period piece, slapstick
Plot:
mistaken identity, amnesia, urban, redemption, second chance, moral dilemma, thief, butler, bare breasts, fake priest, criminal, divorce ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
persia
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
How happy and proud they are those two ladies back in Oporto! Thanks to them, their bright nephew can study medicine in Lisbon and may already have become a doctor. Little do they know, not only Vasco wastes all his time drinking, dancing and ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, entertaining, thrilling, family comedy ...
Plot:
deception, dancing, satire, aunt nephew relationship, lifestyle, escapades, con trick, urban, student life, embarrassment, mistaken identity, farce ...
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
From the director of “72 Tenants Of Prosperity” comes a period comedy movie about an emperor (Richie Ren) who disguises himself as a commoner and later falls in love with Phoenix (Barbie Hsu), the lady boss of an inn.
Style:
sincere, humorous, captivating, romantic, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
love, hidden identity, mistaken identity, emperor, betrayal, hotel, disguise, fish out of water, identity, happy ending, class differences, satire ...
Place:
china, ancient china
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Devdutt Anand works in a company selling musical instruments, and is always late for work, infuriating his boss, I.S. Johar. Things change for the better when Johar finds out that Devdutt has a talent for writing poems, and he gets Devdutt to write ...
Style:
romantic comedy, situational comedy, lighthearted, feel good, sitcom ...
Plot:
love triangle, flirting, comedy of errors, young adult, moral dilemma, class differences, friendship, voice over narration, love, party, boss, bus ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Comedy about teachers and students at a high school in a small provincial town. Mihailo tries to win the heart of a girl his brother is also chasing.
Style:
romantic comedy, lighthearted, sentimental, period piece, teen comedy
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 60s
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A police officer aspires to marry his well-off boss and joins her on a trip to the UK to track down a woman.
Style:
romantic comedy, feel good, lighthearted, action comedy
Plot:
fish out of water, punjabi, culture clash, friendship, buddy cop, bromance, road trip, romantic rivalry, comedy of manners, escapism, class differences, female boss ...
Place:
britain, london
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Work to live or live to work? That's the question facing 38-year-old underachiever John (Paul Kolsby). When he meets the love of his life, Denise (Sharon Repass), he decides to leave his dream job as a video store clerk for a "real ...
Style:
humorous, romantic comedy, lighthearted, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
career change, video store, everyday life, slice of life, friendship, fish out of water, nostalgia, satire, office, bum, clerk, geek ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest ...
Style:
romantic comedy, semi serious, realistic, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
showbiz, dancing, broadway, choreography, choreographer, love, morality, past, couples, filmmaking, fall in love, ambition ...
Time:
1920s, year 1971, 1930s, 20th century
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Trojice venkovských fasádníků pracuje na montáži při obnově pražské zástavby. A když už se dostali do hlavního města, rozhodnou se, že by neškodilo si tady pořádně užít a vyhodit z kopýtka. Aby nedělali ostudu, nechají si ...
Style:
lighthearted, witty, romantic comedy, slapstick
Plot:
night, class differences, working class, satire, male bonding, fish out of water, friendship, entertainment, makeover, social climbing, deception, flirting ...
Time:
60s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia, czech republic
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A man struggles to save his family-owned restaurant as it is running in loses. He soon falls for a health inspector keen on shutting down the place. When his brother enters the scene, things get worse.
Style:
feel good, psychological, captivating, satirical, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
cafe, restaurant, love story, brother, couple relations, restaurant owner, love affair, family business, business, brother brother relationship, cafe owner, satire ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
india
Similarity:
44%
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:
44%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When the corrupted groom starts shooting in the wedding ceremony, guests try to run away. Aida and Davoud accidentally end up in a car that crashes a police car. Aida lies to the inspector that Davoud is her husband and that's where the story ...
Style:
tense, road movie, fast paced, action comedy, lighthearted ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mistaken identity, identity, escape, corruption, chaos, chase, odd couple, road trip, marriage, car crash, social commentary, escapism ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
persia, iran
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.
Style:
lighthearted, feel good, romantic comedy, sentimental, period piece ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
korean war, heartwarming, culture clash, misunderstanding, orphanage, publicity stunt, male camaraderie, fish out of water, friendship, double wedding, satire, war photographer ...
Time:
year 1961
Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A Polish romantic comedy.
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, romantic comedy, lighthearted ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
light comedy, new job, workplace romance, lifestyle, fall in love, social differences, resort, ambition, workplace, happy ending, wooing, self discovery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, poland
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs. (telemagazyn.pl)
Style:
suspense, mysterious, tension, period piece, psychological ...
Plot:
female protagonist, affair, boredom, intrigue, espionage, infidelity, adultery, loneliness, marital crisis, character study, moral ambiguity, suspicion ...
Time:
60s, 1930s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An English barrister falls for a young Austrian baroness who, together with her father, steals jewelry from ladies' necks by applying her grandmother's so-called "one and a half finger system."
Style:
light, lighthearted, romantic comedy, witty, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
jewel theft, baroness, aristocracy, art theft, father daughter relationship, british, con artists, heist, deception, love triangle, intrigue, country estate ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
40%
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:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two harum-scarums who think they are good stand-up comics try to make a career in showbiz, partly for the career, partly to seduce women. They try alternatively the scene, a movie set and TV. They only succeed in making a fool of themselves
Style:
slapstick, buddy comedy, lighthearted, parody, rom com
Plot:
showbiz, absurd humor, friendship, stand up comedy, irreverent, mishap, fish out of water, satire, ambition, film set, chainsaw, deer ...
Time:
90s
Place:
quebec, montreal
Similarity:
40%
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