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The Life of Harry Dare (1995)
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The Life of Harry Dare (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Harry Dare is a shambolic Adelaide private investigator. He’s still not certain why he’s in the business; perhaps to understand his father’s disappearance, 20 years earlier? But now Harry’s got a real case: who stole his father’s old Kombi van, nicked (oddly) just after Harry finished restoring it?
Style: independent film
Plot: theft, aborigine, car theft, port, australian aboriginal, van, stealing a car, harbor, stealing, indigenous people, indigenous, mini van, first nations, stolen car
Place: australia, south australia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, humorous, semi serious and realistic films with plots about friendship, theft, female nudity, stealing, nudity, friends and love and romance mostly in Comedy, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like The Life of Harry Dare: Found Money (1983), 91.1 (2016), Le Mentor (2012), Pacific Banana (1981), The Wog Boy (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Love and the Midnight Auto Supply (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An auto-theft ring decides to help out migrant workers from Mexico with the proceeds from their racket.
Style: independent film
Plot: business, politician, friendship, car chase, van, robbery, police, car theft, migrant worker, protest, brothel
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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
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91.1 (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story of 3 different generations living in the same city. Alper, his best friend Soner and his long-time girlfriend Hazan are studying at the same university. Lately the relation between Hazan and Alper do not go well. Soner supports them for ...
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Le Mentor (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A ruined old man turned homeless overhears the conversation of a young couple. He decides to intervene and become their mentor.
Plot: stealing, nudity, homelessness, cheating girlfriend, young girl, homeless, supermarket, homeless man, older man younger woman relationship, old man, infidelity, restaurant ...
Place: paris france
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Pacific Banana (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The story of a pair of Australian pilots working for a small South Pacific airline. Paul, a wildly successful womanizer, leaving conquests at every port and Martin, sad and lonely in his search for a true love. Together, they... well, they ...
Style: independent film, sexy, sex comedy, hot
Audience: adult
Plot: erotica, beach, pilot, nudity, pacific island, aircraft, female objectification, fleeing, tropics, love, airplane, holiday ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, pacific ocean, south australia
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The Wog Boy (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Steve liked Celia from the moment they met. But following a clash with her boss, Raelene Beagle-Thorpe, Minister for Employment, he finds himself on national television branded as Australia's biggest dole bludger. Now Steve has to prove to ...
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Time: 90s
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania
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The Craic (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When Fergus and Wesley get in the bad books of a local rough in their home town in Northern Ireland they decide to flee to Australia. After making a new life for themselves in Sydney they soon outstay their visas and must go on the run again, this ...
Style: road movie, slang, independent film
Plot: friendship, escape, beach, tourist, dating, dating show, friendship between men, runaway, surfing, friend, government agent, van ...
Time: 80s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, belfast, sydney australia, australia
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Alvin Rides Again (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Alvin Purple, a man who can't hold down a job because of his voracious sexual appetite, impersonates a dead American Gangster.
Style: sex comedy, independent film
Plot: adultery, sex, car chase, mafia, casino, replacement, car, female nudity, automobile, nudity, gun, female full frontal nudity
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Mavis Davis has had enough! Younger son Eddie wears headphones all day and almost electrocutes her. Older boy Wally is gay and lives in a huge over-ripe banana. And her husband Roly has grown into a blind, motionless, emotionless vegetable. So pack ...
Style: dark comedy, independent film, black comedy
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Place: australia
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This Won't Hurt a Bit (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: This Won't Hurt a Bit is a 1993 Australian comedy film about a dentist.
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The Nullarbor Nymph (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 66 min.
Story: Following two Water Australia employees who travel out along the Nullarbor Plain only to discover they are being hunted by the mythological creature, the Nullarbor Nymph.
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Plot: mystery woman, hearing voices, missing person, hallucination, countryside, found footage, legend, folklore, mythology, nymphomaniac, highway, myth ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, year 1972
Place: australia, south australia
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Stork (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden in Melbourne, he drops out and moves into a share house with his mate Westy. He daydreams his ...
Style: sex comedy, independent film, slapstick
Plot: exploitation, virgin, boredom, revolutionary, female nudity, wedding, loss of virginity, hippie, polygamy, shower
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I Love You Too (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to ...
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60%
 5.9
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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
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A Little Bit of Soul (1998)
Genre: Comedy
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Style: semi serious, offbeat, humorous
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Time: year 1998, 90s
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Genre: Comedy
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