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A Talent for Loving (1973)
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A Talent for Loving (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This Western spoof stars Richard Widmark as an American gambler who wins the deed to a Mexican ranch from a cunning outlaw. At the ranch, the gambler discovers that his new lands have entangled him in an ancient Aztec curse. The ranch's patriarch tries to persuade the newcomer to marry his daughter and explains that the family's women are doomed to be especially fierce and prolific in their romantic encounters.
Style: funny, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, campy
Plot: curse, gambler, gambling, misfit, family relations, family life, love and romance, fish out of water, unlikely couple, curses spells and rituals, nymphomaniac, forced marriage, ranch, aztec, father daughter relationship, affair
Time: year 1969
Place: mexico

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and funny films with plots about family relations, disorder, love and romance, family life, couples, misfit and parents and children mostly in Comedy, Western and Romance genres. Some movies like A Talent for Loving: Max (2012), The Ransom of Red Chief (1998), Manna from Heaven (2002), Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978), Wooly Boys (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him.
Style: retro, funny, realistic, semi serious, exciting ...
Plot: wild west, saloon girl, gilded age, progress, con man, gambler, mormon, showgirl, partner, disorder, friends, on the road ...
Time: year 1976, 19th century
Place: america, usa, san francisco
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Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off for a mail-order bride.
Style: funny, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: married, mayor, drunkenness, bounty hunter, gang, hidden identity, looking for love, dishonesty, disorder, love and romance, mail order bride, saloon girl ...
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Max (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Max is 6 years old. She lives with her dad Toni, a small time crook with a golden heart. For Xmas, Max offers him Rose, a call-girl found on the street whom she’s very fond of. Despite the complicated situation, Toni’s gonna have a hard time ...
Style: touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
Audience: date night
Plot: unlikely couple, family relations, hopes, society, love and romance, starting over, parents and children, redemption, bittersweet, christmas, social misfits, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Ransom of Red Chief (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two hoboes strike on a get-rich quick scheme to kidnap an overly-energetic 9 year old son of a local banker. Based on the classic story by O'Henry.
Style: funny, semi serious, realistic, humorous, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: youth, kidnapping, kidnapped boy, danger, criminal heroes, terrorism, goofy hero, disorder, family relations, chaos and mayhem, family life, woods ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Manna from Heaven (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later you find out it was a just a loan and it's due immediately. Once upon a time, many years ago, a neighborhood in ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
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Place: usa, new york
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Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself - The Play (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: When Madea gets sick, her family comes to her aid. What they don't realize is that they're the ones who need her help. As always, Madea's cockeyed outlook on life saves the day and guarantees side-splitting laughs along the way.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic
Plot: eccentric family, family life, teaching the ways of the world, family relations, nothing goes right, family problems, fish out of water, goofy hero, madea, prison, prison life, siblings relations ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father's fortune.
Style: humorous, intense, entertaining, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: twins, gunfight, siblings relations, rivalry, contests and competitions, friends, small town life, small town, family life, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, redemption ...
Time: 70s, year 1978
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Wooly Boys (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Grizzled North Dakota rancher Stoney heads to the big city to see his daughter and winds up bonding with the grandson he never knew in this heartwarming tale. Stoney's city-bred grandson, Charles, tricks him into getting help for a serious ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, touching, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot: ranch, terminal illness, fish out of water, social differences, parents and children, culture clash, family life, redemption, escapades, sheep, daughter, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north dakota, minneapolis minnesota, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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 548
White on Rice (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: 40-year-old Jimmy is growing up, or at least he's getting older. While mooching the upper bunk of his ten-year-old nephew's bed, he enjoys the never-ending generosity of his sister Aiko, and dodges the wrath of his impatient brother-in-law ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot: family relations, couples, youth, fall in love, introspection, family life, love triangle, dating, dinosaur, love and romance, adolescence vs adulthood, samurai ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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House of My Father (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Scheming of a way to save their father's ranch, the Alvarez brothers find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord.
Style: funny, humorous, parody, surreal, satirical ...
Plot: farce, drug lord, gangster, stereotypes, organized crime, escapades, drug dealing, danger, cowboy, fall in love, love and romance, businessman ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Pleasure of His Company (1961)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Just as San Francisco debutante, Jessica Poole, is set to get married, her absentee father arrives, disrupting the household of his ex-wife. Is he there to break up the wedding? Or to steal back his ex-wife? Or is Pogo finally ready to be a ...
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Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Second Time Around (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In 1911, a widow with two children leaves New York City for territorial Arizona and becomes a ranch hand and later gets herself elected sheriff. A gambler and a rancher become rivals for her affections.
Style: funny, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience: family outing
Plot: widow, gambling, cattle ranch, female sheriff, starting over, rivalry, love and romance, single parent, criminal heroes, society, vigilantism, farm ...
Time: 1910s, year 1961, edwardian era
Place: arizona, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Tea & Sangria (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: date night
Plot: life turned upside down, culture clash, fish out of water, love and romance, society, misfit, disorder, social relations, love
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Place: spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
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McLintock! (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: George Washington McLintock, 'GW' to friends and foes alike, is a cattle baron and the richest man in the territory. He anxiously awaits the return of his daughter Becky who has been away at school for the last two years. He's also ...
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Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: funny, spaghetti western, semi serious, realistic, humorous
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Duration: 94 min.
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40%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
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Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
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34%
Tyler Perry's Aunt Bam's Place - The Play (2012)
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
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