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It's Only Money (1962)
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It's Only Money (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out a friend, he is drawn into a mystery involving a missing heir in a rich family. He begins to notice little things, like how much those family portraits look like him. Surely..no..he can't be...can he ?
Style: esoteric, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick, detective
Plot: butler, heir, investigation, legal action, prodigy, missing person, private detective, manipulation, femme fatale, disorder, adult virgin, silly humor, estate, amateur detective, dishonesty, cons and scams, inheritance, television, pigeon, fish, orphanage, nurse, farce, kiss, mystery ...
Time: year 1962, 60s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and witty films with plots about disorder, dishonesty, investigation, cons and scams, private detective, murder and deadly mostly in Comedy, Mystery and Crime genres. Some movies like It's Only Money: Who's Minding the Store? (1963), Rock Slyde (2009), The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992), Pure Luck (1991), The Man from the Diners' Club (1963). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, slapstick, feel good ...
Plot: workplace, farce, department store, family relations, rise to the top, parents and children, wooing, disorder, goofy hero, chaos and mayhem, store, mistaken identity ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.5
 660
Rock Slyde (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Between trying to get Judy Bee (Elaine Hendrix) back and tracking down a sexy client's stalker, droll Det. Rock Slyde (Patrick Warburton) has his hands full in this comedy that also stars Rena Sofer and includes cameos by Jason Alexander, Brian ...
Style: humorous, not serious, captivating, entertaining, slapstick ...
Plot: investigation, private detective, disorder, riddles and clues, femme fatale, dishonesty, religious cult, mind control, satire, power relations, goofy hero, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all over the world, she leaves him. While she is away, George converts her family home into a discotheque, ...
Style: slapstick, semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous
Plot: con artists, con men, escapades, disorder, estate, espionage, blind ambition, nothing goes right, chases and races, fish out of water, road not taken, cons and scams ...
Time: 60s
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Betty Lou is a librarian in a very small town. Her husband is a police detective who takes her for granted. Betty Lou is the ultimate mouse. After a gangland figure is mysteriously murdered in town, Betty Lou finds the murder weapon, but can't ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: murder, small town, police investigation, librarian, deep south, disorder, small town life, amateur detective, switching roles, investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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 5.8
 8K
Pure Luck (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an ...
Style: humorous, uplifting, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, teens, date night
Plot: farce, missing person, luck, mysticism, cop, comedy of errors, private detective, disorder, memory loss, cons and scams, love affair, kidnapping ...
Time: 90s
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Man from the Diners' Club (1963)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mobster Foots Pulardos, who operates a health gym as a front, plans to flee to Mexico to evade government tax officials. His girl friend, Sugar Pye, suggests that he first arrange for the cremation of a man having his own peculiar identifying ...
Style: retro, independent film, slapstick, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: chase, gangster, chases and races, goofy hero, dishonesty, disorder, comedy of errors, cons and scams, mobster, fraud, tax evasion, clerk ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Notorious Landlady (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
Style: romantic comedy, slapstick, mind bending, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: diplomat, landlady, attempted murder, murder, law enforcement, fall in love, rivalry, legal action, legal, amateur detective, legal investigation, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
This Girl for Hire (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the murder of a obnoxious mystery writer. Along the way, Brady gets help from her flamboyant mother ...
Style: slapstick, humorous, suspenseful, witty, cynical ...
Plot: private investigator, murder, hollywood, store, filmmaking, showbiz, artists and showbiz, private detective, law enforcement, investigation, female detective, failed pilot ...
Time: 1940s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Loser Takes All! (2003)
Genre: Mystery, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Serge Vaudier, a mathematics teacher, wins the lotto twice and claims he can do it again, thanks to an infallible system he has designed. Is a he genius or a con man? Angèle, the head of the the government's bureau, is determined to entrap ...
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, realistic, humorous
Plot: cons and scams, gambler, lottery, dishonesty, gambling, prodigy, mathematics, police, chess, teacher, ambition, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Andy Barker, P.I. (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Certified public accountant Andy Barker reluctantly becomes a private investigator after he is mistaken for the former office tenant, who was a private eye.
Style: humorous, captivating, detective, sitcom, entertaining ...
Plot: investigation, private detective, accountant, mistaken identity, amateur detective, career change, pretense, disorder, dishonesty, escapades, rivalry, outside help ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, surreal, realistic ...
Plot: amateur sleuth, investigation, retirement home, amateur detective, couple relations, odd couple, who done it, cemetery, private detective, poison, suicide, heat wave ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Love at Large (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up with his own tail, P.I. Stella Wynkowski, to clear things up.
Style: laugh out loud, independent film, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot: private detective, nightclub, mistaken identity, jealousy, manipulation, hidden identity, femme fatale, dishonesty, amateur detective, investigation, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 5.7
 4K
Clean Slate (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a 'blank slate'. Since he is in the middle of a hot investigation and has a developing romance, this is less than convenient.
Style: humorous, entertaining, talky, melancholic, witty ...
Audience: kids
Plot: private detective, amnesia, memory loss, dog, gangster, betrayal, justice, brutality, twists and turns, goofy hero, partner, voice over narration ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: venice beach california, los angeles, california, santa monica california
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also encounters an old nemesis known as the Dragon Queen who is the ...
Style: detective, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous ...
Plot: private detective, charlie chan, serial killer, police officer, murderer, murder mystery, investigation, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, goofy hero, dishonesty, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: california, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Who's Harry Crumb? (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.
Style: humorous, absurd, light, detective, not serious ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: kidnapping, private detective, investigation, justice, law enforcement, stupidity, dysfunctional family, multiple storylines, father daughter relationship, cons and scams, family business, clumsiness ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: santa monica california, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.7
 933
Hardly Working (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In Jerry Lewis's first film in a decade, he plays Bo Hooper, an unemployed circus clown who can't seem to hold down a job. The film opens with a brief montage of clips from past Lewis movies. He then moves into a succession of jobs that he ...
Style: slapstick, realistic, witty, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: clown, androgyny, workplace, disorder, circus, goofy hero, starting over, chaos and mayhem, down on your luck, unemployment, silly humor, stupidity ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.5
 780
100 Mile Rule (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: semi serious, cynical, realistic, humorous, clever
Plot: infidelity, moral dilemma, introspection, femme fatale, cons and scams, nothing goes right, couple relations, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, manipulation, heist ...
Place: usa, los angeles, california, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Once Upon a Crime... (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: On their way to Monte Carlo, Monaco, Marilyn and her husband, Neil, meet several other married couples, including Julian and Phoebe, who are traveling with a lost dog they plan to return to its wealthy owner for a large reward. But, when the ...
Style: dark comedy, slapstick, black comedy, independent film, detective ...
Plot: dachshund, gambling addiction, maid, dysfunctional marriage, butler, murder mystery, murder, gambling, investigation, mysticism, lost dog, casino ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: rome italy, monte carlo, morocco, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 2.3
 526
Stone & Ed (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: It's just another hazy day for STONE and his brother ED until they unwittingly discover they may not be brothers after all! With the help of their techno-savvy neighbors JEFF and PHILLIP GUY, "The Guys," Stone and Ed set out on a ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot: stoner, adolescence vs adulthood, silly humor, disorder, drug dealing, chases and races, dishonesty, working undercover, siblings relations, drug abuse, secret agent, conspiracy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Right after Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California, in 1955, a toy salesman in town for a convention brings his wife with him so they can both go to Disneyland. They stay at a rundown place called the Sunset Motel nearby. Soon the wife is having an ...
Style: neo noir, independent film, semi serious, realistic, clever ...
Plot: hotel, motel, blackmail, femme fatale, manipulation, voyeur, crime gone awry, dangerous attraction, dishonesty, investigation, betrayal, couple relations ...
Time: year 1991, 50s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Man with Bogart's Face (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In The Man With Bogart's Face, an affectionate send-up of the Bogart detective films of the 1940s, Robert Sacchi plays a man who idolizes Humphrey Bogart so much he has his features altered to look exactly like his idol. He then opens up a ...
Style: neo noir, semi serious, parody, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: private detective, hollywood, private investigator, lookalikes, doppelganger, surgery, transgender, face, plastic surgery, murder, who done it, power relations ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Boeing, Boeing (1965)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Living in Paris, journalist Bernard has devised a scheme to keep three fiancées: Lufthansa, Air France and British United. Everything works fine as long as they only come home every third day. But when there's a change in their working ...
Style: sex comedy, sexy, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: aviation, newspaper man, womanizer, american abroad, pilot, reporter, space, love, airline, hostage, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time: 60s
Place: persia, europe, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.1
 353
The Wonders (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Israel
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Avi Nesher's new film tracks the complex relationship between a Jerusalem Graffiti artist and a mysterious modern day prophet who is imprisoned in an abandoned apartment across the Artist's window.
Style: surreal, semi serious, witty, atmospheric, humorous ...
Plot: lifestyle, investigation, amateur detective, society, religions or cults, artists and showbiz, israeli, supernatural power, hidden camera, rabbi, private detective, intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Who's Got the Action? (1962)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: gambling, bookies, casino, gangster, forces of nature, cons and scams, disorder, nothing goes right, rivalry, ambition, dishonesty, contests and competitions ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.0
 528
One More Time (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: London nightclub buddies Salt (Sammy Davis Jr.) and Pepper (Peter Lawford) link Pepper's dead twin to diamond smugglers.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, psychotronic
Plot: twins, nightclub owner, secret agent, partner, best friend, disorder, friends, undercover, odd couple, investigation, dishonesty, amateur detective ...
Time: 60s
Place: australia, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.4
 266
Scandalous (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, suspenseful ...
Plot: reporter, concert, murder, scam, scoop, conspiracy, dishonesty, media, journalism, espionage, media satire, cons and scams ...
Time: 80s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.2
 3K
The Patsy (1964)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When a star comedian dies, his comedy team decides to train a 'nobody' to play the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man chosen, bellboy Stanley Belt (Lewis), can't do anything right. The TV show is getting closer, and Stanley ...
Style: cult classic, realistic, semi serious, biting, cynical ...
Plot: filmmaking, humour, messenger, hollywood, redheaded woman, silly humor, media, lifestyle, rising to stardom, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, goofy hero ...
Time: 60s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Party Crashers (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 88 min.
Story: "Party Crashers" chronicles the amusing encounter between Marco Polo (Marcelo Adnet), a Copacabana's trickster, and Beto (Eduardo Sterblitch), a boy passionate and somewhat pixilated, on the New Year's Eve in Rio. Together they ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sexual content, femme fatale, nothing goes right, escapades, cons and scams, buddies, silly humor, disorder, journey, friends, dishonesty, party
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Million Dollar Mystery (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A dying man in a roadside diner tells the other patrons about money he has hidden in four places. But instead of directions, he leaves them only with clues they must solve in order to claim the loot.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, exciting, humorous ...
Plot: stuntman, special agent, diner, escapades, treasure hunt, chases and races, government agency, rivalry, contests and competitions, dishonesty, disorder, restaurant ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: libya, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.7
 466
Careless (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Wiley Roth finds a severed human finger in his kitchen one night. Understandably freaked out, in a search across Los Angeles that brings them in contact with psychics, ineffectual police, crooked taxidermists, mysterious neighbors who might be on ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat, buddy comedy ...
Plot: investigation, amateur detective, obsession, friendship, best friend, partner, dark humor, disorder, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals, reluctant partners, stalking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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