Movies like Desperate Acts of Magic
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Desperate Acts of Magic (2013)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A magician competes in an international magic competition where he goes head to head with a female street magician he has fallen in love with. This film shows great magic performed by a cast of professional magicians. Like a great musical where the songs and the story are seamlessly intertwined, Desperate Acts of Magic does the same, mixing story and magic as one.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, light
Plot:
unlikely couple, love and romance, fall in love, follow your dream, couples, ambition, hopes, foe turned friend, contests and competitions, magic, stage magician, street performer, wizards and magicians, magic trick, pickpocket, illusion, contest, card trick, escape, magician, camp, jealousy, cheating, card playing, mishap ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, las vegas, nevada
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and light films with plots about ambition, couples, love and romance, fall in love, artists and showbiz, contests and competitions and friends mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like Desperate Acts of Magic: Love On The Cloud (2014), Unemployed (2008), She Wants Me (2012), 3 Days of Normal (2012), Authors Anonymous (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Romance gets complicated in modern-day Beijing.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
Plot:
fall in love, love triangle, showbiz, ambition, couples, best friends, love and romance, follow your dream, actor's life, filmmaking, artists and showbiz
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
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95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Jamal and Dex are two hapless out of work actors who come to terms with reality when they realize they've been pursuing their dreams for over ten years and still haven't booked a single speaking role. When the two run out of cash and face ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, realistic ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, follow your dream, ambition, against the odds, fish out of water, buddies, actor's life, unlikely couple, love and romance, disorder, couples, looking for love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
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85%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A neurotic writer working on his new film gets into a tricky situation when an A-list actress shows interest in the role intended for his girlfriend.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, light, sincere
Plot:
desire for fame, artists and showbiz, hollywood, showbiz, ambition, unlikely couple, once in a lifetime opportunity, couples, fame, american dream, love, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
3 Days of Normal follows the story of straight-laced deputy Bill Morgan who is quite content literally living within the quaint boundaries of Washington, New Hampshire. Bill’s stable and rather uneventful life is thrown for a loop when he finds ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
small town, self discovery, fall in love, small town sheriff, social relations, hopes, small town life, love and romance, actress, drunkenness, journalist
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new hampshire, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a dysfunctional group of unpublished writers accept Hannah into their fold, the last thing they expect is her overnight success. Can these lovable misfits achieve their artistic dreams and avoid killing one another in the process?
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
Plot:
writers, rivalry, overnight success, follow your dream, writer's life, ambition, misfit, couples, friendship, artists and showbiz, uninhibited rivalry, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Maria Laura "Mala" is an actress with little luck, but she is successful working for other women, seducing their boyfriends to know if they are faithful or not. But everything changes when her dream to perform in her acting career depends ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
fall in love, love and romance, unlikely couple, cons and scams, dishonesty, couples, infidelity, society, manipulation
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In 1984, loser pizza guy Whitey Johnson is run over by a semi truck on live television, making him a local hero. The world watches as Whitey vows to not only walk again but to win his town's breakdance competition. Whitey struggles to conquer ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
hip hop, teenage love, ambition, dancer's life, follow your dream, lifestyle, hopes, rivalry, contests and competitions, love and romance, youth, high school life ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three guys on the verge of forty begin to realize all the best things in their lives happened before they were twenty. A spontaneous road trip adventure gives them a chance to balance the ledger
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic, touching
Plot:
midlife crisis, friendship, road trip, self discovery, ambition, follow your dream, hopes, adolescence vs adulthood, new life, escapades, society, student athlete ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A zany comedy about two sisters, their gay best friend, and their overzealous stage mom.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
lesbian, coming out, eccentric family, family relations, gender, parents and children, couples, dancer's life, contests and competitions, ambition, fall in love, lgbt ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After learning her boyfriend (Harmon) cheated on her with his co-host (Olson), a Seattle morning show weather girl (O’Kelley) freaks out on-air and is fired. Forced to move in with her little brother (Devlin) and deal with his best friend (Adams), ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
self discovery, weatherman, couples, family relations, down on your luck, identity crisis, ambition, grownups, infidelity, love and romance, life is a bitch, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, seattle, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Tom Murphy, a middle-aged Irish-American man from Cleveland, travels to Ireland for his best friend’s wedding and to find the perfect woman.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good
Plot:
friends, family relations, culture clash, love and romance, buddies, parents and children, fall in love, disorder, bar fight
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, ohio, usa, cleveland ohio, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A "relatively" romantic comedy about a professional heartbreaker (and cynical bachelor) who teams up with his attractive cousin from the UK in order to fool his friends into believing he is capable of a relationship. Hijinks and laughs ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cousin cousin relationship, fall in love, unlikely couple, disorder, cons and scams, family relations, looking for love, friendship, society, incest, forbidden love, comedy of errors ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A coming of age romantic comedy centered around the lives of twin brothers Luke and Corey Frankenstein in the pivotal months following college graduation. Orphaned at the age of five, the brothers inherited their family brewery and were left in the ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, feel good, light, realistic ...
Plot:
beer, coming of age, family business, family relations, twins, youth, love and romance, rivalry, couples, friendship, food, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Straight-laced Jordan (Martin) is about to marry Peter (Snedeker), a clean-cut ambitious attorney. Before she walks down the aisle, Jordan and her best friends, Claire (Adrienne Frantz) and Jessica (Daphnee Duplaix), head to Vegas for a bachelorette ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
eligible bachelor, unlikely couple, love and romance, life turned upside down, disorder, couples, showbiz, actor's life, celebrity culture, wedding, slumber party, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
226
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two strangers discover you really can find anything at a convenience store -- even love. An aspiring actor stuck in a small town who has big plans of moving to Hollywood so he can strike it rich. One night, while on his way into a corner store, he ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, road movie
Plot:
unlikely criminals, odd couple, couple relations, fall in love, love and romance, couples, on the road, aspiring actor, shoplifting, small town, business, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
With one more day of parole left, J.T. vows to play by the book. But when he finds out his mom will lose their home unless they come up with a serious amount of money, J.T. takes a chance by entering a lowrider contest that violates his parole.
Style:
humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, realistic ...
Plot:
contests and competitions, rivalry, warden, friends, ambition, race against time, cons and scams, ex convict, save the day, parole, contest, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A film 35 years in the making. One man's journey to become a legend of the Boardwalk by claiming the title of World Champion in the fast paced sport of professional Skeeball.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
Plot:
ambition, contests and competitions, track and field, arcade, boardwalk
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three quirky families seeking to buy their next home collide when trying to purchase the same property. The bidding war tests the limits of their marriages and the resolve of their agents.
Style:
humorous, cynical, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, eccentric family, ambition, social relations, family relations, satire, real estate, couples, marriage, estate, contests and competitions ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Juanito moved to New York to succeed as an actor. Years have gone by but success has not come his way and now he takes an odd jobs to survive. One day he is visited by his apparently successful cousin. However, their life together will discover the ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
desire for fame, actor's life, hopes, ambition, follow your dream, nothing goes right, odd couple, cousin cousin relationship, bittersweet, society, culture clash, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Singapore
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A light hearted comedy about a girl from a small town in Malaysia who dreams of becoming a star in neighboring Singapore...
Style:
semi serious, touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
tv show, ambition, desire for fame, follow your dream, fall in love, lifestyle, love and romance, showbiz, celebrity culture, hopes, artists and showbiz, media ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
malaysia, singapore, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
"These Old Broads" is a 2001 television film written by Carrie Fisher and starring her mother Debbie Reynolds, as well as Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, and Elizabeth Taylor in her final starring film role. Network television executive ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, witty, biting ...
Plot:
showbiz, ambition, actor's life, lifestyle, against the odds, rise and fall, aging, filmmaking, love affair, artists and showbiz, hollywood, farce ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young pianist is looking for love in all the wrong places once her fiancee drops her. Maybe her flame will be rekindled both for the piano and a new love?
Style:
realistic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sentimental
Audience:
date night
Plot:
looking for love, fall in love, nothing goes right, opposites attract, relationship vs career, supportive spouse, musician's life, lifestyle, contests and competitions, love and romance, love, pianist ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Musical dancer on the way out (at 36) Paula McFadden had it swell with actor Tony DeSanti, but instead of taking her to Hollywood he gets a European movie part. He even sublets their (his) New York apartment to Elliot Garfield, who generously lets ...
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semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, sexy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
self discovery, unlikely couple, love and romance, starting over, dancer's life, family relations, couples, showbiz, male female relationship, workplace, single parent, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A killer for the Russian Mafia in Vienna wants to retire and write a book about his passion - cooking. The mafia godfather suspects treason.
Style:
clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
follow your dream, dishonesty, one last job, ambition, hitman, cooking and food, career change, criminal heroes, hopes, disorder, couples, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Sam and Matt flee their small mid-western town for New York City, where hot girls roam the streets! After months of trying to pick up ladies and failing miserably, they come up with the idea to hold a fake audition to meet chicks. Hilarity ensues ...
Style:
humorous, light, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
audition, friends, fall in love, artists and showbiz, fish out of water, looking for sex, cons and scams, broadway, looking for love, inspiration, big city, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest with a tempting grand prize -- the deed to their local pub. But what could happen when a duplicitous ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, feel good, light, realistic ...
Plot:
culture clash, friendship, cons and scams, on the run, rise to the top, contests and competitions, disorder, love triangle, village, fall in love, buddies, dishonesty ...
Place:
ireland, europe, los angeles, usa
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41%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Zack (Haas) is a young, divorced father who starts to develop romantic feelings towards his friend Rebecca (Zima), whom he refers to as "Crazy Eyes". He spends a lot of time at a bar run by his best friend Dan Drake (Busey) and hanging out ...
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humorous, touching, captivating, feel good, light ...
Plot:
fall in love, womanizer, couples, wooing, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle, nightlife, single parent, family relations, parents and children, coming of age, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Fastlife: always go further, faster, to shine in the eyes of others: this is the motto of Franklin. Franklin is a megalomaniac obsessed by the desire to shine at any price. He will have to choose between becoming a man or continue to live the ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, against the odds, ambition, escapades, blind ambition, hopes, contests and competitions, adolescence vs adulthood, megalomaniac, desire for fame, choice, life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
This is an update of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" that changes the genders of the main characters. Hannah Higgins attempts to turn blue-collar Boston beer vendor Elliot Doolittle into a viable candidate and inadvertently learns ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, romantic
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
politics, disorder, hopes, fish out of water, social differences, campaign, couples, misfit, partners, love and romance, unlikely couple, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
To make money fast the Browns come up with a plan to win a contest for "Watermelon Juice Afro Sheen," awarding $10,000 to whoever can find the juiciest, sweetest watermelon in the country.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, funny, light, realistic
Plot:
rivalry, ambition, silly humor, contests and competitions, downfall, heist, teenage life, underdog, society, disorder, rise and fall, contest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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