Movies like Desperate Acts of Magic

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Desperate Acts of Magic (2013)
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Desperate Acts of Magic (2013)
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, independent film
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, fraud, magician, witchcraft, wizard, magician's assistant, escape, camp ...
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 realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about couples, love and romance, ambition, artists and showbiz, fall in love, friends and family relations mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like Desperate Acts of Magic: Love On The Cloud (2014), 6 Month Rule (2011), She Wants Me (2012), Unemployed (2008), Leading Ladies (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Love On The Cloud (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Romance gets complicated in modern-day Beijing.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, best friend, ambition, follow your dream, actor's life, couples, love and romance, showbiz, filmmaking, artists and showbiz
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After breaking up with his longtime stage partner, a famous but jaded Vegas magician fights for relevance when a new, "hip" street magician appears on the scene.
Style: humorous, hilarious, entertaining, funny, intense ...
Plot: magic, friendship, creativity, showbiz, comeback, artists and showbiz, partner, disorder, ambition, uninhibited rivalry, performer's life, rivalry ...
Time: year 2013, year 1982, 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada
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95%
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6 Month Rule (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A womanizer teaches his clueless friend the rules about being single and avoiding emotional attachment.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, thought provoking
Audience: date night
Plot: womanizer, couples, couple relations, friends, love and romance, sexual content, fall in love, buddies, lifestyle, singleness, friend
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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She Wants Me (2012)
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: artists and showbiz, desire for fame, showbiz, hollywood, ambition, unlikely couple, couples, once in a lifetime opportunity, fame, love, american dream, love story ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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 3.0
 161
Unemployed (2008)
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, slasher ...
Plot: nothing goes right, follow your dream, against the odds, fish out of water, love and romance, unlikely couple, actor's life, buddies, couples, disorder, unemployment, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 5.7
 248
Leading Ladies (2010)
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, captivating, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gender, lesbian, family relations, eccentric family, couples, parents and children, fall in love, contests and competitions, ambition, dancer's life, lgbt, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Two Tickets to Paradise (2006)
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, realistic, sentimental, touching
Plot: friendship, midlife crisis, road trip, self discovery, ambition, follow your dream, hopes, adolescence vs adulthood, escapades, new life, danger, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
3 Days of Normal (2012)
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, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, self discovery, fall in love, small town sheriff, hopes, social relations, small town life, love and romance, police, town, actress, journalist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new hampshire, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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The Breakdance Kid (2004)
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, follow your dream, lifestyle, dancer's life, ambition, rivalry, love and romance, hopes, contests and competitions, youth, high school life ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Falling for Mala (2015)
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, realistic, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love and romance, fall in love, cons and scams, unlikely couple, dishonesty, couples, infidelity, society, manipulation, drinking alcohol, friendship, bare chested male ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Kissing Cousins (2008)
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, disorder, unlikely couple, fall in love, cons and scams, family relations, looking for love, friendship, society, incest, comedy of errors, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Authors Anonymous (2014)
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, feel good, captivating, not serious ...
Plot: writers, rivalry, overnight success, follow your dream, writer's life, ambition, misfit, couples, friendship, real life, social misfits, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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68%
 3.6
 145
The Yank (2014)
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, buddies, fall in love, love and romance, parents and children, disorder, bar fight
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, ohio, usa, cleveland ohio, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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A Beer Tale (2012)
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, drinking alcohol, food ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 7.1
 256
SBK The-Movie (2014)
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: independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat
Plot: contests and competitions, ambition, athletics, arcade, boardwalk
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Kwik Stop (2001)
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, humorous, touching, road movie ...
Plot: fall in love, odd couple, unlikely criminals, couple relations, couples, love and romance, on the road, aspiring actor, shoplifting, small town, business, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
4 Wedding Planners (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Romantic comedy taking a lighthearted look at a wedding planning business run by a Honolulu mom and three daughters from three different dads. Triple-divorcee Miriam is having her own lack of luck in love, her eldest daughter Lily heads home after ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: wedding, love and romance, family business, looking for love, family relations, couples, homecoming, parents and children, fall in love, friendship, strong female presence, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 6.0
 6K
Magicians (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A pair of rivaling stage magicians are forced to confront their falling out over a guillotine mishap when they compete in a magic competition.
Style: humorous, parody, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Plot: guillotine, contests and competitions, odd couple, ambition, artists and showbiz, buddies, friendship, nothing goes right, magician, stage magician, wizards and magicians, wizard ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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I Married Who? (2012)
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, cute ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: eligible bachelor, unlikely couple, disorder, celebrity culture, life turned upside down, showbiz, couples, love and romance, actor's life, bachelorette party, wedding, movie star ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, san diego california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Out on Parole (2004)
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, semi serious ...
Plot: rivalry, contests and competitions, friends, ambition, race against time, cons and scams, ex convict, save the day, parole, escapades, debt, contest ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Already Famous (2011)
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, humorous, sentimental, touching, realistic
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: ambition, follow your dream, desire for fame, fall in love, love and romance, lifestyle, celebrity culture, showbiz, hopes, artists and showbiz, media, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: singapore, malaysia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
These Old Broads (2001)
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, witty, humorous, biting ...
Plot: showbiz, ambition, lifestyle, actor's life, against the odds, rise and fall, aging, filmmaking, love affair, artists and showbiz, farce, hollywood ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 60s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 5.8
 3K
Weather Girl (2009)
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, infidelity, identity crisis, ambition, down on your luck, family relations, grownups, love and romance, dating, famous ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Playing Mona Lisa (2000)
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, humorous, feel good, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: looking for love, nothing goes right, opposites attract, fall in love, relationship vs career, musician's life, lifestyle, love and romance, contests and competitions, supportive spouse, piano, love ...
Time: 90s
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Unexpected Love (2013)
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, sentimental, humorous, realistic
Plot: actor's life, desire for fame, ambition, hopes, follow your dream, odd couple, nothing goes right, cousin cousin relationship, truth, bittersweet, society, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 536
Closing Escrow (2007)
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: mockumentary, humorous, cynical, light, feel good ...
Plot: uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, eccentric family, social relations, family relations, ambition, satire, real estate, couples, marriage, estate, found footage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
A Kiss for Jed Wood (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Nineteen year old Orla from Country Antrim wins 'Follow a Star' on the Irish national TV station. Her prize is a quest - to find C&W star Jed Wood, give him a kiss, and report on her adventure on the following week's show. Ray ...
Style: humorous, light, sincere, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: artists and showbiz, stalking, escapades, media, filmmaking, opposites attract, partner, ambition, radio dj, couples, fall in love, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl (2004)
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 ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, sexual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: self discovery, unlikely couple, dancer's life, love and romance, starting over, family relations, couples, showbiz, male female relationship, artists and showbiz, workplace, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Farm Girl in New York (2007)
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, fall in love, friends, fish out of water, looking for sex, cons and scams, artists and showbiz, broadway, looking for love, inspiration, big city, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Should've Put a Ring On It (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Robin Givens, Miguel Nunez, and Bobby Valentino star in this faith-based romantic drama about Thea Johnson, terribly desperate to be married to her longtime boyfriend Jamar. When he takes too long to propose, she decides to propose to him instead. ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, sexy, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: best friend, twentysomething life, couples, family relations, friends, looking for love, love and romance, lifestyle, parents and children, party, black, r&b
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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