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The Strange Calls (2012)
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The Strange Calls (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: City cop Toby Banks is demoted to night duty at Coolum Beach. He joins local eccentric Gregor to investigate the strange calls: phone calls that expose the paranormal mysteries of the town.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, sitcom, detective, not serious, urban fantasy
Plot: investigation, social relations, supernatural, small town, partner, police officer, friendship, rivalry, halloween, workplace, space, imaginary, police investigation, small town life, misfit partners, chaos and mayhem, outer space, adventure
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: australia
Keyword: partners, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, captivating, light and sitcom films and TV series with plots about friendship, friends, workplace, rivalry, society, disorder and social relations mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like The Strange Calls: Dan for Mayor (2010), Makarov and The Girls (2021), Housos (2011), A Moody Christmas (2012), 10 Items or Less (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dan for Mayor (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Dan for Mayor is a Canadian television sitcom starring Fred Ewanuick that debuted on March 1, 2010 on CTV and The Comedy Network. It premiered the same night as Hiccups, a show created by Corner Gas star Brent Butt that also features fellow Corner ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, captivating, light, feel good ...
Plot: politics, slacker, small town, campaign, satire, friends, social relations, lifestyle, mayor, rivalry, friendship, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Makarov and The Girls (2021)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: The head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Butovo region, Makarov, is completely replaced by the personnel as a result of a conflict with the leadership. Instead of experienced male cops, four young students are singled out.
Style: sitcom, light, humorous, feel good, entertaining
Plot: mentor, policewoman, friends, workplace situations, police officer, friendship, workplace, partner, sarcasm, nothing goes right, police, police investigation ...
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Housos (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Housos is an Australian comedy television series created by Paul Fenech for SBS, that screens on SBS One. The series is a satirical parody of low income Australian residents of fictional suburb Sunnyvale, who are living in Housing Commission public ...
Style: parody, humorous, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: society, working class, alcohol abuse, friends, buddies, satire, disorder, rivalry, friendship, silly humor
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
A Moody Christmas (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: Focused on the lovable, yet seasonally dysfunctional Moody family, A Moody Christmas is set against the backdrop of the one occasion that can bring out the best (and the worst) in people … Christmas Day.
Style: humorous, sitcom, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Plot: christmas, family tradition, family relations, eccentric family, family gatherings, parents and children, family problems, family life, nothing goes right, disorder, family reunited, homecoming ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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10 Items or Less (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: 10 Items or Less is a partly scripted, partly improvised American comedy series created by Nancy Hower, Robert Hickey and John Lehr. It starred Lehr as a less-than-successful businessman who returned home to run Greens & Grains, the family-owned ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: store, workplace, small town, misfit, boss and employee, clerk, friends, rivalry, friendship, satire, improv, silly humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, ohio
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PhoneShop (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: PhoneShop is a British sitcom that was first broadcast on Channel 4 as a television pilot on 13 November 2009, as part of the channel's Comedy Showcase season of comedy pilots. It was then followed by a six-episode series that was commissioned ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, captivating, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: boss and employee, workplace situations, salesman, workplace, store, friendship, rivalry, escapades, friends, sketch, telephone call, college graduate ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
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67%
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Hellfjord (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Please do not ask Sergeant Salmander about Gunnar. He loved that horse dearly and nobody feels worse about what happened to Salmander’s noble steed than Salmander himself. Yes, he understands that there were children present at the Independence ...
Style: humorous, surreal, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: police investigation, dark humor, small town, misfit, smuggling, society, social relations, fish out of water, law enforcement, newspaper reporter, police officer, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Professionals (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Slovakia
TV show
Style: entertaining, light, satirical, funny, captivating ...
Plot: satire, workplace, police station, partner, coworker, silly humor, humour, teamwork, sleuth, forensics, fighting crime, police officer ...
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A Minute with Stan Hooper (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A Minute with Stan Hooper, also known as Stan Hooper, is an American sitcom starring Norm Macdonald. The series was a Carsey-Werner production in association with Paramount Television and aired on Fox. The series was canceled after six of the ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating ...
Plot: fish out of water, journalism, social relations, misfit, society, small town life, small town, wife, relocation, diner, media, husband wife relationship
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, wisconsin
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60%
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The Old Guys (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: The Old Guys is a British comedy television series that revolves around two aging housemates: Tom Finnan and Roy Bowden. The pair live across the street from Sally, whom they both find attractive. Tom moved in with Roy after Roy's wife Penny ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, captivating, feel good, light ...
Plot: friends, friendship, lifestyle, love triangle, girl next door, rivalry, dating, wooing, partner, elderly, buddies, aging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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57%
Rutherford Falls (2021)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A small town in upstate New York is turned upside down when local legend and town namesake, Nathan Rutherford fights the moving of a historical statue.
Style: funny, humorous, satirical, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: city life, satire, humour, small town, activist, social satire, society, friends, social relations, fighting the system, friendship, political activist ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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57%
The Cleaning Lady (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A Diarista was a Brazilian sitcom directed by José Alvarenga Jr. and written by Aloísio de Abreu and Bruno Mazzeo. The series premiered on April 13, 2004 at 11:00 PM and was aired from 2004 to 2007 on Tuesday nights on Rede Globo.
Style: sitcom, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Plot: cleaning lady, working class, boss and employee, workplace situations, obnoxious boss, workplace, disorder, friends, everyday life, rivalry, job, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
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57%
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Siblings (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
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Story: Each week, through their own selfishness and idiocy, we see Hannah and Dan — the worst brother and sister in the world — spectacularly wreck the lives of those around them — old friends, love interests, family members, and the unlucky ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: siblings relations, sibling relationship, family relations, disorder, silly humor, friendship, everyday life, rivalry
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Campus (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Campus is a semi-improvised British sitcom created by the team behind the comedy sketch show Smack the Pony and hospital-based sitcom Green Wing, led by Victoria Pile who acts as co-writer, producer and director. It is set in the fictitious Kirke ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: teachers and students, mathematics, campus, workplace, teacher, workplace situations, dark humor, university, friendship, aspiration, school, improv ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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55%
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White Van Man (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The incredible misadventures of two handymen on the road and the extraordinary people they meet along the way.
Style: sitcom, humorous, captivating, light, feel good ...
Plot: working class, construction worker, nothing goes right, family relations, workplace, society, workplace situations, family business, disorder, destruction, partner, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, northern england, europe
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The Great Indoors (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: An adventure reporter must adapt to the times when he becomes the boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of the magazine.
Style: sitcom, captivating, humorous, funny, feel good ...
Plot: journalism, transformation, rivalry, friendship, lifestyle, life philosophy, youth, society, ambition, fish out of water, adaptation, stereotypes ...
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Sunnyside (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Welcome to Sunnyside, the not-so-typical neighbourhood where anything can happen, and almost always does. From hipsters and yoga moms to meth addicts and romantic crooks, Sunnyside is a quirky neighbourhood in transition, where residents aren’t ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good ...
Plot: silly humor, couples, family problems, family relations, friendship, family life, eccentric family, friends, social relations, small town, small town life, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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50%
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Whites (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Whites was a BBC sitcom, written by Oliver Lansley and Matt King, directed by David Kerr, and starring Alan Davies as the executive chef at a country house hotel. BBC Two gave the go ahead for the show to go into production in August 2009 with the ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, light, captivating ...
Plot: cooking and food, chef, workplace, workplace situations, lifestyle, friendship, rivalry, society, hotel, food, waiter, waitress ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Retired at 35 (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Retired at 35 is an American sitcom on TV Land starring George Segal, Jessica Walter, Johnathan McClain, Josh McDermitt, Marissa Jaret Winokur and Ryan Michelle Bathe. It is the network's second original scripted series after Hot in Cleveland. ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Plot: living with parents, parents and children, family life, family relations, elderly, lifestyle, friendship
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Gates (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Gates is a British comedy television series shown on the Sky Living channel. The first series of 5 episodes ran from 14 August to 11 September 2012. The show was originally due to be broadcast on Sky One but was delayed in order to launch on Sky ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, social relations, suburbs, high school life, friends, teachers and students, love, friendship, school, couples, youth
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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48%
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The Moodys (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: A comedy series about the lovable, seasonally dysfunctional Moody family. Each episode is set on a different holiday gathering which includes fights, bad gifts, boring uncles, shocking family secrets and bizarre eccentricities.
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, captivating, sitcom
Plot: dysfunctional family, family reunited, eccentric family, nothing goes right, family relations, family gatherings, family problems, up and down relationship, couples, disorder, couple relations, holiday ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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47%
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Lowdown (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: Lowdown shines a torch on the life of a man whose job it is to feed the public's insatiable appetite for celebrity gossip. Alex Burchill, the author of the Lowdown column which appears in the once great but now ailing tabloid newspaper – the ...
Style: humorous, not serious, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: journalist, media, photojournalist, journalism, workplace, artists and showbiz, showbiz, scoop, disorder, fraud, society, celebrity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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47%
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Sugartown (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Comedy drama revolving around a small seaside hamlet in the north of England, as a former resident returns with big plans for the community's re-development.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, sincere, feel good ...
Plot: small town, family business, family relations, social relations, workplace, love triangle, jousting, love and romance, fall in love, couples, sibling rivalry, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Jerks (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Best buddies Christian Ulmen and Fahri Yardim can't help to embarrass themselves from time to time. The troublemakers they are they love to test the limits of ethics and political correctness.
Style: entertaining, captivating, sincere, humorous, psychological ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: society, friendship, rivalry, odd couple, friends, goofy hero, partner, mishap, disorder, lifestyle, life philosophy, dishonesty ...
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40%
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Clipped (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Clipped centers on a group of barbershop coworkers who all went to high school together but ran in very different crowds. Now they find themselves working together at Buzzy's, a barbershop in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot: friendship, workplace situations, workplace, barbershop, high school friends, unfulfillment, power relations, everyday life, boss and employee, hairdresser, best friend, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, massachusetts
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39%
The European Side (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The life and times of rather traditional Sutcuoglu family and their comedic struggles to adapt the high-profile contemporary life of Nisantasi.
Style: sitcom, funny, light, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: kurd, family life, tradition, friendship, friends, society, fashion, group of friends, fashion magazine, city life, humour, magazine ...
Place: istanbul turkey
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38%
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Black Jesus (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: A TV series finds Jesus living in present day Compton, CA on a daily mission to spread love and kindness throughout the neighborhood with the help of his small but loyal group of downtrodden followers.
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, light, feel good ...
Audience: adult
Plot: peaceful mission, optimism, supernatural ability, society, nothing goes right, hopes, religions or cults, clergy, social relations, small town, religion, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Best Friends Forever (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Best Friends Forever is an American television comedy series that ran on NBC from April 4, to June 1, 2012. The series aired during the 2011–2012 NBC primetime season as a mid-season replacement and was created by real-life best friends Lennon ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: best friend, friendship, lifestyle, boyfriend, relocation, rivalry, society, blonde, blonde girl, girl power, female friendship, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
twentysomething (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: Best friends Jess and Josh never went to uni, never had a clear talent and never had the drive to grow up. When their mind-numbing jobs start wearing them down and they don't have an impressive answer to the dreaded question 'So what do ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, adulthood, business venture, unfulfillment, disorder, unemployment, youth, nothing goes right, grownups, family relations, twentysomething life, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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About a Girl (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: About a Girl is a Canadian comedy series which premiered on October 5, 2007 on Noggin's nighttime block, The N. In Canada, it aired on Global. It was the first scripted comedy for The N. The series ended with 13 episodes in its only season.
Style: humorous, sitcom, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Plot: college, teenage life, friends, roommate, youth, rivalry, dormitory, everyday life, couples, friendship, young adult, college life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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35%
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