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Taking Chances (2009)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When he discovers that an Indian casino is about to be built over the town's historic battlefield, Chase Revere, the self-appointed protector of a small town's rather meager place in American history, joins forces with sexy but dangerous town siren Lucy Shanks to launch an all-out offensive against the project - earning the wrath of the entire town.
Style:
sentimental, humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, independent film
Audience:
date night
Plot:
small town, love and romance, fall in love, lifestyle, partner, couples, small town life, hopes, unlikely couple, unlikely partners, couple relations, interviewer, society, ambition, social relations, twentysomething life, prison, police officer, friendship, party, businessman, sex scene, love triangle, politics, graffiti ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, feel good and semi serious films with plots about bare chested male, friendship, friends, awkward situation, barefoot male, couples and friend mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Taking Chances: The Gay Deceivers (1969), Neighbors (2014), Waiting... (2005), Postmark Paradise (2000), Dangerous Curves (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Danny and Elliot avoid military service by pretending to be gay, but they have to act the part when the recruiting officer doesn't buy it.
Style:
cult classic, controversial, political, freeze frame, independent film ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, san francisco, miami
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A couple with a newborn baby face unexpected difficulties after they are forced to live next to a fraternity house.
Style:
funny, not serious, entertaining, humorous, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
youth, stupidity, friendship, satire, high school, plan gone awry, fraternity, friends, manipulation, revenge, drinking, male objectification ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 1930s, 70s, 80s ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Employees at a Bennigan's-like restaurant (called, creatively enough, Shenanigan's), kill time before their real lives get started. But while they wait, they'll have to deal with picky customers who want their steak cooked to order ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, parody, not serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
restaurant, food, employer employee relationship, friendship, workplace romance, college, waiter, staff, buddies, prank, wooing, workplace situations ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, california, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Dirty Shame is the only bar in the small town of Paradise, Michigan. A burnt out, chain-smoking fortyish bar maid is the only waitress at The Dirty Shame. A group of local red necks conspiring to bring a mail order bride to their Midwest town ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good, independent film ...
Plot:
fish out of water, friendship, starting over, society, couples, love and romance, couple relations, culture clash, immigrant, husband wife relationship, mail order bride, countryside ...
Time:
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Place:
michigan, ukraine, usa, kiev ukraine
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two college student decide to go spend some quality time at a beauty pageant with the help of their Porsche.
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sex comedy ...
Plot:
college, partner, contests and competitions, nothing goes right, disorder, friends, on the road, down on your luck, teenage life, ocean, albert einstein, mistrust ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
san diego california
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voice-over star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.
Style:
clever, humorous, talky, witty, sincere ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, girls' night
Plot:
sexism, female empowerment, workplace, workplace situations, siblings relations, shyness, love and romance, hopes, father daughter relationship, feminist, dysfunctional family, feminism ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, ireland, san francisco, california ...
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48%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When he is caught with his girlfriend, she is shipped off to a Catholic boarding school. He poses as a priest to see her and is beset with a series of surprises that prove that nothing is sacred at the academy of the blessed virgin
Style:
sexy, sexual, sex comedy, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage life, female teacher, nubile girl, nudity, high school, lifestyle, youth, power relations, friends, couples, boarding school, social relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
What happens when six lucky strangers, three handsome young guys and three beautiful sexy young women, from all over the world, win a random contest-- an all expenses paid trip to an amazing beach house in glamorous Malibu, California, thanks to a ...
Style:
sexy, humorous, not serious, realistic, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
nudity, beach, diarrhea, looking for sex, female nudity, voyeurism, sexual attraction, manipulative behavior, disorder, comedy of errors, love and romance, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, malibu california, usa
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A successful Spanish executive from a telecommunications company working in Argentina is about to face the most important week of his life, but all his plans will be sabotaged by an eccentric character who will make his week a living hell…
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
rivalry, co worker co worker relationship, manipulation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, malice, adultery, greedy man, failed expectations, father son relationship, employer employee relationship, caught cheating, comedy of manners ...
Place:
buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The fictional town of Šlukdorf. Here lives a car mechanic who calls himself Bourák. He loves rock and roll, dance, his own gelled hair and, despite being in his fifties, simply “refuses to grow up”. He forgets he has a wife. The only things he ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, light, feel good, crying ...
Plot:
marital crisis, man child, male objectification, husband wife relationship, family relations, unfaithful husband, delusion, strong female character, teenage girl, mental illness, jealous wife, hallucination ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
czech republic, central europe
Similarity:
48%
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, drunkenness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new hampshire, washington d.c.
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A property developer wants to take over an Australian beach for a high rise resort. He sends his son to Australia to check out the situation, posing as an exchange lifeguard. He falls in love with a woman who owns the land his father needs for the ...
Style:
sex comedy, freeze frame, independent film, crying
Plot:
nudism, nude beach, lifeguard, skinny dipping, naturist, public nudity, female pubic hair, bare chested male, nudity, male nudity, outdoor sex, beach ...
Place:
los angeles, oceania
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When Elena, a Russian immigrant studying in Miami and Carlos her Columbian boyfriend run out of legal options for staying in the U.S. the couple switch partners with Betty and Mike, an American couple who are also their best friends. All is well ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, green card, couple relations, mate swapping, switching roles, nothing goes right, immigrant, best friend, society, friendship, love and romance, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, miami
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
During a wild vacation in Las Vegas, career woman Joy McNally and playboy Jack Fuller come to the sober realization that they have married each other after a night of drunken abandon. They are then compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, rom com, funny, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
wedding, fall in love, couples, battle of the sexes, unlikely couple, love and romance, enemies to lovers, happy ending, newlyweds, initially antagonists, destiny, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Charlie thinks he's met the perfect woman, but in order to be with her, he must first get past her dog. Just when he thinks all is lost, he realizes that he loves the dog too! Now he must do everything he can to keep them both.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, sentimental, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
human animal relationship, sexual attraction, wooing, couple relations, lifestyle, looking for love, animal life, couples, pets, love and romance, dating, dream girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Tucker decides to take an impromptu trip to celebrate his friend's bachelor party. He drags his friend into a lie with his fiancée, gets him into trouble and then abandons him in order to pursue a hilarious carnal interest. Tucker is ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
drunkenness, wedding, strip club, fiance fiancee relationship, bachelor party, sex, friendship, couple relations, sex scene, making love, stripper, nudity ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle (Jean-Paul Belmondo) drops his wife Sophie (Marie Laforet) off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie (Sophie Marceau), who has just had a fight ...
Style:
sex comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, erotic ...
Plot:
farce, womanizer, adultery, nothing goes right, disorder, couples, infidelity, dishonesty, adulterer, female nudity, airport, young love ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
france, marseille, nice france, europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: China, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A sorority moves in next door to the home of Mac and Kelly Radner who have a young child. The Radner's enlist their former nemeses from the fraternity to help battle the raucous sisters.
Style:
funny, humorous, saga, sex comedy, ironic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
party, sorority, weed, marijuana, teenager, neighbor, sex scene, fraternity, group of friends, sorority girl, drug, gay ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016
Place:
sydney australia
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Girl trouble starts when a man and two good buddies becomes roommates.
Style:
sexy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, erotic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sex scene, fall in love, penthouse, looking for sex, womanizer, love and romance, lifestyle, buddies, couples, siblings relations, making love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, paris france
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Charlie Martin, a JI whose fraternity gets kicked off campus after it takes the rap for a rival fraternity gone awry. Three years later, Charlie and the remaining brothers must throw the greatest rush event to recruit a new pledge class and bring ...
Style:
funny, captivating, intense, humorous, talky ...
Plot:
frat party, fraternity, party, friendship between men, conspiracy, conflict between friends, violent woman, false evidence, drunkenness, death of father, teacher, drugged ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Joe Keegan is the 'Rocky' of stand-up comedy. A fifteen-year comedy veteran who was pegged for stardom early on in his career but has blown every major audition he has ever had in legendary fashion. Fresh off a recent fiasco with a heckler ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic
Plot:
lifestyle, ambition, desire for fame, once in a lifetime opportunity, best friend, partner, buddies, drug dealing, showbiz, dull life, artists and showbiz, contests and competitions ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, wisconsin
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Pedro, Arturo and Eligio are three college professors who lost their job because of economic crisis. Accidentally they find a solution for all of their problems; a multi-vitamin that allows them to party all night long without any side effects. The ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
seductive behavior, family relations, friendship, lawyer, divorce, teenager, professor, medicine, teacher, youth, destiny, rivalry ...
Time:
2000s, year 2017, year 2007, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Alan is a musician who leaves a busted-up band for New York, and a new musical voyage. He tries to stay focused and fends off all manner of distractions, including the attraction to his good friend's girlfriend. Film of the ...
Style:
mumblecore, sincere, humorous, touching, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
musician, friendship, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations, musician's life, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, human nature, artists and showbiz, friends, twentysomething life ...
Time:
2000s, year 2005
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
There's nothing wrong with the Marshetta family that a little felony can't cure. Rupert doesn't want to follow in his father's blue-collar footsteps, so he and his quirky friend kidnap his father for ransom, only nobody wants him ...
Style:
retro, independent film, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot:
kidnapping, older woman younger man relationship, kidnapper, age-gap relationship, motorcycle, mine, family relations, dysfunctional family, missing person, buddies, youth, family problems ...
Time:
80s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Dr. Charlie Keegan is ordered to serve 6 months as the staff doctor at a second rate retirement home or lose his medical licence after accusations of swindling elderly patients. What the doctor expects will be a brief interruption from his lucrative ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
doctors and patients, mental illness, elderly, workplace, moral dilemma, love and romance, fall in love, introspection, couples, dishonesty, aging, idealism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
46%
732
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
This romantic comedy deals with the fleeting attractions between men and women. When American Ben arrives in London to become a writer on a well-known sitcom, he never dreamed that he would end up in a complex love quadrangle. Sitcom star Carly is ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, sex comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
young lovers, infidelity, love and romance, fall in love, friends, looking for love, love triangle, love affair, friendship, couple relations, actor's life, lifestyle ...
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
SPLINTERHEADS introduces Thomas Middleditch as Justin Frost, a twenty-something slacker whose “thing” is that he has no “thing” at all. When a small-time carnival rolls into town, he meets Galaxy (Rachael Taylor), a gorgeous con artist, or ...
Style:
feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
buddies, young lovers, carnival, friends, lifestyle, love and romance, love triangle, fall in love, slacker, dishonesty, youth, farce ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A motley crew of aspiring performers come under the guidance of an eccentric and volatile acting coach.
Style:
light, feel good, entertaining, humorous
Plot:
ambition, friendship between men, love triangle, rivalry, cynicism, shyness, love and romance, relationships, sexual attraction, narcissist, vulgar woman, toys ...
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot:
friendship, disorder, partner, desire for fame, dark humor, friends, unemployment, buddies, aviation, unfulfillment, obsessive quest, nasa ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Standing on the precipice of adulthood, a group of friends navigate new relationships, while reexamining others, during their final summer before college.
Style:
thought provoking, touching, sincere, humorous, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, fall in love, high school student, love and romance, teenage life, couples, teenager, summer, friendship, youth, sex scene, sexual attraction ...
Place:
columbus ohio, chicago
Similarity:
46%
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