Movies like The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee

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The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee (2020)
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The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Paul tries to restore his sullied reputation on the eve of being knighted.
Style: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
Plot: celebrity, fame, reputation, movie star, hollywood, showbiz, glory, jungle, car chase, movie business, movie studio, wilhelm scream, self referential humor, crocodile, grandfather granddaughter relationship, retirement home life, honor, spotlight, show business
Place: australia, los angeles
Keyword: australian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and captivating films with plots about hollywood, artists and showbiz, showbiz, filmmaking, celebrity, lifestyle and celebrity culture mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee: He's Way More Famous Than You (2013), She Wants Me (2012), Nobody's Watching (2006), A True Story (2013), Holyman Undercover (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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He's Way More Famous Than You (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When once-up-and-coming indie film starlet Halley Feiffer loses her boyfriend, her agent and her career in one fell swoop she finally realizes that something in her life has got to change... she has to become WAY MORE FAMOUS! Armed with a stolen ...
Style: not serious, humorous, captivating, feel good, realistic
Plot: desire for fame, artists and showbiz, actor's life, lifestyle, hopes, filmmaking, showbiz, fame, escapades, society, gay, hollywood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story: For four decades comic genius Mel Brooks and talk show king Dick Cavett have partnered to give the world scintillating conversation and sidesplitting humor. In 2010 they reunited on stage to share show business memories and hilarious stories for ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: artists and showbiz, humour, celebrity, celebrity culture, showbiz, media, lifestyle, filmmaking, elderly, star
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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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
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Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story: Tracey Ullman's comedy special features the one-and-only 'Ruby Romaine'--the memorable character from HBO's 'Tracey Takes On.' After an illustrious career, veteran Hollywood makeup artist Ruby has decided to call it ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, parody, independent film ...
Plot: hollywood, artists and showbiz, showbiz, lifestyle, strong female presence, celebrity, television, storytelling, stand up comedy, makeup artist, makeover, alcohol ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Kevin Pollak: The Littlest Suspect (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min.
Story: THE LITTLEST SUSPECT is the third one hour stand-up special by Kevin Pollak. Although best known for his award-winning work as an actor in over sixty films (A Few Good Men, Casino and The Usual Suspects), Kevin started out as a stand-up comedian, ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: stand up comedian, prank, artists and showbiz, dishonesty, gambling, couples, lifestyle, showbiz, filmmaking, impostor, hollywood, practical joke ...
Time: 21st century
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81%
Nobody's Watching (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 166 min.
Story: Gail Mancuso film.
Style: sitcom, semi serious, light, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: hollywood, friendship, television, fictional reality show, television studio, friend, bathroom, camera, stage, audience participation, auditorium
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A True Story (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mike and Matt own nothing and share everything, including their life's work, a screenplay, which seems to be their only escape from the harsh reality that is the Hollywood machine.
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, friends, buddies, hollywood, showbiz, partner, desire for fame, writer's life, rivalry, love, youth, screenwriter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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71%
Holyman Undercover (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An Amish man comes to Hollywood to be a missionary, and gets cast as Satan on a nighttime soap opera.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, society, ambition, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, actor, missionary, nightclub, fame, tv star, christian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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The Extendables (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A struggling and publicly disgraced Hollywood icon gets another shot at mega stardom when he is hired to star and direct an action movie in Uzbekistan.
Style: semi serious, feel good, funny, entertaining, humorous ...
Plot: battles, satire, filmmaking, movie star, fight, hollywood, movie actor, irony, movie business, actor, hollywood star, second chance
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69%
Strange Bedfellows (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely claiming same-sex status to take advantage of newly legislated tax laws.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, queer cinema
Plot: gay, friendship, pretending to be gay, taxes, cons and scams, comedy of errors, couples, couple relations, dishonesty, widower, lgbt, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
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Hollywoo (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Sometimes, when you think you have it all, everything falls apart. That is exactly the story of Jeanne .Just when she is offered the chance to dub famous American actress Jennifer Marshall in a successful American TV Show and her salary is about to ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot: actor's life, obsessive quest, showbiz, life turned upside down, fish out of water, celebrity culture, artists and showbiz, disorder, hollywood, strong female presence, media
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, france
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Being Michael Madsen (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Actor Michael Madsen turns the tables on notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of documentary filmmakers to chronicle Dant's life, loves, and troubles.
Style: parody, witty, humorous, cynical, semi serious ...
Plot: paparazzi, showbiz, filmmaking, actor's life, celebrity, private vs public, false accusation, celebrity culture, society, journalism, vengeance, murder ...
Time: 21st century
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Nickelodeon (1976)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Going from a lawyer to a writer, and then to a film director, is the career path on which we find the bashful Leo Harrigan. But Leo has problems as well, such as being hopelessly smitten with his leading lady, who chooses to reward his attentions by ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous
Plot: filmmaking, hollywood, love triangle, american history, writers, film industry, movie business, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, ambition, love and romance, celebrity culture ...
Time: 1910s, year 1976, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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Breaking & Entering (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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Story: Breaking & Entering is an independent series about three friends seeking to enter Hollywood by breaking their backs working as assistants. B&E is based on and inspired by the lives of industry assistants who live and work in REAL HOLLYWOOD ...
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, captivating
Plot: hollywood, follow your dream, desire for fame, buddies, workplace, friends, workplace situations, showbiz, personal assistant, celebrity, breaking and entering, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Biggest Fan (2022)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Gérard Lanvin has an important role in a new blockbuster! Filming is about to begin in the South of France. On site, he meets Momo Zapareto, the pool boy at the house he is renting for the duration or the shoot. But Momo is a fan, a big fan… an ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, semi serious, captivating, satirical
Plot: obsessed fan, movie star, stalker, fan, actor's life, celebrity, filmmaking, movie business, film industry, fanaticism, problem, actor ...
Place: south of france
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The Friggin' Mafia Movie (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Filmmaker Vance Gordon struggles to pull a team of wannabe actors together for his new Mafia movie. After a stint of quitting actors, Vance is forced to cast the crew members in his film in a last ditch effort to save the production. As the team of ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, rough, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: save the day, heroes, hotshot hero, hitman, actor's life, showbiz, filmmaking, danger, chases and races, hostage, hollywood, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago
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Laughing to the Bank (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A down-on-his-luck actor is frustrated with Hollywood and makes a plan to write, direct, and distribute his own project. When the money goes missing, it proves to just be the beginning of an adventure to get it back.
Style: semi serious, realistic, exciting, humorous, sitcom ...
Plot: rise to the top, bank, hollywood, filmmaker, african american man, comedian, african american
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
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Who's the Caboose? (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A documentary team gets a grant to do a film on a rare fatal disease that is attacking homeless people. However, they quickly find the film too depressing. Ducking into a nightclub, they discover a young Manhattan comedienne and decide instead to ...
Style: mockumentary, independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: satire, hollywood, filmmaking, showbiz, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz, actor's life, terminal illness, nightclub, improv, comedian, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, los angeles, san francisco, california
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54%
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
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53%
Fool's Paradise (2023)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A down-on-his-luck publicist discovers a recently released mental health patient who looks just like a misbehaving movie star. The publicist subs him into a film, creating a new star. But fame and fortune are not all they are cracked up to be.
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, satirical, captivating ...
Plot: fool, love, actor, hollywood star, movie star, celebrity, rising to stardom, filmmaking, mute, movie actor, falling from height, divorce ...
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53%
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Pittsburgh (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jeff Goldblum put his Hollywood actor life on hold to star alongside his new girlfriend in a Pittsburgh regional theater production of The Music Man. Co-directors Bradley and LaBrache tread a surprisingly elegant line between genuine documentary and ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, mockumentary ...
Plot: lifestyle, showbiz, relationship vs career, actor's life, artists and showbiz, couple relations, couples, celebrity culture, hollywood, audition, filmmaking, media ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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51%
Southbound Heist (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Chaz and his friends take a road trip after discovering his landlord's plot to kill the creator of the Showboy magazine. Chaz must choose between his beloved magazines, his best friends, the girl of his dreams, or saving an innocent man's ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, sex comedy ...
Plot: friends, on the road, buddies, moral dilemma, road trip, slacker, magazine, convention, bar, garage
Time: 21st century
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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
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50%
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Just Write (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Hollywood tour bus driver poses as a screenwriter to romance an up-and-coming young actress.
Style: witty, feel good, semi serious, humorous, inspirational ...
Audience: date night
Plot: hollywood, love and romance, showbiz, dishonesty, comedy of errors, mistaken identity, social differences, bus, writers, actress, hidden identity, fall in love ...
Time: 90s
Place: beverly hills, california, usa, los angeles
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48%
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Garbage (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two best friends, garbage truck drivers in Hollywood become celebrities overnight after they find Cuba Gooding Jr.’s Best Supporting Actor Oscar for JERRY MAGUIRE in the trash and suddenly their lives go topsy-turvy.
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hollywood, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, overnight success, buddies, odd couple, lifestyle, celebrity culture, showbiz, once in a lifetime opportunity, working class, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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48%
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Drop Box (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min.
Story: 'Drop Box' is a comedy about a spoiled pop princess who accidentally returns her sex tape to a local video store, then must try everything to get it back from an uncooperative clerk. Fearing that if she fails, her next big hit won't ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sex comedy, independent film ...
Plot: love and romance, lifestyle, twentysomething life, store, fame, celebrity, sex tape, pop star, one day, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, computers and web ...
Time: 21st century
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48%
I Love You Too (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, buddies, couple relations, breakup, wooing, society, thirtysomething life, love and romance, lifestyle, friends, couples, women
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Kathy Griffin: Allegedly (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Kathy Griffin's all new feature-length stand-up DVD featuring the D-List Diva herself destroying the A-list stars we know and love.
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, cynical ...
Plot: celebrity, workplace, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, showbiz, stand up comedy, comedian, women's rights, interview, fashion, gay interest ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, saudi arabia, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Bad Actress (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Alyssa Rampart Pillage is a washed up TV queen whose career has been reduced to starring in commercials for her husband Bernie’s appliance empire. When their tree hugging daughter Topanga dies in a tragic golf ball accident, Bernie goes off the ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot: artists and showbiz, psychopath, couple relations, actor's life, family problems, disorder, dark humor, family relations, celebrity culture, injustice, inventions and discoveries, hollywood ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Development Hell (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: The story of a failed director and his hodgepodge crew as they search, in vain, for fame and success in the crazy world of Hollywood.
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, captivating, fake documentary
Plot: filmmaking, hollywood, director, desire for fame, agent, hopes, artists and showbiz, film industry, satire, film producer, fame, actor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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