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The simulators (2008)
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The simulators (2008)
Original name: Los simuladores
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The Pretenders (Los Simuladores) are a specialized Commando group formed by 4 men, who are hired by someone that presents them with a problem and wants a solution. Los Simuladores elaborate different operations, pretending different roles, according to that person's problem, with the purpose of resolving every one of them.
Style: humorous, captivating, witty, semi serious, realistic, telenovela
Plot: undercover, working undercover, hidden identity, legal, partner, crime gone awry, dishonesty, criminal heroes, cons and scams, partners in crime, liar, crimes
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: latin america, argentina
Keyword: partners, mexican

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and captivating films and TV series with plots about dishonesty, disorder, cons and scams, hidden identity, partner, society and friends mostly in Comedy, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like The simulators: Hope Springs (2009), Fonejacker (2007), Fool Britannia (2012), Diamond Zero (2005), Incognito (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hope Springs (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Ellie finds herself in hiding in a remote Scottish village called Hope Springs along with fellow ex-cons Hannah, Josie and Shoo after plans to start a new life in Barbados – courtesy of £3m stolen from her gangster husband – go awry. All the ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
Plot: crime gone awry, on the run, hidden identity, cons and scams, starting over, dishonesty, partner, best friend, disorder, chases and races, social relations, village life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, scotland
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95%
 7.7
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Fonejacker (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Fonejacker is a British comedy programme broadcast on E4 featuring a series of prank calls involving a number of different characters performed by British Iranian television actor Kayvan Novak. It first appeared in May 2006 and became a full series ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, captivating, hilarious ...
Plot: prank, mistaken identity, partner, life turned upside down, cons and scams, disorder, salesman, journalism, dishonesty, odd couple, workplace romance, obnoxious boss ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Fool Britannia (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Fool Britannia is a hidden camera sketch series which has aired since 1 September 2012 on ITV. Fool Britannia sees Dom Joly surprising unexpected members of the public with pranks. The first series aired for eight episodes. The second series is ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, witty
Plot: prank, silly humor, disorder, hidden identity, dishonesty, practical joke, hidden camera, satire, disguise
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 3.8
 170
Diamond Zero (2005)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A daft doctor concocts an offbeat scheme to make millions after he happens upon a method of turning cremated human remains into diamonds. But when the sawbones hires a pair of hapless thieves to collect the raw material, a string of calamities ...
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: hidden identity, crime gone awry, amateur detective, nothing goes right, heist, cons and scams, dishonesty, intrigue, unlikely criminals, buddies, criminal heroes, partner ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Incognito (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: This offbeat musical drama stars Lucas (Bénabar), an up-and-coming singer ready to do anything to be on top of the French pop scene.
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, realistic
Plot: desire for fame, musician's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, rising to stardom, disorder, dishonesty, rock, hopes, cons and scams, hidden identity, friends ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Zonad (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Zonad (Simon Delaney) is from space…probably. Or so the Cassidy family assume when they discover an apparent alien in a shiny red space suit and helmet passed out on the living room floor beside the drinks cabinet. The Cassidys and the people of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, witty, black comedy ...
Plot: family relations, mistaken identity, hidden identity, social relations, cons and scams, family life, dishonesty, disorder, village, con artists, alien, morality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Gentlemen, Good Luck!‎ (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The remake of famous Russian comedy "Dzhentlmeny udachi" (1971).
Style: witty, semi serious, funny, humorous, tense ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: cons and scams, disorder, chases and races, petty criminal, lookalikes, dishonesty, misfit, secret agent, twins, hidden identity, prison, impersonating ...
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Car Matchmaker with Spike Feresten (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: TV writer, talk show host and comedian, Spike Feresten, is the guy to see when car shopping. He meets someone needing a car and then draws on two decades of expertise and instinct to find three different cars perfectly suited to the buyer.
Style: witty, semi serious, realistic, entertaining, satirical ...
Plot: car, machine, car trouble, car trip, sports car, satire, motor
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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The Famous Teddy Z (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A mailroom clerk becomes a top agent at a Hollywood talent agency after he impresses a notoriously self-centered client. The series was inspired by an actual 1940s encounter involving Marlon Brando.
Style: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot: hollywood, talent agent, career change, workplace situations, rivalry, chance, workplace, showbiz, fish out of water, power relations, hidden identity, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
The Belgian Job (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Willy Vander Brook, a world with Franco-Belgian roots, travels to Paris for an interview. He is welcomed by his childhood friend Serge, an ex pub operator, and his roommate Frank, a fierce supporter of the Walloon independence. When Willy discovers ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: hotel, hidden identity, buddies, culture clash, misfit, vengeance, disorder, society, cons and scams, partner, misfit partners, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, belgium, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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 3K
All for One (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Four rogues, who were best friends as kids, have one big problem: they're sitting on both sides of the law. Martin is a policeman, while Nikolai, Ralf, and Timo can't distinguish between personal possessions and the possessions of others! ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, exciting ...
Plot: friendship, buddies, partner, disorder, cons and scams, nothing goes right, unfulfillment, undercover, police officer, escapades, rivalry, friends ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.8
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Partners (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Allen Braddock and Marcus Jackson are two attorneys with very different views on the law. After getting fired from his father's prestigious firm for employing questionable tactics, Allen is forced to team up with Marcus, a self-made man always ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, feel good, light, captivating ...
Plot: lawyer, friends, partner, buddies, legal, family relations, society, love and romance, colleague, buddy cop, silly humor, odd couple
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
No More Jockeys (2020)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Name a person, and a category they fall under – while avoiding naming people from all previous categories.
Style: satirical, funny, entertaining, captivating, witty ...
Plot: satire, joke, humour
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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 3K
Benched (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Nina is a dedicated, career driven corporate attorney who has a very public nervous breakdown after getting passed up for an expected promotion and now finds herself working as a public defender. Her personal and professional worlds are turned ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sitcom, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: workplace, legal, lawyer, workplace situations, life turned upside down, disorder, power relations, courtroom, love and romance, colleague, courtroom drama, female protagonist
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Tanner on Tanner (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Tanner on Tanner is a follow up to celebrated filmmaker Robert Altman and DOONESBURY cartoonist Gary Trudeau's political satire TANNER '88, a mockumentary following a fictional democratic presidential candidate (Michael Murphy) on his ...
Style: semi serious, cynical, witty, humorous, mockumentary ...
Plot: satire, manhunt, undercover, fighting the system, moral dilemma, campaign, rebellion, politics, journalism, society, dishonesty, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
In Gayle We Trust (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Nestled somewhere in the middle of America, Maple Grove is populated with a host of colorful characters, and they all turn to one person for insurance needs, counseling and much more. Though an insurance agent by trade, Gayle Evans has become the ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sincere, captivating, realistic
Plot: family relations, society, small town, social relations, small town life, family life, strong female presence, office, insurance
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Hallelujah! (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Following his release from a seven-year stretch in prison, Mario Diccara discovers that his affairs with the underworld aren't completely settled. His brother Patrick, a priest, suggests that he stays with elderly Father Etienne in a small ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Plot: priest, fake priest, mistaken identity, small town, village, church, disorder, social relations, hidden identity, farce, cons and scams, ex convict ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Honest (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Honest is a British comedy-drama series that aired on ITV in 2008. The series is a remake of the New Zealand series Outrageous Fortune, written by James Griffin and Rachel Lang, that first aired in 2005. The programme stars Amanda Redman as Lindsay ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating
Plot: parents and children, family relations, family life, dishonesty, teenage life, going straight, juvenile delinquency, cons and scams, petty criminal, prison sentence, small time, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: This British satire skewers mindless media culture as it follows the brazen schemes of Vivienne Vyle (Jennifer Saunders), a daytime talk show host who never met a guest she wouldn't exploit to further her own career. As Vivienne watches her ...
Style: parody, witty, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: satire, tv host, showbiz, celebrity culture, artists and showbiz, farce, exploitation, media, social problems, social relations, life is a bitch, relationship problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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63%
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Turf (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating
Plot: ambition, partner, rivalry, friends, contests and competitions, gambling, misfit partners, disorder, buddies, dishonesty, horse
Time: 21st century
Place: france, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Mystics (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: elderly, cons and scams, partner, buddies, nothing goes right, dark humor, seance, scam, senior citizen, gangster, con artists, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
That's So Weird! (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: That's So Weird was a Canadian sketch comedy television show owned by the Halifax Film Company and was broadcast on YTV. The show has been described as SCTV or Mad TV for teenagers and includes an array of comedic skits.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty, clever ...
Audience: kids
Plot: media satire, teenage life, youth, workplace, joke, media, ratings, tv station, canadian humor, actress playing multiple roles
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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 ⇓
61%
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Farmed and Dangerous (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Farmed and Dangerous is a four-part webisode comedy series from Chipotle Mexican Grill. This series is a satire of "Big Ag" and "Big Food" practices, featuring the fictional megacorporation Animoil feeding cows petropellets, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, suspense, biting
Plot: workplace intrigue, rivalry, corporate crime, media circus, dishonesty, workplace, parents and children, media sensation, workplace situations, inventions and discoveries, family relations, media ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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The Librarians (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Librarians is an Australian television comedy series which premiered on 31 October 2007 on ABC TV. In Ireland the show airs on RTÉ Two. The series is produced and written by Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope who are also the principal cast members. ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic, sitcom ...
Plot: friends, criminal heroes, best friend, workplace situations, unlikely criminals, gender, mentally unstable, workplace, unlikely partners, racism, catholic priest, priest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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61%
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Valentine (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Valentine is a romantic comedy/drama television series that aired on The CW and City in Canada from October 5, 2008 to July 19, 2009. The series was created by Kevin Murphy, who also serves as executive producer alongside Courtney Conte. The show ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, witty, sexual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: matchmaking, true love, destiny, eccentric family, power of love, hidden identity, looking for love, hopes, family relations, immortality, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 3.6
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RPM (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A professional car thief pulls off the heist of a lifetime when he steals a prototype supercar.
Style: independent film, fast, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, partner, car chase, cons and scams, disorder, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, chase, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, rivalry, crime gone awry ...
Time: 90s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 5.1
 599
Mohamed Dubois (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Arnaud Dubois may be the heir to a bank, but he prefers to call himself Mohamed. Having fallen out with his father, he turns his back on the family residence. On his travels, he meets Mustafa, who introduces him to his sister Sabrina. Having fallen ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, biting
Plot: hidden identity, social differences, interracial relations, fish out of water, disorder, society, dishonesty, fall in love, love and romance, fake identity, shakespeare, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Madigan's Millions (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: humorous, semi serious, exciting, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, cons and scams, disorder, partner, dishonesty, chase, crime gone awry, goofy hero, money, gangster, police, hooligan ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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The Hold-Up (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Lola's a single mom, broke, working as a janitor and maid. Silvia is pregnant, and her lover (her boss) won't leave his wife. Maite, newly a widow, discovers she's penniless but wants to maintain appearances and give her daughter a ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sexy, sexual
Plot: crime gone awry, bank robbery, bank, unlikely criminals, comedy of errors, hostage, criminal heroes, single parent, dishonesty, society, working class, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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