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Sanky Panky (2007)
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Sanky Panky (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the Dominican Republic, the local Genaro works in a small family store and lives with his mother in a poor neighborhood. He is learning a couple of words in English and dreams on being a sanky-panky: to get married to an American tourist, move to New York with a VISA, and have a better life. He calls his friend Giuseppe, who is the manager of a resort in Bávaro, and applies for a job position, expecting to meet a wealthy tourist there.
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious
Audience: date night
Plot: love and romance, fall in love, couples, cons and scams, womanizer, infidelity, dishonesty, immigrant, woman, older woman younger man relationship, music, beach, job, romance, immigrants
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: caribbean
Keyword: latin, american

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, dishonesty, infidelity, disorder and cons and scams mostly in Comedy, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like Sanky Panky: Falling for Mala (2015), Listen Father-in-Law (2004), 6 Month Rule (2011), Be My Baby (2007), Housewarming (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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Listen Father-in-Law (2004)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Mr. Raj K. Saxena is known for his parsimony. Everything he does and thinks is valued with money, and ways he can accumulate it. His daughter, Kiran, is the opposite, a spendthrift. Mr. Saxena borrows money from elderly people, assuring them of ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: love and romance, fall in love, disorder, dishonesty, cons and scams, criminal heroes, miser, extortion, love, beach, bollywood, will
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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68%
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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 ⇓
53%
 4.3
 348
Be My Baby (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After dating several cheating husbands who pretended to be single, Rylee devises a scheme for revenge. She gets a married man drunk, convinces him that they slept together, then shows up a year later with a baby and demands money. Her blackmail plan ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: infidelity, battle of the sexes, manipulation, couples, disorder, family relations, farce, looking for love, gender, nothing goes right, vengeance, dishonesty ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Housewarming (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Chantal, an advocate involved in defending homeless illegal immigrant, decides to refurbish her flat. Following her convictions she calls Columbian workers led by an unforeseeable architect. In the mean time a former client decides he is in love ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, realistic
Plot: fall in love, nothing goes right, life turned upside down, couples, single parent, family problems, love and romance, hotshot lawyer, disorder, immigrant, family in crisis, renovation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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41%
Under the Gaydar (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Parents hire a girl to turn their son straight, but the son is just pretending to be gay in order to pick up women.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, light, feel good ...
Plot: pretending to be gay, parents and children, disorder, cons and scams, looking for sex, friends, womanizer, love and romance, dishonesty, gender, gays and lesbians, sexual orientation ...
Time: 21st century
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Any Wednesday (1966)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Ellen Gordon, a New York executive's mistress falls for the executive's young business associate when the young man is accidentally sent to use the apartment where the executive and his mistress get together every Wednesday. More ...
Style: sexy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: farce, couple relations, infidelity, love affair, love triangle, couples, womanizer, love and romance, dishonesty, mistress, screwball, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1966, 60s
Place: new york
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40%
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Darling Trap (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Clémence is pathologically jealous. Gabriel has asked her to marry him. To test whether he is faithful, unbeknownst to him she arranges that he crosses paths with beautiful Olivia...
Style: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, romantic comedy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couple relations, love triangle, jealousy, infidelity, couples, cons and scams, dishonesty, wooing, hidden identity, disorder, love and romance, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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39%
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Fancy Dancing (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A composer finds love with a co-worker after taking a job at his uncle's advertising agency.
Style: captivating, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: going straight, starting over, lifestyle, womanizer, ambition, hopes, couples, custody, infidelity, parents and children, ex wife, performer's life ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
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Love is in the Air (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Couple Andrea and Giulia, an outwardly successful couple, are having problems in the bedroom. When Giulia invites Max, an old friend from high school, to stay in the family home with their teenage son, some new attitudes begin to form.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, melancholic, feel good ...
Plot: couples, infidelity, family relations, crumbling marriage, family problems, dishonesty, breakup, love and romance, sexual relations, amor, marriage crisis, midlife crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Lovemakers (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hungary, USA, UK, Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Small time Hungarian matchmakers get the job to make a Hollywood star fall in love with a Russian businessman's spoiled brat sister. They get one million dollars if they succeed, but if they fail, they will have to pay with their lives.
Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, offbeat ...
Plot: fall in love, disorder, comedy of errors, silly humor, dishonesty, cons and scams, mistaken identity, couples, rivalry, friendship, love and romance, high maintenance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hungary
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38%
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Happy Easter (1984)
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: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sex comedy, feel good ...
Plot: womanizer, adultery, farce, nothing goes right, easter, couples, disorder, dishonesty, infidelity, adulterer, young love, airport ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: france
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Something New (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Lucia and Maria are two best friends, who have known each other from the beginning of their life, but have very different tastes and behaviors. Lucia is done with men, Maria, on the contrary, cannot be without one. One night, the perfect man shows ...
Style: sexy, light, semi serious, emotional, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, secret lover, love triangle, best friend, female friendship, jealousy, young man, couple relations, unfaithful boyfriend, love story, betrayal, friendship gone bad ...
Time: 21st century
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38%
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Staying Alive (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Marianne (34) discovers that her boyfriend Håkon is having an affair. Supported by her best friend's revenge tips and wisdom, Marianne stumbles into her new life where she discovers that coziness is overrated and having fun is what matters.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: breakup, hopes, couples, infidelity, strong female presence, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, extramarital affair, revenge, best friend, unfulfillment, self discovery ...
Time: 21st century
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Lisbela and the Prisoner (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man, going from town to town selling all sort of things and performing as master of ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Denise Richards plays Lauren, a divorced wedding-planner who falls for the groom-to-be (Dean Cain).
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The Mystery of Happiness (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Story: Life-long business partners Santiago and Eugenio understand each other without words, care for each other, and need each other. When Eugenio vanishes without a clue, Santiago and Laura, Eugenio’s wife, join forces to solve the mystery of his ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky
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Plot: fall in love, love and romance, love triangle, couples, couple relations, friendship between men
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35%
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Mr. Fix It (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Lance Valenteen (David Boreanaz) makes a living as "Mr. Fix It," a man who gets hired by men that have just recently been dumped by their girlfriend. Lance dates the guys' ex-girlfriend and becomes the worst date possible, sending the ...
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, not serious, rom com
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: deception, fall in love, couples, wooing, cons and scams, love and romance, dishonesty, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, cupid, blonde, voyeur, voyeurism ...
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35%
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Bacon on the Side (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Djalil Boudaoud and Justine Lacroix are a surgeon and a television reporter who enter a romantic relationship despite the objections of their families to the cultural gap.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
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Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: TV star Jason Steel reluctantly becomes the sounding board for his best friends' bored wives, and must fend off their advances while managing his own fragile relationship.
Style: sex comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: art teacher, fake dating, couples, vengeance, prostitute, couple relations, womanizer, dishonesty, buddies, love and romance, battle of the sexes, mind game ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
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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
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Yes, Giorgio (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female throat specialist, Pamela Taylor, whom he falls in love with.
Style: realistic, semi serious, stylized, humorous
Plot: opera, music, couples, artists and showbiz, fall in love, doctors and patients, love and romance, love
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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100 Mile Rule (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: semi serious, cynical, realistic, humorous, clever
Plot: infidelity, moral dilemma, introspection, femme fatale, cons and scams, nothing goes right, couple relations, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, manipulation, heist ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Finding Joy (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, independent film ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In order to win the heart of counselor Cindy Keyes, kitchen boy Will Cross comes to realize that becoming King of the Camp takes much more than beating tough guy Chase Gunn in a wake boarding competition.
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
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Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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31%
 4.6
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BachelorMan (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In these times of enlightened sexual politics, Ted Davis is a scoring machine. He's got the rap, the charm and his little black book weighs several pounds. Ted has become a guru to his buddies who can only aspire in awe to his greatness. This ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: womanizer, lifestyle, battle of the sexes, unlikely couple, fall in love, love and romance, couples, wooing, looking for love, woman peeing, true love, superhero ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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No Entry (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Kishen is a newspaper baron married to Kaajal, a housewife who suspects her husband of having numerous non-existent affairs. Pooja is the believing wife of ever-philandering globe-trotting businessman Prem. Kishen and Prem are thick pals. Sanjana ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous, funny
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Gaby Baby Doll (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Gaby cannot stay alone ; she's afraid of the dark ,of everything .When her boyfriend leaves her (he wants to have sex with her and she gets on his nerves,because she only needs a protector),she's completely on her own .She's afraid of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic
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Time: 21st century
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