Movies and TV shows like Sykes

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Sykes (1972)
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Sykes (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Sykes is a British sitcom that aired on BBC 1 from 1972 to 1979. Starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques, it was written by Sykes, who had previously starred with Jacques in Sykes and A... and Sykes and a Big, Big Show. Forty-three of the 1970s colour episodes were remakes of scripts for the 1960s black and white series, such as "Bus" based on 'Sykes and a Following' from 1964 and the episode "Stranger" with guest star Peter Sellers based on 'Sykes and a Stranger' from 1961. Sykes had the same premise as Sykes and A... with Sykes, Jacques, Richard Wattis and Deryck Guyler reprising their former identical roles. The series was brought to an end by the death of Hattie Jacques of a heart attack on 6 October 1980.
Style: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: twins, brother, sister, family relations, social relations, soccer, nosy, neighbor, british humour, twin
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: england

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Most similar movies to Sykes

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sitcom, humorous, realistic and semi serious films and TV series with plots about british humour, family relations, workplace, workplace situations, parents and children, couples and couple relations mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like Sykes: Open All Hours (1976), Bless Me Father (1978), Still Open All Hours (2013), Desmond's (1989), Grandma's House (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Open All Hours (1976)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Open All Hours is a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke and starring Ronnie Barker as a miserly shop keeper and David Jason as his put-upon nephew who works as his errand boy. It ran for 26 episodes in four series, which premiered in 1976, 1981, 1982 ...
Style: sitcom, contemplative, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: humour, cooking show, nephew, uncle, storekeeper, customer, nurse, miser, working class, bicycle, workaholic, generation gap ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century
Place: northern england, yorkshire, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Bless Me Father (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Bless Me Father is a British sitcom starring Arthur Lowe, Daniel Abineri, Gabrielle Daye, Patrick McAlinney, David Ryall, Derek Francis and Sheila Keith. It was aired on ITV from 1978 until 1981 and described the adventures of an Irish Catholic ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Plot: catholic church, religions or cults, social relations, church, society, clergy, suburban life, suburbs, housekeeper, catholic, british, religion ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1950
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is a British sitcom which was broadcast between 9 January 1973 and 9 April 1974 on BBC1. It was the colour sequel to the mid-1960s hit The Likely Lads. It was created and written, as was its predecessor, by Dick ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: marriage, working class, friends, veteran, social climbing, friendship, middle class, homecoming, factory worker, workplace, grownups, buddies ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: northern england, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Still Open All Hours (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke and featuring several of the permanent cast members of the original series
Style: sitcom, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: store, family relations, workplace, workplace situations, parents and children, family business, friendship, cooking show, storekeeper, salesman, customer, photograph ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Desmond's (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Desmond's was a British television situation comedy broadcast by Channel 4 from 1989 to 1994. With 71 episodes, Desmond's became Channel 4's longest-running sitcom. The first series was shot in 1988, with the first episode broadcast ...
Style: sitcom, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: working class, business, barbershop, family relations, immigrant, social differences, family business, couples, beauty salon, friends, couple relations, social relations ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: london, england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Grandma's House (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Grandma's House is a sitcom television series broadcast on BBC Two. Written by Simon Amstell and long term collaborator Dan Swimer, the series stars Simon Amstell playing a version of himself: an ex-television presenter searching for meaning in ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, light, feel good ...
Plot: career, starting over, family relations, grandmother, doubts and hesitations, unfulfillment, oldtimer, lgbt, mother son relationship, jewish family, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Roger & Val Have Just Got In (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: Roger & Val Have Just Got In is a British sitcom that stars Dawn French and Alfred Molina playing married couple Roger and Val Stevenson. The show premiered on BBC Two on 6 August 2010 and six episodes were broadcast for the first series. The ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Plot: married couple, couple relations, working class, family relations, everyday life, rivalry, long term relationship, bittersweet, couples, realism, verbal byplay, british humour ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Barbara (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story: Barbara is a British sitcom starring Gwen Taylor in the title role. A pilot was broadcast in 1995, and three series were then televised from 1999 to 2003. It was made by Central Television, and filmed at their Lenton Lane studios in Nottingham in ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, humorous
Plot: family relations, couples, perversion, couple relations, society, suburban life, family life, eccentric family, suburbs, workplace situations, male female relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: yorkshire, england, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Citizen Smith (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom. The show was written by John Sullivan, who later wrote Only Fools and Horses. The pilot was transmitted on 12 April 1977 in the Comedy Special series of one-off plays, and the series proper ran from 3 ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, witty, humorous, realistic
Plot: marxism, unemployed, political humor, friendship, failed attempt, rebelliousness, friends, urban, unemployment, rebellion, radical, society ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Royal Family (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Royal Family is an American sitcom starring Redd Foxx and Della Reese. The series was created and produced by Eddie Murphy, as part of a development deal Murphy had with CBS, and produced by Paramount Television, the television arm of Paramount ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: black, living with parents, elderly, parents and children, family life, aging, family relations, comeback, african american, post office
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Are You Being Served? Again! (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: Grace & Favour is a British sitcom sequel to the long-running series Are You Being Served? It aired on BBC1 for two series from 1992 to 1993 and marked the return of Are You Being Served? creators and writers Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft.
Style: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, realistic, double entendre
Plot: countryside, partner, disorder, social relations, estate, staff, retired, unlikely partners, nothing goes right, human nature, workplace, family business ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Raised by Wolves (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Set on a Wolverhampton council estate, Raised By Wolves is modern day reimagining of the childhood of Caitlin Moran and her brothers and sisters. Single-mum Della lives in a three bedroom council house with Germaine, Aretha, Yoko, Mariah, Wyatt and ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, single mother, eccentric family, family life, youth, single parent, teenage life, aspiration, rite of passage, strong female lead, feminist, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1973)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em is a BBC situation comedy, written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice. It was first broadcast in 1973 and ran for three series, ending in 1978. The series follows the accident-prone ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, realistic, humorous, melancholic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: goofy hero, workplace, nothing goes right, job seeking, couple relations, supportive spouse, misfit, family relations, couples, disorder, workplace situations, comedy of errors ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Phoenix Nights (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights is a British sitcom about The Phoenix Club, a working men's club in the northern English town of Farnworth, Greater Manchester. The show was written by Neil Fitzmaurice, Peter Kay and Dave Spikey, produced by ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Citizen Khan (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Family-based sitcom set in the capital of British Pakistan - Sparkhill, Birmingham. Citizen Khan follows the trials and tribulations of loud-mouthed, tight-fisted, self-appointed community leader Mr Khan and his long suffering family, wife Mrs Khan ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: muslim, family life, satire, family relations, society, parents and children, immigrant, social relations, ethnic, family man, sports fan, avarice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, birmingham alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Ladies of Letters (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Two middle-age crazy English widows become best friends via letters, over many misadventure-filled years. Having met under a table at a wedding, when both were drunk with merriment, misunderstanding comes naturally to them. The ladies and their kin ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, sitcom, realistic
Plot: parents and children, friends, family relations, best friend, aging, friendship, lifestyle, suburbs, strong female presence, suburban life, elderly
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
House of Fools (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Surreal sitcom with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. A series of anarchic affairs featuring the uninvited lodgers and guests that cause chaos and disruption in their home.
Style: sitcom, surreal, humorous, not serious, realistic
Plot: nothing goes right, disorder, guest, silly humor, uninvited guest, domestic disturbance, british humour, indoor
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Boomers (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Sitcom following the ups and downs of three retired couples living in Thurnemouth, 'Norfolk's only West-facing resort'.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sitcom, feel good ...
Plot: couples, couple relations, friendship, friends, elderly, aging, uninvited guest, friend, retired, resort, british humour
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Royle Family (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: British comedy series focusing on the lives of a working-class family in Manchester who love the TV.
Style: sitcom, semi serious, realistic, talky, humorous
Plot: working class, christmas, voodoo, sketch, family relations, social commentary, couples, slacker, temperamental, suffering, couple relations, society ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: manchester, northern england, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Two Ronnies (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: The Two Ronnies is a British sketch show which aired on BBC1 from 1971 to 1987. It featured the double act of Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett, the "Two Ronnies" of the title.
Style: sketch comedy, witty, humorous, sitcom, not serious ...
Plot: sketch, humour, disorder, odd couple, partner, singer, joke, comedy team, singing, duo, fast talker, song ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
2point4 Children (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: 2point4 children is a 1990s British sitcom that was created and written by Andrew Marshall. It follows the lives of the Porter family; an average family that is persistently faced with surreal situations and sheer bad luck. The show was originally ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, humorous, realistic
Plot: family relations, couples, parents and children, eccentric family, couple relations, family life, siblings relations, father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, father ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Disillusioned after a long career at Sunshine Desserts, Perrin goes through a mid-life crisis and fakes his own death. Returning in disguise after various attempts at finding a 'new life', he gets his old job back and finds nothing has ...
Style: sitcom, dark comedy, surreal, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: midlife crisis, satire, workplace, suburbs, faked death, middle class, marriage, depression, character on the edge, power relations, disorder, dull life ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Last of the Summer Wine (1973)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures ...
Style: sitcom, talky, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, elderly, small town, countryside, retirement, social relations, unemployment, working class, trio, veteran, library, pub ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s, 21st century
Place: yorkshire, northern england, england, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
In with the Flynns (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In with the Flynns is a British sitcom created by Caryn Mandabach, produced by Caryn Mandabach Productions, and broadcast by the BBC. The first series began broadcast on 8 June 2011 for six episodes on BBC One and in high definition on BBC One HD in ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot: family life, family relations, parents and children, siblings relations, supportive parent, everyday life, rivalry, friendship, love, youth, couples, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: manchester, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Twenty Twelve (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Twenty Twelve is a BBC television comedy series written and directed by John Morton. Starring Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Hynes and Amelia Bullmore, the programme is a spoof on-location documentary following the organisation of the 2012 Summer Olympics ...
Style: sitcom, mockumentary, semi serious, humorous, talky ...
Plot: satire, workplace situations, nothing goes right, boss and employee, secretary, disorder, power relations, team, olympics, boss, workplace, loner ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 7.7
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Saxondale (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Steve Coogan plays Tommy Saxondale: an ex-roadie with anger management issues and a pest-control business. Tommy is a little arrogant, a little egotistical and feels the world owes him more respect than it typically shows him. He has an assistant ...
Style: sitcom, witty, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: suburbs, midlife crisis, middle class, unsuccessful, self involved, dull life, workplace, workplace situations, ex husband ex wife relationship, satire, humour, anti hero ...
Time: 70s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Friday Night Dinner (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Two siblings share their Friday night dinners at their parents home and, somehow, something always goes wrong.
Style: sitcom, not serious, humorous, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family dinner, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children, comedy of errors, socially awkward, disorder, couple relations, marriage, family gatherings, grandparent and grandchild, satire ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Steptoe and Son (1962)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who deal in selling used items. They live on Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, ...
Style: sitcom, dark comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: working class, son, father, family business, love hate relationship, melancholy, business, partner, odd couple, lifestyle, reluctant partners, society ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: england, europe, london, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Three Up Two Down (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Three Up, Two Down is a British sitcom starring Michael Elphick and Angela Thorne that ran from 1985 to 1989. It was written by Richard Ommanney.
Style: sitcom, captivating, realistic, semi serious, offbeat ...
Plot: family relations, love and romance, husband wife relationship, young couple, married couple, in laws
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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