Movies like Izzy & Moe
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Izzy & Moe (1985)
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The adventures of two retired vaudeville performers who become two of the best prohibition agents in the 1920's.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
gangsters, undercover, prohibition era, friends, espionage, unemployment, actor's life, partners, silly humor, buddies, criminal heroes, police, smuggler, disguise, prohibition, crime, crimes
Time:
1920s, 20s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about partners, disorder, gangsters, dishonesty, friends, buddies and criminal heroes mostly in Comedy, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Izzy & Moe: Gangsterboys (2010), We're Talkin' Serious Money (1992), Wise Guys (1986), Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964), All for One (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A couple of bumbling con men go on the lam when they can't repay a loan from the mob.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
Style:
buddy comedy, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, gambling, hitman, buddies, frame up, goofy hero, partners, criminal heroes, dishonesty, cons and scams, siblings relations ...
Time:
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Place:
atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In prohibition-era Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a south-side racketeer, knock off the boss Big Jim. Everyone falls in line behind Guy except Robbo, who controls the north side. Although he's out-gunned, Robbo wants to keep his ...
Style:
realistic, not serious, humorous, witty, feel good ...
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, new year, winter, forgery, gambling, crime boss, dancing, prohibition era, disorder, friends, righting the wronged ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
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Plot:
heist, friendship, buddies, partners, cons and scams, unfulfillment, undercover, nothing goes right, disorder, police officer, escapades, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. But ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
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african american, disco, gangsters, blaxploitation, ghetto, train, cons and scams, city life, friendship, friends, urban ghetto, vengeance ...
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73%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A mob enforcer is hired to recover a shipment of Viagra gone awry.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good
Plot:
gangsters, hitman, dishonesty, partners, unlikely criminals, drug dealing, disorder, sexual humor, viagra
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
One of the best Polish comedies of the late 1990's, "Boys Don't Cry" is a satirical look at the gangsters of Poland and some teens who accidentally get involved with them.
Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, sad, realistic ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, friends, gangsters, prostitute, goofy hero, buddies, best friends, friendship, polish, disorder, violinist, father son relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
gangsters, hitman, sexual content, strong violent content, assassination, buddies, friends, heroes, friendship, best friends, partners, dark humor ...
Time:
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Place:
korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Oregon, 1980: Jane, Elaine and Louise are all feeling the effects of inflation and cannot afford, as the title states, the high cost of living. Jane cannot afford a babysitter or get married and if she wants privacy with her boyfriend, she has to ...
Style:
scenic, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience:
date night
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
99 is an original story inspired by real events. It is as much "What could have been" as it is "What really happened." In other words, it is historical fiction - fiction being the keyword. It spans a few genres; it is slick, ...
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Plot:
gambling, chase, cons and scams, dishonesty, gangsters, buddies, crime boss, heist, caper, cricket the game, criminal heroes, friends ...
Time:
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Place:
india, new delhi, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two meat salesmen (Romano, James) will stop at nothing to get a sale.
Style:
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Plot:
nothing goes right, fall in love, buddies, dishonesty, disorder, hitman, friendship, workplace situations, farce, cooking and food, salesman, meat ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three washed-up actors must deliver the most convincing performances of their lives as part of a dangerous plot designed to finance their triumphant comeback.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
hollywood, crime gone awry, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals, elderly, dishonesty, gangsters, criminal heroes, disorder, heist, cons and scams, filmmaking ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The Swede (Marlon Brando), a prison warden, rules his family and his prison with an iron hand in one of the coldest parts of North Dakota. When an inmate dies under mysterious circumstances, however, the FBI sends in agent Karen Polarski (Mira ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two hoplessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the l9th century. They gain the enmity of the most famous bank Robber in the world and the affection of a crusading newspaperwoman.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, offbeat
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
disorder, cons and scams, heist, crime gone awry, dishonesty, goofy hero, partners, track down, chase, gangsters, money, bully ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is supposed to keep him out of trouble, but when people begin to recognize George as the missing millionaire ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous
Plot:
beer, artist, con artists, gangsters, sanitarium, hustler, manipulation, cons and scams, mistaken identity, gambling, friendship, fish out of water ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, beverly hills, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mike has the girl, the time and the place.The problem is he doesn't have the ring, Before Mike has an opportunity to propose his engagement ring is stolen.Mike is desperate to recover it. He and his friends have one hour to get the ring back ...
Style:
semi serious, exciting, humorous, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Howard F. Howard idolizes The Three Stooges. His friends and familiy are worried, and consider having him committed.
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two small-time thieves come together as a bizarre comic duo in a quest to make their childhood dreams come true. In a limousine stuffed with cash stolen from the mob, they take off for Miami, where they plan to fly to a safe haven in Costa Rica. On ...
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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46%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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