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The Magic Hour (2008)
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Original name: ザ・マジックアワー
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman -- an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play the role, though the thespian has no idea what he's getting into.
Style:
funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, slapstick comedy
Plot:
escapades, pretending to be someone else, mafia, bandit, killer, gang, criminal, deception, actor, organized crime, humour, pretense, silly humor, fish out of water, outlaw gang, criminal gang, con trick, assassin, criminal underworld
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Most similar movies to The Magic Hour
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, entertaining, captivating and feel good films with plots about humour, escapades, satire, criminal, silly humor, bandit and deception mostly in Comedy and Action genres. Some movies like The Magic Hour: The Masked Gang (2005), Kolpachino 3: Chain (2016), Lightning Strike (2012), Suits on the Loose (2005), Suddenly Become Rich (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An incompetent gang of criminals attempting the biggest robbery of their lives, which was the sixth highest-grossing Turkish film of 2005.
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
escapades, heist gone wrong, crime gone awry, attempted robbery, gang member, stealing money, thief, robbery, criminal, outlaw gang, bank robbery, burglary ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Özgür accidentally comes across the money of a mafia leader.
Style:
light, funny, entertaining, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
mafia, money, bandit, mistaken identity, mafioso, crime boss, gang, fake identity, gang leader, outlaw gang, criminal gang, criminal ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Colpi di Fulmine is a film that deals with the theme of love at first sight. In the first part a psychiatrist (Christian De Sica) ends up in the cross-hair of the revenue authorities. He is innocent, but He is afraid to go to jail before he could ...
Style:
entertaining, light, feel good, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
forbidden love, love at first sight, con trick, priest in love, love and romance, love story, humour, silly humor, relationships, couple relations, lie, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Suits on the Loose is the story of two rebellious teens, Justin and Ty, and their breakout from a desert survival camp. When two naive Mormon missionaries, Elder Talbot and Elder Johnson, run into a restroom at a remote rest stop, Justin steals ...
Style:
satirical, feel good, entertaining, humorous, funny ...
Plot:
missionary, mormon, pretending to be someone else, deception, teenager, white lie, satire, escapades, rebellious youth, silly humor, runaway, pretense ...
Place:
mojave desert
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Doyok, Otoy, and Ali Oncom are stuck in debt. They found a suitcase with a lot of money. They became rich but did not realize it was mafia boss' money.
Style:
humorous, funny, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
financial problem, humour, money problems, pretending to be someone else, male female relationship, criminal, pretense, relationships, teamwork, relationship problems, team, money ...
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Gurkan and Salih tries to get out of the mafia which they were accidentally participated in first movie. But this time they have to deal with even funnier situations.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, feel good, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
mafia, thief, mafioso, relationships, satire, gang member, criminal gang, criminal, street gang, escapades, humour, bandit ...
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Servet the accountant makes a plan to steal money from a client. He decides to get his brother-in-law Gökhan involved to use his account for the money transfer. When two more friends Meatball Necmi and Del Piero are added to the plan, things start ...
Style:
satirical, entertaining, captivating, light, humorous ...
Plot:
stolen money, money, heist gone wrong, cons and scams, silly humor, fraud, thief, credit card fraud, criminal, heist, burglar, satire ...
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
While blind drunk, two unemployed millennials entrepreneurs drunkenly post a video pitch about their revolutionary app to a crowdfunding site. When the app catches fire and they accidentally raise millions of dollars they actually have to create the ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
social network, joke, social satire, rich man, satire, brothers, con trick, escapades, deception, humour, brother brother relationship, friend ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
72%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany, Greece
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The life of Jorg Geissner, a German banker, totally transforms with a visit to Paladiki Island, Greece. A business trip to check on a project called “Galapagos in Greece” by the islanders and for which his bank extended a loan and credit, ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, captivating, light, satirical ...
Plot:
debt, fraud, problem, stranded, con trick, escapades, satire, silly humor, problem solving, absurd humor, deception, lie ...
Place:
greece
Similarity:
71%
484
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A major advertising festival is held each year to determine the best television commercial in the world. A rookie ad man at a big advertising company named Otan is selected as a judge on the festival jury. Meanwhile, a coworker also named Ota ...
Style:
light, feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
advertising, ambition, publicity stunt, advertising agency, culture clash, judge, silly humor, humour, advertising executive, contest, rivalry, failing business ...
Place:
japan, los angeles
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
Shankar Dada (Chiranjeevi) is a local goon with a good heart who defends his extortion and settlement business as social service to maintain peace in society. But he pretends to be a doctor to his parents to make them contended about their ...
Style:
feel good, light, captivating, funny, humorous ...
Plot:
fake doctor, doctor, father son relationship, love, medicine, college, physician, career change, bandit, direction and purpose, longing, lifestyle change ...
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Teo, a young and struggling actor, disguises himself as a 79 year old man to take advantage from the benefits of a retirement home, while also trying to sort out his personal and love life.
Style:
feel good, captivating, light, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
deception, actor, retirement home, pretense, absurd humor, friendship, satire, pretending to be someone else, humour, escapades, con trick, grownups ...
Place:
puerto rico
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Gina and Lello are partners both in life and in crime until they find themselves babysitting a kid during a robbery.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, light, feel good, funny ...
Plot:
con artists, heist gone wrong, kidnapped girl, criminal, bandit, abduction, humour, escapades, kidnapping, child abduction, cons and scams, encounter ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fong (Miriam Yeung) is already at odds with Wu (Edison Chen), one of her bosses at an ad agency, when she makes a major mistake at work that puts her job on the line. To save herself, she feigns pregnancy, which, under Hong Kong law, means she ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, sitcom, funny, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
deception, lie, faked pregnancy, humour, pregnant woman, pregnancy, con trick, escapades, relationship vs career, pretense, advertising agency, female protagonist ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Serbia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a rented apartment in Belgrade lives Srećko, who always plays the same combination of lotteries in the hope to win a premium one day. Local seller of lottery tickets, Višnja, is In him the love him. One evening, Srecko gets premium worth of ...
Style:
funny, captivating, humorous, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lottery, chase, lottery winner, mafia, pursuit, greek island, escapades, criminal, bandit, humour, criminal gang, fugitives ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
serbia, belgrade, greece
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Just when Timo is trying to win back his ex-girlfriend by convincing her with his new and improved life, he and his friends are caught up in a drugs conflict. To stay alive, four ordinary guys need to sell 22 kilos of drugs within a week.
Style:
humorous, funny, feel good, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
drug, stranded, escapades, drug dealing, flatmate, criminal, cocaine, mafia, money, drug dealer, humour, roommate ...
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62%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Hoping to break a big jackpot Natasha's stepfather does the financial gamble than substitutes his business partners. The whole family mourns Boris Ivanovich. Everything goes according to plan, until the stepfathers comrade comes.
Style:
humorous, light, funny, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot:
stepfather stepdaughter relationship, family relations, business, parents and children, friends, showbiz, funeral, presumed dead, humour, deception, couples, step parent ...
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Beautiful, ruthlessly ambitious, intelligent, and successful businesswoman Catherine Black lives a life of luxury in an architectural dream house in Malibu with exclusive designer fashions, fast cars, and exquisite jewelry. She has no need for a man ...
Style:
funny, captivating, semi serious, humorous, satirical ...
Plot:
female serial killer, thief, serial killer, satire, silly humor, humour, seduction, murderer, criminal, crime boss, bandit, seductress ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A businessman in Italy, who doesn't pay any taxes, and a financier always on the hunt for tax evaders come into contact because their sons share an apartment in Paris.
Style:
humorous, satirical, feel good, funny, captivating ...
Plot:
travel, eccentric family, businessman, humour, parents and children, satire, tax evasion, class differences, ethical dilemma, family drama, social satire, misunderstanding ...
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A wannabe private investigator wins the Green Card lottery and moves to America to pursue his dream only to find himself embroiled in a conspiracy to start the next world war.
Style:
captivating, light, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
political satire, immigration, conspiracy, spy, immigrant, escapades, political intrigue, government conspiracy, social problems, humour, private investigator, political conspiracy ...
Place:
iran
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The film tells about mainly three people - Max, a bored, smart, poor University Professor of Philosophy; Ramzes, a mafia leader, cool, strong, merciless bully and Stella, Ramzes girlfriend.
Style:
tense, captivating, entertaining, satirical, humorous
Plot:
philosophy, gangster boss, gang war, gang, bandit, organized crime, satire, criminal, outlaw gang, gang member, mafioso, hooliganism ...
Time:
year 2002
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The sequel to 2011 film "I soliti idioti".
Style:
captivating, entertaining, light, feel good, funny ...
Plot:
satire, heist gone wrong, unlikely criminals, heist, humour, unlikely criminal, criminal, silly humor, robbery, friendship, adult humor, social satire ...
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Willy and Tony have a brilliant idea for getting out of it financially: stealing a dog from the brigade des stups. But everything does not go as planned and the two accomplices will have to rely on the most corrupt of the cops.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, light, funny, feel good ...
Plot:
police dog, dog training, guard dog, dog, animal human communication, silly humor, social problems, theft, humour, robbery, financial problem, abduction ...
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After going through a failed heist, 5 friends, apparently back to their normal lives, are involved in an opportunity to pull off another one.
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, captivating, funny ...
Plot:
satire, heist, fugitives, silly humor, escapades, humour, unlikely criminals, runaway, friends, dark humor, urban, criminal underworld ...
Place:
rio de janeiro
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three friends actors, tired of wasting their time in a small city, decided to try their luck in Moscow. After a show, a mafia leader dies of laughing. Now, they have to run to save their lives.
Style:
captivating, humorous, entertaining, feel good, satirical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, mafia, runaway, satire, silly humor, bandit, humour, joke, mob boss, friends, misadventure, urban ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
moscow russia
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After an irreverent TV show makes people less afraid of the Camorra, the actors begin receiving threats from the criminal organization.
Style:
parody, satirical, entertaining, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
satire, camorra, criminal underworld, organized crime, mafia, bandit, criminal gang, gang member, escapades, gang, unlikely criminals, gangster ...
Place:
italy, naples italy
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Tadaomy Ando became a yakuza boss at a young age. Because of his subordinate, he quit the yakuza. Now, he learns from Takashi Konaka the trade of illegal money lending and how to collect debts. Tadaomy Ando decides to become a loan shark. He has ...
Style:
crime drama, light, feel good, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
yakuza, organized crime, loan shark, con artists, fraud, mafioso, cons and scams, mafia, debt, criminal, satire, escapades ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A lawyer is given the mission of revitalising a bankrupt zoo that has no animals. When he and a group of zookeepers come up with the idea to dress like animals and his fake polar bear goes viral, the zoo becomes a hit, before his law firm’s real ...
Style:
entertaining, feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
zoo, satire, humour, money problems, pretense, social problems, escapades, animal, pretending to be someone else, asian, personality change, zookeeper ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
How much chaos can three white goods dealers who come to İstanbul from Anatolia get into in three days? The paths of Namık, Adem and Sadık, three men going through difficult periods in their lives, intersect at a dealer meeting. After a series of ...
Style:
funny, feel good, satirical, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
businessman, friendship, thief, unlikely friendships, humour, silly humor, escapades, absurd humor, satire, theft, pregnancy, salesman ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
When Naomi, a fine, young sexy thing from South Central LA is invited to Palm Springs by her rich Uncle Bob to house sit for the weekend, she jumps at the chance to get out of the hood.
Style:
entertaining, funny, humorous, light, captivating ...
Plot:
party, dancing, escapades, humour, private club, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, friends, teenager, group of friends, satire, girlfriend, teenage girl ...
Place:
south central los angeles
Similarity:
58%
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