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Van As & Sons (2012)
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Van As & Sons (2012)
Original name: De Zonen van Van As
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
TV show
Story: Frans Van As does all his life a firm in demolition, but other times does not realize that other rules questions. He must be forced to retire, but sees none of his sons are able to take over the family business. Eventually put French still step aside and come Eddy, actually the least skilled son, in the lead. He wants to immediately implement a number of profound changes, but that is easier said than done.
Style: humorous, realistic, not serious
Plot: family relations, parents and children, dysfunctional family, disorder, siblings relations, workplace, workplace situations, power relations, brother brother relationship, family business, boss and employee, favoritism among siblings, supportive coworker, con artists, scolding
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: europe, belgium

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, not serious and sitcom films and TV series with plots about workplace, family relations, workplace situations, parents and children, power relations, disorder and boss and employee mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Van As & Sons: Van Vlees en Bloed (2009), Working the Engels (2014), South Beach Tow (2011), Puppy Love (2014), Tiny Plastic Men (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Van Vlees en Bloed (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 337 min.
TV show
Story: A tragicomedy about the everyday life of a butchers family Vangenechten. The business is running fine until the son returns home after a long time. He wants to learn more about the butchers trade and wants to take over the butchers shop so it stays ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious
Plot: family relations, family business, homecoming, parents and children, workplace, supportive parent, secret agenda, boss and employee, power relations, butcher, rivalry, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, flanders, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Working the Engels (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A family are forced to band together to keep their heads above water when their father and breadwinner passes away, leaving them all in a mountain of debt.
Style: not serious, humorous, sitcom, captivating, realistic
Plot: family business, law firm, eccentric family, parents and children, family relations, family problems, legal, workplace, life turned upside down, workplace situations, family life, silly humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
South Beach Tow (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: South Beach Tow is an American truTV reality television series that portrays dramatized reenactments of the day-to-day business of Tremont Towing. Although the program is fictionalized, Tremont Towing is a real Miami towing company. The series ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, non fiction
Plot: family relations, boss and employee, parents and children, workplace situations, workplace, car trouble, machine, job, car, employer employee relationship, siblings relations, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.7
 142
Puppy Love (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Comedy series set around a Wirral-based dog training class.
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, sitcom
Plot: workplace, family life, dog, parents and children, pets, couple relations, love and romance, family relations, couples, disorder, dysfunctional family, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Tiny Plastic Men (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: A group of workers at Gottfried Brothers who are paid to test toys and games try to combat the daily boredom they endure whilst at work. Working in the basement, the Crad, Addison, and October do what they can to get through the day.
Style: surreal, humorous, not serious, light, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, friends, parents and children, single parent, social misfits, buddies, misfit, boss and employee, workplace, nothing goes right, power relations, factory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Stacked (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Stacked is an American television sitcom that premiered on Fox on April 13, 2005. On May 18, 2006, Stacked was canceled, leaving five episodes unaired in the United States. The last episode aired on January 11, 2006. The five unaired episodes have ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot: workplace, power relations, workplace situations, family business, physical appearance, boss and employee, misfit, fish out of water, store, siblings relations, bookstore, workplace humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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The Aspones (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story: Moira, Anete and Caio are employees of a public office who do nothing in the office, which has lost some government attention over the years. Until a new boss arrives, Tales, with his intern Leda, and makes the old employees suffer with new and many ...
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, witty, sitcom
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Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Sean Saves the World (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Sean Saves the World is an upcoming American television series starring Sean Hayes. The multi-camera comedy is expected to air on NBC as part of the 2013–14 American television season. The series is set to premiere on October 3, 2013, and will air ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, humorous, not serious, captivating ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 7.2
 296
Love Rules (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Porque el Amor Manda is a 2012 Mexican telenovela produced by Juan Osorio for Televisa. It is a remake of the Colombian telenovela El secretario, produced by Juan Andrés Flórez in 2011. Fernando Colunga and Blanca Soto star as the protagonists ...
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Plot: love and romance, top executive, fish out of water, couples, fall in love, workplace romance, power relations, unlikely couple, workplace, workplace situations, workplace intrigue, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.2
 1K
Happyland (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: Having grown up in a world of manufactured happiness, Lucy, the cynical teenage daughter of a idealistic theme park princess mom, wants to get out and experience something real. When Ian, the new park owner's son, arrives and sweeps her off her ...
Style: sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: fall in love, parents and children, workplace situations, workplace, dysfunctional family, love and romance, teenage love, amusement park, high school, family secret, strong female presence, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 7.8
 2K
Big Family (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A Grande Família is a Brazilian television comedy, and is one of the most watched primetime shows. The show airs on the Globo Network, and tells the story of a typical lower middle-class family living in a suburb neighborhood of Rio de ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, absurd
Plot: family relations, family life, eccentric family, couple relations, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, silly humor, couples
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Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 7.3
 14K
Wings (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Brothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by their various wacky friends and employees.
Style: sitcom, witty, humorous, talky, not serious ...
Plot: aviation, workplace, airport, family relations, friendship, siblings relations, sibling relationship, staff, workplace situations, brother brother relationship, sister sister relationship, team ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.4
 293
Good God (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Good God is a Canadian television comedy-drama series which premiered in April 2012 on HBO Canada. The show follows the life of character George Findlay, a role that Ken Finkleman reprised from The Newsroom and subsequent television projects. The ...
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, cynical, biting
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Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.9
 3K
Kingdom (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Kingdom is a British television series produced by Parallel Film and Television Productions for the ITV network. It was created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and ...
Style: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Big Time in Hollywood, Fl (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Follows two delusional brothers, who are self-proclaimed filmmakers, as they are kicked out of their parent's house and end up on an epic cinematic journey.
Style: humorous, realistic, sitcom, not serious, hilarious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.9
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: George Lopez is an American sitcom starring comedian George Lopez. The show originally aired on ABC from March 27, 2002, to May 8, 2007.
Style: sitcom, witty, not serious, humorous, realistic ...
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Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.7
 7K
Mr. Sunshine (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 293 min.
TV show
Story: Ben Donovan is a self-involved manager of a second-rate San Diego sports arena who begins to re-evaluate his life on his 40th birthday. Working alongside him is his boss and arena owner, Crystal--attractive, powerful and highly erratic; Alice--the ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, hilarious, realistic
Plot: workplace, midlife crisis, workplace situations, boss and employee, ex athlete, disorder, self involved, arena, arrest, colleague, birthday, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 7.0
 662
Cocked (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
Story: The Paxsons are a broken family working together - and against each other - in the most quintessentially American business, the business of guns.
Style: humorous, clever, semi serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: family relations, family problems, parents and children, workplace, family business, siblings relations, homecoming, law, female nudity, bare breasts
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Less Than Kind (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Less Than Kind is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that stars Jesse Camacho as Sheldon Blecher, a teenager growing up in a loving but dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. The show's cast also includes Maury Chaykin and Wendel ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, sitcom ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, coming of age, family life, jewish family, parents and children, teenage life, family business, disorder, self destructing, youth, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.1
 506
Monday Monday (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Monday Monday is an ITV, UTV comedy drama. It stars Fay Ripley, Jenny Agutter, Neil Stuke, Holly Aird, Morven Christie, Tom Ellis, and Miranda Hart. It is set in the head office of a supermarket that has fallen on hard times and had to re-locate ...
Style: humorous, cynical, semi serious, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: workplace, supermarket, workplace intrigue, rivalry, intern, corporate world, boss and employee, accountant, office, workplace romance, unsupportive coworkers, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.8
 629
White Van Man (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The incredible misadventures of two handymen on the road and the extraordinary people they meet along the way.
Style: sitcom, humorous, captivating, light, feel good ...
Plot: working class, construction worker, nothing goes right, family relations, workplace, society, workplace situations, family business, disorder, destruction, partner, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, northern england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A middle-aged man tries to get by in Milan while trying to retain his dignity.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: fall in love, parents and children, family relations, bittersweet, workplace situations, workplace, love and romance, society, urban, father son relationship, loneliness, kindness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.6
 210
Grafters (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Grafters was a British drama–comedy programme originally broadcast in the UK on ITV from 27 October 1998 to 20 December 1999 for 16 episodes over two series. Grafters was based around the Purvis brothers Joe and Trevor, who along with their ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: construction worker, brother, couples, blue collar, sibling relationship, cousin, working class, couple relations, workplace, unfulfillment, siblings relations, workplace situations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Hairdresser (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When a salon refuses to hire her because of her plump figure, irrepressible hair stylist Kathi plots revenge by opening her own beauty parlor next door. But when she faces a cash-flow problem, Kathi resorts to some creative means of raising capital.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: beauty salon, follow your dream, physical appearance, family relations, lifestyle, power relations, boss and employee, workplace, fashion, anthropology, monkey, workplace situations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
All Creatures Great and Small (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot. Ninety episodes were aired over two three-year runs. The first run was based ...
Style: touching, realistic, humorous, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: veterinarian, pets, village life, workplace, doctors and patients, family relations, family business, medical, doctor, hospital, skirt, world war two ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s, 1950s
Place: yorkshire, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.5
 10K
My Family (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: My Family is a British sitcom created and initially co-written by Fred Barron, which was produced by DLT Entertainment and Rude Boy Productions, and broadcast by BBC One for eleven series between 2000 and 2011, with Christmas specials broadcast from ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, witty, realistic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: father son relationship, dentist, family relations, disorder, eccentric family, dysfunctional family, family problems, workplace, christmas, parents and children, living with parents, husband wife relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.7
 484
FM (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: FM is a British sitcom which aired on ITV2, starring Chris O'Dowd, Kevin Bishop and Nina Sosanya. The series followed the lives of two DJs and their producer on their FM radio programme, "Skin 86.5 FM". The show also featured music ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, not serious, realistic, dark comedy
Plot: radio, producer, radio dj, artists and showbiz, workplace situations, lifestyle, workplace, music, power relations, disorder, media, radio station ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.4
 655
Family Tools (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Family Tools is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from May 1 to July 10, 2013, and aired on Wednesdays at 8:30 pm ET. The series, created by Bobby Bowman, is produced by Mark Gordon, ABC Studios and ITV Studios America. It is based on the British ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: family business, family life, working class, workplace situations, nothing goes right, workplace, silly humor, disorder, parents and children, society, father son relationship, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
What a Beautiful Day (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Checco, an uneducated but self-satisfied fellow from Milan, who has always dreamed of becoming a police officer, fails his entrance exam for the third time. It must be said that at the oral examination Checco said that the reason why he wanted to ...
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, happy
Plot: fall in love, goofy hero, workplace, workplace situations, danger, love and romance, power relations, disorder, silly humor, urban, terrorism
Time: 21st century
Place: milan italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.8
 2K
The Italian (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Life smiles at Dino Fabrizzi,a cool forty-two-year old Italian. Not only is he the most successful salesman at The Maserati dealership in Nice but he has had a steady (and hot) relationship with Hélène,his girlfriend, who is beginning to ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic
Plot: hidden identity, disorder, couple relations, society, workplace, dishonesty, meet the parents, dealer, parents and children, culture clash, power relations, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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