Movies like Holy Year

If you like "Holy Year" you are looking for movies about / with prison, airplane, prison escape, police, escape, pilot and hijacking themes of Comedy and Crime genre shot in France or Italy.
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Holy Year (1976)
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Holy Year (1976)
Original name: L'Année sainte
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The last film of Jean Gabin.
Plot: prison, airplane, prison escape, police, escape, pilot, hijacking, priest, flight attendant, disguise

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Most similar movies to Holy Year

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about prison, escape, police, prison escape, disorder, gangster and jail mostly in Comedy, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Holy Year: Plane's Flying to Russia (1994), Operation St. Peter's (1967), Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (1973), We're No Angels (1989), Breakout Brothers (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Plane's Flying to Russia (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Former prisoners captured plane. But on the way there was a failure, and to alleviate the weight of the aircraft, they throw overboard box with three hostages. The hostages managed to land safely. Now they have to stick together. And around a ...
Plot: drug, student, submarine, director, terrorist, diamond, sea, desert, female nudity, bare breasts, police, car chase ...
Place: iran, russia, syria
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Operation St. Peter's (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and his two cohorts, Agonia and The Captain, where Napoleone takes them to Rome where they shack up with a shady used car dealer caled Il Cajella to help ...
Plot: heist, prison, robbery, prison escape, church, theft, jail, gangster, betrayal, chase, cardinal the priest, car salesman ...
Time: year 1967
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the ...
Style: grindhouse, poliziottesco, funny
Plot: erotica, crime wave, carabinieri, police chase, police officer killed, police officer, escape, prison escape, police, buddy, friendship, officer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
We're No Angels (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two escaped cons only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.
Style: humorous, feel good, clever, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: mistaken identity, prison, clergy, small town, religion, fake priest, priest, monk, fish out of water, buddies, on the run, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Breakout Brothers (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Triad leader Roller and life-sentence inmate Scar maintain the balance of power as the bosses of the prison they're incarcerated at. Life at the prison gets disrupted by the arrival of new inmate Mak, who has run-ins with both Scar and Roller. ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, light
Plot: bandit, escape, prison life, jail, prison gang, jailed, escape from custody, prison escape, prison, attempted escape, organized crime, criminal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Vice Academy Part 3 (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two sisters in the Vice Academy try to thwart the crime wave wrought by escaped convict Malathion, who got her name after being exposed to toxic chemicals. An honest new recruit does such a good job at arresting Malathion's gang that the ...
Style: sex comedy, independent film
Plot: police, escape, female nudity, sex, stripper, prison escape, rookie, female police officer, jealousy, armed robbery, male nudity, crime wave ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Farfallon (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: No overview
Style: parody
Plot: fugitive, mother superior, convent, nun, escape, jail, revenge, police, prison
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Ruby & Quentin (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, Ruby, a brooding outlaw encounters Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant who befriends him. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy ...
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, inspirational, tricky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison escape, buddies, prison, unlikely partners, buddy, partner, runaway, odd couple, criminal heroes, bank robbery, friendship, police investigation ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Point of No Return (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vendetta, thief, caper, interwar period, gangster, hitman, heist, polish, disorder, uninhibited rivalry, law enforcement, chases and races ...
Time: 1930s, pre world war two
Place: poland, europe, warsaw poland, switzerland, zurich switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Doing Time (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, clever ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, prisoner, escape, anti hero, partner, friends, disorder, troublemaker, buddies, confined, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Cracksman (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a ...
Style: slapstick, realistic, humorous, semi serious, rough ...
Plot: heist, locksmith, gangster, con artists, partner, escape, unlikely criminals, cons and scams, rivalry, working undercover, righting the wronged, tough heroes ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Monnaie de singe (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a hearse. Unaware she is the mistress of a notorious gangster, Fulbert is chased by thugs.
Style: detective
Plot: con men, prison escape, fiancee, typist, police officer, security guard, male to female cross dressing, cabriolet, secretly observing, arrested, talking parrot, police investigator ...
Place: madrid, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Lucky Break (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which he can probably escape. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to ...
Style: intense, semi serious, feel good, humorous, talky ...
Plot: prison, buddies, moral ambiguity, prison life, confined, fall in love, cons and scams, social worker, friendship, stage play, jail, coming of age ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Brigade Miscellaneous in the Mountains and at the Sea (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Action, Crime
Country: Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Misc. Brigade must solve a drug traffic case, in their own way
Style: iconic
Plot: airplane, farce, prison, robbery, car chase, scoundrel, nun, sea, art theft, monastery, punishment, immorality ...
Time: 70s
Place: romania, black sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Troops in New York (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The second installment of Gendarmes series, tells the story of Sergeant Cruchot (Louis De Funes), who, together with his faithful comrades, has been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.
Style: humorous, realistic, exciting, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: gendarme, law enforcement, stowaway, fish out of water, police, comedy of errors, daughter, goofy hero, nothing goes right, misfit, chase, family relations ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, france, new york, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Cat and Dog (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: L.A.P.D. Captain Parker finally is going on Holiday with all his family. At the last moment he has to cancel the program to re-capture a pilferer named Tony Roma, bad copy of a Latin lover. He use to seduce older women and then steals their jewelry. ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: law enforcement, buddy cop, camping, police, mission of murder, hooligan, mafia, odd couple, gigolo, murder witness, women, italian american
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Hijack That Went South (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.
Style: humorous, exciting, suspenseful, disturbing, feel good ...
Plot: pilot, airplane, abduction, hostage, journalist, ransom, airport, reporter, money, husband wife relationship, hijacking, passenger ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Stir Crazy (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a ...
Style: funny, humorous, witty, feel good, laugh out loud ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, buddy, wrongful conviction, injustice, convict, cell mate, prison escape, lawyer, partner, on the road, jail, black ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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The Troops & Troop-ettes (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the ...
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, exciting, tense ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: gendarme, kidnapping, police, policewoman, law enforcement, comedy of errors, nothing goes right, goofy hero, workplace situations, yacht, beach, mother superior ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, saint tropez, provence, riviera, mediterranean sea ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Nuns on the Run (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to "leave" he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. B&C decide to steal the money for themselves, but ...
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, laugh out loud ...
Plot: cross dressing, nun, chase, priest, fish out of water, farce, on the run, disguise, convent, disorder, odd couple, partner ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Counterfeiters of Paris (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A rich, old counterfeiter is lured out of retirement.
Style: black and white, neo noir, slang, surprise ending
Plot: forgery, accomplice, brothel, horse race, brothel madam, one last job, horse, gangster, counterfeit money, counterfeiter, bank note, paper ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Sam & Miguel (Your Basura, No Problema) (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Philippines
Story: Sam and Miguel are your typical come-what-may laborers, collecting garbage in flashy subdivisions. In their workplace, they get maltreated by two of their co-workers, sometimes getting them into trouble.
Plot: dwarf, car crash, motorcycle accident, carnival, amusement park, criminal syndicate, diamond, fistfight, midget, garbage collector, impersonating a police officer, disguise ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Tango (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Vincent, a stunt pilot, is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However, a few years later, L'Elegant, the Judge in the case, comes to blackmail him. The Judge's nephew, Paul, is having trouble with his wife and they demand that ...
Plot: tango, outlaw, car, airplane, killing
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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On the Run (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Portugal, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is permanently disrupted. what ensues is one long, crazy night ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, biting, cynical ...
Plot: escape, vampire, friendship, on the run, fugitives, chases and races, nothing goes right, city life, prison, urban, dark humor, friends ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Carom Shots (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy
Plot: ambition, firm, dark humor, career, comedy of errors, murder, workplace intrigue, workplace, rise to the top, hierarchy, frog
Time: 60s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Bottom Live The Big Number 2 Tour (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Queen Elizabeth is attending a parade in Hammersmith and Richie and Eddie plans on inviting the Queen to join them for supper. But their plan goes wrong.
Style: independent film, live comedy
Plot: prison escape, queen elizabeth ii, gas, parrot, castration, giant, morse code, smoking, fight, prison, stand up, fighting ...
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25%
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Free Money (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 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, dark comedy ...
Plot: prison, fbi, partner, government agency, cons and scams, special agent, criminal heroes, dishonesty, confined, heroes, friends, heist ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Pros & Cons (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Framed for crimes they didn't commit, two small-timers are headed up the river without a paddle. Now, the only thing that can bail them out is a case of mistaken identity. It's the hysterical prison comedy that's so funny, it's ...
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: prison, gang, escape, hostage, profanity, partner, cons and scams, frame up, prison life, embezzlement, mistaken identity, injustice ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Switching Channels (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, weeping ...
Audience: date night
Plot: journalism, workplace, ex husband ex wife relationship, scoop, reporter, satire, outlaw, news, women, battle of the sexes, love triangle, interview ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Treasure of San Gennaro (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Genaro, in Napoli.
Plot: heist, television, camorra, police, death, car chase, jealousy, femme fatale, prison, catacomb, jealous girlfriend, treasure ...
Time: year 1966
Place: italy, napoli italy, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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