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Castaways (2016)
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Original name: Les Naufragés
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A shady businessman ,about to be arrested after ruining his country (and more) ,has to get away from his native France ;he meets a dry cleaner,William ,who's got a private plane and they crash on an island.
Style:
satirical, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, comedy drama, tension, dark comedy, surreal
Plot:
island, businessman, survival, satire, stranded, unlikely friendships, desert island, resort, escapades, shipwreck, corruption, remote island, fugitive, escape, crash, isolation, culture clash, social satire, moral ambiguity, friendship, raft, luxury hotel, character study, robinson crusoe, minimalism ...
Time:
2010s, contemporary
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Most similar movies to Castaways
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out satirical, captivating, entertaining and semi serious films with plots about satire, friendship, escapades, social satire, identity, urban and social commentary mostly in Comedy and Sport genres. Some movies like Castaways: Balls Out (2014), Farce (2017), An Innocent Little Game (2004), Vendors' Meeting (2020), America, Here We Come (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
With marriage, graduation, and the real world looming on the horizon, fifth year senior Caleb Fuller reassembles the ol' team of misfits for one last epic run in Intramural football.
Style:
feel good, captivating, semi serious, entertaining, satirical ...
Plot:
football, american football, tournament, prank, college, college campus, college student, competitor, rivalry, sport team, escapades, satire ...
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513
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A beauty expert, a drug dealer, and a bungling revolutionary end up in the grips of an extremist group after meeting on a plane to Lebanon.
Style:
satirical, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
captivity, arab, extremism, escapades, drug, terrorist group, islamic terrorism, terrorism, satire, terrorist, islam, hostage situation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
lebanon, middle east
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Claire et Bruno forment depuis douze ans un couple établi, une "institution". Au cours d'une journée à la campagne réunissant tous leurs proches, ils vont, par jeu, prétendre qu'ils se séparent.
Style:
satirical, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
marriage, countryside, satire, villager, pretense, marital crisis, love affair, husband wife relationship, love story, relationships, love and romance, couple relations ...
Similarity:
46%
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:
43%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Six Romanian artists get to live the dream of their life in a road-movie full of adventures: America, here we come! Coming all the way from Targoviste - a little town near the capital, the five actors, director, and a little child with his huge ...
Style:
road movie, captivating, semi serious, entertaining, funny ...
Plot:
journey, escapades, concert tour, artist, satire, actor, culture clash, fish out of water, travel, struggle, showbiz, bittersweet ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
43%
966
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, entertaining, semi serious, funny, captivating ...
Plot:
transformation, computer nerd, physical appearance, nerd, social satire, lifestyle change, lifestyle, changing lives, satire, fashion, split personality, double life ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Old and forgotten, comedian Aldo is brought by his sons into a nursing home called Reuma Park where he finds his old friends and partners Giovanni and Giacomo.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, satirical, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
escape, satire, friendship, retirement home, sanitarium, escapades, elderly man, elderly, problem, old man, mortality, nostalgia ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot.
Style:
humorous, captivating, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Plot:
rivalry, ambition, beauty pageant, contests and competitions, resort, homecoming, social relations, love and romance, farce, friendship, competition, ski resort ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Seven men, all city-dwellers aged between 17 and 70, with nothing in common apart from the fact that they are all on the verge of a nervous breakdown, meet up at a lonely sta- tion for an unusual course in the wild that is supposed to get them back ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, satirical, captivating, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
group therapy, self discovery, relationships, satire, mental health, character study, group of strangers, lifestyle change, changing lives, support group, relationship problems, introspection ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The owner of a bed and breakfast has an epiphany: in order to survive, he has to transform the B&B into a place of worship - where he will host tourists in exchange for a donation.
Style:
satirical, humorous, entertaining, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, business, religion, religious fanatic, society, religious faith, social satire, escapades, religious cult, ethical dilemma, tax evasion, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Malo and Stéphane are two students who are kind of losers and have just started high school. Their plan to become popular: to host a German exchange student with a lot of style. Too bad for Malo, who gets stuck with a Goth who will make his life ...
Style:
funny, semi serious, humorous, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
teenager, friendship, satire, high school, exchange student, interracial friendship, teenage life, social satire, adolescence, friends, interracial relations, youth culture ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A meatball seller gets into trouble so flees Istanbul to find a new life on a beautiful island.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, captivating, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot:
satire, relationships, social problems, male protagonist, cigar, lifestyle, social issues, relationship problems, island, fish out of water, coastal town, escape ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Well-known writer Ettore takes his family on a mountain chalet getaway for his birthday, in an effort to create a bond between his two sons, Claudio and Giulio, and his second wife, Margherita. The group is also joined by Margherita's brother, ...
Style:
entertaining, light, captivating, feel good, funny ...
Plot:
isolation, family drama, eccentric family, parents and children, family relations, large family, kids and family, family problems, humour, family secret, satire, social satire ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story charts the journey of two childhood friends Kohinoor Kalyan and Jilani Ramdas. They are both enthusiastic and easy-going. On an unfateful day, the duo loses a heavy amount in cricket betting. They unintentionally enter the villain's ...
Style:
captivating, feel good, satirical, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
friendship, trap, bet, gambling, friends, escapades, money problems, satire, money, risk, desperation, loyalty ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
33%
223
Genre: Comedy
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
'Bad Trip' is a comedy in which four friends in their last week as housemates interference in an unfortunate situation where they have to sell within one week an unprecedented amount of cocaine.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, satirical, ironic, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, satire, irony, drug, drug dealer, escapades, friends, neighbor, social satire, cocaine, drug dealing, misadventure ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After two failed deliveries, a pair of motorcycle taxi drivers must recover the goods they lost for any hope of financially assisting their families.
Style:
humorous, satirical, feel good, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
loan shark, heist, working class, problem, escapades, satire, lifestyle, theft, jewel robbery, criminal, driver, jewel theft ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young Indian man relocates to 1970s Chicago to become an engineer, but when his job falls through, he resorts to an elaborate charade with misfit friends in order to woo his childhood sweetheart.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, satirical, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
friendship, love interest, male female relationship, escapades, satire, friends, love story, love affair, loss of job, relationships, fish out of water, culture clash ...
Time:
70s
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
33%
337
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A group of teenagers find themselves shipwrecked on an uncharted island off the Mexican coast. Faced with the prospect of a long-term stay, the island soon degenerates into a struggle between two groups; teens who want high school to end as fast as ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, sincere, light ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
island, high school, youth, teenager, heroes, satire, desert island, survival, power struggle, shipwreck, friendship, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Oh Dong-sik is the completely rigid character who has always led a text-book life. Dong-sik is threatened by loan sharks when his mother signs up for a private loan in order to advance Dong-sik’s father’s promotion into the principal position. ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
social satire, satire, debt, salesman, coworker, relationship vs career, career, workplace situations, escapades, job, social climber, assistant ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea, korea
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Four Anglo-Canadians and a New Yorker find themselves in a two-week long total French immersion program in the fictional, remote town of St-Isidore-du-Coeur-de-Jésus, tucked away somewhere in Northern Quebec. The place is perfect for total ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, satirical, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
language learning, satire, culture clash, language barrier, fish out of water, small town, culture shock, friendship, identity, social commentary, nationalism, identity crisis ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A misanthropic, struggling photographer just wants to watch TV and eat candy while his wife is out of town, but when a desperate old pal resurfaces, his plans are thwarted, with spooky consequences.
Style:
satirical, captivating, feel good, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
ghost, photographer, slice of life, changing lives, lifestyle change, satire, isolation, claustrophobia, character study, confined, supernatural, odd couple ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Iran
TV show
Story:
Hedayat and Arsalan are two down and out ex-cons with a conscious who have fallen on hard times. When they hear that Meshkat, an old billionaire without any heirs, is in a coma and likely to die, they come up with a plan to once and for all relieve ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
forgery, deception, inheritance, satire, fake identity, false identity, escapades, con trick, money, money problems, con artists, plan gone wrong ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 2008, Sami Benboudaoud discovered the hell of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Ten years later, now that everything is for the best for Sami who brilliantly completes his studies of political science, nothing will go for his cousin Charles of Chazelle.
Style:
humorous, satirical, entertaining, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
class differences, brother brother relationship, social problems, socially awkward, lifestyle, brothers, satire, culture clash, fish out of water, social satire, social commentary, political satire ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
30%
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161
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After being blacklisted from the NYC theatre industry, two Upper East Side New Yorkers, Tucker and Sandrene, decide their only course of action is to move to Fargo, North Dakota and start a theatrical revolution.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, feel good, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
ambition, satire, theater, cultural revolution, ambitious, theatre director, theatrical troupe, stage actor, teamwork, fish out of water, culture clash, performance art ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A debt collector takes over the management of a group of starlets after their talent agent defaults on a loan, but soon finds he's in over his head.
Style:
feel good, humorous, entertaining, captivating, funny ...
Plot:
showbiz, satire, businessman, entertainment, entertainment industry, business, escapades, pop star, celebrity culture, fish out of water, glamour, pop music ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
hong kong, china
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Diego, Fausto and Claudio are three down-on-their luck men. When they meet by chance looking at a property in the country none of them are able to afford, the three men decide to combine forces and risk everything to start a Bed and Breakfast. They ...
Style:
captivating, humorous, feel good, funny, light ...
Plot:
camorra, society, social relations, escapades, showdown, ambition, ambitious, social differences, humour, teamwork, social satire, fighting the system ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Alexey Zaitsev is a professional showman. Restless agent and endless activities further and further alienate Zaitsev from the beloved. But the main problem is that he's been lying to everyone all his life, since kindergarten. And once the ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
lie, showbiz, deception, relationships, satire, escapades, revelation, truth, changing lives, male female relationship, lifestyle change, humour ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
russia, moscow russia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Alexander is a 26 year old scrap hauler who is facing eviction. In a last ditch effort to save his house from the bank, he turns it into a brothel - even though he has never had sex before.
Style:
funny, entertaining, captivating, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
brothel, male virgin, sexual humor, needing money, escapades, comedy of manners, financial problem, money problems, satire, social problems, eviction, desperation ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
While delivering a deceased man's body for burial, a naive village courier encounters a host of eccentrics and implicates himself in dark crimes.
Style:
funny, feel good, satirical, captivating, light ...
Plot:
farce, road trip, satire, car trip, changing lives, car trouble, escapades, dead, absurd humor, silly humor, travel, humour ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mahsun constantly has to cope with police raids since he runs an illegal casino. Because he wants to continue to run this casino, Mahsun decides to establish a fake political party as a disguise. His aim is to keep the casino able to continue ...
Style:
semi serious, satirical, captivating, entertaining, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, police, illegal gambling, casino, problem, escapades, casino owner, deception, scheme, organized crime, black market, fraud ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
27%
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