Movies like The American Beauty

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The American Beauty (1961)
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The American Beauty (1961)
Original name: La Belle Américaine
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more
Plot: jealousy, secretary, widow, factory worker, road accident, car accident, traffic
Place: france

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Most similar movies to The American Beauty

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and witty films with plots about jealousy, disorder, female nudity, family relations, couples, secretary and car accident mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like The American Beauty: Wild and Wonderful (1964), The Joy of Singing (2008), Vos gueules les mouettes (1974), The Little Bather (1968), The Man from the Diners' Club (1963). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Wild and Wonderful (1964)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Cognac, a pampered poodle and popular star on French television, creates marital problems for his pretty owner Giselle when he becomes jealous of her new husband.
Plot: jealousy, dog, lonely, animal, marital problem, television, wedding, poodle, tv star, live broadcast
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Joy of Singing (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Agents des services secrets, Muriel et Philippe forment un improbable duo amoureux. Dans leur nouvelle mission, ils sont chargés de mettre la main sur une clé usb cachée par Constance, la veuve d'un trafiquant d'uranium fraîchement ...
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, erotic ...
Plot: secret agent, espionage, unlikely couple, couples, terrorism, teacher, love, jealousy, widow, sex scene, making love, lgbt ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Vos gueules les mouettes (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A TV channel organizes a super-8 competition, and Kenavec family decides to film their small village in Brittany.
Plot: manor, family relations, television, seagull, lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, village, film within a film
Place: brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
The Little Bather (1968)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not ...
Style: not serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous, witty
Plot: lighthouse keeper, inventor, boat, boss, priest, contract, shipyard, preaching, fish out of water, countryside, one last chance, social differences ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: south of france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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The Man from the Diners' Club (1963)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mobster Foots Pulardos, who operates a health gym as a front, plans to flee to Mexico to evade government tax officials. His girl friend, Sugar Pye, suggests that he first arrange for the cremation of a man having his own peculiar identifying ...
Style: retro, independent film, slapstick, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: chase, gangster, chases and races, goofy hero, dishonesty, disorder, comedy of errors, cons and scams, mobster, fraud, tax evasion, clerk ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Seducers of Saint-Tropez (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Four friends discover the pleasures of Saint-Tropez.
Style: sex comedy
Plot: beach, male pubic hair, friend, public nudity, jealousy, cheating, seaside, summer vacation, sex in car, motorcycle, border, counterfeit money ...
Time: 80s
Place: france, riviera, saint tropez
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Traffic (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mr. Hulot is the head designer of the Altra Automotive Co. His latest invention is a newfangled camper car loaded with outrageous extra features. Along with the company's manager and publicity model, Hulot sets out from Paris with the intention ...
Style: road movie, stylized, parody, manga, cult classic ...
Plot: on the road, border, art, satire, car, technology, truck, european, trucker, racing, comedian, traffic jam ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: amsterdam, france, paris france, europe, netherlands ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Happy He Who Like Ulysses (1970)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: For 25 years now, under the Provence sun, Antonin, a farmhand, has shared his work and everyday life with a horse named Ulysse. What a shock when Pascal, the farmer, tells him he has decided to sell Ulysse to a picador for being too old. Not only ...
Plot: bullfighting, white horse, horse
Place: france, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything (1973)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, ...
Style: slapstick, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot: disorder, goofy hero, nothing goes right, juvenile delinquency, chaos and mayhem, job, family honor, anesthetic, breaking the fourth wall, father son relationship, archbishop, army general ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Made in Italy (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: French writer Luca Morandi was born in Italy. He is forty years old and finds himself at a crossroads in his life. He doesn't know where to turn: France, his adopted home where he was raised, or Italy, the country of his birth, perfect, ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, sexy ...
Plot: inheritance, love and romance, family relations, lifestyle, couples, sexual tension, attempted seduction, family secret, widow, money, pregnancy, soccer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 5.6
 4K
The Volcano (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull causes major disruptions to travelers' plans around the world. For Alain and Valérie, it's a catastrophe. Because to make it to the small Greek village in time for their ...
Style: road movie, humorous, cynical, romantic, realistic ...
Plot: ex husband ex wife relationship, on the road, nothing goes right, dark humor, car chase, fight for supremacy, road accident, woman fights a man, wedding, family conflict, con trick, travel ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: france, somalia, europe, iceland, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Please, Please Me! (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: riane believe her male partner is another woman dreams of. In order to lure him out in sex, she decided to take the initiative to develop relations with male partner with this woman, the results found that women had a French president’s daughter!
Style: humorous, captivating, light, sexy, slapstick ...
Audience: date night
Plot: looking for sex, obsession, love triangle, love affair, jealousy, party, couple relations, womanizer, french president, nothing goes right, disorder, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Juliette Year (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Camille Prader, back from a physicians' meeting, is waiting for his suitcase on the Airport conveyor belt. Clémentine, his girlfriend of the day, has come to fetch him. With a radiant smile, she tells Fabrice that she left everything to live ...
Plot: airport, doctor, love triangle, hospital, romantic obsession, flutist, suicide attempt, bathroom
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 7.0
 182
Heavy Weather (1995)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is wilfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is planning to publish a book which might ruin the family name forever. Moreover, the Earl's ...
Plot: publisher, chorus girl, sibling relationship, aristocracy, pig, marriage, book, high society, domineering mother, blackmail, private detective, butler ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Tender Scoundrel (1966)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jean-Paul Belmondo is a lovable lothario who delights in his womanizing ways in this ribald comedy adventure. When two women can't get enough of him, he is chased to Tahiti and back to Paris by admiring females. His experiences are exhausting ...
Plot: outlaw, baroness, compulsive liar, womanizer, taxi driver, inheritance, lie, high society, pacific island, rich woman, liar, cruise ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: tahiti, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Notre univers impitoyable (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Victor and Margot are both lawyers in a major consulting firm and form a solid couple in private. Yet one day they find themselves competing for the same job promotion. How will their relationship stand up to the outcome?
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, battle of the sexes, relationship vs career, workplace romance, workplace, ambition, law firm, rise to the top, office, multiple outcomes, repeated event, lawyer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.4
 455
The Vixen (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Clara becomes a secretary who must cater to all the desires of the womanizing writer Jérôme, while he tries to write his memoirs.
Style: sex comedy
Plot: secretary, swing, writers, writer's block, bachelor, femme fatale, female nudity, sex, train, writing, female full frontal nudity, bathtub
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Amusements of Private Life (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Italian-French costume dramedy that takes place in France in the end of 18th Century during the French Revolution. It is "The Marriage of Figaro" meets "The Dangerous Liaisons" and it tells the story of two women, Mathilde ...
Plot: gender roles, transvestism, seduction, erotica, female nudity, sex
Time: 18th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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I Hate My Best Friends' Kids (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A month of vacation with friends: difficult to bear the kids of his friends, especially when the methods of education differ and that some prove to be unbearable.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, touching
Plot: family relations, coming of age, summer vacation, sex scene, friendship, motherhood, female nudity, sex on floor
Time: 21st century
Place: france, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 2.3
 7
Lisa (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 78 min.
Plot: blind date, love, office
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.0
 378
Idiot in Paris (1967)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual
Plot: social relations, prostitute, village, village life, village idiot, frenchman, drunken man, merchant
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film is the immediate continuation of Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, released the previous year. Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, clothed with a chequed jacket, Étienne Dorsay becomes ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, witty, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, midlife crisis, tennis, buddies, friends, love and romance, disorder, love affair, dishonesty, couple relations, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.0
 18K
The Closet (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: homosexuality, gay, pretending to be gay, workplace, workplace intrigue, friendship, dishonesty, disorder, discrimination, comedy of errors, workplace situations, parents and children ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Neuilly Yo Mama II (2018)
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: feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, satirical ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, brothers, social problems, socially awkward, lifestyle, satire
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Dinner Game (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Each week, Pierre and his friends organize what is called as "un dîner de cons". Everyone brings the dumbest guy he could find as a guest. Pierre thinks his champ -François Pignon- will steal the show.
Style: humorous, funny, feel good, light, hilarious ...
Plot: misfit, screwball, food, farce, dinner, friendship, nothing goes right, goofy hero, ambition, disorder, mistaken identity, manners ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Last Call for Nowhere (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: French border cop José Fernandez has just one last extradition to do before his long-awaited promotion to the crime bureau. But his detainee Akim, victim of a judiciary glitch, is outraged to find himself saddled with the identity of a potential ...
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, funny, feel good
Plot: deportation, refugee, mistaken identity, foe turned friend, fish out of water, disorder, social relations, reluctant partners, stereotypes, new year's eve, police, refugee camp
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Chyťte doktora (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Nothing very unusual has happened to Michal (Michal Malátný). He finds himself in the middle of a situation he is partly responsible for and partly not, but it's up to him to solve it. Everyone expects it of him and he himself would like to ...
Plot: polyamory, bare chested male, female police officer, alternate reality, womanizer, multiple perspectives, same actor playing two characters simultaneously on screen, multiple outcomes, locked door, policewoman, repeated event, neighbor neighbor relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
With Open Arms (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jean-Étienne Fougerole is an intellectual bohemian who released his new novel "In Open Arms" and calling the wealthiest people to welcome home the families in need. While he promotes his book during a televised debate, his opponent ...
Style: political, funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot: eviction, modern art, teenage love, wedding, dimwit, friendship, culture clash, family life, escapades, fish out of water, unlikely friendships, stereotypes ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.8
 766
Get Well Soon (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: After an accident, Pierre, a sixty years old grumpy man, ends up stuck on an hospital bed with a cast. While Pierre dreams of silence and solitude with his strong character, the whole world seems to invite himself to his hospital bed. Powerless, he ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, psychological, captivating, light ...
Plot: self discovery, introspection, hopes, aging, hospital, family relations, estrangement, siblings relations, elderly, injury
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The French Minister (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with. With his silver mane and tanned, athletic body, he stalks the world stage as Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, waging his own war backed up by the holy trinity of diplomatic concepts: ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, witty, political ...
Plot: politics, un, fictitious country, workplace, state affairs, power relations, workplace intrigue, betrayal, rivalry, boss and employee, administration, protest ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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