Movies like Born in East L.A.

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Born in East L.A. (1987)
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Born in East L.A. (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!
Style: humorous, parody, funny, entertaining, light, talky, feel good, not serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot: culture clash, immigrant, deportation, mistaken identity, weed, adaptation, farce, twists and turns, fish out of water, misfit, interracial relations, false accusation, disorder, comedy of errors, dishonesty, transformation, chicano, escape, male female relationship, scam, happy ending, stoner, language barrier, immigration, best friend ...
Time: 80s
Place: mexico, los angeles, latin america, california, tijuana mexico
Keyword: american, mexican, gangsters, latin

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, light and not serious films with plots about disorder, misfit, society, fish out of water, dishonesty, nothing goes right and friends mostly in Comedy, Music and Crime genres. Some movies like Born in East L.A.: 3 Strikes (2000), Cedar Rapids (2011), Up in Smoke (1978), The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990), A Million to Juan (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Two brothers who can feel each others' pain and pleasure mess up the French revolution.
Style: slapstick, parody, humorous, spoof, independent film ...
Plot: marijuana, weed, stoner, twins, mistaken identity, love affair, buddy, cannabis, hippie, satire, napoleonic wars, pluto ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, 80s
Place: europe, france
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3 Strikes (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Brian Hooks plays a character who is just released from jail. And the state adopts a "3 strikes" rule for felons that involves serious penalties. Hooks has 2 strikes, and wants to change his life for the better. When a friend picks him up, ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, intense, light, not serious ...
Plot: hip hop, redemption, justice, going straight, starting over, comedy of errors, urban, partner, law enforcement, on the run, nothing goes right, heist ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, south central los angeles
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 6.3
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Cedar Rapids (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.
Style: funny, light, humorous, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot: insurance, friendship, justice, adultery, adaptation, dysfunctional family, greed, happy ending, life philosophy, road trip, friends, goofy hero ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: iowa, usa, minnesota, wisconsin
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 6.9
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Up in Smoke (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for possession of marijuana, Anthony ...
Style: funny, grindhouse, cult classic, laugh out loud, psychedelic ...
Plot: stoner, marijuana, weed, drug, rock and roll, buddy, road trip, satire, hippie, exploitation, chase, buddies ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1977
Place: los angeles, california, mexico, latin america, vietnam ...
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The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Carlos has failed in show-biz and currently works as a waiter in a Mexican restaurant. There he meets Alex and dumb footballer Bruce celebrating their engagement with her parents. Alex' father is less than thrilled of her fiancée and says ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: food, satire, erotica, restaurant, psycho, silly humor, disorder, couples, family relations, hidden identity, love and romance, misfit ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia
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100%
A Million to Juan (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Romantic comedy about an honest Mexican immigrant who struggles without a green card by selling oranges on a street corner. One day a limousine pulls up and he is handed a check for $1,000,000 with instructions that he is to give the check back in ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, slapstick
Plot: chicano, family relations, community, money, restaurant, immigrant, disorder, cons and scams, social differences, down on your luck, mistaken identity, rich and poor ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: mexico, los angeles, california, usa, latin america
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Still Smokin (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Cheech & Chong are invited to a celebrity party in Amsterdam. When they get there, however, it turns out that the guy who invited them has taken off with all the money. They are actually expecting Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton, so our ...
Style: not serious, realistic, witty, humorous, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: weed, stoner, drug, anti hero, mistaken identity, nothing goes right, misfit, goofy hero, disorder, fish out of water, drug abuse, partner ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: amsterdam, europe, netherlands, holland
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37%
Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Perennially stoned Cheech and Chong tear through the city of Los Angeles, causing trouble wherever they go. After Cheech loses his job, the two pot enthusiasts head to the welfare offices where Cheech's girlfriend, Donna, works. Instead of ...
Style: funny, grindhouse, humorous, psychedelic, laugh out loud ...
Audience: teens
Plot: weed, stoner, marijuana, drug, space and aliens, drug abuse, chicano, hippie, urban, satire, narcotics, cadet ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Get Out of My Room (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story: Get Out of My Room, was a mockumentary in the style of This Is Spinal Tap, written and directed by Cheech Marin. In the film, he and Tommy Chong are shown attempting to finish a "video album" for their novelty record Get Out of My Room.
Style: mockumentary, hispanic, independent film, realistic, not serious ...
Plot: stoner, weed, marijuana, buddy, drug, disorder, friends, showbiz, filmmaking, drug abuse, misfit, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, los angeles
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34%
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The Deported (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An Italian-American actor is deported to Mexico by some crooked INS Agents, and a pack of orphans helps him find his way back to America
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, realistic ...
Plot: orphan, friendship, gang, confined, mistaken identity, small town, immigrant, deportation, actor, comeback, boy, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, usa
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Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the ...
Style: parody, witty, humorous, entertaining, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hollywood, farce, racism, filmmaking, blaxploitation, black, prejudice, dark humor, storytelling, movie business, black history, misfit ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: california, usa
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33%
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Killer Bud (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After losing another job, two idiots embark on an adventure of mythic proportion: to acquire "Feed Bags," the discontinued entire-meal-in-a-bag, to impress their two equally dim-witted dates. When the only convenience store in town that ...
Style: not serious, humorous, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Plot: best friend, nothing goes right, buddies, partner, disorder, friends, misfit, society, social misfits, drug dealing, unemployment, heist ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Taking Care of Business (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.
Style: humorous, light, inspirational, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: prison, mistaken identity, baseball, cons and scams, unlikely friendships, fish out of water, disorder, dishonesty, misfit, nothing goes right, prison life, vengeance ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: chicago, los angeles, california, malibu california
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Trevor Noah: African American (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story: Internationally acclaimed comedian Trevor Noah challenges the status quo through his unique perspective, breaking down cultural flaws on all sides and finding our mutual connections with laughter. Born a mixed-race child in South Africa under ...
Style: light, captivating, feel good, independent film, talky ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, south africa, africa
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The Super (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Joe Pesci stars as Louie Kritski, a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge gives him another option, which he accepts -- he must live in his rat-infested hell ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, entertaining, clever ...
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Time: year 1991, 90s
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We Are the Nobles (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Tells the "riches to rags" story of the Nobles, three upper-class twenty-somethings that appear to have no limits to their checkbooks, and no direction in their lives. Until one day, their father tries to teach them a lesson by staging a ...
Style: humorous, not serious, entertaining, feel good, funny ...
Plot: slacker, fish out of water, life turned upside down, rags to riches, youth, society, disorder, materialism, siblings relations, adolescence vs adulthood, cons and scams, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico, mexico city
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30%
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 ⇓
30%
A Boss in the Living Room (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Cristina lives a peaceful life until her older brother Ciro, who has to attend a trial, asks to spend house arrests at Cristina’s home.
Style: not serious, humorous, light, feel good, realistic
Plot: hidden identity, life turned upside down, fish out of water, society, culture clash, misfit, family life, couple relations, family relations, dishonesty, couples, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
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30%
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Brain Donors (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Three manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run ...
Style: funny, humorous, witty, unusual plot structure, surreal ...
Plot: idiot, stupidity, chase, firefly, crazy, dumb, police corruption, buddy, ballet, dishonesty, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Walk of Shame (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A reporter's dream of becoming a news anchor is compromised after a one-night stand leaves her stranded in downtown L.A. without a phone, car, ID or money - and only 8 hours to make it to the most important job interview of her life.
Style: funny, humorous, teen, light, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
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Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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30%
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Irish Jam (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest with a tempting grand prize -- the deed to their local pub. But what could happen when a duplicitous ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, feel good, light, black comedy ...
Plot: friendship, culture clash, cons and scams, contests and competitions, rise to the top, on the run, disorder, village, love triangle, dishonesty, fall in love, ambition ...
Place: ireland, europe, usa, los angeles
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30%
Would I Lie to You? 2 (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Dans le quartier du Sentier, Eddie Vuibert, Dov et Yvan sont confrontés aux procédés pour le moins expéditifs de leur nouveau client, Eurodiscount, une chaîne européenne d'hypermarchés. Karine, lasse des turpitudes de son volage époux, ...
Style: realistic, humorous, not serious, feel good, light
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Time: year 2001
Place: france, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The nephew changes the name to the Hotel Rainbow and overbooks with royalty, assassins, secret agents, Japanese tourists, and munchkins (from ...
Style: light, funny, realistic, feel good, not serious ...
Plot: farce, mistaken identity, spy, espionage, hotel, secret service, assassin, secret agent, disorder, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, showbiz ...
Time: 80s, 1930s, year 1981, year 1938
Place: los angeles, california, usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Smiley Face (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jane (Anna Faris), a struggling but perpetually stoned actress, has a busy day ahead. She has several important tasks on her list, including buying more marijuana. Even though she already has a good start on the day's planned drug use, she eats ...
Style: surreal, humorous, stylized, talky, funny ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, venice california
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30%
The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Africa, Botswana, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a couple of soldiers trying to capture each other and a pilot ...
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, entertaining, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: culture clash, adventurer, farce, rescue, goofy hero, danger, nothing goes right, disorder, fish out of water, friendship, beautiful scenery, desert ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: africa, south africa, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Hustle (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, light, entertaining ...
Plot: gangster, partner, chases and races, crime gone awry, silly humor, friends, cons and scams, dishonesty, society, friendship, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Time: 21st century
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29%
Vive la France (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Muzafar and Feruz are two easy going shepherds from Taboulistan, a tiny country in Asia that is unknown to the rest of the world. To alert the world to his country’s existence, the son of Taboulistan’s president decides to instigate a program of ...
Style: not serious, humorous, funny, entertaining, light ...
Audience: family outing, boys' night, chick flick
Plot: nude beach, terrorism, fish out of water, culture clash, farce, partner, mistaken identity, goofy hero, nothing goes right, disorder, society, terrorist attack ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Kissing Cousins (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A "relatively" romantic comedy about a professional heartbreaker (and cynical bachelor) who teams up with his attractive cousin from the UK in order to fool his friends into believing he is capable of a relationship. Hijinks and laughs ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Aziz Ansari: Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story: Aziz Ansari presents his highly anticipated debut hour long stand-up special. The critically acclaimed stand-up and actor (Parks and Recreation, Funny People) discusses topics ranging from sheets with fraudulent thread counts to the chubbiness of ...
Style: witty, realistic, humorous, not serious, talky ...
Plot: stand up comedian, comedian, satire, ethnic humor, performer's life, religions or cults, stand up comedy, television, absurd humor, pop culture, joke, social satire ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Pope Must Diet (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and the reappearance of his old lover.
Style: humorous, not serious, witty, feel good, light ...
Plot: priest, comedy of errors, clergy, mistaken identity, disorder, religions or cults, dishonesty, atheism, pope, vatican, cons and scams, rebellion ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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