Best movies like The Wise Guy
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Plot Summary:
Alekos (Dinos Iliopoulos) is in love with Voula (Maria Voulgari) whose brother threatens to kill him if he doesn't marry her soon. Alekos' father (Pantelis Zervos) on the other hand insists that Alekos' sister (Zoe Laskari) has to get married before him. His sister Annoula (Zoe Laskari) is in love with Antonis (Stephanos Stratigos) and pressures him to ask for her hand in marriage from her family. Antonis meets Alekos by accident at a cafe in Panorama - they don't know each other - and advises him to use the infalible method of "escaping through an engagement" to calm down Voula's brother. This is after all what he intends to do himself... And God help them.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: romantic
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The Bait (1964)
Plot Summary:
Α crook turns a cabaret girl into a fine lady to use her as bait for his victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Throbs at the Desk (1963)
Plot Summary:
Lisa is a student, pretending the sick not to go to school. Her parents are worried about her health and call the doctor to examine her. He realizes her lies but he covers her. Soon, they fall in love and eventually get married. However, after the honeymoon she begins to yearn school and her classmates and she returns to it without saying anything to her husband. Soon, her husband begins to suspect her because of her frequent absences from home and her secret meetings with the professor seem to confirm his suspicions.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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Joy and Tears (1970)
Plot Summary:
A carefree young man, Alekos, son of shipowner Venier, meets a poor girl, Christina, who makes the clown in a small circus. Christina does not tell Aleko the truth about her work, and when an unexpected episode forces her to return to the circus, Alekos begins to seek her everywhere and quickly finds her. She proposes to marry her and take her to London to meet her father. But Alekos is already engaged with a rich girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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A Bachelor's Pad For Ten (1981)
Plot Summary:
To make some easy money, Stamatis rents Chroni's house to his womanizer boss Soultanoglou but also to his other boss's wife, Dora, who decided to cheat on her husband ... So, Chroni's house turns into a double love nest for cheating couples, without him having any clue.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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Bang-Bang Wedding! (2008)
Plot Summary:
Elias and Marina arrive in Crete to join their lives in the holy bonds of marriage, friends and family that are waiting and how! The marriage is celebrated regularly and all are preparing to celebrate but their fate surprises A small but significant error in the invitation will send them all to ... five cardinal points and will make its way to the wedding party ... a mad march into the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 971
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, light, feel good, road movie
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Marriage... Greek Style (1964)
Plot Summary:
Mina is dreaming of becoming a painter and Petros works in a company. They meet and fall in love during the carnival, but later lose contact. They meet again without recognizing each other and eventually get married. However they have no idea how hard marriage is.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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He's a Mad Mad Veggos (1965)
Plot Summary:
When Thanassis leaves the orphanage tries to do various jobs but with no consolidates. A private detective manages to find his father who is rich. Thanasis will move into his luxurious house but there will come other problems.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Teddy Boy My Love (1965)
Plot Summary:
Two young lovers are discovering that the widowed parents keep hidden bond and plan to marry soon Life, salesman dream and consumer goods of our civilization, will enter the life Asimaki, a benevolent and middle-aged widower chromatopoli, having neglected himself caring about life and rehabilitation of children.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Balkanisateur (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two friends from a small Greek town travel to Bulgaria and Switzerland, hoping they can gain money from the difference in foreign exchange rates.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Greece, Bulgaria, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: road movie
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My friend Lefterakis (1963)
Plot Summary:
Theodoros in order to be able to go out with his occasional lovers, he "invented" a non-existent friend from Patras, Lefterakis, and use him as an alibi in wife Fofo. When one day arrives at home, quite suddenly, the non-existent friend Lefterakis Tsampardis, Theo will welcome him with surprise and terror.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Eftyhos... trellathika! (1961)
Plot Summary:
Charilaos Maraziotis (Nikos Stavridis) is a shopkeeper who owes the whole market and is in danger of going to jail, both because of his creditors and because of IKA and the tax administration. Iro is his secretary and fiancee, because she is poor, decides to make a rich marriage with an arrangement. The mid-person is Antigone, who wants to get Charilaos to marry her half-sister, Ismene, who is in love with her peer-to-peer Thanos. Iro and Ismene, who have learned about Charilaos' plans, conspire to prevent unwanted developments. Charilaos is forced to portray the madman and closes himself in a freak. His lenders, once informed that they are crazy, change their attitude towards them, they are promised and relieved of their debts, thus escaping the prison and marrying Iro.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mad
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Female Company (1999)
Plot Summary:
A woman's company, with women of high society of a small greek town is doing everything to have sex with the first male they can find.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 864
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min
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Mermaids for Love (1968)
Plot Summary:
Petros, a race car driver and son of a construction mogul, hears about an island with promising business opportunities. He tells his father, they have to buy land there but Flora, a night club owner also learns about it and arrives at the island before him. Their competition disturbs the peaceful lives of the island's residents. Marina, the daughter of the local restaurant owner falls in love with Petros while Flora charms the men of the island and especially Nicolas, causing his fiance's jealousy. She on the other hand falls for Iasonas, the son of the island's Lady who worries about the outcome of these events.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Our Love (1968)
Plot Summary:
An usherette in a theatre, where a distinguished and popular actor performs, gets her big break when the leading actress has an accident. The director decides to take advantage of the heretofore unexploited talent of the girl and asks her to replace the leading actress. This unexpected opportunity transforms her from a humble usherette into a shining star. Later on, she wins the heart of the leading actor with whom she was secretly in love. However, her sudden rise to theatrical-musical stardom creates complications in their love affair, as her companion sinks into disappointment and drowns himself in drink, abandoning his career. Nevertheless, the usherette/leading actress doesn't give up; She looks for him, finds him and supports him, psychologically and morally, until he makes a comeback to the stage and their love nest.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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My Daughter, the Socialist (1966)
Plot Summary:
Liza falls in love with one of her father's employees. Her socialistic ideas about employment drive her to collide with her father and the sociopolitical status of the time.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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The Blue Beads from Greece (1967)
Plot Summary:
A feud develops between a taverna with bouzoukia and a club next door that plays modern music.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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The King of Gaffes (1962)
Plot Summary:
A very clever detective is on a mission to find a shipowner's daughter, having as a sole research element a mole on the girl's buttock.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: detective
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Apollo Goes on Holiday (1968)
Plot Summary:
Prince Jan is spying on beautiful tour guide Elena from his helicopter while touring Greece. He escapes from his entourage and joins the girl's group, posing as a humble visitor. The two fall in love, but Prince Jan, knowing that he has duties and responsibilities to his country, leaves her, never revealing his true identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece, Sweden
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Something Hot (1964)
Plot Summary:
During an International Trade Fair at Thessaloniki, a mature woman, Rena (Martha Karagianni), goes there with her sister to convince her childhood friend Dinos (Dinos Iliopoulos) to have a "white wedding" so that she can inherit a large estate. Dinos though, does not accept because even though he is actually a womanizer he acts as a shy and modest man around people. Everyone there will meet a group of musicians and one of them will fall in love with the daughter of the strict manager of the company Dinos works for who is accompanied by Dinos. At some point, everyone goes to Athens where things get more complicated untill everyone finds his perfect match. In the end Rena gets her inheritance and all together they perform a musical play in a grand theater.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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My Kuya's Wedding (2007)
Plot Summary:
Inseparable as siblings, Jeff and Kat grew up very close to each other through thick and thin. Kat being overzealous and very wary of girls who likes her brother Jeff. Her Kuya simply means the world to her. Years later, Kat is all grown-up and lovely, and soon awaits her Kuyas return after four years of hard work from abroad. But all this excitement of a sibling reunion is foiled at the airport upon sight of Heidi, Kats worst nightmare and her brothers fiancée. Fueled with envy, Kat embarks on an all-out scheme to pull out all the stops to their impending wedding with the help of her gay bestfriend of all seasons. However, as Kat schemes to freeze the marital icing off her siblings cake, she finds herself falling for the charms of an evicted reality show superstar - Aris who happens to be Heidis brother. As she desperately clings to her last semblance of family, her Kuya Jeff, will Kat be able to stop this bridezilla from snatching away her only Kuya in her life?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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The Baldheaded Agent and the Land of Destruction Mission (1969)
Plot Summary:
Undercover cop takes to find and restore a rich girl who ran away from home.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie, slapstick comedy, hilarious, funny, eurospy
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Love Me Not? (1989)
Plot Summary:
Spying a lissome young woman standing topless on a nearby balcony, Giorgos (Andreas Barcoulis) climbs up onto a nearby rooftop to get a better look. At a critical moment in his climb, his family and friends call out to him and he falls, suffering a terrible blow to the head. Ineed, at the hospital, the family is told that he is brain dead, and that if they like, his heart can be given to someone else as a transplant. Giorgos' grieving wife (Betty Livanou) agrees to this arrangement. The film now follows the recipient of the dead man's heart (Giorgos Constas), as he wanders all over Greece, driven by his newly lusty heart into the arms of many beautiful women. Eventually he is led to the one woman his new heart truly loved, Giorgios' wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Oi 900 tis Marinas (1961)
Plot Summary:
In a countryside village, a veteran politician, Damalas, and a young attorney, Ntinos, son of the village doctor, are rivals in the upcoming elections. Main controller of the political dispute is the all-powerful president of the village, Spyros Dalengos, who affects 900 of the inhabitants. The power acquired by those 900 people is the only dowry of his daughter Marina, who is in love with Ntinos. He has fallen for her to, but his conscience doesn't allow him to accept the unrighteous deal offered by Dalengios, who, after that, decides to support Damalas. However, Marina secretly changes the ballots handed out by her father's men, granting victory to her beloved, who goes straight to ask her to marry him, certain that he won thanks to his own abilities and effort.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Kill Me If You Dare (2019)
Plot Summary:
Kill Me Darling is the story of a couple who decide to kill each other. Okan and Demet are married couple for 5 years. However, despite their years together, their relationship is not very good. The love of the two started like a fairy tale, continued with great excitement and reached a happy end. However, as their lives began to become ordinary after marriage, that sense of excitement within the couple began to die. At the end of 5 years, they become overwhelmed by each other. Even though they want different lives, the young couple, who cannot express it and start to become nervous to each other without making a sound, become a victim of a great misunderstanding on their wedding anniversary. As a result of the mistake, the husband and wife of 5 years decide to kill each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, light, romantic, romantic comedy
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The Blonde Around the Corner (1984)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed astrophysicist finds a job of a docker at a grocery store, where he falls in love with a street-wise saleswoman in the produce department. But the groom runs away at the wedding reception.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, romantic, humorous, captivating
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The Taming of the Shrewd (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a heartbroken scientist moves back home to start over, her scheming brother hires a handsome stranger to convince her to sell their land.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing
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License to Wed (2007)
Plot Summary:
Newly engaged, Ben and Sadie can't wait to start their life together and live happily ever after. However Sadie's family church's Reverend Frank won't bless their union until they pass his patented, "foolproof" marriage prep course consisting of outrageous classes, outlandish homework assignments and some outright invasion of privacy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy, light, funny, realistic, cute, hilarious, teen, humorous, stylized
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Overboard (2018)
Plot Summary:
A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee. A remake of the 1987 comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, light, funny, feel good, romantic comedy, sweet, entertaining, soap opera, neo screwball comedy
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You Again (2010)
Plot Summary:
History -- make that high school -- may repeat itself when Marni learns that Joanna, the mean girl from her past, is set to be her sister-in-law. Before the wedding bells toll, Marni must show her brother that a tiger doesn't change its stripes. On Marni's side is her mother, while Joanna's backed by her wealthy aunt.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy, light, teen, melancholic, humorous, not serious, slapstick, inspirational, sweet
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Wedding Season (2022)
Plot Summary:
Pressured by their immigrant parents to find spouses, two Indian-Americans pretend to date in order to survive a summer of weddings – but find themselves falling for each other as they struggle to balance who they are with who their parents want them to be.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious