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The Ruling Class (1972)
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The Ruling Class (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 154 min.
Story: When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.
Style: surreal, dark comedy, humorous, satirical, disturbing, talky, black comedy, semi serious, psychological, cult classic ...
Plot: mental illness, religion, insanity, dysfunctional family, farce, country estate, split personality, misfit, couples, mistaken identity, disorder, religions or cults, jack the ripper, fighting the system, culture clash, husband wife relationship, lgbt, erotica, female nudity, faith, surrealism, mental disorder, spirituality, evil, morality ...
Time: 20th century, year 1972, 70s, victorian era
Place: britain, europe, england, london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, dark comedy and surreal films with plots about society, satire, surrealism, female nudity, death, dark humor and father son relationship mostly in Comedy, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Ruling Class: Four Lions (2010), The Acid House (1998), The Milky Way (1969), Songs from the Second Floor (2000), A Zed & Two Noughts (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Four Lions (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, funny, black comedy, surreal ...
Audience: adult
Plot: terrorism, suicide, stupidity, farce, recruit, comedy of errors, islam, bomb, religion, goofy hero, plan gone awry, team ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, britain, iraq, pakistan ...
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The Acid House (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: THE ACID HOUSE is a surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, dark comedy, disturbing, humorous ...
Plot: drug abuse, lsd, surrealism, god, rave, breast feeding, dark humor, transformation, infidelity, murder, family relations, vandalism ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Milky Way (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.
Style: surreal, spiritual, road movie, psychedelic, satirical ...
Plot: religion, surrealism, bible, satire, jesus christ, philosophy, jesus, anarchist, spirituality, religious, inquisition, drifter ...
Time: year 1969, 20th century, year 1964, 60s
Place: spain, paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many characters, among them a father and his mistress, his ...
Style: surreal, black comedy, art house, philosophical, talky ...
Plot: surrealism, loneliness, multiple storylines, dark humor, existentialism, insanity, poetry, religions or cults, human nature, worldwide chaos, nordic, obsession ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: russia, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a ...
Style: funny, parody, surreal, philosophical, spoof ...
Plot: satire, philosophy, monty python, surrealism, death, dark humor, existentialism, afterlife, social commentary, meaning of life, greed, gluttony ...
Time: year 1983, 19th century, 20th century, 1910s, 1870s ...
Place: london, england, europe, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving a car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large rare bird. His twin brother Oswald is researching how carcasses decay at the ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, dark comedy, erotic, black comedy ...
Plot: death, obsession, amputation, surrealism, grief, car accident, zoologist, bestiality, zoo, death of wife, brother brother relationship, absurdism ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
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34%
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8 ? Women (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: After the death of his wife, wealthy businessman Philip Emmenthal and his son Storey open their own private harem in their family residence in Geneva (they get the idea while watching Federico Fellini's 8½ and after Storey is "given" ...
Style: surreal, erotic, sexy, talky, clever ...
Plot: surrealism, sexual fantasy, nudity, erotica, lust, brothel, dialogue, bdsm, sex, death, obsession, prostitution ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place: switzerland, europe, japan, geneva switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 118 min.
Story: An ironic black comedy of love and death that takes place an a lyrically beautiful landscape. Three related women, all named Cissie Colpitts share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings. The local coroner is in love ...
Style: surreal, black comedy, dark comedy, art house, humorous ...
Plot: surrealism, drowning, friendship, murder, investigation, sex, satire, murder by drowning, murder mystery, coroner, mathematics, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Montenegro (1981)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she ...
Style: dark comedy, sexy, cult classic, surreal, humorous ...
Plot: mad woman, immigrant, male nudity, sexuality, erotica, dark humor, nudity, death, insanity, adultery, storytelling, blood ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: balkan, europe, stockholm sweden, former yugoslavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Holy Flying Circus (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A fantastical re-imagining of the events of 1979, when Monty Python made Life of Brian and the debate about what is an acceptable subject for comedy was blown wide open.
Style: surreal, clever, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: actor's life, clergy, religions or cults, society, artists and showbiz, friends, debate, religion, ignorance, blasphemy, christianity, television ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england, europe, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Viridiana (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
Style: controversial, black and white, surreal, art house, disturbing ...
Plot: religion, satire, dark humor, nun, catholic, morality, voyeurism, idealism, rape, loser, farm, priest ...
Time: year 1961, 20th century, 60s
Place: spain, madrid, europe
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31%
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Human Nature (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A philosophical burlesque, Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist, and the man they discover, born and raised in the wild. As scientist Nathan trains the wild man, Puff, in the ways of the world - ...
Style: surreal, humorous, philosophical, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: philosophy, farce, manners, fish out of water, surrealism, culture clash, disorder, hypocrisy, fall in love, misfit, society, odd couple ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem. Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right ...
Style: surreal, humorous, art house, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot: surrealism, satire, monk, sadomasochism, religion, society, greed, mistaken identity, visceral, estrangement, social decay, courtroom ...
Time: 20th century, year 1974, 70s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A portrait of the effects of schizophrenia on family life is the central focus.
Style: disturbing, art house, experimental, surreal, controversial ...
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, dysfunctional family, dogme 95, abusive father, dogma, surrealism, misfit, skating, extreme, male nudity, eccentricity ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa, alabama
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30%
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Orphans (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The star of Ken Loach's MY NAME IS JOE, Mullan proves that his talent isn't relegated to acting. As a writer/director, he has crafted a supremely entertaining motion picture. ORPHANS tells the grittily realistic, hysterical, and deeply ...
Style: emotional, intense, surreal, dark comedy, touching ...
Plot: disability, dysfunctional family, moral ambiguity, children, british, existentialism, justice, segregation, siblings relations, depression, brutality, death in the family ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Tommy (1975)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.
Style: surreal, cult classic, stylized, visual, clever ...
Plot: rock and roll, surrealism, music, rock, rock opera, dancing, social commentary, trippy, musician, deaf, satire, misfit ...
Time: year 1975, post world war two
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.5
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Withnail & I (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, cult classic, art house ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, addiction, poverty, alcohol abuse, great dialogue, drug, great ending, eccentricity, melancholy, dialogue, cat, gay ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, year 1987, 20th century
Place: england, london, britain, northern england, europe
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29%
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The Infidel (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Based in a London suburb Mahmud Nasir lives with his wife, Saamiya, and two children, Rashid and Nabi. His son plans to marry Uzma, the step-daughter of Egyptian-born Arshad Al-Masri, a so-called 'Hate Cleric' from Waziristan, Pakistan. ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, surreal ...
Plot: satire, culture clash, muslim, hijab, taxi driver, self discovery, social differences, adoption, society, dark humor, rabbi, religions or cults ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, middle east, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Style: surreal, disturbing, talky, atmospheric, humorous ...
Plot: surrealism, high society, social commentary, dream, satire, dinner, adultery, farce, social satire, bourgeoisie, dark humor, decadence ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Being There (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
Style: political, thought provoking, philosophical, surreal, clever ...
Plot: politics, comedy of errors, lawyer, impotence, satire, president, fish out of water, wealth, secret service, innocence, television, eviction ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., north carolina, usa
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28%
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A Serious Man (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Serious Man is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, philosophical, ironic, cynical ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, professor, rabbi, teacher, suburban life, divorce, marijuana, religion, mysticism, life, neighbor ...
Time: year 2009, 60s, 2000s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: minnesota, usa, poland, bolivia, israel ...
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27%
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding.
Style: surreal, touching, sentimental, compassionate, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: transvestism, transgender, gay slur, gay, transsexual, gender, adoption, coming of age, gender bending, lgbt, priest, ira ...
Time: 70s, year 2005, 20th century, 60s
Place: ireland, england, europe, big ben london, london
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26%
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Morgan! (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, ...
Style: independent film, cynical, biting, witty, cult classic ...
Plot: gorilla, divorce, skeleton, political satire, class differences, marxism, disguise, marriage, obsession, satire, swing, eccentricity ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: england, london, europe, united kingdom, wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Naked (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Johnny flees Manchester for London, to avoid a beating from the family of a girl he has raped. There he finds an old girlfriend, and spends some time homeless, spending much of his time ranting at strangers, and meeting characters in plights very ...
Style: disturbing, talky, compassionate, realistic, philosophical ...
Audience: adult
Plot: existentialism, sexual abuse, drifter, humiliation, nihilism, rape, alienation, voyeurism, sexual humiliation, rough sex, rapist, secrets ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: london, england, europe, united kingdom, manchester
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24%
 7.7
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Adam's Apples (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.
Style: dark comedy, surreal, humorous, black comedy, psychological ...
Plot: church, priest, religion, funeral, skinhead, racial slur, belief, cynic, prejudice, disability, existentialism, good versus evil ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: denmark, europe, saudi arabia, indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.0
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A Wedding (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli Italian connection is suspect, security guards watch the gifts rather ...
Style: humorous, stylized, funny, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: wedding, dysfunctional family, satire, female nudity, death, drinking, families, hidden treasure, best friend, love, family relations, bishop ...
Time: year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Cousin Bette (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds ...
Style: light, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: infidelity, slut, adultery, manipulation, dysfunctional family, family relations, love, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, love triangle, love affair ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, victorian era
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed. A shop clerk fixates on a TV news reader while he builds a machine to ...
Style: surreal, experimental, sexy, dark comedy, psychedelic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, erotica, masturbation, fetish, dark humor, satire, food, sexual relations, stop motion, sex scene, forbidden love, sexual content ...
Time: year 1996
Place: czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.4
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Man Bites Dog (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and ...
Style: dark comedy, mockumentary, black comedy, disturbing, black and white ...
Plot: serial killer, rape, murder, brutality, found footage, gory, society, satire, rape and revenge, manipulation, macabre, visceral ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place: europe, brussels, belgium, brussels belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Rock My World (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When a rock band at the top of their game suddenly loses their leader, their direction suddenly becomes questionable. All the band members know is that the leader's clothes were found at the edge of a waterfront and he had not been seen since. ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: culture clash, musician, society, music band, artists and showbiz, friends, love and romance, misfit, disorder, power relations, fish out of water, social differences ...
Time: year 2002
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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