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Parting Shots (1998)
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Parting Shots (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is told that he has only three months to live due to him getting cancer. After thinking things over he decides that since he is dying anyway that he will kill or destroy all the people that has ever crossed or hurt him during his entire life. So Parting Shots becomes literally the shots fired by Harry when he knows he is parting this earth. After all, he will be dead anyway long before he can come to trial and get his just desserts from society. Harry even falls in love with Jill and hires an assassin to kill him in style. However there is just one small problem with Harry's master plan - the cancer diagnosis is totally inaccurate and now he's got a hitman on his trail and several policemen want to talk to him over some murders...
Style: humorous, exciting, entertaining, light, captivating, action comedy, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot: fall in love, nothing goes right, love and romance, police, death, doctor, wedding, hitman, police dog, vigilante, dark humor, rivalry, crumbling marriage, love, sex, dog, horse, swat team, serial killer, revenge, children, money, train, investigation, food ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and independent film films with plots about love and romance, kiss, couples, sex, drinking, telephone call and husband wife relationship mostly in Comedy, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Parting Shots: Nurse Betty (2000), Bank Robber (1993), Shooting Fish (1997), Intermission (2003), Oyster Farmer (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Nurse Betty (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, light, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: happy ending, murder, medical, psychology, hospital, memory loss, delusion, losing-it hero, obsessive quest, road trip, mental illness, killer ...
Time: y2k, 90s, 20th century
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Bank Robber (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After robbing a bank, the robber hides out from the police in a seedy hotel where he is forced to bribe various tennants for protection as well as their silence which becomes more difficult as greed takes over and the people demand more exuberant ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, entertaining, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: hotel, disorder, nothing goes right, dishonesty, heist, bank robber, blackmail, money, friendship, police, motel, bank robbery ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
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Shooting Fish (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Two con artists (Dan Futterman, Stuart Townsend) hire an unwitting medical-school student (Kate Beckinsale) as a secretary for their latest scam.
Style: romantic, clever, witty, smart, black comedy ...
Plot: con men, business, chase, dishonesty, cons and scams, computer, gambling, fraud, sex doll, doll, wedding, money ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: london, new york
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Intermission (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, touching, witty, melancholic ...
Plot: infidelity, justice, unlikely friendships, multiple storylines, eccentricity, couple relations, heist, love and romance, caper, existentialism, gangster, profanity ...
Time: year 2003
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
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Oyster Farmer (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot: fall in love, food, love affair, fish out of water, love triangle, couple relations, lovers on the run, society, love and romance, unlikely criminals, human nature, working class ...
Place: australia, sydney australia
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, Switzerland, UK, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of a middle-aged bookshop owner, who becomes embroiled in a surreal swirl of romance and family secrets of infidelity, her energy levels registering in bursts of electrical interference - causing lightbulbs, traffic lights, toasters and ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, melancholic, tense ...
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Plot: true love, infidelity, family relations, looking for love, midlife crisis, family life, couples, hopes, unlikely couple, unfulfillment, love affair, parents and children ...
Place: italy, europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
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Bulgarian Lovers (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A straight-laced Spanish man falls in love with a young foreigner.
Style: semi serious, sexy, humorous, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot: gay, gay erotica, male nudity, gay husband, infidelity, love affair, gay lead character, lgbt, dangerous attraction, male pubic hair, wedding, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
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Keeping Mum (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair and his children are up to no good.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, witty, light, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: murder, dysfunctional family, serial killer, family problems, religion, insanity, village, family values, clergy, small town, lust, church ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: england
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Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
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Style: funny, dark comedy, black comedy, dramatic, light ...
Plot: heist, zoophilia, manipulation, femme fatale, satire, eternal love, robbery, hustler, outlaw, mission, swindle, diamond ...
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Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
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Time: year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
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Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
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18%
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18%
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Made of Honor (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
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Get Charlie Tully (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Muggers (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
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Duration: 97 min.
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Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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