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Porterhouse Blue (1987)
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Porterhouse Blue (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story: In late-'80s Britain, Porterhouse College Cambridge is an anachronism, its students uniformly male and (in the vast number of cases) privately educated. When the incumbent Master dies (from a stroke brought on by overeating) the government revenges itself on Porterhouse by appointing as his successor an old graduate, the politician Sir Godber Evans. One of the tiny minority of state-school students the college has had forced on it over the years, Evans returns to his alma mater determined to drag this bastion of privilege into the twentieth century. The elderly academic staff cease their bickering and close ranks against him, but the new Master finds his most implacable and unscrupulous opponent in Skullion, the college porter.
Style: thought provoking, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense
Plot: college, satire, school, youth, teachers and students, student life, college life, reform, hopes, state affairs, power relations, older woman younger man relationship, variety
Time: 80s
Place: england, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and witty films and TV series with plots about satire, british humour, workplace situations, workplace, power relations, society and humour mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Porterhouse Blue: The Utopian Society (2003), Yes, Prime Minister (1986), Campus Ladies (2006), Yes Minister (1980), A Very Peculiar Practice (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Utopian Society (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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Time: 21st century
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Campus Ladies (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Campus Ladies is an American sitcom that premiered on Oxygen on January 8, 2006. It stars Christen Sussin and Carrie Aizley as two 40-something women who decide to go enroll at the fictional University of the Midwest. The humor comes from the ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Place: england, britain, united kingdom, europe
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A Very Peculiar Practice (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health Centre, but has to cope with an eccentric set of colleagues.
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Coming of Age (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A frank look into the outrageous world of a group of sixth form students living in Abingdon as they enjoy a final romp with adolescence.
Style: touching, sitcom, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: teens
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Duration: 30 min.
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Dead Ringers (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Dead Ringers is a United Kingdom radio and television comedy impressions show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and later BBC Two. The programme was devised by producer Bill Dare and developed with Jon Holmes, Andy Hurst and Simon Blackwell. It starred Jon ...
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Duration: 30 min.
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TV show
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Country: UK
Duration: 23 min.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Country: UK
Duration: 70 min.
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Country: Germany
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TV show
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
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TV show
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50%
Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe is a British television review programme created and presented by Charlie Brooker. It is the most recent addition to Brooker's Wipe series, and the first to be broadcast in HD. The programme is an amalgam of ...
Style: realistic, humorous, talky, clever, cynical ...
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LateLine (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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50%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
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TV show
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Genre: Comedy
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Time: 80s
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