Movies like Ariel

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Ariel (1988)
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Ariel (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Taisto Kasurinen is a Finnish coal miner whose father has just committed suicide and who is framed for a crime he did not commit. In jail, he starts to dream about leaving the country and starting a new life. He escapes from prison but things don't go as planned...
Style: dark comedy, art house, road movie, humorous, witty, stylized, black comedy, clever, offbeat, realistic ...
Plot: on the road, fall in love, minimal dialogue, suicide, unemployment, marriage, social commentary, prison, prisoner, revolution, chaos, loser, entertainment, outlaw, nordic, escape, underdog, factory worker, helsinki, finland, strong sexual content, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, down on your luck, false accusation ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century, future
Place: finland, europe, eastern europe, helsinki finland
Keyword: mix up, gangsters, dreams

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Most similar movies to Ariel

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and dark comedy films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, dishonesty, police, friendship and dark humor mostly in Comedy, Crime and Romance genres. Some movies like Ariel: Shadows in Paradise (1986), The Man Without a Past (2002), The Bohemian Life (1992), I Hired a Contract Killer (1990), The Match Factory Girl (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Shadows in Paradise (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 74 min.
Story: An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.
Style: art house, dark comedy, contemplative, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: love letter, nordic, revolution, chaos, hopes, friendship, dating, helsinki, finland, salesman, love and romance, redemption, couple relations ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: europe, estonia, helsinki finland, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 62 min.
Story: Lugubrious Finns Valto and Reino take to the road in search of coffee and vodka, without which their lives are not worth living. But their reveries are interrupted by the arrival of garrulous Russian Klaudia and Estonian Tatiana - who are clearly ...
Style: road movie, black and white, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: on the road, coffee, nordic, summer, social satire, misfit, hitchhiker, dark humor, social relations, estrangement, couples, friends ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century, 60s
Place: europe, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
The Man Without a Past (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job ...
Style: bleak, satirical, black comedy, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: poverty, memory loss, amnesia, generosity, friendship, robbery, eccentricity, starting over, couple relations, haunted by the past, financial problem, family relations ...
Time: year 2002, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: estonia, europe, helsinki finland, north korea, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Bohemian Life (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, France, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
Style: black and white, dark comedy, cerebral, spiritual, art house ...
Plot: painter, painting, art, artist, writers, friendship, eviction, composer, artists' life, spirituality, classical music, comedian ...
Time: year 1992, 20th century, 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden, Germany, France, UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story: After fifteen years' service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide, but can't go through with it, so he hires a contract killer in a seedy bar to murder him at some unspecified time in the future. ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, surreal, neo noir, semi serious ...
Plot: killer, assassin, stream of consciousness, professional, loner, loneliness, bittersweet, dull life, dark humor, down on your luck, change of luck, nothing goes right ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: england, london, europe, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 69 min.
Story: Iris (Kati Outinen) has a soul-deadening job as a quality-control worker watching boxes of matches go by on an assembly line all day. At night, she eats silently with her dour mother (Elina Salo) and stepfather (Esko Nikkari). One weekend, wearing ...
Style: bleak, serious, art house, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot: working class, loneliness, murder, character study, redemption, pregnancy, parent child relationship, mother daughter relationship, unwanted pregnancy, young woman, bullying, revenge ...
Time: 80s, year 1990, 90s, year 1989
Place: finland, helsinki finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.
Style: humorous, hilarious, romantic comedy, witty, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, family friendly
Plot: mafia, mistaken identity, fish out of water, marriage proposal, fbi, family relations, comedy of errors, fall in love, love and romance, dishonesty, couples, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, kansas city
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.7
 55K
Down by Law (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Style: independent film, road movie, black and white, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot: prison, friendship, prison escape, on the road, pimp, swamp, misfit, fight, character study, gangster, crime gone awry, escape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Train Birds (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Crime
Country: Germany, Finland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Hannes is a beer-truck driver in Dortmund. His biggest dream is to win the first prize at the International Time-Table Contest in Inari (Finland). When his new boss cancels his extra holidays to go there, Hans goes mad... On his journey to Finland ...
Style: road movie, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: chess, truck driver, police investigation, chase, detective inspector, lapland, photographic memory, suspicion of murder, social relations, dark humor, love and romance, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: finland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Drifting Clouds (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tram driver Lauri looses his job. Shortly later, the restaurant where his wife Ilona works as a headwaitress is closed. Too proud, to receive money from the social welfare system, they hardly try to find new jobs. But they are completely unlucky and ...
Style: dark comedy, realistic, touching, uplifting, inspirational ...
Plot: unemployment, labor, working class, waitress, gourmet, employment, loser, social injustice, food, psychology, entertainment, minimalism ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: finland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.2
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Lucky Break (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which he can probably escape. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to ...
Style: intense, semi serious, feel good, humorous, talky ...
Plot: prison, buddies, moral ambiguity, prison life, confined, fall in love, cons and scams, social worker, friendship, stage play, jail, coming of age ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Take the Money and Run (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The life and times of Virgil Starkwell, inept bank robber.
Style: mockumentary, humorous, clever, witty, funny ...
Plot: prison, robbery, heist, fighting the system, goofy hero, couples, petty criminal, unlikely criminals, misfit, couple relations, hapless, cons and scams ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, 50s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place: persia, turkey, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Blood and Concrete (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A dimwitted thug encounters a strung-out, suicidal young woman and an unlikely relationship develops as they work together to make a break for new horizons.
Style: thinking, independent film, semi serious, realistic, surreal ...
Plot: gay, mafia, interracial, criminal, hard rock, drug dealing, gay subtext, lgbt, murder, heist, love affair, rock ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Married to the Mob (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affair with the mistress of mob boss Tony "The Tiger" Russo, Angela and her son depart ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, feel good, witty ...
Plot: starting over, murder, gangster, hitman, organized crime, fbi agent, fbi, betrayal, harassment, surveillance, mobster, mafia ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, new york, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Finnish musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.
Style: road movie, humorous, funny, satirical, light ...
Plot: music, road trip, rock and roll, music business, music band, career, family relations, artists and showbiz, siblings relations, dream, dancing, rock band ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: usa, mexico, russia, finland, new orleans ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Feeling Minnesota (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sam Clayton's (Vincent D'Onofrio) marriage to ex-stripper Freddie (Cameron Diaz) comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red (Delroy Lindo), a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with ...
Style: dark comedy, independent film, black comedy, talky, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, corruption, murder, gangster, wedding, love triangle, stripper, family relations, elopement, motel, presumed dead, framed for murder ...
Time: 90s
Place: minnesota, las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.
Style: romantic, feel good, witty, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lawyer, battle of the sexes, opposites attract, infidelity, love at first sight, marriage, divorce, manipulation, screwball, dishonesty, adultery, farce ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Arthur (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Arthur is the most quotable drunk millionaire that is likely to ever steal your heart. Dudley Moore portrays Arthur, a thirty year old child who will inherit 750 million dollars if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of ...
Style: funny, romantic comedy, slapstick, witty, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: love, alcoholic, alcoholism, butler, addiction, culture clash, screwball, fall in love, bittersweet, drunk, true love, grief ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.3
 10K
Happy, Texas (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two escaped convicts roll into the village of Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for a gay couple who work as beauty pageant consultants. They go along with it to duck the police, but the local sheriff has a secret of his own.
Style: humorous, clever, witty, independent film, dark comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, small town, pretending to be gay, mistaken identity, beauty pageant, farce, lgbt, fish out of water, bank robbery, lgbtqi, glbt, outlaw ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Worthless (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.
Style: road movie
Plot: love letter, drifter, outsider, ex-lover, on the run, underground, nature, circus, on the road, runaway, helicopter, ex girlfriend ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: helsinki finland, paris france, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 ...
Style: humorous, exciting, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Plot: fall in love, nothing goes right, love and romance, doctor, death, police, wedding, hitman, vigilante, police dog, dark humor, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.6
 3K
The Fortune (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them . Not even murder.
Style: dark comedy, semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous ...
Plot: snake, legal, love triangle, chase, couple relations, crumbling marriage, love and romance, buddies, unfulfillment, opposites attract, dishonesty, celebrity culture ...
Time: year 1975, 1920s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, long beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Movie in collections
 6.7
 30K
Stir Crazy (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a ...
Style: funny, humorous, witty, feel good, laugh out loud ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, buddy, wrongful conviction, injustice, convict, cell mate, prison escape, lawyer, partner, on the road, jail, black ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.3
 149K
Raising Arizona (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The Coen Brothers tell the story of a absurd yet likable family with an unproductive couple as the focal point. The couple has gotten themselves into some trouble while kidnapping a baby and give Hollywood one of the most memorable chase scenes to ...
Style: witty, humorous, funny, dark comedy, surreal ...
Audience: kids, toddlers, family outing
Plot: kidnapping, screwball, baby, robbery, adoption, american football, parenthood, missing child, policewoman, crime gone awry, redemption, blackmail ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: arizona, usa, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.1
 50K
Extract (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The owner of a factory that produces flavor extracts, Joel Reynold seems to have it all, but really doesn't. What's missing is sexual attention from his wife, Suzie. Joel hatches a convoluted plan to get Suzie to cheat on him, thereby ...
Style: humorous, funny, satirical, talky, melancholic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: business, workplace, infidelity, gigolo, crime gone awry, disorder, family problems, workplace situations, unsupportive coworkers, friends, nothing goes right, boss and employee ...
Time: year 2009, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Black Cat, White Cat (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Austria, Greece
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17 year old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so ...
Style: surreal, art house, funny, dark comedy, witty ...
Plot: gypsy, magic realism, music, dark humor, surrealism, gangster, wedding, corruption, debt, european, ethnic, drinking ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: serbia, balkan, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.1
 318
On the Run (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Portugal, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is permanently disrupted. what ensues is one long, crazy night ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, biting, cynical ...
Plot: escape, vampire, friendship, on the run, fugitives, chases and races, nothing goes right, city life, prison, urban, dark humor, friends ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Life Without Dick (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: By accident, Colleen Gibson shoots and kills her gold-digging cheating boyfriend, Dick, a private eye who happens to have a hitman on his tail. Danny the hitman works for his brother-in-law, a cheerful but nasty Irish mobster, hasn't actually ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, light ...
Plot: couples, disorder, cons and scams, love and romance, private detective, dishonesty, criminal heroes, dangerous attraction, mob boss, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, talk show host, hitman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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