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Local Dog (2016)
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Original name: كلب بلدي
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A comedy movie revolves around a thief who steals street dogs and sell them, oddly he learned this profession from a female dog, who breastfed him when he was a baby, which led him to acquire a supernatural powers.
Style:
funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, detective, slapstick, surreal, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
dog, satire, investigation, crime investigation, police investigation, detective inspector, crime solving, uncover truth, theft, friendship, orphan, street life, urban, abandonment, surrogate family, police operation, heist, irreverent, identity, gangster, social commentary, underworld, anti hero, arab, supernatural ...
Time:
2010s, contemporary
Place:
egypt, cairo egypt
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, satirical, semi serious and entertaining films with plots about satire, urban, social commentary, corruption, friendship, identity and irreverent mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like Local Dog: H Dabbour (2008), We Have the Following News (2001), Morgan Ahmed Morgan (2007), Mama's Boy (2018), Fit In With The App (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Film is in the form of satire, movie review the crises facing the Egyptian people, particularly the suffering of the popular classes . Belongs "Haitham Daboor" Ahmed Mekki, a rich family, cares about trivial matters Fashion and multiple ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, semi serious, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
arab, satire, working class, corruption, social commentary, class conflict, injustice, economic inequality, father son relationship, father and son, intrigue, framed for a crime ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
egypt
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Nader saif eldeen and Afet elsherbiny are two competing Egyptians newspaper reporters who expose the truth but the Channel Manager rejects that for fear of government.
Style:
satirical, captivating, humorous, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
journalism, political satire, satire, humour, reporter, news reporter, female journalist, journalist, investigation, social commentary, corruption, urban ...
Place:
egypt, cairo egypt
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Morgan, who is an uneducated very rich man, is used to buy everything he wants. Now the one thing we wants is a college certificate which he seeks to buy.
Style:
feel good, captivating, semi serious, satirical, light hearted ...
Plot:
education, satire, billionaire, wealth, college, materialism, personal growth, university, rich man, rich, campus, illiteracy ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
cairo egypt, middle east
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A comedy about a gang leader ( Chico ) who gets into a fight and is seriously injured, after which he is transferred to the hospital in a critical condition where he needs a heart transplant. At the same time, the mother of another young man ( ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, captivating, funny, satirical ...
Plot:
heart transplant, gang leader, satire, mother, arab, motherhood, organ transplant, bandit, gangster boss, mafioso, lifestyle, mob boss ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After two failed deliveries, a pair of motorcycle taxi drivers must recover the goods they lost for any hope of financially assisting their families.
Style:
humorous, satirical, feel good, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
loan shark, heist, working class, problem, escapades, satire, lifestyle, theft, jewel robbery, criminal, driver, jewel theft ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
63%
477
Genre: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sino and Mo are detectives use unorthodox methods to solve crimes.
Style:
detective, semi serious, entertaining, satirical, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, drug smuggling, crime investigation, homicide detective, police investigation, police detective, satire, crime solving, smuggler, smuggling, uncover truth, drug smuggler ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
El-Limby lives in a decrepit neighborhood with his mother Faransa and he develops feelings for his neighbor. However, her father objects to their marriage, and El-Limby's mother encourages him to find a job to provide for his family-to-be.
Style:
feel good, satirical, semi serious, funny, captivating ...
Plot:
arab, job seeking, wedding planning, money, mother son relationship, unemployment, working class, social problems, money problems, satire, workplace, romantic relationship ...
Place:
cairo egypt
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Ashour, Salaah’s father, runs his school with severity and cruelty. after Ashour's death, Salah inherits the job and lets Sayed, his deputy, take charge. Hussein the teacher makes a great effort to guide Salah to succeed in managing the ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
school, satire, director, high school life, high school teacher, school principal, school teacher, teacher student relationship, education, power, social commentary, mistrust ...
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Fueled by anger after getting fired from his bank job, a lazy banker (Mohamed Saleh) joins forces with his co-worker (Amr) and their weird friend (Ze'ro) by turning to robbery in order to fulfill their dreams. But, when they turn their master ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
bank robbery, heist gone wrong, satire, problem, banker, bank robber, escapades, bank, bank clerk, loss of job, stealing money, teamwork ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Due to the fairness in disabilities act the Van Nuys PD is forced to hire four handicapped undercover detectives and their training officer happens to be the worst cop in L.A.
Style:
semi serious, funny, captivating, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot:
satire, disability, training, police, detective inspector, teamwork, workplace situations, handicapped, sleuth, police detective, police officer, uncover truth ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Esmat Abu Shanab (Yasmin Abdul Aziz) is a female police officer who works in an administrative position and tries in various ways to work on field assignments.
Style:
detective, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
teamwork, satire, police, female protagonist, female police officer, workplace situations, partners against crime, coworker, female detective, police detective, career, police station ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
cairo egypt
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
After the unusual attack on a school 'flower boy', Sung-min, on February 14, the same attacks begin to happen at different high schools on every month of the same day. Rumors say that the next victims will be at Neulparan High School.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, satirical, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
private investigation, high school, satire, amateur detective, investigation, terrorist plot, crime solving, school, sleuth, teamwork, high school life, prank ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Brazilian politician João Ernesto surrenders to justice and is arrested for corruption, before attempting to overturn with sincerity and real proposals.
Style:
satirical, semi serious, funny, humorous, ironic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political satire, corruption, satire, politician, social commentary, election campaign, politics, humour, political corruption, corrupt politician, irony, government corruption ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
Aadu 2 revolves around Shaji Pappan and his group of misfits, who take part in another tug-of-war contest to win the golden cup. But along the way they unwittingly get drawn into a deal gone wrong, which involves dangerous smugglers.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, entertaining, satirical, captivating ...
Plot:
conspiracy, satire, problem, criminal, gang, gangster, bandit, criminal gang, escapades, chaos, teamwork, friendship ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
india
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
DI Walter Gambon is a self-styled “Yoda of the force”, whose workload suddenly increases when he’s handed the cases of an officer who committed suicide by throwing himself under a Tube train. Or was he pushed? Gambon must work out whether his ...
Style:
detective, crime thriller, satirical, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, corruption, police procedural, murder mystery, uncover truth, police detective, police, money, murder investigation, fighting crime, police investigation, satire ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Bulgaria, UK, Hungary, Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A concert to celebrate Bulgaria joining the EU is being planned at the Embassy in London and it is the job of VARADIN, the new ambassador, to ensure the Queen attends. But with corrupt staff, criminal gangs operating out of the kitchen, falling in ...
Style:
satirical, funny, entertaining, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, criminal, politics, escapades, job, irony, ambassador, chaos, embassy, farce, bureaucracy, corruption ...
Place:
london, bulgaria
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mahsun constantly has to cope with police raids since he runs an illegal casino. Because he wants to continue to run this casino, Mahsun decides to establish a fake political party as a disguise. His aim is to keep the casino able to continue ...
Style:
semi serious, satirical, captivating, entertaining, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, police, illegal gambling, casino, problem, escapades, casino owner, deception, scheme, organized crime, black market, fraud ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Conditionally released four friends from jail must be away 100 meters from each other. but in the time they can not stay away each other, and come together for new adventure.
Style:
buddy comedy, semi serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
friendship, satire, escapades, humour, friends, released from prison, parole, group of friends, chaos, misadventure, bromance, loyalty ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Story:
Inspired by the 1950s cinema screenings in Cairo's sha'abi quarters, this double feature includes a space odyssey and a farm animal protector.
Style:
satirical, captivating, funny, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
alien abduction, arab, reluctant hero, goofy hero, heroes, conspiracy, alien, arms dealer, satire, fish out of water, political intrigue, social commentary ...
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Two Indigenous detectives race to solve a major case in their sketchy neighbourhood, but find their loyalties compromised when they discover that most of the suspects are family.
Style:
satirical, funny, captivating, entertaining, detective ...
Plot:
investigation, police procedural, amateur detective, homicide detective, amateur sleuth, crime investigation, police detective, who done it, police investigation, crime solving, uncover truth, sleuth ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
A stringent cop tries all the possible ways to nab a dreaded don who poses a big threat to the society.
Style:
spoof, parody, funny, satirical, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, police, forensics, crime solving, police detective, police officer, fighting crime, workplace situations, workplace, murder investigation, uncover truth, homicide detective ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A frothy comedy about life in the corporation, about the challenges of building a career and those of consolidating and motivating a team. The film, a satire of corporate life, reveals the events of a team building in which the robotic corporativism ...
Style:
entertaining, satirical, humorous, captivating, funny ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, corporation, workplace, team building, coworker, relationships, job, office worker, office, relationship vs career, career, teamwork ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After learning their company has been illicitly spying, collecting and selling data on them, three millennial friends band together to fight back against a lecherous boss and the company's maniacal, Tarzan-obsessed CEO.
Style:
satirical, buddy comedy, dark comedy, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
satire, surveillance, friends, escapades, group of friends, workplace, workplace situations, teamwork, friendship, social commentary, privacy, empowerment ...
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min.
Story:
The journalists at the Onion News Network will do anything to stay at the top of their game. And if they can't find a great story, they'll create one.
Style:
mockumentary, funny, entertaining, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
satire, news, media satire, journalist, workplace, office worker, workplace situations, office, office work, job, coworker, social commentary ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Murugan is the go-to man for MLA 'Jacket' Janakiraman who is in the good books of the minister of state. Murugan falls in love with an aspiring cop, Archana and tries to make her a cop using his rapport with Jacket. The minister on his ...
Style:
satirical, feel good, entertaining, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
memory loss, police investigation, crime gone awry, memory, escapades, investigation, criminal, satire, memory lapse, corruption, loyalty, political satire ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story charts the journey of two childhood friends Kohinoor Kalyan and Jilani Ramdas. They are both enthusiastic and easy-going. On an unfateful day, the duo loses a heavy amount in cricket betting. They unintentionally enter the villain's ...
Style:
captivating, feel good, satirical, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
friendship, trap, bet, gambling, friends, escapades, money problems, satire, money, risk, desperation, loyalty ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 2008, Sami Benboudaoud discovered the hell of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Ten years later, now that everything is for the best for Sami who brilliantly completes his studies of political science, nothing will go for his cousin Charles of Chazelle.
Style:
humorous, satirical, entertaining, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
class differences, brother brother relationship, social problems, socially awkward, lifestyle, brothers, satire, culture clash, fish out of water, social satire, social commentary, political satire ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mohy Al-Sharqawi is a young man whose grandfather and his uncles form a smuggling gang. As Mohy is a coward who cannot go along with them, he goes to live with his mother and step-father but they send him to China to represent Egypt in a cooking ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, culinary ...
Plot:
gangster, satire, criminal, cooking competition, culture clash, problem, gang war, gang member, bandit, organized crime, gang, criminal gang ...
Place:
egypt, china
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Gui Xiang is super clever girl with low EQ. She investigates into a murder case in competition with a young police detective.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, satirical, detective, crime thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female detective, murder investigation, murder, secret, female protagonist, satire, police investigation, crime investigation, crime solving, murder mystery, investigation, private investigation ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
35%
859
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Third movie about the character of Cetto La Qualunque (Antonio Albanese)
Style:
satirical, light, captivating, funny, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political satire, satire, politics, crown prince, lifestyle change, restaurant, money, restaurant owner, royal family, changing lives, prince, inheritance ...
Place:
italy, southern italy, germany
Similarity:
34%
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