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Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
44K
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Set in 1920's New York City, this movie tells the story of idealistic young playwright David Shayne. Producer Julian Marx finally finds funding for the project from gangster Nick Valenti. The catch is that Nick's girl friend Olive Neal gets the part of a psychiatrist, and Olive is a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist as well as being a dreadful actress. Agreeing to this first compromise is the first step to Broadway's complete seduction of David, who neglects longtime girl friend Ellen. Meanwhile David puts up with Warner Purcell, the leading man who is a compulsive eater, Helen Sinclair, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Cheech, Olive's interfering hitman / bodyguard. Eventually, the playwright must decide whether art or life is more important.
Style:
light, humorous, funny, witty, atmospheric, talky, parody, clever, dark comedy, ironic ...
Plot:
mafia, gangster, satire, backstage, writers, theater, murder, playwright, actor, actress, rehearsal, friendship, showbiz, flapper, infidelity, jazz, hitman, prohibition era, prohibition, mob hit, time travel, world war one, mafioso, dream, city ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1994, 20s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, clever and semi serious films with plots about storytelling, dialogue, mentor, runaway, adaptation, catastrophe and suprisingly clever mostly in Comedy, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Bullets Over Broadway: Johnny Dangerously (1984), The Whole Nine Yards (2000), Married to the Mob (1988), Oscar (1991), Get Shorty (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set in the 1930s, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
Style:
parody, funny, spoof, humorous, light ...
Plot:
gangster, organized crime, chase, rivalry, disorder, cons and scams, dishonesty, goofy hero, rise to the top, mobster, satire, crime boss ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 1935, 1910s, 80s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mobster named Jimmy the Tulip agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison; he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program. It's not long before a ...
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hitman, mafia, assassin, adultery, dark humor, twists and turns, killer, farce, organized crime, gangster, contract killer, opposites attract ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s, 2000s ...
Place:
montreal, chicago, canada, usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
hitman, starting over, gangster, organized crime, fbi agent, nightmare, harassment, surveillance, fbi, betrayal, murder of a nude woman, murder ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
usa, new york, miami, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
36K
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his ...
Style:
talky, witty, humorous, not serious, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
gangster, mistaken identity, mafia, mobster, accountant, farce, disorder, fish out of water, parents and children, couples, going straight, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s, 1930s, year 1991
Place:
italy
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, ...
Style:
clever, funny, humorous, cult classic, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
debt, hollywood, movie business, producer, gangster, filmmaking, gambling, dark humor, mobster, organized crime, loan shark, mafia ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
miami, los angeles, california, florida, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A depressed housewife whose husband is having an affair contemplates suicide, but changes her mind when she faces death by a killer hired to do her in.
Style:
witty, melancholic, semi serious, black comedy, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, female protagonist, runaway, woman in danger, greed, crumbling marriage, family problems, self discovery, professional killer, marriage, professional, adultery ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. Ben Sobel for help and finds that Sobel needs some serious help himself as he has inherited the family ...
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, sexy, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
organized crime, prison, mafia, mob hit, gangster, therapy, childhood trauma, ex convict, death of father, heist, car chase, depression ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, las vegas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio to do is make their getaway out ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, absurd, light, cult classic ...
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, crime gone awry, robbery, nothing goes right, buddies, bank robber, hostage, friendship, partner, disorder, friends ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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, clever, romantic comedy, hilarious, witty ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
mafia, gangster, marriage proposal, mistaken identity, fish out of water, fbi, family relations, fall in love, comedy of errors, dishonesty, love and romance, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, kansas city, manhattan new york city, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
Style:
buddy comedy, semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, nothing goes right, hitman, gambling, gangster, buddies, frame up, criminal heroes, goofy hero, dishonesty, cons and scams, siblings relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After the death of his older brother, Guiseppe "the guppy" Calzone (Kevin McDonald, "KIDS IN THE HALL") becomes head of the Calzone Mob family. His aging father (Dom DeLuise) knows his son is not cut out for the job, so he sends ...
Style:
parody, independent film, fast, realistic, not serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mobster, mafia, satire, sperm bank, organized crime, crime boss, gangster, family relations, disorder, university, college, parents and children ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Style:
surreal, sexy, humorous, black and white, philosophical ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, vigilante, false accusation, investigation, vigilantism, circus, lone hero, disorder, danger, comedy of errors, mistaken identity ...
Time:
1930s, year 1991, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
new york, central europe, eastern europe, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
255K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
Style:
sexy, witty, stylized, visually stunning, period piece ...
Audience:
kids, date night, girls' night
Plot:
broadway, femme fatale, desire for fame, lovers, jail, prison, musician, lawyer, jazz, satire, execution, brutality ...
Time:
1920s, 1900s, 2000s, 20th century, year 2002 ...
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
Similarity:
100%
169K
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Countless wiseguy films are spoofed in this film that centers on the neuroses and angst of a powerful Mafia racketeer who suffers from panic attacks. When Paul Vitti needs help dealing with his role in the "family," unlucky shrink Dr. Ben ...
Style:
funny, humorous, clever, psychological, crying ...
Plot:
gangster, psychiatrist, mafia, organized crime, anger, childhood trauma, canceled wedding, mob hit, guilt, hitman, psychiatrist patient relationship, therapist ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1957
Place:
new york, florida, miami beach, usa, miami ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
black and white, funny, talky, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, year 1984, 80s, 70s, 1920s ...
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
Style:
dark comedy, witty, humorous, talky, black comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dark humor, gangster, psychopath, screenwriter, dog, murder, serial killer, crime gone awry, mob boss, strong violent content, buddies, violent ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, year 1947, year 1963, year 1954 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, united kingdom, america, usa ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This film tells the story of a successful writer called Harry Block, played by Allen himself, who draws inspiration from people he knows in real-life, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him ...
Style:
cult classic, talky, witty, humorous, cynical ...
Plot:
art, writers, relationships, satire, psychiatrist, writer's life, human nature, alienation, philosophy, eternal love, depression, prostitution ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Style:
ironic, talky, humorous, witty, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
infidelity, thanksgiving, sisters, writers, family relations, love, midlife crisis, atheism, opera, audition, dysfunctional family, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Style:
witty, talky, humorous, stylized, melancholic ...
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, love and romance, caper, corruption, robbery, unlikely criminals, bank robber, disorder, overnight success, couple relations, cons and scams ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The life and times of Virgil Starkwell, inept bank robber.
Style:
mockumentary, clever, humorous, witty, funny ...
Plot:
prison, robbery, fighting the system, goofy hero, couples, petty criminal, misfit, unlikely criminals, couple relations, cons and scams, hapless, heist ...
Time:
1940s, year 1969, 60s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place:
persia, turkey, quebec
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.
Style:
light, realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty
Plot:
hitman, satire, mafia, silly humor, gangster, disorder, dishonesty, switching roles, on the run, hidden identity, opposites attract, society ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all his belongings, Clark meets Carmine "Jimmy the Toucan" Sabatini, an "importer" bearing a startling ...
Style:
parody, funny, witty, humorous, black comedy ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
mafia, gangster, fish out of water, zoo, endangered species, food, college, affection, godfather, taxi driver, mobster, corruption ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
vermont, new york, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
23%
30K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one ...
Style:
satirical, witty, black and white, cynical, stylized ...
Plot:
satire, greed, writers, loneliness, justice, dark hero, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, ambition, lifestyle, showbiz, celebrity culture ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, atlantic city new jersey, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The Narrator (Woody Allen) tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary ...
Style:
sentimental, humorous, emotional, touching, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
radio, working class, dysfunctional family, coming of age, rescue, lifestyle, love and romance, family problems, parents and children, new year's eve, world war two, nostalgia ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1987, 70s ...
Place:
new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This is the funny story about two warring Mafia gangs in New York. The weaker gang use incredibly a lion to blackmail the opposite gang's "clients". The police succeeds to stop one of the gang, while the other remain without the Boss.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, slapstick
Plot:
mafia, gangster, gang, silly humor, hitman, disorder, assassination attempt, criminal heroes, goofy hero, lion, gang war, police ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is Val ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, witty, light, stylized ...
Plot:
movie business, blindness and impaired vision, filmmaking, satire, dysfunctional family, justice, adultery, one more chance, showbiz, disorder, blind character, comedy of errors ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 1930s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, california, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young, naive Hollywood studio assistant finally turns the tables on his incredibly abusive producer boss.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, sexy, cynical, entertaining ...
Plot:
hollywood, workplace, vengeance, business, humiliation, character study, disgruntled worker, filmmaking, boss, obnoxious boss, success, workplace situations ...
Time:
20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world.
Style:
atmospheric, talky, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
music, jazz, dark humor, art, infidelity, love and romance, musician's life, artists and showbiz, dishonesty, fall in love, writers, addiction ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
new york, chicago, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
"Sugar" Ray is the owner of an illegal casino, who contend with the pressures of vicious gangster and corrupt policemen who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organized crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any ...
Style:
black comedy, hood, funny, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
nightclub, gangster, urban, black, organized crime, african american, fight scenes, mobster, husband and wife, corruption, gang, hip hop ...
Time:
1930s, year 1989, 1920s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, harlem, new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, north america ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith ...
Style:
humorous, light, funny, talky, absurd ...
Plot:
fbi, fbi agent, small town, gangster, witness protection, organized crime, switching roles, fish out of water, district attorney, hidden identity, witness protection program, vengeance ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, new york, europe, italy, usa
Similarity:
22%
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