Movies like The Bear 2011
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The Bear (2011)
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Original name: Ursul
Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
At the Bucharest Circus, the new young manager is trying to solve the major financial issues of the company by selling its only bear (old and about to die soon) to German hunters. But the artists do not want to sacrifice their favorite animal so the manager decides to steal the bear and run to the mountains to meet the Germans. A crazy road movie starts following the bear.
Style:
road movie, tragicomedy, art house, independent film, emotional, melancholic, black comedy, comedy drama, absurd, surreal ...
Plot:
bear, circus, road trip, escape, loyalty, moral dilemma, animal rights, dark humor, friendship, rescue, poverty, satire, mortality, bittersweet, camaraderie, mountain, rebellion, loss, artist, heist, chase, bureaucracy, heist gone wrong, artistic, road
Place:
bucharest, eastern europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out satirical, dark comedy, absurd and road movie films with plots about satire, friendship, bittersweet, road trip, social commentary, dark humor and escape mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like The Bear: Weekend Millionaires (2004), Escape From Reuma Park (2016), Time Expired (2011), Too Hot to Die (2018), Investors (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Following a competitive circumstances, Russian Federation returned the Romanian state treasury found in Moscow. Among the items brought into the country is also a bust of the early twentieth century (porcelain bust made in 1915, signed I. ...
Style:
road movie, black comedy, tension, satirical
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heist, greed, money, opportunism, chase, art theft, road trip, mobster, escape, organized crime, corruption, young adult ...
Time:
near future
Place:
romania, bucharest
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Old and forgotten, comedian Aldo is brought by his sons into a nursing home called Reuma Park where he finds his old friends and partners Giovanni and Giacomo.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, satirical, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
escape, satire, friendship, retirement home, sanitarium, escapades, elderly man, elderly, problem, old man, mortality, nostalgia ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Randall Zimmerman (Eric Starkey) is a simple man who loves his job as a parking enforcement officer. When he discovers he is dying, he just wants everything to stay the way that it is. Unfortunately for Randall, his friends and family have other ...
Style:
dark comedy, tragicomedy, melancholic, existential, life affirming ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terminal illness, mortality, bittersweet, friendship, slice of life, deadpan, intimate, overprotective mother, small town, satire, urban, bureaucracy ...
Place:
oklahoma
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of unhappy strangers decide to end their lives together, but soon they find that their plan is flawed after one of them turns out to be a beautiful woman.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, captivating, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot:
satire, male female relationship, relationships, social problems, love affair, changing lives, lifestyle change, relationship problems, suicide attempt, suicide, redemption, self discovery ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea, korea
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Romania
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After working this weekend at a factory, three friends put money together to go on an unforgettable escape to Bucharest.
Style:
laugh out loud, entertaining, humorous, buddy comedy, funny ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
friendship, plan gone awry, nothing goes right, road trip, friendship between men, party, camaraderie, buddies, comedy of errors, drinking, drunkenness, group of friends ...
Place:
romania, bucharest
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Valentino and Salvo, unemployed and in search of fortune and recommendation, leave Palermo for Valentino’s home town, Monteforte, where they will try to survive the Italian crisis by opening some sort of hospice.
Style:
feel good, humorous, funny, captivating, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
friendship, living together, escapades, stealing money, road trip, neighbor neighbor relationship, wedding, economic crisis, social commentary, social satire, satire, unemployment ...
Place:
sicily
Similarity:
59%
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 ...
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56%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
buddy comedy, entertaining, black comedy, light, tense ...
Plot:
heist, gang, friendship, heist gone wrong, fisherman, escapades, friends, villain, money, thief, dark humor, british ...
Place:
northern england
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Panama, Colombia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ana escapes from the hotel where she works dressed as a bride and decides that she must get married that same day. She must put everything together before she is caught by Lucia, the owner of the dress, or the police. On this journey Ana reflects on ...
Style:
romantic comedy, lighthearted, reflective, road movie, independent film ...
Plot:
fiancee, wedding, personal growth, self discovery, escape, introspection, identity, friendship, pursuit, female empowerment, chase, commitment ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After going through a failed heist, 5 friends, apparently back to their normal lives, are involved in an opportunity to pull off another one.
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, captivating, funny ...
Plot:
satire, heist, fugitives, silly humor, escapades, humour, unlikely criminals, runaway, friends, dark humor, urban, criminal underworld ...
Place:
rio de janeiro
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
For 25 years now, under the Provence sun, Antonin, a farmhand, has shared his work and everyday life with a horse named Ulysse. What a shock when Pascal, the farmer, tells him he has decided to sell Ulysse to a picador for being too old. Not only ...
Style:
road movie, scenic, emotional, melancholic, contemplative ...
Plot:
friendship, village life, nostalgia, journey, landscape, escape, everyday life, solitude, loss, perseverance, character study, working class ...
Time:
70s
Place:
provence, france
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Two brothers Yılmaz and Müjdat, who have grown up in an orphanage, are inherited a car body repair shop from Nuri and İsmet who were like fathers to them. One night they take an old grumpy man's car to couple of streets away. In the middle ...
Style:
entertaining, satirical, feel good, tragicomedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
friendship, satire, auto repair, corpse, disposing of a dead body, escapades, friends, problem, dead body, brothers, guilt, working class ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
For a long time, a group of friends have been on a yearly summer trip to Laholm. This year, they want to go somewhere else, at least everyone except Ulf, who force the others to join the trip - by saying he has cancer.
Style:
black comedy, tragicomedy, lighthearted
Plot:
friendship, small town, dark humor, deception, road trip, summer vacation, slice of life, satire, everyday life, nordic, funeral, marriage proposal ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Six Romanian artists get to live the dream of their life in a road-movie full of adventures: America, here we come! Coming all the way from Targoviste - a little town near the capital, the five actors, director, and a little child with his huge ...
Style:
road movie, captivating, semi serious, entertaining, funny ...
Plot:
journey, escapades, concert tour, artist, satire, actor, culture clash, fish out of water, travel, struggle, showbiz, bittersweet ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
Written and directed by indie filmmaker Cullen Hoback, this high-concept comedy centers on the exploits of eight mental hospital patients who awaken to discover that they've just slept through the apocalypse. Determined to find the edge of the ...
Style:
indie film, compassionate, dark comedy, tragicomedy, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Belgium
Story:
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Style:
witty, dark comedy, absurd, tragicomedy, black humor
Audience:
adult
Plot:
misfit, scam, marital strife, con men, satire, friendship, male bonding, everyday life, heist, fraud, panic, working class ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
belgium
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Argentina, Brazil, Spain
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In this genre-hopping road movie from Daughters of Fire director Albertina Carri, Violeta, the director of an amateur lesbian porn hit, is invited to make a mainstream crossover. With a budget and cast, but no firm idea where to go, the crew head ...
Style:
road movie, independent film, comedy drama, erotic, transgressive ...
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, funny, captivating, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Cyprus
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An isolated Cypriot village goes into tragicomic overload when a flying object crash-lands in a potato field inside the adjacent UN-controlled buffer zone. A young farmer unwisely digs it out setting off a chain of incredible events.
Style:
tragicomedy, absurd, offbeat, surreal, tragic
Plot:
village, social commentary, satire, crash landing, irony, curiosity, isolation, dark humor, bureaucracy, magic realism, moral ambiguity, investigation ...
Place:
cyprus
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. Along for the ride with them is Domenica, a beautiful girl from ...
Style:
road movie, tragicomedy, satirical, period piece, melancholic
Plot:
social commentary, migration, friendship, escape, social satire, misadventure, cultural conflict, working class, homecoming, getting home, exploitation, mafia ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, sicily
Similarity:
40%
107
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
As a cruel joke, billionaire William Randolph Hughes planted a series of boxes around the Southwest, in the hopes that someone would find them. The first box told the discoverer that an enormous fortune was buried in a box somewhere, along with ...
Style:
road movie, situational comedy, sitcom, fast paced, lighthearted ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
treasure hunt, greed, treasure map, scheming, rivalry, satire, competition, social commentary, friendship, heist, dark humor, nudity ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After the road accident, Zika and Milan end up in an overcrowded hospital, run by doctor Nedeljkovic and his sexually obsessed nurse. Accompanied by a crazy bandmaster and a peasant with farting problems, they will try to get away from the ongoing ...
Style:
black comedy, absurd, dark comedy, situational comedy, sitcom ...
Plot:
hospital, road accident, chaos, escape, misadventure, sexual obsession, toilet humor, bureaucracy, nurse, satire, friendship, male bonding ...
Place:
former yugoslavia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The title is based on the idiomatic expression "shmenti capelli" characterizing actions of people who like to shuffle and bamboozle others with superficial commitments. Karamfilov choose it as a metaphor for people with huge economic and ...
Style:
tragicomedy, dark comedy, ironic, absurd, black humor
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political satire, satire, corruption, bittersweet, dual role, unemployment, bureaucracy, class conflict, mafia, social realism, deputy sheriff, survival ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Mihai, Adrian and Patricia struggle to get into the good graces of Rodica, a lonely and rich old woman in the hope that they will inherit her fortune.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, cynical, tension, twisted ...
Plot:
inheritance, greed, loneliness, scheming, elderly man, con artists, manipulation, deception, moral ambiguity, deadpan, intimate, satire ...
Place:
greece, romania
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Since Charlie is no longer there, the lives of Boris, Elie, and Maxime have been torn apart. These three men, who have nothing in common, all shared one thing: their love for Charlie. One loved her like a sister, one loved her like the woman of his ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, comedy drama, emotional ...
Plot:
self discovery, friendship, friends, introspection, on the road, escapades, buddies, male friendship, loss, road trip, grief, mourning ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, corsica
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Two rival record collectors attempt to con an old lady out of a rare but cursed 1930s blues record. When a series of unfortunate circumstances lands them in jail, the feud festers for over 20 years until they are released from prison and get a ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
art collection, art collector, escapades, heist gone wrong, satire, collector, robbery, obsession, rivalry, bittersweet, cursed object, nostalgia ...
Similarity:
38%
292
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Talk show host Marc Morin is at a crossroads in his career and in his personal life. The ratings of his show are failing and he is losing touch with his family. In an effort to regain the love and respect of his audience, Marc’s agent decides to ...
Style:
emotional, comedy drama, uplifting
Plot:
egoism, talk show host, self discovery, redemption, social issues, poverty, empathy, hopes, identity, midlife crisis, culture clash, fish out of water ...
Place:
haiti
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Trumpet player Géza Elekes does not play very well in his private life, and his fourth marriage has failed. One day he gets a call from his father, whom he hasn't spoken to in decades. This prompts her and her son, András, who is in the thick ...
Style:
road movie, comedy drama, melancholic, black comedy
Plot:
road trip, father son relationship, trumpet player, family drama, border crossing, reconciliation, slice of life, dark humor, grandfather, midlife crisis, bittersweet, humanism ...
Place:
budapest, transylvania, hungary, eastern europe
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of Bulut and Müjde, who are forced to work together to get rid of a murder crime they did not commit, and find themselves in the middle of an adventure they never expected.
Style:
suspense, black comedy, twist ending
Plot:
nightclub, cover up, false accusation, murder mystery, secrets, scandal, male protagonist, betrayal, dark humor, danger, odd couple, nightlife ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Owing to a genetic mix-up involving stem cell research, the recently founded company Infinity Baby is able to offer a service for aspiring parents who never want to leave the baby bubble — infants that do not age.
Style:
art house, semi serious, captivating, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot:
satire, infant, parents and children, children, child, technology, parenthood, ethical dilemma, genetic engineering, social commentary, absurd humor, laboratory ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
35%
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