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What a Country! (2018)
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Original name: Koja je ovo država!
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia, Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A story about suicidal general, a minister in the Croatian government who voluntarily locks himself inside a prison cell, and 4 pensioners, who steal the coffin with the remains of the late Croatian president.
Style:
absurd, psychological, captivating, semi serious, thrilling, tragicomedy, dark comedy, cynical, black humor
Plot:
life, satire, life is a bitch, problem, irony, political satire, social commentary, political corruption, national identity, prison, isolation, existential crisis, confined, jail cell, moral ambiguity, heist, small town, politician, dark humor, general
Time:
contemporary
Place:
croatia, balkan
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Most similar movies to What a Country!
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, dark comedy, psychological and satirical films with plots about satire, social commentary, moral ambiguity, problem, bittersweet, urban and political satire mostly in Drama, Comedy and Biography genres. Some movies like What a Country!: The Priest's Children (2013), Decrypted (2021), Lucky Monster (2019), The Marriage Certificate (2001), Ears (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, tragicomedy, suspense ...
Plot:
pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, satire, mediterranean, religions or cults, clergy, village life, social relations, disorder, dishonesty, society, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
balkan, eastern europe, croatia
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An outrageous and provocative dark comedy about a mismatched NSA team who kidnap the creator of Bitcoin - Satoshi Nakamoto - and attempt to torture him for the information they need to destroy cryptocurrencies.
Style:
dark comedy, captivating, thrilling, psychological, satirical ...
Plot:
cryptocurrency, satire, kidnapping, torture, abduction, agent, kidnapped, problem, surveillance, political satire, irreverent, moral ambiguity ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Do Maeng-su, a weak and timid citizen is a debtor who owes a lot. He gets a fake divorce to protect his beloved wife from the scary private moneylenders, and immediately, ironically, he wins a large sum of the lottery.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, tragicomedy, dark comedy ...
Plot:
debt, money, needing money, money falling through the air, family problems, relationship problems, money problems, life is a bitch, relationships, problem, family relations, male female relationship ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The wife of a prominent psychiatrist can't find her marriage certificate one day. This "jiehunzheng" is all important. Without it, the family officially has never existed, including the daughter. The couple go on a wild goose chase ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, semi serious, psychological, satirical ...
Plot:
satire, bureaucracy, family relations, relationships, problem, father daughter relationship, family problems, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, kids and family, marital problem, social commentary ...
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man wakes up one morning with an annoying ringing sound in his ears. A note on the fridge says: "Your friend Luigi has died. P.S. I took the car". The problem is that he does not even remember who this guy Luigi is. This is just the ...
Style:
enigmatic, psychological, disturbing, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
memory loss, satire, friend, puzzle, uncover truth, problem, memory lapse, identity, everyday life, confusion, isolation, midlife crisis ...
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51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Lawrence is an optimistic suit salesman for whom everything always goes right-until he takes the suicidal credit collector Holloman under his wing, and everything starts to go wrong. Very wrong.
Style:
psychological, dark comedy, black comedy, tragicomedy, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, suicidal thoughts, odd couple, dark humor, misfit, male female relationship, mishap, relationships, problem, accountant, opposites attract, bittersweet ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Celebrity financier and jet-setter Markus Føns has been taken into custody. Following a brutal assault by a gang of bikers in connection with some of his more shady dealings, Markus opts for voluntary solitary confinement among the prison's ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, semi serious, tense, dark comedy ...
Plot:
prison, choir, singing, jail, isolation, jailed, prison life, prison gang, problem, prison sentence, jail cell, confined ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
An anthology of New Yorkers at their wit's end.
Style:
anthology, dark comedy, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, life is a bitch, city life, loneliness, desperation, slice of life, existential crisis, intimate, working class, survival, resilience, bittersweet ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, Turkey
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Doctor Kemal is head of a private hospital, is ambitious and has the best intentions for the residents of Istanbul. He is the best candidate for mayor of the Beyoglu district – in his opinion. An opinion not shared by his sceptical ex-wife; nor by ...
Style:
satirical, political, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
ambition, political satire, social commentary, satire, political unrest, social problems, political intrigue, political activism, social issues, politics, physician, politician ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, Croatia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Statistics show that during his professional career every railroad engineer working for railways, unintentionally kills 15 to 20 people. This is a story about the innocent mass murderers and their lives.
Style:
realistic, humorous, thought provoking, tragicomedy, dark comedy ...
Plot:
railway, murder, train engineer, ordinary person, silly humor, disorder, old man, elderly, on the road, accident, cross country, socially awkward ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
serbia, eastern europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
After his retirement, Raghavan Nair (Thilakan) is back at his home. His long cherished dream to spend his retired life along with his family is thwarted after seeing his two sons brawling each other over their political differences.
Style:
political, satirical, dark comedy, tragicomedy, cult classic
Plot:
political satire, family drama, social commentary, political corruption, social realism, small town, brother vs brother, political party, social satire, politician, lawyer, brawl ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Lo family live in an old flat in the middle of a noisy neighborhood: father, mother, unemployed son, teenage daughter and his elderly, disabled father. Now a billboard is blocking their perfect view of the harbor, and their already chaotic life ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, family drama, social problems, conflict, social issues, kids and family, parents and children, conflict of interest, lifestyle, comedy of manners, city life, social commentary ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
china
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Remy and Sandra can't have children because they suffer from the "Past Loves Syndrome". To heal, there is only one solution, they must sleep with all their exes once.
Style:
sex comedy, psychological, thrilling, captivating, satirical ...
Plot:
satire, relationship problems, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, life, wanting a baby, ex couple relations, problem, self discovery, memory, personal growth, nostalgia, introspection ...
Similarity:
39%
185
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young couple buys a rotten house with the intention of turning it into their dream home. But the more the renovations progress, the more their life turns into a nightmare. Bungalow is a comedy-drama about the financial, social and sexual anxieties ...
Style:
satirical, psychological, thrilling, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
renovation, satire, money problems, young couple, love affair, male female relationship, relationship problems, family relations, lifestyle, marital problem, married couple, relationships ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal on Iraq that has been set up to investigate war crimes
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot:
politician, prime minister, political satire, judiciary, legal action, courtroom drama, court, politics, president, u.s. president, trial, satire ...
Time:
year 2010
Place:
london
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
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Story:
At the Swedish embassy in Mexico City, the staff tries to do everything to promote the image of Sweden. But for the selfish ambassador Thomas Hofwander, it is mainly about lifting himself.
Style:
satirical, thrilling, captivating, political, semi serious ...
Plot:
political satire, diplomacy, ambition, office politics, diplomat, political campaign, satire, social climber, job, workplace, political candidate, political leader ...
Place:
eastern europe, mexico city
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A darkly comic drama about a man left to care for his infant son when his wife is imprisoned for cheating on him with a minor.
Style:
dark comedy, captivating, semi serious, controversial, dark ...
Plot:
family problems, under the surface, parents and children, life is a bitch, dark humor, babies and infants, marital crisis, infidelity, domestic drama, self destructing, shame, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Serbia, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three stories about the impact of three God's miracles in the medieval sense that happen to the film's heroes living in a post-communist society that, after half a century of atheism, re-learns about Christianity.
Style:
thought provoking, tragicomedy, dark comedy, satirical
Plot:
satire, social commentary, absurdism, irony, absurd humor, folklore, superstition, moral ambiguity, bittersweet, small town, provincial life, humanism
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
What would you do if you found 30 million that no one was missing? Mahmut decides to do what he has always dreamt of: to be seen as a Swede. He changes his name to Sebastian, rents a nice house, buys a Volvo and starts wearing socks with patterns. ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, satirical, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
immigration, satire, identity, money, lifestyle change, changing lives, national identity, lifestyle, social satire, culture clash, aspiration, nordic ...
Place:
eastern europe, scandinavia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Comedy drama in which two actors who owe their entire careers to the Western genre seek revenge against a legendary screenwriter who once mistreated them on the set of an early film.
Style:
neo western, psychological, captivating, thrilling, dark comedy ...
Plot:
revenge, satire, public humiliation, problem, road trip, film industry, regret, irony, haunted by the past, midlife crisis, father daughter relationship, nostalgia ...
Place:
arizona
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Initiated by the Hong Kong Performing Artists Association and the Hong Kong Film Workers Association, ten film companies in Hong Kong (China Star, Anle Film, Emperor Films, Oriental Films, Media Asia Films, Meiya Films, World Films, Shaw Brothers, ...
Style:
semi serious, psychological, captivating, thrilling, satirical ...
Plot:
hotel, isolation, quarantine, coronavirus, social problems, satire, hotel manager, social issues, isolated place, resilience, confined, relationships ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
china, hong kong
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Some people will do anything to secure an American visa, as hard as that might be. Some enter lotteries, others beg friends and families to invite them. Others still, just sneak in and hope Mr Trump doesn’t notice they are there. But in this ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, dark comedy, intercultural ...
Plot:
immigration, couples, pregnancy, problem, lifestyle, family problems, social problems, immigrant, relationship problems, american dream, citizenship, birth ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
cairo egypt, egypt
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A middle-aged man emerges from a pandemic slump with a new job at a quiet hotel, until some eccentric guests turn his first night into a wild adventure.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, satirical, indie film, dark comedy ...
Plot:
hotel, satire, hotel receptionist, pandemic, workplace, loss of job, new job, waiter, loneliness, nightshift, unemployment, anxiety ...
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In 1990, before the First Gulf War, Mounir, an impressionable and sheltered Saddam Hussein body-double, loses his job and moves to Los Angeles in search of a new start. But once the real Saddam invades Kuwait and makes international headlines, ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, captivating, disturbing, dark comedy ...
Plot:
body double, saddam hussein, identity crisis, lookalikes, lifestyle, changing lives, satire, pretending to be someone else, criminal, political unrest, lifestyle change, problem ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, iraq
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Monaco, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad."
Style:
thought provoking, anthology, reflective, surreal, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
satire, irony, frustration, absurdism, social commentary, paradox, deception, bittersweet, existential crisis, moral ambiguity, mental disorder, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
serbia
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Attorneys Kensuke Komikado and Machiko Mayuzumi receive a request from a general hospital. They go up against veteran attorney Kazuma Kujou who is trying to extract money from the general hospital by a medical malpractice lawsuit.
Style:
satirical, semi serious, captivating, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom, medical malpractice, legal battle, professional rivalry, teamwork, female lawyer, attorney, medicine, money, intrigue, money problems ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
A kind-hearted government employee in his forties, who spends most of his time with youngsters, selflessly intervenes in the problems of his near and dear ones.
Style:
comedy drama, light hearted, feel good, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
village, heartwarming, slice of life, village life, friendship, everyday life, rural area, public service, countryside, life, satire, politician ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
31%
212
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A lawyer with a deplorable habit; a sitter struggling with her disturbing new job; a childhood friend who's hiding something; a chef with an unspeakable desire; a psychologist haunted by a tow truck... In each segment, a normal person suffers ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological thriller, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
satire, problem, bonding, lifestyle, paradox, multiple storylines, nightmare, surrealism, moral ambiguity, obsession, trauma, isolation ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A plastic surgeon publishes an ad searching for a slave. Even if he meant it in an ironic way and is really looking for a housemaid, a lot of SM-subs are showing up in front of his house the next day...
Style:
semi serious, satirical, thrilling, captivating, dark comedy
Plot:
satire, couples, social satire, staff, relationships, male female relationship, family relations, problem, butler, husband wife relationship, couple relations, workplace ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The film revolves around an engineer working for an oil company in Dubai. He had to return to Egypt after twenty years. He was surprised that the Israeli Embassy was next to his apartment and was trying hard to sell the apartment at first.
Style:
captivating, satirical, psychological, thrilling
Plot:
apartment building, satire, arab, embassy, social problems, political unrest, political activism, social issues, israeli, political satire, social commentary, nationalism ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
cairo egypt, palestine, middle east, dubai
Similarity:
29%
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