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Yerba Buena (2020)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane María, three unsuspecting best friends launch a business selling pot brownies.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, independent film, surreal, crime drama
Plot:
survival, friendship, marijuana, poverty, desperation, resilience, social commentary, female friendship, drug dealing, sisterhood, moral ambiguity, hopes, entrepreneurship, small business, satire, realism, slice of life, urban, hurricane, friend
Time:
2020s, contemporary
Place:
puerto rico
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark comedy, tense, satirical and captivating films with plots about satire, friendship, moral ambiguity, desperation, survival, urban and social commentary mostly in Comedy, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Yerba Buena: Pipe Dream (2015), Bidurbhai (2021), Fish People (2001), Sound Party (2023), Merchants of Venus (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A story of two wannabe Schoolies on the Gold Coast during a state-wide crackdown on drugs. The boys stumble upon a stash of "weed", and through the misguidance of an older brother trying to replace his earlier Schoolies experience, they ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: India
Duration: 19 min.
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
friendship, quarantine, scheme, scheming, desperation, pandemic, survival, social commentary, male friendship, urban, streetwise, moral ambiguity ...
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A father-son duo embarks on a quest for wealth, launching a family-run restaurant. But their dreams fall off when their eatery is shut due to illegalities, leading to a series of events, yielding control of their lives to a local criminal.
Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A Russian immigrant finds himself in bed with the mob after buying a sexual novelties shop.
Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Lithuania, Moldova
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two Moldavian friends begin a journey full of adventures and suspense trying various business ideas in order to earn enough money to achieve their dreams.
Style:
independent film, realistic, heartfelt, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
friendship, entrepreneurship, dream, ambition, post soviet, small business, poverty, social commentary, slice of life, satire, coming of age, survival ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young student hungry for cash engages in the world of shady deals.
Style:
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Plot:
student, corruption, survival, money, underground, desperation, moral ambiguity, street life, urban, risk, greed, betrayal ...
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Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Style:
detective, emotional, uplifting, suspense, twisted
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A group of immigrants from the south of Italy live collectively in the Milano's suburbia in the 1974.
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
friendship, survival, class struggle, social realism, poverty, resilience, solidarity, slice of life, worker, desperation, bittersweet, machismo ...
Time:
70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place:
italy, milan italy, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
eastern europe, macedonia, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
loan shark, heist, working class, problem, escapades, satire, lifestyle, theft, jewel robbery, criminal, driver, jewel theft ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
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Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: South Africa
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 144 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
picaresque, witty, dark comedy, slapstick
Audience:
adult
Plot:
deception, ruse, scam, con artists, satire, fraud, survival, streetwise, corruption, social commentary, working class, bureaucracy ...
Time:
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Place:
naples italy, italy
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Country: India
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Saudi Arabia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Following a botched robbery, incarcerated friends Hamad, Ma’an and Sanad, in their attempt to escape, end up in a biographical film financed by eccentric Saudi magnate Abdullatif Al-Hanhouni, set in the same locations of their past heists.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Serbia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 90 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
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