Movies like Innocent 2017
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Innocent (2017)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Francis is being interrogated about a series of crimes he might be guilty of.
Style:
dark comedy, ironic, tension, black humor
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bad luck, falsely accused, investigation, mistaken identity, suspect, police interrogation, character study, generosity, alibi, family conflict, prejudice, witness, small town, farce, social satire, moral ambiguity, intimate, dark humor, dialogue driven
Time:
contemporary
Place:
quebec
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark comedy, satirical, tension and captivating films with plots about moral ambiguity, satire, social satire, character study, small town, intimate and urban mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Innocent: Honeymoon Crasher (2025), Bluff (2007), Vecina (2025), Hotel (2023), Tough Luck (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When his fiancée dumps him at the altar for her ex, a young man is left with no alternative but to go on his romantic honeymoon with his mother.
Style:
dark comedy, absurd, satirical, indie film, lighthearted ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
absurd, dark comedy, black humor
Audience:
adult
Plot:
neighbor, satire, apartment building, social satire, social commentary, absurd humor, modern life, escalation, farce, reluctant hero, domestic drama, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
romania
Similarity:
84%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Iran
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The movie Hotel is the story of a boy named Ramin who, according to his ex-wife's plan to get a lot of money, they have to pretend they are still husband and wife, they have to travel to the island of Kish and this is the beginning of a journey ...
Style:
emotional, tension, tense, suspense, road movie ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hotel, journey, vacation gone wrong, scheme, scam, travel, island, deception, secrets, family conflict, personal growth, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
83%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lorsque vous rencontrez Réjean, (Rémy Girard) il est impossible de séparer le monde réel de son imaginaire. Biographe de métier, son rôle est d’embellir la vie de ses clients. Très bientôt, Réjean sera confronté au même problème sur le ...
Style:
poignant, metafiction, mockumentary
Plot:
storytelling, character study, imagination, loneliness, identity, regret, intimate, satire, absurd humor, everyday life, midlife crisis, nostalgia ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Bhaskar's wife thinks he is a stationery store worker, his girlfriend thinks he is a software engineer but no one knows he is also a burglar. His royal pains start when his tangled web of lies involving a hopeful girlfriend, a blackmailing ...
Style:
fast paced, dark comedy, satirical, twist ending, rom com
Plot:
double life, burglary, heist, heist gone wrong, blackmail, cat and mouse, mistaken identity, moral ambiguity, social satire, corruption, satire, love triangle ...
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69%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Due to poor business performance, a small hotel is being sold to an international buyer. Employees do not want to lose their jobs, so they take things into their own hands and try to sabotage the sale of the hotel.
Style:
tension, dark comedy
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hotel, sabotage, loyalty, resilience, social commentary, satire, class conflict, misadventure, farce, moral ambiguity, optimism
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64%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.
Style:
multicultural, tension, suspense, dark comedy, political thriller ...
Plot:
kidnapping, italian restaurant, restaurant, hostage, social commentary, interracial relations, character study, intimate, empathy, captivity, urban, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A family’s secret, it’s a time bomb ! Despite their fundamentally opposite characters, Albert and Gédéon, former participants of the May 1968 protest movement, share the same house since the disappearance of the woman of Albert. When Claire, ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, satirical, tense, dark comedy
Plot:
family secret, family reunited, family drama, family relations, relationships, undercover, satire, secret, family problems, father daughter reunion, relationship problems, kids and family ...
Similarity:
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376
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ambulance-chasing lawyers takes on the case of a convicted murderer who, just being released after doing 27 years in jail, claims he was innocent.
Style:
humorous, not serious, captivating, feel good, light ...
Plot:
righting the wronged, odd couple, legal, comedy of errors, goofy hero, disorder, nothing goes right, legal action, wrongful conviction, friendship, character study, dog ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
59%
149
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
This film is Álex Montoya's first feature film: an interesting adaptation of the play La gente by Juli Disla and Jaume Pérez, also screenwriters of the film. The emergence of assembly groups after the political movements after 2011 served ...
Style:
satirical, thought provoking, witty, social, mockumentary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
democracy, satire, single, character study, irony, intimate, moral ambiguity, bureaucracy, urban, slow burn, claustrophobia, portrait ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
An unlikely group of people become trapped on a bus with a man they do not realise is the serial killer terrorising their community.
Style:
suspense, tension, psychological, atmospheric, grim ...
Plot:
serial killer, falsely accused, mature, claustrophobia, cat and mouse, suspicion, bus, manhunt, moral ambiguity, survival, investigation, small town ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After a brawny alum learns how his classmates truly feel about him, he schemes to give them a lesson on payback during a 20-year high school reunion.
Style:
tense, tension, suspense, dark comedy
Plot:
high school reunion, vengeance, revenge, payback, classmate, resentment, regret, grudge, moral ambiguity, social satire, nostalgia, small town ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Savino La Gastra discovers his wife Celeste has a liaison with an architect: Andrea. Even if also Savino has a story with Elvira, a judge's wife, he decides anyway to ask to a mobster to kill his wife. In the mean time Celeste is organizing a ...
Style:
sex comedy, dark comedy, tension, sexy, slapstick ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
farce, hitman, infidelity, mafia, adultery, mature, organized crime, betrayal, love triangle, murder, mob boss, jealous husband ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Two old college buddies, Joseph and Oliver, reconnect over drinks, eventually arguing about an unpaid film school debt. Joseph demands the $5,000, unsuccessfully, and then locks Oliver in a closet. He convinces his girlfriend, Mauve, and stoner ...
Style:
entertaining, funny, light, captivating, dark comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, kidnapping, friends, debt, blackmail, conflict between friends, female blackmailer, male female relationship, relationships, hostage situation, claustrophobia, coercion ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Banker, acting as an international front, lives dangerously among a blonde, a brunette and a dark woman, his lover.
Style:
satirical, dark comedy, absurd, cynical, ironic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
social satire, bourgeoisie, hypocrisy, political satire, infidelity, corruption, male protagonist, character study, love triangle, urban, favela, female nudity ...
Place:
brazil
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Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
All that David Pauly ever wanted in life was to witness the downfall of his high school nemesis Chembaden Joey. When Joey louses up Davy's betrothal ceremony, Davy and his friends vow to scheme up something that would button up Joey forever. ...
Style:
dark comedy, tragicomedy, dark, twisted, black humor
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, noir, dark comedy
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coastal town, investigation, private detective, murder mystery, crime scene, moral ambiguity, family secret, media frenzy
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In this winsome comedy, an entitled Economics professor pursues a tactic to buy an ailing widow’s mansion for nothing, but he quickly realizes that his seemingly foolproof strategy won’t be as easy as he thought.
Style:
situational comedy, sitcom, ironic, dark comedy, romantic comedy
Plot:
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Similarity:
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732
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The last train travel of the year from Barcelona to Madrid, suddenly stops by a voltage drop in the middle of nowhere during a fierce snowstorm. Because of the peculiarity of its passengers, will begin to emerge hilarious conflicts between them.
Style:
captivating, humorous, not serious, road movie, situational comedy ...
Plot:
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Place:
spain
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Graham Braithwaite is a violinist in a B.C. symphony. Unfortunately the symphony folds and much to his horror and disdain, he's forced to get a gig with a country band as the bassist. He has to leave the city and his girlfriend, Jane, to tour ...
Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
british columbia, canada
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
hospital, satire, ambition, dark humor, clinic, greed, ethical dilemma, corruption, social satire, manipulation, character study, office politics ...
Time:
60s
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In order to finally get that long-awaited promotion, Heinz Hellmich, an old white man, has to show his "wokest" side at work. When he invites his superiors to a private dinner at his home, his family's politically correct façade ...
Style:
dark comedy, satirical
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hypocrisy, satire, social satire, political satire, dinner party, office politics, irony, socially awkward, social climbing, character study, family drama, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A warm summer in Montreal. Two black men, Man and Bouba, share an apartment. Man is an ambitious author, writing on The Great Novel. Bouba is a lazy amateur philosopher who quotes the Koran. Man's habit of picking up young white women makes ...
Style:
controversial, satirical, comedy drama, sexy, sex comedy
Audience:
adult
Plot:
interracial sex, interracial relations, social commentary, race, satire, social satire, identity, sexual tension, sex, jealousy, friendship, casual sex ...
Time:
80s
Place:
montreal, canada
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mircea, a 30-year-old man from a small Transylvanian town fails the judicial admission exam in Bucharest. He has no choice but to return home and live with his parents. He is forced to get a job in a waste collector company owned by a rich local ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, dark comedy, tension, psychological
Plot:
small town, character study, parent child relationship, provincial life, coming of age, living with parents, getting home, class conflict, political corruption, identity crisis, social realism, awkwardness ...
Place:
transylvania
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on the homonymous work of Dias Gomes , The Well Beloved tells the story of the mayor Paraguassu Odorico, whose primary goal in his administration in the city of Sucupira is the inauguration of a cemetery. One side is supported by the sisters ...
Style:
humorous, satirical, light, captivating, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
farce, journalism, political intrigue, social relations, rivalry, politics, small town, dishonesty, media, social satire, cemetery, political satire ...
Time:
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Place:
brazil
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
madrid, spain
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Four Anglo-Canadians and a New Yorker find themselves in a two-week long total French immersion program in the fictional, remote town of St-Isidore-du-Coeur-de-Jésus, tucked away somewhere in Northern Quebec. The place is perfect for total ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, satirical, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
language learning, satire, culture clash, language barrier, fish out of water, small town, culture shock, friendship, identity, social commentary, nationalism, identity crisis ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
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