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The Perfect Candidate (2024)
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Original name: Candidatul perfect
Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Costica, unemployed and without many goals in life, tired of being taken for a fool, runs for president to steal his neighbor's parking spot, unaware that he is being manipulated by the party, which secretly wants to lose the election, in order to continue stealing from the state.
Style:
humorous, satirical, ironic, dark comedy, political thriller
Audience:
adult
Plot:
corruption, political satire, political corruption, embezzlement, political campaign, social commentary, bribery, working class, bureaucracy, media manipulation, farce, conspiracy, morality, urban, underdog, identity crisis, bittersweet
Time:
2020s, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out satirical, dark comedy, humorous and captivating films with plots about satire, social commentary, political satire, corruption, urban, bureaucracy and politics mostly in Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like The Perfect Candidate: Teambuilding (2022), Illegal Hayatlar: Meclis (2024), Dr. Mekam (2018), Operation Shmenti Capelli (2011), Of Snails and Men (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Cetto and its city council were arrested, but in prison the conspiratorial former mayor makes no earning name as the gratitude of the powerful secretary. These decide to replace some MPs mysteriously killed precisely with Cetto and two other ...
Style:
satirical, humorous, funny, entertaining, political ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political satire, corruption, prison, politics, satire, political corruption, stupidity, society, rivalry, disorder, police officer, buddies ...
Place:
southern italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Brazilian politician João Ernesto surrenders to justice and is arrested for corruption, before attempting to overturn with sincerity and real proposals.
Style:
satirical, semi serious, funny, humorous, ironic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political satire, corruption, satire, politician, social commentary, election campaign, politics, humour, political corruption, corrupt politician, irony, government corruption ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The political party called LMKP, which Mahsun, Şahin and Mehmet established as a front to secretly gamble, accidentally entered the parliament. As a result, the trio find themselves in a brand new world full of opportunities. The story, which ...
Style:
situational comedy, dark comedy, cynical, sitcom, black comedy ...
Plot:
corruption, political corruption, parliament, greed, political satire, opportunism, ambition, social commentary, moral ambiguity, fraud, scam, criminal underworld ...
Similarity:
84%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
General Ivolgin, forester Kuzmich, and good-natured Lyova now are going into politics.
Style:
witty, humorous, realistic, not serious, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political satire, political intrigue, male camaraderie, friendship, election campaign, social commentary, satire, politics, nothing goes right, escapades, misfit partners, disorder ...
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Nigeria
Story:
In this hilarious dramatic comedy, a highly successful diaspora based Nigerian medical Doctor decides to return home and run for the office of the Governor of Anambra state as “a humble stepping stone to becoming the President of Nigeria” but ...
Style:
satirical, humorous, political thriller, political comedy
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political satire, social commentary, corruption, ambition, power struggle, fish out of water, bittersweet, identity crisis
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76%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
João Ernesto Ribamar is a corrupt politician running for the presidency. He is in the runoff election, ahead on the polls, when he receives a "mandinga" (curse) from his grandmother, which makes him unable to lie. Now the problem begins: ...
Style:
satirical, sitcom, situational comedy, dark comedy, absurd ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political satire, honesty, satire, corrupt politician, election, politics, corruption, moral dilemma, social commentary, conscience, media manipulation, magic realism ...
Place:
brazil
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70%
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
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Colombia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a spoiled Colombian snob becomes president through money and connections, he finds staying in power takes more than he expected.
Style:
satirical, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, political ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political satire, satire, political campaign, social commentary, rich, political unrest, politician, escapades, political candidate, rich man, politics, corrupt politician ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
colombia, latin america
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
One worker in a bankrupt factory finds an unusual solution to save his co-workers from unemployment. If it doesn't work the factory will be privatized and sold to a French company planning to convert the plant into a snail cannery. Only 300 of ...
Style:
entertaining, satirical, captivating, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
working class, satire, labor union, unemployment, social commentary, factory worker, labor leader, factory owner, coworker, co worker co worker relationship, workplace, employer employee relationship ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Attenti a quei P2 (Beware of those P2s) is a satirical parody of the judicial affair concerning the P2 Masonic lodge.
Style:
satirical, parody, black comedy, controversial, cynical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political corruption, satire, conspiracy, corruption, secret society, political satire, scandal, cover up, social satire, social commentary, dark humor, political intrigue ...
Time:
80s
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Some Say No is a new Italian comedy with a very serious subject: the way the country's society is corroded by favoritism that pushes inferior people to the top in virtually every field. In Florence, three thirty-somethings band together to wage ...
Style:
satirical, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, funny ...
Plot:
satire, friendship, social commentary, nepotism, favoritism, problem, social problems, friends, old friends reunited, investigation, reunited friends, humour ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florence
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Nader saif eldeen and Afet elsherbiny are two competing Egyptians newspaper reporters who expose the truth but the Channel Manager rejects that for fear of government.
Style:
satirical, captivating, humorous, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
journalism, political satire, satire, humour, reporter, news reporter, female journalist, journalist, investigation, social commentary, corruption, urban ...
Place:
egypt, cairo egypt
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Seven years after the incident in Pitta, all from the group leaves the Aegean, and get's to shore... Stavrakomathiakakis - after the mysterious kidnap of his 12 years old Pakistanian protégé Noori - leaves Psiloritis and, following her ...
Style:
satirical, witty, absurd, dark comedy, buddy comedy ...
Plot:
friendship, satire, social commentary, irreverent, economic crisis, political corruption, urban, political satire, class conflict, kidnapping, corruption, political campaign ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
athens greece
Similarity:
51%
162
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Four door-to-door salesmen struggle to get by while pursuing an analog profession in a digital world. They unwittingly begin selling propaganda for a cult, whose popularity sweeps the city, leaving the salesmen as the only people who can stop it.
Style:
dark comedy, semi serious, captivating, satirical, comedy drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, propaganda, conspiracy, absurdism, social issues, social problems, problem, workplace, social commentary, city, ethical dilemma, urban ...
Place:
boston
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a young diplomat manages to get the Austrian government to return the Plume of Moctezuma to Mexico for an exhibition, his life quickly falls apart.
Style:
satirical, feel good, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, humour, escapades, diplomacy, international relations, political satire, bureaucracy, social commentary, nationalism, identity crisis, urban, family drama ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
mexico, austria, mexico city
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Why when people in leading positions get into conflict, there only "ordinary people" get hurt? Two personal bodyguards of governor of a small Roman province asks themselves just that. In movie we will witness the funny stories, which are ...
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, cynical, satirical, period drama
Plot:
ancient rome, satire, political corruption, bodyguard, power struggle, social commentary, class conflict, bureaucracy, friendship, compassion, loyalty, morality ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In this satire of the I.R.S., George Segal plays an Average Joe targeted for the Audit from Hell. His bank accounts are frozen, his home and business are attached by the government, and his wife leaves him. Segal is forced to move into the house of ...
Style:
satirical, dark comedy, twisted, psychotronic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, underdog, financial ruin, bureaucracy, middle class, social commentary, political satire, family conflict, small business owner, revenge, scheming, redemption ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A charismatic Billionaire runs for president as an independent candidate. His platform is simple: KILL EVERYONE NOW!!!
Style:
captivating, satirical, entertaining, semi serious, political ...
Plot:
political satire, politics, satire, political candidate, political activist, political humor, ambition, political campaign, political activism, social commentary, irony, mass murder ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
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
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Nepal
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Nirvaya Singh is currently the head of one of Nepal's most influential political parties, while his son Dik Vijay is deeply involved in criminal operations. When a political election is going to take place, Nirvaya becomes paralyzed, and Dik ...
Style:
masala, crime drama, satirical, black comedy, humorous ...
Plot:
corruption, political manipulation, corrupt politician, social commentary, father son relationship, rise to power, power struggle, satire, organized crime, family drama, urban, celebrity cameo
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A small-time politician aspires to become the leader of the state.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, semi serious, political, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
political satire, ambition, satire, politician, election campaign, political activism, political candidate, political campaign, politics, political humor, social commentary, power struggle ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
india
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After his engagement falls through, Murat finds himself knee deep in debt and accepts an enticing, ghastly offer from his boss at the TV station.
Style:
dark comedy, satirical, tense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
financial crisis, debt, moral dilemma, media satire, television studio, satire, social commentary, desperation, rise and fall, scandal, anti hero, manipulation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A former idealistic leader turned corrupt politician is cursed by his grandmother on the eve of the presidential election, forcing him to be honest. Can he win without lies and what will be the conditions?
Style:
satirical, political, feel good, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political satire, election campaign, social commentary, presidential election, corruption, crooked politician, politician, truth, politics, uncover truth, political candidate, satire ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Story:
An aspiring director works hard to fulfill his dream of making a movie. However, in the purely commercial process of turning a script into the final product, he faces so many challenges and is forced to make so many changes that his original story ...
Style:
satirical, ironic, captivating, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot:
satire, dream, director, farce, problem solving, filmmaker, irony, filmmaking, behind the scenes, ambition, urban, bittersweet
Place:
india
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Corrupt and sleazy entrepreneur Cetto La Qualunque comes back to Italy and "jumps into politics" lest his law-abiding opponent, Giovanni De Santis, is elected as mayor.
Style:
sexy, humorous, not serious, realistic, funny ...
Plot:
political satire, farce, politics, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, campaign, satire, state affairs, politician, corruption, political corruption, opportunism ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy, southern italy, europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
President Vasily Goloborodko is in power for almost half a year. The economic situation in the country had deteriorated: prices are rising and the national currency has depreciated. People's confidence in the President is rapidly falling. To ...
Style:
humorous, social, captivating, satirical, dramatic ...
Plot:
corruption, government corruption, president, politics, parent child relationship, loneliness, mentor, love triangle, rivalry, society, dishonesty, destiny ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Peppino, a provincial librarian who became the accidental President of Italy, is now a father and has returned to a peaceful, happy life as a woodsman. That is, until his wife Janis decides to return to politics. Peppino is forced to abandon his ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, satirical, captivating, funny ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
president, satire, political campaign, prime minister, politician, politics, political satire, presidential candidate, humour, fish out of water, media satire, media manipulation ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
At 56 years of age Mita Pantić (Nikola Simić) is still only a junior clerk in his company. Another typical workday for him is starting at 6 a.m. as frustration awaits at every turn from the moment he gets up. Trying to get ready to go to work, he ...
Style:
tragicomedy, satirical, dark comedy, cult classic, slapstick ...
Plot:
clerk, satire, social commentary, bureaucracy, working class, midlife crisis, mistaken identity, rumor, sexuality, farce, absurd humor, car crash ...
Time:
80s
Place:
former yugoslavia, eastern europe, belgrade
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Spain boils with tension, the country is totally polarized and social networks burn daily... The NEW LEFT and LIBERAL SPAIN parties face each other in the next general elections.
Style:
entertaining, satirical, captivating, political, semi serious ...
Plot:
political satire, political party, politics, political leader, political election, political activism, political campaign, political intrigue, satire, political candidate, political activist, politician ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
35%
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