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The Cost of Living (2003)
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The Cost of Living (2003)
Original name: Le Coût de la vie
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Une héritière qui n'arrive pas à hériter, un radin qui ne peut rien dépenser, un petit garçon qui trouve un billet dans la rue, un restaurateur prodigue qui ne fait que donner... Tels sont, entre autres, les personnages de ce film "choral". Pourquoi certains dépensent-ils de manière convulsive là où d'autres retiennent l'argent comme la partie la plus vitale de leur être ? On croit parler d'argent, mais c'est d'amour dont il s'agit.
Style: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: date night
Plot: rich and poor, looking for love, satire, restaurant owner, love and romance, generosity, society, bankruptcy, workplace, human nature, workplace situations, money, avarice, restaurant, profanity, power relations, nudity, deputy sheriff, nude, nudity (full frontal - brief), romance
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: france, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about love and romance, workplace, society, workplace situations, couples, satire and power relations mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Cost of Living: Anything for Alice (2014), The Life Coach (2009), One Fine Day (2006), The Women on the 6th Floor (2010), Head Office (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Anything for Alice (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Slacker Max fell so hard for single mother Alice in college that he developed a website aimed at winning her heart. Years later, after his venture has earned him millions of dollars, Max risks his entire fortune performing an ever more complicated ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, realistic ...
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Plot: opposites attract, wooing, social differences, renewed love, workplace, society, rich and poor, black, power relations, workplace situations, bankruptcy, love and romance
Time: 21st century
Place: france, somalia
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The Life Coach (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Max Chêne is a life coach who helps to motivate everybody from professional athletes to government ministers to business executives. After his gambling debts get out of control and his wife throws him out, he is approached to take on a unique ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Plot: workplace, workplace romance, workplace situations, save the day, escapades, gambler, gambling, gambling debt, money problems, financial problem, rivalry, relationship problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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One Fine Day (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: François Berthier’s life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs for François and his expected misfortune is changed to never-ending luck.
Style: semi serious, sincere, witty, humorous, biting ...
Plot: life turned upside down, overnight success, nothing goes right, boss and employee, crumbling marriage, human nature, breakup, misfit, obnoxious boss, workplace, disorder, down on your luck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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The Women on the 6th Floor (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school. The affluent man lives a steady yet ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, feel good, unusual plot structure, inspirational ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couples, adultery, working class, immigrant, high society, maid, strong female character, hopes, self discovery, starting over, class differences, free spirited ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1965, year 1962
Place: france, paris france, spain, europe
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Head Office (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, biting ...
Plot: job promotion, workplace intrigue, boss and employee, cons and scams, workplace romance, workplace situations, power relations, workplace, dishonesty, rise to the top, business, office work ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
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Would I Lie to You? 2 (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Dans le quartier du Sentier, Eddie Vuibert, Dov et Yvan sont confrontés aux procédés pour le moins expéditifs de leur nouveau client, Eurodiscount, une chaîne européenne d'hypermarchés. Karine, lasse des turpitudes de son volage époux, ...
Style: realistic, humorous, not serious, feel good, light
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
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Trophy Wife (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A housewife takes over her husband's umbrella business after his illness.
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Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1977, year 1978, year 1952
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What a Beautiful Day (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Checco, an uneducated but self-satisfied fellow from Milan, who has always dreamed of becoming a police officer, fails his entrance exam for the third time. It must be said that at the oral examination Checco said that the reason why he wanted to ...
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, happy
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The Search for John Gissing (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Matthew Barnes is a young exec on the move up who finds himself a pawn in corporate in-fighting when he's sent to London to oversee a merger
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, funny
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Entry Level (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After losing his restaurant, chef CLAY MAGUIRE must start his career all over--at the bottom. Pushing forty with no "corporate skill-set", Clay enters the strange world of the Unemployable Interviewees of America. Clay and his fellow ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Time: 21st century
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Nora's Hair Salon II (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The hilarious cast of Nora's Hair Salon is back in this outrageous, bust-a-gut comedy! Featuring familiar faces and fresh new names, Nora's Hair Salon 2: A Cut Above will have you cutting up all over again! As co-owner of Nora's Hair ...
Style: talky, realistic, witty, humorous, clever ...
Plot: beauty salon, family relations, friends, society, friendship, workplace, estrangement, city life, workplace situations, hairdresser, hair, black ...
Time: 21st century
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The Rendez-Vous of D?j?-Vu (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Hector meets Truquette on Bastille Day and becomes obsessed with seducing her. The plan is to get her to the seaside pronto. Pator is not complaining, especially if her friend Charlotte comes along for the ride. So off they go, down the country ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, france
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Madame Irma (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
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Duration: 92 min.
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Pink Lemonade (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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The Dinner Guest (2007)
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Country: Switzerland, Germany, Austria
Duration: 108 min.
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Duration: 96 min.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fred Bartel is the charismatic boss of a trendy Parisian communication agency, Happy Few. After a heated tax audit, he was forced by the administration to relocate overnight his company in La Courneuve. Fred and his team meet Samy, a young suburb ...
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Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013)
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Duration: 104 min.
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A Matter of Principles (2009)
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Duration: 110 min.
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