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CQ (2001)
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CQ (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Italy, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.
Style: stylized, sexy, surreal, futuristic, enigmatic, artsy, semi serious, erotic, intellectual, independent film ...
Plot: filmmaking, obsession, lone hero, showbiz, father son relationship, lifestyle, starlet, artists and showbiz, secret agent, sex scene, lust, making love, hipster, thigh high boots, spacecraft, moon, dream, chase, revolutionary, code, sabotage, american abroad, film set, moon base, soul searching ...
Time: 20th century, year 2001, 60s, future, year 1969, 70s, 1960s
Place: europe, paris france, italy, france, rome italy, vietnam
Keyword: french, movie poster

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, realistic and offbeat films with plots about artists and showbiz, lifestyle, filmmaking, female nudity, actor, film within a film and showbiz mostly in Drama, Comedy and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like CQ: Let's Have a Brainwash (1963), Irma Vep (1996), S1m0ne (2002), Living in Oblivion (1995), Day for Night (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Let's Have a Brainwash (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged American. Godard's 'New ...
Style: anthology, contemplative, surreal, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: human relationship, religion, italian neorealism, love letter, thief, stewardess, satire, post-apocalyptic future, society, human nature, religions or cults, nuclear holocaust ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: italy, paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 7.0
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Irma Vep (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A Chinese movie actress, in France to star in a remake of "Les Vampires", finds petty intrigues and clashing egos on the set.
Style: stylized, art house, witty, clever, surreal ...
Plot: filmmaking, latex, cat burglar, actress playing herself, nervous breakdown, satire, culture clash, kung fu, paranoia, hotel, slave, fantomas ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe, los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 6.1
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S1m0ne (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simone" to sub for the star — the first ...
Style: entertaining, satirical, suspense, light, humorous ...
Plot: cyberpunk, hollywood, computer, artificial intelligence, artists and showbiz, rise to the top, dishonesty, showbiz, ambition, obsession, technology, creativity ...
Time: future, year 2002, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, taj mahal
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Living in Oblivion (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nick is the director of a low-budget indie film. He tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious, beret-wearing director of photography and lousy catering. Divided in ...
Style: surreal, independent film, humorous, funny, talky ...
Plot: filmmaking, actor, filmmaker, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, showbiz, friends, actor's life, lifestyle, satire, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dark humor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Day for Night (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Style: humorous, sexy, tense, atmospheric, romantic ...
Plot: filmmaking, art, nervous breakdown, adaptation, director, workplace situations, workplace, artists and showbiz, actor's life, nothing goes right, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, future, year 1973, 70s
Place: france, europe, nice france, riviera, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
My Wife Is an Actress (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: My Wife is an Actress is a French Romantic Comedy/Drama film starring real life couple Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive ...
Style: melancholic, stylized, disturbing, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: jealous husband, love story, brutality, dishonesty, lifestyle, couples, relationship vs career, couple relations, actor's life, journalism, women, relationships ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, london, europe, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Roma (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
Style: art house, atmospheric, stylized, visual, colorful ...
Plot: fashion, memory, surrealism, society, lifestyle, satire, female nudity, politics, child, illegal prostitution, fascism, italian history ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1972, 1930s, 1920s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 7.0
 3K
Interview (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Federico Fellini welcomes us into his world of film making with a mockumentary about his life in film, as a Japanese film crew follows him around.
Style: art house, neorealism, mockumentary, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: filmmaking, female nudity, surrealism, magic realism, actor, journalism, film set, performer's life, biopic, love and romance, lifestyle, actor's life ...
Time: 1940s, 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Movie in collections
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Mistress (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the ...
Style: humorous, cynical, cult classic, light, captivating ...
Plot: filmmaking, mistress, screenwriter, hollywood, showbiz, artists and showbiz, dark humor, film producer, financier, interracial, satire, media satire ...
Time: year 1992, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Women in Trouble (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A serpentine day in the life of ten seemingly disparate women: a porn star, a flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender, a pair of call girls, etc. All of them with one crucial thing in common. Trouble.
Style: sexy, erotic, semi serious, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: stewardess, female bonding, porn actress, infidelity, disorder, nothing goes right, family relations, life turned upside down, lifestyle, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Godard's Passion (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative
Plot: nemesis, couples, factory, filmmaking, performer's life, creative block, infidelity, anti semitism, hotel, showbiz, price of justice, celebrity culture ...
Time: year 1982, 70s
Place: france, europe, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Alex in Wonderland (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Bohemian Alex Morrison has just finished directing his first feature length movie. In its previews, the movie is considered a critical, artistic and surefire commercial success. As such, Alex seemingly has his choice of what his next project will ...
Style: psychedelic, surreal, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, hippie, trippy, acid, nudity, vietnam war, beach, movie studio, acid trip, drug trip, success ...
Time: future, 20th century
Place: vietnam, europe, italy, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
All About Actresses (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: While shooting a documentary about all kinds of actresses, the director falls for one of them.
Style: semi serious, humorous, light, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: filmmaking, actress, showbiz, lifestyle, celebrity culture, actor's life, love and romance, midlife crisis, money, film producer, humiliation, actor ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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S.O.B. (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
Style: funny, cynical, witty, clever, humorous ...
Plot: filmmaking, satire, depression, corpse, film producer, hollywood, cynicism, dog, tantrum, funeral, nervous breakdown, doctor ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Girl of Your Dreams (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to make a film in co-production. Soon some problems start to arise...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Plot: prisoner, showbiz, love and romance, politics, couples, spanish civil war, world war two, filmmaking, actress, actor, holocaust, lgbt ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1938
Place: europe, germany, spain, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Last Producer (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An old-time mogul struggles to reenter the club where power and money make the rules.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, independent film
Plot: filmmaking, hollywood, one last chance, showbiz, dishonesty, aging, betrayal, artists and showbiz, film industry, movie studio, gambling, heist ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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True Enough (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Anne is an attractive woman on the cusp of middle age trying in vain to divide her time fairly between her demanding job as a television presenter and her family. Her colleagues and friends have similar problems though.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, sexual
Plot: infidelity, couples, writer's life, gender, lifestyle, jazz, jazz singer, television, extramarital affair, ex husband ex wife relationship, artists and showbiz, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, lyon, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
I'm Going Home (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to ...
Style: psychological, realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: old age, family problems, love and romance, actor's life, getting home, couples, couple relations, dealing with death, hopes, death in the family, male female relationship, love ...
Time: year 2001
Place: france, portugal, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Space Station 76 (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A comedic drama about a group of people (and several robots) living on a space station in a 1970’s-version of the future. When a new Assistant Captain arrives, she inadvertently ignites tensions among the crew, prompting them to confront their ...
Style: humorous, stylized, light, touching, captivating ...
Audience: adult
Plot: space opera, space, robot, asteroid, catastrophe, satire, imaginary, fall in love, love and romance, space and aliens, couples, love affair ...
Time: future, 70s, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Metroland (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After ten years absence Toni, Chris's best friend, suddenly reappears in London to bring chaos and doubt into Chris's calm, tranquil, slightly boring, predictable life. Chris starts to remember his carefree youth as a photographer in Paris ...
Style: cult classic, sexual, comedy drama, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: male nudity, friendship, male pubic hair, marriage, adultery, sex, bittersweet, coming of age, midlife crisis, drinking, railway, liar ...
Time: year 1997, 70s, 20th century, 60s, year 1977
Place: england, paris france, london, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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State and Main (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Hollywood Film unit invades a small Vermont town leading to wholesale abandonment of values and virtue. A smart, warm and funny movie - and not just for movie buffs. Tagline: When a film crew came to Waterford, Vermont - They Shot First And Asked ...
Style: talky, feel good, humorous, funny, melancholic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, hollywood, filmmaking, showbiz, greed, movie business, lifestyle, love and romance, small town life, disorder, couple relations, nothing goes right ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new england, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.3
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Celebrity (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one ...
Style: black and white, stylized, satirical, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: satire, writers, greed, loneliness, justice, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, ambition, lifestyle, showbiz, celebrity culture, spectacle ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, usa, atlantic city new jersey, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.0
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Face (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: France, Taiwan, Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.
Style: surreal, semi serious, stylized, humorous, contemplative ...
Plot: erotica, filmmaking, showbiz, nothing goes right, supernatural, disorder, lifestyle, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, filmmaker, underground, face ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Key to Sex (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When brainy office assistant Simon is left in charge of the boss's Hollywood mansion, the weekend becomes an opportunity of a lifetime. Entrusted by power-hungry movie producer Alan to guard the estate, Simon thinks he's finally made the ...
Style: sexy, erotic, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: erotica, infidelity, adultery, shaved pussy, sex scene, lust, making love, porn, nude women, sex, woman on top, exploring sexuality ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.6
 4K
8 ? Women (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: After the death of his wife, wealthy businessman Philip Emmenthal and his son Storey open their own private harem in their family residence in Geneva (they get the idea while watching Federico Fellini's 8½ and after Storey is "given" ...
Style: surreal, erotic, sexy, talky, clever ...
Plot: surrealism, sexual fantasy, nudity, erotica, lust, brothel, dialogue, bdsm, sex, death, obsession, prostitution ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place: switzerland, europe, japan, geneva switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Nana, the True Key of Pleasure (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In Zola's Paris, an ingenue arrives at a tony bordello: she's Nana, guileless, but quickly learning to use her erotic innocence to get what she wants. She's an actress for a soft-core filmmaker and soon is the most popular courtesan ...
Style: serious, realistic, sexual, stylized, sexy ...
Plot: courtesan, young love, lesbian incest, prostitution, making love, sex scene, fetish, femme fatale, unfulfillment, lifestyle, dishonesty, prostitute ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Eight and a Half (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 138 min.
Story: With 8 ½ Frederico Fellini leaves a self-portrait where dreams and reality are a mix. With help from a most excellent cast and unique scenery this self reflecting film is one of his master works.
Style: art house, psychological, surreal, cerebral, black and white ...
Audience: date night
Plot: filmmaking, surrealism, childhood, dream, midlife crisis, stream of consciousness, memory, catholic, adultery, actress, movie business, showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe, copenhagen, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Stardom (2000)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.
Style: clever, stylized, realistic, captivating, cynical ...
Plot: fashion, obsession, model, rise and fall, rags to riches, rising to stardom, lifestyle, desire for fame, rise to the top, ambition, celebrity culture, showbiz ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, canada, europe, france, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Going All the Way (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Korean War--era veterans and ex-classmates "Gunner" Casselman and "Sonny" Burns reunite upon their return home. Gunner, who spent the war years abroad, is trying to convince his mother that his gal Marty is good enough for him, ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, love, youth, love and romance, looking for love, teenage love, marriage, homecoming, adolescence vs adulthood, small town life, male female relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1997, 50s, year 1954
Place: indiana, indianapolis indiana, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.4
 10K
Cold Souls (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Paul Giamatti stars as himself, agonizing over his interpretation of "Uncle Vanya." Paralyzed by anxiety, he stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. ...
Style: clever, surreal, bleak, dark comedy, stylized ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: existentialism, loneliness, depression, art, life turned upside down, artists and showbiz, actor's life, disorder, lifestyle, self discovery, hopes, introspection ...
Time: year 2009
Place: russia, new york, usa, st. petersburg russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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