Movies like CQ
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CQ (2001)
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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:
sexy, stylized, artsy, surreal, futuristic, enigmatic, semi serious, erotic, intellectual, independent film ...
Plot:
filmmaking, obsession, father son relationship, lone hero, showbiz, lifestyle, starlet, artists and showbiz, sex scene, secret agent, spacecraft, moon, dream, chase, revolutionary, code, sabotage, american abroad, film set, moon base, soul searching, lust, hipster, thigh high boots, creative block ...
Time:
20th century, future, year 1969, year 2001, 60s, 70s, 1960s
Place:
europe, paris france, rome italy, italy, france, vietnam
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and sexy films with plots about artists and showbiz, female nudity, filmmaking, lifestyle, film within a film, actor and nude mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like CQ: Takeshis' (2005), Let's Have a Brainwash (1963), Day for Night (1973), S1m0ne (2002), Irma Vep (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, ...
Style:
surreal, semi serious, stylized, psychedelic, meta ...
Plot:
yakuza, surrealism, dark humor, obsession, actor's life, lifestyle, identity crisis, showbiz, wannabe, lookalikes, audition, doppelganger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
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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:
contemplative, surreal, realistic, semi serious, offbeat ...
Plot:
human relationship, religion, love letter, italian neorealism, thief, stewardess, satire, post-apocalyptic future, society, human nature, religions or cults, nuclear holocaust ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, paris france, france
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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:
sexy, tense, humorous, atmospheric, romantic ...
Plot:
filmmaking, art, nervous breakdown, satire, adaptation, director, workplace, actor's life, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, workplace situations, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, year 1973, future, 70s, 18th century
Place:
france, europe, nice france, french riviera, riviera
Similarity:
55%
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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, female robot, artificial intelligence, artists and showbiz, rise to the top, dishonesty, showbiz, obsession, creativity, technology ...
Time:
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Place:
california, usa, los angeles, taj mahal
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54%
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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:
art house, stylized, clever, witty, mind bending ...
Plot:
filmmaking, cat burglar, latex, nervous breakdown, satire, movie actress, actress playing herself, female nudity, culture clash, hotel, paranoia, kung fu ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, los angeles, new york ...
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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, cerebral, non-linear, stylized ...
Plot:
fashion, satire, memory, orgy, surrealism, society, lifestyle, female nudity, politics, illegal prostitution, italian history, catholic church ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 1930s, 1920s, year 1972
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe, new york, new jersey
Similarity:
52%
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:
stylized, disturbing, melancholic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
jealous husband, love story, female nudity, brutality, lifestyle, dishonesty, actor's life, couple relations, journalism, couples, relationship vs career, sex ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, london, europe, england ...
Similarity:
51%
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, adult
Plot:
stewardess, female bonding, porn actress, female nudity, infidelity, sex doll, voyeur, voyeurism, lesbian couple, dying during sex, sexual attraction, disorder ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
50%
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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:
sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual
Plot:
infidelity, couples, lifestyle, writer's life, gender, jazz, ex husband ex wife relationship, jazz singer, extramarital affair, television, artists and showbiz, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, lyon, france
Similarity:
50%
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:
sexy, funny, humorous, clever, witty ...
Plot:
filmmaking, satire, film producer, hollywood, dog, cynicism, beach house, doctor, tantrum, funeral, death, disaster ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, 1930s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
49%
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:
sexy, humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
prisoner, showbiz, love and romance, politics, couples, spanish civil war, world war two, filmmaking, actress, actor, lgbt, erotica ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 1938
Place:
europe, germany, spain, berlin germany
Similarity:
49%
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, captivating, light ...
Plot:
filmmaking, screenwriter, mistress, money, showbiz, hollywood, artists and showbiz, dark humor, film producer, financier, interracial, satire ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
48%
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:
feel good, independent film, talky, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
small town, filmmaking, satire, hollywood, showbiz, seduction, actor, greed, movie business, lifestyle, love and romance, small town life ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place:
new england, vermont, england
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48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When a scholar, is haunted by an overwhelming desire to understand the mystery of sex, he decides to conduct an investigation. With two beautiful assistants joining the case, the stakes are raised.
Style:
sexy, talky, captivating, humorous, psychological ...
Plot:
sex, making love, sexuality, dark humor, sexual relations, looking for sex, lifestyle, destructive relationship, sex scene, female nudity, erotica, voyeur ...
Time:
year 2001, year 1929, 1920s
Place:
europe, france, paris france
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 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, realistic, semi serious, surreal ...
Plot:
filmmaking, surrealism, female nudity, kama sutra, television, nude girl, magic realism, journalism, film set, performer's life, biopic, actor's life ...
Time:
80s, 1940s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
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47%
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:
contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, nemesis, factory, filmmaking, couples, factory worker, creative block, performer's life, price of justice, showbiz, midlife crisis, hotel ...
Time:
year 1982, 70s
Place:
europe, france, switzerland, swiss alps
Similarity:
47%
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:
sexy, erotic, surreal, dark comedy, sex comedy ...
Plot:
surrealism, sex, lust, sexual fantasy, brothel, death, dialogue, bdsm, naked man, nudity, obsession, erotica ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
switzerland, europe, japan, geneva switzerland, tokyo
Similarity:
46%
85K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys, Eric, Turtle and Johnny, are back…and back in business with super agent-turned-studio head Ari Gold. Some of their ambitions have changed, but the bond between them remains strong as they navigate ...
Style:
sexy, teen, entertaining, humorous, not serious ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
hollywood, showbiz, friendship, aspiring actor, filmmaking, skinny dipping, satire, rivalry, celebrity, relationship vs career, movie star, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, amarillo texas, spain ...
Similarity:
46%
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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:
realistic, psychological, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
old age, actor's life, love and romance, getting home, family problems, hopes, dealing with death, couple relations, couples, death in the family, male female relationship, love ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
france, portugal, paris france, europe
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, UK
Duration: 101 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:
sexual, cult classic, comedy drama, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
male nudity, male pubic hair, friendship, desire, adultery, marriage, bittersweet, coming of age, midlife crisis, drinking, sex, nudity ...
Time:
year 1997, 70s, 20th century, year 1963, year 1977 ...
Place:
england, paris france, london, france, europe
Similarity:
46%
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, skinny dipping ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, india, france
Similarity:
46%
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:
realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, independent film
Plot:
filmmaking, hollywood, one last chance, showbiz, artists and showbiz, aging, betrayal, dishonesty, film industry, movie studio, gambling, heist ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
46%
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, lifestyle, rising to stardom, rise to the top, desire for fame, showbiz, celebrity culture, fame ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, canada, europe, france, montreal ...
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A director struggles with a difficult sex scene between a young actor and actress who can't stand one another. Aided by her loyal assistant, she is hell-bent on getting the scene right without compromise.
Style:
sexy, stylized, melancholic, art house, erotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, sexual relations, filmmaking, stepmother stepson relationship, female nudity, transgression, lust, fondling, female pubic hair, lifestyle, showbiz, love affair ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
atlantic ocean
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The writer can do anything he wants, right? Or maybe not...as Steven, a handsome young theater history professor discovers when he sets out to write a stage thriller - a plain, old generic thriller - only to discover that his characters prefer a ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, surreal, sexy ...
Plot:
homosexual, disorder, college, artists and showbiz, gender, nothing goes right, gay, flash forward, gay lead character, serial killer, writer's block, bare chested male ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself between the urge to discover love and the ever-present, dominating affection of his mother.
Style:
sexy, touching, erotic, sentimental, controversial ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
incest, mother son incest, coming of age, sexual initiation, oedipus complex, mother son relationship, mother and son, self discovery, sex, exploring sexuality, sexuality, childhood ...
Time:
1950s, year 1954, 20th century, 50s, year 1971 ...
Place:
france, israel, europe, indochina, paris france ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jens Jorgen Thorsen's freewheeling adaptation of Henry Miller's notorious novel offered a different kind of American in Paris and pushed the boundaries of sex on the screen
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, black and white, realistic ...
Plot:
erotica, promiscuity, voyeurism, sex, lust, infidelity, misogynist, female pubic hair, male pubic hair, friendship between men, voyeur, promiscuous woman ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later they have a passionate relationship.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, independent film, contemplative ...
Plot:
nudity, making love, infidelity, sexual attraction, seductive, sex scene, adultery, biopic, couples, gays and lesbians, journalism, destructive relationship ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
rome italy, france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
45%
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, stylized, sexual, sexy ...
Plot:
half sister half sister incest, courtesan, young love, fetish, sex scene, prostitution, making love, sex with sister, lesbian incest, femme fatale, unfulfillment, dishonesty ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.
Style:
sexy, psychological, erotic, melancholic, erotic drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
filmmaking, redemption, drug, obsession, multiple storylines, addiction, lifestyle, downfall, life is a bitch, showbiz, human nature, infidelity ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 70s
Place:
israel, los angeles, middle east, usa, california ...
Similarity:
44%
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