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The Dark Backward (1991)
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The Dark Backward (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A man pursues stand-up comedy encouraged by his fellow garbage man. Though his friend, who accompanies him on accordion, continues to tell him how great he is, he actually stinks. When the "comedian" grows a third arm out of his back, the friend uses this twist to get him signed up with a sleazy talent agent, and it begins to look like his career is on the move, even though his girlfriend has left him.
Style: dark comedy, horror comedy, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, black comedy, postmodern, christian film ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: distopia, supernatural being, talent agent, dystopia, friendship, obsession, friends, misfit, love and romance, singleness, rise to the top, couples, young lovers, opposites attract, down on your luck, starting over, experiment gone awry, satire, lifestyle, partner, disorder, fish out of water, buddies, thirtysomething life, freak ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Keyword: partners

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and independent film films with plots about friends, buddies, love and romance, lifestyle, couples, friendship and disorder mostly in Comedy genres. Some movies like The Dark Backward: Never Been Thawed (2005), Postmark Paradise (2000), 6 Month Rule (2011), Late Last Night (1999), Watch It (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Never Been Thawed (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A hilarious mockumentary about the delicious hobby of frozen food collecting and Christian rock band, The Christers. The film follows the Mesa Frozen Entree Enthusiast's Club as they plan their first Frozen Entree Enthusiasts Convention.
Style: not serious, cynical, humorous, witty, mockumentary ...
Plot: friendship, rise to the top, lifestyle, partner, disorder, ego clash, desire for fame, misfit, nothing goes right, rivalry, satire, cooking and food ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa
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Postmark Paradise (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Dirty Shame is the only bar in the small town of Paradise, Michigan. A burnt out, chain-smoking fortyish bar maid is the only waitress at The Dirty Shame. A group of local red necks conspiring to bring a mail order bride to their Midwest town ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, fish out of water, starting over, society, love and romance, couple relations, couples, culture clash, immigrant, husband wife relationship, mail order bride, countryside ...
Time: 90s
Place: michigan, ukraine, usa, kiev ukraine
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87%
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6 Month Rule (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A womanizer teaches his clueless friend the rules about being single and avoiding emotional attachment.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, thought provoking
Audience: date night
Plot: womanizer, couples, couple relations, friends, love and romance, sexual content, fall in love, buddies, lifestyle, singleness, friend
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Late Last Night (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After a fight with his wife, who's leaving him, Dan's day is getting worse by the minute. He calls an old friend for a night of binge drinking and intoxication. They start a cathartic ride through the city's underbelly.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, dark comedy
Plot: friendship, golf, self discovery, relationships, drug use, divorce, showbiz, nightlife, buddies, lifestyle, prostitute, legal action ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Watch It (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Mike, Danny, and Rick are grown men who share a house in Chicago. They take on a fourth house mate, John, who is Mike's estranged first cousin. John's welcome to the house is crowned by his introduction to a game of perpetual pranks called ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous
Audience: date night
Plot: womanizer, prank, dating, friends, family relations, couples, youth, buddies, lifestyle, love and romance, battle of the sexes, fall in love ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: chicago, usa
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74%
I Love You Too (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, buddies, couple relations, breakup, wooing, society, thirtysomething life, love and romance, lifestyle, friends, couples, women
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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72%
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Unemployed (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jamal and Dex are two hapless out of work actors who come to terms with reality when they realize they've been pursuing their dreams for over ten years and still haven't booked a single speaking role. When the two run out of cash and face ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, slasher ...
Plot: nothing goes right, follow your dream, against the odds, fish out of water, love and romance, unlikely couple, actor's life, buddies, couples, disorder, unemployment, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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What Boys Like (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: While traveling to be the groomsmen in the wedding of their friend Scott, the wolf Dewey proposes two bets to his monogamist friend Jay: if he had sex along the weekend he would give his valuable convertible car to Jay; and if Jay did not score any ...
Style: sex comedy, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: buddies, wedding, fall in love, lifestyle, looking for love, silly humor, best friend, womanizer, love and romance, couples, singleness, wooing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Lola Versus (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola (Greta Gerwig) finds herself suddenly without a partner when her longtime fiance, Luke (Joel Kinnaman), dumps her. With her 30th birthday looming and being forced to re-enter the New York City dating scene, ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: breakup, best friend, couples, starting over, singleness, disorder, lifestyle, introspection, hopes, life turned upside down, ex boyfriend, grieving ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Hollywood Palms (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Set entirely in the Hollywood Palms apartment building and its yard, this movie shows how people there live and interact with each other.
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, biting, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: dark humor, betrayal, introspection, lifestyle, buddies, human nature, friendship, showbiz, hollywood, murder, partner, thirtysomething life ...
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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62%
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Floundering (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a young man's unemployment benefits run out, the IRS freezes his bank account, and his druggie brother needs help, things can't get any worse...until he discovers his girlfriend is cheating on him!
Style: humorous, cynical, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: unemployment, estrangement, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, society, buddies, dark humor, down on your luck, friendship, lifestyle, disorder, fictional reality ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: seattle, los angeles, italy, venice, usa ...
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62%
Shut Up and Shoot  Me (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Colin Frampton is an Englishman who never stops worrying, not even on holiday in Prague. When Colin's wife is accidentally squashed by a statue, he decides that he can't face life without her. So Colin bribes Pavel to help him die. An ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot: dark humor, partner, gangster, criminal heroes, misfit, hitman, friendship, disorder, buddies, death wish, death in the family, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, prague, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Sour Grapes (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Richie, a sneaker sole designer, and his cousin Evan, a brain surgeon, are spending this weekend with their girlfriends in Atlantic City. When one of them ends up with a $436,000 jackpot, sour grapes is what results. Even though Richie uses two ...
Style: humorous, intense, semi serious, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot: gambling, casino, greed, friendship, unlikely friendships, stupidity, partner, dishonesty, nothing goes right, change of luck, dark humor, vengeance ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: new jersey, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey, bulgaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Foursome (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Four old friends reconnect at their 20-year college reunion.
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Kisses and Caroms (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In California, Zack owns the "Breakingtime Billiards", a store that sells pool tables and game room supplies. He works with his girlfriend Jennifer; the sexy seller Tara; the installer of pool tables and best friend, the wolf David, and ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, sexy, realistic, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night
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Trippin' (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Greg is near the end of his senior year in high school, wanting to go to the prom, eyeing Cinny (the school's beauty with brains) from afar, and regularly trippin', daydreaming about being a big success as a poet, a student, a lover. His ...
Style: hood, semi serious, humorous, feel good, light ...
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Plot: high school, prom, youth, teenage life, lifestyle, love and romance, buddies, college, college life, black, ghetto, coming of age ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, y2k
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Style: independent film, slapstick, semi serious, realistic, surreal ...
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Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Phat Beach (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A hefty homeboy borrows his dad's Mercedes and goes to the beach with his friends for wild sun & fun.
Style: light, semi serious, humorous, emotional, black comedy ...
Plot: beach, hip hop, juvenile delinquency, gangster, best friend, love and romance, society, lifestyle, nothing goes right, destiny, high school, urban ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Stella Street (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Michael Caine, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Roger Moore all live on a quiet street in Surbiton and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards run their corner shop - who knew?
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, realistic, clever ...
Plot: misfit, fish out of water, disorder, satire, lifestyle, social decay, culture clash, showbiz, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, society, buddies ...
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Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Cavemen (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: "Cavemen" is a comedic film with a slight edge of drama revolving around the lives of somewhat single, somewhat unemployed guys living in a warehouse converted to living quarters in the 'Arts District' of Downtown Los Angeles, ...
Style: light, semi serious, realistic, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: friends, singleness, lifestyle, buddies, love and romance, looking for love, best friends in love, life philosophy, transformation, womanizer, male female relationship, friendship ...
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51%
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Cougar Club (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Spence and Hogan graduate from college, life is bleak. They have to work for heinous divorce lawyers that torture them. Spence has a girlfriend from hell and Hogan just wants to start his life already. As luck would have it, our two young men ...
Style: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, sexy, humorous, witty ...
Audience: teens, date night
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51%
That's What She Said (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Longtime best friends Bebe and DeeDee are both wrestling with love. Bebe has met someone new and is in the exuberant phase of a budding romance. DeeDee is trying to move on from someone she can’t forget – mostly in destructive ways. As Bebe ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good ...
Plot: best friend, city life, friends, singleness, twentysomething life, nothing goes right, disorder, lifestyle, strong female presence, friendship, friendship between men, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Foot Fist Way (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: funny, humorous, dark comedy, harsh, stylized ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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High Strung (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Thane Furrows, an extremely cynical but unintentionally hilarious children's book writer, wakes up one morning, and, since pretty much everyone and everything annoys him, begins another day of complaining to himself. However, the day proves to ...
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: usa
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48%
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Beach Movie (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Link is torn between the two loves of his life: surfing, and his girlfriend Sunny. He's also got to deal with an angry landlady who's threatening to evict him if he doesn't start paying his rent. When three rich but clueless newcomers ...
Style: sex comedy, sexy, not serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: woman in a bikini, beach, beach party, disorder, power relations, friends, couples, teaching the ways of the world, friendship, twentysomething life, sexual relations, looking for sex ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Where's the Party Yaar? (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film is based on Sunil Thakkar's own experiences running and throwing parties for the Music Masala radio station, and having to discriminate between "Fresh off the Boat" Indians and the more fashionable, hip, Americanized Indians. ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, sexy, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Life's a Beach (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Darren gets stood up on the day of his wedding and uses his vacation tickets with his best friend, RJ, to spend his "honeymoon" at a Club Med-style resort.
Style: humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: resort, couples, friends, disorder, fall in love, youth, lifestyle, island, beach, looking for sex, friendship, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Casual Sex? (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two girls go away to a holiday resort looking for a change of pace, hoping to meet some nice men for a change. They discover that they can't find the perfect man, and this forces them to reconsider their attitudes to men in general.
Style: sex comedy, sexy, erotic, sexual, colorful ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: resort, dating, erotica, friends, sex, teenage sex, in love, public nudity, porn, teen angst, fall in love, battle of the sexes ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Book of Caleb (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prank, best friend, friends, misfit, love and romance, social misfits, friendship, true love, uninhibited rivalry, society, rivalry, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Thirty-Five Something (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Three women in their late thirties, one with marital problems, one trying to be perfect, and a spinster, discuss their relationship to men.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Audience: girls' night
Plot: thirtysomething life, friendship, love affair, lifestyle, family life, family problems, couples, workplace, couple relations, love and romance, husband wife relationship, singleness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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