Movies like Dead Like Me: Life After Death
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Dead Like Me: Life After Death (2009)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When George and her colleagues get a new boss whose focus is on moving souls quickly and enjoying life without consequences, the team begins to break the strict reaper rules. While her friends fall victim to their desires for money, success, and fame, George breaks another rule by revealing her true identity to her living family.
Style:
stylized, humorous, semi serious, captivating, erotic, light, clever, enigmatic, feel good, bad ending ...
Plot:
afterlife, angel of death, death, life & death, grim reaper, suicide, dark humor, supernatural, coma, family life, workplace, dealing with death, boss and employee, workplace situations, family problems, family reunited, near death experience, death threat, catastrophe, revenge, relationships, loneliness, writers, obsession, halloween ...
Time:
future
Place:
new jersey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, melancholic and cult film films with plots about catastrophe, dialogue, mentor, storytelling, fantasy world, adaptation and runaway mostly in Comedy, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Dead Like Me: Life After Death: Dead Like Me (2003), Drop Dead Fred (1991), Are You Here (2013), Hurlyburly (1998), Pushing Tin (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Dead Like Me follows a group of undead grim reapers tasked with shepherding the recently departed into the afterlife.
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witty, sentimental, cynical, humorous, semi serious ...
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teens
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
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girls' night, teens
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new jersey, usa, virginia, maryland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Based on a play by David Rabe, Hurlyburly is about the intersecting lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes, whose dysfunctional personal lives are more interesting than anything they're peddling to the studios.
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talky, captivating, cynical, psychological, clever ...
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Time:
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usa, los angeles, new jersey, california
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A bitter ad executive who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
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