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The American Ruling Class (2005)
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
This inventive, mildly fictionalized documentary follows noted editor Lewis Lapham as he introduces two Ivy League graduates to America's elite in an effort to examine the role of class and moneyed privilege in American democracy. With stops at the Pentagon, posh Manhattan parties and more, Lapham encounters luminaries -- including James Baker III and Walter Cronkite -- who each share their perspectives on America's ruling class.
Style:
realistic, cynical, semi serious, political, clever, witty, biting, thought provoking, suspense, fake documentary
Plot:
satire, politics, rise to the top, moral dilemma, lifestyle, idealism, social decay, injustice, society, state affairs, economics, college, media, elite, ambition, young
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and witty films with plots about satire, society, politics, lifestyle, media, state affairs and artists and showbiz mostly in Comedy, Music and Drama genres. Some movies like The American Ruling Class: The L.A. Riot Spectacular (2005), Embedded Live (2004), Bill Maher: But I'm Not Wrong (2010), The Last Days of Switzerland (1999), Amazing Grace (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the ...
Style:
political, cynical, biting, realistic, not serious ...
Plot:
satire, monty python, politics, nude girl, nudity, manipulation, disorder, rise to the top, dishonesty, state affairs, ambition, head of state ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe
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95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The controversial satire The LA Riot Spectacular plays for mordent laughs the events that consumed L.A. in 1992, after the police officers on trial for beating motorist Rodney King were found innocent. The city was engulfed by a massive riot, but ...
Style:
humorous, witty, cynical, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
satire, culture clash, fighting the system, social decay, social differences, politics, injustice, society, police investigation, campaign, police corruption, social satire ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Embedded is a ripped-from-the-headlines satire about the madness surrounding brave men and women on the front lines of a Middle East conflict. It skewers lapdog embedded journalists, scheming government officials and the media's insatiable ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, controversial, disturbing, cynical ...
Plot:
satire, military, rebelliousness, political unrest, anti war, soldier, politics, society, state affairs, iraq war, american politics, media ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
In front of a live audience at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Emmy-nominated host of Real Time with Bill Maher performs an all-new hour of stand-up comedy. ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, cynical, realistic, witty ...
Plot:
politics, comedian, artists and showbiz, state affairs, society, democrat, atheism, one-man show, profanity, religions or cults, liberal, barack obama ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, north carolina
Similarity:
91%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Switzerland, Germany, Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A naive girl's love for Switzerland is put to the test in this satiric comedy. Irina (Yelena Panova) is a woman from Russia who all her life has always been fascinated by Switzerland and longs to live there some day, though her notion of Swiss ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty ...
Plot:
prostitute, dishonesty, immigrant, workplace, politics, state affairs, social decay, injustice, love and romance, friendship, sexual obsession, bdsm ...
Time:
90s
Place:
switzerland, europe
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Amazing Grace is a 1974 light comedy featuring black comedienne Moms Mabley as a widow who tries to influence the local mayoral election in Baltimore, Maryland, after she discovers that a black candidate is being used by the incumbent mayor to ...
Style:
hilarious, slapstick, biting, cynical, realistic ...
Plot:
blaxploitation, campaign, election, black, african american, campaigning, candidate, racism, ridicule, election campaign, satire, fighting the system ...
Time:
70s
Place:
maryland, baltimore, usa
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Comedy - The hypocrisy lurking behind politics and small-town life is revealed in this sharp, hilarious satire that finds Centerville shaking up its mayoral election by forcing the candidates to participate in an "Election Pageant." Seven ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
politics, satire, ambition, rise to the top, transvestism, campaign, social decay, social differences, contests and competitions, society, lifestyle, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
HealtH is set at a health food convention at a Florida luxury hotel, where a powerful political organization is deciding on a new president.
Style:
political, semi serious, realistic, cynical, biting ...
Plot:
campaign, talk show host, candidate, campaigning, election, convention, hotel, satire, luxury hotel, multiple storylines, fighting the system, state affairs ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place:
florida, tennessee
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Prince of Swine is a sex comedy about feminism.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, cynical, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
fighting the system, idealism, injustice, satire, dedicated lawyer, boss and employee, legal action, rebellion, obnoxious boss, workplace, society, feminism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Grant Cogswell, a liberal music critic decides to run for city council against a popular black incumbent and is assisted by a reporter who recently lost his job. Initially given no chance, things turn dark when Cogswell makes it into the general ...
Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, realistic, political ...
Plot:
politics, ambition, satire, society, campaign, unemployment, friends, against the odds, political campaign, election campaign, campaigning, media ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In April 1933, Korea’s Japanese occupiers launched the country’s first radio station, JODK. It broadcasts propaganda so as to better brainwash the Korean people into becoming loyal Japanese citizens. In need of a Korean producer for a radio ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, satirical, entertaining, political ...
Plot:
japanese occupation of korea, artists and showbiz, radio, radioactivity, society, propaganda, politics, social problems, radio announcer, satire, political intrigue, social issues ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
Tanner on Tanner is a follow up to celebrated filmmaker Robert Altman and DOONESBURY cartoonist Gary Trudeau's political satire TANNER '88, a mockumentary following a fictional democratic presidential candidate (Michael Murphy) on his ...
Style:
cynical, semi serious, humorous, witty, mockumentary ...
Plot:
satire, undercover, manhunt, fighting the system, moral dilemma, society, state affairs, lifestyle, rebellion, dishonesty, journalism, politics ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A New York hipster sets out on a a quest to create the most sincere T-shirt ever.
Style:
semi serious, talky, cynical, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
friends, friendship, self discovery, society, dull life, ambition, lifestyle, youth, twentysomething life, farce, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Maher addresses contemporary political, social and cultural topics -- Iraq, President Bush and the so called Axis of Evil. The opinionated Maher said about Victory Begins at Home: "We've heard everything about the War on Terrorism except ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, cynical, witty, parody ...
Plot:
comedian, stand up comedian, adult humor, politics, society, atheism, stand up comedy, joke, topical humor, live performance, political satire, cynicism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A Jewish-American Princess is forced to take control of a hard-core hip-hop record label and tries to rein the one of the label's most controversial rappers.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
hip hop, fish out of water, satire, interracial relations, love and romance, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, unlikely couple, opposites attract, disorder, family relations, media ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
At the 2004 Republican Nation Convention, love blooms between a Republican delegate and a Democrat protesting the event.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, political ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
opposites attract, democrat, politics, love affair, introspection, idealism, moral dilemma, injustice, couples, campaign, friendship, rise to the top ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, new haven connecticut, connecticut, madison square garden manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
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Style:
witty, realistic, humorous, not serious, cynical ...
Plot:
stand up comedy, battle of the sexes, lifestyle, social differences, politics, artists and showbiz, couple relations, theater, performer's life, disorder, comedian, robot ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
54%
405
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A once-idealistic writer inadvertently ignites a feeding frenzy in Hollywood with the mention of a mysterious new screenplay and its illusive author.
Style:
semi serious, witty, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot:
filmmaking, media, hidden identity, writer's life, lifestyle, workplace, showbiz, artists and showbiz, innocence lost, dishonesty, disorder, nothing goes right ...
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
53%
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, culture clash, showbiz, social decay, buddies, society, unfulfillment, nothing goes right ...
Time:
60s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Dead Ringers is a United Kingdom radio and television comedy impressions show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and later BBC Two. The programme was devised by producer Bill Dare and developed with Jon Holmes, Andy Hurst and Simon Blackwell. It starred Jon ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, cynical, talky, witty ...
Plot:
satire, media satire, politics, state affairs, society, artists and showbiz, joke, comedy team, humour, media, disorder, celebrity culture ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A nightclub gatekeeper can't shake the documentary film crew following him.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, cynical, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
celebrity culture, society, unemployment, downfall, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, doorman, introspection, identity, slice of life, city life, identity crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The new season of "American Dreamz," the wildly popular television singing contest, has captured the country's attention, as the competition looks to be between a young Midwestern gal (Moore) and a showtunes-loving young man from ...
Style:
feel good, parody, humorous, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
satire, desire for fame, agent, contests and competitions, disorder, rising to stardom, head of state, media, state affairs, ambition, artists and showbiz, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
iraq, usa, manhattan new york city, ohio, new york
Similarity:
47%
193
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
LateLine is an American TV sitcom that ran on NBC from March 17, 1998, through March 16, 1999. Due to an abrupt cancellation, there were seven unaired episodes.
Created by John Markus and Al Franken, LateLine depicted the behind-the-scenes ...
Style:
sitcom, semi serious, offbeat, biting, cynical ...
Plot:
satire, workplace romance, journalism, news anchor, behind the scenes, office, politics, artists and showbiz, state affairs, couples, workplace intrigue, friends ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Actor Michael Madsen turns the tables on notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of documentary filmmakers to chronicle Dant's life, loves, and troubles.
Style:
parody, semi serious, cynical, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
satire, showbiz, paparazzi, filmmaking, actor's life, celebrity, false accusation, private vs public, celebrity culture, vengeance, journalism, society ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
As always, Carvey never crosses the line into mean-spiritedness, but easily glides in and out of every impression & expression, reminding us of the huge talent we came to know and love before he left the scene due to his heart condition. ...
Style:
not serious, witty, humorous, realistic, parody ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
stand up comedy, politics, artists and showbiz, religions or cults, profanity, lifestyle, state affairs, society, stand up comedian, live performance, satire, political humor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, biting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
satire, showbiz, media satire, workplace situations, society, boss and employee, media, ambition, rise to the top, blind ambition, workplace, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1930s
Place:
australia, london
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Seven comedians bring down the house in the second line up of comic stylings from Producer Cecil Chambers series "Cut'N It Up". In this set the city of Dallas is on display as Rodney Perry, Juan Villereal, Joey Wells, Rayzor, Mark ...
Style:
humorous, cynical, witty, realistic, not serious ...
Plot:
comedian, hip hop, satire, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, culture clash, interracial relations, social differences, society, city life, joke, theater ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
38%
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, witty, humorous, mockumentary ...
Plot:
friendship, lifestyle, rise to the top, partner, disorder, desire for fame, ego clash, rivalry, nothing goes right, misfit, satire, cooking and food ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona, usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Music, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Chance, a hapless Los Angeles musician is searching for the coveted Moletron synthesizer through the classified ad paper the "Southlander", and meeting interesting characters along the way.
Style:
surreal, experimental, semi serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
musician's life, silly humor, artists and showbiz, friends, down on your luck, lifestyle, riddles and clues, satire, music, best friend, musician, rock ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A governor running for President gets revealed to be a serial philanderer.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, political, biting ...
Plot:
campaign, rise to the top, lifestyle, society, workplace, head of state, political intrigue, love affair, democrat, legal, election campaign, election ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, michigan, washington d.c.
Similarity:
37%
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