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Philanthropy (2002)
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Philanthropy (2002)
Original name: Filantropica
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the 21st century Bucharest to get out in the city on Saturday evening at the arm of a beautiful woman is a financial investment risky. Ovidiu, unassuming high school teacher, never could afford. Looking for a source of income to something more substantial than a teacher salary, Ovidiu plunge into a fabulous world - beggars mob.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, dark comedy, existential, light, feel good, entertaining, thought provoking, black comedy ...
Plot: dishonesty, cons and scams, teachers and students, couples, teacher, alternate reality, compassion, false identity, scam, middle aged man, alienation, artist, professor, employment, european, secretary, money, dating, loser, high school teacher, alcohol abuse, love and romance, fall in love, double life, pretense ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: romania, balkan, europe, eastern europe, bucharest
Keyword: romanian, serbian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, realistic and feel good films with plots about couples, love and romance, fall in love, dishonesty, family relations, friendship and power relations mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Philanthropy: 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006), The Rest is Silence (2007), Write & Wrong (2007), World's Greatest Dad (2009), The Valet (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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12:08 East of Bucharest (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 89 min.
Story: It's the 22nd of December. Sixteen years have passed since the revolution, and in a small town Christmas is about to come. Piscoci, an old retired man is preparing for another Christmas alone. Manescu, the history teacher, tries to keep up with ...
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Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: balkan, eastern europe, europe, romania, bucharest
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The Rest is Silence (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In 1911-12, the Romanian movie director Grigore Brezianu and the financial tycoon Leon Popescu made together the 2 hours long movie "Romania's Independence" - an as faithful as possible screen adaptation of the real Independence War ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, breathtaking, touching
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Time: 20th century, 1910s
Place: hungary, romania, europe
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Write & Wrong (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: They say with age comes wisdom, but unfortunately, in Hollywood, no one seems to care. Quickly approaching her fiftieth birthday, talented and once-famous screenwriter Byrdie has lately had a hard time finding work in the movie biz. As she's ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light
Plot: artists and showbiz, showbiz, cons and scams, friends, elderly, writer's life, love and romance, fall in love, discrimination, false identity, dinner, working the system ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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World's Greatest Dad (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and the greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of fame, fortune and popularity, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, clever, melancholic, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: teacher, high school, writers, life & death, single father, father son relationship, grief, family drama, loneliness, suicide, life philosophy, character study ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, nebraska, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Valet (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, witty, sweet ...
Audience: date night
Plot: comedy of errors, farce, supermodel, nothing goes right, pretense, dishonesty, paparazzi, unfulfilled love, fashion, adultery, couples, infidelity ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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The Wedding (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Wojnar is a wealthy man who is marrying off his beautiful daughter Kasia, in a small town in present day Poland. Wojnar had to bribe the groom with a fancy car, since Kasia was pregnant by another man. At the end of the ceremony, the car is ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy ...
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Place: poland, europe
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Duration: 98 min.
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Elevator (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A boy and a girl, both teenagers, want to get away from the world and be alone for a while, so they hide in an abandoned factory on the outskirts. But there they fall in a trap of their own intention, and get stuck in the cargo elevator. There is no ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, psychological, captivating, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: elevator, trapped, love, teenager, escape, couples, isolation, panic, artist, trap, coming of age, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Cooking with Stella (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A woman cooks for clients and tries to keep her thefts of food and money from being discovered.
Style: realistic, clever, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: cooking, food, dishonesty, power relations, cons and scams, couple relations, unlikely criminals, master and servant, society, cooking and food, family relations, couples ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Empties (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits… dramatically. What he does not predict is that in doing this he will lose his sense of place in society.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, dishonesty, hopes, starting over, couple relations, friends, family relations, couples, friendship, parents and children, teacher, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Renaissance Man (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Danny DeVito plays an advertising man who is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job; Teaching thinking skills to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that ...
Style: touching, humorous, emotional, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids
Plot: teacher, teachers and students, unemployment, shakespeare, underdog, self discovery, soldier, instructor, unlikely friendships, justice, teaching, teacher student relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: brooklyn new york city, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 7.9
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The Oak (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her ...
Style: black comedy, parody, semi serious, gloomy, atmospheric ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Style: light, funny, humorous, stylized, melancholic ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 89 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013)
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Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, feel good ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 6.0
 238
The Red Dwarf (1998)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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