Movies like The Ruling Class
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The Ruling Class (1972)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.
Style:
surreal, humorous, satirical, disturbing, talky, semi serious, psychological, clever, stylized, biting ...
Plot:
mental illness, dark humor, insanity, dysfunctional family, religion, farce, country estate, split personality, misfit, couples, mistaken identity, disorder, religions or cults, british, suspense, fighting the system, culture clash, husband wife relationship, lgbt, erotica, female nudity, jack the ripper, faith, hallucination, surrealism ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, victorian era
Place:
britain, europe, england, london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out weird, surreal, talky and cult film films with plots about dialogue, mentor, catastrophe, suprisingly clever, life philosophy, brutality and culture clash mostly in Comedy, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Ruling Class: Four Lions (2010), Morgan! (1966), The Acid House (1998), Naked (1993), Drowning by Numbers (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, humorous, funny, surreal, not serious ...
Plot:
terrorism, suicide, bomb, stupidity, farce, recruit, comedy of errors, sarcasm, religion, twists and turns, goofy hero, training ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, yorkshire, pakistan, northern england ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, ...
Style:
biting, cynical, witty, sexy, twist ending ...
Plot:
gorilla, divorce, political satire, skeleton, class differences, disguise, marxism, british, marriage, obsession, satire, suspense ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe, wales, united kingdom
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26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
THE ACID HOUSE is a surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories.
Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of ...
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surreal, psychedelic, mind bending, disturbing, humorous ...
Plot:
lsd, drug abuse, surrealism, god, breast feeding, dark humor, drugs, transformation, rave, infidelity, murder, family relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
scotland, europe
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25%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Johnny flees Manchester for London, to avoid a beating from the family of a girl he has raped. There he finds an old girlfriend, and spends some time homeless, spending much of his time ranting at strangers, and meeting characters in plights very ...
Style:
disturbing, talky, compassionate, realistic, philosophical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
existentialism, sexual abuse, rapist, loneliness, drifter, humiliation, voyeurism, nihilism, rape, stranger, sexual humiliation, alienation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
london, england, europe, united kingdom, manchester
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25%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An ironic black comedy of love and death that takes place an a lyrically beautiful landscape. Three related women, all named Cissie Colpitts share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings. The local coroner is in love ...
Style:
surreal, cynical, art house, humorous, disturbing ...
Plot:
drowning, murder, investigation, surrealism, murder mystery, coroner, unlikely criminals, family problems, friendship, vengeance, life & death, nude ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a ...
Style:
parody, funny, surreal, philosophical, absurd ...
Plot:
satire, surrealism, cult, monty python, philosophy, death, dark humor, existentialism, afterlife, greed, meaning of life, gluttony ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe, africa
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23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the ...
Style:
art house, funny, atmospheric, thought provoking, talky ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, alcohol abuse, cult, drugs, countryside, eccentricity, addiction, british, melancholy, gay, lgbt, british pub ...
Time:
60s, year 1969, 20th century
Place:
england, london, northern england, europe, britain
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23%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, melancholic, funny, thought provoking ...
Plot:
on the road, road trip, eccentricity, existentialism, friendship, food, sarcasm, loneliness, midlife crisis, restaurant, lifestyle, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving a car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large rare bird. His twin brother Oswald is researching how carcasses decay at the ...
Style:
surreal, art house, disturbing, mind bending, erotic ...
Plot:
death, obsession, surrealism, siamese twins, bestiality, car accident, absurdism, brother brother relationship, menage a trois, amputation, tragic event, grief ...
Time:
80s
Place:
tokyo, poland
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23%
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Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.
Style:
surreal, stylized, clever, parody, enigmatic ...
Plot:
surrealism, rock and roll, music, rock, dancing, drugs, deaf, satire, misfit, mute, christmas party, murder ...
Time:
70s, post world war two
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the ...
Style:
parody, controversial, funny, humorous, satirical ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
religion, satire, monty python, christmas, jewish, ancient rome, ancient, absurdism, dark humor, british, male nudity, god ...
Time:
biblical epic, 1st century, 1930s
Place:
ancient greece, jerusalem, palestine, middle east, holy land
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22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian but his Las Vegas debut is a failure. He goes back to Blackpool, UK, where his father, also a comedian started and where he spent the summers of his childhood. He starts to search for a partner, a comic ...
Style:
surreal, humorous, touching, clever, entertaining ...
Plot:
eccentricity, comedian, farce, creativity, self discovery, friendship, actor's life, introspection, parents and children, haunted by the past, father son relationship, culture clash ...
Time:
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Place:
england, las vegas, london, europe, usa
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22%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, humorous, talky ...
Plot:
surrealism, dream, satire, high society, adultery, farce, twists and turns, social satire, dark humor, absurdism, bourgeoisie, food ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
france, spain, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Peter Greenaway's first fiction feature (after the mock-documentary The Falls) made him immediately famous and was named one of the most original films of the 1980s by British critics. The action is set in the director's beloved 17th ...
Style:
atmospheric, talky, stylized, surreal, witty ...
Plot:
murder, adultery, manipulation, art, artist, boss and employee, dishonesty, power relations, society, social climbing, sexual dysfunction, social differences ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many characters, among them a father and his mistress, his ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, art house, disturbing, philosophical ...
Plot:
surrealism, loneliness, poet, multiple storylines, dark humor, existentialism, apocalypse, insanity, human nature, religions or cults, worldwide chaos, obsession ...
Time:
90s
Place:
sweden, russia, scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, stylized, humorous, light ...
Plot:
gays and lesbians, manipulation, artists and showbiz, cons and scams, culture clash, filmmaking, con artists, disorder, love and romance, self confidence, suspense, money ...
Place:
london, las vegas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature of fully liberating the human spirit, as both commendable ...
Style:
art house, disturbing, surreal, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot:
surrealism, rebellion, art, fighting the system, misfit, revolution, car, pig, dark humor, utopia, existentialism, wine ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A portrait of the effects of schizophrenia on family life is the central focus.
Style:
disturbing, experimental, art house, surreal, controversial ...
Plot:
mental illness, dysfunctional family, schizophrenia, dogma, psychology, surrealism, misfit, skating, abusive father, nude, male nudity, eccentricity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, alabama
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21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Two minor characters from the play, "Hamlet" stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.
Style:
talky, funny, intellectual, philosophical, absurd ...
Plot:
shakespeare, writers, destiny, life & death, mentor, literature, tragedy, runaway, justice, irreverent, dark humor, greed ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
england, denmark, europe
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21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
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political, thought provoking, philosophical, surreal, clever ...
Plot:
politics, comedy of errors, lawyer, impotence, satire, president, fish out of water, innocence, secret service, television, eviction, funeral ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
surreal, erotic, sexy, talky, clever ...
Plot:
surrealism, erotica, brothel, lust, bdsm, nude, sex, death, obsession, prostitution, male nudity, adaptation ...
Time:
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Place:
tokyo, europe, switzerland, geneva switzerland, japan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
tokyo, australia, sydney australia
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20%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
While on the run from the police, Steve Railsback hides in a group of moviemakers where he pretends to be a stunt man. Both aided and endangered by the director (Peter O'Toole) he avoids both the police and sudden death as a stuntman. The ...
Style:
psychological, tense, intense, atmospheric, semi serious ...
Plot:
stuntman, on the run, showbiz, suspense, helicopter, police investigation, mistaken identity, twists and turns, filmmaking, femme fatale, fish out of water, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
amsterdam, holland, korea, guatemala, california
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20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A philosophical burlesque, Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist, and the man they discover, born and raised in the wild. As scientist Nathan trains the wild man, Puff, in the ways of the world - ...
Style:
surreal, humorous, philosophical, semi serious, witty ...
Plot:
philosophy, farce, manners, fish out of water, human nature, surrealism, culture clash, fall in love, hypocrisy, disorder, misfit, odd couple ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The star of Ken Loach's MY NAME IS JOE, Mullan proves that his talent isn't relegated to acting. As a writer/director, he has crafted a supremely entertaining motion picture. ORPHANS tells the grittily realistic, hysterical, and deeply ...
Style:
emotional, intense, surreal, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
disability, dysfunctional family, vengeance, moral ambiguity, children, segregation, british, justice, existentialism, siblings relations, brutality, depression ...
Time:
90s
Place:
scotland, england, glasgow scotland, europe, australia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli Italian connection is suspect, security guards watch the gifts rather ...
Style:
stylized, humorous, funny, affectionate, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
wedding, dysfunctional family, satire, death, female nudity, radio, race issues, psychiatry, prejudice, redemption, runaway, culture clash ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california, chicago illinois, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and ...
Style:
disturbing, controversial, rough, humorous, stylized ...
Plot:
serial killer, rape, murder, brutality, found footage, society, insanity, manipulation, dysfunctional family, cult, hitman, art ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, brussels, belgium
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome. Some time ago he has lost his left eye while at work, and got a consistent sum of money from the insurance company, which he keeps ...
Style:
disturbing, dark, realistic, humorous, ironic ...
Plot:
sexual promiscuity, family relations, greed, poverty, insanity, satire, suspense, social problems, incest, melancholy, hitman, dark hero ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
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20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, Italy
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
In Milos Forman's satire on Communism set in a small Czechoslovakian town in the 1960s, the local firemen decide to organize a ball, however the proceedings are dogged by difficulty at every step. They plan to organize a beauty pageant at the ...
Style:
surreal, allegory, biting, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
satire, political satire, firefighter, corruption, theft, bureaucracy, small town, confusion, fire, husband wife relationship, suspense, farce ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, czech republic
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